| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2002 | 8,330 |
| 2 | Noncooperative Cellular Wireless with Unlimited Numbers of Base Station Antennas | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2010 | 4,939 |
| 3 | Spatially Sparse Precoding in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2014 | 2,582 |
| 4 | Sensing-Throughput Tradeoff for Cognitive Radio Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2008 | 2,495 |
| 5 | Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Network via Joint Active and Passive Beamforming | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2019 | 2,295 |
| 6 | MIMO Broadcasting for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2013 | 2,266 |
| 7 | Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communication | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2019 | 2,003 |
| 8 | Relaying Protocols for Wireless Energy Harvesting and Information Processing | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2013 | 1,617 |
| 9 | Guaranteeing Secrecy using Artificial Noise | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2008 | 1,591 |
| 10 | Energy-Efficient UAV Communication With Trajectory Optimization | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2017 | 1,459 |
| 11 | Experiment-Driven Characterization of Full-Duplex Wireless Systems | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2012 | 1,426 |
| 12 | Cell-Free Massive MIMO Versus Small Cells | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2017 | 1,399 |
| 13 | Joint Trajectory and Communication Design for Multi-UAV Enabled Wireless Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2018 | 1,249 |
| 14 | Throughput Maximization in Wireless Powered Communication Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2014 | 1,216 |
| 15 | Energy-constrained modulation optimization | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2005 | 1,204 |
| 16 | End-to-end performance of transmission systems with relays over rayleigh-fading channels | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2003 | 1,191 |
| 17 | Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Mobile-Edge Computation Offloading | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2017 | 1,169 |
| 18 | Pilot Contamination and Precoding in Multi-Cell TDD Systems | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2011 | 1,088 |
| 19 | Coverage and Rate Analysis for Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2015 | 1,048 |
| 20 | Energy Minimization for Wireless Communication With Rotary-Wing UAV | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2019 | 991 |
| 21 | User Association for Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2013 | 990 |
| 22 | Cooperative Communications with Outage-Optimal Opportunistic Relaying | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2007 | 958 |
| 23 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Underlaid Device-to-Device Communications: Performance and Tradeoffs | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2016 | 958 |
| 24 | Limited Feedback Hybrid Precoding for Multi-User Millimeter Wave Systems | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2015 | 912 |
| 25 | Space shift keying modulation for MIMO channels | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2009 | 908 |
| 26 | Heterogeneous Cellular Networks with Flexible Cell Association: A Comprehensive Downlink SINR Analysis | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2012 | 898 |
| 27 | Resource Sharing Optimization for Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying Cellular Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2011 | 888 |
| 28 | Fundamental limits of spectrum-sharing in fading environments | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2007 | 886 |
| 29 | Adaptive resource allocation in multiuser OFDM systems with proportional rate constraints | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2005 | 873 |
| 30 | Distributed Space-Time Coding in Wireless Relay Networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2006 | 804 |
| 31 | Optimal Design of Energy-Efficient Multi-User MIMO Systems: Is Massive MIMO the Answer? | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2015 | 803 |
| 32 | Channel Modeling and Capacity Analysis for Electromagnetic Wireless Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2011 | 785 |
| 33 | Exact Symbol Error Probability of a Cooperative Network in a Rayleigh-Fading Environment | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2004 | 783 |
| 34 | Cross-Layer Combining of Adaptive Modulation and Coding With Truncated ARQ Over Wireless Links | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2004 | 779 |
| 35 | Power control in two-tier femtocell networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2009 | 778 |
| 36 | Mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Energy-Efficient Internet of Things Communications | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2017 | 765 |
| 37 | Effective capacity: A wireless link model for support of quality of service | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2003 | 761 |
| 38 | Interleave division multiple-access | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2006 | 739 |
| 39 | A Leakage-Based Precoding Scheme for Downlink Multi-User MIMO Channels | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2007 | 725 |
| 40 | Weighted sum-rate maximization using weighted MMSE for MIMO-BC beamforming design | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2008 | 717 |
| 41 | Joint Offloading and Computing Optimization in Wireless Powered Mobile-Edge Computing Systems | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2018 | 715 |
| 42 | Power Control By Geometric Programming | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2007 | 713 |
| 43 | The Application of MIMO to Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2016 | 710 |
| 44 | A Performance Study of Dual-Hop Transmissions With Fixed Gain Relays | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2004 | 694 |
| 45 | Wireless Communications With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2021 | 685 |
| 46 | Energy-Optimal Mobile Cloud Computing under Stochastic Wireless Channel | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2013 | 679 |
| 47 | A Transmit Preprocessing Technique for Multiuser MIMO Systems Using a Decomposition Approach | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2004 | 674 |
| 48 | Optimal spectrum sensing framework for cognitive radio networks | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2008 | 674 |
| 49 | A new simple model for land mobile satellite channels: first- and second-order statistics | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2003 | 673 |
| 50 | New exponential bounds and approximations for the computation of error probability in fading channels | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 2003 | 669 |
