Yi Lou

1.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 639 citations indexed

About

Yi Lou is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Lou has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 639 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Ocean Engineering and 9 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Yi Lou's work include Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (14 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (9 papers) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (9 papers). Yi Lou is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (14 papers), Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (9 papers) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (9 papers). Yi Lou collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Australia. Yi Lou's co-authors include Ruoyu Zhang, Wen Wu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Shuai Wang, Lei Cheng, Yulong Gao, Julian Cheng, Gang Qiao, Paul D. Franzon and Fan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Langmuir, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Yi Lou

32 papers receiving 621 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.

Integrated Sensing and Communication With Massive MIMO: A Unified Tensor Approach for Channel and Target Parameter Estimation

2024 164 citations Ruoyu Zhang, Lei Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications profile →
Channel-Training-Aided Target Sensing for Terahertz Integrated Sensing and Massive MIMO Communications

2024 67 citations Ruoyu Zhang, Xiaopeng Wu et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Lou China	12	478	214	138	101	66	39	639
Thomas Derham Japan	9	270 0.6×	175 0.8×	152 1.1×	62 0.6×	40 0.6×	17	434
Linlong Wu Luxembourg	14	389 0.8×	630 2.9×	127 0.9×	48 0.5×	101 1.5×	60	841
Cecilia Carbonelli Germany	11	508 1.1×	151 0.7×	170 1.2×	112 1.1×	72 1.1×	39	592
Chahé Nerguizian Canada	16	721 1.5×	208 1.0×	196 1.4×	179 1.8×	157 2.4×	59	798
Martial Coulon France	6	310 0.6×	180 0.8×	100 0.7×	48 0.5×	113 1.7×	13	460
Chungyong Lee South Korea	13	698 1.5×	176 0.8×	239 1.7×	30 0.3×	115 1.7×	127	860
François Chan Canada	14	425 0.9×	161 0.8×	174 1.3×	75 0.7×	105 1.6×	60	580
Jari Syrjärinne Finland	11	224 0.5×	180 0.8×	81 0.6×	46 0.5×	41 0.6×	26	320
Benjamin Nuß Germany	15	369 0.8×	460 2.1×	94 0.7×	21 0.2×	69 1.0×	54	652
Kyungchun Lee South Korea	18	654 1.4×	239 1.1×	313 2.3×	27 0.3×	61 0.9×	70	795

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Lou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Lou

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhu, Xiaoying, et al.. (2025). An adaptive IRS adjusting algorithm aids communication in heterogeneous cognitive radio networks. Ain Shams Engineering Journal. 16(5). 103343–103343.

Yao, Xu, et al.. (2025). Outage Probability of UAV-Assisted Dual-Hop RF-UWOC Systems Leveraging NOMA. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 75(2). 3318–3323.

Lou, Yi, et al.. (2025). Performance analysis of Quaternion-MUSIC: Unification, simplification, and evaluation. Signal Processing. 238. 110179–110179.

Chen, Zhi‐Kuan, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Tracking Method for Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channel Based on Dynamic Gaussian Window. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 12(12). 2185–2185.

Zhang, Ruoyu, et al.. (2024). Channel-Training-Aided Target Sensing for Terahertz Integrated Sensing and Massive MIMO Communications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(4). 3755–3770. 67 indexed citations breakdown →

Jin, Tao, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Long Baseline Underwater Target Localization With Adaptive Track-Before-Detect Method. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 31. 1710–1714. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Rong, Yi Lou, Ning Wang, et al.. (2024). Secrecy Performance Analysis of UAV-Assisted Ambient Backscatter Communications With Jamming. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(12). 18111–18125. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Ruoyu, Lei Cheng, Shuai Wang, et al.. (2024). Integrated Sensing and Communication With Massive MIMO: A Unified Tensor Approach for Channel and Target Parameter Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(8). 8571–8587. 164 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Rong, et al.. (2023). Secrecy Analysis of ABCom-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems With Jamming. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 25(3). 2880–2892. 9 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, et al.. (2023). Direction-of-Arrival Estimation for Nested Acoustic Vector-Sensor Arrays Using Quaternions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–14. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Dawei, et al.. (2023). Double-Edge Computation Offloading for Secure Integrated Space–Air–Aqua Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(17). 15581–15593. 25 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, et al.. (2022). Physical-Layer Security for UAV-Assisted Air-to-Underwater Communication Systems with Fixed-Gain Amplify-and-Forward Relaying. Drones. 6(11). 341–341. 8 indexed citations

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Qiao, Gang, et al.. (2022). A Full-Duplex Directional MAC Framework for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(14). 14647–14661. 9 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, et al.. (2022). Performance of Vertical Underwater Wireless Optical Communications With Cascaded Layered Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 71(5). 5651–5655. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Xiang, Xin Liu, Long Qu, Yi Lou, & Sibo Sun. (2021). Three-Dimensional Ultra-Short Base Line Based Underwater Acoustical Localization Utilizing Modified Newton Algorithm. IEEE Access. 9. 80671–80681. 4 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, et al.. (2021). Quaternion-Based Two-Dimensional DOA Estimation for Coherent Underwater Sources Without Eigendecomposition. IEEE Access. 9. 104142–104153. 5 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, et al.. (2021). Secrecy Outage Analysis of Two-Hop Decode-and-Forward Mixed RF/UWOC Systems. IEEE Communications Letters. 26(5). 989–993. 24 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, et al.. (2021). Computationally Efficient Two-Dimensional DOA Estimation Algorithm Based on Quaternion Theory. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 28. 1764–1768. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ruoyu, et al.. (2020). Sparse Vector Coding Aided Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications in Multi-User Massive MIMO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 70(1). 1019–1024. 20 indexed citations

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Lou, Yi, Zheng Yan, Julian Cheng, & Honglin Zhao. (2017). Performance of SWIPT-Based Differential AF Relaying Over Nakagami- $m$ Fading Channels With Direct Link. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 7(1). 106–109. 14 indexed citations

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