OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters is 3. 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
Rayleigh Fading Modeling and Channel Hardening for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces	313
Wireless Communication Aided by Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Active or Passive?	164
Secure and Energy Efficient Transmission for RSMA-Based Cognitive Satellite-Terrestrial Networks	155
Joint Optimization for Secure Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted UAV Networks	128
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Mobile Edge Computing for Internet of Things	124
End-to-End Mutual Coupling Aware Communication Model for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: An Electromagnetic-Compliant Approach Based on Mutual Impedances	119
UAV-Assisted and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-Supported Terahertz Communications	117
Edge Intelligence-Based Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications for Digital Twin-Enabled Metaverse	112
Fast Beam Training for IRS-Assisted Multiuser Communications	110
Accurate Closed-Form Approximations to Channel Distributions of RIS-Aided Wireless Systems	107
Outage Probability and Capacity Scaling Law of Multiple RIS-Aided Networks	105
Learning-Based Robust and Secure Transmission for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Millimeter Wave UAV Communications	99
Data-Aided Channel Estimation for OTFS Systems With a Superimposed Pilot and Data Transmission Scheme	98
Wireless Communication via Double IRS: Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming Designs	97
Cooperative Beam Routing for Multi-IRS Aided Communication	96
Secure Wireless Communication in RIS-Aided MISO System With Hardware Impairments	95
Energy Efficiency in Secure IRS-Aided SWIPT	93
Statistical CSI-Based Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Massive MIMO Systems With Direct Links	91
Analysis of Uplink IRS-Assisted NOMA Under Nakagami-m Fading via Moments Matching	90
IRS-Assisted Wireless Powered NOMA: Do We Really Need Different Phase Shifts in DL and UL?	89
Energy Efficient Placement of a Drone Base Station for Minimum Required Transmit Power	87
Task-Oriented Multi-User Semantic Communications for VQA	86
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Communications With Discrete Phase Shifts: How Many Quantization Levels Are Required to Achieve Full Diversity?	86
Digital Twin-Aided Intelligent Offloading With Edge Selection in Mobile Edge Computing	84
Resource Allocation for Text Semantic Communications	81

Energy Efficiency Maximization via Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Design for Multiuser MISO IRS-Aided SWIPT	81
Accurate Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Over Rician Fading Channels	78
Beamforming Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Single-User MIMO Systems: SNR Distribution and Scaling Laws in the Presence of Channel Fading and Phase Noise	77
Delay-Optimal Scheduling for IRS-Aided Mobile Edge Computing	75
Effective Capacity Analysis of STAR-RIS-Assisted NOMA Networks	74
Outage Probability Analysis of IRS-Assisted Systems Under Spatially Correlated Channels	73
FBI: A Federated Learning-Based Blockchain-Embedded Data Accumulation Scheme Using Drones for Internet of Things	73
Robust and Secure Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided mmWave MISO Systems	72
CLNet: Complex Input Lightweight Neural Network Designed for Massive MIMO CSI Feedback	71
Fast Channel Estimation for IRS-Assisted OFDM	70
On Power Minimization for IRS-Aided Downlink NOMA Systems	69
Adaptive User Pairing for NOMA Systems With Imperfect SIC	69
Covert Communication in Downlink NOMA Systems With Random Transmit Power	68
Decentralized Beamforming Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Enhanced Cell-Free Networks	68
IRS-Enhanced Energy Detection for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks	66
Age of Information for Short-Packet Covert Communication	65
Energy Efficiency Maximization in NOMA Enabled Backscatter Communications With QoS Guarantee	65
Multi-Objective Resource Allocation for IRS-Aided SWIPT	65
Artificial Noise Aided Secure NOMA Communications in STAR-RIS Networks	65
Throughput Maximization for IRS-Assisted Wireless Powered Hybrid NOMA and TDMA	64
UAV Trajectory and Beamforming Optimization for Integrated Periodic Sensing and Communication	64
RIS-Assisted Spectrum Sharing Between MIMO Radar and MU-MISO Communication Systems	63
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Operation Under Predictable Receiver Mobility: A Continuous Time Propagation Model	63
