Bell Labs Technical Journal

Aims & Scope

The Bell Labs Technical Journal (BLTJ) highlights key research and development activities across Alcatel-Lucent — within Bell Labs, within the company’s CTO organizations, and in cross-functional projects and initiatives.

It publishes papers and letters by Alcatel-Lucent researchers, scientists, and engineers and co-authors affiliated with universities, government and corporate research labs, and customer companies.

Its aim is to promote progress in communications fields worldwide; Bell Labs innovations enable Alcatel-Lucent to deliver leading products, solutions, and services that meet customers’ mission critical needs.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Layered space-time architecture for wireless communication in a fading environment when using multi-element antennas

  Citation: 4337

  Authors: Gerard J.

• WaveLAN®-II: a high-performance wireless LAN for the unlicensed band

  Citation: 815

  Authors: Ad, Leo

• Massive MIMO: An Introduction

  Citation: 472

  Authors: Thomas L.

• An overview of the femtocell concept

  Citation: 326

  Authors: Holger, Lester T. W., Louis G.

• Scaling optical communications for the next decade and beyond

  Citation: 298

  Authors: Robert W.

• Predicting risk of software changes

  Citation: 293

  Authors: Audris, David M.

• Quantitative analysis of split base station processing and determination of advantageous architectures for LTE

  Citation: 199

  Authors: Uwe, Mark, Hans-Peter, Frank, Jonathan, Philippe

• Optical network design and restoration

  Citation: 172

  Authors: Bharat T., Subrahmanyam, P., Oded, Yufei

• Making smart use of excess antennas: Massive MIMO, small cells, and TDD

  Citation: 158

  Authors: Jakob, Kianoush, Stephan, Merouane

• Real-time traffic over the IEEE 802.11 medium access control layer

  Citation: 117

  Authors: João L., A. S.