Selected Publications

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• Peer-Reviewed Journals
1. "Analysis on Methods to Effectively Improve Transfer Learning Performance",
   Honghui Xu, Wei Li, and Zhipeng Cai
   Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 940, Part B, pp. 90-107, Jan. 2023. (IF: 1.29)
2. "Towards Neural Network-based Communication System: Attack and Defense",
   Zuobin Xiong, Zhipeng Cai, Chunqiang Hu, Daniel Takabi, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (Early Access), Sep. 2022. (IF: 6.791)
3. "Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Multi-label Image Recognition",
   Honghui Xu, Zhipeng Cai, and Wei Li,
   ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Vol. 16, No. 69, pp. 1-21, Aug. 2022. (IF: 4.535)
4. "Efficient CityCam-to-Edge Cooperative Learning for Vehicle Counting in ITS”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Early Access)",
   Honghui Xu, Zhipeng Cai, Ruinian Li, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Early Access), Feb. 2022. (IF: 6.492)
5. "Audio-Visual Autoencoding for Privacy-Preserving Video Streaming",
   Honghui Xu, Zhipeng Cai, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 1749-1761, Feb. 2022. (IF: 9.936)
6. "Privacy Threat and Defense for Federated Learning with Non-i.i.d. Data in AIoT",
   Zuobin Xiong, Zhipeng Cai, Daniel Takabi, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 1310-1321, Feb. 2022. (IF: 9.112)
7. "ADGAN: Protect Your Location Privacy in Camera Data of Auto-Driving Vehicles",
   Zuobin Xiong, Zhipeng Cai, Qilong Han, Arwa Alrawais, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp. 6200-6210, Sep. 2021. (IF: 9.112)
8. "Exploiting Multi-Dimensional Task Diversity in Distributed Auctions for Mobile Crowdsensing",
   Zhipeng Cai, Zhuojun Duan, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 2576-2591, Aug. 2021. (IF: 5.112)
9. "Generative Adversarial Networks: A Survey Towards Private & Secure Applications",
   Zhipeng Cai, Zuobin Xiong, Honghui Xu, Peng Wang, Wei Li, and Yi Pan,
   ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1-38, Jul. 2021. (IF: 7.990, ranked 4/104 in Computer Science Theory & Methods)
10. "Adversarial Privacy Preserving Graph Embedding against Inference Attack",
    Kaiyang Li, Guangchuan Luo, Yang Ye, Wei Li, Shihao Ji, and Zhipeng Cai,
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 6904-6915, Apr. 2021. (IF: 9.936)
11. "Multi-Source Adversarial Sample Attack on Autonomous Vehicles",
    Zuobin Xiong, Honghui Xu, Wei Li, and Zhipeng Cai,
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 2822-2835, Mar. 2021. (IF: 5.379)
12. "Truthful Auction Analysis and Design in Multiunit Heterogenous Spectrum Markets With Reserve Prices",
    Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Zhi Tian, Shengling Wang, Rongfang Bie, and Jiguo Yu,
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 157-170, Mar. 2021. (IF: 4.574)
13. "zkCrowd: A Hybrid Blockchain-based Crowdsourcing Platform",
    Saide Zhu, Zhipeng Cai, Huafu Hu, Yingshu Li, and Wei Li,
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 4196-4205, Jun. 2020. (IF: 9.112)
14. "Optimal Contract-based Mechanisms for Online Data Trading Markets",
    Ting Lian, Jiaxin Li, Wei Li, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, and Zhipeng Cai,
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 7800-7810, Oct. 2019. (IF: 9.936)
15. "Coin Hopping Attack in Blockchain-based IoT",
    Saide Zhu, Wei Li, Hong Li, Ling Tian, Guangchun Luo, and Zhipeng Cai,
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 4614-4626, Jun. 2019. (IF: 9.936)
16. "Incorporating Social Interaction into Three-Party Game towards Privacy Protection in IoT",
