| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2005 | 2,825 |
| 2 | Internet of things: Vision, applications and research challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2012 | 2,820 |
| 3 | Underwater acoustic sensor networks: research challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2005 | 2,620 |
| 4 | Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2009 | 2,114 |
| 5 | Secure routing in wireless sensor networks: attacks and countermeasures | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 1,738 |
| 6 | Wireless sensor and actor networks: research challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2004 | 1,286 |
| 7 | CRAHNs: Cognitive radio ad hoc networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2009 | 1,187 |
| 8 | Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs): A survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2013 | 1,119 |
| 9 | Mobile ad hoc networking: imperatives and challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 997 |
| 10 | A review of routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2004 | 988 |
| 11 | Strategies and techniques for node placement in wireless sensor networks: A survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2008 | 912 |
| 12 | Clock synchronization for wireless sensor networks: a survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2005 | 791 |
| 13 | SVELTE: Real-time intrusion detection in the Internet of Things | Ad Hoc Networks | 2013 | 677 |
| 14 | Data MULEs: modeling and analysis of a three-tier architecture for sparse sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 622 |
| 15 | Wireless underground sensor networks: Research challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2006 | 583 |
| 16 | SEAD: secure efficient distance vector routing for mobile wireless ad hoc networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 573 |
| 17 | A novel user authentication and key agreement scheme for heterogeneous ad hoc wireless sensor networks, based on the Internet of Things notion | Ad Hoc Networks | 2014 | 530 |
| 18 | Design guidelines for wireless sensor networks: communication, clustering and aggregation | Ad Hoc Networks | 2004 | 484 |
| 19 | Distance distributions in random networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2012 | 456 |
| 20 | A survey on MAC protocols for cognitive radio networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2009 | 444 |
| 21 | An effective key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2007 | 427 |
| 22 | The IMPORTANT framework for analyzing the Impact of Mobility on Performance Of RouTing protocols for Adhoc NeTworks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 422 |
| 23 | An efficient user authentication and key agreement scheme for heterogeneous wireless sensor network tailored for the Internet of Things environment | Ad Hoc Networks | 2016 | 400 |
| 24 | Understanding the Internet of Things: definition, potentials, and societal role of a fast evolving paradigm | Ad Hoc Networks | 2017 | 396 |
| 25 | Effectiveness of RTS/CTS handshake in IEEE 802.11 based ad hoc networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 378 |
| 26 | DTLS based security and two-way authentication for the Internet of Things | Ad Hoc Networks | 2013 | 372 |
| 27 | Data communication in VANETs: Protocols, applications and challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2016 | 371 |
| 28 | Contention-based forwarding for mobile ad hoc networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2003 | 353 |
| 29 | A survey of attacks and detection mechanisms on intelligent transportation systems: VANETs and IoV | Ad Hoc Networks | 2017 | 308 |
| 30 | Medium Access Control protocols for ad hoc wireless networks: A survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2006 | 287 |
| 31 | Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2019 | 285 |
| 32 | An intrusion detection system for connected vehicles in smart cities | Ad Hoc Networks | 2019 | 278 |
| 33 | Survey on secure communication protocols for the Internet of Things | Ad Hoc Networks | 2015 | 275 |
| 34 | Privacy preservation in wireless sensor networks: A state-of-the-art survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2009 | 264 |
| 35 | BorderSense: Border patrol through advanced wireless sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2011 | 258 |
| 36 | Routing in cognitive radio networks: Challenges and solutions | Ad Hoc Networks | 2011 | 257 |
| 37 | Drone networks: Communications, coordination, and sensing | Ad Hoc Networks | 2018 | 257 |
| 38 | A secure light weight scheme for user authentication and key agreement in multi-gateway based wireless sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2016 | 250 |
| 39 | SPECS: Secure and privacy enhancing communications schemes for VANETs | Ad Hoc Networks | 2011 | 246 |
| 40 | Smart bridges, smart tunnels: Transforming wireless sensor networks from research prototypes into robust engineering infrastructure | Ad Hoc Networks | 2010 | 234 |
| 41 | Cluster head election techniques for coverage preservation in wireless sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2009 | 229 |
| 42 | On coverage issues in directional sensor networks: A survey | Ad Hoc Networks | 2011 | 228 |
| 43 | Choices for interaction with things on Internet and underlying issues | Ad Hoc Networks | 2015 | 227 |
| 44 | An energy-aware distributed clustering protocol in wireless sensor networks using fuzzy logic | Ad Hoc Networks | 2012 | 223 |
| 45 | MISE-PIPE: Magnetic induction-based wireless sensor networks for underground pipeline monitoring | Ad Hoc Networks | 2011 | 208 |
| 46 | A survey on real-world implementations of mobile ad-hoc networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2007 | 203 |
| 47 | Internet of multimedia things: Vision and challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2015 | 203 |
| 48 | Internet of underground things in precision agriculture: Architecture and technology aspects | Ad Hoc Networks | 2018 | 202 |
| 49 | Monte Carlo localization for mobile wireless sensor networks | Ad Hoc Networks | 2008 | 197 |
| 50 | Machine-to-machine communications: Technologies and challenges | Ad Hoc Networks | 2014 | 197 |
