Space Communications

Publications

30. H. Dong, H. Wang, H. Cai, O. B. Akan, "A reversed solar illumination dependence of unintended emission from Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellites at 72–234 MHz with the EDA2," submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA), May 2026.

29. H. Dong and O. B. Akan, "Performance Limits of Hardware-Constrained THz Inter-Satellite MIMO-ISAC Systems," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2026.

28. H. Dong and O. B. Akan, "Martian Dust Storm Detection with THz Opportunistic Integrated Sensing and Communication in the Internet of Space (IoS)," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 582-594, January 2026.

27. L. Cao, Y. Yang, Z. Gong, H. Wang, L. Zhang, and O. B. Akan, "Latency-Power Optimization for UAV-Assisted Multi-Hop Multi-Path Sidelink Towards 6G V2X," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026.

26. H. Wang, O. T. Baydas, H. Cai, H. Dong, and O. B. Akan, "Measurement-Grounded Deadline Feasibility over LEO RF and Optical Access Links," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, April 2026.

25. H. Dong, H. Wang, H. Cai, O. T. Baydas, and O. B. Akan, "Rain Rate Estimation Bounds and Weather-Adaptive Pilot Allocation for LEO Satellite ISAC," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, April 2026.

24. H. Dong and O. B. Akan, "CisLunarSense: Opportunistic ISAC for Debris Detection at the Lunar Gateway," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, April 2026.

23. H. Wang, L. Cao, and O. B. Akan, "Validation-Fixed Operating Points for Risk-Aware Sender Control on Volatile LEO Access Links," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, April 2026.

22. H. Wang and O. B. Akan, "Path-Level CSI Prediction and CRLB-Guided Delay–Doppler Domain Pre-Equalization for LEO Inter-Satellite Links," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, April 2026.

21. H. Dong and O. B. Akan, "Fisher Information Limits of Satellite RF Fingerprint Identifiability for Authentication," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, March 2026.

20. H. Dong, H. Wang, H. Cai, and O. B. Akan, "Performance Bounds and Robust Filtering for LEO Inter-Satellite Synchronization under Cross-Epoch Doppler Coupling," submitted to IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), March 2026.

19. Z. Zhang, H. Feng, P. Song, and O. B. Akan, "Channel Cognitive Twins: Fusing Physics-Informed Digital Twins for Proactive THz Links in 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, March 2026.

18. H. Wang and O. B. Akan, "A Policy-Aware Cross-Layer Auditing Service for Tiering and Throttling in Starlink," submitted to IEEE Networking Letters, February 2026.

17. H. Wang and O. B. Akan, "Risk-Aware Link Adaptation Architecture for Ka-Band LEO Downlinks Under Ionospheric Disturbances," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 2026.

16. H. Dong, H. Wang, H. Cai, and O. B. Akan, "Fundamental Limits of Cooperative Integrated Sensing and Communications over Low-Earth Orbit THz Satellite Channels," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.

15. H. Dong and O. B. Akan, "Fundamental Limits of THz Inter-Satellite ISAC Under Hardware Impairments," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.

14. H. Wang and O. B. Akan, "Physics-Informed CSI Prediction for Reliable NTN-assisted IoT Services in Congested Orbits," submitted to IEEE Internet of things Journal, 2025.

13. H. Cai, H. Wang, H. Dong, O. B. Akan, "Semantic Communication for the Internet of Space: New Architecture, Challenges, and Future Vision", 2025.

12. H. Wang and O. B. Akan, "Gravitational Communication: Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art and Future Vision," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 28, pp. 3564-3595, 2025.

11. H. Dong and O. B. Akan, "DebriSense: THz-Based Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) for Debris Detection and Classification in the Internet of Space (IoS)," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 9282-9295, November 2025.

10. Z. Zhang, O. B. Akan, "Analysis of Terahertz Communication Under Dust Storm Conditions on Mars," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 388-392, February 2025.

9. M. Civas, T. Yilmaz, O. B. Akan, "Terahertz Band Intersatellite Communication Links," in Next Generation Wireless Terahertz Communication Networks, Edited by Saim Ghafoor, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Alan Davy, CRC Press, 2021.

8. M. Civas, O. B. Akan, "Terahertz Wireless Communications in Space," ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, vol. 2, no. 7, October 2021.

7. J. Fang, O. B. Akan, "TCP-Peach++: Enhancement of TCP-Peach+ for Satellite IP Networks with Asymmetrical Bandwidth and Persistent Fades," in Proc. 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2005), October 2005.

6. O. B. Akan, J. Fang, I. F. Akyildiz, "TP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 348-361, February 2004.

5. I. F. Akyildiz, O. B. Akan, C. Chen, J. Fang, W. Su, "State-of-the-Art in InterPlaNetary Internet," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 108-118, July 2004.

4. J. Fang, O. B. Akan, "Performance of Multimedia Rate Control Protocols in InterPlaNetary Internet," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 488-490, August 2004.

3. I. F. Akyildiz, O. B. Akan, C. Chen, J. Fang, W. Su, "InterPlaNetary Internet: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges," Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 75-112, October 2003.

2. O. B. Akan, J. Fang, and I. F. Akyildiz, "TP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet", NASA Space Internet Workshop 2003 (SIWIII), Cleveland, Ohio, June 4-6, 2003.

1. O. B. Akan, J. Fang, I. F. Akyildiz, "Performance of TCP Protocols in Deep Space Communication Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 478-480, November 2002.