Boyu Ning

2.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
84 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Boyu Ning is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Boyu Ning has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 48 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 15 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Boyu Ning's work include Antenna Design and Analysis (34 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (29 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (28 papers). Boyu Ning is often cited by papers focused on Antenna Design and Analysis (34 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (29 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (28 papers). Boyu Ning collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Boyu Ning's co-authors include Zhi Chen, Rui Zhang, Weidong Mei, Lipeng Zhu, Wenyan Ma, Jun Fang, Wenrong Chen, Yiming Du, Shaoqian Li and Chong Han and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Transactions on Communications.

In The Last Decade

Boyu Ning

71 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Movable-Antenna Enhanced Multiuser Communication via Antenna Position Optimization

2023 169 citations Lipeng Zhu, Boyu Ning et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
Beamforming Technologies for Ultra-Massive MIMO in Terahertz Communications

2023 142 citations Boyu Ning, Weidong Mei et al. profile →
Movable-Antenna Position Optimization: A Graph-Based Approach

2024 84 citations Weidong Mei, Boyu Ning et al. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters profile →
A Tutorial on Movable Antennas for Wireless Networks

2025 61 citations Lipeng Zhu, Weidong Mei et al. profile →
Movable Antenna-Enhanced Wireless Communications: General Architectures and Implementation Methods

2025 28 citations Boyu Ning, Peilan Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boyu Ning China	19	1.2k	844	223	139	44	84	1.5k
Yungsoo Kim South Korea	13	2.4k 2.0×	918 1.1×	401 1.8×	93 0.7×	13 0.3×	35	2.6k
Hao Yi China	14	269 0.2×	409 0.5×	80 0.4×	150 1.1×	118 2.7×	53	1.0k
Mousa Hussein United Arab Emirates	17	517 0.4×	474 0.6×	53 0.2×	216 1.6×	22 0.5×	107	893
Anxin Li China	18	3.1k 2.7×	584 0.7×	535 2.4×	94 0.7×	54 1.2×	53	3.2k
Galymzhan Nauryzbayev Kazakhstan	22	1.3k 1.1×	451 0.5×	318 1.4×	146 1.1×	47 1.1×	121	1.5k
Faisel Tubbal Australia	16	471 0.4×	687 0.8×	60 0.3×	127 0.9×	8 0.2×	65	844
Taimoor Khan India	24	1.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	49 0.2×	276 2.0×	24 0.5×	153	1.8k
Dong‐Wook Kim South Korea	17	826 0.7×	125 0.1×	42 0.2×	248 1.8×	5 0.1×	95	1.0k
Seongwon Kim South Korea	18	655 0.6×	91 0.1×	110 0.5×	190 1.4×	15 0.3×	74	1.1k
Miao Jiang China	15	512 0.4×	248 0.3×	164 0.7×	41 0.3×	53 1.2×	50	742

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Gao, Zhen, et al.. (2025). Pre-Equalization Aided Grant-Free Massive Access in Massive MIMO System. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(6). 9979–9984.

Mei, Weidong, et al.. (2025). A General Optimization Framework for Movable Antenna Systems via Discrete Sampling. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 15. 475–479.

Zhu, Jia, et al.. (2025). Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Integrated Sensing, Communications and Computation Energy-Constrained Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(12). 14548–14561.

Yang, Songjie, Jiancheng An, Yue Xiu, et al.. (2025). Flexible Antenna Arrays for Wireless Communications: Modeling and Performance Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(6). 4937–4951. 9 indexed citations

Mei, Weidong, et al.. (2025). Movable Antenna Enhanced DF and AF Relaying Systems: Performance Analysis and Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(12). 13239–13255. 3 indexed citations

Ning, Boyu, et al.. (2025). STAR-RIS Aided Communication System With Movable Antennas Exploiting Statistical CSI. IEEE Communications Letters. 29(4). 824–828. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Peilan, et al.. (2025). UAV-Enabled Passive 6D Movable Antennas: Joint Deployment and Beamforming Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 25. 9765–9781. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Songjie, et al.. (2024). Near-Field Channel Estimation for Extremely Large-Scale Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (XL-RIS)-Aided Wideband mmWave Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 42(6). 1567–1582. 51 indexed citations

Chen, Wenrong, et al.. (2024). ISAC-Enabled Beam Alignment for Terahertz Networks: Scheme Design and Coverage Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(12). 19019–19033. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Dong, Weidong Mei, Zhi Chen, & Boyu Ning. (2024). Performance Analysis and Reflection Optimization for Wideband THz Double-IRS Aided Wireless Communications. 2519–2524. 2 indexed citations

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Fang, Jun, et al.. (2024). CSI-Free Position Optimization for Movable Antenna Communication Systems: A Derivative-Free Optimization Approach. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(1). 53–57. 6 indexed citations

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Zou, Yulong, Jia Zhu, Boyu Ning, et al.. (2024). Robust and Secure Transmission Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MU-SWIPT Systems With Hardware Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(3). 4669–4683. 3 indexed citations

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Ning, Boyu, Weidong Mei, Lipeng Zhu, Zhi Chen, & Rui Zhang. (2024). Codebook Design and Performance Analysis for Wideband Beamforming in Terahertz Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(12). 19618–19633. 8 indexed citations

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Gao, Zhen, Sheng Chen, Boyu Ning, et al.. (2024). Knowledge and Data Dual-Driven Channel Estimation and Feedback for Ultra-Massive MIMO Systems Under Hybrid Field Beam Squint Effect. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(9). 11240–11259. 14 indexed citations

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Wu, Peiran, et al.. (2024). Over-the-Air Computation via 2-D Movable Antenna Array. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(1). 33–37. 14 indexed citations

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Ning, Boyu, Tiantian Wang, Chongwen Huang, Yuchen Zhang, & Zhi Chen. (2023). Wide-Beam Designs for Terahertz Massive MIMO: SCA-ATP and S-SARV. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(12). 10857–10869. 18 indexed citations

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Zou, Yulong, et al.. (2023). Sum Secrecy Rate Maximization for Active RIS-Assisted Uplink SIMO-NOMA Networks. IEEE Communications Letters. 28(3). 722–726. 18 indexed citations

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Huang, Huan, Chongfu Zhang, Ying Zhang, et al.. (2023). Two-Timescale-Based Beam Training for RIS-Aided Millimeter-Wave Multi-User MISO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 72(9). 11884–11897. 11 indexed citations

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Ning, Boyu, Zhi Chen, Xiaomei Wang, et al.. (2021). Joint Power Allocation and Passive Beamforming Design for IRS-Assisted Physical-Layer Service Integration. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(11). 7286–7301. 11 indexed citations

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Ning, Boyu & Zhi Chen. (2019). Low-Complexity Analog Beamforming for mmWave Large-Scale MISOME Wiretap Channel. IEEE Communications Letters. 24(2). 268–271. 6 indexed citations

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