Pilot Assignment in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Based on the Hungarian Algorithm	62
Accurate LPI Radar Waveform Recognition With CWD-TFA for Deep Convolutional Network	62
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Energy Efficiency in D2D Communication Network	61
Optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Full-Duplex Relay Networks	60
Joint Trajectory-Task-Cache Optimization With Phase-Shift Design of RIS-Assisted UAV for MEC	60
An Efficient Intrusion Detection Method Based on Dynamic Autoencoder	60
Semantic Communication With Adaptive Universal Transformer	60
Distributed Learning for Automatic Modulation Classification in Edge Devices	60
On the Performance of RIS-Assisted Integrated Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks With Hardware Impairments and Interference	60
Tensor-Based Modulation for Unsourced Massive Random Access	59
Deep Learning-Based Beamspace Channel Estimation in mmWave Massive MIMO Systems	56
A Novel Design of RIS for Enhancing the Physical Layer Security for RIS-Aided NOMA Networks	55
Learning-Based Predictive Beamforming for UAV Communications With Jittering	55
CV-3DCNN: Complex-Valued Deep Learning for CSI Prediction in FDD Massive MIMO Systems	53
Learning of Time-Frequency Attention Mechanism for Automatic Modulation Recognition	52
3D Scene-Based Beam Selection for mmWave Communications	52
Ground-Assisted Federated Learning in LEO Satellite Constellations	52
On the Ergodic Secrecy Capacity of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Powered Communication Systems	51
Low-Complexity PAPR Reduction Method for OFDM Systems Based on Real-Valued Neural Networks	50
Capacity Analysis of IRS-Based UAV Communications With Imperfect Phase Compensation	50
Uplink Achievable Rate of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Millimeter-Wave Communications With Low-Resolution ADC and Phase Noise	49
Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Based on Slice Integration Cooperation and Heat Constellation Trace Figure	49
Deep Learning-Based Channel Prediction for LEO Satellite Massive MIMO Communication System	49
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Relay Selection in Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Cooperative Networks	49
An Analytic Approach for Modeling the Coverage Performance of Dense Satellite Networks	49
Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Wireless Communications Considering Doppler Effect	48
Throughput Fairness Guarantee in Wireless Powered Backscatter Communications With HTT	48

Fast Near-Field Beam Training for Extremely Large-Scale Array	48
Mutual Coupling and Unit Cell Aware Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces	48
Cascaded Channel Estimation for RIS Assisted mmWave MIMO Transmissions	47
Automatic Modulation Recognition: A Few-Shot Learning Method Based on the Capsule Network	47
Joint Interference Alignment and Power Control for Dense Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning	47
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multicasting With Random Passive Beamforming	46
Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization for Multi-UAV-Assisted Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing	45
Pilot Pattern Design for Deep Learning-Based Channel Estimation in OFDM Systems	45
Ergodic Secrecy Rate of RIS-Assisted Communication Systems in the Presence of Discrete Phase Shifts and Multiple Eavesdroppers	45
Throughput Maximization for Active Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Wireless Powered Communications	44
MIMO Interference Channels Assisted by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Mutual Coupling Aware Sum-Rate Optimization Based on a Mutual Impedance Channel Model	44
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Secret Key Generation With Discrete Phase Shifts in Static Environment	44
Secrecy Performance Analysis of IRS-Aided UAV Relay System	44
Coverage Probability of Distributed IRS Systems Under Spatially Correlated Channels	44
Distributed IRS With Statistical Passive Beamforming for MISO Communications	44
Federated Dropout—A Simple Approach for Enabling Federated Learning on Resource Constrained Devices	43
Task Offloading and Trajectory Scheduling for UAV-Enabled MEC Networks: An Optimal Transport Theory Perspective	43
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Cell-Free MIMO Communications	43
TransNet: Full Attention Network for CSI Feedback in FDD Massive MIMO System	43
Integrated Sensing and Communications for UAV Communications With Jittering Effect	42
Integrated Sensing and Communication Assisted Mobile Edge Computing: An Energy-Efficient Design via Intelligent Reflecting Surface	42
