OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine is 4. 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
Visible Light Communication in 6G: Advances, Challenges, and Prospects	311
6G Wireless Channel Measurements and Models: Trends and Challenges	276
Machine Learning for 6G Wireless Networks: Carrying Forward Enhanced Bandwidth, Massive Access, and Ultrareliable/Low-Latency Service	167
Radio Localization and Mapping With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Directions	160
Aerial Base Station Deployment in 6G Cellular Networks Using Tethered Drones: The Mobility and Endurance Tradeoff	105
Perceptive Mobile Networks: Cellular Networks With Radio Vision via Joint Communication and Radar Sensing	88
Laser Intersatellite Links in a Starlink Constellation: A Classification and Analysis	77
Ultramassive MIMO Systems at Terahertz Bands: Prospects and Challenges	76
Spectrum Sharing for UAV Communications: Spatial Spectrum Sensing and Open Issues	54
LiFi through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A New Frontier for 6G?	52
Wireless 2.0: Toward an Intelligent Radio Environment Empowered by Reconfigurable Meta-Surfaces and Artificial Intelligence	51
Advanced Wireless for Unmanned Aerial Systems: 5G Standardization, Research Challenges, and AERPAW Architecture	43
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Vehicular Networks Toward 6G: Vision, Proposal, and Future Directions	37
Channel Modeling and System Concepts for Future Terahertz Communications: Getting Ready for Advances Beyond 5G	35
Toward Smart and Secure V2X Communication in 5G and Beyond: A UAV-Enabled Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surface Solution	34
Key Technologies in 6G Terahertz Wireless Communication Systems: A Survey	34
Dynamic Radar Networks of UAVs: A Tutorial Overview and Tracking Performance Comparison With Terrestrial Radar Networks	33
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Modeling and Implementation	32
Massively Distributed Antenna Systems With Nonideal Optical Fiber Fronthauls: A Promising Technology for 6G Wireless Communication Systems	31
Trustworthy Deep Learning in 6G-Enabled Mass Autonomy: From Concept to Quality-of-Trust Key Performance Indicators	30
Toward Human-Centered Automated Driving: A Novel Spatiotemporal Vision Transformer-Enabled Head Tracker	30
Channel Estimation Techniques for RIS-Assisted Communication: Millimeter-Wave and Sub-THz Systems	30
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Visible Light Communications: Potentials and Challenges	28
Wireless Communication for Safe UAVs: From Long-Range Deconfliction to Short-Range Collision Avoidance	28
Six Critical Challenges for 6G Wireless Systems: A Summary and Some Solutions	28

Wide-Bandgap Power Semiconductors for Electric Vehicle Systems: Challenges and Trends	27
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-Aided Vehicular Networks: Their Protocols, Resource Allocation, and Performance	27
5G Wireless Security and Privacy: Architecture and Flexible Mechanisms	27
Directional Terahertz Communication Systems for 6G: Fact Check	26
The Potential of Multilayered Hierarchical Nonterrestrial Networks for 6G: A Comparative Analysis Among Networking Architectures	26
Realizing the Network Service Federation Vision: Enabling Automated Multidomain Orchestration of Network Services	24
Artificial Intelligence Security in 5G Networks: Adversarial Examples for Estimating a Travel Time Task	24
Positioning and Sensing in 6G: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities	23
Protecting In-Vehicle Services: Security-Enabled SOME/IP Middleware	22
Metasurface-Coated Devices: A New Paradigm for Energy-Efficient and Secure 6G Communications	22
Massive MIMO-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing: Exciting Possibilities for Computation Offloading	22
Enabling Cellular Communication for Aerial Vehicles: Providing Reliability for Future Applications	22
Noncontact Vital Sign Detection With UAV-Borne Radars: An Overview of Recent Advances	22
Green Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radio Resource Management: Architecture, Algorithm Compression, and Challenges	18
Communication, Computing, Caching, and Sensing for Next-Generation Aerial Delivery Networks: Using a High-Altitude Platform Station as an Enabling Technology	18
Artificial Intelligence for 6G Networks: Technology Advancement and Standardization	18
Online Velocity Control and Data Capture of Drones for the Internet of Things: An Onboard Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach	17
Aviation Data Lake: Using Side Information to Enhance Future Air-Ground Vehicle Networks	16
Beyond 5G: Big Data Processing for Better Spectrum Utilization	16
Persistent Crowd Tracking Using Unmanned AerIal Vehicle Swarms: A Novel Framework for Energy and Mobility Management	16
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Joint Radar and Covert Communications: Fundamentals, Optimization, and Challenges	16
CubeSat-Based 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks: A Novel Paradigm for On-Demand Anytime/Anywhere Connectivity	15
Multiwideband Terahertz Communications Via Tunable Graphene-Based Metasurfaces in 6G Networks: Graphene Enables Ultimate Multiwideband THz Wavefront Control	15
Slicing-Based Artificial Intelligence Service Provisioning on the Network Edge: Balancing AI Service Performance and Resource Consumption of Data Management	14
Topology Optimization for 6G Networks: A Network Information-Theoretic Approach	14
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Optimization for Spectrum Sharing: Scenarios and Methods	14
An Outlook on the Interplay of Artificial Intelligence and Software-Defined Metasurfaces: An Overview of Opportunities and Limitations	14
Supporting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Services in 5G Networks: New High-Level Architecture Integrating 5G With U-Space	14
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications: Path-Loss Modeling and Evaluation	14
