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Wireless Communication Security Techniques

Wireless Communication Security Techniques is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1957. 22.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of physical layer security techniques in wireless communications, with an emphasis on secrecy capacity, cooperative relaying, and the use of artificial noise to enhance security. The papers cover topics such as secure transmission, relay selection, beamforming, and channel coding for achieving reliable and confidential wireless communication.

  • Physical Layer Security
  • Wireless Communications
  • Secrecy Capacity
  • Cooperative Relaying
  • Artificial Noise
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+4%
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Which countries lead Wireless Communication Security Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 353 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 353 works
  3. 3 India 259 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 128 works
  5. 5 South Korea 93 works
  6. 6 Germany 87 works
  7. 7 Canada 82 works
  8. 8 Japan 69 works
  9. 9 Australia 66 works
  10. 10 Vietnam 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: 49.4%United States: 14.9%India: 11.0%United Kingdom: 5.4%6 others listed: 19.4%49%largest
China1,168 · 49.4%United States353 · 14.9%India259 · 11.0%United Kingdom128 · 5.4%6 others listed458 · 19.4%

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

Which institutions lead Wireless Communication Security Techniques research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Southeast University publishes the most Wireless Communication Security Techniques research, followed by Xidian University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Southeast University China 57 works
  2. 2 Xidian University China 56 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China 47 works
  4. 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China 46 works
  5. 5 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications China 34 works
  6. 6 PLA Army Engineering University China 32 works
  7. 7 National University of Defense Technology China 31 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong University China 26 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of Technology China 23 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua University China 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wireless Communication Security Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wireless Communication Security Techniques include H. Vincent Poor, Robert W. Heath and Rui Zhang.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor 9.5k citations
  2. 2 Robert W. Heath 7.1k citations
  3. 3 Rui Zhang 6k citations
  4. 4 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini 5.9k citations
  5. 5 Guanrong Chen 5.4k citations
  6. 6 Xuemin Shen 5.1k citations
  7. 7 Zhu Han 4.7k citations
  8. 8 Georgios B. Giannakis 4.6k citations
  9. 9 Dusit Niyato 4.5k citations
  10. 10 Zhiguo Ding 4.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Wireless Communication Security Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Wireless Communication Security Techniques research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Abu Dhabi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 225 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 183 works
  3. 3 Xi'an China 129 works
  4. 4 Chengdu China 68 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 57 works
  6. 6 Shenzhen China 50 works
  7. 7 Changsha China 44 works
  8. 8 London United Kingdom 39 works
  9. 9 Hangzhou China 37 works
  10. 10 Seoul South Korea 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Abu DhabiAE · 20.8 works8.5×
  2. Ho Chi Minh CityVN · 33.0 works8.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wireless Communication Security Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wireless Communication Security Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Xidian University and University of Oulu 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 27.78%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 46, 18.1%Xidian University: 56, 22.9%University of Oulu: 9, 41.6%Nanyang Technological University: 16, 42.5%PLA Army Engineering University: 32, 20.2%Southeast University: 56, 15.2%Beijing Institute of Technology: 23, 37.6%Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 48, 22.0%National University of Defense Technology: 31, 16.4%Queen Mary University of London: 8, 41.3%Nanyang Technologica…University of OuluXidian UniversityUniversity of Electr…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China 68.718.1%13.6×46 +234.8%
2Xidian University China 65.422.9%25.4×56 +51.8%
3University of Oulu Finland 65.141.6%11.7×9 +7.9%
4Nanyang Technological University Singapore 63.642.5%6.7×16 -1.4%
5PLA Army Engineering University China 63.220.2%92.8×32 +175.1%
6Southeast University China 62.715.2%14.1×56 +90.9%
7Beijing Institute of Technology China 61.337.6%6.6×23 +99.9%
8Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China 59.922.0%25.9×48 +8.3%
9National University of Defense Technology China 58.216.4%13.5×31 +148.9%
10Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom 57.841.3%7.1×8 +49.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Wireless Communication Security Techniques research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Wireless Communication Security Techniques.

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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.

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.