Sihua Shao

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sihua Shao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sihua Shao has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sihua Shao's work include Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (22 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (10 papers) and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (9 papers). Sihua Shao is often cited by papers focused on Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (22 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (10 papers) and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (9 papers). Sihua Shao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Sihua Shao's co-authors include Abdallah Khreishah, Hany Elgala, Moussa Ayyash, Thomas D. C. Little, Michael Rahaim, Jonas Hilt, Dominic Schulz, Volker Jungnickel, Ronald Freund and Issa Khalil and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Sihua Shao

39 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

Coexistence of WiFi and LiFi toward 5G: concepts, opportunities, and challenges

2016 364 citations Moussa Ayyash, Hany Elgala et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sihua Shao United States	16	926	165	156	120	96	47	1.1k
Yanbing Yang China	17	666 0.7×	105 0.6×	87 0.6×	87 0.7×	71 0.7×	83	880
Vivek Ashok Bohara India	20	1.1k 1.2×	356 2.2×	218 1.4×	38 0.3×	78 0.8×	177	1.2k
Abdelmoula Bekkali Japan	15	1.1k 1.2×	93 0.6×	244 1.6×	99 0.8×	84 0.9×	60	1.2k
Nam Tuan Le South Korea	14	596 0.6×	103 0.6×	75 0.5×	58 0.5×	101 1.1×	58	689
Trong-Hop Do South Korea	13	625 0.7×	54 0.3×	123 0.8×	142 1.2×	124 1.3×	58	757
Niranjini Rajagopal United States	10	484 0.5×	123 0.7×	107 0.7×	191 1.6×	26 0.3×	15	575
Pengfei Luo China	17	880 1.0×	58 0.4×	100 0.6×	96 0.8×	182 1.9×	37	947
Patrick Lazik United States	10	558 0.6×	129 0.8×	86 0.6×	232 1.9×	29 0.3×	13	666
Farshad Miramirkhani Türkiye	18	1.3k 1.4×	45 0.3×	135 0.9×	246 2.0×	283 2.9×	45	1.4k
Tomohisa Harada Japan	8	582 0.6×	46 0.3×	107 0.7×	27 0.2×	166 1.7×	18	636

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sihua Shao

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All Works

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Chen, Chen, et al.. (2025). Bidirectional Retroreflective Optical ISAC Using Time Division Duplexing and Clipped OFDM. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 37(10). 587–590. 3 indexed citations

Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Emergency Response: The Critical Role of Interface Design in Mining Emergency Robots. Robotics. 14(11). 148–148.

Hassanalian, Mostafa, et al.. (2025). Intelligent self-evacuation path planning for fire emergencies in underground coal mines. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 162. 106623–106623. 2 indexed citations

Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2025). Optimal sequential node deployment in underground mines with partial map discovery. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 168. 107198–107198.

Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2024). Counter UAV Swarms: Challenges, Considerations, and Future Directions in UAV Warfare. IEEE Wireless Communications. 32(1). 190–196. 4 indexed citations

Hassanalian, Mostafa, et al.. (2024). Optimizing fire emergency evacuation routes in underground coal mines: A lightweight network flow approach. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 146. 105637–105637. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Chen, et al.. (2024). Retroreflective optical ISAC using OFDM: channel modeling and performance analysis. Optics Letters. 49(15). 4214–4214. 10 indexed citations

Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2024). Dandelion-Inspired Micro Flying Sensors for the Martian Lava Tubes Exploration.

Zheng, Jun, et al.. (2023). Deep semi-supervised electricity theft detection in AMI for sustainable and secure smart grids. Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks. 36. 101219–101219. 10 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2023). Securing Smart Grid Enabled Home Area Networks with Retro-Reflective Visible Light Communication. Sensors. 23(3). 1245–1245. 4 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2023). Configurations and Applications of Multi-Agent Hybrid Drone/Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Underground Environments: A Review. Drones. 7(2). 136–136. 34 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, et al.. (2023). R-VLCP: Channel Modeling and Simulation in Retroreflective Visible Light Communication and Positioning Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(13). 11429–11439. 19 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiang, et al.. (2023). Backhaul-Aware Drone Base Station Placement and Resource Management for FSO-Based Drone-Assisted Mobile Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 10(3). 1659–1668. 19 indexed citations

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Ebrahimkhanlou, Arvin, et al.. (2022). Withdrawn: Hybrid UGV and Drone System for Mine Rescue Assistance. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiang, et al.. (2022). Low Cost ATP System Design for Free Space Optics based Drone Assisted Wireless Networks. 2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). 4 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, Guanxiong Liu, Abdallah Khreishah, et al.. (2019). Optimizing Handover Parameters by Q-Learning for Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks. IEEE photonics journal. 12(1). 1–15. 25 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, Abdallah Khreishah, & Issa Khalil. (2019). Enabling Real-Time Indoor Tracking of IoT Devices Through Visible Light Retroreflection. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 19(4). 836–851. 34 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua. (2018). Design, Analysis and Optimization of Visible Light Communications Based Indoor Access Systems for Mobile and Internet of Things Applications. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, Abdallah Khreishah, Moussa Ayyash, et al.. (2018). Design and Implementation of a Hybrid RF-VLC System with Bandwidth Aggregation. 194–200. 17 indexed citations

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Guo, Xiansheng, Sihua Shao, Nirwan Ansari, & Abdallah Khreishah. (2017). Indoor Localization Using Visible Light Via Fusion of Multiple Classifiers. IEEE photonics journal. 9(6). 1–16. 93 indexed citations

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