brycewang-stanford/comm-lit-review
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Communications-domain literature review and related-work search with database-aware source control. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular, transport protocols, congestion control, routing, scheduling, MAC/PHY, rate adaptation, channel estimation, beamforming, or communication-system research and the user wants papers, prior art, a survey, related work, or a landscape summary. Prioritize IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect, prefer formal publications over preprints, and separate foundational work from recent progress.
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SKILL.md
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- comm-lit-review
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- Communications-domain literature review and related-work search with database-aware source control. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular, transport protocols, congestion control, routing, scheduling, MAC/PHY, rate adaptation, channel estimation, beamforming, or communication-system research and the user wants papers, prior art, a survey, related work, or a landscape summary. Prioritize IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect, prefer formal publications over preprints, and separate foundational work from recent progress.
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, thenACM 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:
ieeexplore.ieee.orgsciencedirect.comdl.acm.org- 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:
- top communications and networking journals / top conferences
- mainstream strong journals / flagship broader conferences
- 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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