Victor C. M. Leung

66.4k total citations · 26 hit papers
1.7k papers, 45.9k citations indexed

About

Victor C. M. Leung is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor C. M. Leung has authored 1.7k papers receiving a total of 45.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1.2k papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 999 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 185 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Victor C. M. Leung's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (326 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (275 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (243 papers). Victor C. M. Leung is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (326 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (275 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (243 papers). Victor C. M. Leung collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Victor C. M. Leung's co-authors include F. Richard Yu, Min Chen, Haijun Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Hong Ji, Julian Cheng, Xi Li, Zhengguo Sheng, Xiuhua Li and Keping Long and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Victor C. M. Leung

1.6k papers receiving 44.4k citations

Hit Papers

Body Area Networks: A Survey 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2020 2014 2018 2015 250 500 750
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. Body Area Networks: A Survey
    2010 966 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  2. Convergence of Edge Computing and Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Survey
    2020 963 citations Xiaofei Wang, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  3. Cache in the air: exploiting content caching and delivery techniques for 5G systems
    2014 851 citations Xiaofei Wang, Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  4. Blockchain-Based Decentralized Trust Management in Vehicular Networks
    2018 689 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  5. Electricity Theft Detection in AMI Using Customers’ Consumption Patterns
    2015 578 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  6. Network Slicing Based 5G and Future Mobile Networks: Mobility, Resource Management, and Challenges
    2017 539 citations Haijun Zhang, Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  7. Wireless energy harvesting for the Internet of Things
    2015 498 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  8. Enabling Massive IoT Toward 6G: A Comprehensive Survey
    2021 460 citations F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  9. In-Band Full-Duplex Relaying: A Survey, Research Issues and Challenges
    2015 401 citations F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  10. Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Network
    2016 398 citations Haijun Zhang, Julian Cheng et al. profile →
  11. Green Internet of Things for Smart World
    2015 338 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  12. UAV Trajectory Optimization for Data Offloading at the Edge of Multiple Cells
    2018 303 citations F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →
  13. Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Internet of Things With Decentralized Cooperative Edge Caching
    2020 299 citations Xiaofei Wang, Xiuhua Li et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  14. Decentralized Applications: The Blockchain-Empowered Software System
    2018 290 citations Wei Cai, Zehua Wang et al. profile →
  15. Performance Optimization for Blockchain-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Systems: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
    2019 272 citations F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  16. Software-Defined Networks with Mobile Edge Computing and Caching for Smart Cities: A Big Data Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
    2017 270 citations F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  17. A Survey on Security Threats and Defensive Techniques of Machine Learning: A Data Driven View
    2018 268 citations Wei Cai, Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  18. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Efficient Computation Offloading in Mobile-Edge Computing
    2021 226 citations Xiuhua Li, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  19. Blockchain-Assisted Secure Fine-Grained Searchable Encryption for a Cloud-Based Healthcare Cyber-Physical System
    2021 217 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  20. Blockchain and Machine Learning for Communications and Networking Systems
    2020 211 citations F. Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  21. Unleashing the Power of Edge-Cloud Generative AI in Mobile Networks: A Survey of AIGC Services
    2024 186 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  22. Terahertz Communications and Sensing for 6G and Beyond: A Comprehensive Review
    2024 146 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  23. Joint Secure Offloading and Resource Allocation for Vehicular Edge Computing Network: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
    2023 144 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  24. Predictive and Adaptive Deep Coding for Wireless Image Transmission in Semantic Communication
    2023 105 citations Haijun Zhang, Victor C. M. Leung et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  25. Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Aerial-Terrestrial UAV Networks With Edge and Fog Computing for Post-Disaster Rescue
    2024 89 citations Victor C. M. Leung et al. profile →
  26. Digital Twin Empowered Wireless Healthcare Monitoring for Smart Home
    2023 81 citations Victor C. M. Leung, Xiping Hu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Victor C. M. Leung Canada 100 27.4k 23.8k 6.5k 5.6k 4.6k 1.7k 45.9k
F. Richard Yu Canada 96 23.1k 0.8× 17.2k 0.7× 7.4k 1.1× 6.0k 1.1× 5.2k 1.1× 1.1k 37.6k
