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Petar Popovski

Petar Popovski

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Denmark
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
33670
World Ranking
421
National Ranking
6

Petar Popovski publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Petar Popovski sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 813 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Petar Popovski D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Petar Popovski sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to network coding and multiple access methods in wireless communications

Overview

Petar Popovski is affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark and has a significant body of research in engineering and computer science, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering and computer networks and communications.

They have contributed extensively to subfields such as aerospace engineering, artificial intelligence, and biomedical engineering. Key research topics in their work include:

  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Age of Information Optimization
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • IoT Networks and Protocols
  • Satellite Communication Systems
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms

Popovski's publications span a wide range of venues. Their frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Communications Letters

They have authored or coauthored recent papers such as:

  • "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Fundamentals, Survey, and Future Research Trends," 2022, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
  • "Cellular, Wide-Area, and Non-Terrestrial IoT: A Survey on 5G Advances and the Road Toward 6G," 2022, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
  • "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A signal processing perspective with wireless applications," 2022, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "Seven Defining Features of Terahertz (THz) Wireless Systems: A Fellowship of Communication and Sensing," 2022, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
  • "Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Systems," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Popovski has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Beatriz Soret, Anders E. Kalør, Federico Chiariotti, and Shashi Raj Pandey.

In addition to journal publications, Popovski has contributed to book literature, with a notable work published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology titled "Non-Geostationary Satellite Communications Systems" in 2022.

Their career has been recognized with the IEEE Fellow award in 2016, for contributions to network coding and multiple access methods in wireless communications.

Best Publications

  • Five disruptive technology directions for 5G

    Federico Boccardi;Robert W. Heath;Angel Lozano;Thomas L. Marzetta

  • Toward Massive, Ultrareliable, and Low-Latency Wireless Communication With Short Packets

    Giuseppe Durisi;Tobias Koch;Petar Popovski

  • 5G Wireless Network Slicing for eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC: A Communication-Theoretic View

    Petar Popovski;Kasper Floe Trillingsgaard;Osvaldo Simeone;Giuseppe Durisi

  • Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Fundamentals, Survey, and Future Research Trends

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  • Massive machine-type communications in 5g: physical and MAC-layer solutions

    Carsten Bockelmann;Nuno Pratas;Hosein Nikopour;Kelvin Au

  • Physical Network Coding in Two-Way Wireless Relay Channels

    P. Popovski;H. Yomo

  • Optimized constellations for two-way wireless relaying with physical network coding

    T. Koike-Akino;P. Popovski;V. Tarokh

  • Cellular, Wide-Area, and Non-Terrestrial IoT: A Survey on 5G Advances and the Road Towards 6G.

    Mojtaba Vaezi;Amin Azari;Saeed R. Khosravirad;Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam

  • Sparse Signal Processing for Grant-Free Massive Connectivity: A Future Paradigm for Random Access Protocols in the Internet of Things

    Liang Liu;Erik G. Larsson;Wei Yu;Petar Popovski

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Signal Processing Perspective With Wireless Applications.

    Emil Björnson;Henk Wymeersch;Bho Matthiesen;Petar Popovski

  • Seven Defining Features of Terahertz (THz) Wireless Systems: A Fellowship of Communication and Sensing.

    Christina Chaccour;Mehdi Naderi Soorki;Walid Saad;Mehdi Bennis

  • Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks: A MAC Layer Perspective

    Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei;Carlo Fischione;Gabor Fodor;Petar Popovski

  • Wireless network coding by amplify-and-forward for bi-directional traffic flows

    P. Popovski;H. Yomo

  • Bi-directional Amplification of Throughput in a Wireless Multi-Hop Network

    P. Popovski;H. Yomo

  • Wireless Access in Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC)

    Petar Popovski;Cedomir Stefanovic;Jimmy J. Nielsen;Elisabeth de Carvalho

  • The Anti-Packets Can Increase the Achievable Throughput of a Wireless Multi-Hop Network

    Petar Popovski;Hiroyuki Yomo

  • Wireless Access for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication: Principles and Building Blocks

    Petar Popovski;Jimmy J. Nielsen;Cedomir Stefanovic;Elisabeth de Carvalho

  • Ultra-reliable communication in 5G wireless systems

    Petar Popovski

  • Robust Networked Control Scheme for Distributed Secondary Control of Islanded Microgrids

    Qobad Shafiee;Cedomir Stefanovic;Tomislav Dragicevic;Petar Popovski

  • Buffer-Aided Relaying with Adaptive Link Selection

    N. Zlatanov;R. Schober;P. Popovski

  • Towards Massive Connectivity Support for Scalable mMTC Communications in 5G Networks

    Carsten Bockelmann;Nuno K. Pratas;Gerhard Wunder;Stephan Saur

  • Towards Massive, Ultra-Reliable, and Low-Latency Wireless Communication with Short Packets

    Giuseppe Durisi;Tobias Koch;Petar Popovski

Frequent Co-Authors

Cedomir Stefanovic
Cedomir Stefanovic Aalborg University
Ramjee Prasad
Ramjee Prasad Aarhus University
Osvaldo Simeone
Osvaldo Simeone Northeastern University
Michele Zorzi
Michele Zorzi University of Padua
Giuseppe Durisi
Giuseppe Durisi Chalmers University of Technology
Jihong Park
Jihong Park Singapore University of Technology and Design
Emil Bjornson
Emil Bjornson Royal Institute of Technology
Erik G. Larsson
Erik G. Larsson Linköping University
Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Toshiaki Koike-Akino Mitsubishi Electric (United States)

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