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Researcher · Virginia Tech · United States

Y. Thomas Hou

Y. Thomas Hou publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks.

World rank
#67,775
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#30,574
of 358,040
Works
119
Citations
872
Citations per work
7.3

What does Y. Thomas Hou research?

Computer Networks and Communications: 40.7%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 25.1%Artificial Intelligence: 10.8%Information Systems: 3.6%other fields: 19.8%41%top field
Computer Networks and Communications40.7%Electrical and Electronic Engineering25.1%Artificial Intelligence10.8%Information Systems3.6%other fields19.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications41% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering25% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence11% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems4% of their works
  5. 5Signal Processing3% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Y. Thomas Hou's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Channel Assignment, Energy Efficiency, Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks, Information Transfer, Wireless Energy Harvesting and Cellular Networks.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Channel Assignment182 topics
  2. Energy Efficiency152 topics
  3. Wireless Networks122 topics
  4. Ad Hoc Networks111 topic
  5. Wireless Mesh Networks111 topic
  6. Information Transfer81 topic
  7. Wireless Energy Harvesting81 topic
  8. Cellular Networks71 topic
  9. Energy-Efficient Protocols71 topic
  10. IEEE 802.1171 topic
  11. MAC Protocol71 topic
  12. Massive MIMO71 topic
  13. Wireless Sensor Networks71 topic
  14. Congestion Control61 topic
  15. Cooperative Diversity61 topic
  16. Homomorphic Encryption61 topic
  17. Identity-Based Encryption61 topic
  18. Network Coding61 topic
  19. TCP61 topic

Where does Y. Thomas Hou work?

Y. Thomas Hou's main affiliation in the publication record is Virginia Tech, United States.

How many publications and citations does Y. Thomas Hou have?

Science Explorer counts 119 works and 872 citations for Y. Thomas Hou, ranking #67,775 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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