Bilgehan is a Senior Researcher at Nokia Bell Labs. His recent work drives the development of autonomous, agentic network systems, with an emphasis on formal frameworks and reference architectures that ensure these AI-driven networks are reliable, trustworthy, and governable under uncertainty. He has pioneered new approaches — such as a typed agentic service calculus linking semantic service assurances with dynamic reliability control — and co-authored system-level architectures that embed agentic AI and oversight mechanisms into network operations for safe, dependable autonomy. With more than thirty patents issued or pending, Bilgehan’s work continues to shape forward-looking advancements in network automation and trustworthy AI-driven connectivity.
F. B. Sarpkaya, A. Francini, B. Erman, and S. Panwar, “Evaluation of TCP Congestion Control for Public High-Performance Wide-Area Networks,” Proc. 27th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, IEEE HPSR 2026, Montreal, Canada, June 2026, in print.
B. Erman and C. Di Martino, “Generative Network Performance Prediction with Network Digital Twin,” IEEE Network, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 286–292, 2023.
G. Fré, B. Erman, and C. Di Martino, “Data Shower in Electronics Manufacturing: Measuring Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 6, and 5G SA behavior in production assembly lines,” DSN-S 2023, pp. 14–20.
L. Hao, B. Erman, A. Francini, B. Cilli, E. Bastug, and C. Di Martino, “uNPE: Unified Network Protocol Encapsulation for Highly Transparent Future Networks,” ICC Workshops 2023, pp. 1877–1882.
R. E. Ali, B. Erman, E. Baştuğ and B. Cilli, “Hierarchical Deep Double Q-Routing,” ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2020, pp. 1–7.
P. Rost, M. Breitbach, H. Roreger, B. Erman, C. Mannweiler, R. Miller, and I. Viering, “Customized Industrial Networks: Network Slicing Trial at Hamburg Seaport,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 48–55, 2018.
B. Erman and S. Yiu, “Modeling 5G Wireless Network Service Reliability Prediction with Bayesian Network,” IEEE CQR 2016.
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