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Advanced Wireless Network Optimization

Advanced Wireless Network Optimization is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1958. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on wireless communication and network optimization, covering topics such as resource allocation, cross-layer optimization, quality of service, multiuser diversity, OFDM systems, scheduling algorithms, power control, broadband wireless access, and mobile networks.

  • Wireless Communication
  • Resource Allocation
  • Cross-Layer Optimization
  • Quality of Service
  • Multiuser Diversity
  • OFDM Systems
  • Scheduling Algorithms
  • Power Control
  • Broadband Wireless Access
  • Mobile Networks
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Wireless Network Optimization

Which countries lead Advanced Wireless Network Optimization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (525 and 287 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 525 works
  2. 2 India 287 works
  3. 3 United States 219 works
  4. 4 South Korea 70 works
  5. 5 Japan 69 works
  6. 6 Germany 57 works
  7. 7 France 48 works
  8. 8 Russia 42 works
  9. 9 Canada 42 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 37 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: 37.6%India: 20.5%United States: 15.7%South Korea: 5.0%6 others listed: 21.1%38%largest
China525 · 37.6%India287 · 20.5%United States219 · 15.7%South Korea70 · 5.0%6 others listed294 · 21.1%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Wireless Network Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Advanced Wireless Network Optimization research, followed by Southeast University and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 27 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 23 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 19 works
  4. 4 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 14 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  6. 6 Xidian UniversityChina 13 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 13 works
  8. 8 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 12 works
  9. 9 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 11 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Wireless Network Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Wireless Network Optimization include Hua Zhang, V. Sharma and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  2. 2 V. Sharma France 178k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  4. 4 James Jonathan Gross United States 163k citations
  5. 5 Alan Conrad Bovik United States 150k citations
  6. 6 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations
  7. 7 Philip S. Yu United States 141k 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 Network Optimization?

The most cited paper in Advanced Wireless Network Optimization is "Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability" (Frank P. Kelly, A.K. Maulloo, D K H Tan, 1998), with 5,106 citations. Next come "A Tractable Approach to Coverage and Rate in Cellular Networks" (3,377) and "Charging and rate control for elastic traffic" (2,979).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability Frank P. Kelly, A.K. Maulloo, D K H Tan · Journal of the Operational Research Society Mar 1998 5,106
2 A Tractable Approach to Coverage and Rate in Cellular Networks Jeffrey G. Andrews, Francois Baccelli, Radha Krishna Ganti · IEEE Transactions on Communications Open access 13 Oct 2011 3,377
3 Charging and rate control for elastic traffic Frank P. Kelly · European Transactions on Telecommunications 1997 2,979
4 Stability properties of constrained queueing systems and scheduling policies for maximum throughput in multihop radio networks Leandros Tassiulas, Anthony Ephremides · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 1992 2,929
5 Multiuser OFDM with adaptive subcarrier, bit, and power allocation Cheong Yui Wong, R.S. Cheng, K.B. Lataief et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 1999 2,684
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Wireless Network Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Wireless Network Optimization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Chennai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shenzhen, Bengaluru and Chennai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 124 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 61 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 35 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 34 works
  5. 5 ShenzhenChina 32 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 31 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 29 works
  8. 8 BengaluruIndia 28 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 22 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ShenzhenCN · 32.0 works4.9×
  2. BengaluruIN · 28.1 works4.3×
  3. ChennaiIN · 33.9 works3.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Wireless Network Optimization?

Among universities, judged by research, Southeast University, Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 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%10%20%mean 15.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southeast UniversityTsinghua UniversityBeijing University o…Xidian University
above the meannear itbelow it

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 74.616.7%9.1×23 -20.7%
2Tsinghua UniversityChina 71.715.2%5.0×19 +11.9%
3Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 66.415.1%24.9×27 -48.4%
4Xidian UniversityChina 56.314.2%11.0×13 -41.0%
5Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 53.814.5%3.4×12 +196.2%
6University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.420.4%4.7×9 -8.3%
7Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.213.1%4.6×14 +36.5%
8Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 46.613.9%11.1×11 -14.2%
9National University of Defense TechnologyChina 40.712.8%6.9×9 +61.2%
10Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 40.116.2%13.5×10 -51.0%

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 Network Optimization, country by country

Is Advanced Wireless Network Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% 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 Network Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0097% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Wireless Network Optimization0.0081% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Wireless Network Optimization 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 Network Optimization10.2% 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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