Melike Erol‐Kantarci

7.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
214 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Melike Erol‐Kantarci is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Melike Erol‐Kantarci has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 110 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 40 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Melike Erol‐Kantarci's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (40 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (40 papers) and Smart Grid Security and Resilience (31 papers). Melike Erol‐Kantarci is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (40 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (40 papers) and Smart Grid Security and Resilience (31 papers). Melike Erol‐Kantarci collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Türkiye. Melike Erol‐Kantarci's co-authors include Hussein T. Mouftah, Sema Oktuğ, Luiz F. M. Vieira, Mário Gerla, Burak Kantarcı, Hao Zhou, Irfan Al‐Anbagi, Medhat Elsayed, Mubashir Husain Rehmani and Martin Reisslein and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Melike Erol‐Kantarci

197 papers receiving 5.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Wireless Sensor Networks for Cost-Efficient Residential Energy Management in the Smart Grid

2011 421 citations Melike Erol‐Kantarci et al. profile →
A Survey of Architectures and Localization Techniques for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

2011 353 citations Melike Erol‐Kantarci et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
Energy-Efficient Information and Communication Infrastructures in the Smart Grid: A Survey on Interactions and Open Issues

2014 323 citations Melike Erol‐Kantarci et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
Integrating Renewable Energy Resources Into the Smart Grid: Recent Developments in Information and Communication Technologies

2018 304 citations Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Martin Reisslein et al. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melike Erol‐Kantarci Canada	36	3.9k	2.2k	1.4k	1.1k	439	214	5.5k
Vehbi Çağrı Güngör Türkiye	39	6.2k 1.6×	4.8k 2.2×	3.9k 2.8×	627 0.6×	728 1.7×	132	9.7k
Winston K.G. Seah New Zealand	32	2.8k 0.7×	3.3k 1.5×	279 0.2×	1.3k 1.1×	440 1.0×	242	4.9k
Giovanni Pau Italy	32	1.7k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	478 0.3×	270 0.2×	347 0.8×	151	3.6k
Zahoor Ali Khan Pakistan	40	3.2k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	995 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	299 0.7×	266	5.2k
Antônio A. F. Loureiro Brazil	43	3.7k 1.0×	5.5k 2.5×	479 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	737 1.7×	419	7.8k
Mohamed Younis United States	49	6.0k 1.5×	10.8k 4.9×	319 0.2×	811 0.7×	734 1.7×	345	12.4k
Kemal Akkaya United States	43	4.6k 1.2×	7.3k 3.3×	1.2k 0.9×	578 0.5×	1.0k 2.3×	226	10.0k
Jalel Ben‐Othman France	28	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	235 0.2×	259 0.2×	458 1.0×	233	3.7k
Abderrahim Benslimane France	35	2.0k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	244 0.2×	276 0.2×	832 1.9×	189	4.1k
Syed Hassan Ahmed United States	43	2.3k 0.6×	3.8k 1.7×	357 0.3×	458 0.4×	764 1.7×	209	5.8k

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Sediq, Akram Bin, et al.. (2025). Mobile Traffic Prediction Using LLMs With Efficient In-Context Demonstration Selection. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(11). 11170–11185.

Elsayed, Medhat, et al.. (2025). Harnessing the Power of LLMs, Informers and Decision Transformers for Intent-Driven RAN Management in 6G. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 13. 4187–4206.

Erol‐Kantarci, Melike, et al.. (2025). SkyNetPredictor: Network Performance Prediction in Avionic Communication using AI. 1–6.

Erol‐Kantarci, Melike, et al.. (2025). LLM-Enabled Data Transmission in End-to-End Semantic Communication. 1–6.

Kennedy, W. Sean, et al.. (2024). Distributed Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Joint Design of THz-Enabled UAV Trajectory and Channel Allocation. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(10). 14172–14186. 5 indexed citations

Erol‐Kantarci, Melike, et al.. (2024). Air Traffic and Usage Predictions in Avionic Communications using Attention Based VAEGAN Model. 220–226. 2 indexed citations

Elsayed, Medhat, et al.. (2024). Transformer-Based Wireless Traffic Prediction and Network Optimization in O-RAN. 1–6. 10 indexed citations

Kulhandjian, Michel, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Mobility, Beam Sweeping and Smart Jammers on Security Vulnerabilities of 5G Cells. 71–78. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Han, et al.. (2024). Federated Learning with Dual Attention for Robust Modulation Classification under Attacks. 5238–5243. 3 indexed citations

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Kennedy, W. Sean, et al.. (2024). AoI-Aware Trajectory Planning for Smart Agriculture Using Proximal Policy Optimization. 113–118. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hao, Melike Erol‐Kantarci, Yuanwei Liu, & H. Vincent Poor. (2023). A Survey on Model-Based, Heuristic, and Machine Learning Optimization Approaches in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 26(2). 781–823. 62 indexed citations

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Polese, Michele, Mischa Döhler, Falko Dressler, et al.. (2023). Empowering the 6G Cellular Architecture With Open RAN. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 42(2). 245–262. 51 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hao, et al.. (2023). Traffic Steering for 5G Multi-RAT Deployments using Deep Reinforcement Learning. 164–169. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Han, Hao Zhou, & Melike Erol‐Kantarci. (2022). Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation in O-RAN Slicing. GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference. 958–963. 46 indexed citations

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Kennedy, W. Sean, et al.. (2022). Reinforcement Learning-Based Deadline and Battery-Aware Offloading in Smart Farm IoT-UAV Networks. ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. 189–194. 13 indexed citations

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Sediq, Akram Bin, et al.. (2022). Delay-Aware and Energy-Efficient Carrier Aggregation in 5G Using Double Deep Q-Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70(10). 6615–6629. 20 indexed citations

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Elsayed, Medhat, Hatem Abou-Zeid, Ramy Atawia, et al.. (2021). Carrier Aggregation With Optimized UE Power Consumption in 5G. IEEE Networking Letters. 3(2). 61–65. 9 indexed citations

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Elsayed, Medhat, Hatem Abou-Zeid, Ramy Atawia, et al.. (2021). QoS-Aware Joint Component Carrier Selection and Resource Allocation for Carrier Aggregation in 5G. 1–6. 16 indexed citations

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Rehmani, Mubashir Husain, Martin Reisslein, Abderrezak Rachedi, Melike Erol‐Kantarci, & Milena Radenkovic. (2018). Integrating Renewable Energy Resources Into the Smart Grid: Recent Developments in Information and Communication Technologies. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 14(7). 2814–2825. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

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Erol‐Kantarci, Melike, Luiz F. M. Vieira, & Mário Gerla. (2007). AUV-Aided Localization for Underwater Sensor Networks. 44–54. 122 indexed citations

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