Lei Zhang

Orcid: 0000-0002-4767-3849

Affiliations:
  • University of Glasgow, UK
  • University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (former)
  • University of Sheffield, UK (PhD 2011)


According to our database1, Lei Zhang authored at least 163 papers between 2010 and 2024.

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  • Erdős number3 of four.

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2024
Adaptive protocol of raft in wireless network.
Ad Hoc Networks, March, 2024

Toward a Sustainable Internet of Underwater Things Based on AUVs, SWIPT, and Reinforcement Learning.
IEEE Internet Things J., 2024

2023
Advanced Networking and Applications for Metaverse and Web 3.0.
IEEE Netw., November, 2023

deController: A Web3 Native Cyberspace Infrastructure Perspective.
IEEE Commun. Mag., August, 2023

RAFT Consensus Reliability in Wireless Networks: Probabilistic Analysis.
IEEE Internet Things J., July, 2023

Wireless Distributed Consensus in Vehicle to Vehicle Networks for Autonomous Driving.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., June, 2023

A Fine-Grained Attention Model for High Accuracy Operational Robot Guidance.
IEEE Internet Things J., January, 2023

Wireless Distributed Consensus for Connected Autonomous Systems.
IEEE Internet Things J., 2023

A Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Platform for a Data Marketplace.
Distributed Ledger Technol. Res. Pract., 2023

Securing Autonomous Air Traffic Management: Blockchain Networks Driven by Explainable AI.
CoRR, 2023

Blockchain Systems, Technologies, and Applications: A Methodology Perspective.
IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials, 2023

Appeal-Based Distributed Trust Management Model in VANETs Concerning Untrustworthy RSUs.
Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2023

Energy Efficiency of Open Radio Access Network: A Survey.
Proceedings of the 97th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2023

Exact Fault-Tolerant Consensus with Voting Validity.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2023

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-induced Randomness for mmWave Key Generation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023

Beamforming on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: A Codebook Design for Spatial Coverage with Beam Squint Effect.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023

A Blockchain-based Data Sharing Marketplace with a Federated Learning Use Case.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 2023

RIS-Assisted Resource Allocation under Base Stations' Non-Cooperation Scheme.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2023

Trustworthy VANET: Hierarchical DAG-Based Blockchain Solution with Proof of Reputation Consensus Algorithm.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, 2023

2022
Efficient Channel Equalization and Symbol Detection for MIMO OTFS Systems.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2022

Multi-User Beamforming and Transmission Based on Intelligent Reflecting Surface.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2022

Analysis of Indoor THz Communication Systems With Finite-Bit DACs and ADCs.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2022

Joint Precoding and Pre-Equalization for Faster-Than-Nyquist Transmission Over Multipath Fading Channels.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2022

Intelligent Handover Algorithm for Vehicle-to-Network Communications With Double-Deep Q-Learning.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2022

Ergodic Capacity of MIMO Faster-Than-Nyquist Transmission Over Triply-Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2022

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Networks With Multiorder-Reflection Effect: System Modeling and Critical Bounds.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2022

How Much Communication Resource is Needed to Run a Wireless Blockchain Network?
IEEE Netw., 2022

Smart and Secure CAV Networks Empowered by AI-Enabled Blockchain: The Next Frontier for Intelligent Safe Driving Assessment.
IEEE Netw., 2022

Risk Area Alert Through Heterogeneous Mobile Networks: A New Approach to Fight COVID-19 and Beyond.
IEEE Netw., 2022

DISTERNING: Distance Estimation Using Machine Learning Approach for COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Beyond.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2022

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Intelligent Blockchain for Future Communications and Networking: Technologies, Trends, and Applications.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2022

How Reinforcement Learning is Helping to Solve Internet-of-Underwater-Things Problems.
IEEE Internet Things Mag., 2022

Joint Communication and Control for mmWave/THz Beam Alignment in V2X Networks.
IEEE Internet Things J., 2022

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Things.
IEEE Internet Things J., 2022

Blockchain-based fog radio access networks: Architecture, key technologies, and challenges.
Digit. Commun. Networks, 2022

Machine learning in vehicular networking: An overview.
Digit. Commun. Networks, 2022

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Networks with Multi-Order-Reflection Effect: System Modelling and Critical Bounds.
CoRR, 2022

Recordism: A social-scientific prospect of blockchain from social, legal, financial, and technological perspectives.
CoRR, 2022

