Liang Yang

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
229 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Liang Yang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Liang Yang has authored 229 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 79 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 46 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Liang Yang's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (83 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (54 papers) and Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (47 papers). Liang Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (83 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (54 papers) and Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (47 papers). Liang Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Liang Yang's co-authors include Mohamed‐Slim Alouini, Mazen O. Hasna, Jianchao Chen, Quanzhong Li, Marco Di Renzo, Jiayi Zhang, Fanxu Meng, Imran Shafique Ansari, Xiqi Gao and Daniel Benevides da Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Liang Yang

209 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Secrecy Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Wireless Communication Systems

2020 281 citations Liang Yang, Wenwu Xie et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →
On the Performance of RIS-Assisted Dual-Hop UAV Communication Systems

2020 256 citations Liang Yang, Mazen O. Hasna et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liang Yang China	38	4.1k	1.6k	1.2k	318	220	229	4.6k
Xidong Mu United Kingdom	34	5.1k 1.3×	3.4k 2.1×	919 0.7×	465 1.5×	233 1.1×	155	6.2k
Zheng Chu United Kingdom	40	4.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	160 0.5×	187 0.8×	163	4.9k
Pei Xiao United Kingdom	43	6.1k 1.5×	2.3k 1.4×	2.4k 1.9×	199 0.6×	364 1.7×	423	7.2k
Vincenzo Sciancalepore Spain	28	2.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.6×	163 0.5×	219 1.0×	86	3.9k
Theodoros A. Tsiftsis Greece	46	7.7k 1.9×	3.0k 1.8×	3.1k 2.5×	280 0.9×	334 1.5×	283	8.7k
Ping Yang China	32	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	119 0.4×	232 1.1×	140	4.2k
Imran Shafique Ansari United Kingdom	36	4.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	373 1.2×	142 0.6×	158	4.6k
Fangjiong Chen China	29	2.1k 0.5×	663 0.4×	781 0.6×	386 1.2×	224 1.0×	182	2.8k
Xiaoming Chen China	42	5.5k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.9×	195 0.6×	444 2.0×	257	6.7k
Hong Ren China	39	7.2k 1.8×	4.1k 2.5×	1.4k 1.1×	626 2.0×	211 1.0×	135	8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Liang Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liang Yang

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

All Works

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Cao, Kunrui, Haiyang Ding, Lu Lv, et al.. (2025). Double-RIS Enabled Physical Layer Security for Wireless-Powered Communication Systems Over Rayleigh Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(10). 9517–9535. 4 indexed citations

Li, Xingwang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Secrecy of Indoor Optical RIS Aided SSK VLC Downlink. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(4). 2783–2796. 1 indexed citations

Xie, Wenwu, et al.. (2025). Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for STAR-RIS-Assisted AAV Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(12). 19915–19928. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Liang, et al.. (2025). On the Performance of Active RIS-Assisted Mixed RF-THz Relaying Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(10). 14938–14951. 2 indexed citations

Liang, Y. X., Ke-Wen Huang, Liang Yang, et al.. (2025). Covert Communications for Active STAR-RIS-Aided RSMA Systems With Hardware Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(7). 10036–10047. 1 indexed citations

Xie, Wenwu, et al.. (2025). Advanced Semantic Communication Techniques for IoT Using Disentangled Information Bottleneck. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(12). 20122–20137. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Liang, et al.. (2024). Performance Assessment of Active-RIS-Assisted Mixed RF-UAC Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(3). 4569–4581. 1 indexed citations

Li, Xingwang, Hui Zhang, Yongjun Xu, et al.. (2024). QoS-Aware Performance Analysis of Full-Duplex RSMA Vehicle Road Cooperation Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(22). 36053–36065. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Liang, Sai Li, Xingwang Li, et al.. (2024). Performance Analysis of Relay-Aided Satellite-Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 72(6). 3511–3525. 11 indexed citations

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Xie, Wenwu, et al.. (2024). A Data Transmission Method for Feature Extraction and Semantic Enhancement of Scarce Data. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(2). 484–488. 1 indexed citations

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Lei, Hongjiang, et al.. (2023). Active-RIS-Aided Covert Communications in NOMA Systems With Cooperative Jamming. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(5). 7436–7440. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Shiguo, Min Zhu, Zhetao Li, et al.. (2023). Antenna Selections Strategies for Massive MIMO Systems With Limited-Resolution ADCs/DACs. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 22(11). 8128–8140. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Ping, et al.. (2022). Outage Performance of Cognitive Radio Networks With a Coverage-Limited RIS for Interference Elimination. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 11(8). 1694–1698. 21 indexed citations

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Jing, Gang, et al.. (2022). Intelligent reflecting surface-assisted cognitive radio-inspired rate-splitting multiple access systems. Digital Communications and Networks. 9(3). 655–666. 3 indexed citations

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Costa, Daniel Benevides da, et al.. (2020). Adaptive Power Factor Allocation for Cooperative Full-Duplex NOMA Systems With Imperfect SIC and Rate Fairness. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 69(11). 14061–14066. 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Liang, Yin Yang, Daniel Benevides da Costa, & Imène Trigui. (2020). Outage Probability and Capacity Scaling Law of Multiple RIS-Aided Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 10(2). 256–260. 123 indexed citations

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Yang, Liang, et al.. (2020). Indoor Mixed Dual-Hop VLC/RF Systems Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 9(11). 1995–1999. 35 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hui, Liang Yang, Gaofeng Pan, & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2019). Secrecy outage analysis over fluctuating two‐ray fading channels. Electronics Letters. 55(15). 866–868. 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hui, Liang Yang, Ahmed Sultan, & Mohamed‐Slim Alouini. (2019). Ergodic Capacity Under Power Adaption Over Fisher–Snedecor <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\mathcal{F}}$ </tex-math> </inline-formula> Fading Channels. IEEE Communications Letters. 23(3). 546–549. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Quanzhong & Liang Yang. (2018). Artificial Noise Aided Secure Precoding for MIMO Untrusted Two-Way Relay Systems With Perfect and Imperfect Channel State Information. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 13(10). 2628–2638. 61 indexed citations

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