2026 Peng-Jun Wan: 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	56	4024	3911	1917	1850	277	14554

Overview

Peng-Jun Wan is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on network security, internet traffic analysis, and communication technologies.

Their research output includes publications in several peer-reviewed venues, demonstrating engagement with diverse topics related to network security and wireless communications. Key published papers include:

Model Protection: Real-Time Privacy-Preserving Inference Service for Model Privacy at the Edge, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
MORE, 2020, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Effective algorithms to detect stepping-stone intrusion by removing outliers of packet RTTs, 2021, Tsinghua Science & Technology
Mining Network Traffic with the k-Means Clustering Algorithm for Stepping-Stone Intrusion Detection, 2021, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
A novel routing verification approach based on blockchain for inter-domain routing in smart metropolitan area networks, 2020, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peng-Jun Wan include:

Jianhua Yang
Lixin Wang
Michael Workman

Peng-Jun Wan commonly publishes in the following venues:

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Tsinghua Science & Technology

Their main fields of study are Computer Science and Engineering, with subfields including:

Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Hardware and Architecture
Signal Processing

The main topics covered in their work include:

Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
Advanced Wireless Network Optimization
Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Best Publications

Distributed construction of connected dominating set in wireless ad hoc networks

Peng-Jun Wan;Khaled M. Alzoubi;Ophir Frieder

1453
Citations
Coverage in wireless ad hoc sensor networks

Xiang-Yang Li;Peng-Jun Wan;O. Frieder

827
Citations
Minimum-energy broadcasting in static ad hoc wireless networks

P. J. Wan;G. Călinescu;X. Y. Li;O. Frieder

700
Citations
Minimum-energy broadcast routing in static ad hoc wireless networks

P.-J. Wan;G. Calinescu;X.-Y. Li;O. Frieder

585
Citations
Message-optimal connected dominating sets in mobile ad hoc networks

Khaled M. Alzoubi;Peng-Jun Wan;Ophir Frieder

550
Citations
New distributed algorithm for connected dominating set in wireless ad hoc networks

K.M. Alzoubi;Peng-Jun Wan;O. Frieder

411
Citations
Distributed heuristics for connected dominating sets in wireless ad hoc networks

Khaled M. Alzoubi;Peng-Jun Wan;Ophir Frieder

386
Citations
Distributed construction of a planar spanner and routing for ad hoc wireless networks

Xiang-Yang Li;G. Calinescu;Peng-Jun Wan

370
Citations
Selecting forwarding neighbors in wireless ad hoc networks

Gruia Călinescu;Ion I. Mandoiu;Peng-Jun Wan;Alexander Z. Zelikovsky

322
Citations
Geometric spanners for wireless ad hoc networks

K. Alzoubi;X.-Y. Li;Y. Wang;P.-J. Wan

321
Citations
Localized Delaunay triangulation with application in ad hoc wireless networks

Xiang-Yang Li;G. Calinescu;Peng-Jun Wan;Yu Wang

310
Citations
Minimum-latency aggregation scheduling in multihop wireless networks

Peng-Jun Wan;Scott C.-H. Huang;Lixin Wang;Zhiyuan Wan

304
Citations
Nearly Constant Approximation for Data Aggregation Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks

S.C.-H. Huang;Peng-Jun Wan;C.T. Vu;Yingshu Li

284
Citations
Fault tolerant deployment and topology control in wireless networks

Xiang-Yang Li;Peng-Jun Wan;Yu Wang;Chih-Wei Yi

268
Citations
On greedy construction of connected dominating sets in wireless networks

Yingshu Li;My T. Thai;Feng Wang;Chih Wei Yi

253
Citations
Coverage by randomly deployed wireless sensor networks

Peng-Jun Wan;Chih-Wei Yi

252
Citations
Power efficient and sparse spanner for wireless ad hoc networks

Xiang-Yang Li;Peng-Jun Wan;Yu Wang

239
Citations
Fault tolerant deployment and topology control in wireless ad hoc networks

Xiang‐Yang Li;Peng‐Jun Wan;Yu Wang;Chih‐Wei Yi

238
Citations
Constructing minimum energy mobile wireless networks

Xiang-Yang Li;Peng-Jun Wan

231
Citations
Asymptotic critical transmission radius and critical neighbor number for k-connectivity in wireless ad hoc networks

Peng-Jun Wan;Chih-Wei Yi

222
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ophir Frieder Georgetown University

Xiang-Yang Li University of Science and Technology of China

Xiaohua Jia City University of Hong Kong

Frances F. Yao City University of Hong Kong

Ding-Zhu Du The University of Texas at Dallas

Yu Wang Temple University

Weili Wu The University of Texas at Dallas

Shaojie Tang The University of Texas at Dallas

Yuanyuan Yang Stony Brook University

Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University

External Links

Wikipedia of Peng-Jun Wan Personal website of Peng-Jun Wan Google Scholar page

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