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning based on Differential Privacy and Momentum Gradient Descent.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2022

Metaverse Native Communication: A Blockchain and Spectrum Prospective.
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, 2022

Clustered Hierarchical Distributed Federated Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022

Design and Implementation of a Raft based Wireless Consensus System for Autonomous Driving.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2022

A V2V Empowered Consensus Framework for Cooperative Autonomous Driving.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2022

Centralized and Distributed Consensus in Wireless Network: An Analytical Comparison.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2022

BeSharing: A Copyright-aware Blockchain-enabled Knowledge Sharing Platform.
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, 2022

2021
Resource Allocation for Mixed Numerology NOMA.
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett., 2021

Block Access Control in Wireless Blockchain Network: Design, Modeling and Analysis.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2021

A Scalable Multi-Layer PBFT Consensus for Blockchain.
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., 2021

Service Provisioning Framework for RAN Slicing: User Admissibility, Slice Association and Bandwidth Allocation.
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput., 2021

Packet Error Probability and Effective Throughput for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency UAV Communications.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2021

Low-Complexity Symbol Detection and Interference Cancellation for OTFS System.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2021

Low-Dimensional Subspace Estimation of Continuous-Doppler-Spread Channel in OTFS Systems.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2021

Deep Learning Enabled Beam Tracking for Non-Line of Sight Millimeter Wave Communications.
IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc., 2021

IMPRESS: Indoor Mobility Prediction Framework for Pre-Emptive Indoor-Outdoor Handover for mmWave Networks.
IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc., 2021

BeepTrace: Blockchain-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.
IEEE Internet Things J., 2021

Hybrid precoding for mmWave massive MU-MIMO systems with overlapped subarray: A modified GLRAM approach.
ICT Express, 2021

Low Reliable and Low Latency Communications for Mission Critical Distributed Industrial Internet of Things.
IEEE Commun. Lett., 2021

On Half-Power Beamwidth of Intelligent Reflecting Surface.
IEEE Commun. Lett., 2021

Unintentional forking analysis in wireless blockchain networks.
Digit. Commun. Networks, 2021

High-Resolution Programmable Scattering for Wireless Coverage Enhancement: An Indoor Field Trial Campaign.
CoRR, 2021

Blockchain Systems, Technologies and Applications: A Methodology Perspective.
CoRR, 2021

BE-RAN: Blockchain-enabled RAN with Decentralized Identity Management and Privacy-Preserving Communication.
CoRR, 2021

Indoor Mobility Prediction for mmWave Communications using Markov Chain.
Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2021

Simultaneous Localization and Channel Estimation for 5G mmWave MIMO Communications.
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2021

How Much Localization Performance Gain Could Be Reaped by 5G mmWave MIMO Systems from Harnessing Multipath Propagation?
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2021

Security Analysis of Sharding in the Blockchain System.
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2021

Interference Analysis in Multi-Numerology OFDM Systems: A Continuous-Time Approach.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, 2021

DAG-FL: Direct Acyclic Graph-based Blockchain Empowers On-Device Federated Learning.
Proceedings of the ICC 2021, 2021

Performance Analysis of Wireless Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Networks Using IEEE 802.11.
Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2021 Workshops, Madrid, Spain, December 7-11, 2021, 2021

An Implementation of a Blockchain-based Data Marketplace using Geth.
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, 2021

BeepTrace for COVID-19 Pandemic: A Demo.
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, 2021

2020
RAFT Based Wireless Blockchain Networks in the Presence of Malicious Jamming.
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett., 2020

Intelligent Spectrum Control in Heterogeneous Networks With High Security Capability.
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett., 2020

Mixed-Numerology Signals Transmission and Interference Cancellation for Radio Access Network Slicing.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2020

Interference Analysis and Power Allocation in the Presence of Mixed Numerologies.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2020

PAPR Reduction Using Iterative Clipping/Filtering and ADMM Approaches for OFDM-Based Mixed-Numerology Systems.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2020

Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Analysis for OFDM-Based Mixed-Numerology Transmissions.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2020

A Model-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning Heuristic Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2020

Direct Acyclic Graph-Based Ledger for Internet of Things: Performance and Security Analysis.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2020

Efficient Handover Mechanism for Radio Access Network Slicing by Exploiting Distributed Learning.
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., 2020

How Does CSMA/CA Affect the Performance and Security in Wireless Blockchain Networks.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2020

Let There Be a Beam: Highlights From the 2020 IEEE Five-Minute Video Clip Contest [SP Competitions].
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2020

