Boya Di

9.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
178 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Boya Di is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Boya Di has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 94 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 47 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Boya Di's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (91 papers), Antenna Design and Analysis (42 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (37 papers). Boya Di is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (91 papers), Antenna Design and Analysis (42 papers) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (37 papers). Boya Di collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Boya Di's co-authors include Lingyang Song, Hongliang Zhang, Yonghui Li, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Shuhang Zhang, Ruoqi Deng, Kaigui Bian, Shuhao Zeng and Haobo Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Boya Di

170 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Hybrid Beamforming for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface based Multi-User Communications: Achievable Rates With Limited Discrete Phase Shifts

2020 409 citations Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
Sub-Channel Assignment, Power Allocation, and User Scheduling for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks

2016 346 citations Boya Di, Lingyang Song et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
Cellular UAV-to-X Communications: Design and Optimization for Multi-UAV Networks

2019 314 citations Shuhang Zhang, Hongliang Zhang et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Assisted Communications With Limited Phase Shifts: How Many Phase Shifts Are Enough?

2020 270 citations Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Assisted Wireless Coverage Extension: RIS Orientation and Location Optimization

2020 248 citations Shuhao Zeng, Hongliang Zhang et al. IEEE Communications Letters profile →
Intelligent Omni-Surfaces for Full-Dimensional Wireless Communications: Principles, Technology, and Implementation

2022 156 citations Hongliang Zhang, Shuhao Zeng et al. profile →
Intelligent Surfaces Empowered Wireless Network: Recent Advances and the Road to 6G

2024 76 citations Qingqing Wu, Beixiong Zheng et al. Proceedings of the IEEE profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Revisiting Near-Far Field Boundary in Dual-Polarized XL-MIMO Systems 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ·Shuhao Zeng, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor	1
2	Holographic Metasurfaces for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO Communications: Design, Implementation, and Experiment Results 2025 ·IEEE Wireless Communications ·Boya Di, Yutong Zhang, Ruoqi Deng, Mengjun Wang, Shaohui Sun, Lingyang Song	0
3	Large Models for Aerial Edges: An Edge-Cloud Model Evolution and Communication Paradigm 2024 ·IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications ·Shuhang Zhang, (unknown), Ke Chen, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Wenhan Yang, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor	8
4	Target Detection and Positioning Aided by Reconfigurable Surfaces: Reflective or Holographic? 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ·(unknown), Haobo Zhang, Liang Liu, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Boya Di	40
5	Hybrid Near-Field and Far-Field XL-MIMO: How Many Users Can Be Supported? 2024 ·IEEE Communications Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Liang Liu, Boya Di	5
6	Intelligent Surfaces Empowered Wireless Network: Recent Advances and the Road to 6G breakdown → 2024 ·Proceedings of the IEEE ·Qingqing Wu, Beixiong Zheng, Changsheng You, Lipeng Zhu, Kaiming Shen, Xiaodan Shao, Weidong Mei, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Ertuğrul Başar, Lingyang Song, Marco Di Renzo, Zhi‐Quan Luo, Rui Zhang	76
7	Design of Cloud-Edge-Gateway Collaborative Zero-Trust Architecture and Workflow for Smart Factories 2024 ·(unknown), Boya Di, Lingyang Song	3
8	Holographic Integrated Sensing and Communication 2022 ·IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications ·Haobo Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Marco Di Renzo, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Lingyang Song	116
9	Meta-Material Sensor Based Internet of Things: Design, Optimization, and Implementation 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Communications ·Jingzhi Hu, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Lingyang Song	6
10	Asynchronous Multi-User Detection for Code-Domain NOMA: Expectation Propagation Over 3D Factor-Graph 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology ·(unknown), Neng Ye, Jianguo Li, Boya Di, Aihua Wang	6
11	Meta-Wall: Intelligent Omni-Surfaces Aided Multi-Cell MIMO Communications 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ·Yutong Zhang, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Lingyang Song	30
12	Spaceborne Cooperative Detection for Distributed Sensing: Overcoming Inter-Satellite Link Limitations via Deep Information Bottleneck 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology ·(unknown), Neng Ye, Aihua Wang, Boya Di	4
13	Secure Directional Modulation in RIS-Aided Networks: A Low-Sidelobe Hybrid Beamforming Approach 2022 ·IEEE Wireless Communications Letters ·Neng Ye, (unknown), Jianguo Li, Boya Di, Jianping An	7
14	Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Reflection-Refraction Circuit Model, Full-Dimensional Beamforming, and System Implementation 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Communications ·Shuhao Zeng, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Yuanwei Liu, Marco Di Renzo, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Lingyang Song	51
15	Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Constellations: How Many LEO Satellites Do We Need? 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ·Ruoqi Deng, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang, Linling Kuang, Lingyang Song	124
16	Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in 6G: Reflective, Transmissive, or Both? 2021 ·IEEE Communications Letters ·Shuhao Zeng, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Yunhua Tan, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Lingyang Song	107
17	Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Ubiquitous Wireless Transmission by Reflective-Refractive Metasurfaces 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ·Shuhang Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Yunhua Tan, Marco Di Renzo, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, Lingyang Song	140
18	Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Based RF Sensing: Design, Optimization, and Implementation 2020 ·IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications ·Jingzhi Hu, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di, Lianlin Li, Kaigui Bian, Lingyang Song, Yonghui Li, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor	161
19	Equilibrium Problems With Equilibrium Constraints Analysis for Power Control and User Scheduling in NOMA Networks 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology ·Huaqing Zhang, Boya Di, Zheng Chang, Xuefang Liu, Lingyang Song, Zhu Han	9
20	Radio resource allocation for uplink sparse code multiple access (SCMA) networks using matching game 2016 ·Boya Di, Lingyang Song, Yonghui Li	44

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