OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications is 82. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead	1469
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond	647
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Broadcasting for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer	539
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MISO Systems Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning	520
Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G	470
Capacity Characterization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Communication	463
Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces	455
Age of Information: An Introduction and Survey	421
Massive Access for 5G and Beyond	372
Privacy-Preserved Data Sharing Towards Multiple Parties in Industrial IoTs	341
Hybrid Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface based Multi-User Communications: Achievable Rates With Limited Discrete Phase Shifts	332
Latency Minimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing	320
Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted SWIPT Under QoS Constraints	312
Channel Estimation and Passive Beamforming for Intelligent Reflecting Surface: Discrete Phase Shift and Progressive Refinement	264
MIMO Transmission Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: System Design, Analysis, and Implementation	247
Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Applications	246
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management in MEC- and UAV-Assisted Vehicular Networks	240
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided NOMA Networks	224
Mobile Edge Computing Enabled 5G Health Monitoring for Internet of Medical Things: A Decentralized Game Theoretic Approach	222
Distributed Learning in Wireless Networks: Recent Progress and Future Challenges	221
A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence	221
Massive MIMO Transmission for LEO Satellite Communications	220
Multi-Hop RIS-Empowered Terahertz Communications: A DRL-Based Hybrid Beamforming Design	215
Matrix-Calibration-Based Cascaded Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MIMO	213
Blockchain-Assisted Secure Device Authentication for Cross-Domain Industrial IoT	212

Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G	194
Semantic Communication Systems for Speech Transmission	181
RouteNet: Leveraging Graph Neural Networks for Network Modeling and Optimization in SDN	175
A Lite Distributed Semantic Communication System for Internet of Things	169
Passive Beamforming and Information Transfer Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided Multiuser MIMO Systems	163
Resource Allocation Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in IoT Edge Computing	162
Automatic Virtual Network Embedding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Graph Convolutional Networks	151
Machine Learning Empowered Trajectory and Passive Beamforming Design in UAV-RIS Wireless Networks	137
Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient MEC in NOMA-Enabled Massive IoT Networks	134
Privacy for Free: Wireless Federated Learning via Uncoded Transmission With Adaptive Power Control	130
Graph Neural Networks for Scalable Radio Resource Management: Architecture Design and Theoretical Analysis	128
Analyzing User-Level Privacy Attack Against Federated Learning	126
RIS Enhanced Massive Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks: Deployment and Passive Beamforming Design	126
Edge Computing in VANETs-An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Cooperative Downloading Scheme	124
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Based RF Sensing: Design, Optimization, and Implementation	119
Adaptive Transmission for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted OFDM Wireless Communications	119
Fast-Convergent Federated Learning	118
Optimal UAV Caching and Trajectory in Aerial-Assisted Vehicular Networks: A Learning-Based Approach	117
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Uplink/Downlink Resource Allocation in High Mobility 5G HetNet	115
Structured Massive Access for Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems	114
Communicating With Large Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamental Limits and Models	114
Learning to Reflect and to Beamform for Intelligent Reflecting Surface With Implicit Channel Estimation	114
Internet of Things for In-Home Health Monitoring Systems: Current Advances, Challenges and Future Directions	114
Cell-Free Satellite-UAV Networks for 6G Wide-Area Internet of Things	112
Energy Efficient User Clustering, Hybrid Precoding and Power Optimization in Terahertz MIMO-NOMA Systems	112
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for UAV-Enabled Networks: Learning-Based Joint Scheduling and Resource Management	112
An Efficient Specific Emitter Identification Method Based on Complex-Valued Neural Networks and Network Compression	109
Millimeter-Wave Full-Duplex UAV Relay: Joint Positioning, Beamforming, and Power Control	108
Accelerating DNN Training in Wireless Federated Edge Learning Systems	107
Millimeter Wave and Sub-Terahertz Spatial Statistical Channel Model for an Indoor Office Building	106
Minimizing Age of Information With Power Constraints: Multi-User Opportunistic Scheduling in Multi-State Time-Varying Channels	105
Dynamic RAN Slicing for Service-Oriented Vehicular Networks via Constrained Learning	104
A Decoupled Blockchain Approach for Edge-Envisioned IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring	104
Uplink-Aided High Mobility Downlink Channel Estimation Over Massive MIMO-OTFS System	103
Byzantine-Resilient Secure Federated Learning	102
EEG-Based Pathology Detection for Home Health Monitoring	101
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Multi-UAV NOMA Networks	101
Blockchain-Based Incentives for Secure and Collaborative Data Sharing in Multiple Clouds	100
Wireless Image Retrieval at the Edge	99
Optimizing Federated Learning in Distributed Industrial IoT: A Multi-Agent Approach	97
CFR-RL: Traffic Engineering With Reinforcement Learning in SDN	97
Joint Pilot and Payload Power Allocation for Massive-MIMO-Enabled URLLC IIoT Networks	96
Age of Information in Energy Harvesting Aided Massive Multiple Access Networks	95
Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics, and Task-Oriented Communications	94
Analyzing Grant-Free Access for URLLC Service	91
SFC-Based Service Provisioning for Reconfigurable Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks	89
Exploiting Randomly Located Blockages for Large-Scale Deployment of Intelligent Surfaces	87
Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa Using Deep Learning	87
Smart Mutual Authentication Protocol for Cloud Based Medical Healthcare Systems Using Internet of Medical Things	86
Multi-Frequency Multi-Scenario Millimeter Wave MIMO Channel Measurements and Modeling for B5G Wireless Communication Systems	86

Spatially-Stationary Model for Holographic MIMO Small-Scale Fading	85
Massive Access in Cell-Free Massive MIMO-Based Internet of Things: Cloud Computing and Edge Computing Paradigms	85
An Energy-Efficient Networking Approach in Cloud Services for IIoT Networks	85
Attention-Weighted Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Device-to-Device Assisted Heterogeneous Collaborative Edge Caching	84
Joint Optimisation of Real-Time Deployment and Resource Allocation for UAV-Aided Disaster Emergency Communications	83
A Dynamic Array-of-Subarrays Architecture and Hybrid Precoding Algorithms for Terahertz Wireless Communications	83
Reflecting Modulation	82
Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks for 6G Ubiquitous Coverage: A Maritime Communications Perspective	82
Joint HAP Access and LEO Satellite Backhaul in 6G: Matching Game-Based Approaches	82