On the Optimal Number of Reflecting Elements for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces	42
Random Shifting Intelligent Reflecting Surface for OTP Encrypted Data Transmission	42
Capacity Analysis of Cooperative NOMA-OAM-MIMO Based Full-Duplex Relaying for 6G	42
Deep Learning Methods for Universal MISO Beamforming	41
Low-Complexity Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Enhanced Massive MIMO	40
Localization via Multiple Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Equipped With Single Receive RF Chains	40
A User-Centric Handover Scheme for Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Networks	39
Joint Active and Passive Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enhanced Symbiotic Radio System	39
IRS Meets Relaying: Joint Resource Allocation and Passive Beamforming Optimization	39
Online Client Scheduling for Fast Federated Learning	38
Design and Implementation of MIMO Transmission Based on Dual-Polarized Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface	38
Robust Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided Secure SWIPT Terahertz Systems With Non-Linear EH Model	38
Location-Aware Predictive Beamforming for UAV Communications: A Deep Learning Approach	38
Sum Rate Maximization of Massive MIMO NOMA in LEO Satellite Communication System	38
Federated mmWave Beam Selection Utilizing LIDAR Data	38
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multi-User Communications: How Many Reflective Elements Do We Need?	37
Latency Optimization of UAV-Enabled MEC System for Virtual Reality Applications Under Rician Fading Channels	37
Deep Residual Learning-Assisted Channel Estimation in Ambient Backscatter Communications	37
DeepSecure: Detection of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on 5G Network Slicing—Deep Learning Approach	36
On Performance Comparison of Multi-Antenna HD-NOMA, SCMA, and PD-NOMA Schemes	36
Outage Probability and Throughput Analysis of UAV-Assisted Rate-Splitting Multiple Access	36
A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for UWB Ranging Error Mitigation	35
IRS-Aided Wireless Relaying: Deployment Strategy and Capacity Scaling	35
On the Performance of Mixed FSO-UWOC Dual-Hop Transmission Systems	35
Underlay Cognitive NOMA-Based Coordinated Direct and Relay Transmission	35
Two-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network-Based Signal Detection for OTFS Systems	35
Channel Modeling and Channel Estimation for Holographic Massive MIMO With Planar Arrays	35
User Grouping and Reflective Beamforming for IRS-Aided URLLC	35
LiDAR Aided Future Beam Prediction in Real-World Millimeter Wave V2I Communications	35
Energy Aware Multiarmed Bandit for Millimeter Wave-Based UAV Mounted RIS Networks	35
Opportunistic Beamforming Using an Intelligent Reflecting Surface Without Instantaneous CSI	35
A Malicious Node Detection Strategy Based on Fuzzy Trust Model and the ABC Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Network	34
A Weather-Dependent Hybrid RF/FSO Satellite Communication for Improved Power Efficiency	34
Three-Dimensional Geometry-Based Stochastic Channel Modeling for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted UAV MIMO Communications	34
Indoor Mixed Dual-Hop VLC/RF Systems Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces	34
A Maximum Throughput Design for Wireless Powered Communication Networks With IRS-NOMA	34
Enhancing MIMO Covert Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surface	34
SALDR: Joint Self-Attention Learning and Dense Refine for Massive MIMO CSI Feedback With Multiple Compression Ratio	34
DeepMuD: Multi-User Detection for Uplink Grant-Free NOMA IoT Networks via Deep Learning	34
Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-Aided Covert Communication With Warden’s Statistical CSI	33
Optimal Satellite Constellation Altitude for Maximal Coverage	33
Electromagnetic Interference in RIS-Aided Communications	33
Covert Communications With Constrained Age of Information	32
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced D2D Cooperative Computing	32
Physical Layer Security of Large Reflecting Surface Aided Communications With Phase Errors	32
Performance Analysis for RIS-Aided Wireless Systems With Imperfect CSI	32
IoT-Based Coordinated Direct and Relay Transmission With Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access	32
AnciNet: An Efficient Deep Learning Approach for Feedback Compression of Estimated CSI in Massive MIMO Systems	32
IRS-Assisted Ambient Backscatter Communications Utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning	32
Power Minimization for Multi-Cell Uplink NOMA With Imperfect SIC	32
