Connected skies
Communication, coordination, and distributed computing for UAVs, aerial swarms, and high-altitude platforms.
Aerial network research ↗ANTS · Istanbul Technical University
Intelligent networks.
Real-world impact.
The Ad-hoc Networks and Systems (ANTS) Research Group explores how connected systems sense, communicate, and collaborate—from aerial networks and smart mobility to edge intelligence.
Research across boundaries
Aerial networks · Wireless systems · Edge intelligence · Semantic communication
Our focus
Building the next
generation of connectivity.
Our work brings networking, computing, and machine learning together to address challenges in dynamic, connected environments.
Intelligent systems
Network-aware machine learning, autonomous defense, and edge intelligence for adaptive infrastructure.
Network intelligence ↗Smarter mobility
Semantic communication, precise localization, and connected sensing for vehicles and smart environments.
Mobility research ↗Research in action
Ideas under exploration.
01OngoingSemantic communication
Implementation of Semantic Communication towards Smart Mobility
This project focuses on optimizing semantic communication in both inter-vehicle and intra-vehicle links, balancing parameters like system complexity and data size. It aims for superior…
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06CompletedNetwork intelligence
Next-Gen SDN Defense with AutoFE & AutoML
The project creates a network-aware, autonomous attack detection system tailored for Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Existing solutions are deemed unsuitable for SDN environments…
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08OngoingAerial computing
Network Framework for In-Aerial Network Computing over Layered Aerial Networks
In order to overcome the difficulties associated with large-scale data processing in harsh environments, the purpose of this project is to revolutionize Federated Learning (FL) by…
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A community of researchers
Different perspectives.
Shared curiosity.
Meet the doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate students behind our research, and the alumni who have shaped the group.
Meet our people ↗Seminars & discussion
Research exchange.
Talks, technical questions, and conversation connect our work with the wider research community.
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From across the group
News & achievements.
Büşra shares her perspective at SIU 2026
Büşra Bayram joined a panel on women’s leadership and the future of engineering at the 34th SIU Conference, hosted by Pîrî Reis University.
View the conference program ↗Publication awards for Büşra and Tolga
Büşra Bayram and Talip Tolga Sarı received ITU publication awards recognizing their 2025 research output among pre-doctoral teaching and research staff.
Read the group announcement ↗Sultan presents at ICC and receives WICE support
Sultan Çoğay presented two papers at IEEE ICC 2026 in Glasgow and received a Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) travel grant from IEEE ComSoc.
Read the faculty announcement ↗Team wins IEEE CCNC Best Paper Award
Talha Duman, Talip Tolga Sarı, and Gökhan Seçinti received the IEEE CCNC 2026 Best Paper Award for their experimental UWB localization research.
Read the ITU announcement ↗Amr presents his first research paper
Undergraduate researcher Amr Nael Zuhdi Taweel presented “Feedback by Relevance: Feature-Aware ARQ for Visual Semantics” at the TwinNetApp workshop at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei.
Read Amr’s conference report ↗Student projects take the Demo Day stage
Graduating students presented projects developed with ANTS at the ITU Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering’s Graduation Project Demo Day, sharing the outcomes of their work with the group.
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