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D-Index
71
Citations
27921
World Ranking
837
National Ranking
360

Sundeep Rangan 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 Sundeep Rangan sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 304 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sundeep Rangan 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 Sundeep Rangan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% 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

  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiple access cellular communication systems

Overview

Sundeep Rangan is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple fields of study, primarily within engineering and computer science. The main fields of their academic work include:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Within these broad areas, their subfields of study cover:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering

The main topics addressed in their work are diverse and focused on wireless communication technologies and related methodologies:

  • Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • UAV Applications and Optimization
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  • Radio Wave Propagation Studies
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides

Sundeep Rangan has authored numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • "Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies" (2020, IEEE Communications Magazine)
  • "What Will the Future of UAV Cellular Communications Be? A Flight From 5G to 6G" (2022, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials)
  • "Analyzing Radar Cross Section Signatures of Diverse Drone Models at mmWave Frequencies" (2020, IEEE Access)
  • "Cellular Wireless Networks in the Upper Mid-Band" (2024, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society)
  • "Generative Neural Network Channel Modeling for Millimeter-Wave UAV Communication" (2022, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications)

The scholar frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • Computer Networks

In collaboration, they commonly work with the following co-authors:

  • Marco Mezzavilla
  • Angel Lozano
  • Alyson K. Fletcher
  • Seongjoon Kang
  • Giovanni Geraci

Among the professional recognitions received, Sundeep Rangan was named an IEEE Fellow in 2016 for contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiple access cellular communication systems.

Best Publications

  • Millimeter-Wave Cellular Wireless Networks: Potentials and Challenges

    Sundeep Rangan;Theodore S. Rappaport;Elza Erkip

  • An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems

    Robert W. Heath;Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic;Sundeep Rangan;Wonil Roh

  • Millimeter Wave Channel Modeling and Cellular Capacity Evaluation

    Mustafa Riza Akdeniz;Yuanpeng Liu;Mathew K. Samimi;Shu Sun

  • Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies

    Marco Giordani;Michele Polese;Marco Mezzavilla;Sundeep Rangan

  • Femtocells: Past, Present, and Future

    J. G. Andrews;H. Claussen;M. Dohler;S. Rangan

  • Vector Approximate Message Passing

    Sundeep Rangan;Philip Schniter;Alyson K. Fletcher

  • Mimo for millimeter-wave wireless communications: beamforming, spatial multiplexing, or both?

    Shu Sun;Theodore S. Rappaport;Robert W. Heath;Andrew R. Nix

  • End-to-End Simulation of 5G mmWave Networks

    Marco Mezzavilla;Menglei Zhang;Michele Polese;Russell Ford

  • AMP-Inspired Deep Networks for Sparse Linear Inverse Problems

    Mark Borgerding;Philip Schniter;Sundeep Rangan

  • Compressive phase retrieval via generalized approximate message passing

    Philip Schniter;Sundeep Rangan

  • What Will the Future of UAV Cellular Communications Be? A Flight from 5G to 6G.

    Giovanni Geraci;Adrian García-Rodríguez;Mohammad Mahdi Azari;Angel Lozano

  • Propagation Path Loss Models for 5G Urban Micro- and Macro-Cellular Scenarios

    Shu Sun;Theodore S. Rappaport;Sundeep Rangan;Timothy A. Thomas

  • Improved Handover Through Dual Connectivity in 5G mmWave Mobile Networks

    Michele Polese;Marco Giordani;Marco Mezzavilla;Sundeep Rangan

  • Methods and apparatus of providing transmit and/or receive diversity with multiple antennas in wireless communication systems

    Rajiv Laroia;Junyi Li;Sundeep Rangan;Murari Srinivasan

  • Compressive Sampling and Lossy Compression

    V.K. Goyal;A.K. Fletcher;S. Rangan

  • Low power analog-to-digital conversion in millimeter wave systems: Impact of resolution and bandwidth on performance

    Oner Orhan;Elza Erkip;Sundeep Rangan

  • On the Convergence of Approximate Message Passing With Arbitrary Matrices

    Sundeep Rangan;Philip Schniter;Alyson K. Fletcher;Subrata Sarkar

  • Comparative analysis of initial access techniques in 5G mmWave cellular networks

    Marco Giordani;Marco Mezzavilla;C. Nicolas Barati;Sundeep Rangan

  • Directional Cell Discovery in Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

    C. Nicolas Barati;S. Amir Hosseini;Sundeep Rangan;Pei Liu

  • Distributed uplink power control for optimal sir assignment in cellular data networks

    Prashanth Hande;Sundeep Rangan;Mung Chiang;Xinzhou Wu

  • On the convergence of approximate message passing with arbitrary matrices

    Sundeep Rangan;Philip Schniter;Alyson K. Fletcher

  • Hybrid Approximate Message Passing

    Sundeep Rangan;Alyson K. Fletcher;Vivek K. Goyal;Evan Byrne

  • Towards 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies

    Marco Giordani;Michele Polese;Marco Mezzavilla;Sundeep Rangan

Frequent Co-Authors

Alyson K. Fletcher
Alyson K. Fletcher University of California, Los Angeles
Philip Schniter
Philip Schniter The Ohio State University
Michele Zorzi
Michele Zorzi University of Padua
Vivek K. Goyal
Vivek K. Goyal Boston University
Shivendra S. Panwar
Shivendra S. Panwar New York University
Junyi Li
Junyi Li Qualcomm (United States)
Elza Erkip
Elza Erkip New York University
Kameshwar Poolla
Kameshwar Poolla University of California, Berkeley
Theodore S. Rappaport
Theodore S. Rappaport New York University

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