OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of IEEE Network is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
[Front cover]	607
Scanning the Literature	169
Take Your Preprint Research with the World	155
An Overview of Uplink Access Techniques in Machine-Type Communications	139
Cover 2	105
ComSoc Membership	105
Front Cover	104
Comsoc Open Access	102
Table of Contents	99
Deep Learning for Spectrum Prediction in Cognitive Radio Networks: State-of-the-Art, New Opportunities, and Challenges	93
Comsoc Membership	91
[Back cover]	91
Guest Editorial: AI-Enabled Networking Technologies for Tackling Epidemic Diseases	87
Generative-AI for XR Content Transmission in the Metaverse: Potential Approaches, Challenges, and a Generation-Driven Transmission Framework	85
Bringing Different Views Together: A Hybrid Cooperative Perception Framework for Connected Autonomous Vehicles	83
Federated Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges	79
Generative AI-Driven Digital Twin for Mobile Networks	79
Network Slicing for Zero-Touch Networks: A Top-Notch Technology	78
Cover 3	78
Cover 2	78
Front cover	77
ComSoc Training	72
Cover 3	70
ComSoc Publications	70
Table of Contents	68

Call for Papers	62
Call for Papers	61
vTopology: Virtual MAC Address Aided Network Slicing in Multi-Tenant Data Centers	60
Location Verification for Future Wireless Vehicular Networks: Research Directions and Challenges	60
Exploring NetGPT-enabled Dynamic Resource Management for Mobile D2D in Industrial IoT	59
Power Division for Green Cellular Network	56
Table of Contents	56
Wireless Multi-Interface Connectivity with Deep Learning-Enabled User Devices: An Energy Efficiency Perspective	55
V-Edge: Virtual Edge Computing as an Enabler for Novel Microservices and Cooperative Computing	53
Table of Contents	53
IEEE Collabratec	52
Call for Papers	52
Guest Editorial: AI-Empowered Mobile Edge Computing in the Internet of Vehicles	51
Scanning the Literature	48
Scanning the Literature	48
Distributed AI and Blockchain for 6G-Assisted Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: Challenges and Future Directions	48
Scanning the Literature	48
TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research With the World!	46
Comsoc Training	45
IEEE Network Publication Information	45
Cover 4	45
IEEE Collabratec	45
Table of Contents	45
Cover 3	44
Comsoc Training	43
Ethically Responsible and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for 6G	41
Introducing IEEE Collabratec	40
Scanning the Literature	39
Front Cover	39
Comsoc Training	39
Guest Editorial: New Network Architectures, Protocols, and Algorithms for Time-Sensitive Applications	38
Table of Contents	36
[Back cover]	36
Front Cover	36
Comsoc Publications	35
IEEE App	35
Comsoc Publications	35
Pandemic Management for Diseases Similar to COVID-19 Using Deep Learning and 5G Communications	35
Cover 4	35
DT-SFC-6G: Digital Twins Assisted Service Function Chains in Softwarized 6G Networks for Emerging V2 X	34
Coordinated Backdoor Attacks against Federated Learning with Model-Dependent Triggers	34
Federated Unlearning and Its Privacy Threats	34
Women in Engineering	34
When Digital Twin Meets Generative AI: Intelligent Closed-Loop Network Management	34
How Far Can We Go in Compute-less Networking: Computation Correctness and Accuracy	33
Virtual Quantum Key Distribution Network Ecosystem: The National Czech QKD Network	33
GO SPACE: Researcher Positions in Space Communications	33
IEEE Membership	33
IEEE Foundation	32
FLeS: A Federated Learning-Enhanced Semantic Communication Framework for Mobile AIGC-Driven Human Digital Twins	32

Scalable Traffic Control Using Programmable Data Planes in a Space Information Network	32
IEEE Access	31
Pioneering Air-Ground Integrated Mobility: A Knowledge-Driven Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network for 6G On-Demand Service	31
Standardization of Extended Reality (XR) over 5G and 5G-Advanced 3GPP New Radio	31
Realizing the Tactile Internet through Intelligent Zero Touch Networks	31
Audio-Based Security Techniques for Secure Device-to-Device Communications	30
Task-Oriented Wireless Communications for Collaborative Perception in Intelligent Unmanned Systems	30
Supporting Next-Generation Network Management with Intelligent Moving Devices	30
Federated Imitation Learning: A Cross-Domain Knowledge Sharing Framework for Traffic Scheduling in 6G Ubiquitous IoT	30
Table of Contents	30
An Effective Double-Layer Detection System Against Social Engineering Attacks	29
An Efficient Medium Access Control Scheme Based on MC-CDMA for Mobile Underwater Acoustic Networks	29
Toward User-Centric Resource Allocation for 6G: An Economic Perspective	29
