Name: Qiang Li
Academic Title: Professor
Email: qli_patrick@hust.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Next-generation wireless communication systems, wireless cooperative communications, full-duplex techniques, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, cognitive radios, edge computing/caching, multi-domain, Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS).
Education:
Ph. D in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2011
B. Eng in Communications Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2007
Employment and Work Experience:
Professor, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nov. 2020-Present
Associate Professor, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Feb. 2013-Oct. 2020
Visiting Scholar, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mar. 2015-June 2015
Research Fellow, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Feb. 2011-Feb. 2013
Teaching:
Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
Theories of Channel Coding in Communications
Space Communications
Selected Publications:
1.H. Peng, Qiang Li (corresponding author), A. Pandharipande, X. Ge, and J. Zhang, “On the performance of a dual-hop hybrid VLC/RF IoT system based on SLIPT,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3080518.
2.K. Chen, J. Yang, Qiang Li, and X. Ge, “Sub-array hybrid precoding for massive MIMO systems: A CNN-based approach,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 191-195, Jan. 2021.
3.Qiang Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, Y. Xiao and X. Ge, “Capacity-aware edge caching in fog computing networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 9244-9248, Aug. 2020.
4.X. Ge, R. Zhou, and Qiang Li (corresponding author), “5G NFV-based tactile internet for mission-critical IoT services,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 6150-6163, Jul. 2020.
5.H. Lou, X. Ge, and Qiang Li (corresponding author), “The new purity and capacity models for the OAM-mmWave communication systems under atmospheric turbulence,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 129988-129996, Sept. 2019.
6.Qiang Li, X. Zhang, A. Pandharipande, and J. Zhang, “Cooperative spectrum sharing on SWIPT-based DF relay: An energy-aware retransmission approach,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 120802-120816, Sept. 2019.
7.Qiang Li, X. Zhang, A. Pandharipande, X. Ge, and H. Gharavi, “An energy-aware retransmission approach in swipt-based cognitive relay systems,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 580-594, Sept. 2019.
8.Qiang Li, Y. Zhang, A. Pandharipande, X. Ge, and J. Zhang, “D2D-assisted caching on truncated Zipf distribution,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 13411-13421, 2019.
9.B. Yang, X. Yang, X. Ge, and Qiang Li, “Coverage and handover analysis of ultra-dense millimeter-wave networks with control and user plane Separation architecture,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 54739-54750, 2018.
10.Y. Zhong, X. Ge, H. H. Yang, T. Han, and Qiang Li, “Traffic matching in 5G ultra-dense networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 100-105, Aug. 2018.
11.Y. Zhong, X. Ge, T. Han, Qiang Li, and J. Zhang, “Tradeoff between delay and physical layer security in wireless networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 36, no. 7. pp. 1635-1647, Jul. 2018.
12.T. Han, J. Gong, X. Liu, S. M. R. Islam, Qiang Li (corresponding author), Z. Bai and K. S. Kwak, “On downlink NOMA in heterogeneous networks with non-uniform small cell department,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 31099-31109, 2018.
13.L. Wang, T. Han, Qiang Li, J. Yan, X. Liu, and D. Deng, “Cell-less communications in 5G vehicular networks based on vehicle-installed access points,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 6. pp. 64-71, Dec. 2017.
14.Qiang Li, W. Shi, X. Ge, and Z. Niu, “Cooperative edge caching in software-defined hyper-cellular networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 11. pp. 2596-2605, Nov. 2017.
15.ZHANG Tao, LI Qiang (corresponding author), ZHANG Ji-liang, ZHANG Cai-xia. An Efficient Cooperative Content Caching Algorithm for Software-Defined Radio Access Networks. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2017, 45(11): 2649-2655.
16.X. Ge, L. Pan, Qiang Li (corresponding author), G. Mao and S. Tu, “Multipath cooperative communications networks for augmented and virtual reality transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 19, no. 10. pp. 2345-2358, Oct. 2017.
17.Qiang Li, S. Feng, X. Ge, G. Mao and L. Hanzo, “On the performance of full-duplex multi-relay channels with DF relays,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66 no. 10. pp. 9550-9554, Oct. 2017.
18.X. Ge, R. Zi, X. Xiong, Qiang Li (corresponding author) and L. Wang, “Millimeter wave communications with OAM-SM scheme for future mobile networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 9. pp. 2163-2177, Sept. 2017.
