A. Lee Swindlehurst

32.1k total citations · 19 hit papers
429 papers, 22.3k citations indexed

About

A. Lee Swindlehurst is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Lee Swindlehurst has authored 429 papers receiving a total of 22.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 308 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 151 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 111 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in A. Lee Swindlehurst's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (149 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (85 papers) and Wireless Communication Security Techniques (85 papers). A. Lee Swindlehurst is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (149 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (85 papers) and Wireless Communication Security Techniques (85 papers). A. Lee Swindlehurst collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. A. Lee Swindlehurst's co-authors include Q.H. Spencer, Martin Haardt, C.B. Peel, Amitav Mukherjee, Jing Huang, Bertrand M. Hochwald, S. Ali. A. Fakoorian, Rui Zhang, T. Kailath and Alexei Ashikhmin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

A. Lee Swindlehurst

404 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

Zero-Forcing Methods for Downlink Spatial Multiplexing in... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2004 2014 2005 2014 2021 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Zero-Forcing Methods for Downlink Spatial Multiplexing in Multiuser MIMO Channels
    2004 2.3k citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  2. An Overview of Massive MIMO: Benefits and Challenges
    2014 2.0k citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. profile →
  3. A Vector-Perturbation Technique for Near-Capacity Multiantenna Multiuser Communication—Part I: Channel Inversion and Regularization
    2005 1.1k citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  4. Principles of Physical Layer Security in Multiuser Wireless Networks: A Survey
    2014 1.1k citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. profile →
  5. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Systems: Principles, Applications, and Research Directions
    2021 648 citations Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren et al. profile →
  6. Millimeter-wave massive MIMO: the next wireless revolution?
    2014 622 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. profile →
  7. An introduction to the multi-user MIMO downlink
    2004 588 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. profile →
  8. A Vector-Perturbation Technique for Near-Capacity Multiantenna Multiuser Communication— Part II: Perturbation
    2005 528 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  9. Modeling the statistical time and angle of arrival characteristics of an indoor multipath channel
    2000 525 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  10. An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for RIS/IRS-Aided Wireless Systems
    2022 506 citations Cunhua Pan, Gui Zhou et al. profile →
  11. A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence
    2021 363 citations Qingqing Wu, Jie Xu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  12. Robust Beamforming for Security in MIMO Wiretap Channels With Imperfect CSI
    2010 329 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  13. Wireless Relay Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Optimization
    2011 292 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. profile →
  14. Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Systems
    2022 203 citations Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  15. UAV-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication: Opportunities and Challenges
    2023 183 citations Qingqing Wu, Wen Chen et al. profile →
  16. Secure Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Integrated Sensing and Communication
    2023 181 citations Meng Hua, Qingqing Wu et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  17. Channel Estimation With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces—A General Framework
    2022 179 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst, Gui Zhou et al. profile →
  18. Integrated Sensing and Communication with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Opportunities, Applications, and Future Directions
    2023 157 citations A. Lee Swindlehurst et al. profile →
  19. Next Generation Advanced Transceiver Technologies for 6G and Beyond
    2025 32 citations Changsheng You, Yunlong Cai et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. Lee Swindlehurst United States 61 18.1k 9.2k 6.8k 2.6k 1.3k 429 22.3k
A. Paulraj United States 71 18.9k 1.0× 14.2k 1.5× 3.7k 0.5× 4.4k 1.7× 774 0.6× 363 22.7k
Thomas L. Marzetta United States 50 27.4k 1.5× 14.1k 1.5× 6.2k 0.9× 978 0.4× 946 0.7× 135 29.4k
Wing‐Kin Ma Hong Kong 44 7.1k 0.4× 3.5k 0.4× 3.1k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 2.7k 2.0× 241 12.1k
Daniel P. Palomar Hong Kong 50 9.1k 0.5× 6.3k 0.7× 2.6k 0.4× 925 0.4× 962 0.7× 251 13.3k
Geert Leus Netherlands 54 8.5k 0.5× 5.5k 0.6× 2.1k 0.3× 2.3k 0.9× 2.2k 1.7× 515 13.6k
Athina P. Petropulu United States 43 6.3k 0.4× 3.8k 0.4× 4.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 359 10.5k
Sergio Barbarossa Italy 47 5.9k 0.3× 6.0k 0.7× 1.5k 0.2× 1.0k 0.4× 1.6k 1.2× 274 10.4k