Artificial Intelligence Meets Autonomy in Wireless Networks: A Distributed Learning Approach	29
How Matching Theory Enables Multi-access Edge Computing Adaptive Task Scheduling in IIoT	29
Edge Intelligence Enabled Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Networks: Hybrid Framework, Communication Issues, and Potential Solutions	29
Pricing for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Wireless Networks: Models and Principles	28
Integration of Data Center into the Distributed Satellite Cluster Networks: Challenges, Techniques, and Trends	28
Intelligent Resource Optimization for Blockchain-Enabled IoT in 6G via Collective Reinforcement Learning	28
Disease Prediction in Edge Computing: A Privacy-Preserving Technique for PHI Collection and Analysis	28
A Bilayer Scalable Nakamoto Consensus Protocol for Blockchain Systems	28
Deep Information Fusion-Driven POI Scheduling for Mobile Social Networks	28
Autonomous Collaborative Authentication with Privacy Preservation in 6G: From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity	28
Enhancing Account Privacy in Blockchain-Based IoT Access Control via Zero Knowledge Proof	27
Caching Scalable Videos in the Edge of Wireless Cellular Networks	27
Cloud Edge-Client Collaborative Trajectory Privacy Protection System and Technology	27
Quality of Service in Quantum Networks	26
Security and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence-Enabled 6G	26
Deterministic Full-Fiber Service Network for the Fifth-Generation Fixed Network (F5G)	26
Column Generation for Optimization Problems in Communication Networks	26
A Lean Networking Framework (LeaNet): Potential Technical Space and Approaches for Latency Sensitive Mobile Services	25
Meta-BackCom: Hybrid Reflect-Decode-Forward Online Relaying in Metasurface-Enhanced Backscatter Networks	25
Building Scalable and Flexible Virtual Networks on Programmable Data Plane	25
A Decentralized Collaborative Learning Approach in 5G+ Core Networks	25
Decentralized AI-Enabled Trusted Wireless Network: A New Collaborative Computing Paradigm for Internet of Things	24
Privacy-Preserving Serverless Edge Learning With Decentralized Small-Scale Mobile Data	24
Full Network Sensing: Architecting 6G Beyond Communications	24
Programmable Data Plane Intelligence: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges	24
NetGPT: An AI-Native Network Architecture for Provisioning Beyond Personalized Generative Services	24
Multi-User QoE Enhancement: Federated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Edge Intelligence	24
Toward Secure and Robust Federated Distillation in Distributed Cloud: Challenges and Design Issues	24
Integrated Sensing and Communications in Terahertz Systems: A Theoretical Perspective	23
Passive Versus Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Challenges and Opportunities	23
Ubiquitous and Robust UxV Networks: Overviews, Solutions, Challenges, and Opportunities	23
A Unified Framework for Integrating Semantic Communication and AI-Generated Content in Metaverse	23
Rate Adaptive Mechanism for Semantic Communication Systems: A Robustness Verification Approach	23
Sensing as a Service in 6G Perceptive Mobile Networks: Architecture, Advances, and the Road Ahead	23
Toward Secure Data Storage in Web 3.0: Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption	23
A Security Evaluation Framework for Intelligent Connected Vehicles Based on Attack Chains	23
An Efficient Incentive Mechanism for Federated Learning in Vehicular Networks	23
Quantum-Empowered Federated Learning in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks	23
AI-Enabled Deployment Automation for 6G Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: Challenges, Design, and Outlook	22
Implementing Digital Twin in Field-Deployed Optical Networks: Uncertain Factors, Operational Guidance, and Field-Trial Demonstration	22
Toward Quality-Aware Data Valuation in Learning Algorithms: Practices, Challenges, and Beyond	22
Toward Seamless Localization and Communication: A Satellite-UAV NTN Architecture	22
OpenData: A Framework to Train and Deploy ML Solutions in Wide-Area Networks	22
Federated Learning Driven Sparse Code Multiple Access in V2X Communications	21
Edge-Cloud Collaborative Streaming Video Analytics With Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning	21
Semantic V2X Communications for Image Transmission in 6G Systems	20
An Adversarial Example Defense Algorithm for Intelligent Driving	20
Toward Fine-Gained Services: NFV-Assisted Tracking and Positioning Using Micro-Services for Multi-Robot Cooperation	20
Blockchain-Aided Decentralized Trust Management of Edge Computing: Toward Reliable Off-Chain and On-Chain Trust	20
