We are pleased to announce the participation of SUIT – Sustainable Urbanization Through Innovative Technologies Platform at the 3rd IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU 2025), which will be held at Işık University from June 25th to 28th, 2025. Furthermore, Read More …
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Visit by Prof. Stefano Rini from National Chiao Tung University to CNG

Professor Stefano Rini from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, has visited METU Communication Networks Research Group on March 6th, 2025. During his visit, we had the opportunity to present him our work and accomplishments and Professor Stefano Rini gave a Read More …
On the Role of Goal-Oriented Communication in Healthcare
Prof. Elif Uysal and Çağrı Arı visited the Bilkent City Hospital Radiology Department. They gave a presentation on the role of goal-oriented communication in healthcare, focusing on applications such as robotic surgery and remote monitoring through low-power wearable sensors. You Read More …
Call for Participation: IEEE ISIT 2025 Wireless Wanderlust Data Science Competition!
Calling all undergraduate and graduate students worldwide! 🎓 The IEEE Information Theory Society’s Student and Outreach Subcommittee invites you to participate in the IEEE ISIT 2025 Wireless Wanderlust Data Science Competition. This year’s Data to Information (D2I) competition presents a Read More …
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bülent Kerim Altay Award
We are proud to announce that four of our group members — Burak Karasakal, Ayşe Betül Yıldırım, Batu Saatçı, and Umut Gürbüz — have received the Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bülent Kerim Altay Award in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements. Read More …
ASMS Conference Participation by CNG in Sitges, Spain

We happily share that our Conference Paper titled “LoRaFRESH®: AoI Optimization in Duty Cycle-Constrained LoRa-Based IoT Networks” by Mevlüt Metin, Sude Özcan, Ayşe Betül Yıldırım, Dr. Sajjad Baghaee, and Prof. Elif Uysal has been presented at the ASMS Conference in Sitges, Spain on February 26, 2025.We would like Read More …
SIU 2025 is on its way!
SIU 2025, one of Turkey’s leading scientific events in communications and signal processing, will take place from June 25–28, 2025, at Işık University Şile Campus in Istanbul. The Communication Networks Research Group (CNG) will be there, presenting our latest research Read More …
New academic year!
CNG welcomed the 2024/25 academic year.
We attended ISIT 2024!
At the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2024 held in Athens, Greece, from July 7 to 12, we presented our paper “Goal-Oriented Communications for Remote Inference under Two-Way Delay with Memory” and a recent results poster titled “GORA: Goal-Oriented Read More …
Join us in Shaping the Future of Space Communication!
Our research group has several postdoc positions available. If you are interested in being a part of our new groundbreaking project, GO-Space (ERC Advanced Grant), please see the information below: GO-SPACE (ERC Advanced Grant) Project Abstract: The accelerated pace of Read More …