Energy-Efficient UAV-Mounted RIS Assisted Mobile Edge Computing	31
Index Modulation-Based Flexible Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access	31
Energy-Efficient Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled Communication Under Malicious Jamming	31
3D Placement and Orientation of mmWave-Based UAVs for Guaranteed LoS Coverage	31
Performance Analysis of Cascaded Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Networks	31
Joint Location and Transmit Power Optimization for NOMA-UAV Networks via Updating Decoding Order	30
Performance of Downlink and Uplink Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) Systems	30
NOMA-Based Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Relay Networks Under Spectrum Sharing Environment	30
Secrecy Outage Performance Analysis of Cooperative NOMA Networks With SWIPT	30

A Radio Anomaly Detection Algorithm Based on Modified Generative Adversarial Network	30
Joint Trajectory and Scheduling Design for UAV Aided Secure Backscatter Communications	30
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based on Location-Aware Imitation Environment for RIS-Aided mmWave MIMO Systems	29
Time-Wise Attention Aided Convolutional Neural Network for Data-Driven Cellular Traffic Prediction	29
Optimal Power Allocation for Rate Splitting Communications With Deep Reinforcement Learning	29
Optimization for Wireless-Powered IoT Networks Enabled by an Energy-Limited UAV Under Practical Energy Consumption Model	29
Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) With Dual-Mode Index Modulation	29
Optimization on Multiuser Physical Layer Security of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided VLC	29
Robust Probabilistic-Constrained Optimization for IRS-Aided MISO Communication Systems	29
Deep Learning Based Modulation Recognition With Multi-Cue Fusion	29
When mmWave High-Speed Railway Networks Meet Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Method	29
A Low-Complexity Message Passing Detector for OTFS Modulation With Probability Clipping	28
RIS-Assisted Green Secure Communications: Active RIS or Passive RIS?	28
Joint 3D Deployment and Power Allocation for UAV-BS: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach	28
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Power Allocation for Rate-Splitting Multiple Access in 6G LEO Satellite Communication System	28
Mixed RF/FSO Relay Networks: RIS-Equipped RF Source vs RIS-Aided RF Source	28
Statistical CSI-Based Transmission Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Massive MIMO Systems With Hardware Impairments	28
Aerial RIS-Assisted High Altitude Platform Communications	27
ChannelGAN: Deep Learning-Based Channel Modeling and Generating	27
Range Difference-Based Target Localization Under Stratification Effect and NLOS Bias in UWSNs	27
A Multi-Leader Multi-Follower Stackelberg Game for Coalition-Based UAV MEC Networks	27
A Lightweight Deep Network for Efficient CSI Feedback in Massive MIMO Systems	27
Robust Transmission Design for RIS-Aided Communications With Both Transceiver Hardware Impairments and Imperfect CSI	27
Low-Cost Passive Beamforming for RIS-Aided Wideband OFDM Systems	27
5G Synchronization, Positioning, and Mapping From Diffuse Multipath	27
Binary Neural Network Aided CSI Feedback in Massive MIMO System	27
Index Modulation Aided Uplink NOMA for Massive Machine Type Communications	27
CSI-Based Physical Layer Authentication via Deep Learning	26
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Covert Communication With Transmission Probability Optimization	26
AoA-Based Positioning for Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Wireless Communications: An Angle-Domain Approach	26
Stochastic Geometry for Automotive Radar Interference With RCS Characteristics	26
Outage Probability Analysis of RIS-Assisted Wireless Networks With Von Mises Phase Errors	26
Pilot Design and Optimization for OTFS Modulation	26
Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization for UAV-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing: Offloading Optimization and Path Planning	26
ML-Based Massive MIMO Channel Prediction: Does It Work on Real-World Data?	26
Energy Minimization for IRS-Aided WPCNs With Non-Linear Energy Harvesting Model	26
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio	25
Sparse Kronecker-Product Coding for Unsourced Multiple Access	25
Optimized Throughput in Covert Millimeter-Wave UAV Communications With Beam Sweeping	25
Covert Communication With Relay Selection	25
Robust Beamforming for RIS-Assisted Wireless Communications With Discrete Phase Shifts	25
