Ph.D.degree from the Norwegian University of Science and technology (NTNU).

He worked as a Senior Researcher at UniK - University Graduate Center,
University of Oslo before joining the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder (UiA) in August 2007 where he is currently a Professor. During the past few years, he has been an active participant in several Norwegian and EU FP6/FP7 research projects. He is listed as a Lead Scientist by the European Commission DG RTD Unit A.03 - Evaluation and Monitoring of Programmes in Nov. 2007. Dr. Li¿s research interests include MAC mechanisms and routing protocols in 4G and beyond mobile systems and wireless networks, mesh and ad hoc networks;
wireless sensor network; D2D communication; cooperative communication;
cognitive radio networks; green wireless communications; QoS, resource
management and traffic engineering in wired and wireless IP-based networks; analysis, simulation and performance evaluation of communication protocols and networks.

Ad Hoc and Mesh Networking: MAC, Routing and QoS