Alvin Valera

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 791 citations indexed

About

Alvin Valera is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Alvin Valera has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 791 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Alvin Valera's work include Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (12 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (10 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (10 papers). Alvin Valera is often cited by papers focused on Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (12 papers), Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (10 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (10 papers). Alvin Valera collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. Alvin Valera's co-authors include Winston K.G. Seah, Hwee‐Xian Tan, Xiaoping Ma, Colin Keng-Yan Tan, Dinesh Thangavel, S.V. Rao, Hwee-Pink Tan, Wee-Seng Soh, Tao Zheng and Jianan Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Alvin Valera

36 papers receiving 739 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Performance evaluation of MQTT and CoAP via a common middleware
    2014 291 citations Dinesh Thangavel, Xiaoping Ma et al. profile →

Peers

Alvin Valera
Regina B. Araújo Brazil
Dilip Kumar India
Hassan Harb France
Younghwan Yoo South Korea
Behnam Dezfouli United States
Fan Jiang China
Vincenzo Mighali Italy
Jasmeet Chhabra United States
Zhenchun Wei China
Luís Oliveira Portugal
Regina B. Araújo Brazil
Alvin Valera
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Countries citing papers authored by Alvin Valera

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alvin Valera

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alvin Valera

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alvin Valera. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alvin Valera based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alvin Valera. Alvin Valera is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Wuyungerile, et al.. (2024). EABC: Energy-aware Centrality-based Caching for Named Data Networking in the IoT. 259–268. 4 indexed citations
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Seah, Winston K.G., et al.. (2024). Synchronization Control-Plane Protocol for Quantum Link Layer. 1–9.
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Sun, Jianan, Qing Gu, Tao Zheng, et al.. (2020). Joint Optimization of Computation Offloading and Task Scheduling in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks. IEEE Access. 8. 10466–10477. 73 indexed citations
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Valera, Alvin, et al.. (2020). ElasticWISP: Energy-Proportional WISP Networks. 1–9. 3 indexed citations
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Valera, Alvin, et al.. (2019). Easy as ABC. 100–111. 13 indexed citations
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Goonawardene, Nadee, Pius Lee, Hwee‐Xian Tan, Alvin Valera, & Hwee-Pink Tan. (2018). Technologies for ageing-in-place: The Singapore context. Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University). 147. 3 indexed citations
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Valera, Alvin, et al.. (2016). Online Detection of Behavioral Change Using Unobtrusive Eldercare Monitoring System. Institutional Knowledge (InK) - Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University (Singapore Management University). 1–8. 5 indexed citations
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Chan, Wai Hong Ronald, Pengfei Zhang, Wenyu Zhang, et al.. (2015). Adaptive duty cycling in sensor networks via Continuous Time Markov Chain modelling. 39. 6669–6674. 5 indexed citations
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Thangavel, Dinesh, Xiaoping Ma, Alvin Valera, Hwee‐Xian Tan, & Colin Keng-Yan Tan. (2014). Performance evaluation of MQTT and CoAP via a common middleware. 1–6. 291 indexed citations breakdown →
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Valera, Alvin, Wee-Seng Soh, & Hwee-Pink Tan. (2014). Survey on wakeup scheduling for environmentally-powered wireless sensor networks. Computer Communications. 52. 21–36. 27 indexed citations
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Seah, Winston K.G., et al.. (2012). Topology Skewing for Improved Route Selection in Wireless Multi-hop Networks. National University of Singapore. 5669–5678. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Hwee-Pink, et al.. (2010). Transmission power control in 2-D Wireless Sensor Networks Powered by ambient energy harvesting. 1671–1676. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Hwee-Pink, et al.. (2010). Opportunistic ARQ with bidirectional overhearing for reliable multihop underwater networking. OCEANS'10 IEEE SYDNEY. 1–6. 19 indexed citations
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Navarrina, F., et al.. (2005). Optimization Of High Tension Towers BySequential Linear Programming WithQuadratic Line Search. WIT transactions on the built environment. 80. 1 indexed citations
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Valera, Alvin, Winston K.G. Seah, & S.V. Rao. (2004). Cooperative packet caching and shortest multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks. 1. 260–269. 102 indexed citations

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