Asim Ihsan

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 745 citations indexed

About

Asim Ihsan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Asim Ihsan has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 745 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 4 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Asim Ihsan's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (20 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (10 papers) and Satellite Communication Systems (6 papers). Asim Ihsan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (20 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (10 papers) and Satellite Communication Systems (6 papers). Asim Ihsan collaborates with scholars based in China, Luxembourg and United Kingdom. Asim Ihsan's co-authors include Wali Ullah Khan, Manzoor Ahmed, Muhammad Asif, Zain Ali, Wen Chen, Symeon Chatzinotas, Xingwang Li, Fang Xu, Zhu Han and Abdul Wahid and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

In The Last Decade

Asim Ihsan

29 papers receiving 731 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.

A Survey on STAR-RIS: Use Cases, Recent Advances, and Future Research Challenges

2023 129 citations Manzoor Ahmed, Abdul Wahid et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Asim Ihsan China	16	586	309	183	53	43	30	745
Sai Xu China	16	637 1.1×	336 1.1×	202 1.1×	47 0.9×	57 1.3×	54	763
Zain Ali Pakistan	16	572 1.0×	264 0.9×	202 1.1×	42 0.8×	22 0.5×	46	705
Lina Mohjazi United Kingdom	16	631 1.1×	222 0.7×	263 1.4×	82 1.5×	19 0.4×	60	822
Thai-Hoc Vu South Korea	17	699 1.2×	230 0.7×	198 1.1×	49 0.9×	27 0.6×	55	815
Dan Deng China	18	539 0.9×	130 0.4×	305 1.7×	86 1.6×	29 0.7×	55	688
Ankur Bansal India	20	913 1.6×	452 1.5×	228 1.2×	112 2.1×	59 1.4×	84	1.1k
Yonggang Zhu China	10	472 0.8×	301 1.0×	243 1.3×	47 0.9×	16 0.4×	22	680
César Thadeo de Lima Finland	14	740 1.3×	249 0.8×	357 2.0×	58 1.1×	53 1.2×	47	891
Wenpeng Jing China	12	386 0.7×	154 0.5×	323 1.8×	43 0.8×	19 0.4×	88	621

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Ali, Zain, Muhammad Asif, Wali Ullah Khan, et al.. (2025). Hybrid Optimization for NOMA-Based Transmissive-RIS Mounted UAV Networks. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 71(2). 3740–3752. 5 indexed citations

Asif, Muhammad, Xu Bao, Asim Ihsan, et al.. (2025). NOMA-Based Ze-RIS Empowered Backscatter Communication With Energy-Efficient Resource Management. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(9). 7193–7209. 3 indexed citations

Ihsan, Asim, et al.. (2024). Energy-Efficient TDMA-NOMA for RIS-Assisted Ultra-Dense VLC Networks. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 9(3). 1239–1253. 2 indexed citations

Ali, Zain, Wali Ullah Khan, Muhammad Asif, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Learning-Based Hybrid Optimization Framework for RSMA-Aided Underlay LEO Communication With Non-Collaborative Terrestrial Primary Network. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(4). 2176–2190. 2 indexed citations

Asif, Muhammad, Xu Bao, Zain Ali, et al.. (2024). Transmissive RIS-Empowered LEO-Satellite Communications With Hybrid-NOMA Under Residual Hardware Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 9(3). 1167–1178. 5 indexed citations

Ahmed, Manzoor, Abdul Wahid, Wali Ullah Khan, et al.. (2024). A Survey on RIS Advances in Terahertz Communications: Emerging Paradigms and Research Frontiers. IEEE Access. 12. 173867–173901. 11 indexed citations

Asif, Muhammad, Xu Bao, Asim Ihsan, et al.. (2024). Securing NOMA 6G Communications Leveraging Intelligent Omni-Surfaces Under Residual Hardware Impairments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(14). 25326–25336. 10 indexed citations

Rajbhandari, Sujan, et al.. (2023). Experimental Demonstration of 38 Gbps Over 2.5 m OWC Systems With Eye-Safe 850 nm SM-VCSELs. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 36(3). 139–142. 1 indexed citations

Rajbhandari, Sujan, et al.. (2023). Multilevel PAM with ANN Equalization for an RC-LED SI-POF System. 481–484. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Fang, Touseef Hussain, Manzoor Ahmed, et al.. (2023). The State of AI-Empowered Backscatter Communications: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(24). 21763–21786. 33 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Manzoor, Abdul Wahid, Wali Ullah Khan, et al.. (2023). A Survey on STAR-RIS: Use Cases, Recent Advances, and Future Research Challenges. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(16). 14689–14711. 129 indexed citations breakdown →

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Asif, Muhammad, Asim Ihsan, Wali Ullah Khan, et al.. (2023). Energy-Efficient Beamforming and Resource Optimization for STAR-IRS Enabled Hybrid-NOMA 6G Communications. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 7(3). 1356–1368. 24 indexed citations

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Khan, Wali Ullah, Asim Ihsan, Tu N. Nguyen, Zain Ali, & Muhammad Awais Javed. (2022). NOMA-Enabled Backscatter Communications for Green Transportation in Automotive-Industry 5.0. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 18(11). 7862–7874. 73 indexed citations

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Khan, Wali Ullah, Furqan Jameel, Asim Ihsan, Omer Waqar, & Manzoor Ahmed. (2022). Joint optimization for secure ambient backscatter communication in NOMA-enabled IoT networks. Digital Communications and Networks. 9(1). 264–269. 15 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Manzoor, Wali Ullah Khan, Asim Ihsan, et al.. (2022). Backscatter Sensors Communication for 6G Low-Powered NOMA-Enabled IoT Networks Under Imperfect SIC. IEEE Systems Journal. 16(4). 5883–5893. 40 indexed citations

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Rasheed, Iftikhar, Muhammad Asif, Asim Ihsan, et al.. (2022). LSTM-Based Distributed Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Data-Driven 5G-Enabled Maritime UAV Communications. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24(2). 2431–2446. 24 indexed citations

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Ihsan, Asim, Wen Chen, Shunqing Zhang, & Shugong Xu. (2021). Energy-Efficient NOMA Multicasting System for Beyond 5G Cellular V2X Communications With Imperfect CSI. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(8). 10721–10735. 48 indexed citations

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Ali, Zain, Wali Ullah Khan, Asim Ihsan, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Resource Allocation for 6G NOMA-Enabled Cooperative Vehicular Networks. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2. 269–281. 16 indexed citations

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Khan, Wali Ullah, et al.. (2021). Resource Optimization Framework for Physical Layer Security of Dual-Hop Multi-Carrier Decode and Forward Relay Networks. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. 2. 634–645. 4 indexed citations

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Rogier, Hendrik, et al.. (2015). Galileo Signals Acquisition Using Enhanced Subcarrier Elimination Conversion and Faster Processing. 10–14. 1 indexed citations

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