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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Visible Light Communication in 6G: Advances, Challenges, and Prospects	384
6G Wireless Channel Measurements and Models: Trends and Challenges	330
Machine Learning for 6G Wireless Networks: Carrying Forward Enhanced Bandwidth, Massive Access, and Ultrareliable/Low-Latency Service	221
Radio Localization and Mapping With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Directions	195
Perceptive Mobile Networks: Cellular Networks With Radio Vision via Joint Communication and Radar Sensing	131
Aerial Base Station Deployment in 6G Cellular Networks Using Tethered Drones: The Mobility and Endurance Tradeoff	122
Laser Intersatellite Links in a Starlink Constellation: A Classification and Analysis	106
Ultramassive MIMO Systems at Terahertz Bands: Prospects and Challenges	94
LiFi through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A New Frontier for 6G?	68
Wireless 2.0: Toward an Intelligent Radio Environment Empowered by Reconfigurable Meta-Surfaces and Artificial Intelligence	56
Key Technologies in 6G Terahertz Wireless Communication Systems: A Survey	51
Positioning and Sensing in 6G: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities	49
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Vehicular Networks Toward 6G: Vision, Proposal, and Future Directions	48
Toward Smart and Secure V2X Communication in 5G and Beyond: A UAV-Enabled Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surface Solution	41
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Visible Light Communications: Potentials and Challenges	41
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Modeling and Implementation	41
Wide-Bandgap Power Semiconductors for Electric Vehicle Systems: Challenges and Trends	40
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-Aided Vehicular Networks: Their Protocols, Resource Allocation, and Performance	40
Channel Estimation Techniques for RIS-Assisted Communication: Millimeter-Wave and Sub-THz Systems	39
Trustworthy Deep Learning in 6G-Enabled Mass Autonomy: From Concept to Quality-of-Trust Key Performance Indicators	39
Toward Human-Centered Automated Driving: A Novel Spatiotemporal Vision Transformer-Enabled Head Tracker	36
Six Critical Challenges for 6G Wireless Systems: A Summary and Some Solutions	36
The Potential of Multilayered Hierarchical Nonterrestrial Networks for 6G: A Comparative Analysis Among Networking Architectures	33
Massively Distributed Antenna Systems With Nonideal Optical Fiber Fronthauls: A Promising Technology for 6G Wireless Communication Systems	33
Directional Terahertz Communication Systems for 6G: Fact Check	31

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Network Slicing: Network Assurance and Service Provisioning in 6G	28
Artificial Intelligence for 6G Networks: Technology Advancement and Standardization	28
Metasurface-Coated Devices: A New Paradigm for Energy-Efficient and Secure 6G Communications	26
Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces: Enabling Simultaneous Tunable Reflections and Sensing for 6G Wireless Communications	25
Multiwideband Terahertz Communications Via Tunable Graphene-Based Metasurfaces in 6G Networks: Graphene Enables Ultimate Multiwideband THz Wavefront Control	25
Noncontact Vital Sign Detection With UAV-Borne Radars: An Overview of Recent Advances	24
Leveraging RIS-Enabled Smart Signal Propagation for Solving Infeasible Localization Problems: Scenarios, Key Research Directions, and Open Challenges	24
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Joint Radar and Covert Communications: Fundamentals, Optimization, and Challenges	23
Multicasting Over 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Softwarization-Based Approach	22
Green Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radio Resource Management: Architecture, Algorithm Compression, and Challenges	22
Location Awareness Via Intelligent Surfaces: A Path Toward Holographic NLN	21
Communication, Computing, Caching, and Sensing for Next-Generation Aerial Delivery Networks: Using a High-Altitude Platform Station as an Enabling Technology	21
Cooperative Multiterminal Radar and Communication: A New Paradigm for 6G Mobile Networks	21
Online Velocity Control and Data Capture of Drones for the Internet of Things: An Onboard Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach	19
Slicing-Based Artificial Intelligence Service Provisioning on the Network Edge: Balancing AI Service Performance and Resource Consumption of Data Management	19
Aviation Data Lake: Using Side Information to Enhance Future Air-Ground Vehicle Networks	19
Prospective Immersive Human-Machine Interface for Future Vehicles: Multiple Zones Turn the Full Windscreen Into a Head-Up Display	19
Full-Duplex Massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Architectures: Recent Advances, Applications, and Future Directions	18
Metamobility: Connecting Future Mobility With the Metaverse	16
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Near-Field Communications for 6G: Opportunities and Challenges	16
Topology Optimization for 6G Networks: A Network Information-Theoretic Approach	15
Semantic Communication for the Internet of Vehicles: A Multiuser Cooperative Approach	15
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Action for Nonterrestrial Networks	15
Supporting Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Services in 5G Networks: New High-Level Architecture Integrating 5G With U-Space	14
Toward Smart Vehicle-to-Everything-Connected Powertrains: Driving Real Component Test Benches in a Fully Interactive Virtual Smart City	14
An Outlook on the Interplay of Artificial Intelligence and Software-Defined Metasurfaces: An Overview of Opportunities and Limitations	14
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Optimization for Spectrum Sharing: Scenarios and Methods	14
Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicles: Real-Time Traffic Prediction-Enabled Co-Optimization of Vehicle Motion and Powertrain Operation	13
A Definition and Framework for Vehicular Knowledge Networking: An Application of Knowledge-Centric Networking	13