Prospective Immersive Human-Machine Interface for Future Vehicles: Multiple Zones Turn the Full Windscreen Into a Head-Up Display	14
Leveraging RIS-Enabled Smart Signal Propagation for Solving Infeasible Localization Problems: Scenarios, Key Research Directions, and Open Challenges	13
Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Network Slicing: Network Assurance and Service Provisioning in 6G	13
Toward Smart Vehicle-to-Everything-Connected Powertrains: Driving Real Component Test Benches in a Fully Interactive Virtual Smart City	13
Physical-Layer Security for Vehicle-to-Everything Networks: Increasing Security While Maintaining Reliable Communications	12
Location Awareness Via Intelligent Surfaces: A Path Toward Holographic NLN	12
Detecting Fake Mobile Crowdsensing Tasks: Ensemble Methods Under Limited Data	12
Multiobjective Optimization for Integrated Ground-Air-Space Networks: Current Research and Future Challenges	12
AI-Enabled Sub-6-GHz and mm-Wave Hybrid Communications: Considerations for Use With Future HSR Wireless Systems	12
A Definition and Framework for Vehicular Knowledge Networking: An Application of Knowledge-Centric Networking	12
Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicles: Real-Time Traffic Prediction-Enabled Co-Optimization of Vehicle Motion and Powertrain Operation	11
Multicasting Over 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Softwarization-Based Approach	11
Cooperative Multiterminal Radar and Communication: A New Paradigm for 6G Mobile Networks	11
Interference Geolocation in Satellite Communications Systems: An Overview	10
Pairing a Circular Economy and the 5G-Enabled Internet of Things: Creating a Class of ?Looping Smart Assets?	10
Full-Duplex Massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Architectures: Recent Advances, Applications, and Future Directions	10
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Action for Nonterrestrial Networks	10
Digital Transformation, Systemic Design, and Automotive Electronics [Automotive Electronics]	10
User Selection for Federated Learning in a Wireless Environment: A Process to Minimize the Negative Effect of Training Data Correlation and Improve Performance	9
Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces: Enabling Simultaneous Tunable Reflections and Sensing for 6G Wireless Communications	9
Semantic Communication for the Internet of Vehicles: A Multiuser Cooperative Approach	9

Collaborative Driving: Learning-Aided Joint Topology Formulation and Beamforming	9
Interference Control for Railway Wireless Communication Systems: Techniques, Challenges, and Trends	8
Sparse Vector Transmission: An Idea Whose Time Has Come	8
Energy Efficiency of Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Architectures: Future 60-GHz Applications	8
The Role of 5G in Limiting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic [Mobile Radio]	7
Cellular Localization for Autonomous Driving: A Function Pull Approach to Safety-Critical Wireless Localization	7
Automotive Electronics Under the COVID-19 Shadow [Automotive Electronics]	7
High-Density Platooning in Cellular Vehicle-To-Everything Systems: On the Importance of Communication-Aware Networked Control Design	7
Reconfigurable Holographic Surface: A New Paradigm to Implement Holographic Radio	6
Integrated Sensor Fusion Based on 4D MIMO Radar and Camera: A Solution for Connected Vehicle Applications	6
Toward 6G Vehicle-to-Everything Sidelink: Nonorthogonal Multiple Access in the Autonomous Mode	6
Joint Optimization of IRS and UAV-Trajectory: For Supporting Statistical Delay and Error-Rate Bounded QoS Over mURLLC-Driven 6G Mobile Wireless Networks Using FBC	6
Awareness Assessment of Connected Vehicles in Highway Driving: A Perceived Safety Approach	6
Time Reversal for 6G Spatiotemporal Focusing: Recent Experiments, Opportunities, and Challenges	6
Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for the Shift to 6G Wireless Communications	6
Intracell Frequency Band Exiling for Green Wireless Networks: Implementation, Performance Metrics, and Use Cases	5
Longitudinal Motion Control of Electric Vehicles: Glocal Model and Design Using Passivity	5
Autonomous Bus Driving: A Novel Motion-Planning Approach	5
A Contribution to Safe Railway Operation: Evaluating the Effect of Electromagnetic Disturbances on Balise-to-BTM Communication in Railway Control Signaling Systems	5
Automotive Industry Faces Challenges [Connected and Autonomous Vehicles]	5
6G Networks: Is This an Evolution or a Revolution? [From the Guest Editors]	5
Metamobility: Connecting Future Mobility With the Metaverse	5
Reliability of Automotive Multidomain Controllers: Advancements in electronics cooling technologies	5
Effective Cache-Enabled Wireless Networks: An Artificial Intelligence- and Recommendation-Oriented Framework	4
Multiple-Fuel Cell Module Architecture Investigation: A Key to High Efficiency in Heavy-Duty Electric Transportation	4
5G Consolidates Deployment by Targeting New Bands [Mobile Radio]	4
Machine Learning for Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network Assisted Vehicular Network: A Novel Network Architecture for Vehicles	4
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Management for Flexible Mobile Edge Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Research Issues	4
Adaptive content seeding for information-centric networking under high topology dynamics	4
Energy Consumption of a Battery Electric Vehicle in Winter Considering Preheating: Tradeoff Between Improved Performance and Total Energy Consumption	4
Designing Hybrid Vehicle Architectures: Utilizing an Automatic Generation and Optimization Approach	4
AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats to Future Networks [From the Guest Editors]	4
Satellite Clustering for Non-Terrestrial Networks: Concept, Architectures, and Applications	4
Multicluster-Coordination Industrial Internet of Things: The Era of Nonorthogonal Transmission	4
High-Speed, Low-Latency In-Vehicle Network Based on the Bus Topology for Autonomous Vehicles: Automotive Networking and Applications	4
Electromobility Innovation Trends [Automotive Electronics]	4