OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications is 80. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead	1411
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond	607
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Broadcasting for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer	524
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MISO Systems Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning	505
Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G	466
Capacity Characterization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Communication	451
Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces	446
Age of Information: An Introduction and Survey	407
Massive Access for 5G and Beyond	361
Privacy-Preserved Data Sharing Towards Multiple Parties in Industrial IoTs	336
Hybrid Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface based Multi-User Communications: Achievable Rates With Limited Discrete Phase Shifts	326
Latency Minimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing	310
Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted SWIPT Under QoS Constraints	298
Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Discrete Phase Shift and Progressive Refinement	258
MIMO Transmission Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: System Design, Analysis, and Implementation	245
Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Applications	227
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management in MEC- and UAV-Assisted Vehicular Networks	226
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided NOMA Networks	221
A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence	213
Distributed Learning in Wireless Networks: Recent Progress and Future Challenges	213
Massive MIMO Transmission for LEO Satellite Communications	212
Mobile Edge Computing Enabled 5G Health Monitoring for Internet of Medical Things: A Decentralized Game Theoretic Approach	210
Multi-Hop RIS-Empowered Terahertz Communications: A DRL-Based Hybrid Beamforming Design	206
Matrix-Calibration-Based Cascaded Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MIMO	205
Blockchain-Assisted Secure Device Authentication for Cross-Domain Industrial IoT	203

Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G	181
Semantic Communication Systems for Speech Transmission	172
RouteNet: Leveraging Graph Neural Networks for Network Modeling and Optimization in SDN	165
A Lite Distributed Semantic Communication System for Internet of Things	162
Resource Allocation Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in IoT Edge Computing	158
Passive Beamforming and Information Transfer Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided Multiuser MIMO Systems	157
Automatic Virtual Network Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Graph Convolutional Networks	149
Machine Learning Empowered Trajectory and Passive Beamforming Design in UAV-RIS Wireless Networks	132
Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient MEC in NOMA-Enabled Massive IoT Networks	131
Privacy for Free: Wireless Federated Learning via Uncoded Transmission With Adaptive Power Control	124
RIS Enhanced Massive Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks: Deployment and Passive Beamforming Design	122
Edge Computing in VANETs-An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Cooperative Downloading Scheme	121
Analyzing User-Level Privacy Attack Against Federated Learning	120
Adaptive Transmission for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted OFDM Wireless Communications	117
Graph Neural Networks for Scalable Radio Resource Management: Architecture Design and Theoretical Analysis	115
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Based RF Sensing: Design, Optimization, and Implementation	114
Communicating With Large Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamental Limits and Models	112
Fast-Convergent Federated Learning	112
Optimal UAV Caching and Trajectory in Aerial-Assisted Vehicular Networks: A Learning-Based Approach	111
Internet of Things for In-Home Health Monitoring Systems: Current Advances, Challenges and Future Directions	110
Cell-Free Satellite-UAV Networks for 6G Wide-Area Internet of Things	110
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Uplink/Downlink Resource Allocation in High Mobility 5G HetNet	110
Energy Efficient User Clustering, Hybrid Precoding and Power Optimization in Terahertz MIMO-NOMA Systems	109
Learning to Reflect and to Beamform for Intelligent Reflecting Surface With Implicit Channel Estimation	109
Structured Massive Access for Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems	108
Millimeter-Wave Full-Duplex UAV Relay: Joint Positioning, Beamforming, and Power Control	107
An Efficient Specific Emitter Identification Method Based on Complex-Valued Neural Networks and Network Compression	107
Accelerating DNN Training in Wireless Federated Edge Learning Systems	105
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for UAV-Enabled Networks: Learning-Based Joint Scheduling and Resource Management	105
Uplink-Aided High Mobility Downlink Channel Estimation Over Massive MIMO-OTFS System	102
Millimeter Wave and Sub-Terahertz Spatial Statistical Channel Model for an Indoor Office Building	101
Minimizing Age of Information With Power Constraints: Multi-User Opportunistic Scheduling in Multi-State Time-Varying Channels	101
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Multi-UAV NOMA Networks	100
A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-Envisioned IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring	100
EEG-Based Pathology Detection for Home Health Monitoring	100
Dynamic RAN Slicing for Service-Oriented Vehicular Networks via Constrained Learning	97
Byzantine-Resilient Secure Federated Learning	95
Wireless Image Retrieval at the Edge	94
Joint Pilot and Payload Power Allocation for Massive-MIMO-Enabled URLLC IIoT Networks	93
Blockchain-Based Incentives for Secure and Collaborative Data Sharing in Multiple Clouds	91
Age of Information in Energy Harvesting Aided Massive Multiple Access Networks	91
Analyzing Grant-Free Access for URLLC Service	90
Optimizing Federated Learning in Distributed Industrial IoT: A Multi-Agent Approach	90
Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics, and Task-Oriented Communications	88
CFR-RL: Traffic Engineering With Reinforcement Learning in SDN	87
Spatially-Stationary Model for Holographic MIMO Small-Scale Fading	84
SFC-Based Service Provisioning for Reconfigurable Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks	84
An Energy-Efficient Networking Approach in Cloud Services for IIoT Networks	84
Smart Mutual Authentication Protocol for Cloud Based Medical Healthcare Systems Using Internet of Medical Things	83
Multi-Frequency Multi-Scenario Millimeter Wave MIMO Channel Measurements and Modeling for B5G Wireless Communication Systems	83

Exploiting Randomly Located Blockages for Large-Scale Deployment of Intelligent Surfaces	83
Massive Access in Cell-Free Massive MIMO-Based Internet of Things: Cloud Computing and Edge Computing Paradigms	83
Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa Using Deep Learning	83
A Dynamic Array-of-Subarrays Architecture and Hybrid Precoding Algorithms for Terahertz Wireless Communications	82
Reflecting Modulation	81
Joint HAP Access and LEO Satellite Backhaul in 6G: Matching Game-Based Approaches	80