Wei Yu

27.5k total citations · 16 hit papers
472 papers, 18.8k citations indexed

About

Wei Yu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Yu has authored 472 papers receiving a total of 18.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 305 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 195 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 41 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wei Yu's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (184 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (137 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (61 papers). Wei Yu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (184 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (137 papers) and Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (61 papers). Wei Yu collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Wei Yu's co-authors include Foad Sohrabi, Kaiming Shen, Raymond Lui, Liang Liu, J.M. Cioffi, Hayssam Dahrouj, Tian Lan, Osvaldo Simeone, David Gesbert and Stephen V. Hanly and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Wei Yu

446 papers receiving 18.3k citations

Hit Papers

Fractional Programming for ... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2018 2006 2010 2016 2007 400 800 1.2k
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. Fractional Programming for Communication Systems—Part I: Power Control and Beamforming
    2018 1.2k citations Kaiming Shen, Wei Yu IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  2. Dual methods for nonconvex spectrum optimization of multicarrier systems
    2006 1.2k citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →
  3. Multi-Cell MIMO Cooperative Networks: A New Look at Interference
    2010 1.2k citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  4. Hybrid Digital and Analog Beamforming Design for Large-Scale Antenna Arrays
    2016 1.0k citations Foad Sohrabi, Wei Yu IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing profile →
  5. Transmitter Optimization for the Multi-Antenna Downlink With Per-Antenna Power Constraints
    2007 575 citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  6. Distributed multiuser power control for digital subscriber lines
    2002 571 citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  7. Coordinated beamforming for the multicell multi-antenna wireless system
    2010 517 citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
  8. Massive Access for 5G and Beyond
    2020 477 citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  9. Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO—Part I: Device Activity Detection and Channel Estimation
    2018 471 citations Liang Liu, Wei Yu IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  10. Fractional Programming for Communication Systems—Part II: Uplink Scheduling via Matching
    2018 370 citations Kaiming Shen, Wei Yu IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  11. Joint optimization of relay strategies and resource allocations in cooperative cellular networks
    2007 361 citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  12. An introduction to convex optimization for communications and signal processing
    2006 356 citations Wei Yu et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  13. Sparse Signal Processing for Grant-Free Massive Connectivity: A Future Paradigm for Random Access Protocols in the Internet of Things
    2018 334 citations Liang Liu, Wei Yu et al. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine profile →
  14. Sparse Activity Detection for Massive Connectivity
    2018 263 citations Foad Sohrabi, Wei Yu et al. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing profile →
  15. Learning to Reflect and to Beamform for Intelligent Reflecting Surface With Implicit Channel Estimation
    2021 200 citations Tao Jiang, Hei Victor Cheng et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
  16. Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Multi-User mmWave MIMO Systems
    2023 160 citations Hei Victor Cheng, Wei Yu et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Yu Canada 57 15.6k 9.1k 2.9k 803 715 472 18.8k
Petar Popovski Denmark 56 14.7k 0.9× 9.0k 1.0× 2.7k 0.9× 912 1.1× 1.2k 1.6× 533 17.6k
Wei Zhang China 55 7.7k 0.5× 6.4k 0.7× 2.7k 0.9× 1.0k 1.3× 695 1.0× 800 13.4k
Xiaohu You China 56 14.9k 1.0× 7.4k 0.8× 3.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.7× 656 0.9× 1.0k 18.0k
John Thompson United Kingdom 53 9.5k 0.6× 6.3k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 578 0.7× 503 0.7× 484 12.0k
Cheng‐Xiang Wang China 74 20.4k 1.3× 6.8k 0.7× 5.1k 1.7× 726 0.9× 2.0k 2.9× 647 24.3k
George K. Karagiannidis Greece 76 22.3k 1.4× 10.4k 1.1× 5.4k 1.8× 1.4k 1.7× 772 1.1× 687 25.6k
Feifei Gao China 69 12.8k 0.8× 5.6k 0.6× 4.5k 1.5× 1.8k 2.3× 443 0.6× 585 18.9k
Kai‐Kit Wong United Kingdom 68 14.9k 1.0× 8.0k 0.9× 5.8k 2.0× 1.5k 1.8× 502 0.7× 699 18.4k
Xiqi Gao China 54 11.3k 0.7× 5.2k 0.6× 3.7k 1.3× 603 0.8× 483 0.7× 538 13.4k