    Kaiyang Li, Ling Tian, Wei Li, Guangchun Luo, and Zhipeng Cai,
    Computer Networks, Vol. 150, pp. 90-101, Feb. 2019. (IF: 3.111)
17. "A Secure and Verifiable Access Control Scheme for Big Data Storage in Clouds",
    Chunqiang Hu, Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Jiguo Yu, Shengling Wang, and Rongfang Bie,
    IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 341-355, Sep. 2018. (The paper has been the 8th (02/2017), the 11th (03/2017), the 17th (04/2017), the 34th (05/2017), the 40th (06/2017), the 47th (07/2017) most frequently accessed document from IEEEXplore for IEEE Transactions on Big Data)
18. "Messages in a Concealed Bottle: Achieving Query Content Privacy with Accurate Location-Based Services",
    Qin Hu, Shengling Wang, Chunqiang Hu, Jianhui Huang, Wei Li, and Xiuzhen Cheng,
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 67, No. 8, pp. 7698-7711, Aug. 2018. (IF: 5.379)
19. "Localized Algorithms for Yao Graph Based Spanner Construction in Wireless Networks under SINR",
    Xiujuan Zhang, Jiguo Yu, Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Dongxiao Yu, and Feng Zhao,
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 2459-2472, Aug. 2017. (IF: 3.315)
20. "An Extensible and Flexible Truthful Auction Framework for Heterogeneous Spectrum Markets",
    Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Rongfang Bie, and Feng Zhao,
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 427-441, Oct. 2016. (IF: 4.574)
21. "AP Association for Proportional Fairness in Multi-rate WLANs",
    Wei Li, Shengling Wang, Yong Cui, Xiuzhen Cheng, Ran Xin, Mznah A. Al-Rodhaan, and Abdullah Al-Dhelaan,
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 191-202, Feb. 2014. (IF: 3.315)
22. "Spectrum Assignment and Sharing for Delay Minimization in Multi-Hop Multi-Flow CRNs",
    Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Tao Jing, Yong Cui, Kai Xing, and Wendong Wang,
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 2483-2493, Nov. 2013. (IF: 11.42)
23. "Achieving Proportional Fairness via AP Power Control in Multi-Rate WLANs",
    Wei Li, Yong Cui, Xiuzhen Cheng, Mznah A. Al-Rodhaan, and Abdullah Al-Dhelaan,
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 10, No. 11, pp. 3784-3792, Nov. 2011. (IF: 6.779)
24. "Mobility in IPv6: Whether and How to Hierarchize the Network?",
    Shengling Wang, Yong Cui, Das, S.K., Wei Li, and Jianping Wu,
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 1722-1729, Feb. 2011. (IF: 2.6)
• Peer-Reviewed Conferences/Workshops
1. "Backdoor Attack on 3D Grey Image Segmentation",
   Honghui Xu, Zhipeng Cai, Zuobin Xiong, and Wei Li,
   IEEE ICDM, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2023. (Regular Paper Acceptance Ratio: 9.37%)
2. "Exact-Fun: An Exact and Efficient Federated Unlearning Approach",
   Zuobin Xiong, Wei Li, Yingshu Li, and Zhipeng Cai,
   IEEE ICDM, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2023. ((Regular Paper + Short Paper) Acceptance Ratio: 19.94%)
3. "Poisoning the Competition: Fake Gradient Attacks on Distributed Generative Adversarial Networks",
   Chao Wang, Xiuyuan Liu, Yunhua He, Ke Xiao, and Wei Li,
   IEEE MASS, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2023.
4. "Federated Generative Model on Multi-Source Heterogeneous Data in IoT",
   Zuobin Xiong, Wei Li, and Zhipeng Cai,
   AAAI, Washington DC, USA, Feb. 2023. (Acceptance Ratio: 19.6%)
5. "Pairwise Gaussian Graph Convolutional Networks: Defense Against Graph Adversarial Attack",
   Guangxi Lu, Zuobin Xiong, Jing Meng, and Wei Li
   IEEE GLOBECOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022.
