Nirwan Ansari

26.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
632 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

Nirwan Ansari is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nirwan Ansari has authored 632 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 388 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 355 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 87 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nirwan Ansari's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (105 papers), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (93 papers) and Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (80 papers). Nirwan Ansari is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (105 papers), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (93 papers) and Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (80 papers). Nirwan Ansari collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Nirwan Ansari's co-authors include Tao Han, Xiang Sun, Zhicheng Ni, Wei Su, Jingjing Yao, Qiang Fan, Liang Zhang, Andrey Belenky, E.S.H. Hou and Xiansheng Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Nirwan Ansari

597 papers receiving 18.3k 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.

Reversible data hiding

2006 1.9k citations Nirwan Ansari et al. profile →
EdgeIoT: Mobile Edge Computing for the Internet of Things

2016 520 citations Nirwan Ansari et al. profile →
A genetic algorithm for multiprocessor scheduling

1994 474 citations Nirwan Ansari et al. profile →
Dynamic Service Provisioning in Elastic Optical Networks With Hybrid Single-/Multi-Path Routing

2012 420 citations Zuqing Zhu, Nirwan Ansari et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nirwan Ansari United States	69	9.9k	9.6k	3.7k	2.8k	2.5k	632	19.2k
Dapeng Wu United States	60	8.0k 0.8×	6.5k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	524	14.6k
Shiwen Mao United States	61	7.9k 0.8×	9.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.6×	3.1k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	498	17.3k
Nei Kato Japan	77	14.4k 1.4×	12.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	3.4k 1.2×	5.7k 2.3×	600	23.4k
Mianxiong Dong Japan	63	8.0k 0.8×	5.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	3.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	486	14.0k
Georges Kaddoum Canada	55	4.8k 0.5×	7.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	438	12.9k
Tarik Taleb Finland	63	13.9k 1.4×	7.5k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	440	17.9k
Lionel M. Ni Hong Kong	67	10.7k 1.1×	10.6k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	450	22.0k
Wade Trappe United States	48	6.2k 0.6×	5.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	2.6k 0.9×	934 0.4×	215	10.7k
Ramesh Govindan United States	74	24.0k 2.4×	9.1k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	447 0.2×	338	28.1k
Mohammad S. Obaidat United States	57	8.8k 0.9×	5.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	3.1k 1.1×	526 0.2×	876	14.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nirwan Ansari

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ansari, Nirwan, et al.. (2026). Controlled growth of vertically aligned cobalt dendrites via MoS2 catalysis: Enhancing giant magnetoimpedance. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1053. 186047–186047.

Liu, Xilong, et al.. (2025). High-Speed AAV-Assisted OTFS-Enabled Intelligent Data Collection in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 25. 5490–5505.

Si, Haonan, Xiansheng Guo, Gordon Owusu Boateng, Yin Yang, & Nirwan Ansari. (2025). Spatial Feature Topology-Based Heterogeneous Knowledge Transfer Framework for Long-Term Fingerprint Positioning. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(8). 13314–13318.

Chen, Xinran, et al.. (2025). MRCoach: A Real-Time IoT-Enabled Mixed Reality System With Semantic-Aware Transmission for Smart Sports and Personalized Coaching. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(24). 52466–52473.

Cao, Yu, Xiansheng Guo, Gordon Owusu Boateng, et al.. (2025). OSM2Net: A Robust Road Network Extraction Framework From Noisy Indoor Parking OpenStreetMap. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(15). 30049–30062.

Liu, Weiqi, et al.. (2024). AI-Native End-to-End Network Slicing for Next-Generation Mission-Critical Services. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. 11(1). 48–58. 2 indexed citations

Boateng, Gordon Owusu, et al.. (2024). GRIDLoc: A Gradient Blending and Deep Learning-Based Localization Approach Combining RSS and CSI. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 13(9). 2620–2624. 6 indexed citations

Boateng, Gordon Owusu, et al.. (2024). Automated Valet Parking and Charging: A Dynamic Pricing and Reservation-Based Framework Leveraging Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 10(2). 1010–1029. 8 indexed citations

Xiao, Yang, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Joint Routing and Caching in Knowledge-Defined Networking: An Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(5). 4118–4135. 1 indexed citations

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Ansari, Nirwan, et al.. (2023). Mobile Node Localization in Wireless Networks: Path-Loss Model, Trilateration, and Error Mitigation in a 5G Sub-6 GHz Scenario. 3(3). 129–136.

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Zhang, Qian, Nirwan Ansari, & Zuqing Zhu. (2022). Adaptive SmartNIC Offloading for Unleashing the Performance of Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(8). 7303–7314. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Guanxiong, Hang Shi, Abbas Kiani, et al.. (2021). Smart Traffic Monitoring System Using Computer Vision and Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(8). 12027–12038. 48 indexed citations

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Li, Hongjia, Limin Wang, Nirwan Ansari, et al.. (2021). A Cooperative Defense Framework Against Application-Level DDoS Attacks on Mobile Edge Computing Services. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 22(1). 1–18. 22 indexed citations

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Han, Tao, et al.. (2020). FedVision: Federated Video Analytics With Edge Computing. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 62–72. 25 indexed citations

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Guo, Xiansheng, Raphael E. Nkrow, Nirwan Ansari, Lin Li, & Lei Wang. (2020). Robust WiFi Localization by Fusing Derivative Fingerprints of RSS and Multiple Classifiers. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 16(5). 3177–3186. 100 indexed citations

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Liu, Qiang, Tao Han, Nirwan Ansari, & Gang Wu. (2018). On Designing Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 2(3). 721–734. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Hongjia, et al.. (2016). Cooperative RAN Caching Based on Local Altruistic Game for Single and Joint Transmissions. IEEE Communications Letters. 21(4). 853–856. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Jie, et al.. (2012). Characterizing internet backbone traffic based on deep packets inspection and deep flows inspection. China Communications. 9(5). 42–54. 4 indexed citations

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Luo, Yuanqiu, et al.. (2007). QoS-Aware Scheduling over Hybrid Optical Wireless Networks. 1–7. 33 indexed citations

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Cheng, Gang, Ye Tian, & Nirwan Ansari. (2003). A New Qos Routing Framework for Solving MCP. IEICE Transactions on Communications. 86(2). 534–541. 4 indexed citations

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