Fan Liang

3.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
46 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Fan Liang is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Liang has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 17 papers in Information Systems and 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Fan Liang's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (10 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (8 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (6 papers). Fan Liang is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (10 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (8 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (6 papers). Fan Liang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Fan Liang's co-authors include Wei Yu, William G. Hatcher, Chao Lu, Jie Lin, Xiaofei He, Xinyu Yang, David Griffith, Nada Golmie, Xing Liu and Xinwen Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

In The Last Decade

Fan Liang

44 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

A Survey on the Edge Computing for the Internet of Things 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 2023 2022 250 500 750 1000
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. A Survey on the Edge Computing for the Internet of Things
    2017 1.0k citations Wei Yu, Fan Liang et al. IEEE Access profile →
  2. A Survey on Big Data Market: Pricing, Trading and Protection
    2018 235 citations Fan Liang, Wei Yu et al. IEEE Access profile →
  3. Smart Transportation: An Overview of Technologies and Applications
    2023 140 citations Khushi Gupta, Linqiang Ge et al. Sensors profile →
  4. Digital Twin—Cyber Replica of Physical Things: Architecture, Applications and Future Research Directions
    2022 106 citations Cheng Qian, Fan Liang et al. Future Internet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fan Liang United States 16 1.2k 766 589 464 260 46 2.2k
William G. Hatcher United States 13 1.2k 1.0× 702 0.9× 583 1.0× 426 0.9× 284 1.1× 24 2.1k
Christos Stergiou Greece 18 1.2k 1.0× 849 1.1× 581 1.0× 406 0.9× 291 1.1× 37 2.3k
Claudio Savaglio Italy 27 1.6k 1.3× 688 0.9× 513 0.9× 528 1.1× 459 1.8× 66 2.5k
Herodotos Herodotou Cyprus 19 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 423 0.7× 487 1.0× 221 0.8× 77 2.2k
Muhammad Bilal South Korea 33 1.7k 1.4× 866 1.1× 714 1.2× 840 1.8× 403 1.6× 197 3.3k
Junlong Zhou China 31 1.7k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 510 0.9× 634 1.4× 297 1.1× 141 3.0k
Wu Yang China 28 1.1k 0.9× 640 0.8× 635 1.1× 973 2.1× 240 0.9× 155 2.6k
Yuyu Yin China 27 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 817 1.4× 373 0.8× 434 1.7× 117 2.5k
Gyu Myoung Lee United Kingdom 26 1.3k 1.0× 799 1.0× 471 0.8× 590 1.3× 260 1.0× 109 2.3k
JaeSeung Song South Korea 27 1.5k 1.2× 500 0.7× 293 0.5× 697 1.5× 318 1.2× 103 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Fan Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Liang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fan 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 Fan Liang. The network helps show where Fan Liang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fan Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fan 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 Fan Liang. Fan 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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Zhang, Hanlin, Jie Lin, Fan Liang, et al.. (2025). Privacy-Preserving Edge-Aided Eigenvalue Decomposition in Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(12). 19901–19914. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hanlin, et al.. (2024). Secure Edge-Aided Singular Value Decomposition in Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(13). 23207–23221. 3 indexed citations
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Gupta, Khushi, et al.. (2023). Smart Transportation: An Overview of Technologies and Applications. Sensors. 23(8). 3880–3880. 140 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liao, Weixian, et al.. (2023). Deep Neural Networks for Spatial-Temporal Cyber-Physical Systems: A Survey. Future Internet. 15(6). 199–199. 18 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, Cheng Qian, Wei Yu, David Griffith, & Nada Golmie. (2022). Survey of Graph Neural Networks and Applications. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 42 indexed citations
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Qian, Cheng, et al.. (2022). Digital Twin—Cyber Replica of Physical Things: Architecture, Applications and Future Research Directions. Future Internet. 14(2). 64–64. 106 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hatcher, William G., Cheng Qian, Weichao Gao, et al.. (2021). Towards Efficient and Intelligent Internet of Things Search Engine. IEEE Access. 9. 15778–15795. 19 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, Wei Yu, Xing Liu, David Griffith, & Nada Golmie. (2021). Toward Deep Q-Network-Based Resource Allocation in Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(12). 9138–9150. 20 indexed citations
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Liu, Xing, Wei Yu, Fan Liang, David Griffith, & Nada Golmie. (2021). On deep reinforcement learning security for Industrial Internet of Things. Computer Communications. 168. 20–32. 29 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2020). Novel algorithms for sequential fault diagnosis based on greedy method. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability. 234(6). 779–792. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, Wei Yu, Xing Liu, David Griffith, & Nada Golmie. (2020). Toward Edge-Based Deep Learning in Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(5). 4329–4341. 135 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2019). Deep Learning-Based Power Usage Forecast Modeling and Evaluation. Procedia Computer Science. 154. 102–108. 6 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, William G. Hatcher, Guobin Xu, et al.. (2019). Towards Online Deep Learning-Based Energy Forecasting. 1–9. 23 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2018). Fault diagnostic strategy of multivalued attribute system based on growing algorithm. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability. 233(2). 235–245. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2016). Algorithm for error-tolerant delimitation for the protocol data unit based on best path searching. 43(5). 166. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Yan, Xiaomei Wang, Xiaoyi Zhang, & Fan Liang. (2014). Checksum Restriction Based Robust IPv4 Header Recovery. 39. 434–437. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiaoyi, Fan Liang, Bing Wang, Li Zha, & Zhiwei Xu. (2014). DataMPI: Extending MPI to Hadoop-Like Big Data Computing. 46 indexed citations
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Liang, Fan, et al.. (2013). A Framework of the Civil Engineering CAD Experimental Platform Based on Cloud Computing. 15. 577–586. 5 indexed citations
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Shi, Zhongzhi, et al.. (2011). DH-TRIE frequent pattern mining on Hadoop using JPA. 875–878. 11 indexed citations

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