| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1998 | 10,560 |
| 2 | Cognitive radio: brain-empowered wireless communications | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2005 | 9,851 |
| 3 | Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2000 | 6,970 |
| 4 | What Will 5G Be? | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2014 | 6,564 |
| 5 | A Statistical Model for Indoor Multipath Propagation | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1987 | 2,651 |
| 6 | A simple Cooperative diversity method based on network path selection | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2006 | 2,486 |
| 7 | Multiuser OFDM with adaptive subcarrier, bit, and power allocation | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1999 | 2,277 |
| 8 | Routing of multipoint connections | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1988 | 2,209 |
| 9 | A framework for uplink power control in cellular radio systems | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1995 | 2,007 |
| 10 | Massive MIMO in the UL/DL of Cellular Networks: How Many Antennas Do We Need? | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2013 | 1,878 |
| 11 | Capacity limits of MIMO channels | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2003 | 1,814 |
| 12 | Millimeter Wave Channel Modeling and Cellular Capacity Evaluation | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2014 | 1,814 |
| 13 | A Survey on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Networks: Research Challenges and Future Trends | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2017 | 1,775 |
| 14 | From theory to practice: an overview of MIMO space-time coded wireless systems | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2003 | 1,751 |
| 15 | In-Band Full-Duplex Wireless: Challenges and Opportunities | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2014 | 1,720 |
| 16 | On the optimality of multiantenna broadcast scheduling using zero-forcing beamforming | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2006 | 1,642 |
| 17 | Analog-to-digital converter survey and analysis | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1999 | 1,622 |
| 18 | Fading Relay Channels: Performance Limits and Space–Time Signal Design | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2004 | 1,584 |
| 19 | 5G: A Tutorial Overview of Standards, Trials, Challenges, Deployment, and Practice | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2017 | 1,536 |
| 20 | Space-time block coding for wireless communications: performance results | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1999 | 1,484 |
| 21 | Spectral efficient protocols for half-duplex fading relay channels | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2007 | 1,454 |
| 22 | Multi-Cell MIMO Cooperative Networks: A New Look at Interference | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2010 | 1,394 |
| 23 | Energy-Efficiency of MIMO and Cooperative MIMO Techniques in Sensor Networks | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2004 | 1,387 |
| 24 | Language-based information-flow security | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2003 | 1,380 |
| 25 | RFID security and privacy: a research survey | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2006 | 1,376 |
| 26 | Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2020 | 1,365 |
| 27 | Stochastic geometry and random graphs for the analysis and design of wireless networks | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2009 | 1,359 |
| 28 | A tutorial on decomposition methods for network utility maximization | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2006 | 1,315 |
| 29 | Decentralized cognitive MAC for opportunistic spectrum access in ad hoc networks: A POMDP framework | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2007 | 1,311 |
| 30 | Modeling and Analysis of K-Tier Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2012 | 1,290 |
| 31 | Dynamic Computation Offloading for Mobile-Edge Computing With Energy Harvesting Devices | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2016 | 1,285 |
| 32 | Minimum energy mobile wireless networks | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1999 | 1,280 |
| 33 | TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global Internet | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1995 | 1,254 |
| 34 | Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1996 | 1,235 |
| 35 | Tapestry: A Resilient Global-Scale Overlay for Service Deployment | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2004 | 1,219 |
| 36 | Adaptive clustering for mobile wireless networks | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1997 | 1,204 |
| 37 | An overview of limited feedback in wireless communication systems | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2008 | 1,154 |
| 38 | Adaptive Federated Learning in Resource Constrained Edge Computing Systems | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2019 | 1,141 |
| 39 | Dense wavelength division multiplexing networks: principles and applications | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1990 | 1,136 |
| 40 | Transmit power adaptation for multiuser OFDM systems | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2003 | 1,117 |
| 41 | Internet of Things in the 5G Era: Enablers, Architecture, and Business Models | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2016 | 1,113 |
| 42 | A stochastic MIMO radio channel model with experimental validation | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2002 | 1,105 |
| 43 | Equivalent capacity and its application to bandwidth allocation in high-speed networks | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1991 | 1,063 |
| 44 | Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2002 | 1,035 |
| 45 | The Internet Topology Zoo | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2011 | 1,025 |
| 46 | A Markov Modulated Characterization of Packetized Voice and Data Traffic and Related Statistical Multiplexer Performance | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1986 | 1,011 |
| 47 | Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2012 | 970 |
| 48 | A Coordinated Approach to Channel Estimation in Large-Scale Multiple-Antenna Systems | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2013 | 966 |
| 49 | Transmission with Energy Harvesting Nodes in Fading Wireless Channels: Optimal Policies | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 2011 | 950 |
| 50 | Simplified processing for high spectral efficiency wireless communication employing multi-element arrays | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1999 | 943 |
