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Computer Science

D-Index
57
Citations
17010
World Ranking
3768
National Ranking
1799

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
16613
World Ranking
2028
National Ranking
796

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems with applications to cognitive networking

Overview

Qing Zhao is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed to several fields within computer science and engineering. Their main research areas focus on computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, and aerospace engineering. The primary domains of study include energy efficient wireless sensor networks, energy harvesting in wireless networks, security in wireless sensor networks, IoT and edge/fog computing, UAV applications and optimization, video surveillance and tracking methods, and age of information optimization.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Energy Balanced Source Location Privacy Scheme Using Multibranch Path in WSNs for IoT, 2021, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
  • Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Routing Algorithm for Post-disaster Mine Internet of Things Networks, 2023, Preprints.org
  • Uav trajectory optimization for maximizing the ToI-based data utility in wireless sensor networks, 2025, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Research on reliable communication network for data concurrent transmission based on intelligent network connection system, 2021, Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Table of Contents, 2020, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Qing Zhao include:

  • Zhen Li
  • Jianqiang Li
  • Jianxiong Guo
  • Xingjian Ding
  • Deying Li

Qing Zhao has published multiple papers in venues such as:

  • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Preprints.org
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Their work primarily spans 11 publications within computer science and 4 publications in engineering. The detailed subfields include 10 publications in computer networks and communications, 3 in electrical and electronic engineering, 1 in aerospace engineering, and 1 in computer vision and pattern recognition.

Among recognized honors, Qing Zhao was named IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems with applications to cognitive networking.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access

    Qing Zhao;B.M. Sadler

  • Decentralized cognitive MAC for opportunistic spectrum access in ad hoc networks: A POMDP framework

    Qing Zhao;Lang Tong;Ananthram Swami;Yunxia Chen

  • On the lifetime of wireless sensor networks

    Yunxia Chen;Qing Zhao

  • Joint Design and Separation Principle for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in the Presence of Sensing Errors

    Yunxia Chen;Qing Zhao;A. Swami

  • Sensor networks with mobile agents

    Lang Tong;Qing Zhao;S. Adireddy

  • Decentralized cognitive mac for dynamic spectrum access

    Q. Zhao;L. Tong;A. Swami

  • Distributed Learning in Multi-Armed Bandit With Multiple Players

    Keqin Liu;Qing Zhao

  • Optimality of Myopic Sensing in Multichannel Opportunistic Access

    S. Ahmad;Mingyan Liu;T. Javidi;Qing Zhao

  • On myopic sensing for multi-channel opportunistic access: structure, optimality, and performance

    Qing Zhao;B. Krishnamachari;Keqin Liu

  • Indexability of Restless Bandit Problems and Optimality of Whittle Index for Dynamic Multichannel Access

    Keqin Liu;Qing Zhao

  • Multipacket reception in random access wireless networks: from signal processing to optimal medium access control

    Lang Tong;Qing Zhao;G. Mergen

  • A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access: Signal Processing and Networking Perspectives

    Qing Zhao;A. Swami

  • Decentralized dynamic spectrum access for cognitive radios: cooperative design of a non-cooperative game

    M. Maskery;V. Krishnamurthy;Qing Zhao

  • Distributed Spectrum Sensing and Access in Cognitive Radio Networks With Energy Constraint

    Yunxia Chen;Qing Zhao;A. Swami

  • A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Opportunistic Spectrum Access

    Qing Zhao;A. Swami

  • Power control in cognitive radio networks: how to cross a multi-lane highway

    Wei Ren;Qing Zhao;A. Swami

  • Learning in a Changing World: Restless Multiarmed Bandit With Unknown Dynamics

    Haoyang Liu;Keqin Liu;Qing Zhao

  • Transmission Scheduling for Optimizing Sensor Network Lifetime: A Stochastic Shortest Path Approach

    Yunxia Chen;Qing Zhao;V. Krishnamurthy;D. Djonin

  • A multiqueue service room MAC protocol for wireless networks with multipacket reception

    Qing Zhao;Lang Tong

  • Optimality of Myopic Sensing in Multi-Channel Opportunistic Access

    T. Javidi;B. Krishnamachari;Qing Zhao;Mingyan Liu

  • Dynamic Spectrum Access: Signal Processing, Networking, and Regulatory Policy

    Qing Zhao;Brian M. Sadler

  • Distributed Learning in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Ananthram Swami;Qing Zhao;Yao-Win Hong;Lang Tong

  • On Myopic Sensing for Multi-Channel Opportunistic Access

    Qing Zhao;Bhaskar Krishnamachari;Keqin Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ananthram Swami
Ananthram Swami United States Army Research Laboratory
Lang Tong
Lang Tong Cornell University
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California
Chen-Nee Chuah
Chen-Nee Chuah University of California, Davis
Anna Scaglione
Anna Scaglione Cornell University
Amotz Bar-Noy
Amotz Bar-Noy City University of New York
Vikram Krishnamurthy
Vikram Krishnamurthy Cornell University
Tara Javidi
Tara Javidi University of California, San Diego
Mingyan Liu
Mingyan Liu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Saswati Sarkar
Saswati Sarkar University of Pennsylvania

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