Mohamed‐Slim Alouini

92.0k total citations · 27 hit papers
1.8k papers, 64.4k citations indexed

About

Mohamed‐Slim Alouini is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini has authored 1.8k papers receiving a total of 64.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1.6k papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 974 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 369 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mohamed‐Slim Alouini's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (688 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (564 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (337 papers). Mohamed‐Slim Alouini is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (688 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (564 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (337 papers). Mohamed‐Slim Alouini collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United States and Qatar. Mohamed‐Slim Alouini's co-authors include M.K. Simon, Mazen O. Hasna, Andrea Goldsmith, Marco Di Renzo, Mérouane Debbah, Fadel Digham, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Julien de Rosny, Ferkan Yılmaz and Imran Shafique Ansari and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Mohamed‐Slim Alouini

1.7k papers receiving 62.5k citations

Hit Papers

Digital Communication Over Fading Channels 1998 2026 2007 2016 2002 2004 2019 2020 2000 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Digital Communication Over Fading Channels
    2002 5.0k citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  2. Digital Communication over Fading Channels
    2004 3.6k citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  3. Wireless Communications Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
    2019 2.2k citations Marco Di Renzo, Julien de Rosny et al. IEEE Access profile →
  4. 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 →
  5. Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis
    2000 1.5k citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  6. On the Energy Detection of Unknown Signals Over Fading Channels
    2007 1.5k citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  7. 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 →
  8. End-to-end performance of transmission systems with relays over rayleigh-fading channels
    2003 1.1k citations Mazen O. Hasna, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  9. On the energy detection of unknown signals over fading channels
    2004 828 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  10. A new simple model for land mobile satellite channels: first- and second-order statistics
    2003 773 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  11. Capacity of Rayleigh fading channels under different adaptive transmission and diversity-combining techniques
    1999 729 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →
  12. A survey of channel modeling for UAV communications \n
    2018 648 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  13. A Performance Study of Dual-Hop Transmissions With Fixed Gain Relays
    2004 626 citations Mazen O. Hasna, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  14. A unified approach to the performance analysis of digital communication over generalized fading channels
    1998 598 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  15. Adaptive Modulation over Nakagami Fading Channels
    2000 577 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  16. A unified approach for calculating error rates of linearly modulated signals over generalized fading channels
    1999 444 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  17. Outage probability of multihop transmission over Nakagami fading channels
    2003 428 citations Mazen O. Hasna, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini IEEE Communications Letters profile →
  18. Optimal Power Allocation for Relayed Transmissions Over Rayleigh-Fading Channels
    2004 419 citations Mazen O. Hasna, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  19. FSO-based vertical fronthaul/backhaul framework for 5G+ systems
    2018 375 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. profile →
  20. Underwater optical wireless communications, networking, and localization: A survey
    2019 356 citations Nasir Saeed, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri et al. profile →
  21. Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Networks Using Stochastic Geometry: A Tutorial
    2016 348 citations Hesham ElSawy, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  22. A New Formula for the BER of Binary Modulations with Dual-Branch Selection over Generalized-K Composite Fading Channels
    2011 333 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  23. Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Multi-User MISO Communication: Channel Estimation and Beamforming Design
    2020 323 citations Abla Kammoun, Mérouane Debbah et al. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society profile →
  24. An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Terahertz Communications
    2021 290 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri et al. profile →
  25. Joint Trajectory and Precoding Optimization for UAV-Assisted NOMA Networks
    2019 271 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  26. A Tutorial on Terahertz-Band Localization for 6G Communication Systems
    2022 172 citations Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  27. A Survey on Scalable LoRaWAN for Massive IoT: Recent Advances, Potentials, and Challenges
    2023 168 citations Nasir Saeed, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mohamed‐Slim Alouini Saudi Arabia 98 56.9k 31.5k 17.3k 3.6k 2.1k 1.8k 64.4k
Lajos Hanzo United Kingdom 110 50.4k 0.9× 26.1k 0.8× 14.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.4× 6.0k 2.9× 1.9k 60.6k
Theodore S. Rappaport United States 85 41.7k 0.7× 15.8k 0.5× 11.8k 0.7× 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 346 47.6k
