Athanasios V. Vasilakos

63.0k total citations · 41 hit papers
784 papers, 45.7k citations indexed

About

Athanasios V. Vasilakos is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Athanasios V. Vasilakos has authored 784 papers receiving a total of 45.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 467 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 218 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 167 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Athanasios V. Vasilakos's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (80 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (72 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (64 papers). Athanasios V. Vasilakos is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (80 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (72 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (64 papers). Athanasios V. Vasilakos collaborates with scholars based in China, Greece and Sweden. Athanasios V. Vasilakos's co-authors include Naixue Xiong, Jiafu Wan, Ashok Kumar Das, Zheng Yan, Neeraj Kumar, Mohammad Wazid, Min Chen, Peng Zhang, Muhammad Imran and Zhenfu Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nano Letters and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Athanasios V. Vasilakos

754 papers receiving 43.8k citations

Hit Papers

Body Area Networks: A Survey 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2015 2014 2014 2017 250 500 750
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  1. Body Area Networks: A Survey
    2010 966 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  2. A survey of millimeter wave communications (mmWave) for 5G: opportunities and challenges
    2015 927 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  3. Security of the Internet of Things: perspectives and challenges
    2014 842 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  4. A survey on trust management for Internet of Things
    2014 768 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. Journal of Network and Computer Applications profile →
  5. Machine learning on big data: Opportunities and challenges
    2017 726 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  6. A survey on the ietf protocol suite for the internet of things: standards, challenges, and opportunities
    2013 588 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  7. The Future of Healthcare Internet of Things: A Survey of Emerging Technologies
    2020 541 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  8. Full duplex techniques for 5G networks: self-interference cancellation, protocol design, and relay selection
    2015 524 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  9. Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and challenges
    2015 520 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. Information Sciences profile →
  10. Software-Defined Industrial Internet of Things in the Context of Industry 4.0
    2016 517 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  11. Big data analytics: a survey
    2015 458 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  12. Full-Duplex Wireless Communications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Research Directions
    2016 447 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  13. Molecular Communication and Networking: Opportunities and Challenges
    2012 443 citations Tadashi Nakano, Michael J. Moore et al. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience profile →
  14. False Data Injection on State Estimation in Power Systems—Attacks, Impacts, and Defense: A Survey
    2016 424 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  15. Security and Privacy for Cloud-Based IoT: Challenges
    2017 421 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  16. Granular Computing: Perspectives and Challenges
    2013 409 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  17. The role of big data analytics in Internet of Things
    2017 400 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  18. A review of industrial wireless networks in the context of Industry 4.0
    2015 390 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  19. IoT-Based Big Data Storage Systems in Cloud Computing: Perspectives and Challenges
    2016 383 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  20. A Survey on Ambient Intelligence in Healthcare
    2013 380 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  21. Security and privacy for storage and computation in cloud computing
    2013 377 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. Information Sciences profile →
  22. Enhancing smart grid with microgrids: Challenges and opportunities
    2017 371 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  23. Brain computer interface: control signals review
    2016 361 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  24. Data Mining for the Internet of Things: Literature Review and Challenges
    2015 359 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  25. A Manufacturing Big Data Solution for Active Preventive Maintenance
    2017 327 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  26. TRAC: Truthful auction for location-aware collaborative sensing in mobile crowdsourcing
    2014 324 citations Zhenni Feng, Yanmin Zhu et al. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) profile →
  27. BSeIn: A blockchain-based secure mutual authentication with fine-grained access control system for industry 4.0
    2018 315 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. Journal of Network and Computer Applications profile →
  28. Fog Computing for Sustainable Smart Cities
    2017 309 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  29. Compressed data aggregation for energy efficient wireless sensor networks
    2011 303 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  30. Software-Defined Networking for Internet of Things: A Survey
    2017 274 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  31. Design and Analysis of Secure Lightweight Remote User Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme in Internet of Drones Deployment
    2018 271 citations Mohammad Wazid, Ashok Kumar Das et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  32. Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions
    2013 270 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  33. Routing Metrics of Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey
    2014 269 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  34. Big data: From beginning to future
    2016 255 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  35. Web services composition: A decade’s overview
    2014 238 citations Quan Z. Sheng, Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. Information Sciences profile →
  36. Information-centric networking for the internet of things: challenges and opportunities
    2016 237 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  37. <italic>CDC</italic>: Compressive Data Collection for Wireless Sensor Networks
    2014 227 citations Yanmin Zhu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  38. A survey on attack detection, estimation and control of industrial cyber–physical systems
    2021 223 citations Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  39. GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer)— A Comprehensive Review on Enabling Technologies, Potential Applications, Emerging Challenges, and Future Directions
    2024 215 citations Weizheng Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →
  40. Low-Latency and Resource-Efficient Service Function Chaining Orchestration in Network Function Virtualization
    2019 204 citations Hongfang Yu, Victor Chang et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
  41. Latency performance modeling and analysis for hyperledger fabric blockchain network
    2020 157 citations Hongfang Yu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos et al. profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Athanasios V. Vasilakos 25.4k 14.1k 11.0k 8.8k 4.1k 784 45.7k
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues 17.1k 0.7× 10.6k 0.8× 8.0k 0.7× 6.9k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 1.1k 33.5k
Neeraj Kumar 23.5k 0.9× 12.7k 0.9× 18.6k 1.7× 11.2k 1.3× 1.9k 0.5× 1.1k 44.3k
Victor C. M. Leung 27.4k 1.1× 23.8k 1.7× 6.5k 0.6× 5.6k 0.6× 3.0k 0.7× 1.7k 45.9k
Mohsen Guizani 30.1k 1.2× 20.2k 1.4× 12.9k 1.2× 12.7k 1.4× 2.1k 0.5× 1.5k 55.5k
F. Richard Yu 23.1k 0.9× 17.2k 1.2× 7.4k 0.7× 6.0k 0.7× 887 0.2× 1.1k 37.6k
Yan Zhang 18.3k 0.7× 15.6k 1.1× 9.9k 0.9× 7.8k 0.9× 909 0.2× 915 34.0k
Min Chen 13.9k 0.5× 8.2k 0.6× 4.4k 0.4× 5.2k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 1.0k 32.9k
Xuemin Shen 40.7k 1.6× 36.5k 2.6× 11.1k 1.0× 14.3k 1.6× 2.1k 0.5× 1.8k 69.9k
Sherali Zeadally 12.0k 0.5× 8.9k 0.6× 7.4k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.3× 411 22.3k
David Culler 42.1k 1.7× 15.5k 1.1× 4.8k 0.4× 4.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 390 50.4k

