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Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

Full-Duplex Wireless Communications is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1952. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and opportunities in full-duplex wireless communication, focusing on self-interference cancellation, MIMO relays, resource allocation, MAC protocols, antenna design, RF circulators, beamforming, and their applications in 5G networks.

  • Full-Duplex
  • Wireless Communication
  • Self-Interference Cancellation
  • MIMO Relays
  • Resource Allocation
  • MAC Protocol
  • Antenna Design
  • RF Circulators
  • Beamforming
  • 5G Networks
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

Which countries lead Full-Duplex Wireless Communications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 351 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 351 works
  3. 3 India 311 works
  4. 4 South Korea 137 works
  5. 5 Japan 119 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 114 works
  7. 7 Canada 88 works
  8. 8 Germany 87 works
  9. 9 Italy 62 works
  10. 10 France 61 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: 47.1%United States: 13.9%India: 12.4%South Korea: 5.5%6 others listed: 21.1%47%largest
China1,186 · 47.1%United States351 · 13.9%India311 · 12.4%South Korea137 · 5.5%6 others listed531 · 21.1%

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

Which institutions lead Full-Duplex Wireless Communications research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Full-Duplex Wireless Communications research, followed by Southeast University and Xidian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 76 works
  2. 2 Southeast UniversityChina 56 works
  3. 3 Xidian UniversityChina 51 works
  4. 4 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 39 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
  6. 6 South China University of TechnologyChina 28 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 25 works
  8. 8 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 24 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Full-Duplex Wireless Communications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Full-Duplex Wireless Communications include Dirk Schadendorf, Kwok‐Yung Yuen and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Dirk Schadendorf Germany 222k citations
  2. 2 Kwok‐Yung Yuen China 168k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k 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 Full-Duplex Wireless Communications?

The most cited paper in Full-Duplex Wireless Communications is "Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Efficient Protocols and Outage Behavior" (J. Nicholas Laneman, David N. C. Tse, Gregory W. Wornell, 2004), with 12,335 citations. Next come "Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond" (3,684) and "Clonal Integration of a Polyomavirus in Human Merkel Cell Carcinoma" (3,242).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Efficient Protocols and Outage Behavior J. Nicholas Laneman, David N. C. Tse, Gregory W. Wornell · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 30 Nov 2004 12,335
2 Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Open access 17 Mar 2022 3,684
3 Clonal Integration of a Polyomavirus in Human Merkel Cell Carcinoma Huichen Feng, Masahiro Shuda, Yuan Chang et al. · Science Open access 17 Jan 2008 3,242
4 Adaptive filter theory Björn Wittenmark · Automatica Mar 1993 3,068
5 1 A Simple Cooperative Diversity Method Based on Network Path Selection Aggelos Bletsas, Ashish Khisti, David P. Reed et al. 2006 2,873
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Full-Duplex Wireless Communications research done?

The largest centres of Full-Duplex Wireless Communications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Chengdu (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 215 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 136 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 113 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 107 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 78 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 70 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 70 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 45 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 43 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 37 works
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Where is the best place to study Full-Duplex Wireless Communications?

Among universities, judged by research, Southeast University, Imperial College London and South China University of Technology 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 20.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Imperial College Lon…Southeast UniversitySouth China Universi…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 66.218.0%13.7×56 +17.2%
2Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.839.9%3.0×8 +43.6%
3South China University of TechnologyChina 60.617.3%9.4×28 +22.3%
4Xidian UniversityChina 58.616.8%25.5×52 -0.7%
5University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 56.010.8%24.5×76 -21.3%
6University of MacauChina 53.220.2%9.0×8 +11.4%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 51.029.2%3.6×23 -10.8%
8National Sun Yat-sen UniversityTaiwan 48.521.1%22.3×9 +64.7%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 47.112.6%4.1×24 +129.4%
10Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 45.815.4%9.0×14 +207.3%

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 Full-Duplex Wireless Communications, country by country

Is Full-Duplex Wireless Communications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Full-Duplex Wireless Communications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Full-Duplex Wireless Communications0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Full-Duplex Wireless Communications 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%Full-Duplex Wireless Communications9.8% 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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