News
Recent publications, conference activity, deployments and project milestones across the research and engineering portfolio.
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October 2026
IAC 2026 paper accepted
“Goal-Oriented Bundle Management and Flow Control for Deep-Space Communications via Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted for the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2026), Antalya, Türkiye, 5–9 October 2026. The talk is scheduled in Symposium B2, Session 5 — Extra-Terrestrial and Interplanetary Communications, and Regulations — on 6 October 2026 at 12:00 in Hall 5.
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June 2026
GridAI published at EdgeSys 2026
“GridAI: Edge AI Smart Grid Fault Detection with Goal-Oriented Communication” was presented at the 9th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, Cambridge, UK, and appears in the MobiSys 2026 workshop proceedings published by ACM.
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May 2026
ASTRA: age-aware satellite random access
A new preprint develops a PHY-aware mean-field framework for freshness-driven satellite IoT random access, and proves that the optimal equilibrium policy has an age-threshold structure.
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Ongoing
GO-SPACE researcher
Goal-oriented communication and reinforcement-learning-based flow control for delay-tolerant and disruption-prone networks within the ERC-funded GO-SPACE project at METU.
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Ongoing
Grid monitoring devices in transformer substations
The FreshData IoT fault indicator — hardware, embedded software and adaptive communication — running as a pilot deployment on live electricity distribution infrastructure.
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Ongoing
SUIT SensorBox and digital twins
Low-power sensing and MQTT-based data pipelines for smart-environment monitoring and digital-twin applications within the TÜBİTAK 1004 SUIT platform.