2026 Lixia Zhang: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	107	262	254	144	139	360	75020

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2006 - ACM Fellow For contributions to protocol designs for packet switched networks.
2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols in packet switched networks.

Overview

Lixia Zhang is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Computer Science and Engineering. Zhang's work focuses extensively on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Environmental Engineering, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The topics frequently addressed in their research include Advanced Neural Network Applications, Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Maritime Navigation and Safety, Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic, and Video Analysis and Summarization.

Their recent publications cover a range of subjects and venues. Notable papers include:

Person Re-Identification With Multi-Features Based on Evolutionary Algorithm, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Combining finite mixture distribution, receptor model, and geostatistical simulation to evaluate heavy metals pollution in soils: Source and spatial pattern, 2020, Land Degradation and Development
Evaluation of the survival of Yangtze finless porpoise under probabilistic hesitant fuzzy environment, 2022, International Journal of Intelligent Systems
MSLKNet: A Multi-Scale Large Kernel Convolutional Network for Radar Extrapolation, 2023, Atmosphere
Semantic Segmentation of Substation Site Cloud Based on Seg-PointNet, 2022, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Zhang has frequently collaborated with several other researchers, including Kangshun Li, with whom they have coauthored three works, Zhi-Ming Ma and Xiangshu Peng, each with two joint publications, as well as Yongbing Wang and Xinling Jia on one paper each.

Their work is regularly published in venues such as the International Journal of Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Atmosphere, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, and Land Degradation and Development.

In terms of recognition, Zhang has been awarded fellowships by major organizations. They were named an ACM Fellow in 2006 for contributions to protocol designs for packet-switched networks. In the same year, they were also honored as an IEEE Fellow for their work on architecture and signaling protocols in packet-switched networks.

Best Publications

Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification

L. Zhang;S. Berson;S. Herzog;S. Jamin

5816
Citations
RSVP: a new resource reservation protocol

Lixia Zhang;S. Deering;D. Estrin;S. Shenker

5617
Citations
Stream Control Transmission Protocol

R. Stewart;Q. Xie;K. Morneault;C. Sharp

3913
Citations
MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's

Vaduvur Bharghavan;Alan Demers;Scott Shenker;Lixia Zhang

3327
Citations
Named data networking

Lixia Zhang;Alexander Afanasyev;Jeffrey Burke;Van Jacobson

2579
Citations
Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

B. Braden;D. Clark;J. Crowcroft;B. Davie

2263
Citations
TTDD: two-tier data dissemination in large-scale wireless sensor networks

Haiyun Luo;Fan Ye;Jerry Cheng;Songwu Lu

2156
Citations
A two-tier data dissemination model for large-scale wireless sensor networks

Fan Ye;Haiyun Luo;Jerry Cheng;Songwu Lu

1559
Citations
A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson;Ching-Gung Liu;Steven McCanne

1543
Citations
Supporting real-time applications in an Integrated Services Packet Network: architecture and mechanism

David D. Clark;Scott Shenker;Lixia Zhang

1525
Citations
PEAS: a robust energy conserving protocol for long-lived sensor networks

Fan Ye;G. Zhong;J. Cheng;Songwu Lu

1491
Citations
A Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet

K. Nichols;V. Jacobson;L. Zhang

1439
Citations
Security in mobile ad hoc networks: challenges and solutions

Hao Yang;Haiyun Luo;Fan Ye;Songwu Lu

1402
Citations
A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson;Steve McCanne;Ching-Gung Liu

1311
Citations
Providing robust and ubiquitous security support for mobile ad-hoc networks

Jiejun Kong;Z. Petros;Haiyun Luo;Songwu Lu

1265
Citations
Named Data Networking (NDN) Project

Lixia Zhang;Deborah Estrin;Jeffrey Burke;Van Jacobson

1254
Citations
Statistical en-route filtering of injected false data in sensor networks

Fan Ye;H. Luo;Songwu Lu;Lixia Zhang

1156
Citations
Statistical en-route filtering of injected false data in sensor networks

Fan Ye;Haiyun Luo;Songwu Lu;Lixia Zhang

1137
Citations
Virtual clock: a new traffic control algorithm for packet switching networks

L. Zhang

1003
Citations
The impact of multihop wireless channel on TCP throughput and loss

Z. Fu;P. Zerfos;H. Luo;S. Lu

814
Citations
RSVP: A New Resource ReSerVation Protocol: Novel design features lead to an Internet protocol that is flexible and scalable.

Lixia Zhang;Stephen Deering;Deborah Estrin;Scott Shenker

62
Citations
Named Data Networking

Lixia Zhang;Van Jacobson;St Louis;Lan Wang

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Massey University of Colorado Boulder

Beichuan Zhang University of Arizona

Lan Wang University of Memphis

Songwu Lu University of California, Los Angeles

Jeff Burke University of California, Los Angeles

Dan Pei Tsinghua University

Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

Van Jacobson University of California, Los Angeles

Fan Ye Stony Brook University

Deborah Estrin Cornell University

External Links

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