Xianbin Wang Canada 60 9.4k 0.6× 6.3k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 2.4k 3.0× 808 1.1× 704 14.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Yu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Yiming, et al.. (2025). Multimodal Visual Image Based User Association and Beamforming Using Graph Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 25. 292–307.
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Yu, Wei, et al.. (2025). Capacity Bounds for Broadcast Channels With Bidirectional Conferencing Decoders. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 71(10). 7484–7503. 1 indexed citations
3.
Jiang, Tao, et al.. (2024). Active Sensing for Multiuser Beam Tracking With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 24(1). 540–554. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Wei, et al.. (2024). Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications Using Uplink-Downlink Duality. 2808–2813. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Jun, et al.. (2024). Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff Based on the Conditional-Distribution Perception Measure. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70(12). 8432–8454. 5 indexed citations
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Phan, Buu, et al.. (2023). Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff Based on the Conditional Perception Measure. 31–37. 2 indexed citations
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Jiang, Tao & Wei Yu. (2022). Interference Nulling Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 40(5). 1392–1406. 62 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhongze, Tao Jiang, & Wei Yu. (2022). Learning Based User Scheduling in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser Downlink. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 16(5). 1026–1039. 28 indexed citations
9.
Sohrabi, Foad, et al.. (2021). Deep Learning for Distributed Channel Feedback and Multiuser Precoding in FDD Massive MIMO. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(7). 4044–4057. 120 indexed citations
10.
Cui, Wei & Wei Yu. (2021). Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Routing and Spectrum Access in Physical Layer. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 69(12). 8200–8213. 11 indexed citations
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Yang, Kai, Yuanming Shi, Wei Yu, & Zhi Ding. (2020). Energy-Efficient Processing and Robust Wireless Cooperative Transmission for Edge Inference. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(10). 9456–9470. 37 indexed citations
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Khosravirad, Saeed R., Harish Viswanathan, & Wei Yu. (2020). Exploiting Diversity for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Wireless Control. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(1). 316–331. 29 indexed citations
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Bellili, Faouzi, Foad Sohrabi, & Wei Yu. (2019). Generalized Approximate Message Passing for Massive MIMO mmWave Channel Estimation With Laplacian Prior. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 67(5). 3205–3219. 57 indexed citations
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Chen, Xihan, Kaiming Shen, Hei Victor Cheng, et al.. (2019). Power Control for Massive MIMO Systems with Nonorthogonal Pilots. IEEE Communications Letters. 24(3). 612–616. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Liang & Wei Yu. (2018). A D2D-Based Protocol for Ultra-Reliable Wireless Communications for Industrial Automation. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 17(8). 5045–5058. 71 indexed citations
16.
Liu, Liang & Wei Yu. (2018). Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO—Part II: Achievable Rate Characterization. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 66(11). 2947–2959. 118 indexed citations
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Dai, Binbin, Ya‐Feng Liu, & Wei Yu. (2018). Optimized Base-Station Cache Allocation for Cloud Radio Access Network With Multicast Backhaul. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 36(8). 1737–1750. 44 indexed citations
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Shen, Kaiming & Wei Yu. (2018). Fractional Programming for Communication Systems—Part I: Power Control and Beamforming. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 66(10). 2616–2630. 1243 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dai, Binbin, et al.. (2018). Hybrid Data-Sharing and Compression Strategy for Downlink Cloud Radio Access Network. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66(11). 5370–5384. 12 indexed citations
20.
Yu, Wei & Joakim Jaldén. (2018). Perspectives in Signal Processing for Communications and Networking: Spotlight on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees [In the Spotlight]. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 35(5). 188–183. 1 indexed citations

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