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Overview

Zhi-Li Zhang is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans the fields of engineering and computer science, with a focus on areas including computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, and computational mechanics.

The main topics covered by their work include software-defined networks and 5G, caching and content delivery, network traffic and congestion control, IoT and edge/fog computing, traffic control and management, advanced MIMO systems optimization, and cloud computing and resource management.

Recent publications by Zhi-Li Zhang include:

  • Physics-Guided Deep Neural Networks for Power Flow Analysis, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
  • Investigation on environment monitoring system for a combination of hydroponics and aquaculture in greenhouse, 2021, Information Processing in Agriculture
  • Linear array focused-laser differential interferometry for single-shot multi-point flow disturbance measurements, 2020, Optics Letters
  • QROUTE: An Efficient Quality of Service (QoS) Routing Scheme for Software-Defined Overlay Networks, 2020, IEEE Access
  • AutoSight: Distributed Edge Caching in Short Video Network, 2020, IEEE Network

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Zhang include Decai Li, Jiji Tan, Jian Xu, Yuchao Zhang, and Pengmiao Li.

Zhi-Li Zhang has published multiple papers in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • IEEE Network
  • Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Service overlay networks: SLAs, QoS, and bandwidth provisioning

    Zhenhai Duan;Zhi-Li Zhang;Yiwei Thomas Hou

  • Unreeling netflix: Understanding and improving multi-CDN movie delivery

    Vijay Kumar Adhikari;Yang Guo;Fang Hao;Matteo Varvello

  • Profiling internet backbone traffic: behavior models and applications

    Kuai Xu;Zhi-Li Zhang;Supratik Bhattacharyya

  • Supporting stored video: reducing rate variability and end-to-end resource requirements through optimal smoothing

    James D. Salehi;Zhi-Li Zhang;James F. Kurose;Don Towsley

  • Supporting stored video: reducing rate variability and end-to-end resource requirements through optimal smoothing

    James D. Salehi;Shi-Li Zhang;Jim Kurose;Don Towsley

  • A First Look at Commercial 5G Performance on Smartphones

    Arvind Narayanan;Eman Ramadan;Jason Carpenter;Qingxu Liu

  • Theories and models for Internet quality of service

    V. Firoiu;J.-Y. Le Boudec;D. Towsley;Zhi-Li Zhang

  • Vivisecting YouTube: An active measurement study

    Vijay Kumar Adhikari;Sourabh Jain;Yingying Chen;Zhi-Li Zhang

  • Long-term forecasting of Internet backbone traffic: observations and initial models

    K. Papagiannaki;N. Taft;Z.-L. Zhang;C. Diot

  • Decoupling QoS control from core routers: a novel bandwidth broker architecture for scalable support of guaranteed services

    Zhi-Li Zhang;Zhenhai Duan;Lixin Gao;Yiwei Thomas Hou

  • Video staging: a proxy-server-based approach to end-to-end video delivery over wide-area networks

    Zhi-Li Zhang;Yuewei Wang;David H. C. Du;Dongli Su

  • A first look at inter-data center traffic characteristics via Yahoo! datasets

    Yingying Chen;Sourabh Jain;Vijay Kumar Adhikari;Zhi-Li Zhang

  • NEVERMIND, the problem is already fixed: proactively detecting and troubleshooting customer DSL problems

    Yu Jin;Nick Duffield;Alexandre Gerber;Patrick Haffner

  • Adaptive proportional routing: a localized QoS routing approach

    Srihari Nelakuditi;Zhi Li Zhang;Rose P. Tsang;David H. C. Du

  • Fast local rerouting for handling transient link failures

    Srihari Nelakuditi;Sanghwan Lee;Yinzhe Yu;Zhi-Li Zhang

  • Adaptive proportional routing: a localized QoS routing approach

    S. Nelakuditi;Zhi-Li Zhang;R.P. Tsang

  • Influence diffusion dynamics and influence maximization in social networks with friend and foe relationships

    Yanhua Li;Wei Chen;Yajun Wang;Zhi-Li Zhang

  • A network-conscious approach to end-to-end video delivery over wide area networks using proxy servers

    Yuewei Wang;Zhi-Li Zhang;D.H.C. Du;Dongli Su

  • Smoothing, statistical multiplexing, and call admission control for stored video

    Zhi-Li Zhang;J. Kurose;J.D. Salehi;D. Towsley

  • Small-time scaling behaviors of Internet backbone traffic: an empirical study

    Z.-L. Zhang;V.J. Ribeiro;S. Moon;C. Diot

  • Statistical analysis of the generalized processor sharing scheduling discipline

    Zhi-Li Zhang;D. Towsley;J. Kurose

Frequent Co-Authors

Don Towsley
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Srihari Nelakuditi
Srihari Nelakuditi University of South Carolina
David H. C. Du
David H. C. Du University of Minnesota
Lixin Gao
Lixin Gao University of Massachusetts Amherst
Roch Guerin
Roch Guerin Washington University in St. Louis
Christophe Diot
Christophe Diot Google (United States)
Subhabrata Sen
Subhabrata Sen AT&T (United States)
Jim Kurose
Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Amherst
Antonio Nucci
Antonio Nucci Cisco Systems (United States)
Ting Zhu
Ting Zhu University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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