6. "Multi-Aggregator Time-Warping Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Personalized Micro-Video Recommendation",
   Jinkun Han, Wei Li, Zhipeng Cai, and Yingshu Li
   accepted by ACM CIKM, Atlanta, USA, Oct. 2022, pp. 676-685.
7. "Which Option is a Better Way to Improve Transfer Learning Performance?",
   Honghui Xu, Zhipeng Cai, and Wei Li
   15th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, Tianjin, China, Dec. 2021, pp. 61-74.
8. "Privacy-Preserving Auto-Driving: a GAN-based Approach to Protect Vehicular Camera Data",
   Zuobin Xiong, Wei Li, Qilong Han, and Zhipeng Cai,
   IEEE ICDM, Beijing, China, Nov. 2019. (Acceptance Ratio: 95/1046=9.08%)
9. "Hybrid Blockchain Design for Privacy Preserving Crowdsourcing Platform",
   Saide Zhu, Huafu Hu, Yingshu Li, and Wei Li,
   IEEE Blockchain, Atlanta, USA, Jul. 2019. (Acceptance Ratio: 15.9%)
10. "Mutual-Preference Driven Truthful Auction Mechanism in Mobile Crowdsensing",
    Zhuojun Duan, Wei Li, Xu Zheng, and Zhipeng Cai,
    IEEE ICDCS, Dallas, USA, Jul. 2019. (Acceptance Ratio: 19.6%)
11. "Distributed Auctions for Task Assignment and Scheduling in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems",
    Zhuojun Duan, Wei Li, and Zhipeng Cai,
    IEEE ICDCS, Atlanta, USA, Jun. 2017, pp. 635-644. (Acceptance Ratio: 90/531=16.9%)
12. "Efficient Privacy-Preserving Dot-Product Computation in Mobile Computing",
    Chunqiang Hu, Ruinian Li, Wei Li, Jiguo Yu, Zhi Tian, and Rongfang Bie,
    ACM Workshop on Privacy-Aware Mobile Computing (PAMCO), Paderborn, Germany, Jul. 2016, pp. 51-59. (Best Paper Award)
13. "A Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for CDS Construction with Constant Approximation in Wireless Networks under SINR Model",
    Jiguo Yu, Lili Jia, Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Shengling Wang, Rongfang Bie, and Dongxiao Yu,
    IEEE ICDCS, Columbus, USA, Jun. 2015.
14. "An Extensible and Flexible Truthful Auction Framework for Heterogeneous Spectrum Markets",
    Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Rongfang Bie, and Feng Zhao,
    ACM MobiHoc, Philadelphia, USA, Aug. 2014, pp. 175-184. (Acceptance Ratio: 40/211=18.9%)
15. "Truthful Multi-Attribute Auction with Discriminatory Pricing in Cognitive Radio Networks",
    Wei Li, Shengling Wang, and Xiuzhen Cheng,
    ACM MobiCom Workshop on Cognitive Radio Architectures for Broadband (CRAB), Miami, USA, Oct. 2013, pp. 21-30. (Best Paper Award)
16. "Cooperative Multi-hop Relaying via Net-work Formation Games in Cognitive Radio Networks",
    Wei Li, Xiuzhen Cheng, Tao Jing, and Xiaoshuang Xing,
    IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013, pp. 995-1003. (Acceptance Ratio: 280/1613=17%)
17. "Partially Overlapping Channel Assignment Based on Node-Orthogonality for 802.11 Wireless Networks",
    Yong Cui, Wei Li, and Xiuzhen Cheng,
    IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Shanghai, China, April 2011, pp. 361-365. (Total Acceptance Ratio (INFOCOM Main Conference plus Mini-Conference): (291+136)/1823 = 23.42%)
18. "Approximate Optimization for Proportional Fair AP Association in Multi-Rate WLANs",
    Wei Li, Yong Cui, Shengling Wang, and Xiuzhen Cheng,
    5th Int. Conference WASA, Beijing, China, Aug. 2010, pp. 36-46. (Best Paper Award)