1.面向用户空间随机分布场景的认知中继网络性能分析与优化设计，国家自然科学基金青年项目，2019-2021，主持
2.随机认知中继网络中的功率控制策略研究，湖南省自然科学基金青年项目，2017-2019，主持
3.无线频谱地图构建理论及方法研究，智能无线通信湖北省重点实验室开放课题，2017-2019，主持
4.移动网络上节点及连边的免疫有效性研究，网络与交换技术国家重点实验室开放课题，2016-2018，参与

1. Zhi Yan, Shuang Chen, Xing Zhang, and Hongli Liu, “Outage performance analysis of wireless energy harvesting relay-assisted random underlay cognitive networks,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, Aug. 2018. (SCI 一区）
2. Zhi Yan, Xing Zhang, Hongli Liu, and Yingchang Liang, "An efficient transmit power control strategy for underlay spectrum sharing networks with spatially random priamry users," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 7, Jul. 2018. (SCI)
3. Zhi Yan, Shuang Chen, YangboOu, and Hongli Liu, “Energy efficiency analysis of cache-enabled two-tier HetNets under different spectrum deployment strategies,” IEEE Access, vol. 5, Mar. 2017. (SCI)
4. Zhi Yan, Wentao Zhou, Shuang Chen, and Hongli Liu, “Modeling and analysis of two-tier HetNets with cognitive small cells,” IEEE Access, vol. 5, Dec. 2016. (SCI)
5. Zhi Yan, Xing Zhang and Wenbo Wang, “Exact outage performance of cognitive relay networks with maximum transmit power limits,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 12, Dec. 2011. (SCI, Cited 107 times, Google scholar)
6. Xing Zhang, Zhi Yan, Yue Gao, and Wenbo Wang, “On the study of outage performance for cognitive relay networks (CRN) with the Nth best relay selection in Rayleigh-fading channels,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, Feb. 2013. (SCI)
7. Jiusong Hu, Dawei Liu, Zhi Yan, ang Hongli Liu, "Experimental analysis on weight K-nearest neighbor indoor fingerprint positioning," IEEE Internet of things Journal, early access, Aug. 2018. (SCI 一区)
8. Bo Ouyang, Qiang Ye, Siddharth Patil, Cong Wang, Lu Lu, Zhi Yan, "The relation between communication range and controllability of networked multi-agent systems," IEEE Access, vol. 6, 2018. (SCI)
9. Bo Ouyang, Yongxiang Xia, Cong Wang, Qiang Ye, Zhi Yan, Qiu Tang, "Quantifying importance of edges in networks," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 65, no. 9, Sept. 2018. (SCI)
10. Xing Zhang, Yan Zhang, Zhi Yan, and Wenbo Wang“Performance Analysis of Cognitive Relay Networks over Non-identical Nakagami-m Fading Channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 33, no. 5, May 2015. (SCI 一区)
11. Xing Zhang, Zhenglei Yi, Zhi Yan, and Wenbo Wang, “Social computing for mobile big data,” IEEE Comupter, vol. 49, no. 9, Spet. 2016. (SCI)
12. Xing Zhang, Jia Xing, Zhi Yan, Yue Gao, and Wenbo Wang, “Outage performance study of cognitive relay networks with imperfect channel knowledge,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan. 2013. (SCI)
13. Xing Zhang, Zhuowen Su, Zhi Yan, and Wenbo Wang, “Energy efficiency study for two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNet) under coverage performance constraints,” Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 567-577, Feb. 2013. (SCI)