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IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security

IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management of wireless mobility, handoff decision algorithms, and network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks. It covers topics such as mobility support, vertical handover, SIP, TLS, mobile IP, and the challenges and solutions related to seamless connectivity in wireless communication.

  • Mobility Support
  • Handoff Decision Algorithms
  • Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
  • IP Mobility
  • Vertical Handover
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • IEEE 802.11
  • Mobile IP
  • Network Selection
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security

Which countries lead IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (291 and 223 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 291 works
  2. 2 India 223 works
  3. 3 United States 190 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 67 works
  5. 5 Germany 66 works
  6. 6 Japan 62 works
  7. 7 South Korea 43 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 36 works
  9. 9 France 29 works
  10. 10 Canada 25 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: 28.2%India: 21.6%United States: 18.4%Indonesia: 6.5%6 others listed: 25.2%28%largest
China291 · 28.2%India223 · 21.6%United States190 · 18.4%Indonesia67 · 6.5%6 others listed260 · 25.2%

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

Which institutions lead IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tsinghua University publishes the most IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security research, followed by Virginia Tech and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tsinghua UniversityChina 21 works
  2. 2 Virginia TechUnited States 15 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 14 works
  4. 4 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 13 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 10 works
  6. 6 Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteSouth Korea 10 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works
  8. 8 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 7 works
  9. 9 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 7 works
  10. 10 NTT (Japan)Japan 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security?

The most-cited researchers publishing on IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security include John P. A. Ioannidis, Andrea C. Tricco and T. J. Kim.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  3. 3 T. J. Kim Germany 139k citations
  4. 4 Jiří Chudoba France 132k 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 IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security?

The most cited paper in IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security is "Keying Hash Functions for Message Authentication" (Mihir Bellare, Ran Canetti, Hugo Krawczyk, 1996), with 1,600 citations. Next come "A survey of active network research" (1,360) and "Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP --" (1,232).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Keying Hash Functions for Message Authentication Mihir Bellare, Ran Canetti, Hugo Krawczyk · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1996 1,600
2 A survey of active network research David L. Tennenhouse, Jonathan M. Smith, W. David Sincoskie et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine Open access 1997 1,360
3 Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP -- Thomas Stockhammer Conference paper 15 Feb 2011 1,232
4 MACAW Vaduvur Bharghavan, Alan J. Demers, Scott J. Shenker et al. Conference paperOpen access 1994 1,096
5 I-TCP: indirect TCP for mobile hosts A. Bakre, B. R. Badrinath Conference paperOpen access 19 Nov 2002 1,094
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security research done?

The largest centres of IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Chennai (India) and Bengaluru (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bengaluru.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 99 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 24 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 22 works
  4. 4 BengaluruIndia 21 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 20 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 20 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 18 works
  8. 8 CoimbatoreIndia 15 works
  9. 9 BlacksburgUnited States 15 works
  10. 10 DaejeonSouth Korea 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BengaluruIN · 20.7 works4.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security?

Among universities, judged by research, Virginia Tech, Tsinghua University and National University of Defense 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 26.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Virginia TechNational University …Tsinghua UniversityBeijing University o…
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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
1Virginia TechUnited States 81.042.1%20.4×15 -
2Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.527.1%6.8×21 +32.8%
3National University of Defense TechnologyChina 44.627.5%12.4×13 +107.2%
4Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 23.910.3%12.3×10 +18.2%

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 IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security, country by country

Is IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008. The fastest-growing topics are IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security.

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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 IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0070% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security0.0079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security 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%IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security10.4% 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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