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted NOMA With Heterogeneous Internal Secrecy Requirements	25
Moment Generating Function of the AoI in a Two-Source System With Packet Management	25
Multi-User Joint Maximum-Likelihood Detection in Uplink NOMA-IoT Networks: Removing the Error Floor	25
Energy Efficient Beamforming Optimization for Integrated Sensing and Communication	25
Adaptive Network Pruning for Wireless Federated Learning	25
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Multi-Cell MISO Communication Systems Exploiting Statistical CSI	25
Distributed Beam Training for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Multi-Hop Routing	25
A Novel Range-Free Node Localization Method for Wireless Sensor Networks	25
Power Optimization in Device-to-Device Communications: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Dynamic Reward	25
Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Mobile Edge Computing	24
Optimizing Energy Efficiency in UAV-Assisted Networks Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	24
Weighted Adaptive KNN Algorithm With Historical Information Fusion for Fingerprint Positioning	24
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Distributed Congestion Control in Cellular V2X Networks	24
Hybrid Uplink and Downlink Transmissions for Full-Duplex UAV Communication With RIS	24
Analysis and Simulation of LoRaWAN LR-FHSS for Direct-to-Satellite Scenario	24
Graph-Theory-Based Resource Allocation and Mode Selection in D2D Communication Systems: The Role of Full-Duplex	24
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Interference Mitigation for Cellular-Connected UAV	24
Low-Complexity Linear Diversity-Combining Detector for MIMO-OTFS	24
Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for IRS-Assisted Multi-Antenna Uplink Systems	23
Two-Hop Relay Probing in WiGig Device-to-Device Networks Using Sleeping Contextual Bandits	23
Delay Minimization in Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing With Hybrid BackCom and AT	23
Stochastic Optimization of URLLC-eMBB Joint Scheduling With Queuing Mechanism	23
Intelligent Trajectory Planning in UAV-Mounted Wireless Networks: A Quantum-Inspired Reinforcement Learning Perspective	23
Session Duration Between Handovers in Dense LEO Satellite Networks	23
LoRa Performance Analysis with Superposed Signal Decoding	23
Semi-Grant-Free NOMA: Ergodic Rates Analysis With Random Deployed Users	23
Learning to Estimate RIS-Aided mmWave Channels	23
QoS-Oriented Dynamic Power Allocation in NOMA-Based Wireless Caching Networks	23
Covert Communications With Channel Inversion Power Control in the Finite Blocklength Regime	23
Hardware-Impaired PHY Secret Key Generation With Man-in-the-Middle Adversaries	23
Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination Using a UAV: An Ant Colony Approach	23
Pointing Error Modeling of mmWave to THz High-Directional Antenna Arrays	23
Optimization of RIS-Aided MIMO Systems Via the Cutoff Rate	22
Outage Performance of Satellite Terrestrial Full-Duplex Relaying Networks With co-Channel Interference	22
Achievable Rate Upper-Bounds of Uplink Multiuser OTFS Transmissions	22
Leveraging Location Information for RIS-Aided mmWave MIMO Communications	22
Performance Analysis for RIS-Aided Secure Massive MIMO Systems With Statistical CSI	22
Signal Detection in Uplink Time-Varying OFDM Systems Using RNN With Bidirectional LSTM	22
Deep Learning Driven 3D Robust Beamforming for Secure Communication of UAV Systems	22
Energy Efficiency Analysis of LoRa Networks	22
Deep Learning-Based Phase Noise Compensation in Multicarrier Systems	22
Channel-Adaptive Wireless Image Transmission With OFDM	22
Energy-Efficient Optimization via Joint Power and Subcarrier Allocation for eMBB and URLLC Services	22
Tractable Modelling and Performance Analysis of UAV Networks With 3D Blockage Effects	22
A Low-Complexity Beamforming Design for Multiuser Wireless Energy Transfer	22
Age-Energy Tradeoff of Truncated ARQ Retransmission With Receiver Diversity	21
Joint Optimization of STAR-RIS Assisted UAV Communication Systems	21
Exploiting RIS for Limiting Information Leakage to Active Eavesdropper in Cell-Free Massive MIMO	21
Cooperative Multi-RIS Communications for Wideband mmWave MISO-OFDM Systems	21
Efficient Jamming Identification in Wireless Communication: Using Small Sample Data Driven Naive Bayes Classifier	21
Resource Allocation for IRS-Assisted Wireless Powered Communication Networks	21
Throughput Performance of Wireless Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems Using OAM Antennas	21
Multiuser MISO PS-SWIPT Systems: Active or Passive RIS?	21
On the Achievable Capacity of Cooperative NOMA Networks: RIS or Relay?	21