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Wireless Networks and Protocols

Wireless Networks and Protocols is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 performance analysis, optimization, and enhancement of medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless LANs, particularly the IEEE 802.11 standard. It covers topics such as rate adaptation, quality of service (QoS) support, multi-hop network behavior, interference mitigation, and coexistence with other wireless systems.

  • IEEE 802.11
  • MAC protocol
  • wireless LAN
  • performance analysis
  • rate adaptation
  • QoS support
  • multi-hop networks
  • channel assignment
  • interference mitigation
  • coexistence
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wireless Networks and Protocols

Which countries lead Wireless Networks and Protocols research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (463 and 230 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 463 works
  2. 2 India 230 works
  3. 3 United States 225 works
  4. 4 Japan 102 works
  5. 5 South Korea 86 works
  6. 6 Germany 65 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 46 works
  8. 8 Spain 46 works
  9. 9 France 46 works
  10. 10 Italy 42 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: 34.2%India: 17.0%United States: 16.7%Japan: 7.5%6 others listed: 24.6%34%largest
China463 · 34.2%India230 · 17.0%United States225 · 16.7%Japan102 · 7.5%6 others listed332 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Wireless Networks and Protocols research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Wireless Networks and Protocols research, followed by Tsinghua University and Southeast University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 19 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 14 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 14 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 14 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 12 works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 11 works
  8. 8 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 11 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 10 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wireless Networks and Protocols?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wireless Networks and Protocols include John P. A. Ioannidis, V. Sharma and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 V. Sharma France 178k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  4. 4 James Jonathan Gross United States 163k citations
  5. 5 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  6. 6 Stephen Boyd United States 142k citations
  7. 7 T. J. Kim Germany 139k 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 Networks and Protocols?

The most cited paper in Wireless Networks and Protocols is "Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function" (Giuseppe Bianchi, 2000), with 8,706 citations. Next come "Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks" (8,548) and "OpenFlow" (8,532).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function Giuseppe Bianchi · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Mar 2000 8,706
2 Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks David B. Johnson, David A. Maltz Book chapter 25 Aug 2007 8,548
3 OpenFlow Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 31 Mar 2008 8,532
4 The capacity of wireless networks Piyush Kumar Gupta, P. R. Kumar · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Mar 2000 8,402
5 A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson et al. Conference paperOpen access 25 Oct 1998 4,688
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wireless Networks and Protocols research done?

The largest centres of Wireless Networks and Protocols research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Nanjing (China) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shenzhen and Bengaluru.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 101 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 46 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 43 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 31 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 26 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 25 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 25 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 24 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 23 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ShenzhenCN · 25.2 works3.9×
  2. BengaluruIN · 21.9 works3.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wireless Networks and Protocols than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wireless Networks and Protocols?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China and Southeast 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%10%20%mean 13.8333%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Scienc…Nanjing University o…Tsinghua UniversitySoutheast 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
1Tsinghua UniversityChina 69.217.7%3.7×14 +2.2%
2University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.523.3%4.8×10 +12.1%
3Southeast UniversityChina 58.315.8%5.5×14 -13.5%
4Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 48.622.2%12.0×9 -17.3%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 46.615.8%3.8×12 +5.7%
6Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 46.48.6%17.3×19 -40.8%
7Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 40.17.9%3.1×11 +194.1%
8University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 22.810.7%4.4×8 -46.3%
9Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 6.52.5%4.2×8 -64.2%

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 Wireless Networks and Protocols, country by country

Is Wireless Networks and Protocols research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008.

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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 Networks and Protocols as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Wireless Networks and Protocols0.0084% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wireless 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%Wireless Networks and Protocols9.9% 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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