User Selection for Federated Learning in a Wireless Environment: A Process to Minimize the Negative Effect of Training Data Correlation and Improve Performance	12
Multiobjective Optimization for Integrated Ground-Air-Space Networks: Current Research and Future Challenges	12
Reconfigurable Holographic Surface: A New Paradigm to Implement Holographic Radio	12
Interference Geolocation in Satellite Communications Systems: An Overview	11
Sparks of Generative Pretrained Transformers in Edge Intelligence for the Metaverse: Caching and Inference for Mobile Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content Services	11
Aligning the Light for Vehicular Visible Light Communications: High Data Rate and Low-Latency Vehicular Visible Light Communications Implementing Blind Interference Alignment	11
Toward 6G Vehicle-to-Everything Sidelink: Nonorthogonal Multiple Access in the Autonomous Mode	11
Collaborative Driving: Learning-Aided Joint Topology Formulation and Beamforming	10
AI-Based Time-, Frequency-, and Space-Domain Channel Extrapolation for 6G: Opportunities and Challenges	9
High-Density Platooning in Cellular Vehicle-To-Everything Systems: On the Importance of Communication-Aware Networked Control Design	9
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	9
Cellular Localization for Autonomous Driving: A Function Pull Approach to Safety-Critical Wireless Localization	9
Awareness Assessment of Connected Vehicles in Highway Driving: A Perceived Safety Approach	8
Advanced Air Mobility: Research Directions for Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance	8
Machine Learning for Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network Assisted Vehicular Network: A Novel Network Architecture for Vehicles	8
Satellite Clustering for Non-Terrestrial Networks: Concept, Architectures, and Applications	8
Integrated Sensor Fusion Based on 4D MIMO Radar and Camera: A Solution for Connected Vehicle Applications	8
Futuristic 6G Pervasive On-Demand Services: Integrating Space Edge Computing With Terrestrial Networks	8
High-Speed, Low-Latency In-Vehicle Network Based on the Bus Topology for Autonomous Vehicles: Automotive Networking and Applications	7
Visual Camouflage and Online Trajectory Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Disguised Video Surveillance: Recent Advances and a Case Study	7
High-Altitude Platform Stations as International Mobile Telecommunications Base Stations: A Primer on HIBS	7

The Role of 5G in Limiting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic [Mobile Radio]	7
When Connected and Automated Vehicles Meet Mobile Crowdsensing: A Perception and Transmission Framework in the Metaverse	7
Time Reversal for 6G Spatiotemporal Focusing: Recent Experiments, Opportunities, and Challenges	7
A Contribution to Safe Railway Operation: Evaluating the Effect of Electromagnetic Disturbances on Balise-to-BTM Communication in Railway Control Signaling Systems	7
Longitudinal Motion Control of Electric Vehicles: Glocal Model and Design Using Passivity	7
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Management for Flexible Mobile Edge Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Research Issues	6
Precise Docking at Charging Stations for Large-Capacity Vehicles: An Advanced Driver-Assistance System for Drivers of Electric Urban Buses	6
Clothoid-Based Lane-Level High-Definition Maps: Unifying Sensing and Control Models	6
Effective Cache-Enabled Wireless Networks: An Artificial Intelligence- and Recommendation-Oriented Framework	6
6G Networks: Is This an Evolution or a Revolution? [From the Guest Editors]	6
Causal Reasoning: Charting a Revolutionary Course for Next-Generation AI-Native Wireless Networks	6
Satellite Network Slice Planning: Architecture, Performance Analysis, and Open Issues	6
Multicluster-Coordination Industrial Internet of Things: The Era of Nonorthogonal Transmission	6
Multicarrier-Division Duplex: A Duplexing Technique for the Shift to 6G Wireless Communications	6
Dynamic Heterogeneous Redundancy-Based Joint Safety and Security for Connected Automated Vehicles: Preliminary Simulation and Field Test Results	5
IRS-Aided High-Accuracy Positioning for Autonomous Driving Toward 6G: A Tutorial	5
Artificial Intelligence-Driven Fog Radio Access Networks: Integrating Decision Making Considering Different Time Granularities	5
Autonomous Bus Driving: A Novel Motion-Planning Approach	5
Designing Hybrid Vehicle Architectures: Utilizing an Automatic Generation and Optimization Approach	5
Energy Consumption of a Battery Electric Vehicle in Winter Considering Preheating: Tradeoff Between Improved Performance and Total Energy Consumption	5
Intracell Frequency Band Exiling for Green Wireless Networks: Implementation, Performance Metrics, and Use Cases	5
Toward Trusted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Networks: A Blockchain-Based Approach	5
Reliability of Automotive Multidomain Controllers: Advancements in electronics cooling technologies	5
EH-Edge--An Energy Harvesting-Driven Edge IoT Platform for Online Failure Prediction of Rail Transit Vehicles: A case study of a cloud, edge, and end device collaborative computing paradigm	4
Safety-Related Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility Services: Interplay Between Functional and Security Requirements	4
Adaptive content seeding for information-centric networking under high topology dynamics	4
5G Consolidates Deployment by Targeting New Bands [Mobile Radio]	4
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing: The Way Forward for 6G Physical Layer Design?	4
Electromobility Innovation Trends [Automotive Electronics]	4
An Energy-Efficient Intelligent Framework of UAV-Enhanced Vehicular Networks: Open Problems and a Case Study	4
Virtual Target-Based Longitudinal Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles at Urban Intersections: Determining Control Inputs of Acceleration With Human Driving Characteristic-Based Constraints	4
AI-Assisted Edge Caching for Metaverse of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Proposal, Challenges, and Future Perspectives	4
Multiple-Fuel Cell Module Architecture Investigation: A Key to High Efficiency in Heavy-Duty Electric Transportation	4