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All Works

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Kumar, Anil, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive review of machine learning applications for internet of nano things: challenges and future directions. Artificial Intelligence Review. 58(7). 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Jingjing, Fa Zhu, Xingchi Chen, et al.. (2025). A scoping review of privacy protection in LBS: Architectures, Threats, and Defense mechanisms. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences. 37(10).
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Liu, Zhonghua, et al.. (2025). Discriminative approximate regression projection for feature extraction. Information Fusion. 120. 103088–103088. 4 indexed citations
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Aslam, Muhammad Shamrooz, et al.. (2025). H ∞ Delayed Filtering of Markov Jump Fuzzy Systems in Consumer Electronics: Input–Output Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 71(2). 7002–7013. 8 indexed citations
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Bilal, Hazrat, Muhammad Shamrooz Aslam, Yibin Tian, et al.. (2025). A Consumer Electronics-Enhanced UAV System for Agricultural Farm Tracking With Fuzzy SMO and Actuator Fault Detection Control Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 71(2). 6910–6923. 12 indexed citations
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Zhu, Fa, et al.. (2025). Joint Communication and Control Optimization of a Multi-Vehicle Platooning System. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(11). 19017–19027.
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Wang, Chenyang, et al.. (2025). Wi-Fi Sensing Based on Deep Supervised Dictionary Learning for Robust Device-Free Localization. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(8). 12842–12852.
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Luo, Haoxiang, et al.. (2024). Blockchain for energy market: A comprehensive survey. Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks. 41. 101614–101614. 8 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Sudeep, SK Hafizul Islam, & Athanasios V. Vasilakos. (2024). Private Blockchain-Assisted Certificateless Public Key Encryption With Multikeyword Search for Fog-Based IIoT Environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(19). 30847–30863. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Lingxiang, Zong-Xiao Li, Jingrui Wang, et al.. (2024). Electronically Reconfigurable Memristive Neuron Capable of Operating in Both Excitation and Inhibition Modes. Nano Letters. 24(35). 10865–10873. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Lingyi, et al.. (2023). DTC-MDD: A spatiotemporal data acquisition technology for privacy-preserving in MCS. Information Sciences. 658. 120018–120018. 4 indexed citations
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Dibaei, Mahdi, Xi Zheng, Xiwei Xu, et al.. (2021). Investigating the Prospect of Leveraging Blockchain and Machine Learning to Secure Vehicular Networks: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(2). 683–700. 89 indexed citations
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Luo, Hongbin, et al.. (2018). On the Benefits of Keeping Path Identifiers Secret in Future Internet: A DDoS Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 15(2). 650–664. 3 indexed citations
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Alam, Khubaib Amjad, et al.. (2016). Clustering and classification techniques for Web service discovery: a systematic review. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations
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Nakano, Tadashi, Tatsuya Suda, Yutaka Okaie, Michael J. Moore, & Athanasios V. Vasilakos. (2014). Molecular Communication Among Biological Nanomachines: A Layered Architecture and Research Issues. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 13(3). 169–197. 183 indexed citations
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Feng, Zhenni, Yanmin Zhu, Qian Zhang, Lionel M. Ni, & Athanasios V. Vasilakos. (2014). TRAC: Truthful auction for location-aware collaborative sensing in mobile crowdsourcing. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1231–1239. 324 indexed citations breakdown →
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Niu, Wenjia, Gang Li, Endong Tong, et al.. (2014). A block-aware hybrid data dissemination with hotspot elimination in wireless sensor network. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 44. 120–133.
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Zhang, Zhaoyang, Honggang Wang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, & Hua Fang. (2012). ECG-Cryptography and Authentication in Body Area Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. 16(6). 1070–1078. 183 indexed citations

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