OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications is 81. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead	1715
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond	1034
Age of Information: An Introduction and Survey	516
Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces	508
Massive Access for 5G and Beyond	416
Latency Minimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing	357
Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Applications	325
Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Discrete Phase Shift and Progressive Refinement	310
Distributed Learning in Wireless Networks: Recent Progress and Future Challenges	290
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management in MEC- and UAV-Assisted Vehicular Networks	288
MIMO Transmission Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: System Design, Analysis, and Implementation	273
A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence	267
Multi-Hop RIS-Empowered Terahertz Communications: A DRL-Based Hybrid Beamforming Design	263
Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G	254
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided NOMA Networks	253
Semantic Communication Systems for Speech Transmission	252
Mobile Edge Computing Enabled 5G Health Monitoring for Internet of Medical Things: A Decentralized Game Theoretic Approach	246
Matrix-Calibration-Based Cascaded Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MIMO	241
A Lite Distributed Semantic Communication System for Internet of Things	217
Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics, and Task-Oriented Communications	182
Machine Learning Empowered Trajectory and Passive Beamforming Design in UAV-RIS Wireless Networks	171
Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient MEC in NOMA-Enabled Massive IoT Networks	169
Graph Neural Networks for Scalable Radio Resource Management: Architecture Design and Theoretical Analysis	169
Privacy for Free: Wireless Federated Learning via Uncoded Transmission With Adaptive Power Control	149
Learning to Reflect and to Beamform for Intelligent Reflecting Surface With Implicit Channel Estimation	147

Internet of Things for In-Home Health Monitoring Systems: Current Advances, Challenges and Future Directions	147
Fast-Convergent Federated Learning	147
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for UAV-Enabled Networks: Learning-Based Joint Scheduling and Resource Management	144
Communicating With Large Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamental Limits and Models	144
Structured Massive Access for Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems	143
Optimizing Federated Learning in Distributed Industrial IoT: A Multi-Agent Approach	143
RIS Enhanced Massive Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks: Deployment and Passive Beamforming Design	140
Optimal UAV Caching and Trajectory in Aerial-Assisted Vehicular Networks: A Learning-Based Approach	135
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Based RF Sensing: Design, Optimization, and Implementation	134
Millimeter Wave and Sub-Terahertz Spatial Statistical Channel Model for an Indoor Office Building	134
Wireless Image Retrieval at the Edge	129
Accelerating DNN Training in Wireless Federated Edge Learning Systems	129
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Uplink/Downlink Resource Allocation in High Mobility 5G HetNet	129
An Efficient Specific Emitter Identification Method Based on Complex-Valued Neural Networks and Network Compression	128
Cell-Free Satellite-UAV Networks for 6G Wide-Area Internet of Things	128
Task-Oriented Multi-User Semantic Communications	128
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Multi-UAV NOMA Networks	128
Adaptive Transmission for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted OFDM Wireless Communications	128
Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa Using Deep Learning	127
Byzantine-Resilient Secure Federated Learning	123
Dynamic RAN Slicing for Service-Oriented Vehicular Networks via Constrained Learning	121
A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-Envisioned IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring	120
Target Sensing With Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Architecture and Performance	114
Age of Information in Energy Harvesting Aided Massive Multiple Access Networks	110
EEG-Based Pathology Detection for Home Health Monitoring	109
Analyzing Grant-Free Access for URLLC Service	106
Exploiting Randomly Located Blockages for Large-Scale Deployment of Intelligent Surfaces	103
Attention-Weighted Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Device-to-Device Assisted Heterogeneous Collaborative Edge Caching	103
FedSA: A Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning Mechanism in Heterogeneous Edge Computing	102
Learning Task-Oriented Communication for Edge Inference: An Information Bottleneck Approach	100
Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks for 6G Ubiquitous Coverage: A Maritime Communications Perspective	100
Joint Optimisation of Real-Time Deployment and Resource Allocation for UAV-Aided Disaster Emergency Communications	99
5G-Enabled UAV-to-Community Offloading: Joint Trajectory Design and Task Scheduling	99
Design and Analysis of Uplink and Downlink Communications for Federated Learning	99
Joint HAP Access and LEO Satellite Backhaul in 6G: Matching Game-Based Approaches	98
Wideband Beamforming for Hybrid Massive MIMO Terahertz Communications	98
Massive Access in Cell-Free Massive MIMO-Based Internet of Things: Cloud Computing and Edge Computing Paradigms	97
Learning Rate Optimization for Federated Learning Exploiting Over-the-Air Computation	97
Channel Estimation and Hybrid Combining for Wideband Terahertz Massive MIMO Systems	97
Waveform Design and Performance Analysis for Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communication	96
Smart Mutual Authentication Protocol for Cloud Based Medical Healthcare Systems Using Internet of Medical Things	96
Optimal Contract Design for Efficient Federated Learning With Multi-Dimensional Private Information	96
Reflecting Modulation	92
Dynamic Edge Association and Resource Allocation in Self-Organizing Hierarchical Federated Learning Networks	91
5G-Advanced Toward 6G: Past, Present, and Future	89
A New Path Division Multiple Access for the Massive MIMO-OTFS Networks	88
Perception Task Offloading With Collaborative Computation for Autonomous Driving	86
UAV-LEO Integrated Backbone: A Ubiquitous Data Collection Approach for B5G Internet of Remote Things Networks	86
Energy Efficiency Optimization for NOMA UAV Network With Imperfect CSI	86
Wideband Beam Tracking in THz Massive MIMO Systems	85

Integrated Scheduling of Sensing, Communication, and Control for mmWave/THz Communications in Cellular Connected UAV Networks	84
Large Intelligent Surface Assisted Wireless Communications With Spatial Modulation and Antenna Selection	83
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Bridging the Gap Between Scattering and Reflection	83
A Primer on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Tutorial, Myths, and Frequently Asked Questions	83
RIS-Assisted Communication Radar Coexistence: Joint Beamforming Design and Analysis	82
Distributed Multi-Agent Meta Learning for Trajectory Design in Wireless Drone Networks	82
Nonlinear Transform Source-Channel Coding for Semantic Communications	81
Learning-Based URLLC-Aware Task Offloading for Internet of Health Things	81