Topic · Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Most cited papers in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
What are the most cited papers in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks?
The most cited paper in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks is "Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks" (Wendi Heinzelman, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Hari Balakrishnan, 2005), with 14,208 citations. Next come "Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing" (10,342) and "Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function" (8,706).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,390 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks Wendi Heinzelman, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Hari Balakrishnan | 24 Aug 2005 | 14,208 |
| 2 | Ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing Charles E. Perkins, E.M. Royer | 1999 | 10,342 |
| 3 | Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function Giuseppe Bianchi · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Mar 2000 | 8,706 |
| 4 | Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks David B. Johnson, David A. Maltz | 25 Aug 2007 | 8,548 |
| 5 | The capacity of wireless networks Piyush Kumar Gupta, P. R. Kumar · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Mar 2000 | 8,402 |
| 6 | GPSR Brad Karp, H. T. Kung | Aug 2000 | 7,072 |
| 7 | Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers Charles E. Perkins, Pravin Bhagwat · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | Oct 1994 | 6,708 |
| 8 | Directed diffusion Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah L. Estrin | Aug 2000 | 5,406 |
| 9 | HEED: a hybrid, energy-efficient, distributed clustering approach for ad hoc sensor networks Ossama Mohamed Younis, Sonia Fahmy · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | Oct 2004 | 5,041 |
| 10 | A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson et al. | 25 Oct 1998 | 4,688 |
| 11 | A survey of mobility models for ad hoc network research Tracy K. Camp, Jeff L. Boleng, Vanessa Davies · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing | Aug 2002 | 4,638 |
| 12 | Information Flow and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations J.A. Fax, Richard M. Murray · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Sep 2004 | 4,619 |
| 13 | Routing techniques in wireless sensor networks: a survey Jamal Nazzal Al-Karaki, Ahmed E. Kamal · IEEE Wireless Communications | Dec 2004 | 4,510 |
| 14 | Wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities and challenges Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Teng Joon Lim · IEEE Communications Magazine | May 2016 | 4,214 |
| 15 | Epidemic routing for partially-connected ad hoc networks Amin M. Vahdat | 2000 | 4,148 |
| 16 | Wireless mesh networks: a survey Ian Fuat Akyildiz, Xudong Wang, Weilin Wang · Computer Networks | 4 Jan 2005 | 4,024 |
| 17 | A review of current routing protocols for ad hoc mobile wireless networks E.M. Royer, Chai-Keong Toh · IEEE Personal Communications | Apr 1999 | 3,775 |
| 18 | PEGASIS: Power-efficient gathering in sensor information systems Stephanie Lindsey, Cauligi S. Raghavendra · Proceedings - IEEE Aerospace Conference | 25 Jun 2003 | 3,707 |
| 19 | A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks Kemal Akkaya, Mohamed Younis · Ad Hoc Networks | 2 Dec 2003 | 3,499 |
| 20 | Mitigating routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks Sergio Marti, TJ Giuli, Kevin Lai et al. | Aug 2000 | 3,439 |
| 21 | A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing Douglas S. J. De Couto, Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket et al. | 14 Sep 2003 | 3,370 |
| 22 | The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network Sze-Yao Ni, Yu‐Chee Tseng, Yuh‐Shyan Chen et al. | Aug 1999 | 3,155 |
| 23 | Sensor networks: Evolution, opportunities, and challenges Chee-Yee Chong, Sanjeev Kumar · Proceedings of the IEEE | Aug 2003 | 3,092 |
| 24 | A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets Kevin Fall | 25 Aug 2003 | 3,091 |
| 25 | Secure routing in wireless sensor networks: attacks and countermeasures Chris Karlof, David A. Wagner · Ad Hoc Networks | Sep 2003 | 2,954 |
| 26 | Mobility increases the capacity of ad hoc wireless networks Matthias Grossglauser, David N. C. Tse · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Aug 2002 | 2,883 |
| 27 | Geography-informed energy conservation for Ad Hoc routing Ya Xu, John Heidemann, Deborah L. Estrin | 16 Jul 2001 | 2,843 |
| 28 | Medium Access Control With Coordinated Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks W. Ye, John Heidemann, Deborah L. Estrin · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Jun 2004 | 2,751 |
| 29 | Coverage Control for Mobile Sensing Networks Jorge Eduardo Zarur Cortés, Sonia Martı́nez, T. Karatas et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Apr 2004 | 2,744 |
| 30 | An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks Tijs van Dam, Koen G. Langendoen | 5 Nov 2003 | 2,670 |
| 31 | SPINS Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, Victor S. H. Wen et al. | 16 Jul 2001 | 2,542 |
| 32 | Randomized gossip algorithms Stephen Boyd, Aritra Ghosh, Balaji Prabhakar et al. · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Jun 2006 | 2,538 |
| 33 | A simple Cooperative diversity method based on network path selection A. Bletsas, A. Khisti, D.P. Reed et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Mar 2006 | 2,537 |
| 34 | Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks Richard Draves, Jitendra Padhye, Brian Zill | 26 Sep 2004 | 2,470 |
| 35 | An algebraic approach to network coding R. Koetter, Muriel Médard · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Oct 2003 | 2,445 |
| 36 | A survey on clustering algorithms for wireless sensor networks Ameer Ahmed Abbasi, Mohamed Younis · Computer Communications | 22 Jun 2007 | 2,394 |
| 37 | Survey of Important Issues in UAV Communication Networks Lav Gupta, Raj Kumar Jain, Gabor Vaszkun · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | 3 Nov 2015 | 2,383 |
| 38 | Directed diffusion for wireless sensor networking Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah L. Estrin et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Feb 2003 | 2,358 |
| 39 | Securing ad hoc networks Lidong Zhou, Zygmunt J. Haas · IEEE Network | 1999 | 2,347 |
| 40 | DSR: the dynamic source routing protocol for multihop wireless ad hoc networks David B. Johnson, David A. Maltz, Josh Broch | Mar 2001 | 2,338 |
| 41 | Adaptive protocols for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks Wendi Heinzelman, Joanna Kulik, Hari Balakrishnan | Aug 1999 | 2,312 |
| 42 | Probabilistic routing in intermittently connected networks Anders Lindgren, Avri Doria, Olov Schelén · ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review | Jul 2003 | 2,296 |
| 43 | XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding S. Katti, Hariharan Shankar Rahul, Wenjun Hu et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Jun 2008 | 2,277 |
| 44 | TEEN: a routing protocol for enhanced efficiency in wireless sensor networks A. Manjeshwar, Dharma Prakash Agrawal | 29 Aug 2005 | 2,259 |
| 45 | SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, J. D. Tygar et al. · Wireless Networks | Sep 2002 | 2,259 |
| 46 | A highly adaptive distributed routing algorithm for mobile wireless networks V.D. Park, M. Scott Corson | 22 Nov 2002 | 2,246 |
| 47 | Energy Minimization for Wireless Communication With Rotary-Wing UAV Yong Zeng, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 8 Mar 2019 | 2,204 |
| 48 | Constrained Consensus and Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks A. Nedić, Asuman Ozdaglar, Pablo A. Parrilo · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 11 Feb 2010 | 2,173 |
| 49 | Protocols for self-organization of a wireless sensor network Katayoun Sohrabi, Jhih-Siao Gao, V. Ailawadhi et al. · IEEE Personal Communications | 2000 | 2,068 |
| 50 | MaxProp: Routing for Vehicle-Based Disruption-Tolerant Networks John R. Burgess, Brian J. Gallagher, David D. Jensen et al. | 2006 | 2,045 |
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