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IoT Networks and Protocols

IoT Networks and Protocols is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1970. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the technologies and challenges related to Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) for Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. It covers various LPWAN technologies such as LoRa and NB-IoT, network scalability, random access protocols, energy efficiency, and their application in 5G networks.

  • LPWAN
  • IoT
  • LoRa
  • NB-IoT
  • M2M Communications
  • 5G Networks
  • Wireless Communication
  • Network Scalability
  • Random Access Protocols
  • Energy Efficiency
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
IoT Networks and Protocols

Which countries lead IoT Networks and Protocols research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.3k and 883 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 India 883 works
  3. 3 United States 334 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 285 works
  5. 5 Italy 172 works
  6. 6 South Korea 161 works
  7. 7 Brazil 154 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 142 works
  9. 9 Germany 131 works
  10. 10 France 126 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: 34.7%India: 24.1%United States: 9.1%Indonesia: 7.8%6 others listed: 24.2%35%largest
China1,270 · 34.7%India883 · 24.1%United States334 · 9.1%Indonesia285 · 7.8%6 others listed886 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead IoT Networks and Protocols research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most IoT Networks and Protocols research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Southeast University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 70 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 40 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 33 works
  4. 4 Xidian UniversityChina 33 works
  5. 5 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 32 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 29 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 29 works
  8. 8 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 28 works
  9. 9 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 27 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in IoT Networks and Protocols?

The most-cited researchers publishing on IoT Networks and Protocols include Frede Blaabjerg, H. Vincent Poor and Huan Liu.

  1. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  4. 4 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k citations
  5. 5 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k 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 IoT Networks and Protocols?

The most cited paper in IoT Networks and Protocols is "Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges" (Weisong Shi, Jie Cao, Quan Zhang et al., 2016), with 8,577 citations. Next come "Internet of Things for Smart Cities" (6,330) and "Scaling Up MIMO: Opportunities and Challenges with Very Large Arrays" (4,645).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges Weisong Shi, Jie Cao, Quan Zhang et al. · IEEE Internet of Things Journal 9 Jun 2016 8,577
2 Internet of Things for Smart Cities Andréa Zanella, Nicola Bui, Angelo Paolo Castellani et al. · IEEE Internet of Things Journal Open access Feb 2014 6,330
3 Scaling Up MIMO: Opportunities and Challenges with Very Large Arrays F. Rusek, D. Persson, Buon Kiong Lau et al. · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Open access 7 Dec 2012 4,645
4 A Survey on Internet of Things: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, Security and Privacy, and Applications Jie Lin, Yu Jian Wei, Nan Zhang et al. · IEEE Internet of Things Journal 15 Mar 2017 2,813
5 Mobile Edge Computing: A Survey Nasir Abbas, Yan Zhang, Amir Taherkordi et al. · IEEE Internet of Things Journal Open access 8 Sep 2017 2,499
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Where is IoT Networks and Protocols research done?

The largest centres of IoT Networks and Protocols research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chennai (India) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 282 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 119 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 91 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 85 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 71 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 66 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 57 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 52 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 48 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 46 works
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Where is the best place to study IoT Networks and Protocols?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Luxembourg, Islamic Azad University, Tehran and King Abdullah University of Science and 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%10%20%30%mean 21.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Abdullah Univer…Islamic Azad Univers…Nanyang Technologica…University of Luxemb…
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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
1University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 68.925.8%12.5×14 +58.9%
2Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 64.826.5%2.0×16 +30.2%
3King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 61.326.9%5.9×8 +88.7%
4Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 60.726.3%2.6×10 +46.9%
5Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 60.510.6%22.3×70 -1.5%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 58.323.9%2.1×24 -5.0%
7Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 54.225.5%2.3×10 -1.1%
8Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 54.119.3%3.5×20 +109.0%
9Southeast UniversityChina 53.910.6%4.5×33 +59.7%
10University of SurreyUnited Kingdom 53.419.2%8.1×10 +39.9%

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 IoT Networks and Protocols, country by country

Is IoT Networks and Protocols research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are IoT Networks and Protocols.

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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 IoT Networks and Protocols as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%IoT Networks and Protocols0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of IoT Networks and Protocols 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%IoT Networks and Protocols9.9% 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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