Xiaofeng Tao

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
540 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaofeng Tao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaofeng Tao has authored 540 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 415 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 332 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 71 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Xiaofeng Tao's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (197 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (155 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (86 papers). Xiaofeng Tao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (197 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (155 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (86 papers). Xiaofeng Tao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xiaofeng Tao's co-authors include Qimei Cui, Ping Zhang, Xiaodong Xu, Xuefei Zhang, Huici Wu, Na Li, Jin Xu, Ning Zhang, Yue Wang and Yanzhao Hou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiaofeng Tao

490 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Privacy-Preserved Federated Learning for Autonomous Driving

2021 169 citations Xiaofeng Tao, Xuefei Zhang et al. profile →
Secure and Lightweight User Authentication Scheme for Cloud-Assisted Internet of Things

2023 73 citations Chenyu Wang, Xiaofeng Tao et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaofeng Tao China	39	4.3k	3.5k	1.0k	799	509	540	6.4k
Huaiyu Dai United States	40	4.2k 1.0×	4.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	388 0.8×	250	6.7k
Wei Chen China	35	4.7k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	777 1.0×	286 0.6×	448	6.8k
Guanding Yu China	43	5.0k 1.2×	4.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	606 1.2×	279	7.4k
Eryk Dutkiewicz Australia	41	3.7k 0.9×	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	720 0.9×	504 1.0×	402	6.8k
Fengxiao Tang China	36	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.8×	577 1.1×	88	6.2k
Hongbo Zhu China	40	5.5k 1.3×	2.8k 0.8×	2.1k 2.1×	843 1.1×	313 0.6×	598	7.6k
Gang Feng China	40	4.1k 1.0×	4.4k 1.2×	582 0.6×	489 0.6×	450 0.9×	251	6.4k
Meixia Tao China	49	6.1k 1.4×	5.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	737 0.9×	426 0.8×	330	8.0k
Shanzhi Chen China	37	5.5k 1.3×	3.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.8×	461 0.6×	332 0.7×	214	7.6k
Sergey Andreev Finland	39	4.0k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	317 0.4×	303 0.6×	269	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaofeng Tao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaofeng Tao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaofeng Tao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaofeng Tao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaofeng Tao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Xiaofeng Tao. Xiaofeng Tao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Huici, et al.. (2025). Prediction-based trajectory anomaly detection in UAV system with GPS spoofing attack. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics. 38(10). 103478–103478. 1 indexed citations

Nan, Guoshun, Yihan Lin, Qing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Exploring LLM-Based Multi-Agent Situation Awareness for Zero-Trust Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 43(6). 2230–2247. 9 indexed citations

Wu, Huici, Yi Fang, Na Li, et al.. (2025). Secret Key Generation With Untrusted Internal Eavesdropper: Token-Based Anti-Eavesdropping. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 2523–2537. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiaofang, Qimei Cui, Weicai Li, et al.. (2025). Convergence-Privacy-Fairness Trade-Off in Personalized Federated Learning. ArXiv.org. 3. 246–262. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Huici, et al.. (2025). Modeling and Analysis of Security Connectivity in UAV Swarm Network: An N +1 -Player Zero-Sum Game. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14(12). 3897–3901.

Zhang, Xiaoyi, Huici Wu, Xiaofeng Tao, et al.. (2025). PUF-Based Lightweight Group Authentication for Massive IoT Access With Insecure Channel. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(14). 26968–26983. 1 indexed citations

Nan, Guoshun, Di Wang, Zhiyang Teng, et al.. (2024). Refining Latent Homophilic Structures over Heterophilic Graphs for Robust Graph Convolution Networks. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(8). 8930–8938. 4 indexed citations

Nan, Guoshun, et al.. (2024). DocMSU: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Document-Level Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(16). 17933–17941. 1 indexed citations

Cui, Qimei, et al.. (2024). Efficient Hierarchical Federated Services for Heterogeneous Mobile Edge. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 18(1). 140–155.

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Hou, Yanzhao, et al.. (2024). Adaptive Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Independent Sampling. 35. 944–949.

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Zhang, Xuefei, et al.. (2024). Knowledge Discrepancy Oriented Privacy Preserving for Semantic Communication. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 73(8). 11637–11646. 8 indexed citations

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Lyu, Xinchen, et al.. (2024). Secure and Efficient Federated Learning With Provable Performance Guarantees via Stochastic Quantization. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 4070–4085. 9 indexed citations

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Nan, Guoshun, Zhichun Li, Qimei Cui, et al.. (2023). Physical-Layer Adversarial Robustness for Deep Learning-Based Semantic Communications. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 41(8). 2592–2608. 37 indexed citations

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Wu, Huici, et al.. (2021). Differential Game Approach for Attack-Defense Strategy Analysis in Internet of Things Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(12). 10340–10353. 26 indexed citations

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Tao, Xiaofeng, Adeel Anjum, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, et al.. (2020). (τ, m)‐slicedBucket privacy model for sequential anonymization for improving privacy and utility. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. 33(6). 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiazhen, Xiaofeng Tao, Huici Wu, Ning Zhang, & Xuefei Zhang. (2020). Deep Reinforcement Learning for Throughput Improvement of the Uplink Grant-Free NOMA System. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(7). 6369–6379. 87 indexed citations

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Lyu, Xinchen, et al.. (2020). Distributed Online Learning of Cooperative Caching in Edge Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 20(8). 2550–2562. 27 indexed citations

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Tao, Xiaofeng, et al.. (2019). Analysis on Secrecy Capacity of Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access With Proactive Jamming. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68(3). 2682–2696. 31 indexed citations

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Wu, Huici, Xiaofeng Tao, Ning Zhang, et al.. (2017). On Base Station Coordination in Cache- and Energy Harvesting-Enabled HetNets: A Stochastic Geometry Study. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 66(7). 3079–3091. 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhijun, Waheed ur Rehman, Xiaodong Xu, & Xiaofeng Tao. (2013). Minimize Beam Squint Solutions for 60GHz Millimeter-Wave Communication System. 1–5. 17 indexed citations

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