Adel Alshamrani

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 680 citations indexed

About

Adel Alshamrani is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Adel Alshamrani has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 680 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 9 papers in Signal Processing and 7 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Adel Alshamrani's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (14 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (9 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (7 papers). Adel Alshamrani is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (14 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (9 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (7 papers). Adel Alshamrani collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United States and China. Adel Alshamrani's co-authors include Dijiang Huang, Ankur Chowdhary, Sowmya Myneni, Abdullah Ali Bahattab, Sandeep Pisharody, Duo Lu, Abdullah Alshahrani, Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi, Hongbin Liang and Ibrahim A. Elgendy and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and Applied Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Adel Alshamrani

21 papers receiving 640 citations

Hit Papers

A Survey on Advanced Persistent Threats: Techniques, Solu... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Survey on Advanced Persistent Threats: Techniques, Solutions, Challenges, and Research Opportunities
    2019 326 citations Adel Alshamrani, Sowmya Myneni et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adel Alshamrani Saudi Arabia 10 483 292 254 204 75 22 680
Martin Husák Czechia 15 532 1.1× 380 1.3× 273 1.1× 305 1.5× 77 1.0× 59 700
Mauro Andreolini Italy 16 499 1.0× 294 1.0× 151 0.6× 220 1.1× 46 0.6× 47 634
Mohd. Yazid Idris Malaysia 14 574 1.2× 197 0.7× 336 1.3× 412 2.0× 59 0.8× 60 768
Robiah Yusof Malaysia 9 458 0.9× 261 0.9× 384 1.5× 311 1.5× 37 0.5× 37 672
Giuseppe Settanni Austria 11 359 0.7× 310 1.1× 186 0.7× 198 1.0× 79 1.1× 19 557
Chittaranjan Hota India 12 504 1.0× 212 0.7× 219 0.9× 334 1.6× 25 0.3× 87 711
Pavol Zavarsky Canada 15 387 0.8× 521 1.8× 361 1.4× 287 1.4× 69 0.9× 102 825
Konstantinos Rantos Greece 12 281 0.6× 283 1.0× 127 0.5× 201 1.0× 63 0.8× 50 557
Gabi Dreo Rodosek Germany 11 330 0.7× 132 0.5× 94 0.4× 149 0.7× 42 0.6× 82 462
Terry Benzel United States 9 339 0.7× 252 0.9× 158 0.6× 152 0.7× 98 1.3× 34 534

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adel Alshamrani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adel Alshamrani

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Alshamrani, Adel. (2025). Federated hierarchical MARL for zero-shot cyber defense. PLoS ONE. 20(8). e0329969–e0329969.
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Kumar, Ankit, et al.. (2024). FGA: Fourier-Guided Attention Network for Crowd Count Estimation. 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, et al.. (2023). Adaptive Cyber Defense Technique Based on Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Strategies. Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing. 36(3). 2757–2771. 3 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, et al.. (2023). An Attack Scenario Reconstruction Approach Using Alerts Correlation and a Dynamic Attack Graph. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Myneni, Sowmya, Ankur Chowdhary, Dijiang Huang, & Adel Alshamrani. (2022). SmartDefense: A distributed deep defense against DDoS attacks with edge computing. Computer Networks. 209. 108874–108874. 18 indexed citations
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Alghamdi, Ahmed Mohammed, et al.. (2022). Intelligence and Usability Empowerment of Smartphone Adaptive Features. Applied Sciences. 12(23). 12245–12245. 4 indexed citations
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Alghamdi, Ahmed Mohammed, et al.. (2022). Topological Evaluation of Certain Computer Networks by Contraharmonic-Quadratic Indices. Computers, materials & continua/Computers, materials & continua (Print). 74(2). 3795–3810. 3 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, et al.. (2021). A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Advanced Persistent Threat Attack Detection. 78–86. 5 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel. (2020). Reconnaissance Attack in SDN based Environments. 1–5. 4 indexed citations
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Alshahrani, Abdullah, Ibrahim A. Elgendy, Ammar Muthanna, Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi, & Adel Alshamrani. (2020). Efficient Multi-Player Computation Offloading for VR Edge-Cloud Computing Systems. Applied Sciences. 10(16). 5515–5515. 27 indexed citations
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Chowdhary, Ankur, Adel Alshamrani, & Dijiang Huang. (2019). SUPC: SDN enabled Universal Policy Checking in Cloud Network. 572–576. 3 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, Sowmya Myneni, Ankur Chowdhary, & Dijiang Huang. (2019). A Survey on Advanced Persistent Threats: Techniques, Solutions, Challenges, and Research Opportunities. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 21(2). 1851–1877. 326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lu, Duo, Dijiang Huang, Yuli Deng, & Adel Alshamrani. (2018). Multifactor User Authentication with In-Air-Handwriting and Hand Geometry. 255–262. 17 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, et al.. (2018). Combining Dynamic and Static Attack Information for Attack Tracing and Event Correlation. 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel. (2018). Cyber Attacks Detection and Mitigation in SDN Environments. 1 indexed citations
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Chowdhary, Ankur, Adel Alshamrani, Dijiang Huang, & Hongbin Liang. (2018). MTD Analysis and evaluation framework in Software Defined Network (MASON). 43–48. 26 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, Sayantan Guha, Sandeep Pisharody, Ankur Chowdhary, & Dijiang Huang. (2018). Fault Tolerant Controller Placement in Distributed SDN Environments. 1–7. 18 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, Ankur Chowdhary, Sandeep Pisharody, Duo Lu, & Dijiang Huang. (2017). A Defense System for Defeating DDoS Attacks in SDN based Networks. 83–92. 59 indexed citations
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Chowdhary, Ankur, Sandeep Pisharody, Adel Alshamrani, & Dijiang Huang. (2017). Dynamic Game based Security framework in SDN-enabled Cloud Networking Environments. 53–58. 28 indexed citations
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Alshamrani, Adel, et al.. (2015). A Comparison Between Three SDLC Models Waterfall Model, Spiral Model, and Incremental/Iterative Model. 108 indexed citations

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