Wei Ni

9.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
340 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Ni is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Ni has authored 340 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 195 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 175 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 62 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Wei Ni's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (86 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (50 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (36 papers). Wei Ni is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (86 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (50 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (36 papers). Wei Ni collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Wei Ni's co-authors include Ren Ping Liu, Mehran Abolhasan, Imran Makhdoom, Xin Wang, Kai Li, Justin Lipman, Xu Wang, Hui Tian, Y. Jay Guo and Iain B. Collings and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Wei Ni

319 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Survey on blockchain for Internet of Things

2019 376 citations Xu Wang, Wei Ni et al. profile →
Blockchain's adoption in IoT: The challenges, and a way forward

2018 332 citations Mehran Abolhasan, Wei Ni et al. profile →
Anatomy of Threats to the Internet of Things

2018 248 citations Mehran Abolhasan, Ren Ping Liu et al. profile →
PrivySharing: A blockchain-based framework for privacy-preserving and secure data sharing in smart cities

2019 216 citations Mehran Abolhasan, Wei Ni et al. Computers & Security profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wei Ni	3.8k	3.2k	1.8k	1.3k	1.0k	340	6.8k
Haipeng Yao	3.9k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	230	5.7k
Lei Guo	4.3k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	903 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	286	7.2k
Ilsun You	3.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	694 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	317	5.8k
Celimuge Wu	3.9k 1.0×	3.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	865 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	323	6.4k
Lei Liu	2.9k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	999 0.6×	827 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	299	5.6k
Yang Yang	5.6k 1.5×	6.4k 2.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	917 0.9×	658	10.6k
Mohammed Atiquzzaman	6.3k 1.7×	3.8k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.7×	431	10.0k
Symeon Papavassiliou	4.2k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	955 0.5×	598 0.5×	890 0.9×	417	6.0k
Weifa Liang	5.5k 1.5×	3.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	735 0.6×	539 0.5×	282	7.2k
Qiang Ni	6.1k 1.6×	6.6k 2.1×	848 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	357	10.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Ni

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Ni

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Ni

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ni, Wei, et al.. (2025). Integrated Sensing and Communication With Reconfigurable Holographic Surface. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(11). 10377–10390. 1 indexed citations

Xing, Chengwen, et al.. (2025). Tensor-Based Joint Channel Estimation and Activity Detection for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Massive Connectivity. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 73(11). 11870–11885. 1 indexed citations

Li, Chao, et al.. (2025). A Novel Cross-Chain Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework for Enhancing Service Security and Communication Efficiency. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(3). 1199–1212. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Xi, Tiejun Lv, Weicai Li, et al.. (2025). Multi-Task Semantic Communication With Graph Attention-Based Feature Correlation Extraction. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(5). 4371–4388. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Li, Baoming Chen, Shoudong Huang, et al.. (2024). Marden-Based Homotopic Enclosed Safe Motion Corridor Generation for UAV Navigation in Complex Environments. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 22. 17486–17500.

Duan, Li, et al.. (2024). A Novel Blockchain-based Responsible Recommendation System for Service Process Creation and Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 15(4). 1–24. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Xu, et al.. (2023). A new concatenated Multigraph Neural Network for IoT intrusion detection. Internet of Things. 22. 100818–100818. 32 indexed citations

Wang, Xu, et al.. (2023). NE-GConv: A lightweight node edge graph convolutional network for intrusion detection. Computers & Security. 130. 103285–103285. 23 indexed citations

Siddiqui, Sarah, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, & Wei Ni. (2023). Trust in Vehicles: Toward Context-Aware Trust and Attack Resistance for the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24(9). 9546–9560. 12 indexed citations

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Ni, Wei, et al.. (2021). Software-Defined Networking-Based Adaptive Routing for Multi-Hop Multi-Frequency Wireless Mesh. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 70(12). 13073–13086. 4 indexed citations

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Savkin, Andrey V., Hailong Huang, & Wei Ni. (2020). Securing UAV Communication in the Presence of Stationary or Mobile Eavesdroppers via Online 3D Trajectory Planning. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 9(8). 1211–1215. 48 indexed citations

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Ni, Wei, et al.. (2020). Decentralized Real-Time Optimization of Voltage Reconfigurable Cloud Computing Data Center. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 4(2). 577–592. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Chang‐ai, et al.. (2019). A Comprehensive Security Framework for Publish/Subscribe-Based IoT Services Communication. IEEE Access. 7. 25989–26001. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Kai, Wei Ni, Eduardo Tovar, & Mohsen Guizani. (2019). Optimal Rate-Adaptive Data Dissemination in Vehicular Platoons. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 21(10). 4241–4251. 27 indexed citations

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Meng, Chao, et al.. (2019). An Energy-Efficient Transmission Strategy for Cache-Enabled Wireless Networks With Non-Negligible Circuit Power. IEEE Access. 7. 74811–74821. 3 indexed citations

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Tao, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2019). Analysis on Secrecy Capacity of Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access With Proactive Jamming. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68(3). 2682–2696. 31 indexed citations

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Lyu, Xinchen, Wei Ni, Hui Tian, et al.. (2018). Distributed Online Optimization of Fog Computing for Selfish Devices With Out-of-Date Information. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 17(11). 7704–7717. 32 indexed citations

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Lyu, Xinchen, Hui Tian, Wei Ni, et al.. (2018). Energy-Efficient Admission of Delay-Sensitive Tasks for Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66(6). 2603–2616. 176 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaojing, Wei Ni, Tianyi Chen, et al.. (2018). Multi-Timescale Online Optimization of Network Function Virtualization for Service Chaining. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 18(12). 2899–2912. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Kai, Wei Ni, Lingjie Duan, Mehran Abolhasan, & Jianwei Niu. (2017). Wireless Power Transfer and Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 67(3). 2686–2697. 66 indexed citations

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