| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems | IEEE Network | 2020 | 2,182 |
| 2 | Securing ad hoc networks | IEEE Network | 1999 | 1,598 |
| 3 | A survey on position-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks | IEEE Network | 2001 | 1,204 |
| 4 | Learning IoT in Edge: Deep Learning for the Internet of Things with Edge Computing | IEEE Network | 2018 | 1,177 |
| 5 | RSVP: a new resource ReSerVation Protocol | IEEE Network | 1993 | 1,116 |
| 6 | Disseminating active map information to mobile hosts | IEEE Network | 1994 | 951 |
| 7 | Wide-area Internet traffic patterns and characteristics | IEEE Network | 1997 | 847 |
| 8 | REM: active queue management | IEEE Network | 2001 | 833 |
| 9 | Network intrusion detection | IEEE Network | 1994 | 662 |
| 10 | 6G Wireless Communications: Vision and Potential Techniques | IEEE Network | 2019 | 657 |
| 11 | Time synchronization in sensor networks: a survey | IEEE Network | 2004 | 651 |
| 12 | In-Edge AI: Intelligentizing Mobile Edge Computing, Caching and Communication by Federated Learning | IEEE Network | 2019 | 645 |
| 13 | A generic quantitative relationship between quality of experience and quality of service | IEEE Network | 2010 | 640 |
| 14 | An overview of quality of service routing for next-generation high-speed networks: problems and solutions | IEEE Network | 1998 | 635 |
| 15 | Deployment issues for the IP multicast service and architecture | IEEE Network | 2000 | 595 |
| 16 | WDM-based local lightwave networks. I. Single-hop systems | IEEE Network | 1992 | 570 |
| 17 | Node clustering in wireless sensor networks: recent developments and deployment challenges | IEEE Network | 2006 | 549 |
| 18 | Fog-computing-based radio access networks: issues and challenges | IEEE Network | 2016 | 529 |
| 19 | Algorithms for packet classification | IEEE Network | 2001 | 527 |
| 20 | Bandwidth estimation: metrics, measurement techniques, and tools | IEEE Network | 2003 | 524 |
| 21 | The challenges of building scalable mobile underwater wireless sensor networks for aquatic applications | IEEE Network | 2006 | 522 |
| 22 | Packet-level traffic measurements from the sprint IP backbone | IEEE Network | 2003 | 506 |
| 23 | Internet QoS: a big picture | IEEE Network | 1999 | 505 |
| 24 | MPEG-4 and H.263 video traces for network performance evaluation | IEEE Network | 2001 | 500 |
| 25 | Cognitive radio sensor networks | IEEE Network | 2009 | 500 |
| 26 | 5G wireless backhaul networks: challenges and research advances | IEEE Network | 2014 | 486 |
| 27 | Jamming sensor networks: attack and defense strategies | IEEE Network | 2006 | 479 |
| 28 | Scalable routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks | IEEE Network | 2002 | 474 |
| 29 | A workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup Web site | IEEE Network | 2000 | 456 |
| 30 | Issues and future directions in traffic classification | IEEE Network | 2012 | 455 |
| 31 | A survey of packet loss recovery techniques for streaming audio | IEEE Network | 1998 | 420 |
| 32 | Optical burst switching: a new area in optical networking research | IEEE Network | 2004 | 420 |
| 33 | Survey and taxonomy of IP address lookup algorithms | IEEE Network | 2001 | 398 |
| 34 | Cloud robotics: architecture, challenges and applications | IEEE Network | 2012 | 394 |
| 35 | Toward Low-Latency and Ultra-Reliable Virtual Reality | IEEE Network | 2018 | 389 |
| 36 | System architecture and key technologies for 5G heterogeneous cloud radio access networks | IEEE Network | 2015 | 380 |
| 37 | Middleware to support sensor network applications | IEEE Network | 2004 | 377 |
| 38 | Cloud radio access network (C-RAN): a primer | IEEE Network | 2015 | 374 |
| 39 | Intelligent Edge Computing for IoT-Based Energy Management in Smart Cities | IEEE Network | 2019 | 368 |
| 40 | Challenges in 5G: how to empower SON with big data for enabling 5G | IEEE Network | 2014 | 364 |
| 41 | The rate-based flow control framework for the available bit rate ATM service | IEEE Network | 1995 | 359 |
| 42 | Probabilistic parallel measurement of network traffic at multiple locations | IEEE Network | 2012 | 357 |
| 43 | Serving at the Edge: A Scalable IoT Architecture Based on Transparent Computing | IEEE Network | 2017 | 352 |
| 44 | NFV: state of the art, challenges, and implementation in next generation mobile networks (vEPC) | IEEE Network | 2014 | 349 |
| 45 | Cognitive machine-to-machine communications: visions and potentials for the smart grid | IEEE Network | 2012 | 346 |
| 46 | Survivability in optical networks | IEEE Network | 2000 | 343 |
| 47 | Toward cloud-based vehicular networks with efficient resource management | IEEE Network | 2013 | 342 |
| 48 | Integrating network function virtualization with SDR and SDN for 4G/5G networks | IEEE Network | 2015 | 338 |
| 49 | Robust Mobile Crowd Sensing: When Deep Learning Meets Edge Computing | IEEE Network | 2018 | 336 |
| 50 | Quality of service support in IEEE 802.16 networks | IEEE Network | 2006 | 333 |
