Adnan Aijaz

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Adnan Aijaz is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Adnan Aijaz has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Adnan Aijaz's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (30 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (17 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (12 papers). Adnan Aijaz is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (30 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (17 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (12 papers). Adnan Aijaz collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Pakistan. Adnan Aijaz's co-authors include A.H. Aghvami, Joachim Sachs, Meryem Simsek, Mischa Döhler, Gerhard Fettweis, Hamid Aghvami, Mahesh Sooriyabandara, Oliver Holland, Mohammad Reza Nakhai and Xiaoli Chu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Access and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Adnan Aijaz

87 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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5G-Enabled Tactile Internet

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adnan Aijaz United Kingdom	26	1.8k	1.7k	328	177	150	91	2.6k
Joachim Sachs Sweden	27	2.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	380 1.2×	169 1.0×	105 0.7×	70	3.2k
Meryem Simsek Germany	25	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	182 0.6×	88 0.5×	77 0.5×	78	2.7k
Angelos Antonopoulos Spain	30	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	333 1.0×	66 0.4×	70 0.5×	112	2.5k
Josep Paradells Spain	22	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	291 0.9×	79 0.4×	116 0.8×	132	2.7k
Massimo Condoluci Italy	26	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	170 0.5×	65 0.4×	112 0.7×	62	2.4k
Utz Roedig United Kingdom	26	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	447 1.4×	80 0.5×	127 0.8×	130	2.9k
Carles Gómez Spain	25	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	345 1.1×	66 0.4×	144 1.0×	79	2.8k
Changyang She Australia	26	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	241 0.7×	68 0.4×	98 0.7×	89	2.8k
Oliver Holland United Kingdom	22	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	96 0.3×	107 0.6×	62 0.4×	141	2.3k
Francesca Cuomo Italy	25	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	199 0.6×	40 0.2×	115 0.8×	181	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adnan Aijaz

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Peizheng, et al.. (2025). NetMind+: Adaptive Baseband Function Placement With GCN Encoding and Incremental Maze-Solving DRL for Dynamic and Heterogeneous RANs. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 22(4). 3419–3432. 1 indexed citations

Li, Peizheng, K. D. R. Assis, Adnan Aijaz, et al.. (2024). NetMind: Adaptive RAN Baseband Function Placement by GCN Encoding and Maze-solving DRL. Explore Bristol Research. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

Mavromatis, Ioannis, Yichao Jin, Tim Farnham, et al.. (2024). UMBRELLA: A One-Stop Shop Bridging the Gap From Lab to Real-World IoT Experimentation. IEEE Access. 12. 42181–42213. 7 indexed citations

Vukobratović, Dejan, Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Hassan Ghassemian, et al.. (2024). Distributed Sensing, Computing, Communication, and Control Fabric: A Unified Architecture for New 6G Era. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–6. 1 indexed citations

Strinati, Emilio Calvanese, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, et al.. (2024). Goal-Oriented and Semantic Communication in 6G AI-Native Networks: The 6G-GOALS Approach. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–6. 28 indexed citations

Li, Peizheng, Xinyi Lin, & Adnan Aijaz. (2024). Building the Self-Improvement Loop: Error Detection and Correction in Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications. 294–300.

Farnham, Tim, et al.. (2023). Demo: Integration of Marketplace for the 5G Open RAN Ecosystem. 3 indexed citations

Aijaz, Adnan, et al.. (2023). Millimeter Wave Backhaul for Stratospheric HAPs: Performance of the Bent-Pipe Architecture. 183–187. 1 indexed citations

Li, Peizheng, et al.. (2023). Demo: A Digital Twin of the 5G Radio Access Network for Anomaly Detection Functionality. 1–2. 3 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan, et al.. (2022). Integrating Stochastic Geometry and ON/OFF Traffic Models: Toward Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Wireless Networks With Heterogeneous Services. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 9(3). 1668–1679. 2 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the Performance of Over-the-Air Time Synchronization for 5G and TSN Integration. 1–6. 23 indexed citations

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Farnham, Tim, Simon Jones, Adnan Aijaz, et al.. (2021). UMBRELLA Collaborative Robotics Testbed and IoT Platform. 1–7. 10 indexed citations

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Mian, Adnan Noor, et al.. (2021). Energy-Efficient MAC for Cellular IoT: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Standardization. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 5(2). 587–599. 18 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan. (2020). High-Performance Industrial Wireless: Achieving Reliable and Deterministic Connectivity Over IEEE 802.11 WLANs. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. 1. 28–37. 25 indexed citations

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Holland, Oliver, Eckehard Steinbach, Ramjee Prasad, et al.. (2019). The IEEE 1918.1 “Tactile Internet” Standards Working Group and its Standards. Proceedings of the IEEE. 107(2). 256–279. 136 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan. (2017). $\mathsf{Hap-SliceR}$: A Radio Resource Slicing Framework for 5G Networks With Haptic Communications. IEEE Systems Journal. 12(3). 2285–2296. 63 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan & Parag Kulkarni. (2017). Protocol Design for Enabling Full-Duplex Operation in Next-Generation IEEE 802.11 WLANs. IEEE Systems Journal. 12(4). 3438–3449. 13 indexed citations

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Al-Kadri, M. Omar, Adnan Aijaz, & Arumugam Nallanathan. (2015). Ergodic Capacity of Interference Coordinated HetNet with Full-Duplex Small Cells. European Wireless Conference. 1–6. 5 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan & A.H. Aghvami. (2014). Error Performance of Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication Using Pulse-Based Modulation. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 14(1). 146–151. 34 indexed citations

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Aijaz, Adnan, et al.. (2007). IP trace back techniques to ferret out denial of service attack source. 135–140. 1 indexed citations

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