OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications is 70. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead	998
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Broadcasting for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer	423
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MISO Systems Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning	364
Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G	357
Capacity Characterization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Communication	356
Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces	335
Privacy-Preserved Data Sharing Towards Multiple Parties in Industrial IoTs	287
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Power Allocation in Wireless Networks	276
Massive Access for 5G and Beyond	264
Hybrid Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface based Multi-User Communications: Achievable Rates With Limited Discrete Phase Shifts	254
A Survey on Spatial Modulation in Emerging Wireless Systems: Research Progresses and Applications	244
Latency Minimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing	240
Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted SWIPT Under QoS Constraints	236
Spectrum Sharing in Vehicular Networks Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning	225
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond	206
Age of Information: An Introduction and Survey	190
Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Discrete Phase Shift and Progressive Refinement	190
MIMO Transmission Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: System Design, Analysis, and Implementation	183
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided NOMA Networks	175
Mobile Edge Computing Enabled 5G Health Monitoring for Internet of Medical Things: A Decentralized Game Theoretic Approach	156
Matrix-Calibration-Based Cascaded Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MIMO	156
Massive MIMO Transmission for LEO Satellite Communications	149
Blockchain-Assisted Secure Device Authentication for Cross-Domain Industrial IoT	146
Machine Learning in the Air	129
A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence	126

Multi-Hop RIS-Empowered Terahertz Communications: A DRL-Based Hybrid Beamforming Design	126
Deep CM-CNN for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio	126
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management in MEC- and UAV-Assisted Vehicular Networks	125
Automatic Virtual Network Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Graph Convolutional Networks	120
Passive Beamforming and Information Transfer Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided Multiuser MIMO Systems	118
Resource Allocation Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in IoT Edge Computing	117
Optimal VNF Placement via Deep Reinforcement Learning in SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks	116
Distributed Learning in Wireless Networks: Recent Progress and Future Challenges	115
Smart and Resilient EV Charging in SDN-Enhanced Vehicular Edge Computing Networks	112
Fault Location in Power Distribution Systems via Deep Graph Convolutional Networks	112
RouteNet: Leveraging Graph Neural Networks for Network Modeling and Optimization in SDN	111
Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Applications	108
Edge Computing in VANETs-An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Cooperative Downloading Scheme	103
Model-Free Training of End-to-End Communication Systems	101
Joint Power Allocation and Channel Assignment for NOMA With Deep Reinforcement Learning	100
Adaptive Transmission for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted OFDM Wireless Communications	95
Machine Learning Empowered Trajectory and Passive Beamforming Design in UAV-RIS Wireless Networks	94
Terahertz-Band Ultra-Massive Spatial Modulation MIMO	94
GAN-Powered Deep Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Resource Management in Network Slicing	93
RIS Enhanced Massive Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks: Deployment and Passive Beamforming Design	90
Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G	89
Energy Efficient User Clustering, Hybrid Precoding and Power Optimization in Terahertz MIMO-NOMA Systems	88
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Based RF Sensing: Design, Optimization, and Implementation	87
A Lite Distributed Semantic Communication System for Internet of Things	87
EEG-Based Pathology Detection for Home Health Monitoring	87
Semantic Communication Systems for Speech Transmission	86
Multi-Tenant Cross-Slice Resource Orchestration: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach	86
Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient MEC in NOMA-Enabled Massive IoT Networks	86
Cell-Free Satellite-UAV Networks for 6G Wide-Area Internet of Things	85
5G-Slicing-Enabled Scalable SDN Core Network: Toward an Ultra-Low Latency of Autonomous Driving Service	85
Analyzing User-Level Privacy Attack Against Federated Learning	85
Optimal UAV Caching and Trajectory in Aerial-Assisted Vehicular Networks: A Learning-Based Approach	84
Millimeter-Wave Full-Duplex UAV Relay: Joint Positioning, Beamforming, and Power Control	82
Fast-Convergent Federated Learning	80
A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-Envisioned IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring	80
An Energy-Efficient Networking Approach in Cloud Services for IIoT Networks	79
Privacy for Free: Wireless Federated Learning via Uncoded Transmission With Adaptive Power Control	78
Communicating With Large Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamental Limits and Models	77
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Uplink/Downlink Resource Allocation in High Mobility 5G HetNet	76
Accelerating DNN Training in Wireless Federated Edge Learning Systems	76
Uplink-Aided High Mobility Downlink Channel Estimation Over Massive MIMO-OTFS System	75
Internet of Things for In-Home Health Monitoring Systems: Current Advances, Challenges and Future Directions	74
Minimizing Age of Information With Power Constraints: Multi-User Opportunistic Scheduling in Multi-State Time-Varying Channels	74
Structured Massive Access for Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems	72
Millimeter Wave and Sub-Terahertz Spatial Statistical Channel Model for an Indoor Office Building	72
Joint Pilot and Payload Power Allocation for Massive-MIMO-Enabled URLLC IIoT Networks	70
Multi-Frequency Multi-Scenario Millimeter Wave MIMO Channel Measurements and Modeling for B5G Wireless Communication Systems	70