LEO Satellite Network Access in the Wild: Potentials, Experiences, and Challenges	20
Communication Optimization for Distributed Training: Architecture, Advances, and Opportunities	20
Optimal Entanglement Distribution Problem in Satellite-Based Quantum Networks	20
A Secure Neural Network Inference Framework for Intelligent Connected Vehicles	20
Right-to-Left Multi-Core Multi-Modular Exponentiation for Authentication Protocols	19
RoPe-Door: Towards Robust and Persistent Backdoor Data Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning	19
Dynamic Multi-Tier Resource Allocation Framework for Metaverse	19
BigFiberNet: LLMs and Fabric Computing Empowered Large-scale Non-disturbance Mobile Sensing Networks	19
Moving Target Defense (MTD) for 6G Edge-to-Cloud Continuum: A Cognitive Perspective	19
Generative AI for Advanced UAV Networking	19
AUV-Aided Deep-Sea Internet of Things: A Machine Learning Perspective	19
Beyond Diagonal RIS for 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks: Potentials and Challenges	19
Enabling Mobile AI Agent in 6G Era: Architecture and Key Technologies	19
Trust-based Authentication Aided Blockchain for Distributed Learning in UAV Swarms: Challenges and Solutions	19
How Does Social Behavior Affect Your Password?	18
Enabling Application-Aware Traffic Engineering in IPv6 Networks	18
Centralized and Decentralized Routing Solutions for Present and Future Space Information Networks	18
Softwarized IP Multicast in the Cloud	18

Blockchain-Enabled SLA Compliance for Crowdsourced Edge-Based Network Function Virtualization	18
Service Level Agreements for 5G-Enabled Healthcare Systems: Challenges and Considerations	18
Cognitive Carrier Resource Optimization for Internet-of-Vehicles in 5G-Enhanced Smart Cities	18
An Adaptive Neural Architecture Search Design for Collaborative Edge-Cloud Computing	18
Software-Defined Maritime Fog Computing: Architecture, Advantages, and Feasibility	18
Intelligent Service Orchestration in Edge Cloud Networks	18
Digital Twin Enabled 6G Cell-Free Multi-Function Reconfigurable Metasurfaces Communications: Concepts, Challenges and Future Directions	18
Edge Intelligence for Smart Metro Systems: Architecture and Enabling Technologies	18
On Supporting UAV Based Services in 5G and Beyond Mobile Systems	17
Federated-Learning-Empowered Collaborative Data Sharing for Vehicular Edge Networks	17
Space-Terrestrial Integrated Time-Sensitive Networks: Architecture, Challenges, and Open Issues	17
Generative Network Performance Prediction with Network Digital Twin	17
Graph Neural Networks for Trust Evaluation: Criteria, State-of-the-Art, and Future Directions	17
Satellite-UAV Networks for 6G Control: A Sensing-Communication-Computing-Control Closed Loop Perspective	17
Full Duplex Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks: A Macroscopic Point-of-View	17
TFTG: Time Fidelity Traffic Generation through P4/Tofino Programmable Hardware	17
Toward Autonomous Resource Management Architecture for 6G Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks	16
Networking Parallel Web3 Metaverses for Interoperability	16
Toward Optimal MEC Resource Dimensioning for a Vehicle Collision Avoidance System: A Deep Learning Approach	16
IEEE Access	16
Facilitating Edge Intelligence via Joint Computing, Communications, and Sensing	16
Network Slicing for 5G with UE State Based Allocation and Blockchain Approach	16
A Vision of IoV in 5G HetNets: Architecture, Key Technologies, Applications, Challenges, and Trends	16
Spectrum Sharing for 6G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Communication Networks Based on NOMA and CR	16
Zero Trust Architecture for 6G Security	16
Machine-Learning-Enabled Cooperative Perception for Connected Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities	16
Byzantine Resistant Secure Blockchained Federated Learning at the Edge	16
Intelligent Task Offloading and Energy Allocation in the UAV-Aided Mobile Edge-Cloud Continuum	15
HiCom: A Hyper-ICN Architecture for Computing Power Network in Edge	15
Smarter Base Station Sleeping for Greener Cellular Networks	15
Secure Semantic Communications: Challenges, Approaches, and Opportunities	15
Toward Next Generation Open Radio Access Networks: What O-RAN Can and Cannot Do!	15
Machine-Learning-Aided Mission-Critical Internet of Underwater Things	15
Protecting Digital Twin Networks for 6G-enabled Industry 5.0 Ecosystems	15
Federated Learning for Intelligent Transmission with Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network toward 6G	15
Lightweight Blockchain-Enabled Secure Data Sharing in Dynamic and Resource-Limited UAV Networks	15