Outage Probability in the Uplink of Multitier Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks.
IEEE Syst. J., 2020

Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing and Public Risk Assessment Using Blockchain for COVID-19 Pandemic.
IEEE Internet Things Mag., 2020

Blockchain-enabled resource management and sharing for 6G communications.
Digit. Commun. Networks, 2020

Performance analysis and comparison of PoW, PoS and DAG based blockchains.
Digit. Commun. Networks, 2020

Review and Critical Analysis of Privacy-preserving Infection Tracking and Contact Tracing.
CoRR, 2020

Filtered OFDM: An Insight Into Intrinsic In-Band Interference and Filter Frequency Response Selectivity.
IEEE Access, 2020

Energy Optimisation through Path Selection for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies, 2020

A Block Access Control in Wireless Blockchain Networks.
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies, 2020

Massive MIMO in Mobile Networks: Self-Calibration with Channel Estimation Error.
Proceedings of the MobiArch@MobiCom 2020: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture, 2020

Blockchain-enabled Wireless IoT Networks with Multiple Communication Connections.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2020

Interference and Rate Analysis of Multinumerology NOMA.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2020

A Distributed Game Theoretic Approach for Blockchain-based Offloading Strategy.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2020

2019
Fine Timing Synchronization Based on Modified Expectation Maximization Clustering Algorithm for OFDM Systems.
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett., 2019

Enhanced DCT-OFDM System With Index Modulation.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2019

Optimizing Resource Allocation in URLLC for Real-Time Wireless Control Systems.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2019

When Internet of Things Meets Blockchain: Challenges in Distributed Consensus.
IEEE Netw., 2019

Blockchain-Enabled Wireless Internet of Things: Performance Analysis and Optimal Communication Node Deployment.
IEEE Internet Things J., 2019

Direct Acyclic Graph based Blockchain for Internet of Things: Performance and Security Analysis.
CoRR, 2019

Model Classification-and-Selection Assisted Robust Receiver for OFDM Systems.
IEEE Access, 2019

Optimal Filter Length and Zero Padding Length Design for Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC) System.
IEEE Access, 2019

Hybrid Precoding for Beamspace MIMO Systems With Sub-Connected Switches: A Machine Learning Approach.
IEEE Access, 2019

Resource Allocation in Blockchain System Based on Mobile Edge Computing Networks.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, 2019

URLLC Packet Management for Packetized Predictive Control.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2019

Optimal Resource Allocation in URLLC for Real-Time Wireless Control Systems.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2019

Active Constellation Extension for Peak Power Reduction Based on Positive and Negative Iterations in OFDM Systems.
Proceedings of the UK/China Emerging Technologies, 2019

Reinforcement Learning Method for Beam Management in Millimeter-Wave Networks.
Proceedings of the UK/China Emerging Technologies, 2019

Coverage Analysis for Indoor-Outdoor Coexistence for Millimetre-Wave Communication.
Proceedings of the UK/China Emerging Technologies, 2019

Iterative Transceiver Beamforming of Distributed Relay Networks in Cognitive Radio Networks.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2019

RL-Based User Association and Resource Allocation for Multi-UAV enabled MEC.
Proceedings of the 15th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference, 2019

Performance Analysis of Early-HARQ for Finite Block-Length Packet Transmission.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems, 2019

Energy-efficient Hybrid Precoding for Beamspace MIMO Systems with Lens Array.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology, 2019

Distributed Learning Based Handoff Mechanism for Radio Access Network Slicing with Data Sharing.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2019

User Access Control and Bandwidth Allocation for Slice-Based 5G-and-Beyond Radio Access Networks.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2019

Index Modulation Assisted DCT-OFDM with Enhanced Transceiver Design.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2019

On the Viable Area of Wireless Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) Blockchain Networks.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2019

Programmable Wireless Channel for Multi-User MIMO Transmission Using Meta-Surface.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2019

Performance Analysis for Blockchain Driven Wireless IoT Systems Based on Tempo-Spatial Model.
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 2019

Impact of Network Load on Direct Acyclic Graph Based Blockchain for Internet of Things.
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 2019

2018
FPGA Implementation of UFMC Based Baseband Transmitter: Case Study for LTE 10MHz Channelization.
Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput., 2018

Low-Complexity and Robust Hybrid Beamforming Design for Multi-Antenna Communication Systems.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2018

