Ao Zhou

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
112 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ao Zhou is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ao Zhou has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 53 papers in Information Systems and 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ao Zhou's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (65 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (39 papers) and Age of Information Optimization (21 papers). Ao Zhou is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (65 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (39 papers) and Age of Information Optimization (21 papers). Ao Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Ao Zhou's co-authors include Shangguang Wang, Fangchun Yang, Xiao Ma, Ching‐Hsien Hsu, Yan Guo, Qibo Sun, Ning Zhang, Xuemin Shen, Jinliang Xu and Peng Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Ao Zhou

102 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Delay-Aware Microservice Coordination in Mobile Edge Computing: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

2019 318 citations Shangguang Wang, Ao Zhou et al. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing profile →
Dependency-Aware Task Scheduling in Vehicular Edge Computing

2020 181 citations Shangguang Wang, Ao Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ao Zhou China	28	2.2k	1.3k	522	382	328	112	2.8k
Nik Bessis United Kingdom	28	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	395 0.8×	387 1.0×	348 1.1×	185	2.5k
Ying Chen China	32	2.2k 1.0×	719 0.6×	1.1k 2.1×	447 1.2×	386 1.2×	181	3.1k
Atta ur Rehman Khan Pakistan	26	1.4k 0.7×	939 0.7×	526 1.0×	444 1.2×	255 0.8×	66	2.1k
Dan Liao China	25	1.2k 0.6×	724 0.6×	685 1.3×	522 1.4×	163 0.5×	90	2.3k
JaeSeung Song South Korea	27	1.5k 0.7×	500 0.4×	697 1.3×	293 0.8×	318 1.0×	103	2.3k
Yueshen Xu China	25	1.0k 0.5×	907 0.7×	368 0.7×	665 1.7×	383 1.2×	72	2.2k
Jukka K. Nurminen Finland	26	1.7k 0.8×	587 0.5×	1.1k 2.0×	277 0.7×	448 1.4×	134	2.6k
Yun Li China	24	1.6k 0.7×	423 0.3×	1.1k 2.1×	433 1.1×	205 0.6×	155	2.5k
Muhammad Alam China	28	1.2k 0.6×	504 0.4×	1.0k 2.0×	526 1.4×	195 0.6×	121	2.5k
Alessio Botta Italy	23	3.0k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	858 1.6×	633 1.7×	366 1.1×	112	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ao Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ao Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ao Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ao Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ao Zhou based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ao Zhou. Ao Zhou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Wenwu, et al.. (2025). Vegetation restoration contributes to a reduction in wind and water erosion in China's drylands. Applied Geography. 176. 103517–103517. 1 indexed citations

Guan, Qingji, et al.. (2025). ReFrame: A Resource-Friendly Cloud-Assisted On-Device Deep Learning Framework for Vision Services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(3). 1711–1723.

Wang, Tao, et al.. (2025). In-situ Zr-doped nanostructured FeCo2O4 spinel unsupported catalyst for hydrogen production from ammonia decomposition. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 349. 125434–125434.

Zhou, Ao, et al.. (2025). EdgeMoE: Empowering Sparse Large Language Models on Mobile Devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(8). 7059–7073. 5 indexed citations

Pang, Ming, et al.. (2025). ASSM-YOLO: A lightweight detection model with adaptive deep feature enhancement for cathode copper surface defect recognition. Measurement. 255. 118061–118061. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Ao, Wenwu Zhao, Yi Han, Shurong Zhang, & Paulo Pereira. (2025). Effects and benefits of wind erosion prevention in China’s dryland and surrounding countries. CATENA. 251. 108812–108812. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yuanzhe, et al.. (2024). Energy-Aware Satellite-Ground Co-Inference via Layer-Wise Processing Schedule Optimization. 303–312.

Ding, Jingyi, Bojie Fu, Wenwu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem multifunctionality is more related to the indirect effects than to the direct effects of human management in China's drylands. Journal of Environmental Management. 368. 122259–122259. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Jiaming, et al.. (2024). Calibration-Based 2-D DOA Estimation Exploiting 2qth-Order Cumulants for Polarimetric Arrays. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yanan, Xiao Ma, Zhe Fu, et al.. (2024). Rethinking Cost-Efficient VM Scheduling on Public Edge Platforms: A Service Provider’s Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(3). 1846–1858. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Tianshi, et al.. (2024). An Enhancement Framework for RDMA Congestion Control in Multi-tenant Datacenters. 1–9.

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Li, Xinhao, Yingjie Wang, Zhaowei Liu, et al.. (2023). Planning-based mobile crowdsourcing bidirectional multi-stage online task assignment. Computer Networks. 233. 109879–109879. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Yingjie, Haipeng Wang, Zhaowei Liu, et al.. (2023). A Reinforcement Learning-Based Incentive Mechanism for Task Allocation Under Spatiotemporal Crowdsensing. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 11(2). 2179–2189. 12 indexed citations

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Cao, Ting, et al.. (2023). Boosting DNN Cold Inference on Edge Devices. 516–529. 7 indexed citations

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Yan, Yue, Jingyi Ding, Jing Wang, et al.. (2023). Grazing mediates the biodiversity effects on multifunctionality in grasslands. Land Degradation and Development. 35(1). 213–223. 7 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ao, et al.. (2023). Research on key parameters of the Fatigue Arousal Zone in extra-long tunnels based on natural driving experiments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 284–297. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ao, Shangguang Wang, Ching‐Hsien Hsu, Myung Ho Kim, & Kok‐Seng Wong. (2017). Network failure–aware redundant virtual machine placement in a cloud data center. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 29(24). 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Shangguang, et al.. (2017). Service Composition in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. 8(1). 82–91. 68 indexed citations

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Chen, Youqi, Qibo Sun, Ao Zhou, & Shangguang Wang. (2015). WEBCLOUDSIM: AN OPEN ONLINE CLOUD COMPUTING SIMULATION TOOL FOR ALGORITHM COMPARISON. 3(2). 26–32. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yongluan, Ying Yan, F. Richard Yu, & Ao Zhou. (2006). PMJoin: Optimizing distributed multi-way stream joins by stream partitioning. National University of Singapore.

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