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IEEE Transactions on Communications Template

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About the IEEE Transactions on Communications format

IEEE Transactions on Communications is a peer-reviewed journal published by IEEE, covering Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques, Wireless Communication Networks Research, Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization. Over its lifetime it has published 18,068 papers, which have received 707,207 citations.

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

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Abbreviation (ISO-4)TCOM
Publishes research inAdvanced Wireless Communication Techniques Wireless Communication Networks Research Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization Cooperative Communication and Network Coding Error Correcting Code Techniques
ISSN0090-6778
Citation impact (2-yr)4.52
h-index311
i10-index9,760
Top institutions publishing hereSoutheast University
Journal websitewww.comsoc.org
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Papers published in IEEE Transactions on Communications per year

447
2014
479
2015
509
2016
589
2017
596
2018
609
2019
636
2020
611
2021
597
2022
665
2023
803
2024
933
2025

Citation impact of IEEE Transactions on Communications by publication year

18.8K
2014
21.3K
2015
21.9K
2016
23.2K
2017
20.7K
2018
23.3K
2019
25K
2020
21.9K
2021
18.7K
2022
12.5K
2023
7.5K
2024
2.2K
2025

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

Most-cited papers in IEEE Transactions on Communications

An Algorithm for Vector Quantizer Design

Y. Linde, A. Buzo, Robert M. Gray · 1 Jan 1980

An efficient and intuitive algorithm is presented for the design of vector quantizers based either on a known probabilistic model or on a long training sequence of data. The basic properties of the algorithm are discussed and demonstrated by examples. Quite general distortion measures and long blocklengths are allowed, as exemplified by the design of…

7,210 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
User cooperation diversity-part I: system description

A. Sendonaris, Elza Erkip, Behnaam Aazhang · 1 Nov 2003

Mobile users' data rate and quality of service are limited by the fact that, within the duration of any given call, they experience severe variations in signal attenuation, thereby necessitating the use of some type of diversity. In this two-part paper, we propose a new form of spatial diversity, in which diversity gains are achieved…

6,339 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Robust frequency and timing synchronization for OFDM

T.M. Schmidl, D.C. Cox · 1 Jan 1997

A rapid synchronization method is presented for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system using either a continuous transmission or a burst operation over a frequency-selective channel. The presence of a signal can be detected upon the receipt of just one training sequence of two symbols. The start of the frame and the beginning of the…

3,392 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Tractable Approach to Coverage and Rate in Cellular Networks

Jeffrey G. Andrews, Francois Baccelli, Radha Krishna Ganti · 13 Oct 2011

Cellular networks are usually modeled by placing the base stations on a grid, with mobile users either randomly scattered or placed deterministically. These models have been used extensively but suffer from being both highly idealized and not very tractable, so complex system-level simulations are used to evaluate coverage/outage probability and rate. More tractable models have…

3,353 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Energy and Spectral Efficiency of Very Large Multiuser MIMO Systems

Hien Quoc Ngo, Erik G. Larsson, Thomas L. Marzetta · 7 Feb 2013

A multiplicity of autonomous terminals simultaneously transmits data streams to a compact array of antennas. The array uses imperfect channel-state information derived from transmitted pilots to extract the individual data streams. The power radiated by the terminals can be made inversely proportional to the square-root of the number of base station antennas with no reduction…

3,270 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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