| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Massive MIMO for next generation wireless systems | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 5,006 |
| 2 | Five disruptive technology directions for 5G | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 3,763 |
| 3 | Plastic-optical-fiber-based in-home optical networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 3,440 |
| 4 | An introduction to millimeter-wave mobile broadband systems | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2011 | 2,283 |
| 5 | Non-orthogonal multiple access for 5G: solutions, challenges, opportunities, and future research trends | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2015 | 2,277 |
| 6 | Towards Smart and Reconfigurable Environment: Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Network | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2020 | 2,114 |
| 7 | MIMO Precoding and Combining Solutions for Millimeter-Wave Systems | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 1,871 |
| 8 | Application of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in LTE and 5G Networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2017 | 1,484 |
| 9 | Wireless Communication for Factory Automation: an opportunity for LTE and 5G systems | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2016 | 1,383 |
| 10 | Underwater acoustic communication channels: Propagation models and statistical characterization | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2009 | 1,378 |
| 11 | Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer? | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2012 | 1,272 |
| 12 | Spontaneous smartphone networks as a user-centric solution for the future internet | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 1,214 |
| 13 | The Roadmap to 6G: AI Empowered Wireless Networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2019 | 1,139 |
| 14 | Coordinated multipoint: Concepts, performance, and field trial results | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2011 | 1,133 |
| 15 | Design aspects of network assisted device-to-device communications | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2012 | 1,119 |
| 16 | On the state and guiding principles of broadband in India | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2009 | 1,104 |
| 17 | Device-to-device communication in 5G cellular networks: challenges, solutions, and future directions | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 1,099 |
| 18 | Fundamental trade-offs on green wireless networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2011 | 1,068 |
| 19 | CDMA/HDR: a bandwidth efficient high speed wireless data service for nomadic users | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2000 | 1,052 |
| 20 | 5GNOW: non-orthogonal, asynchronous waveforms for future mobile applications | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 1,043 |
| 21 | Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2020 | 994 |
| 22 | Large-scale antenna systems with hybrid analog and digital beamforming for millimeter wave 5G | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2015 | 949 |
| 23 | EdgeIoT: Mobile Edge Computing for the Internet of Things | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2016 | 908 |
| 24 | Massive MIMO: ten myths and one critical question | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2016 | 882 |
| 25 | Safeguarding 5G wireless communication networks using physical layer security | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2015 | 838 |
| 26 | A New Wireless Communication Paradigm through Software-Controlled Metasurfaces | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2018 | 799 |
| 27 | Book reviews (2 books reviewed) | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2008 | 770 |
| 28 | Improvements to seamless vertical handover between mobile WiMAX and 3GPP UTRAN through the evolved packet core | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2009 | 720 |
| 29 | Augmented reality: service construction via a 4D communication model | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2012 | 674 |
| 30 | Challenges and enabling technologies for energy aware mobile radio networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2010 | 661 |
| 31 | Baseband unit cloud interconnection enabled by flexible grid optical networks with software defined elasticity | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2015 | 651 |
| 32 | Disaster resilience in communication networks [Guest Editorial] | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 639 |
| 33 | Flexible heterogeneous satellite-based architecture for enhanced quality of life applications | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2015 | 623 |
| 34 | Network Slicing Based 5G and Future Mobile Networks: Mobility, Resource Management, and Challenges | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2017 | 622 |
| 35 | Cell zooming for cost-efficient green cellular networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2010 | 621 |
| 36 | The role of small cells, coordinated multipoint, and massive MIMO in 5G | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 600 |
| 37 | Precise: Privacy-aware recommender based on context information for cloud service environments | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2014 | 569 |
| 38 | Wave: A tutorial | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2009 | 567 |
| 39 | A Cloud-Edge Computing Framework for Cyber-Physical-Social Services | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2017 | 561 |
| 40 | Challenges of QoE management for cloud applications | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2012 | 551 |
| 41 | A holistic view on hyper-dense heterogeneous and small cell networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2013 | 538 |
| 42 | Reliability, survivability, and quality of large scale telecommunications systems [Book Review] | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2004 | 533 |
| 43 | Digital transmitter design for mobile devices | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2013 | 529 |
| 44 | Exploiting the wisdom of the crowd: localized, distributed information-centric VANETs [Topics in Automotive Networking] | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2010 | 510 |
| 45 | OFC/NFOEC product roundup | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2012 | 507 |
| 46 | SOVCAN: Safety-Oriented Vehicular Controller Area Network | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2017 | 492 |
| 47 | Standard-based IoT platforms interworking: implementation, experiences, and lessons learned | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2016 | 476 |
| 48 | The Sky Is Not the Limit: LTE for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2018 | 463 |
| 49 | Differential phase shift-quantum key distribution | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2009 | 461 |
| 50 | Interference coordination for dense wireless networks | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2015 | 460 |
