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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. 9.9% 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%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wireless Communication Security Techniques

Which countries lead Wireless Communication Security Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 400 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 400 works
  3. 3 India 297 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 145 works
  5. 5 South Korea 104 works
  6. 6 Germany 98 works
  7. 7 Canada 92 works
  8. 8 Japan 81 works
  9. 9 Australia 73 works
  10. 10 Vietnam 69 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: 50.5%United States: 14.6%India: 10.8%United Kingdom: 5.3%6 others listed: 18.8%50%largest
China1,386 · 50.5%United States400 · 14.6%India297 · 10.8%United Kingdom145 · 5.3%6 others listed517 · 18.8%

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

Which institutions lead Wireless Communication Security Techniques research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southeast UniversityChina 65 works
  2. 2 Xidian UniversityChina 61 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 57 works
  4. 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 50 works
  5. 5 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 40 works
  6. 6 PLA Army Engineering UniversityChina 34 works
  7. 7 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 34 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 28 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 27 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, Claude E. Shannon and Hao Chen.

  1. 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  2. 2 Claude E. Shannon United States 138k citations
  3. 3 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  4. 4 Guanrong Chen China 116k citations
  5. 5 Rui Zhang Singapore 115k citations
  6. 6 Lei Zhang China 112k 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 Wireless Communication Security Techniques?

The most cited paper in Wireless Communication Security Techniques 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 "Capacity of Multi‐antenna Gaussian Channels" (11,395) and "Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm" (6,861).

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 Capacity of Multi‐antenna Gaussian Channels Emre Telatar · European Transactions on Telecommunications Open access Nov 1999 11,395
3 Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm Andrew J. Viterbi · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Apr 1967 6,861
4 Capacity theorems for the relay channel Thomas M. Cover, Abbas El Gamal · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Sep 1979 4,223
5 Distributed space-time-coded protocols for exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless networks J. Nicholas Laneman, Gregory W. Wornell · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Oct 2003 4,054
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wireless Communication Security Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Wireless Communication Security Techniques research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 262 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 206 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 143 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 77 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 65 works
  6. 6 ShenzhenChina 55 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 50 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 42 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Abu DhabiAE · 22.3 works7.9×
  2. Ho Chi Minh CityVN · 37.8 works7.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Nanyang Technological University, Southeast University and Xidian University 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 18.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…Beijing Institute of…Southeast UniversityXidian University
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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
1Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 74.432.1%7.7×18 +55.9%
2Southeast UniversityChina 69.112.2%14.6×65 +55.3%
3Xidian UniversityChina 64.711.8%27.7×61 +10.5%
4Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 62.821.5%7.8×28 +59.5%
5Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 62.430.3%7.3×10 -0.0%
6Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.824.6%6.7×8 +47.1%
7Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 57.011.9%29.3×57 +1.9%
8University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.17.8%14.7×50 -6.6%
9National University of Defense TechnologyChina 52.99.4%14.6×34 +9.2%
10Singapore University of Technology and DesignSingapore 52.724.5%29.2×8 -8.5%

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 Wireless Communication Security Techniques, country by country

Is Wireless Communication Security Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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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 Wireless Communication Security Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Wireless Communication Security Techniques0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wireless Communication Security Techniques 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%Wireless Communication Security Techniques9.8% 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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