截止到2023年1月，曹洋在《IEEE Journal On Selected Areas In Communications》《IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing》《IEEE Transactions on Multimedia》、IEEE計算機通信國際會議（INFOCOM）等學術期刊和會議發表論文50餘篇，在谷歌學術（Google Scholar）上被引2000餘次，2篇學術論文入選ESI全球前1%高被引論文，合作撰寫英文學術專著兩部。
Yang Cao, Daiming Qu and Tao Jiang, “Throughput maximization in cognitive radio system with transmission probability scheduling and traffic pattern prediction,”ACM/springer mobile networks and applications (MONET) , vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 604-617, 2012.
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang and Qian Zhang, “Reducing electricity cost of smart appliances via energy buffering framework in smart grid,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1572-1582, 2012.
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Chonggang Wang and Lei Zhang, “CRAC： Cognitive radio assisted cooperation for downlink transmissions in OFDMA-based cellular networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1614-1622, 2012.
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, and Chonggang Wang, “Optimal radio resource allocation for mobile task offloading in cellular networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 68-73, 2014.
Yang Cao, Xu Chen, Tao Jiang, and Junshan Zhang, “SoCast： social ties based cooperative video multicast,” IEEE INFOCOM, 2014.
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, and Chonggang Wang, “Cooperative device-to-device communications in cellular networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 124-129, 2015.
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Miao He, and Junshan Zhang, “Device-to-device communications for energy management： a smart grid case,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 190-201, 2016.
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Xu Chen, and Junshan Zhang. “Social-aware video multicast based on device-to-device communications,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1528–1539, 2016. （截至2017年8月，入選ESI前1%高被引）
Yang Cao, Changchun Long, Tao Jiang, and Shiwen Mao, “Share communication and computation resources on mobile devices： a social-awareness perspective,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 52-59, 2016.
Y. Cao, H. Song, O. Kaiwartya, B. Zhou, Y. Zhuang, Y. Cao, X. Zhang, “Mobile Edge Computing for Big Data-Enabled Electric Vehicle Charging,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 150-156, 2018. （通訊作者）
Hao Zhu, Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang, “Scalable NOMA Multicast for SVC Streams in Cellular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 6339-6352, 2018. （通訊作者）
Zhuoyi Bai, Yifan Lin, Yang Cao, and Wei Wang, "Delay-aware Cooperative Task Offloading for Multi-UAV Enabled Edge-Cloud Computing," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.（通訊作者）