Athanasios V. Vasilakos China 119 25.4k 0.9× 14.1k 0.6× 11.0k 1.7× 8.8k 1.6× 1.8k 0.4× 784 45.7k
Zhu Han United States 112 31.2k 1.1× 36.0k 1.5× 6.4k 1.0× 8.6k 1.5× 11.6k 2.5× 1.9k 60.4k
Mohsen Guizani China 104 30.1k 1.1× 20.2k 0.8× 12.9k 2.0× 12.7k 2.3× 7.4k 1.6× 1.5k 55.5k
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues Portugal 92 17.1k 0.6× 10.6k 0.4× 8.0k 1.2× 6.9k 1.2× 1.4k 0.3× 1.1k 33.5k
Xuemin Shen Canada 128 40.7k 1.5× 36.5k 1.5× 11.1k 1.7× 14.3k 2.6× 7.9k 1.7× 1.8k 69.9k
Neeraj Kumar India 109 23.5k 0.9× 12.7k 0.5× 18.6k 2.8× 11.2k 2.0× 3.7k 0.8× 1.1k 44.3k
Yan Zhang China 94 18.3k 0.7× 15.6k 0.7× 9.9k 1.5× 7.8k 1.4× 2.4k 0.5× 915 34.0k
Ning Zhang China 75 10.6k 0.4× 9.3k 0.4× 4.3k 0.7× 4.9k 0.9× 4.1k 0.9× 834 23.8k
Hari Balakrishnan United States 90 57.5k 2.1× 25.1k 1.1× 5.6k 0.9× 6.4k 1.1× 1.3k 0.3× 251 64.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Jing, Yao Du, Kun Yang, et al.. (2026). Edge-Cloud Collaborative Computing on Distributed Intelligence and Model Optimization: A Survey. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 28. 5049–5080.
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Liu, Yang, Hongjin Wang, Xiaoguang Zhu, et al.. (2025). CRCL: Causal Representation Consistency Learning for Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 34. 2351–2366. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Wei, et al.. (2025). MFTE: Multifactor and fuzzy trust evaluation for federated learning in mobile edge computing. Computer Networks. 265. 111340–111340. 2 indexed citations
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Stefanovic, Aleksandra, Gordon Ritchie, Colin Lee, et al.. (2025). Mecillinam activity against multidrug-resistant Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(3). e0100624–e0100624. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Tianheng, et al.. (2025). Elastic Spectrum Sensing: An Adaptive Sensing Method for Non-Terrestrial Communication Under Highly Dynamic Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(5). 3868–3881. 3 indexed citations
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Tang, Jianheng, et al.. (2025). CPDZ: A Credibility-Aware and Privacy-Preserving Data Collection Scheme With Zero-Trust in Next-Generation Crowdsensing Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 43(6). 2183–2199. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Qiuzhen, et al.. (2024). Multiobjective band selection approach via an adaptive particle swarm optimizer for remote sensing hyperspectral images. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. 89. 101614–101614. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Xiping, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Attention Guided Teacher–Student Network for Weakly Supervised Object Detection. Neurocomputing. 597. 127910–127910. 4 indexed citations
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Ullah, Shamsher, Jianqiang Li, Farhan Ullah, et al.. (2024). The revolution and vision of explainable AI for Android malware detection and protection. Internet of Things. 27. 101320–101320. 6 indexed citations
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Pan, Haoyuan, et al.. (2024). SC-PNC: Semantic Communication-Empowered Physical-Layer Network Coding. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. 10(4). 1160–1174. 3 indexed citations
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Zheng, Jiakang, Jiayi Zhang, Julian Cheng, et al.. (2023). Asynchronous Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Rate-Splitting. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 41(5). 1366–1382. 79 indexed citations
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Lin, Qiuzhen, et al.. (2022). An Ensemble Surrogate-Based Coevolutionary Algorithm for Solving Large-Scale Expensive Optimization Problems. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 53(9). 5854–5866. 22 indexed citations
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Ma, Lijia, Xiaocong Li, Qiuzhen Lin, et al.. (2022). Influence Maximization in Complex Networks by Using Evolutionary Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. 7(4). 995–1009. 33 indexed citations
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Ko, Haneul, Sangheon Pack, & Victor C. M. Leung. (2021). Performance Optimization of Serverless Computing for Latency-Guaranteed and Energy-Efficient Task Offloading in Energy-Harvesting Industrial IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(3). 1897–1907. 30 indexed citations
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Li, Jianqiang, et al.. (2021). Energy-Efficient Ground Traversability Mapping Based on UAV-UGV Collaborative System. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 6(1). 69–78. 18 indexed citations
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Sun, Chuan, Hui Li, Xiuhua Li, et al.. (2020). Task Offloading for End-Edge-Cloud Orchestrated Computing in Mobile Networks. 1–6. 28 indexed citations
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Wang, Zehua, et al.. (2020). Application and evaluation of payment channel in hybrid decentralized ethereum token exchange. Blockchain Research and Applications. 1(1-2). 100001–100001. 7 indexed citations
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Yu, F. Richard, et al.. (2020). Edge Intelligence (EI)-Enabled HTTP Anomaly Detection Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT). IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(5). 3554–3566. 49 indexed citations
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Ma, Lijia, Xiaopeng Huang, Jianqiang Li, et al.. (2019). Privacy-Preserving Global Structural Balance Computation in Signed Networks. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 7(1). 164–177. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Jingjing, Chunxiao Jiang, Haijun Zhang, et al.. (2017). Learning-Aided Network Association for Hybrid Indoor LiFi-WiFi Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 67(4). 3561–3574. 60 indexed citations

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