– H. Guo, , I. F. Akyildiz, , S. E. Thorsteinsson, and K. Andersen, “Joint Wireless Charging Planning and Task Assignment for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”, to appear at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2025.
– Farzad Alizadeh, Ian F. Akyıldız, Kristinn Andersen, Sæmundur E. Þorsteinsson, “Tunable Active Acoustic Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-assisted Communication” submitted for publication, August 2025.
– Mandana Mahgoli, Ian F. Akyildiz, Kristinn Andersen, Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson, and Magnus Orn Ulfarsson, “A Hierarchical AI-Driven Hybrid Communication Framework for Underwater Swarm Coordination: Achieving Nanosecond Synchronization and Robust Cooperative MIMO Performance”, submitted for publication, August 2025.
– Farzad Alizadeh, Ian F. Akyildiz, Hongzhi Guo, Kristinn Andersen, and Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Underwater Acoustic Wave Control: Tonpilz Transducer Design, Beam Steering, and Coupling Mitigation”, submitted for publication, August 2025.
– L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I.F. Akyildiz, Z. Sun, “Increasing Underwater Channel Capacity and Dof using Acoustic RIS”, submitted for publication, July 2025.
– N. Tang, Y. Liu, X. Chu and I.F. Akyildiz, “Optimal Energy Efficiency in Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Networks: A Piezoelectric Design and Channel Optimization Framework”, submitted for publication, July 2025.
– T. Girici, H. Guo, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. Thorsteinsson, “Formation Control for Swarm Underwater Vehicles using Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning”, in Proc. 8th Int. Balkan Conf. on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), June 2025.
– L.Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I.F. Akyildiz and Z. Sun, “Covering Underwater Shadow Zones using Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces”, IEEE Infocom (premier conference in Networking) Proceedings, May 2025.
– S. J. Norðfjörð, S. E. Thorsteinsson, and K. Andersen “Powering Underwater Robotics Sensor Networks through Ocean Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Methods”, submitted for publication, December 2024.
– N. Tang, Y. Liu, X. Chu, I.F. Akyildiz, “Design, Modeling and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Communications”, IEEE ICC (International Computer Communications) Conf., Denver, Colorado, USA, June 2024.
