Lin Gu

7.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
146 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Lin Gu is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lin Gu has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 57 papers in Information Systems and 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lin Gu's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (46 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (41 papers) and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (31 papers). Lin Gu is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (46 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (41 papers) and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (31 papers). Lin Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Lin Gu's co-authors include John A. Stankovic, Deze Zeng, Song Guo, Tian He, Tarek Abdelzaher, Gang Zhou, Liqian Luo, Radu Stoleru, Hai Jin and Bruce H. Krogh and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Plant Cell & Environment and Information Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lin Gu

141 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Energy-efficient surveillance system using wireless sensor networks

2004 533 citations Tian He, John A. Stankovic et al. profile →
ATPC

2006 402 citations Lin Gu, John A. Stankovic et al. profile →
VigilNet

2006 337 citations Tian He, Liqian Luo et al. profile →
Joint Optimization of Task Scheduling and Image Placement in Fog Computing Supported Software-Defined Embedded System

2016 320 citations Deze Zeng, Lin Gu et al. IEEE Transactions on Computers profile →
Cost Efficient Resource Management in Fog Computing Supported Medical Cyber-Physical System

2015 301 citations Lin Gu, Deze Zeng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lin Gu China	36	4.2k	2.1k	1.1k	753	719	146	5.3k
Gian Pietro Picco Italy	37	4.2k 1.0×	978 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	985 1.3×	774 1.1×	151	5.2k
Zhetao Li China	35	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	649 0.9×	194	4.5k
Ren Ping Liu Australia	37	3.8k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	381 0.5×	345	6.5k
Lanyu Xu United States	9	3.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	17	5.3k
Pascal Lorenz France	30	2.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	785 0.7×	581 0.8×	354 0.5×	298	4.1k
Ruchuan Wang China	30	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	582 0.5×	760 1.0×	587 0.8×	369	4.1k
Dipak Ghosal United States	27	5.6k 1.3×	3.6k 1.7×	328 0.3×	662 0.9×	411 0.6×	174	7.4k
Zubair Md. Fadlullah Canada	41	4.3k 1.0×	4.1k 1.9×	636 0.6×	1.7k 2.2×	598 0.8×	176	8.1k
Prasanta K. Jana India	36	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	459 0.6×	175 0.2×	148	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Lin Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lin Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lin Gu

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ibrahim, Shadi, et al.. (2025). EDDE: Container Deployment Framework Beyond the Cloud. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 570–585.

Li, Yuepeng, et al.. (2025). Layer Redundancy Aware DNN Model Repository Planning for Fast Model Download in Edge Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 13(3). 1038–1049.

Yu, Hui, Yu Zhang, Ligang He, et al.. (2024). CDA-GNN: A Chain-driven Accelerator for Efficient Asynchronous Graph Neural Network. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yuepeng, et al.. (2024). On Efficient Zygote Container Planning and Task Scheduling for Edge Native Application Acceleration. 2259–2268.

Zeng, Deze, et al.. (2024). PLAYS: Minimizing DNN Inference Latency in Serverless Edge Cloud for Artificial Intelligence of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(23). 37731–37740. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yu, Ligang He, Hui Yu, et al.. (2023). GraphTune: An Efficient Dependency-Aware Substrate to Alleviate Irregularity in Concurrent Graph Processing. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization. 20(3). 1–24. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Hui, Yu Zhang, Zhiying Huang, et al.. (2023). RACE: An Efficient Redundancy-aware Accelerator for Dynamic Graph Neural Network. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization. 20(4). 1–26. 9 indexed citations

Li, Yuepeng, et al.. (2023). PASTO: Enabling Secure and Efficient Task Offloading in TrustZone-Enabled Edge Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 72(6). 8234–8238. 8 indexed citations

Zeng, Deze, et al.. (2023). Enabling Efficient Spatio-Temporal GPU Sharing for Network Function Virtualization. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 72(10). 2963–2977. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Yuepeng, Deze Zeng, Lin Gu, et al.. (2022). Efficient and Secure Deep Learning Inference in Trusted Processor Enabled Edge Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 33(12). 4311–4325. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Yuepeng, et al.. (2022). Cost Efficient Service Mesh Controller Placement for Edge Native Computing. GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference. 3 indexed citations

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Liao, Xiaofei, Yu Zhang, Bingsheng He, et al.. (2021). A Structure-Aware Storage Optimization for Out-of-Core Concurrent Graph Processing. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 71(7). 1612–1625. 3 indexed citations

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Liang, Yuxuan, Yu Zhang, Xiaofei Liao, et al.. (2020). GGraph: An Efficient Structure-Aware Approach for Iterative Graph Processing. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. 8(5). 1182–1194. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, et al.. (2018). Cgraph: a correlations-aware approach for efficient concurrent iterative graph processing. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 441–452. 13 indexed citations

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Jin, Hai, Song Wu, Yin Yao, et al.. (2018). Towards Low-Latency Batched Stream Processing by Pre-Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 30(3). 710–722. 14 indexed citations

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Gu, Lin, Cheng Wang, Xiaolei Wang, Yanying Wang, & Qian Wang. (2013). [Variation characteristics of fine particulate matter PM2.5 concentration in three urban recreational forests in Hui Mountain of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province of East China].. PubMed. 24(9). 2485–93. 6 indexed citations

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Gu, Lin, et al.. (2012). K Means of Cloud Computing: MapReduce, DVM, and Windows Azure. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 13–18. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhiqiang & Lin Gu. (2010). The Limitation of MapReduce: A Probing Case and a Lightweight Solution. 68–73. 16 indexed citations

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Gu, Lin, et al.. (2010). Versatile Stack Management for Multitasking Sensor Networks. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 388–397. 3 indexed citations

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He, Tian, Lin Gu, Liqian Luo, et al.. (2006). An overview of data aggregation architecture for real-time tracking with sensor networks. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 175–175. 17 indexed citations

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