Stephen B. Wicker

12.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
165 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Stephen B. Wicker is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen B. Wicker has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 89 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Stephen B. Wicker's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (48 papers), Coding theory and cryptography (37 papers) and Wireless Communication Networks Research (33 papers). Stephen B. Wicker is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (48 papers), Coding theory and cryptography (37 papers) and Wireless Communication Networks Research (33 papers). Stephen B. Wicker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Stephen B. Wicker's co-authors include Deborah Estrin, Allen B. MacKenzie, Andrea Goldsmith, Vijay K. Bhargava, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, C. Heegard, Prince Samar, Hazer İnaltekin, Deirdre K. Mulligan and David Culler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Stephen B. Wicker

154 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2003 2002 1999 2002 250 500 750 1000
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. Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage
    1995 1.2k citations Stephen B. Wicker profile →
  2. The impact of data aggregation in wireless sensor networks
    2003 996 citations Deborah Estrin, Stephen B. Wicker et al. profile →
  3. Design challenges for energy-constrained ad hoc wireless networks
    2002 632 citations Stephen B. Wicker et al. profile →
  4. Reed-Solomon Codes and Their Applications
    1999 622 citations Stephen B. Wicker et al. profile →
  5. Modelling Data-Centric Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
    2002 363 citations Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Deborah Estrin 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
Stephen B. Wicker United States 35 6.3k 4.4k 1.4k 550 363 165 8.1k
Ivan Stojmenović Canada 54 10.9k 1.7× 4.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 829 1.5× 1.2k 3.3× 320 12.9k
Ákos Lédeczi United States 33 3.4k 0.5× 1.9k 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 493 0.9× 680 1.9× 153 6.2k
Dharma P. Agrawal United States 49 10.7k 1.7× 5.5k 1.2× 863 0.6× 680 1.2× 1.2k 3.2× 523 12.6k
Jean‐Yves Le Boudec Switzerland 44 7.7k 1.2× 4.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 209 0.4× 493 1.4× 267 10.8k
Y. Thomas Hou United States 48 6.4k 1.0× 5.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.2× 730 1.3× 1.1k 3.1× 329 9.6k
Radha Poovendran United States 42 4.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 423 0.8× 623 1.7× 232 5.9k
Ness B. Shroff United States 54 11.9k 1.9× 8.8k 2.0× 616 0.4× 466 0.8× 403 1.1× 438 13.6k
Chunming Qiao United States 53 7.1k 1.1× 8.5k 1.9× 967 0.7× 305 0.6× 783 2.2× 497 11.9k
Amiya Nayak Canada 41 3.6k 0.6× 2.2k 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 339 0.6× 1.0k 2.8× 324 5.9k
Narayan B. Mandayam United States 46 6.3k 1.0× 7.0k 1.6× 1.1k 0.8× 929 1.7× 646 1.8× 246 9.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wicker, Stephen B.. (2020). The ethics of zero-day exploits---. Communications of the ACM. 64(1). 97–103. 7 indexed citations
2.
Wicker, Stephen B.. (2013). Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Dipayan, Dawn E. Schrader, William D. Schulze, & Stephen B. Wicker. (2012). Economic analysis of privacy-aware Advanced Metering Infrastructure adoption. 1–4. 4 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B., et al.. (2009). Redundancy minimizing techniques for robust transmission in wireless networks. Journal of Communications and Networks. 11(6). 564–573. 1 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B., et al.. (2008). Privacy Concerns in Upcoming Residential and Commercial Demand-Response Systems. 47 indexed citations
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İnaltekin, Hazer & Stephen B. Wicker. (2007). The Behavior of Unbounded Path-loss Models and the Effect of Singularity on Computed Network Interference. ii. 431–440. 8 indexed citations
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Wieselthier, Jeffrey E., Eitan Altman, Anthony Ephremides, et al.. (2005). WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS—PART II. 5 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B. & Prince Samar. (2004). Optimizing protocols for mobility in multi-hop networks. 1 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B.. (2003). Hybrid-ARQ Reed-Solomon coding in an adaptive rate system. 1383–1387. 1 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B., et al.. (2002). Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 37 indexed citations
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Ganesan, Deepak, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Alec Woo, et al.. (2002). Complex Behavior at Scale: An Experimental Study of Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks. 342 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B.. (2002). Type-II hybrid-ARQ protocols using punctured Reed-Solomon codes. com 30. 1229–1234. 5 indexed citations
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Fine, Terrence L., Stephen B. Wicker, & Thomas Berger. (2002). Sensor-assisted multiple access protocols for wireless networks. 2. 1149–1153. 1 indexed citations
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Wicker, Stephen B., et al.. (2002). A connection between the Baum-Welch algorithm and turbo decoding. 12–13. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoan, et al.. (2002). Soft decision hybrid-ARQ error control for mobile data networks. 2. 756–759.
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Fine, Terrence L., Stephen B. Wicker, Thomas Berger, & Joseph Y. Halpern. (2002). Sensor-assisted ALOHA for wireless networks. 161–161. 1 indexed citations
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Costello, Daniel J., J. Hagenauer, Hideki Imai, & Stephen B. Wicker. (2000). Applications of error-control coding (invited paper). IEEE Press eBooks. 487–516.
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Wicker, Stephen B., et al.. (1999). Iterative maximum-likelihood trellis decoding for block codes. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 47(3). 338–342. 5 indexed citations
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Heegard, C. & Stephen B. Wicker. (1999). Turbo Coding. 157 indexed citations
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Rice, Michael & Stephen B. Wicker. (1994). Adaptive error control for slowly varying channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 42(2/3/4). 917–926. 34 indexed citations

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