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IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials is a peer-reviewed journal published by IEEE, covering Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Software-Defined Networks and 5G. Over its lifetime it has published 1,934 papers, which have received 410,702 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 Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.

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Abbreviation (ISO-4)COMST
Publishes research inAdvanced MIMO Systems Optimization IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Software-Defined Networks and 5G Caching and Content Delivery Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
ISSN1553-877X
Citation impact (2-yr)31.49
h-index332
i10-index1,571
Top institutions publishing hereNanyang Technological University
Journal websitewww.comsoc.org
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Papers published in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials per year

121
2014
115
2015
112
2016
138
2017
162
2018
95
2019
83
2020
90
2021
87
2022
101
2023
135
2024
144
2025

Citation impact of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials by publication year

37.3K
2014
44.2K
2015
32.5K
2016
31.6K
2017
39.4K
2018
27.2K
2019
21.4K
2020
18.8K
2021
17.3K
2022
13K
2023
8.2K
2024
1.9K
2025

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

Most-cited papers in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

Internet of Things: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Protocols, and Applications

Ala Al‐Fuqaha, Mohsen Guizani, Mehdi Mohammadi et al. · 1 Jan 2015

This paper provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) with emphasis on enabling technologies, protocols, and application issues. The IoT is enabled by the latest developments in RFID, smart sensors, communication technologies, and Internet protocols. The basic premise is to have smart sensors collaborate directly without human involvement to deliver a new class…

8,384 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective

Yuyi Mao, Changsheng You, Jun Zhang et al. · 1 Jan 2017

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, recent years have seen a paradigm shift in mobile computing, from the centralized mobile cloud computing toward mobile edge computing (MEC). The main feature of MEC is to push mobile computing, network control and storage to the network edges (e.g., base stations and access…

5,438 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A survey of spectrum sensing algorithms for cognitive radio applications

Tevfik Yucek, Hüseyin Arslan · 1 Jan 2009

The spectrum sensing problem has gained new aspects with cognitive radio and opportunistic spectrum access concepts. It is one of the most challenging issues in cognitive radio systems. In this paper, a survey of spectrum sensing methodologies for cognitive radio is presented. Various aspects of spectrum sensing problem are studied from a cognitive radio perspective…

4,793 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Next Generation 5G Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

Mamta Agiwal, Abhishek Roy, Navrati Saxena · 1 Jan 2016

The vision of next generation 5G wireless communications lies in providing very high data rates (typically of Gbps order), extremely low latency, manifold increase in base station capacity, and significant improvement in users' perceived quality of service (QoS), compared to current 4G LTE networks. Ever increasing proliferation of smart devices, introduction of new emerging multimedia…

3,436 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Smart Grid — The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey

Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue et al. · 12 Dec 2011

The Smart Grid, regarded as the next generation power grid, uses two-way flows of electricity and information to create a widely distributed automated energy delivery network. In this article, we survey the literature till 2011 on the enabling technologies for the Smart Grid. We explore three major systems, namely the smart infrastructure system, the smart…

3,326 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials template — frequently asked questions

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IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 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 Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.
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