Ning Cai

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ning Cai is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ning Cai has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Ning Cai's work include Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (10 papers), Wireless Communication Security Techniques (8 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (3 papers). Ning Cai is often cited by papers focused on Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (10 papers), Wireless Communication Security Techniques (8 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (3 papers). Ning Cai collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Hong Kong. Ning Cai's co-authors include Raymond W. Yeung, Shuo Li, Rudolf Ahlswede, Qi Cao, Dan He, Jianxiang Xi and Li Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Communications Letters and COMBINATORICA.

In The Last Decade

Ning Cai

12 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Linear network coding 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Linear network coding
    2003 2.3k citations Shuo Li, Raymond W. Yeung et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ning Cai Germany 7 2.4k 1.8k 222 61 43 14 2.5k
T. Ho United States 13 3.3k 1.4× 2.3k 1.3× 241 1.1× 58 1.0× 25 0.6× 17 3.4k
Kyeongcheol Yang South Korea 20 821 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 644 2.9× 135 2.2× 42 1.0× 72 1.3k
Rolf Johannesson Sweden 16 910 0.4× 952 0.5× 596 2.7× 224 3.7× 51 1.2× 105 1.2k
Yitzhak Birk Israel 15 1.1k 0.5× 740 0.4× 158 0.7× 96 1.6× 44 1.0× 73 1.3k
Roxana Smarandache United States 15 633 0.3× 595 0.3× 308 1.4× 110 1.8× 40 0.9× 36 814
Emmanuel Boutillon France 14 750 0.3× 785 0.4× 244 1.1× 78 1.3× 43 1.0× 78 920
Eiji Fujiwara Japan 10 389 0.2× 681 0.4× 301 1.4× 94 1.5× 55 1.3× 74 958
Satish Babu Korada Switzerland 16 1.1k 0.4× 833 0.5× 417 1.9× 80 1.3× 400 9.3× 28 1.2k
Praveen Kumar Gopala United States 7 853 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 137 0.6× 36 0.6× 26 0.6× 11 1.2k
Shrinivas Kudekar Switzerland 13 756 0.3× 664 0.4× 151 0.7× 109 1.8× 116 2.7× 25 906

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ning Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ning Cai

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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He, Dan, et al.. (2018). On Capacity of Network Error Correction Coding With Random Errors. IEEE Communications Letters. 22(4). 696–699. 6 indexed citations
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Cao, Qi, et al.. (2018). On Zero-Error Capacity of Binary Channels With One Memory. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64(10). 6771–6778. 7 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning. (2016). List Decoding for Arbitrarily Varying Multiple Access Channel Revisited: List Configuration and Symmetrizability. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 62(11). 6095–6110. 4 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning & Raymond W. Yeung. (2006). The Singleton Bound for Network Error-Correcting Codes. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Yeung, Raymond W., et al.. (2006). Network Coding Theory (Foundations and Trends(R) in Communications and Information Theory). now publishers, Inc. eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning & Raymond W. Yeung. (2006). Network Error Correction, II: Lower Bounds. Communications in Information and Systems. 6(1). 37–54. 155 indexed citations
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Cai, Ning & Raymond W. Yeung. (2003). Network error correction. 101–101. 27 indexed citations
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Li, Shuo, Raymond W. Yeung, & Ning Cai. (2003). Linear network coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 49(2). 371–381. 2264 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ahlswede, Rudolf, Ning Cai, & Raymond W. Yeung. (2002). Network information flow theory. 186–186. 12 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & Ning Cai. (1999). Arbitrarily varying multiple-access channels. II. Correlated senders' side information, correlated messages, and ambiguous transmission. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 45(2). 749–756. 3 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & Ning Cai. (1999). Arbitrarily varying multiple-access channels. I. Ericson's symmetrizability is adequate, Gubner's conjecture is true. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 45(2). 742–749. 32 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf, et al.. (1994). A New Direction In Extremal Theory. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 4 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf, et al.. (1992). Diametric theorems in sequence spaces. COMBINATORICA. 12(1). 1–17. 11 indexed citations

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