Rick S. Blum United States 53 5.0k 0.3× 4.7k 0.5× 8.2k 1.2× 2.8k 1.1× 2.3k 1.7× 364 15.0k
Vahid Tarokh United States 51 19.1k 1.1× 16.8k 1.8× 1.7k 0.3× 966 0.4× 2.7k 2.0× 307 21.7k
A.M. Sayeed United States 41 8.2k 0.5× 3.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 958 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 198 10.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Choi, Junil, et al.. (2025). Channel-Coded Precoding for Multi-User MISO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(11). 9201–9216.
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Zhang, Guangyi, et al.. (2025). Feature Allocation for Semantic Communication With Space-Time Importance Awareness. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(10). 8847–8862. 4 indexed citations
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You, Changsheng, Yunlong Cai, Yuanwei Liu, et al.. (2025). Next Generation Advanced Transceiver Technologies for 6G and Beyond. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 43(3). 582–627. 32 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shi, Wei, et al.. (2025). Byzantine-Resilient Over-the-Air Federated Learning Under Zero-Trust Architecture. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 43(6). 1954–1969. 3 indexed citations
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Mamaghani, Milad Tatar, Xiangyun Zhou, Nan Yang, A. Lee Swindlehurst, & H. Vincent Poor. (2024). On the Information Leakage Performance of Secure Finite Blocklength Transmissions over Rayleigh Fading Channels. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1467–1472. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Ang, et al.. (2024). Block-Level MU-MISO Interference Exploitation Precoding: Optimal Structure and Explicit Duality. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(21). 35519–35535. 2 indexed citations
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Swindlehurst, A. Lee, et al.. (2024). Variational Bayes for Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection in Few-Bit Massive MIMO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 72. 3408–3423. 6 indexed citations
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Huang, Huan, Hongliang Zhang, Yi Cai, A. Lee Swindlehurst, & Zhu Han. (2023). An Anti-Jamming Strategy for Disco Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Based Fully-Passive Jamming Attacks. 4847–4852. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Wei, et al.. (2023). Disentangled Representation Learning for RF Fingerprint Extraction Under Unknown Channel Statistics. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71(7). 3946–3962. 20 indexed citations
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Wu, Qingqing, Meng Hua, Wen Chen, et al.. (2023). Intelligent Reflecting Surface Empowered Self-Interference Cancellation in Full-Duplex Systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 72(5). 2945–2958. 7 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Nhan T., et al.. (2023). Deep Unfolding Hybrid Beamforming Designs for THz Massive MIMO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 71. 3788–3804. 31 indexed citations
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Zhou, Gui, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, et al.. (2022). Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multi-User mmWave Systems With Uniform Planar Arrays. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70(12). 8105–8122. 38 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Nhan T., et al.. (2021). Machine learning-based reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided MIMO systems. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 18 indexed citations
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Wu, Qingqing, Jie Xu, Yong Zeng, et al.. (2021). A Comprehensive Overview on 5G-and-Beyond Networks With UAVs: From Communications to Sensing and Intelligence. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 39(10). 2912–2945. 363 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Wei, Yanzhi Chen, Jiabao Yu, et al.. (2021). A Generalizable Model-and-Data Driven Approach for Open-Set RFF Authentication. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 16. 4435–4450. 77 indexed citations
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Yang, Xi, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin, & A. Lee Swindlehurst. (2020). Bayes-Optimal MMSE Detector for Massive MIMO Relaying With Low-Precision ADCs/DACs. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 68. 3341–3357. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Jindan, Wei Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, & A. Lee Swindlehurst. (2019). Secure Communication for Spatially Sparse Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Channels via Hybrid Precoding. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68(2). 887–901. 41 indexed citations
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Mezghani, Amine, et al.. (2017). Massive MIMO downlink 1-bit precoding with linear programming for PSK signaling. 1–5. 33 indexed citations
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Shen, Hong, Wei Xu, A. Lee Swindlehurst, & Chunming Zhao. (2016). Transmitter Optimization for Per-Antenna Power Constrained Multi-Antenna Downlinks:An SLNR Maximization Methodology. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 64(10). 2712–2725. 22 indexed citations

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