Zhetao Li

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
194 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Zhetao Li is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhetao Li has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 50 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 49 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhetao Li's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (32 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (28 papers) and Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing (25 papers). Zhetao Li is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (32 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (28 papers) and Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing (25 papers). Zhetao Li collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and Japan. Zhetao Li's co-authors include Qingyong Deng, Rong Yu, Yan Zhang, Dongdong Ye, Jiawen Kang, Anfeng Liu, Young‐June Choi, Jie Li, Saiqin Long and Hiroo Sekiya and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Zhetao Li

184 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Consortium Blockchain for Secure Energy Trading in Indust... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 250 500 750
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.

  1. Consortium Blockchain for Secure Energy Trading in Industrial Internet of Things
    2017 856 citations Zhetao Li, Qingyong Deng et al. profile →
  2. Energy-Efficient Dynamic Computation Offloading and Cooperative Task Scheduling in Mobile Cloud Computing
    2018 280 citations Zhetao Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhetao Li China 35 2.2k 1.5k 1.3k 1.1k 649 194 4.5k
Qingqi Pei China 37 2.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 774 1.2× 219 5.0k
Yang Zhang China 36 2.4k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 573 0.9× 248 5.3k
Julie A. McCann United Kingdom 31 2.6k 1.2× 1.7k 1.1× 824 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 450 0.7× 183 4.6k
Chunsheng Zhu China 37 3.1k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 459 0.7× 177 4.9k
Linghe Kong China 40 2.6k 1.2× 3.0k 1.9× 1.0k 0.8× 832 0.8× 688 1.1× 258 6.0k
Deze Zeng China 37 3.5k 1.6× 1.8k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 489 0.8× 199 5.4k
Zhi Zhou China 37 4.1k 1.9× 1.9k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.8× 1.3k 2.0× 166 6.6k
Lanyu Xu United States 9 3.6k 1.6× 1.3k 0.9× 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 17 5.3k
Mohammed Aledhari United States 12 4.2k 1.9× 2.5k 1.6× 1.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 755 1.2× 25 6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhetao Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhetao Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhetao Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhetao Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhetao Li 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 Zhetao Li. Zhetao Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cui, Lin, et al.. (2025). DisPLOY: Target-Constrained Distributed Deployment for Network Measurement Tasks on Data Plane. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 36(8). 1608–1619.
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Li, Zhetao, Yong Xiao, Haolin Liu, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Graph Publication With Differential Privacy Guarantees for Decentralized Applications. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 74(5). 1771–1785.
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Li, Zhetao, et al.. (2025). A Trust-Based Computation Offloading Framework in Mobile Cloud-Edge Computing Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(6). 5370–5385. 3 indexed citations
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Tian, Shujuan, et al.. (2025). Partial Offloading Strategy Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(7). 6517–6531. 1 indexed citations
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Cui, Lin, et al.. (2024). DNN acceleration in vehicle edge computing with mobility-awareness: A synergistic vehicle–edge and edge–edge framework. Computer Networks. 251. 110607–110607. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Zhetao, et al.. (2024). Defending Data Poisoning Attacks in DP-Based Crowdsensing: A Game-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(3). 1859–1876. 1 indexed citations
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Long, Saiqin, et al.. (2024). Propagation Verification Under Social Relationship Privacy Awareness in Mobile Crowdsourcing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 23(12). 12461–12476. 1 indexed citations
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Long, Saiqin, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Sparse Mobile CrowdSensing With Manifold Optimization and Differential Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 6070–6083. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Zhetao, et al.. (2024). Differentially Private Weighted Graphs Publication Under Continuous Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(5). 3735–3749. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Shiguo, Xuewen Fu, Rukhsana Ruby, & Zhetao Li. (2023). Pilot spoofing detection for massive MIMO mmWave communication systems with a cooperative relay. Computer Communications. 202. 33–41. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Shiguo, Min Zhu, Zhetao Li, et al.. (2023). Antenna Selections Strategies for Massive MIMO Systems With Limited-Resolution ADCs/DACs. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 22(11). 8128–8140. 4 indexed citations
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Cui, Lin, et al.. (2023). Dapper: Deploying Service Function Chains in the Programmable Data Plane Via Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 16(4). 2532–2544. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Feiran, et al.. (2023). Aligning Distillation For Cold-start Item Recommendation. 1147–1157. 66 indexed citations
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Zheng, Jiakang, Jiayi Zhang, Emil Björnson, Zhetao Li, & Bo Ai. (2022). Cell-Free Massive MIMO-OFDM for High-Speed Train Communications. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 40(10). 2823–2839. 55 indexed citations
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Wei, Kaimin, Yongdong Wu, Zhetao Li, et al.. (2022). High-Performance UAV Crowdsensing: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(19). 18487–18499. 28 indexed citations
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Li, Zhetao, et al.. (2022). Semantic-Aware Privacy-Preserving Online Location Trajectory Data Sharing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 17. 2256–2271. 29 indexed citations
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Li, Jie, et al.. (2021). Social Relationship Inference Over Private Vehicle Mobility Data. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 70(6). 5221–5233. 9 indexed citations
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Li, Jie, et al.. (2018). Machine-Learning-Based Online Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Using Spark Streaming. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–6. 31 indexed citations
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Zhao, Ping, Hongbo Jiang, John C. S. Lui, et al.. (2018). P3-LOC: A Privacy-Preserving Paradigm-Driven Framework for Indoor Localization. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 26(6). 2856–2869. 51 indexed citations
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Kuang, Li‐Dan, Qingyong Deng, & Zhetao Li. (2013). New method for estimating SOC of lithium battery. Computer Engineering and Applications Journal. 49(6). 249–252. 2 indexed citations

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