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skills/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/42-wanshuiyin-aris-skills-skills-codex-comm-lit-review

42-wanshuiyin-aris-skills-skills-codex-comm-lit-review

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Summary

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SKILL.md

Comm Lit Review

Overview

Run communications-focused paper search with tighter source policy than a generic literature review. Default to formal publications, prioritize IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect, then ACM Digital Library, and output a review that is structured for research use rather than casual browsing.

Read references/source-policy.md before searching. Use references/domain-taxonomy.md to classify the topic, references/venue-tiering.md to rank venues, and references/output-template.md to format the final answer.

Workflow

1. Classify the request

Decide whether the request is primarily about:

  • Wireless PHY/MAC
  • Networking / transport / congestion control
  • Satellite / NTN / integrated space-air-ground systems
  • Cross-layer optimization / scheduling / resource allocation
  • Sensing / MEC / edge intelligence within communications systems

If the request is not clearly in communications systems research, fall back to a more general literature skill.

2. Lock the search policy

Apply these defaults unless the user overrides them:

  • Databases first: IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, then ACM Digital Library, then broader web
  • Publication bias: formal publications first, preprints second
  • Time window: cover both foundational and recent work
    • Default split: foundational before 2022, recent from 2022 onward
  • Output goal: research note, related-work summary, or comparison table rather than a raw search dump

If the user explicitly narrows scope, obey the narrower scope:

  • only journals
  • only IEEE / only ScienceDirect
  • only top venues
  • only LEO / only Wi-Fi / only transport
  • exclude arXiv
  • only papers after a certain year
  • 3. Search primary sources first

    Use a layered search strategy. For communications topics, do not build the review from random blog posts or derivative summaries.

    Database ladder

    Search in this order by default:

    1. ieeexplore.ieee.org
    2. sciencedirect.com
    3. dl.acm.org
    4. broader web using primary publisher pages, official conference sites, DOI pages, and author-hosted copies of already-identified formal papers

    Only move to the next database tier when one of these is true:

    • the higher-priority tiers are too sparse for the topic
    • the topic is known to publish heavily outside the higher tier
    • the user explicitly asks for broader coverage

    Venue ladder

    Within each database tier, search venue tiers in this order:

    1. top communications and networking journals / top conferences
    2. mainstream strong journals / flagship broader conferences
    3. all remaining relevant formal venues

    Follow the concrete tier lists in references/venue-tiering.md.

    By default this venue tiering is a soft priority, not a hard whitelist.

    • Default behavior: start from Tier A, then widen if needed
    • If the user says only top venues, top journals only, top conferences only, or equivalent, switch to hard constraint mode and do not auto-expand beyond Tier A unless the user later relaxes the constraint

    Use preprints only when:

    • the user explicitly asks for them
    • the area is very recent and formal versions are missing
    • a paper is clearly influential but only publicly accessible as a preprint

    When a preprint is used, label it clearly as preprint.

    4. Extract paper-level facts

    For each relevant paper, capture:

    • Title
    • Authors
    • Year
    • Venue
    • Layer or system scope
    • Scenario and assumptions
    • Core method
    • Main result or claim
    • Limitation
    • Relevance to the user's topic
    • Source URL

    Favor numbers, assumptions, and actual problem statements over generic summaries.

    5. Synthesize as a communications review

    Group papers by technical axis, not by search order. Common groupings:

    • PHY/MAC adaptation
    • Transport / congestion control
    • NTN / satellite resource management
    • Cross-layer or learning-based control
    • Measurement / empirical studies

    Explicitly separate:

    • foundational vs recent papers
    • formal publications vs preprints
    • top-tier vs lower-tier venues when that distinction matters
    • single-link vs multi-user / network-wide formulations
    • simulation-only vs measurement / deployment-backed work

    6. Produce a research-useful output

    Follow the templates in references/output-template.md.

    The default output should include:

    • a compact literature table
    • a short narrative on where the field stands
    • disagreements or unresolved assumptions
    • likely research gaps

    Rules

    • Prefer primary sources over summaries or tertiary commentary.
    • Prefer IEEE and ScienceDirect first, ACM second, and only then broader web search unless the user asks otherwise.
    • Search venue tiers from top to broad within each database tier.
    • Treat venue tiers as soft ranking by default and hard constraint only when the user explicitly asks for top-only search.
    • Do not pretend a preprint is peer reviewed.
    • Do not collapse transport-layer rate control and PHY/MAC rate adaptation into one bucket without saying so explicitly.
    • If the topic spans multiple layers, say that the literature itself is split across layers.
    • If evidence is weak, say so instead of smoothing it over.

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