6G Network AI Architecture for Everyone-Centric Customized Services	14
HAP Networking Enables Highly Reliable Space-Air-Ground Optical Interconnect: An Integrated Network Perspective	14
Coherent Passive Optical Networks for 100G/λ-and-Beyond Fiber Access: Recent Progress and Outlook	14
Agent-as-a-Service: An AI-Native Edge Computing Framework for 6G Networks	14
Integrating Satellites and Mobile Edge Computing for 6G Wide-Area Edge Intelligence: Minimal Structures and Systematic Thinking	14
Toward Autonomous Trusted Networks-From Digital Twin Perspective	14
Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabled Multiple Base Stations Cooperative Sensing Towards 6G	14
Toward Trustworthy 6G Networks: A Trust-Based Consensus Scheme	14
Tensor-Empowered Lightweight Representations for Personalized Federated Learning in Heterogeneous 6G Networks	14
Secure Semantic Communications: Fundamentals and Challenges	14
Zero Trust Architecture Empowered Attack Detection Framework to Secure 6G Edge Computing	14
Blockchain-Assisted Intelligent Symbiotic Radio in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks	13
IS2N: Intent-Driven Security Software-Defined Network With Blockchain	13
Will Metaverse Be NextG Internet? Vision, Hype, and Reality	13
Federated Learning-Empowered AI-Generated Content in Wireless Networks	13
Physics-Informed Quantum Communication Networks: A Vision Toward the Quantum Internet	13
Integrated Sensing and Communications Enabled Low Earth Orbit Satellite Systems	13
TDM-PON-Based Optical Access Network for Tactile Internet, 5G, and Beyond	13
BC-MetaCast: A Blockchain-Enhanced Intelligent Computing Framework for Metaverse Livecast	13
5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) in Europe: Targeting Cross-Border Corridors	13
UAV-Based Wide-Area Internet of Things: An Integrated Deployment Architecture	13
Communication-Efficient and Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning for Mobile Edge Computing Networks	13
Federated Learning in 6G Non-Terrestrial Network for IoT Services: From the Perspective of Perceptive Mobile Network	13
Terahertz Communications for 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks: Challenges, Key Advancements, and Opportunities	13
Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Intrusion Detection in Aerial Computing Networks	13
Exploring Collaborative Distributed Diffusion-Based AI-Generated Content (AIGC) in Wireless Networks	13
Input and Output Matter: Malicious Traffic Detection With Explainability	13
When Decentralized Optimization Meets Federated Learning	13
IUP: Integrated and Programmable User Plane for Next-Generation Mobile Networks	12
Mobile Edge Generation: A New Era to 6G	12
A Brief Survey and Implementation on Refinement for Intent-Driven Networking	12
Front Cover	12
Joint Design of Beam Hopping and Multiple Access Based on Cognitive Radio for Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network	12
Large-Capacity Local Multi-Dimensional Information Hiding Method for 6G Networks	12
Towards Attention-Aware Interactive 360-Degree Video Streaming on Smartphones	12
How Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Crowd Sourcing are Inextricably Intertwined	12
Model Predictive Control based Dynamic Resource Allocation: Enabler for Resilient Network Slicing	12
Interactive AI With Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Next Generation Networking	12
Front cover	12
IoT NTN for Voice Services: Architectures, Protocols, and Challenges	12
Collaborative Cross System AI: Toward 5G System and Beyond	12
Large Multi-Modal Models (LMMs) as Universal Foundation Models for AI-Native Wireless Systems	12
Toward Zero Touch Networks: From the Perspective of Hierarchical Language Systems	12
Intelligent Sensing, Communication, Computation, and Caching for Satellite-Ground Integrated Networks	12
Guest Editorial: Space Information Networks: Technological Challenges, Design Issues, and Solutions	12
Matching 5G Connected Vehicles to Sensed Vehicles for Safe Cooperative Autonomous Driving	12
Realizing the Tactile Internet through Intelligent Zero Touch Networks	12
Comsoc Publications	11
Women in Engineering	11
IEEE Access	11
Beyond Radio: Het-Medium Networks and Its Cross-Medium Communication Paradigms for 6G	11
Table of Contents	11
Scanning the Literature	11
Multimodal Cooperative 3D Object Detection Over Connected Vehicles for Autonomous Driving	11
Advancing Multi-Connectivity in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications	11
Front cover	11
Scanning the Literature	11
Call for Papers	11
Guest Editorial: Interplay between Machine Learning and Networking Systems	11