Alessio Zappone

14.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
130 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Alessio Zappone is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessio Zappone has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 74 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 27 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alessio Zappone's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (78 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (59 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (34 papers). Alessio Zappone is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (78 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (59 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (34 papers). Alessio Zappone collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and France. Alessio Zappone's co-authors include Mérouane Debbah, Chau Yuen, George C. Alexandropoulos, Eduard A. Jorswieck, Chongwen Huang, Marco Di Renzo, Julien de Rosny, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, Sergei Tretyakov and Stefano Buzzi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Alessio Zappone

125 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communication

2018 2.6k citations Alessio Zappone, Mérouane Debbah et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead

2020 2.1k citations Marco Di Renzo, Alessio Zappone et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: an idea whose time has come

2019 1.1k citations Marco Di Renzo, Mérouane Debbah et al. profile →
Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks via Fractional Programming Theory

2015 396 citations Alessio Zappone, Eduard A. Jorswieck profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessio Zappone Italy	31	8.4k	4.2k	2.0k	646	487	130	9.3k
George C. Alexandropoulos Greece	46	8.7k 1.0×	4.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	827 1.3×	544 1.1×	248	9.9k
Chongwen Huang China	44	7.2k 0.9×	4.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	559 0.9×	274 0.6×	256	8.6k
Hong Ren China	39	7.2k 0.8×	4.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	626 1.0×	151 0.3×	135	8.0k
Boya Di China	47	5.3k 0.6×	3.5k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	435 0.7×	205 0.4×	178	6.8k
Beixiong Zheng China	32	6.4k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	705 1.1×	145 0.3×	110	7.0k
Cunhua Pan China	61	12.3k 1.5×	7.6k 1.8×	4.1k 2.1×	933 1.4×	220 0.5×	375	15.3k
Xidong Mu United Kingdom	34	5.1k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	919 0.5×	465 0.7×	115 0.2×	155	6.2k
Shuowen Zhang Hong Kong	23	4.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	507 0.8×	107 0.2×	65	5.6k
Jiangzhou Wang United Kingdom	50	9.7k 1.2×	4.1k 1.0×	4.2k 2.1×	435 0.7×	112 0.2×	497	11.5k
Maged Elkashlan United Kingdom	59	14.8k 1.8×	4.1k 1.0×	6.0k 3.0×	527 0.8×	122 0.3×	274	16.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Soderi, Simone & Alessio Zappone. (2025). Secrecy Energy Efficiency of Hybrid Wireless Body Area Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 25(3). 3649–3662.

Ciuonzo, Domenico, et al.. (2025). Massive MIMO Channel-aware Decision Fusion Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. arXiv (Cornell University). 1–5.

Zappone, Alessio, et al.. (2024). Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3065–3070. 1 indexed citations

Zappone, Alessio, et al.. (2023). Rate, Power, and Energy Efficiency Trade-Offs in Massive MIMO Systems With Carrier Aggregation. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 7(3). 1342–1355. 5 indexed citations

Elwekeil, Mohamed, Alessio Zappone, & Stefano Buzzi. (2022). Power Control in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks for UAVs URLLC Under the Finite Blocklength Regime. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71(2). 1126–1140. 31 indexed citations

Zappone, Alessio, et al.. (2022). Bi-Objective Optimization of Information Rate and Harvested Power in RIS-Aided SWIPT Systems. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 11(10). 2195–2199. 18 indexed citations

Nadeem, Qurrat-Ul-Ain, Alessio Zappone, & Anas Chaaban. (2021). Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Random Rotations Scheme for the MISO Broadcast Channel. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(8). 5226–5242. 33 indexed citations

Renzo, Marco Di, Alessio Zappone, Mérouane Debbah, et al.. (2020). Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead. arXiv (Cornell University). 2062 indexed citations breakdown →

Song, Jian, Marco Di Renzo, Alessio Zappone, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, & Xavier Costa‐Pérez. (2020). System-Level Optimization in Poisson Cellular Networks: An Approach Based on the Generalized Benders Decomposition. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 9(10). 1773–1777. 5 indexed citations

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Matthiesen, Bho, et al.. (2020). A Globally Optimal Energy-Efficient Power Control Framework and Its Efficient Implementation in Wireless Interference Networks. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 68. 3887–3902. 53 indexed citations

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Pizzo, Andrea, Alessio Zappone, & Luca Sanguinetti. (2018). Solving Fractional Polynomial Problems by Polynomial Optimization Theory. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 25(10). 1540–1544. 10 indexed citations

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Lin, Pin-Hsun, et al.. (2018). Delay-Aware Resource Allocation for 5G Wireless Networks With Wireless Power Transfer. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 67(7). 5841–5855. 17 indexed citations

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Renzo, Marco Di, Lam‐Thanh Tu, Alessio Zappone, & Mérouane Debbah. (2018). A Tractable Closed-Form Expression of the Coverage Probability in Poisson Cellular Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 8(1). 249–252. 19 indexed citations

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Matthiesen, Bho, Alessio Zappone, Eduard A. Jorswieck, & Mérouane Debbah. (2018). Deep Learning for Optimal Energy-Efficient Power Control in Wireless Interference Networks.. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations

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Zappone, Alessio, Pin-Hsun Lin, & Eduard A. Jorswieck. (2017). Optimal Energy-Efficient Design of Confidential Multiple-Antenna Systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 13(1). 237–252. 11 indexed citations

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Zappone, Alessio, Luca Sanguinetti, & Mérouane Debbah. (2017). Energy-Delay Efficient Power Control in Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66(1). 418–431. 23 indexed citations

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Zappone, Alessio & Eduard A. Jorswieck. (2015). Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks via Fractional Programming Theory. 11(3-4). 185–396. 396 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matthiesen, Bho, Alessio Zappone, & Eduard A. Jorswieck. (2014). Design of 3-Way Relay Channels for Throughput and Energy Efficiency.. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Zappone, Alessio, Pan Cao, & Eduard A. Jorswieck. (2013). Energy efficiency optimization in multiuser relay-assisted MIMO systems. 778–782. 2 indexed citations

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Venturino, Luca, Chiara Risi, Alessio Zappone, & Stefano Buzzi. (2013). Green joint user scheduling and power control in downlink multi-cell OFDMA networks. Future Network & Mobile Summit. 1–10. 7 indexed citations

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