Tianwei Hou

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Tianwei Hou is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Tianwei Hou has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 35 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Tianwei Hou's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (36 papers), Satellite Communication Systems (19 papers) and Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (16 papers). Tianwei Hou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (36 papers), Satellite Communication Systems (19 papers) and Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (16 papers). Tianwei Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Tianwei Hou's co-authors include Yuanwei Liu, Xin Sun, Zhengyu Song, Jiaqi Xu, Xidong Mu, Marco Di Renzo, Naofal Al‐Dhahir, Xiao Liu, Yue Chen and Lajos Hanzo and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Transactions on Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tianwei Hou

54 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Principles and Opportunities

2021 1.1k citations Yuanwei Liu, Xidong Mu et al. profile →
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided NOMA Networks

2020 274 citations Tianwei Hou, Yuanwei Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tianwei Hou China	18	2.0k	1.4k	357	184	134	62	2.4k
Gui Zhou China	19	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	379 1.1×	234 1.3×	122 0.9×	52	2.7k
Jiaqi Xu China	20	2.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	436 1.2×	221 1.2×	137 1.0×	79	3.0k
Dongfang Xu Hong Kong	18	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	523 1.5×	187 1.0×	183 1.4×	30	2.5k
Wanming Hao China	28	2.4k 1.2×	959 0.7×	639 1.8×	116 0.6×	102 0.8×	136	2.7k
Weidong Mei China	26	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	592 1.7×	118 0.6×	64 0.5×	92	2.7k
Yu Han China	23	3.0k 1.5×	1.8k 1.3×	456 1.3×	192 1.0×	95 0.7×	97	3.4k
Huayan Guo China	18	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	425 1.2×	192 1.0×	131 1.0×	34	2.7k
Xianghao Yu Hong Kong	25	3.5k 1.8×	1.7k 1.3×	497 1.4×	194 1.1×	187 1.4×	67	3.8k
Deepak Mishra Australia	23	2.0k 1.0×	795 0.6×	580 1.6×	116 0.6×	37 0.3×	246	2.4k
Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy France	12	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	222 0.6×	192 1.0×	103 0.8×	52	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tianwei Hou

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Huangfu, Jiangtao, Zhengyu Song, Tianwei Hou, et al.. (2025). Performance Analysis of Fluid Antenna System Under Spatially-Correlated Rician Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 25. 1394–1407. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Wenjuan, et al.. (2025). Joint Resource Allocation and Beamforming Design for BD-RIS-Assisted Wireless-Powered Cooperative Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Communications Letters. 29(5). 1042–1046. 1 indexed citations

Hou, Tianwei, Yuanwei Liu, & Arumugam Nallanathan. (2025). On the Performance of Uplink Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS). IEEE Transactions on Communications. 74. 92–105. 3 indexed citations

Li, Xuehua, et al.. (2024). Performance Analysis of Double Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Assisted NOMA Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(12). 18732–18747. 3 indexed citations

Hou, Tianwei, et al.. (2024). Performance Analysis of OMA/NOMA-Aided Satellite Communication Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Approach. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(8). 6577–6592. 2 indexed citations

Yue, Xinwei, et al.. (2024). Exploiting Active RIS in NOMA Networks With Hardware Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(6). 8207–8221. 39 indexed citations

Ji, Fei, et al.. (2024). Transceiver Design and Performance Evaluation for Multiuser MISO Broadcast Channels With NOMA: Diversity, Multiplexing, or Both?. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(9). 12048–12062.

Li, Jie, et al.. (2023). An RIS-Aided Interference Mitigation-Based Design for MIMO-NOMA in Cellular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 8(1). 317–329. 4 indexed citations

Li, Anna, Eliane Bodanese, Stefan Poslad, et al.. (2023). A Contactless Health Monitoring System for Vital Signs Monitoring, Human Activity Recognition, and Tracking. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(18). 29275–29286. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Anna, Eliane Bodanese, Stefan Poslad, et al.. (2023). An Integrated Sensing and Communication System for Fall Detection and Recognition Using Ultrawideband Signals. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(1). 1509–1521. 7 indexed citations

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Song, Zhengyu, et al.. (2023). Joint Optimization of Resource Allocation, Phase Shift, and UAV Trajectory for Energy-Efficient RIS-Assisted UAV-Enabled MEC Systems. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 7(4). 1778–1792. 69 indexed citations

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Liu, Gang, et al.. (2023). E-Chain: Lightweight and Secure BIoT Voting Mechanism on Variable Bandwidth Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(6). 9230–9243. 2 indexed citations

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Hou, Tianwei, et al.. (2022). Physical Layer Security of Intelligent Reflective Surface Aided NOMA Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 71(7). 7821–7834. 53 indexed citations

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Ma, Hao, et al.. (2022). Joint Radar‐Communication Relying on NLFM‐MSK Design. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 3 indexed citations

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Li, Anna, Eliane Bodanese, Stefan Poslad, et al.. (2022). A Trajectory-Based Gesture Recognition in Smart Homes Based on the Ultrawideband Communication System. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(22). 22861–22873. 25 indexed citations

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Hou, Tianwei, Yuanwei Liu, Zhengyu Song, et al.. (2021). MIMO Assisted Networks Relying on Intelligent Reflective Surfaces: A Stochastic Geometry Based Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 71(1). 571–582. 44 indexed citations

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Hou, Tianwei, et al.. (2021). A Novel Design of RIS for Enhancing the Physical Layer Security for RIS-Aided NOMA Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 10(11). 2398–2401. 64 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuanwei, Xidong Mu, Tianwei Hou, et al.. (2020). Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Principles and Opportunities. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations

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Hou, Tianwei, Yuanwei Liu, Zhengyu Song, Xin Sun, & Yue Chen. (2020). MIMO-NOMA Networks Relying on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: A Signal Cancellation-Based Design. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68(11). 6932–6944. 92 indexed citations

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Hou, Tianwei, Yuanwei Liu, Zhengyu Song, Xin Sun, & Yue Chen. (2020). UAV-to-Everything (U2X) Networks Relying on NOMA: A Stochastic Geometry Model. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 69(7). 7558–7568. 33 indexed citations

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