Ben Liang

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
244 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Ben Liang is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Liang has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 204 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 143 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 30 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Ben Liang's work include Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (87 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (77 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (59 papers). Ben Liang is often cited by papers focused on Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (87 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (77 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (59 papers). Ben Liang collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Ben Liang's co-authors include Zygmunt J. Haas, Baochun Li, Min Dong, Meng-Hsi Chen, Wei Wang, Wei Bao, Yunfeng Lin, Ahmed H. Zahran, Aladdin Saleh and Jing Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Ben Liang

234 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Predictive distance-based mobility management for PCS net... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Predictive distance-based mobility management for PCS networks
    1999 489 citations Ben Liang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Liang Canada 40 5.0k 3.1k 882 295 288 244 5.8k
Holger Karl Germany 29 4.2k 0.8× 2.4k 0.8× 403 0.5× 260 0.9× 278 1.0× 249 4.9k
Konstantinos Samdanis Germany 23 3.6k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 610 0.7× 307 1.0× 282 1.0× 76 4.3k
Hong Ji China 33 3.8k 0.7× 3.6k 1.2× 900 1.0× 451 1.5× 378 1.3× 303 5.5k
Xavier Costa‐Pérez Spain 40 4.6k 0.9× 3.2k 1.0× 297 0.3× 476 1.6× 183 0.6× 198 5.7k
Lei Jiao United States 25 3.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 1.4k 1.6× 728 2.5× 652 2.3× 97 4.2k
Yung Yi South Korea 31 3.8k 0.8× 3.1k 1.0× 388 0.4× 253 0.9× 94 0.3× 145 4.8k
Lei Zhang China 33 2.1k 0.4× 2.6k 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 469 1.6× 188 0.7× 261 4.4k
Xuesong Qiu China 27 2.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 1.1k 1.2× 707 2.4× 253 0.9× 411 3.6k
Tor Skeie Norway 23 2.9k 0.6× 1.4k 0.4× 709 0.8× 315 1.1× 331 1.1× 86 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Liang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ben Liang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ben Liang. The network helps show where Ben Liang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Liang 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 Ben Liang. Ben Liang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dong, Min, et al.. (2025). Improving Wireless Federated Learning via Joint Downlink-Uplink Beamforming Over Analog Transmission. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 25. 2247–2263.
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Ji, Xiaohui, et al.. (2023). Synergistic antibacterial study of nano-Cu2O/CuO@Ag-tetracycline composites. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 306. 127904–127904. 16 indexed citations
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Yang, Rui, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and antibacterial activity of magnetic Fe3O4-loaded silver nanocomposites. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 973. 172849–172849. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Ben, et al.. (2022). MAGIKS: Fair Multi-Resource Allocation Game Induced by Kalai-Smorodinsky Bargaining Solution. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 3. 797–810. 4 indexed citations
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Liang, Ben, et al.. (2022). Dynamic Regret of Online Mirror Descent for Relatively Smooth Convex Cost Functions. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 6. 2395–2400. 3 indexed citations
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He, Lijun, Ben Liang, Jiandong Li, & Min Sheng. (2021). Joint Observation and Transmission Scheduling in Agile Satellite Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 21(12). 4381–4396. 16 indexed citations
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He, Lijun, et al.. (2020). Balancing Coverage and Response Time in Area Target Scheduling for Satellite Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 69(6). 6848–6853. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Ben, et al.. (2020). Distributed Online Optimization over a Heterogeneous Network. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Ben, et al.. (2020). Distributed Online Optimization over a Heterogeneous Network with Any-Batch Mirror Descent. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2933–2942. 8 indexed citations
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Liang, Ben, et al.. (2017). Distributed Interference and Delay Aware Design for D2D Communication in Large Wireless Networks With Adaptive Interference Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 16(6). 3924–3939. 26 indexed citations
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Chen, Meng-Hsi, Ben Liang, & Min Dong. (2016). Joint offloading decision and resource allocation for multi-user multi-task mobile cloud. 1–6. 139 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, Baochun Li, Ben Liang, & Jun Li. (2016). Multi-resource fair sharing for datacenter jobs with placement constraints. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 86. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, Ben Liang, & Baochun Li. (2014). Multi-Resource Fair Allocation in Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 26(10). 2822–2835. 103 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, Di Niu, Baochun Li, & Ben Liang. (2013). Dynamic Cloud Resource Reservation via Cloud Brokerage. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 400–409. 76 indexed citations
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Whitaker, Roger M. & Ben Liang. (2008). Proceedings of the 2008 Ambi-Sys workshop on Haptic user interfaces in ambient media systems. 3 indexed citations
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Whitaker, Roger M. & Ben Liang. (2008). Proceedings of the 2008 Ambi-Sys workshop on Software Organisation and MonIToring of Ambient Systems.
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Liang, Ben & Roger M. Whitaker. (2008). Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Ambient media and systems. 20(1). 134–8. 9 indexed citations

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