Hüseyin Uğur Yıldız

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles, an editorial, and international and national conference papers. Metrics are sourced from Google Scholar (external) and refreshed weekly. Scholar indexes 45 records; the 43 below are all of them except my own M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses.

1,047Citations
16h-index
43Publications listed
24Journal articles
1Editorial
13Conf. papers (intl.)
5Conf. papers (natl.)

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Journal articles24

  1. Mitigating energy cost of connection reliability in UWSNs through non-uniform k-connectivity (opens in a new tab)

    Tantur Karagul, C., Akgun, M. B., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B.

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(22), 47817–47826 (2025)

  2. Enhancing drone network resilience: Investigating strategies for k-connectivity restoration (opens in a new tab)

    Asci, M., Akusta Dagdeviren, Z., Akram, V. K., Yildiz, H. U., Dagdeviren, O., & Tavli, B.

    Computer Standards & Interfaces, 92, 103941 (2025)

  3. On the tradeoff between network lifetime and k-connectivity-based reliability in UWSNs (opens in a new tab)

    Cobanlar, M., Yildiz, H. U., Akram, V. K., Dagdeviren, O., & Tavli, B.

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(23), 24444–24452 (2022)

  4. Maximization of underwater sensor networks lifetime via fountain codes (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(8), 4602–4613 (2019)

  5. Neural network–based instant parameter prediction for wireless sensor network optimization models (opens in a new tab)

    Akbas, A., Yildiz, H. U., Ozbayoglu, A. M., & Tavli, B.

    Wireless Networks, 25(6), 3405–3418 (2019)

  6. Packet size optimization for lifetime maximization in underwater acoustic sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Gungor, V. C., & Tavli, B.

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(2), 719–729 (2019)

  7. The impact of transmission power levels set size on lifetime of wireless sensor networks in smart grids (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 26(6), 3057–3071 (2018)

  8. A survey on packet size optimization for terrestrial, underwater, underground, and body area sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yigit, M., Yildiz, H. U., Kurt, S., Tavli, B., & Gungor, V. C.

    International Journal of Communication Systems, 31(11), e3572 (2018)

  9. The impact of incomplete secure connectivity on the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Ciftler, B. S., Tavli, B., Bicakci, K., & Incebacak, D.

    IEEE Systems Journal, 12(1), 1042–1046 (2018)

  10. The impact of incapacitation of multiple critical sensor nodes on wireless sensor network lifetime (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., Kahjogh, B., & Dogdu, E.

    IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 6(3), 306–309 (2017)

  11. Packet size optimization in wireless sensor networks for smart grid applications (opens in a new tab)

    Kurt, S., Yildiz, H. U., Yigit, M., Tavli, B., & Gungor, V. C.

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 64(3), 2392–2401 (2017)

  12. Joint optimization of transmission power level and packet size for WSN lifetime maximization (opens in a new tab)

    Akbas, A., Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., & Uludag, S.

    IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(12), 5084–5094 (2016)

  13. Transmission power control for link–level handshaking in wireless sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., & Yanikomeroglu, H.

    IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(2), 561–576 (2016)

  14. Impact of limiting hop count on the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Temiz, M., & Tavli, B.

    IEEE Communications Letters, 19(4), 569–572 (2015)

  15. Role of unidirectionality and reverse path length on wireless sensor network lifetime (opens in a new tab)

    Batmaz, A. U., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B.

    IEEE Sensors Journal, 14(11), 3971–3982 (2014)

Editorial1

  1. Editorial brief for special issue: Mass connectivity and/or communication paradigms for the internet of things (opens in a new tab)

    Haytaoglu, E., Arslan, S. S., Dagdeviren, O., Yildiz, H. U., & Ozturk, Y.

    Internet of Things, 32, 101625 (2025)

Conference papers (international)13

  1. Non-uniform k-connectivity for energy-efficient and reliable underwater wireless sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Tantur Karagul, C., Akgun, M. B., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B.

    2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), pp. 1–4, IEEE (2025)

  2. Impact of critical node failures on lifetime of UWSNs with incomplete secure connectivity (opens in a new tab)

    Un, B. E., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B.

    2021 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), pp. 1–6, IEEE (2021)

  3. Utilization of multi-sink architectures for lifetime maximization in underwater sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference (MENACOMM), pp. 1–5, IEEE (2019)

  4. Prolonging the lifetime of underwater sensor networks under sinkhole attacks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    14th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet '19), pp. 1–5, ACM (2019)

  5. A hybrid energy harvesting framework for energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks based smart grid applications (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Gungor, V. C., & Tavli, B.

    2018 17th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), pp. 1–6, IEEE (2018)

  6. The impact of near-ground path loss modeling on wireless sensor network lifetime (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Kurt, S., & Tavli, B.

    2014 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 1114–1119, IEEE (2014)

  7. Data packet length optimization for wireless sensor network lifetime maximization (opens in a new tab)

    Akbas, A., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B.

    2014 10th International Conference on Communications (COMM), pp. 1–6, IEEE (2014)

  8. Communication/computation trade-offs in wireless sensor networks: Comparing network-level and node-level strategies (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Bicakci, K., & Tavli, B.

    2014 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet), pp. 49–51, IEEE (2014)

Conference papers (national, in Turkish)5

  1. Improvement of underwater acoustic sensor networks performance with fountain codes (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    2019 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1–4, IEEE (2019)

  2. Minimum delay and maximum lifetime trade-off in underwater sensor networks (opens PDF in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    2018 National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Biomedical Engineering (ELECO), pp. 80–83, EMO (2018)

  3. The impact of mitigation of eavesdropping on wireless sensor networks lifetime (opens in a new tab)

    Karakurt, Y., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B.

    2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1–4, IEEE (2018)

  4. The impact of data fragmentation on network lifetime in underwater acoustic sensor networks (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U.

    2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1–4, IEEE (2018)

  5. Assessment of wireless sensor network lifetime reduction due to elimination of critical node sets (opens in a new tab)

    Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., & Kahjogh, B. O.

    2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1–4, IEEE (2017)