19.Qiang Li, S. Feng, A. Pandharipande, Q. Ni and J. Zhang, “Wireless powered cooperative multi-relay systems with relay selection,” IEEE Access, vol. 5. pp. 19058-19071, 2017.
20.J. Zhang, X. Ge, Qiang Li (corresponding author) and M. Guizani, “5G millimeter-wave antenna array: Design and challenges,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 106-112, Apr. 2017.
21.X. Ge, B. Du, Qiang Li (corresponding author) and D. S. Michalopoulos, “Energy efficiency of multiuser multiantenna random cellular networks with minimum distance constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 1696-1708, Feb. 2017.
22.J. Zhang, Qiang Li (corresponding author), K. Kim, Y. Wang, X. Ge and J. Zhang, “On the performance of full-duplex two-way relay channels with spatial modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 4966-4982, Dec. 2016.
23.T. Han, Y. Han, X. Ge, Qiang Li, J. Zhang, Z. Bai and L. Wang, “Small cell offloading through cooperative communication in software defined heterogeneous networks,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 7381-7392, Oct. 2016.
24.X. Ge, H. Wang, R. Zi, Qiang Li (corresponding author) and Q. Ni, “5G Multimedia Massive MIMO Communications Systems,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley InterScience), vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1377-1388, Aug. 2016.
25.Qiang Li, M. Yu, A. Pandharipande, X. Ge, J. Zhang and J. Zhang, “Performance of virtual full-duplex relaying on cooperative multi-path relay channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 3628-3642, May 2016.
26.Qiang Li, M. Yu, A. Pandharipande and X. Ge, “Outage analysis of cooperative two-path relay channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 3157-3169, May 2016.
27.X. Ge, J. Ye, Y. Yang and Qiang Li (corresponding author), “User mobility evaluation for 5G small cell networks based on individual mobility model,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 528-541, Mar. 2016. (Top 2 of popular articles from IEEE Journal Selected Areas Communications on April 2016)
28.T. Han, G. Mao, Qiang Li (corresponding author), L. Wang, and J. Zhang, “Interference minimization in 5G heterogeneous networks,” Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 756-762, Dec. 2015.
29.Qiang Li, A. Pandharipande, S. H. Ting, and X. Ge, “Spectrum sharing on interference channels with a cognitive relay,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2015:185.
30.X. Ge, S. Tu, T. Han, Qiang Li and G. Mao, “Energy Efficiency of Small Cell Backhaul Networks Based on Gauss-Markov Mobile Models,” IET Networks, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 158-167, 2015.
31.X. Ge, X. Huang, Y. Wang, M. Chen, Qiang Li, T. Han and C.-X. Wang, “Energy Efficiency Optimization for MIMO-OFDM Mobile Multimedia Communication Systems with QoS Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 2127 - 2138, June 2014.
32.S. Fang, S. H. Ting, Qiang Li, A. Pandharipande, M. Motani, “ARQ-based spectrum sharing with multiple-access secondary system,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2013:129.
33.Qiang Li, S. H. Ting, A. Pandharipande, M. Motani, “Cooperate-and-access spectrum sharing with arq-based primary systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 2861-2871, Oct. 2012.
34.Qiang Li, S. H. Ting, A. Pandharipande, Y. Han, “Cognitive spectrum sharing with two-way relaying systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 1233-1240, Mar. 2011.
35.Qiang Li, S. H. Ting, C. K. Ho, “A Joint network and channel coding strategy for wireless decode-and-forward relay networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 181-193, Jan. 2011.
36.Qiang Li, S. H. Ting, A. Pandharipande, Y. Han, “Adaptive two-way relaying and outage analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 3288-3299, Jun. 2009.
Scientific Research Projects:
1. Hubei Provincial Key R&D program, Grant no. 2020BAA002, 2,000,000RMB, 2020-2022
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant no. 61971461, 590,000RMB, 2020-2023
3. National Key R&D Program of China, Grant no. 2016YFE0133000, 3,780,000RMB, 2017-2019
4. Horizon 2020, EU-China study on IoT and 5G, Grant no. EXICITING-723227, 962,625€, 2016-2018
5. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant no. 61461136004, 2,000,000RMB, 2015-2017
6. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant no. 61301128, 240,000RMB, 2014-2016
7. Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (SRFDP), 40,000RMB, 2014-2016
Awards and Honors:
Best Paper Award of IEEE/CICInternationalConference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2017
