Navid Nikaein

5.4k total citations
144 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Navid Nikaein is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Navid Nikaein has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 101 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Navid Nikaein's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (54 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (42 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (31 papers). Navid Nikaein is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (54 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (42 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (31 papers). Navid Nikaein collaborates with scholars based in France, Greece and Spain. Navid Nikaein's co-authors include Christian Bonnet, Chia‐Yu Chang, Adlen Ksentini, Soumya Kanti Datta, Raymond Knopp, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Mahesh K. Marina, Kostas Katsalis, Alex Dawson and Robert Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Navid Nikaein

140 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Navid Nikaein France 34 2.9k 2.3k 298 269 202 144 3.6k
Maria Rita Palattella Luxembourg 17 2.0k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 216 0.7× 384 1.4× 70 0.3× 49 2.7k
Holger Karl Germany 29 4.2k 1.5× 2.4k 1.1× 403 1.4× 173 0.6× 79 0.4× 249 4.9k
Johan Torsner Finland 21 1.9k 0.7× 2.2k 1.0× 158 0.5× 231 0.9× 148 0.7× 44 3.0k
Albert Banchs Spain 34 3.8k 1.3× 2.5k 1.1× 217 0.7× 82 0.3× 138 0.7× 177 4.4k
Angelos Antonopoulos Spain 30 1.8k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 158 0.5× 333 1.2× 121 0.6× 112 2.5k
Pablo Ameigeiras Spain 23 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 120 0.4× 116 0.4× 124 0.6× 54 2.2k
Sangheon Pack South Korea 30 3.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 351 1.2× 69 0.3× 105 0.5× 325 3.8k
Andrés García‐Saavedra Spain 24 1.9k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 131 0.4× 106 0.4× 98 0.5× 100 2.4k
Scott F. Midkiff United States 27 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 149 0.5× 99 0.4× 78 0.4× 144 2.9k
Massimo Condoluci Italy 26 1.6k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 85 0.3× 170 0.6× 155 0.8× 62 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Navid Nikaein

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Navid Nikaein

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Navid Nikaein. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Navid Nikaein based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Navid Nikaein. Navid Nikaein is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2025). AGORAN: An agentic open marketplace for 6G RAN automation. Computer Networks. 275. 111927–111927. 1 indexed citations
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Makris, Nikos, et al.. (2024). Service-aware real-time slicing for virtualized beyond 5G networks. Computer Networks. 247. 110445–110445. 10 indexed citations
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Cheng, Ray‐Guang, et al.. (2024). A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches. Sensors. 24(3). 1038–1038. 40 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2023). RAN Simulator Is NOT What You Need: O-RAN Reinforcement Learning for the Wireless Factory. 1–3. 1 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2023). Athena: An Intelligent Multi-x Cloud Native Network Operator. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 42(2). 460–472. 6 indexed citations
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Irazabal, Mikel, Elena López-Aguilera, Ilker Demirkol, Robert Schmidt, & Navid Nikaein. (2021). Preventing RLC Buffer Sojourn Delays in 5G. IEEE Access. 9. 39466–39488. 14 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Robert, Chia‐Yu Chang, & Navid Nikaein. (2019). Slice Scheduling with QoS-Guarantee Towards 5G. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–7. 20 indexed citations
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Câmara, Daniel & Navid Nikaein. (2016). Wireless Public Safety Networks 2: A Systematic Approach. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5 indexed citations
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Katsalis, Kostas, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Navid Nikaein, & Leandros Tassiulas. (2016). SLA-Driven VM Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing. 750–757. 30 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2016). Random access with adaptive packet aggregation in LTE/LTE-A. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2016(1). 36–36. 3 indexed citations
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Foukas, Xenofon, Navid Nikaein, Mohamed M. Kassem, Mahesh K. Marina, & Kimon Kontovasilis. (2016). FlexRAN. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 427–441. 217 indexed citations
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Datta, Soumya Kanti, Christian Bonnet, & Navid Nikaein. (2014). An IoT gateway centric architecture to provide novel M2M services. 514–519. 157 indexed citations
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Laner, Markus, Philipp Svoboda, Navid Nikaein, & Markus Rupp. (2013). Traffic models for machine type communications. Graduate School and Research Center in Digital Science (EURECOM). 1–5. 79 indexed citations
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Kaltenberger, Florian, et al.. (2013). Large scale system evaluations using PHY abstraction for LTE with OpenAirInterface. 24–30. 7 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2013). Simple Traffic Modeling Framework for Machine Type Communication. 1–5. 55 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2013). Coordinator-master-worker model for efficient large scale network simulation. 119–128. 1 indexed citations
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Datta, Soumya Kanti, et al.. (2013). Survey, comparison and evaluation of cross platform mobile application development tools. 323–328. 88 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2011). Latency for Real-Time Machine-to-Machine Communication in LTE-Based System Architecture. Graduate School and Research Center in Digital Science (EURECOM). 1–6. 58 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid. (2003). Improving routing and network performance in mobile ad hoc networks using quality of nodes. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 6 indexed citations

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