| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | An Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1980 | 6,205 |
| 2 | User cooperation diversity-part I: system description | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2003 | 5,486 |
| 3 | Robust frequency and timing synchronization for OFDM | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1997 | 2,776 |
| 4 | A Tractable Approach to Coverage and Rate in Cellular Networks | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2011 | 2,540 |
| 5 | Energy and Spectral Efficiency of Very Large Multiuser MIMO Systems | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2013 | 2,423 |
| 6 | Near optimum error correcting coding and decoding: turbo-codes | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1996 | 2,215 |
| 7 | Ultra-wide bandwidth time-hopping spread-spectrum impulse radio for wireless multiple-access communications | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2000 | 2,148 |
| 8 | Fading correlation and its effect on the capacity of multielement antenna systems | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2000 | 1,995 |
| 9 | Convergence behavior of iteratively decoded parallel concatenated codes | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2001 | 1,980 |
| 10 | User cooperation diversity-part II: implementation aspects and performance analysis | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2003 | 1,958 |
| 11 | Variable-rate variable-power MQAM for fading channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1997 | 1,935 |
| 12 | A technique for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing frequency offset correction | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1994 | 1,896 |
| 13 | Achieving near-capacity on a multiple-antenna channel | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2003 | 1,703 |
| 14 | Iterative (turbo) soft interference cancellation and decoding for coded CDMA | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1999 | 1,605 |
| 15 | On the Energy Detection of Unknown Signals Over Fading Channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2007 | 1,595 |
| 16 | Rate-compatible punctured convolutional codes (RCPC codes) and their applications | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1988 | 1,590 |
| 17 | Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Architecture Design and Rate-Energy Tradeoff | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2013 | 1,507 |
| 18 | BER sensitivity of OFDM systems to carrier frequency offset and Wiener phase noise | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1995 | 1,464 |
| 19 | Dual methods for nonconvex spectrum optimization of multicarrier systems | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2006 | 1,441 |
| 20 | Image quality measures and their performance | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1995 | 1,353 |
| 21 | A Vector-Perturbation Technique for Near-Capacity Multiantenna Multiuser Communication—Part I: Channel Inversion and Regularization | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2005 | 1,318 |
| 22 | Internet time synchronization: the network time protocol | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1991 | 1,305 |
| 23 | Free-space optical communication through atmospheric turbulence channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2002 | 1,236 |
| 24 | MMSE interference suppression for direct-sequence spread-spectrum CDMA | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1994 | 1,229 |
| 25 | Code division multiple-access techniques in optical fiber networks. I. Fundamental principles | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1989 | 1,208 |
| 26 | OFDM channel estimation by singular value decomposition | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1998 | 1,203 |
| 27 | Frequency-Independent and Frequency-Dependent Nonlinear Models of TWT Amplifiers | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1981 | 1,190 |
| 28 | Spatio-temporal coding for wireless communication | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1998 | 1,187 |
| 29 | A simple and general parameterization quantifying performance in fading channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2003 | 1,173 |
| 30 | Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Wireless Communications: A Tutorial | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2021 | 1,166 |
| 31 | Wideband Millimeter-Wave Propagation Measurements and Channel Models for Future Wireless Communication System Design | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2015 | 1,152 |
| 32 | Multistage detection in asynchronous code-division multiple-access communications | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1990 | 1,138 |
| 33 | Efficient power control via pricing in wireless data networks | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2002 | 1,137 |
| 34 | A quasi-orthogonal space-time block code | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2001 | 1,099 |
| 35 | Theory of Spread-Spectrum Communications - A Tutorial | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1982 | 1,063 |
| 36 | Lightpath communications: an approach to high bandwidth optical WAN's | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1992 | 994 |
| 37 | Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled Mobile Relaying Systems | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2016 | 992 |
| 38 | Turbo equalization: principles and new results | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2002 | 988 |
| 39 | A Robust Digital Baseband Predistorter Constructed Using Memory Polynomials | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2004 | 976 |
| 40 | Robust channel estimation for OFDM systems with rapid dispersive fading channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1998 | 975 |
| 41 | Long-range dependence in variable-bit-rate video traffic | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1995 | 974 |
| 42 | Degrees of freedom in adaptive modulation: a unified view | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2001 | 968 |
| 43 | Eigenvalue-based spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2009 | 958 |
| 44 | A multipath model for the powerline channel | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2002 | 946 |
| 45 | Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Modulation and Detection | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2004 | 905 |
| 46 | A practical discrete multitone transceiver loading algorithm for data transmission over spectrally shaped channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1995 | 903 |
| 47 | Data Compression Using Adaptive Coding and Partial String Matching | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1984 | 864 |
| 48 | Performance models of statistical multiplexing in packet video communications | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1988 | 857 |
| 49 | Near-far resistance of multiuser detectors in asynchronous channels | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 1990 | 852 |
| 50 | Hierarchical digital modulation classification using cumulants | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2000 | 838 |
