Hailiang Zhao

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Hailiang Zhao is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hailiang Zhao has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Information Systems and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hailiang Zhao's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (15 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (8 papers) and Age of Information Optimization (4 papers). Hailiang Zhao is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (15 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (8 papers) and Age of Information Optimization (4 papers). Hailiang Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Austria. Hailiang Zhao's co-authors include Shuiguang Deng, Jianwei Yin, Schahram Dustdar, Albert Y. Zomaya, Weijia Fang, Cheng Zhang, Qiang He, Wei Du, Rong Jiang and Zhengzhe Xiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Access and IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

In The Last Decade

Hailiang Zhao

17 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Edge Intelligence: The Confluence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

2020 655 citations Shuiguang Deng, Hailiang Zhao et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hailiang Zhao China	12	745	357	268	239	166	20	1.1k
Kai Peng China	11	702 0.9×	328 0.9×	191 0.7×	290 1.2×	137 0.8×	17	923
Hancong Duan China	13	764 1.0×	339 0.9×	283 1.1×	230 1.0×	133 0.8×	42	980
Xueqiang Yan China	9	679 0.9×	217 0.6×	356 1.3×	392 1.6×	254 1.5×	22	1.2k
Rakesh Matam India	14	802 1.1×	309 0.9×	301 1.1×	164 0.7×	138 0.8×	69	966
Yongchao Zhang China	12	751 1.0×	241 0.7×	336 1.3×	112 0.5×	112 0.7×	20	959
Quyuan Luo China	11	684 0.9×	268 0.8×	297 1.1×	143 0.6×	147 0.9×	21	877
Wenhao Fan China	18	776 1.0×	309 0.9×	445 1.7×	145 0.6×	94 0.6×	72	1.1k
Xingxia Dai China	7	725 1.0×	235 0.7×	261 1.0×	165 0.7×	142 0.9×	10	917
Atay Özgövde Türkiye	12	1.0k 1.4×	421 1.2×	345 1.3×	111 0.5×	241 1.5×	30	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hailiang Zhao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Hailiang, Xueyan Tang, Peng Chen, Jianwei Yin, & Shuiguang Deng. (2025). Data-Locality-Aware Task Assignment and Scheduling for Distributed Job Executions. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(5). 2701–2713.

Dai, Hongjun, et al.. (2025). CATScaler: A Convolution-Augmented Transformer Scaling Framework for Cloud-Native Applications. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(5). 2659–2672.

Zhao, Hailiang, et al.. (2025). CADRef: Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection via Class-Aware Decoupled Relative Feature Leveraging. 4968–4977. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Hailiang, Ziqi Wang, Peng Chen, et al.. (2025). Online Workload Scheduling for Social Welfare Maximization in the Computing Continuum. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(4). 2267–2280.

Deng, Shuiguang, Hailiang Zhao, Binbin Huang, et al.. (2024). Cloud-Native Computing: A Survey From the Perspective of Services. Proceedings of the IEEE. 112(1). 12–46. 23 indexed citations

Huang, Binbin, et al.. (2024). Decentralized Proactive Model Offloading and Resource Allocation for Split and Federated Learning. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(9). 12226–12241. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Yishan, et al.. (2024). A Game-Theoretic Approach-Based Task Offloading and Resource Pricing Method for Idle Vehicle Devices Assisted VEC. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(12). 21954–21969. 23 indexed citations

Zhao, Hailiang, Shuiguang Deng, Zhengzhe Xiang, et al.. (2023). Scheduling Multi-Server Jobs With Sublinear Regrets via Online Learning. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 17(3). 1168–1180. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Hailiang, Shuiguang Deng, Feiyi Chen, et al.. (2022). Learning to Schedule Multi-Server Jobs With Fluctuated Processing Speeds. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 34(1). 234–245. 7 indexed citations

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Deng, Shuiguang, et al.. (2022). Mobility-Aware Offloading and Resource Allocation for Distributed Services Collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 33(10). 2428–2443. 26 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hailiang, Shuiguang Deng, Zhengzhe Xiang, et al.. (2021). DPoS: Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, and Low-Complexity Online Slicing for Multi-Tenant Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 21(12). 4296–4309. 22 indexed citations

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Deng, Shuiguang, Hailiang Zhao, Zhengzhe Xiang, et al.. (2021). Dependent Function Embedding for Distributed Serverless Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 33(10). 2346–2357. 49 indexed citations

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Deng, Shuiguang, Hailiang Zhao, Weijia Fang, et al.. (2020). Edge Intelligence: The Confluence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(8). 7457–7469. 655 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Hailiang, et al.. (2020). Distributed Redundant Placement for Microservice-based Applications at the Edge. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 15(3). 1732–1745. 78 indexed citations

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Deng, Shuiguang, et al.. (2020). Incentive-Driven Computation Offloading in Blockchain-Enabled E-Commerce. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. 21(1). 1–19. 16 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hailiang, Shuiguang Deng, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2019). A Mobility-Aware Cross-Edge Computation Offloading Framework for Partitionable Applications. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 193–200. 57 indexed citations

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Du, Wei, Qiang He, Wei Liu, et al.. (2019). Multiple Energy Harvesting Devices Enabled Joint Computation Offloading and Dynamic Resource Allocation for Mobile-Edge Computing Systems. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 154–158. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Yishan, Shuiguang Deng, Hailiang Zhao, et al.. (2019). Data-Intensive Application Deployment at Edge: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 355–359. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng, Hailiang Zhao, & Shuiguang Deng. (2018). A Density-Based Offloading Strategy for IoT Devices in Edge Computing Systems. IEEE Access. 6. 73520–73530. 48 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hailiang, et al.. (2018). QoE Aware and Cell Capacity Enhanced Computation Offloading for Multi-Server Mobile Edge Computing Systems with Energy Harvesting Devices. 671–678. 14 indexed citations

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