Tian He

21.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
369 papers, 15.6k citations indexed

About

Tian He is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Tian He has authored 369 papers receiving a total of 15.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 179 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 54 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Tian He's work include Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (121 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (69 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (63 papers). Tian He is often cited by papers focused on Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (121 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (69 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (63 papers). Tian He collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Tian He's co-authors include John A. Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, Brian Blum, Chengdu Huang, Gang Zhou, Yu Gu, Sudha Krishnamurthy, Song Min Kim, Ting Yan and Lin Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

In The Last Decade

Tian He

354 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

Range-free localization schemes for large scale sensor ne... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2004 2004 2006 2006 500 1000 1.5k
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. Range-free localization schemes for large scale sensor networks
    2003 2.0k citations Tian He, John A. Stankovic et al. profile →
  2. Impact of radio irregularity on wireless sensor networks
    2004 575 citations Tian He, John A. Stankovic et al. profile →
  3. Energy-efficient surveillance system using wireless sensor networks
    2004 533 citations Tian He, John A. Stankovic et al. profile →
  4. ATPC
    2006 402 citations Lin Gu, John A. Stankovic et al. profile →
  5. VigilNet
    2006 337 citations Tian He, Liqian Luo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tian He United States 63 11.2k 9.7k 2.6k 1.0k 928 369 15.6k
Azzedine Boukerche Canada 58 11.0k 1.0× 8.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 1.4× 1.6k 1.8× 977 16.9k
Mário Gerla United States 90 32.5k 2.9× 17.9k 1.8× 3.1k 1.2× 820 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 911 37.2k
Guoqiang Mao Australia 44 5.3k 0.5× 6.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 395 0.4× 394 0.4× 263 9.1k
Antônio A. F. Loureiro Brazil 43 5.5k 0.5× 3.7k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 391 0.4× 573 0.6× 419 7.8k
Liuqing Yang United States 52 3.8k 0.3× 8.2k 0.8× 872 0.3× 602 0.6× 464 0.5× 440 10.6k
Guangjie Han China 63 8.2k 0.7× 5.9k 0.6× 3.9k 1.5× 259 0.3× 1.2k 1.3× 575 14.3k
Zheng Yang China 47 2.9k 0.3× 6.1k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 181 0.2× 1.5k 1.6× 214 9.0k
Venkata N. Padmanabhan United States 44 8.7k 0.8× 5.4k 0.6× 1.0k 0.4× 166 0.2× 926 1.0× 119 12.0k
Bhaskar Krishnamachari United States 61 12.5k 1.1× 8.2k 0.8× 977 0.4× 122 0.1× 969 1.0× 368 15.7k
Zimu Zhou China 45 1.9k 0.2× 4.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 542 0.5× 1.3k 1.4× 138 7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Tian He

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tian He

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tian He

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

All Works

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Zhong, Shuxin, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, et al.. (2025). InCo: Exploring Inter-Trip Cooperation for Efficient Last-mile Delivery. 5183–5191. 1 indexed citations
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Song, Yiwei, et al.. (2025). LLM4HAR: Generalizable On-device Human Activity Recognition with Pretrained LLMs. 4511–4521. 1 indexed citations
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He, Tian, Chonghua Xue, Junqi Li, et al.. (2024). Effects of Dry Periods on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal in Runoff Infiltration Devices and Their Biological Succession Patterns. Water. 16(17). 2372–2372. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei Wei, et al.. (2024). Enabling Large Scale LoRa Parallel Decoding With High-Dimensional and High-Accuracy Features. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(5). 3520–3536. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Multi-task Conditional Attention Network for Conversion Prediction in Logistics Advertising. 5028–5037. 1 indexed citations
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Liang, Minjun, et al.. (2023). Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Early Detection and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: A Review. Academic Journal of Science and Technology. 5(3). 215–221.
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Wang, Haotian, Hai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, et al.. (2023). Urban-scale POI Updating with Crowd Intelligence. 4631–4638. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2023). eShare+: A Data-Driven Balancing Mechanism for Bike Sharing Systems Considering Both Quality of Service and Maintenance. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 35(10). 10497–10513. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuai, Yi Ding, Guang Wang, et al.. (2023). Time-Constrained Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Concurrent Order Dispatch in On-Demand Delivery. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 23(8). 8175–8192. 4 indexed citations
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He, Tian, et al.. (2022). A coordination analysis of stakeholder interests on the new subsidy policy of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in China: From the perspective of the evolutionary game theory. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 47(58). 24493–24510. 38 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuai, et al.. (2022). $\mathrm{W}^{2}$Parking: A Data-Driven Win-Win Contract Parking Sharing Mechanism Under Both Supply and Demand Uncertainties. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 35(9). 8968–8982. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Zhaoyi, Jiawei Huang, Jinbin Hu, et al.. (2021). REN: Receiver-Driven Congestion Control Using Explicit Notification for Data Center. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 11(2). 1381–1394. 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Long, Linghe Kong, Yongjia Song, et al.. (2020). Adaptive Forwarding With Probabilistic Delay Guarantee in Low-Duty-Cycle WSNs. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 19(7). 4775–4792. 8 indexed citations
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Jiang, Ruobing, Zhenni Feng, Desheng Zhang, et al.. (2017). Data-Driven Digital Advertising with Uncertain Demand Model in Metro Networks. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. 7(2). 313–326. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Desheng, Fan Zhang, & Tian He. (2016). MultiCalib. 1–10. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuai, Guang Tan, Yunhuai Liu, Hongbo Jiang, & Tian He. (2013). Coding Opportunity Aware Backbone metrics for broadcast in wireless networks. 275–279. 9 indexed citations
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Stankovic, John A. & Tian He. (2011). Energy management in sensor networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 370(1958). 52–67. 22 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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