Alfonso Caño

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Alfonso Caño is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfonso Caño has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alfonso Caño's work include Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (11 papers), Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms (10 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (7 papers). Alfonso Caño is often cited by papers focused on Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (11 papers), Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms (10 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (7 papers). Alfonso Caño collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Israel. Alfonso Caño's co-authors include Georgios B. Giannakis, Tairan Wang, Pedro A. Forero, J. Nicholas Laneman, Hao Zhu, Magdalena Ugarte, Federico Mayor, Ignacio Núñez de Castro, Javier Ramos and Alejandro Ribeiro and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Biochemistry, IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alfonso Caño

22 papers receiving 964 citations

Hit Papers

High-Performance Cooperative Demodulation With Decode-and... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400
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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. High-Performance Cooperative Demodulation With Decode-and-Forward Relays
    2007 491 citations Tairan Wang, Alfonso Caño et al. IEEE Transactions on Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alfonso Caño United States 10 772 654 217 99 72 22 1.0k
Jung-Fu Cheng United States 14 976 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 343 1.6× 27 0.3× 79 1.1× 47 1.4k
Kyung Kyoon Bae United States 11 675 0.9× 514 0.8× 184 0.8× 88 0.9× 108 1.5× 17 924
Joseph Gaeddert United States 13 612 0.8× 524 0.8× 209 1.0× 64 0.6× 157 2.2× 21 907
Sameer Pawar United States 13 524 0.7× 443 0.7× 190 0.9× 80 0.8× 23 0.3× 32 737
Po‐Ning Chen Taiwan 16 509 0.7× 408 0.6× 261 1.2× 33 0.3× 23 0.3× 97 721
L.B. Milstein United States 18 1.4k 1.8× 1.5k 2.3× 119 0.5× 55 0.6× 130 1.8× 93 1.7k
Lars K. Rasmussen Sweden 25 2.1k 2.7× 2.2k 3.3× 228 1.1× 141 1.4× 109 1.5× 193 2.4k
Thomas W. Rondeau United States 15 496 0.6× 579 0.9× 183 0.8× 117 1.2× 107 1.5× 20 927
Urs Niesen United States 18 2.4k 3.1× 991 1.5× 158 0.7× 28 0.3× 60 0.8× 58 2.6k
Jacques Palicot France 15 360 0.5× 427 0.7× 79 0.4× 71 0.7× 46 0.6× 60 665

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alfonso Caño

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rajawat, Ketan, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2012). Network-Compressive Coding for Wireless Sensors with Correlated Data. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 11(12). 4264–4274. 4 indexed citations
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Forero, Pedro A., Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2011). Distributed Clustering Using Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 5(4). 707–724. 136 indexed citations
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Forero, Pedro A., Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2010). Consensus-based distributed linear support vector machines. 35–46. 128 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hao, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2010). Distributed consensus-based demodulation: algorithms and error analysis. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 9(6). 2044–2054. 47 indexed citations
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Caño, Alfonso, Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó, Ana I. Pèrez-Neira, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2009). High-rate distributed multi-source cooperation using complex field coding. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 2633–2636. 3 indexed citations
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Forero, Pedro A., Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2008). Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM. 57 indexed citations
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Forero, Pedro A., Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2008). Consensus-based distributed expectation-maximization algorithm for density estimation and classification using wireless sensor networks. Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 1989–1992. 26 indexed citations
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Farahmand, Shahrokh, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2008). Anti-jam distributed MIMO decoding using wireless sensor networks. Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 2257–2260. 6 indexed citations
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Forero, Pedro A., Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2008). Distributed feature-based modulation classification using wireless sensor networks. 32 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hao, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2008). In-network channel decoding using consensus on log-likelihood ratio averagesy. 67. 1058–1063. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hao, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2008). Distributed demodulation using consensus averaging in wireless sensor networks. 1170–1174. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hao, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2007). Consensus-Based Distributed MIMO Decoding Using Semidefinite Relaxation. 19. 201–204. 3 indexed citations
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Caño, Alfonso, Eduardo Morgado, Antonio J. Caamaño, & Javier Ramos. (2007). Distributed Double-Differential Modulation for Cooperative Communications Under CFO. BURJC Digital (King Juan Carlos University). 3437–3441. 3 indexed citations
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Caño, Alfonso, Tairan Wang, Alejandro Ribeiro, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2007). Link-Adaptive Distributed Coding for Multisource Cooperation. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2008(1). 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Tairan, Alfonso Caño, Georgios B. Giannakis, & J. Nicholas Laneman. (2007). High-Performance Cooperative Demodulation With Decode-and-Forward Relays. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 55(7). 1427–1438. 491 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Tairan, Alfonso Caño, Georgios B. Giannakis, & Javier Ramos. (2007). Multi-Tier Cooperative Broadcasting with Hierarchical Modulations. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 6(8). 3047–3057. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Tairan, Alfonso Caño, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2006). Link-Adaptive Cooperative Communications Without Channel State Information. 1–7. 13 indexed citations
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Figuera, Carlos, Eduardo Morgado, Antonio J. Caamaño, & Alfonso Caño. (2006). Direct Link Aware Cooperative Relaying. BURJC Digital (King Juan Carlos University). 292–296. 1 indexed citations
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Caño, Alfonso, Xiaoli Ma, & Georgios B. Giannakis. (2006). Space-Time Differential Modulation using Linear Constellation Precoding. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2. 2991–2995. 2 indexed citations
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Castro, Ignacio Núñez de, Magdalena Ugarte, Alfonso Caño, & Federico Mayor. (1970). Effect of Glucose, Galactose, and Different Nitrogen‐Sources on the Activity of Yeast Glutamate Dehydrogenase (NAD and NADP‐Linked) from Normal Strain and Impaired Respiration Mutant. European Journal of Biochemistry. 16(3). 567–570. 18 indexed citations

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