Andreas F. Molisch United States 89 29.5k 0.5× 12.5k 0.4× 9.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 660 36.4k
Mérouane Debbah France 88 29.2k 0.5× 15.7k 0.5× 15.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.4× 2.8k 1.3× 634 38.8k
Ian F. Akyildiz United States 105 43.5k 0.8× 54.0k 1.7× 6.8k 0.4× 7.8k 2.2× 3.1k 1.5× 546 75.5k
Shi Jin China 80 22.4k 0.4× 8.2k 0.3× 9.5k 0.5× 816 0.2× 4.7k 2.3× 1.1k 30.7k
Marco Di Renzo France 77 26.6k 0.5× 6.9k 0.2× 13.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 482 30.2k
Robert W. Heath United States 107 44.7k 0.8× 19.2k 0.6× 11.1k 0.6× 284 0.1× 1.3k 0.6× 853 50.8k
George K. Karagiannidis Greece 76 22.3k 0.4× 10.4k 0.3× 5.4k 0.3× 697 0.2× 1.4k 0.7× 687 25.6k
Brian D. O. Anderson Australia 90 7.4k 0.1× 12.2k 0.4× 4.7k 0.3× 2.6k 0.7× 5.5k 2.6× 1.0k 39.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Alouini, Mohamed‐Slim, et al.. (2025). 3-D Position Optimization of Solar-Powered Hovering UAV Relay in Optical Wireless Backhaul. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(3). 5853–5870. 2 indexed citations
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Mukhopadhyay, Bodhibrata, et al.. (2025). Target Localization With Unknown Transmit Power Using Rank-One Semidefinite Programming. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(11). 3450–3454.
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Shehab, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). Age and Power Minimization via Meta-Deep Reinforcement Learning in AAV Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(11). 16839–16849.
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Alouini, Mohamed‐Slim, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Wireless Backhaul Networks With Parallel FSO-mmWave Systems: Experimental Analysis and Availability Assessment. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 6. 10219–10228.
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Bashir, Muhammad Salman, et al.. (2024). Lidar-Assisted Acquisition of Mobile Airborne FSO Terminals in a GPS-Denied Environment. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(1). 30–46. 1 indexed citations
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Nam, Sung Sik, et al.. (2023). Asymptotic Ergodic Capacity Analysis for FSO Communication between Mobile Platforms in Maritime Environments. Applied Sciences. 13(12). 6978–6978.
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N’Doye, Ibrahima, et al.. (2023). Data-driven state estimation for light-emitting diode underwater optical communication?. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 56(2). 9862–9868. 1 indexed citations
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Bashir, Muhammad Salman & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2022). Energy Optimization of a Laser-Powered Hovering-UAV Relay in Optical Wireless Backhaul. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 22(5). 3216–3230. 13 indexed citations
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Alouini, Mohamed‐Slim, et al.. (2022). Performance of Integrated Ground-Air-Space FSO Links Over Various Turbulent Environments. IEEE photonics journal. 14(6). 1–16. 22 indexed citations
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Abdelmoniem, Ahmed M., Ahmed Elzanaty, Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, & Marco Canini. (2021). An Efficient Statistical-based Gradient Compression Technique for Distributed Training Systems. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). 3. 297–322. 2 indexed citations
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Al‐Dweik, Arafat, Youssef Iraqi, Ki‐Hong Park, et al.. (2021). Efficient NOMA Design Without Channel Phase Information Using Amplitude-Coherent Detection. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70(1). 245–263. 8 indexed citations
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Kammoun, Abla, et al.. (2021). A Precise Performance Analysis of Support Vector Regression. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). 9671–9680. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Liang, Yin Yang, Mazen O. Hasna, & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2020). Coverage, Probability of SNR Gain, and DOR Analysis of RIS-Aided Communication Systems. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 9(8). 1268–1272. 152 indexed citations
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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 →
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Saeed, Nasir, Ahmed Elzanaty, Heba Almorad, et al.. (2020). CubeSat Communications: Recent Advances and Future Challenges. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 22(3). 1839–1862. 217 indexed citations
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Li, Sai, Liang Yang, Daniel Benevides da Costa, Jiayi Zhang, & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2020). Performance Analysis of Mixed RF-UWOC Dual-Hop Transmission Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 69(11). 14043–14048. 59 indexed citations
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Ashry, Islam, Yuan Mao, Abderrahmen Trichili, et al.. (2020). A Review of Using Few-Mode Fibers for Optical Sensing. IEEE Access. 8. 179592–179605. 25 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhijie, Hui Zhao, Shuai Wang, Jiankang Zhang, & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2019). Secrecy Analysis in SWIPT Systems Over Generalized-$K$ Fading Channels. IEEE Communications Letters. 23(5). 834–837. 12 indexed citations
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AlAmmouri, Ahmad, Hesham ElSawy, & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2016). Flexible Design for α-Duplex Communications in Multi-Tier Cellular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 64(8). 3548–3562. 17 indexed citations

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