| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Machine learning for internet of things data analysis: a survey | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 714 |
| 2 | Edge computing technologies for Internet of Things: a primer | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 422 |
| 3 | A blockchain future for internet of things security: a position paper | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 394 |
| 4 | A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 373 |
| 5 | Visible light communication: Applications, architecture, standardization and research challenges | Digital Communications and Networks | 2017 | 365 |
| 6 | A roadmap for security challenges in the Internet of Things | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 319 |
| 7 | The challenges of M2M massive access in wireless cellular networks | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 214 |
| 8 | Security and privacy in 6G networks: New areas and new challenges | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 206 |
| 9 | A survey of 5G technologies: regulatory, standardization and industrial perspectives | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 196 |
| 10 | Deep reinforcement learning-based joint task offloading and bandwidth allocation for multi-user mobile edge computing | Digital Communications and Networks | 2019 | 174 |
| 11 | A survey of edge computing-based designs for IoT security | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 166 |
| 12 | A new type of blockchain for secure message exchange in VANET | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 161 |
| 13 | Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 150 |
| 14 | Service-aware 6G: An intelligent and open network based on the convergence of communication, computing and caching | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 134 |
| 15 | Tracing manufacturing processes using blockchain-based token compositions | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 131 |
| 16 | A survey of free space optical networks | Digital Communications and Networks | 2017 | 127 |
| 17 | Enabling intelligence in fog computing to achieve energy and latency reduction | Digital Communications and Networks | 2019 | 122 |
| 18 | Blockchain-enabled resource management and sharing for 6G communications | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 119 |
| 19 | Real-time air pollution monitoring with sensors on city bus | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 104 |
| 20 | Privacy preservation in permissionless blockchain: A survey | Digital Communications and Networks | 2021 | 104 |
| 21 | Attacks and defences on intelligent connected vehicles: a survey | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 98 |
| 22 | Sarcastic sentiment detection in tweets streamed in real time: a big data approach | Digital Communications and Networks | 2016 | 97 |
| 23 | Cognitive assisted living ambient system: a survey | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 96 |
| 24 | 3D depth image analysis for indoor fall detection of elderly people | Digital Communications and Networks | 2016 | 89 |
| 25 | Middleware technologies for cloud of things: a survey | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 89 |
| 26 | Bio-signal based control in assistive robots: a survey | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 84 |
| 27 | A review on radio based activity recognition | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 83 |
| 28 | Recent advances in Industrial Internet: insights and challenges | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 73 |
| 29 | Recent advances in mobile edge computing and content caching | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 73 |
| 30 | A reliable, delay bounded and less complex communication protocol for multicluster FANETs | Digital Communications and Networks | 2017 | 72 |
| 31 | Design of a novel hybrid intercarrier interference mitigation technique through wavelet implication in an OFDM system | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 61 |
| 32 | A survey on deep learning for textual emotion analysis in social networks | Digital Communications and Networks | 2022 | 61 |
| 33 | Intent-based networks for 6G: Insights and challenges | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 60 |
| 34 | Pervasive intelligent endogenous 6G wireless systems: Prospects, theories and key technologies | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 59 |
| 35 | Survey on recent advances in IoT application layer protocols and machine learning scope for research directions | Digital Communications and Networks | 2022 | 59 |
| 36 | A super base station based centralized network architecture for 5G mobile communication systems | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 58 |
| 37 | Cloud service performance evaluation: status, challenges, and opportunities – a survey from the system modeling perspective | Digital Communications and Networks | 2017 | 57 |
| 38 | A blockchain-empowered AAA scheme in the large-scale HetNet | Digital Communications and Networks | 2021 | 55 |
| 39 | Trust management-based and energy efficient hierarchical routing protocol in wireless sensor networks | Digital Communications and Networks | 2021 | 55 |
| 40 | An empirical study of DSRC V2V performance in truck platooning scenarios | Digital Communications and Networks | 2016 | 52 |
| 41 | Recent progress on high-speed optical transmission | Digital Communications and Networks | 2016 | 51 |
| 42 | Recent advancements in surface plasmon polaritons-plasmonics in subwavelength structures in microwave and terahertz regimes | Digital Communications and Networks | 2018 | 51 |
| 43 | IoTFLiP: IoT-based flipped learning platform for medical education | Digital Communications and Networks | 2017 | 49 |
| 44 | Joint duplex mode selection, channel allocation, and power control for full-duplex cognitive femtocell networks | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 48 |
| 45 | An intelligent task offloading algorithm (iTOA) for UAV edge computing network | Digital Communications and Networks | 2020 | 48 |
| 46 | Towards asynchronous federated learning for heterogeneous edge-powered internet of things | Digital Communications and Networks | 2021 | 48 |
| 47 | A survey and measurement study of GPU DVFS on energy conservation | Digital Communications and Networks | 2017 | 47 |
| 48 | Optical power allocation for adaptive transmissions in wavelength-division multiplexing free space optical networks | Digital Communications and Networks | 2015 | 46 |
| 49 | Topology control of tactical wireless sensor networks using energy efficient zone routing | Digital Communications and Networks | 2016 | 46 |
| 50 | Security and privacy issues of physical objects in the IoT: Challenges and opportunities | Digital Communications and Networks | 2021 | 45 |
