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IEEE Communications Letters Template

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About the IEEE Communications Letters format

IEEE Communications Letters is a peer-reviewed journal published by IEEE, covering Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques, Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, Cooperative Communication and Network Coding. Over its lifetime it has published 14,051 papers, which have received 335,747 citations.

PublisherIEEE
Reference styleNumbered (IEEE)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, "A representative article title," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.

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Publishes research inAdvanced Wireless Communication Techniques Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization Cooperative Communication and Network Coding Wireless Communication Networks Research Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
ISSN1089-7798
Citation impact (2-yr)2.98
h-index194
i10-index7,110
Top institutions publishing hereBeijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Journal websitewww.comsoc.org
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Papers published in IEEE Communications Letters per year

688
2014
630
2015
866
2016
832
2017
620
2018
661
2019
818
2020
699
2021
674
2022
667
2023
625
2024
687
2025

Citation impact of IEEE Communications Letters by publication year

16.3K
2014
18K
2015
25.5K
2016
19.1K
2017
17.7K
2018
17.2K
2019
20.4K
2020
13.7K
2021
11.4K
2022
8.5K
2023
4K
2024
798
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in IEEE Communications Letters

Impulse radio: how it works

Moe Z. Win, R.A. Scholtz · 1 Feb 1998

Impulse radio, a form of ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) spread-spectrum signaling, has properties that make it a viable candidate for short-range communications in dense multipath environments. This paper describes the characteristics of impulse radio using a modulation format that can be supported by currently available impulse signal technology and gives analytical estimates of its multiple-access capability…

2,204 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
On the design of low-density parity-check codes within 0.0045 dB of the Shannon limit

Sae-Young Chung, G. David Forney, Tom Richardson et al. · 1 Jan 2001

We develop improved algorithms to construct good low-density parity-check codes that approach the Shannon limit very closely. For rate 1/2, the best code found has a threshold within 0.0045 dB of the Shannon limit of the binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel. Simulation results with a somewhat simpler code show that we can achieve within…

1,547 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in 5G Systems

Zhiguo Ding, Mugen Peng, H. Vincent Poor · 4 Jun 2015

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has received considerable recent attention as a promising candidate for 5G systems. A key feature of NOMA is that users with better channel conditions have prior information about the messages of other users. This prior knowledge is fully exploited in this letter, where a cooperative NOMA scheme is proposed. The outage…

1,515 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Effects of clipping and filtering on the performance of OFDM

Xiaodong Li, Leonard J. Cimini · 1 May 1998

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is an attractive technique for wireless communication applications. However, an OFDM signal has a large peak-to-mean envelope power ratio, which can result in significant distortion when passed through a nonlinear device, such as a transmitter power amplifier. We investigate, through extensive computer simulations, the effects of clipping and filtering on…

1,273 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Low-density parity check codes over GF(q)

M.C. Davey, David Mackay · 1 Jun 1998

Gallager's (1962) low-density binary parity check codes have been shown to have near-Shannon limit performance when decoded using a probabilistic decoding algorithm. We report the empirical results of error-correction using the analogous codes over GF(q) for q>2, with binary symmetric channels and binary Gaussian channels. We find a significant improvement over the performance of the…

1,213 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

IEEE Communications Letters template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the IEEE Communications Letters format?
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What reference style does IEEE Communications Letters use?
IEEE Communications Letters uses Numbered (IEEE) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, "A representative article title," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.
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IEEE Communications Letters, published by IEEE. It is a engineering and computer science journal, published by IEEE.
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