Mixed Numerologies Interference Analysis and Inter-Numerology Interference Cancellation for Windowed OFDM Systems.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2018

Spectrum Efficient MIMO-FBMC System Using Filter Output Truncation.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2018

Square-Root Nyquist Filter Design for QAM-Based Filter Bank Multicarrier Systems.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2018

Filtered OFDM Systems, Algorithms, and Performance Analysis for 5G and Beyond.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2018

Design and Optimization of Joint Iterative Detection and Decoding Receiver for Uplink Polar Coded SCMA System.
IEEE Access, 2018

A Survey of Self-Interference Management Techniques for Single Frequency Full Duplex Systems.
IEEE Access, 2018

Performance Analysis and Optimization of DCT-Based Multicarrier System on Frequency-Selective Fading Channels.
IEEE Access, 2018

Achievable Rate of Indoor THz Communication Systems with Finite-Bit ADCs.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, 2018

Advanced Hybrid Beamforming Design for MIMO Systems.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, 2018

A Self-Calibration Scheme for TDD Massive MIMO with Imperfect Channel Estimation.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, 2018

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and LTE Systems Co-Existence Analysis.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2018

Self-Calibration for Massive MIMO with Channel Reciprocity and Channel Estimation Errors.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2018

Performance Analysis of Indoor THz Communications with One-Bit Precoding.
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2018

2017
Subband Filtered Multi-Carrier Systems for Multi-Service Wireless Communications.
IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2017

FBMC System: An Insight Into Doubly Dispersive Channel Impact.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2017

Massive MIMO Performance With Imperfect Channel Reciprocity and Channel Estimation Error.
IEEE Trans. Commun., 2017

Channel Equalization and Interference Analysis for Uplink Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT).
IEEE Commun. Lett., 2017

Multi-Service System: An Enabler of Flexible 5G Air Interface.
IEEE Commun. Mag., 2017

Efficient Implementation of Filter Bank Multicarrier Systems Using Circular Fast Convolution.
IEEE Access, 2017

A Novel Equivalent Definition of Modified Bessel Functions for Performance Analysis of Multi-Hop Wireless Communication Systems.
IEEE Access, 2017

Circular Convolution Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) System with Index Modulation.
Proceedings of the 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2017

Multi-Service Signal Multiplexing and Isolation for Physical-Layer Network Slicing (PNS).
Proceedings of the 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2017

Channel estimation and optimal pilot signals for universal filtered multi-carrier (UFMC) systems.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2017

A DHT-based multicarrier modulation system with pairwise ML detection.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2017

Efficient DCT-MCM detection for single and multi-antenna wireless systems.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2017

2016
HARQ in Relay-Assisted Transmission for Machine Type Communications.
IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett., 2016

Cyclic Prefix-Based Universal Filtered Multicarrier System and Performance Analysis.
IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2016

Performance Analysis and Optimal Cooperative Cluster Size for Randomly Distributed Small Cells Under Cloud RAN.
IEEE Access, 2016

Enabling Massive IoT in 5G and Beyond Systems: PHY Radio Frame Design Considerations.
IEEE Access, 2016

Single-rate and multi-rate multi-service systems for next generation and beyond communications.
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, 2016

Output SNR analysis and detection criteria for optimum DCT-based multicarrier system.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 2016

2015
Adaptive Distributed Beamforming for Relay Networks Based on Local Channel State Information.
IEEE Trans. Signal Inf. Process. over Networks, 2015

Localized Mobility Management for SDN-Integrated LTE Backhaul Networks.
Proceedings of the IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference, 2015

2013
Low-Complexity Distributed Beamforming for Relay Networks With Real-Valued Implementation.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 2013

2012
Generalized eigenvector problem for Hermitian Toeplitz matrices and its application to beamforming.
Signal Process., 2012

Robust beamforming for coherent signals based on the spatial-smoothing technique.
Signal Process., 2012

Robust forward backward based beamformer for a general-rank signal model with real-valued implementation.
Signal Process., 2012

A class of robust adaptive beamforming algorithms for coherent interference suppression.
Proceedings of the 20th European Signal Processing Conference, 2012

2011
Performance Analysis for Finite Sample MVDR Beamformer With Forward Backward Processing.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 2011

2010
A class of constrained adaptive beamforming algorithms based on uniform linear arrays.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 2010

A class of constant modulus algorithms for uniform linear arrays with a conjugate symmetric constraint.
Signal Process., 2010


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