Edward W. Knightly

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
241 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Edward W. Knightly is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward W. Knightly has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 139 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 31 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Edward W. Knightly's work include Wireless Networks and Protocols (95 papers), Network Traffic and Congestion Control (55 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (53 papers). Edward W. Knightly is often cited by papers focused on Wireless Networks and Protocols (95 papers), Network Traffic and Congestion Control (55 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (53 papers). Edward W. Knightly collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Italy. Edward W. Knightly's co-authors include Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Bahareh Sadeghi, Ashutosh Sabharwal, V. Kanodia, Joseph Camp, Theodoros Salonidis, Adriana Flores, Michele Garetto, Yasaman Ghasempour and Daniel M. Mittleman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Edward W. Knightly

234 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2014 2018 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks
    2002 514 citations Ashutosh Sabharwal, Edward W. Knightly et al. profile →
  2. IEEE 802.11ad: directional 60 GHz communication for multi-Gigabit-per-second Wi-Fi [Invited Paper]
    2014 399 citations Thomas Nitsche, Carlos Cordeiro et al. profile →
  3. Security and eavesdropping in terahertz wireless links
    2018 332 citations Rabi Shrestha, Chia-Yi Yeh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Edward W. Knightly United States 56 7.8k 5.9k 924 785 546 241 10.3k
Joseph Mitola United States 19 10.5k 1.4× 9.0k 1.5× 703 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 1.3k 2.5× 47 13.0k
Sumit Roy United States 44 6.0k 0.8× 5.7k 1.0× 280 0.3× 1.2k 1.6× 430 0.8× 313 8.9k
Fumiyuki Adachi Japan 47 6.4k 0.8× 8.9k 1.5× 1.5k 1.6× 1.8k 2.2× 913 1.7× 773 11.1k
Upamanyu Madhow United States 49 6.8k 0.9× 8.8k 1.5× 592 0.6× 1.5k 1.9× 1.1k 1.9× 270 11.0k
Tho Le‐Ngoc Canada 41 4.3k 0.5× 6.5k 1.1× 380 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 289 0.5× 651 7.4k
Roy D. Yates United States 49 10.3k 1.3× 8.6k 1.5× 323 0.3× 434 0.6× 156 0.3× 224 11.5k
Douglas J. Leith Ireland 39 3.3k 0.4× 2.6k 0.4× 619 0.7× 353 0.4× 81 0.1× 228 5.9k
Soung Chang Liew Hong Kong 38 5.8k 0.7× 4.9k 0.8× 301 0.3× 239 0.3× 84 0.2× 270 6.7k
A.H. Aghvami United Kingdom 34 3.5k 0.4× 3.6k 0.6× 235 0.3× 468 0.6× 165 0.3× 402 4.9k
Shu Lin United States 39 8.6k 1.1× 8.4k 1.4× 3.0k 3.3× 227 0.3× 335 0.6× 248 10.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edward W. Knightly

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Geraci, Giovanni, et al.. (2026). Wi-Fi: 25 Years and Counting. Proceedings of the IEEE. 1–47.
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Guerboukha, Hichem, et al.. (2025). Metasurface-in-the-Middle Attack: EM Wavefront Manipulation Threats and Countermeasures. 34. 1674–1688. 1 indexed citations
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Cohen, Alejandro, Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira, Chia-Yi Yeh, et al.. (2023). Absolute Security in Terahertz Wireless Links. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 17(4). 819–833. 15 indexed citations
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Doost-Mohammady, Rahman, et al.. (2023). M3A: Multipath Multicarrier Misinformation to Adversaries. 1–15. 1 indexed citations
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Yeh, Chia-Yi, Alejandro Cohen, Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira, et al.. (2023). Securing Angularly Dispersive Terahertz Links With Coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18. 3546–3560. 5 indexed citations
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Yeh, Chia-Yi, et al.. (2023). Security and Angle-Frequency Coupling in Terahertz WLANs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 32(2). 1524–1539. 1 indexed citations
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Ramírez, David, et al.. (2023). Experimental Evaluation of AoA Estimation for UAV to Massive MIMO. 839–844. 1 indexed citations
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Jornet, Josep Miquel, Edward W. Knightly, & Daniel M. Mittleman. (2023). Wireless communications sensing and security above 100 GHz. Nature Communications. 14(1). 841–841. 89 indexed citations
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Carrascosa, Marc, Giovanni Geraci, Edward W. Knightly, & Boris Bellalta. (2022). An Experimental Study of Latency for IEEE 802.11be Multi-link Operation. ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2507–2512. 25 indexed citations
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Ghasempour, Yasaman, et al.. (2020). Single-shot link discovery for terahertz wireless networks. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2017–2017. 97 indexed citations
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Ghasempour, Yasaman, et al.. (2019). Multi-User Multi-Stream mmWave WLANs With Efficient Path Discovery and Beam Steering. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 37(12). 2744–2758. 11 indexed citations
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Doost-Mohammady, Rahman, Lin Zhong, Joseph R. Cavallaro, et al.. (2018). RENEW: Programmable and Observable Massive MIMO Networks. 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. 1654–1658. 13 indexed citations
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Ghasempour, Yasaman, et al.. (2018). Decoupling Beam Steering and User Selection for MU-MIMO 60-GHz WLANs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 26(5). 2390–2403. 19 indexed citations
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Flores, Adriana, et al.. (2016). A scalable multi-user uplink for Wi-Fi. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 179–191. 21 indexed citations
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Gurewitz, Omer, et al.. (2015). Scaling multi-user MIMO WLANs: The case for concurrent uplink control messages. 238–246. 4 indexed citations
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Nitsche, Thomas, Adriana Flores, Edward W. Knightly, & Joerg Widmer. (2015). Steering with eyes closed: Mm-Wave beam steering without in-band measurement. 2416–2424. 203 indexed citations
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Steinmetzer, Daniel, Joe Chen, Jiska Classen, Edward W. Knightly, & Matthias Hollick. (2015). Eavesdropping with periscopes: Experimental security analysis of highly directional millimeter waves. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 335–343. 47 indexed citations
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Knightly, Edward W., Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, & Xiaojun Lin. (2009). Proceedings of the tenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing. 2 indexed citations
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Knightly, Edward W.. (2006). Large-Scale Urban Mesh Networks: from Deployment to Applications. xl–xl. 1 indexed citations
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Knightly, Edward W. & Christophe Diot. (2005). Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis. 7 indexed citations

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