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Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies

Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1988. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless communication systems, particularly in the context of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), 6G networks, and MIMO systems. The papers explore topics such as beamforming optimization, channel estimation, energy efficiency, and the use of IRS for creating smart radio environments.

  • Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
  • Wireless Communication
  • Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
  • 6G Networks
  • Beamforming Optimization
  • Channel Estimation
  • MIMO Systems
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Smart Radio Environments
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1988
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+64%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.7k works
  2. 2 India 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 529 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 483 works
  5. 5 South Korea 404 works
  6. 6 Canada 277 works
  7. 7 Japan 199 works
  8. 8 Vietnam 182 works
  9. 9 Germany 177 works
  10. 10 France 170 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: 50.3%India: 16.5%United States: 7.3%United Kingdom: 6.6%6 others listed: 19.3%50%largest
China3,666 · 50.3%India1,204 · 16.5%United States529 · 7.3%United Kingdom483 · 6.6%6 others listed1,408 · 19.3%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southeast University publishes the most Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southeast UniversityChina 187 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 183 works
  3. 3 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 125 works
  4. 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 120 works
  5. 5 Xidian UniversityChina 117 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 67 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 65 works
  8. 8 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 59 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 58 works
  10. 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  4. 4 Mostafa A. El‐Sayed United States 124k citations
  5. 5 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  6. 6 Guanrong Chen China 116k citations
  7. 7 Rui Zhang Singapore 115k citations
  8. 8 Lei Zhang China 112k 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 Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies is "Low-density parity-check codes" (Robert G. Gallager, 1962), with 10,733 citations. Next come "What Will 5G Be?" (8,314) and "A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective" (5,696).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Low-density parity-check codes Robert G. Gallager · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Open access 1962 10,733
2 What Will 5G Be? Jeffrey G. Andrews, Stefano Buzzi, Wan Choi et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Open access Jun 2014 8,314
3 A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective Yuyi Mao, Changsheng You, Jun Zhang et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2017 5,696
4 A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, Mingzhe Chen · IEEE Network 15 Oct 2019 5,029
5 Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Network via Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Qingqing Wu, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 23 Aug 2019 4,839
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Luxembourg and Guildford.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 735 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 505 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 301 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 222 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 182 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 173 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 158 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 148 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 139 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 109 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LuxembourgLU · 37.3 works14×
  2. GuildfordGB · 36.6 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Queen Mary University of London, Nanyang Technological University and Southeast University 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 26.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Singapore University…Queen Mary Universit…Nanyang Technologica…Southeast 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
1Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 77.527.2%13.6×49 +33.6%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 73.824.9%8.8×59 +157.4%
3Southeast UniversityChina 71.414.9%15.0×187 +111.8%
4Singapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore 69.027.3%29.5×23 +64.4%
5Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 66.831.2%2.9×24 +119.0%
6University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 66.422.0%18.8×37 +159.3%
7Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.033.4%3.6×16 +262.7%
8Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceUnited Arab Emirates 65.831.9%26.1×9 -
9Princeton UniversityUnited States 64.029.5%5.8×22 +5.6%
10City University of MacauChina 63.922.0%12.3×16 +99.8%

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 Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 64% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies.

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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 Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies 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 Technologies9.8% in 202520102020

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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