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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. 23.6% 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%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
23.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+154%
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Which countries lead Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3k and 1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 India 1k works
  3. 3 United States 456 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 426 works
  5. 5 South Korea 361 works
  6. 6 Canada 249 works
  7. 7 Japan 168 works
  8. 8 Vietnam 157 works
  9. 9 Germany 155 works
  10. 10 France 152 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: 49.2%India: 16.5%United States: 7.4%United Kingdom: 6.9%6 others listed: 20.1%49%largest
China3,041 · 49.2%India1,017 · 16.5%United States456 · 7.4%United Kingdom426 · 6.9%6 others listed1,242 · 20.1%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research, followed by Southeast University and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 157 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 154 works
  3. 3 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 109 works
  4. 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 106 works
  5. 5 Xidian UniversityChina 104 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 58 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 52 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 51 works
  9. 9 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 49 works
  10. 10 Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies include H. Vincent Poor, Ian F. Akyildiz and Robert W. Heath.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
  2. 2 Ian F. Akyildiz United States 8.2k citations
  3. 3 Robert W. Heath United States 7.1k citations
  4. 4 Rui Zhang Singapore 6k citations
  5. 5 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini Saudi Arabia 5.9k citations
  6. 6 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations
  7. 7 Zhu Han United States 4.7k citations
  8. 8 Georgios B. Giannakis United States 4.6k citations
  9. 9 Dusit Niyato Singapore 4.5k citations
  10. 10 Zhiguo Ding United Kingdom 4.4k citations

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

Where is Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 641 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 438 works
  3. 3 Xi'an China 260 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 198 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 154 works
  6. 6 Chengdu China 153 works
  7. 7 Shenzhen China 139 works
  8. 8 Guangzhou China 129 works
  9. 9 London United Kingdom 120 works
  10. 10 Singapore Singapore 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LuxembourgLU · 33.7 works14×
  2. GuildfordGB · 31.8 works13×
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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, Singapore University of Technology and Design and University of Luxembourg 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%60%mean 37.12%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Queen Mary University of London: 46, 45.1%Singapore University of Technology and Design: 21, 47.8%University of Luxembourg: 34, 41.9%Southeast University: 154, 23.2%University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 106, 20.3%Sejong University: 28, 23.8%King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: 22, 44.7%Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 157, 24.7%University of Houston: 15, 55.1%Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 8, 44.6%Singapore University…Queen Mary Universit…University of Luxemb…Southeast University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 81.645.1%14.0×46 +552.4%
2 Singapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore 78.947.8%27.8×21 +182.6%
3 University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 78.041.9%18.0×34 +336.5%
4 Southeast UniversityChina 71.723.2%13.9×154 +144.7%
5 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 70.120.3%11.4×106 +231.5%
6 Sejong UniversitySouth Korea 66.623.8%18.8×28 +314.5%
7 King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 66.244.7%9.7×22 +14.4%
8 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 66.124.7%31.1×157 +60.7%
9 University of HoustonUnited States 65.755.1%5.6×15 +389.6%
10 Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceUnited Arab Emirates 65.744.6%25.8×8 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 154% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.