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Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques

Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 50k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) techniques in wireless communications. It covers topics such as space-time coding, channel estimation, turbo codes, frequency domain equalization, antenna selection, iterative decoding, and signal constellations in the context of fading channels.

  • MIMO-OFDM
  • space-time coding
  • channel estimation
  • wireless communications
  • fading channels
  • turbo codes
  • frequency domain equalization
  • antenna selection
  • iterative decoding
  • signal constellations
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques

Which countries lead Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.4k and 462 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 India 462 works
  3. 3 United States 319 works
  4. 4 South Korea 160 works
  5. 5 Japan 139 works
  6. 6 Germany 134 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 112 works
  8. 8 France 99 works
  9. 9 Russia 94 works
  10. 10 Canada 83 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 46.8%India: 15.4%United States: 10.6%South Korea: 5.3%6 others listed: 22.0%47%largest
China1,407 · 46.8%India462 · 15.4%United States319 · 10.6%South Korea160 · 5.3%6 others listed661 · 22.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southeast University publishes the most Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southeast UniversityChina 86 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 71 works
  3. 3 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 46 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 43 works
  5. 5 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 35 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 25 works
  9. 9 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 25 works
  10. 10 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques include Wei Huang, Bach Xuan Tran and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  6. 6 James Jonathan Gross United States 163k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 Alan Conrad Bovik United States 150k citations
  9. 9 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques?

The most cited paper in Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques is "Least squares quantization in PCM" (Sheelagh Lloyd, 1982), with 16,039 citations. Next come "A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications" (12,858) and "On Limits of Wireless Communications in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas" (10,143).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Least squares quantization in PCM Sheelagh Lloyd · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Open access Mar 1982 16,039
2 A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications S.M. Alamouti · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 1998 12,858
3 On Limits of Wireless Communications in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas G.J. Foschini, Michael J. Gans · Wireless Personal Communications Mar 1998 10,143
4 Space-time codes for high data rate wireless communication: performance criterion and code construction Vahid Tarokh, Nambi Seshadri, A.R. Calderbank · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Mar 1998 7,113
5 Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm Andrew J. Viterbi · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Apr 1967 6,861
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Where is Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Chengdu (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 329 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 175 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 110 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 83 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 79 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 70 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 68 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 68 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 68 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 52 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Southeast University, Nanyang Technological University and UNSW Sydney score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…UNSW SydneySoutheast UniversitySun Yat-sen University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Southeast UniversityChina 75.317.4%17.0×86 +74.4%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 67.027.9%5.7×16 +120.2%
3UNSW SydneyAustralia 62.425.0%5.3×17 +19.2%
4Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 60.814.5%5.4×38 +57.2%
5Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenChina 59.222.2%13.7×9 +198.3%
6Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.229.0%2.6×9 +76.4%
7Pohang University of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 56.116.7%17.3×13 +36.7%
8Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 56.012.3%32.1×70 -5.3%
9University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 55.922.3%12.5×10 -27.6%
10Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 55.218.1%4.5×11 +118.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques, country by country

Is Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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