Nihar Jindal

14.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
95 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Nihar Jindal is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nihar Jindal has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 80 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 3 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nihar Jindal's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (69 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (67 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (43 papers). Nihar Jindal is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (69 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (67 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (43 papers). Nihar Jindal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Norway. Nihar Jindal's co-authors include Andrea Goldsmith, Sriram Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Taesang Yoo, Juyul Lee, Niranjay Ravindran, Angel Lozano and Peng Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Nihar Jindal

94 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

Capacity limits of MIMO channels 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2006 2003 2007 2005 500 1000 1.5k
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. Capacity limits of MIMO channels
    2003 1.6k citations Andrea Goldsmith, Syed A. Jafar et al. profile →
  2. MIMO Broadcast Channels With Finite-Rate Feedback
    2006 1.1k citations Nihar Jindal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
  3. Duality, achievable rates, and sum-rate capacity of gaussian mimo broadcast channels
    2003 1.1k citations Sriram Vishwanath, Nihar Jindal et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
  4. Multi-Antenna Downlink Channels with Limited Feedback and User Selection
    2007 513 citations Taesang Yoo, Nihar Jindal et al. profile →
  5. Sum Power Iterative Water-Filling for Multi-Antenna Gaussian Broadcast Channels
    2005 425 citations Nihar Jindal, Wonjong Rhee et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nihar Jindal United States 40 9.0k 7.3k 925 103 99 95 9.5k
R.U. Nabar United States 19 6.5k 0.7× 5.3k 0.7× 995 1.1× 92 0.9× 141 1.4× 30 6.9k
J. Nicholas Laneman United States 30 15.1k 1.7× 15.0k 2.1× 544 0.6× 118 1.1× 282 2.8× 120 16.3k
Radha Krishna Ganti India 23 5.1k 0.6× 3.9k 0.5× 598 0.6× 106 1.0× 84 0.8× 99 5.7k
E.S. Sousa Canada 28 5.0k 0.6× 5.9k 0.8× 549 0.6× 69 0.7× 189 1.9× 178 6.5k
Elza Erkip United States 39 14.8k 1.6× 11.4k 1.6× 1.4k 1.5× 166 1.6× 260 2.6× 248 15.8k
Kenichi Higuchi Japan 23 4.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.2× 627 0.7× 110 1.1× 171 1.7× 260 4.7k
Giorgio Taricco Italy 27 5.7k 0.6× 4.9k 0.7× 537 0.6× 36 0.3× 546 5.5× 132 5.9k
S.M. Alamouti United States 9 8.4k 0.9× 7.2k 1.0× 624 0.7× 81 0.8× 838 8.5× 13 8.7k
Jamie Evans Australia 30 3.3k 0.4× 2.4k 0.3× 461 0.5× 90 0.9× 331 3.3× 242 3.9k
Giulio Colavolpe Italy 37 4.1k 0.5× 2.2k 0.3× 838 0.9× 79 0.8× 412 4.2× 213 4.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, Juyul & Nihar Jindal. (2012). Asymptotically Optimal Policies for Hard-Deadline Scheduling Over Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 59(4). 2482–2500. 22 indexed citations
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Jindal, Nihar & Angel Lozano. (2009). De-Hyping Transmit Diversity in Modern MIMO Cellular Systems. Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 95. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Øien, Geir E., et al.. (2009). Impact of fading on the performance of ALOHA and CSMA. 394–398. 12 indexed citations
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Weber, Steven, Jeffrey G. Andrews, & Nihar Jindal. (2008). Transmission capacity: applying stochastic geometry to uncoordinated ad hoc networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Lee, Juyul & Nihar Jindal. (2008). Energy-efficient scheduling of delay constrained traffic over fading channels. 1. 604–608. 4 indexed citations
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Jindal, Nihar, et al.. (2008). Analysis of Fixed Outage Transmission Schemes: A Finer Look at the Full Multiplexing Point. 1292–1296. 3 indexed citations
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Ravindran, Niranjay & Nihar Jindal. (2008). Multi-User Diversity vs. Accurate Channel Feedback for MIMO Broadcast Channels. 3684–3688. 27 indexed citations
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Lee, Juyul & Nihar Jindal. (2008). Energy-efficient scheduling of delay constrained traffic over fading channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 8(4). 1866–1875. 101 indexed citations
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Dai, Huaiyu, Michael Gastpar, Nihar Jindal, & Liang‐Liang Xie. (2008). Theory and Applications in Multiuser/Multiterminal Communications. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2008(1). 1 indexed citations
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Schizas, Ioannis D., Georgios B. Giannakis, & Nihar Jindal. (2008). Distortion-Rate Bounds for Distributed Estimation Using Wireless Sensor Networks. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2008(1). 748605–748605. 10 indexed citations
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Caire, Giuseppe, Nihar Jindal, Mari Kobayashi, & Niranjay Ravindran. (2007). Multiuser MIMO Downlink Made Practical: Achievable Rates with Simple Channel State Estimation and Feedback Schemes. arXiv (Cornell University). 45 indexed citations
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Jindal, Nihar, Jeffrey G. Andrews, & Steven Weber. (2007). Bandwidth-SINR Tradeoffs in Spatial Networks. 836–840. 7 indexed citations
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Weber, Steven, Jeffrey G. Andrews, & Nihar Jindal. (2006). Throughput and transmission capacity of ad hoc networks with channel state information. 35(24). 126–134. 7 indexed citations
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Lee, Juyul & Nihar Jindal. (2006). Symmetric Capacity of MIMO Downlink Channels. 1031–1035. 55 indexed citations
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Jindal, Nihar & Zhi‐Quan Luo. (2006). Capacity Limits of Multiple Antenna Multicast. 1841–1845. 146 indexed citations
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Yoo, Taesang, Nihar Jindal, & Andrea Goldsmith. (2006). Finite-Rate Feedback MIMO Broadcast Channels with a Large Number of Users. 1214–1218. 64 indexed citations
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Jindal, Nihar, et al.. (2005). Sum Power Iterative Water-Filling for Multi-Antenna. 2 indexed citations
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Jindal, Nihar, et al.. (2005). Outage Capacities and Optimal Power Allocation for Fading Multiple-Access Channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 51(4). 1326–1347. 78 indexed citations
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Vishwanath, Sriram, Nihar Jindal, & Andrea Goldsmith. (2005). The "Z" channel. 1726–1730. 40 indexed citations
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Vishwanath, Sriram, Nihar Jindal, & Andrea Goldsmith. (2003). Duality, achievable rates, and sum-rate capacity of gaussian mimo broadcast channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 49(10). 2658–2668. 1138 indexed citations breakdown →

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