Bahar Farahani

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Bahar Farahani is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Bahar Farahani has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Bahar Farahani's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (13 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (11 papers) and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (7 papers). Bahar Farahani is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (13 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (11 papers) and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (7 papers). Bahar Farahani collaborates with scholars based in Iran, United States and Belgium. Bahar Farahani's co-authors include Farshad Firouzi, Kunal Mankodiya, Mustafa Badaroglu, Victor Chang, Nicholas Constant, Fereidoon Shams Aliee, Mojtaba Barzegari, Geoff V. Merrett, Amir M. Rahmani and Paul Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Applied Soft Computing and Future Generation Computer Systems.

In The Last Decade

Bahar Farahani

47 papers receiving 1.7k 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. Towards fog-driven IoT eHealth: Promises and challenges of IoT in medicine and healthcare
    2017 623 citations Bahar Farahani, Farshad Firouzi et al. Future Generation Computer Systems profile →

Peers

Bahar Farahani
Boyi Xu China
Farshad Firouzi United States
Faisal Jamil South Korea
Fazlullah Khan Pakistan
Abdullah Lakhan Pakistan
Parvaneh Asghari Iran
Ângelo Perkusich Brazil
Md. Golam Rabiul Alam Bangladesh
Venki Balasubramanian Australia
Md. Humaun Kabir South Korea
Boyi Xu China
Bahar Farahani
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Countries citing papers authored by Bahar Farahani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bahar Farahani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bahar Farahani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bahar Farahani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bahar Farahani 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 Bahar Farahani. Bahar Farahani 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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Firouzi, Farshad, et al.. (2025). Prompt, Fab, Flex: Agentic LLMs for Flexible Electronics Design. 1–9.
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2025). Sync-GWO: Highly Private and Bandwidth-Efficient Federated Learning With a Case Study in Healthcare. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 30(3). 1939–1946.
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Kheradpisheh, Saeed Reza, et al.. (2024). Enabling Privacy-Preserving Edge AI: Federated Learning Enhanced with Forward-Forward Algorithm. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Fotohi, Reza, Fereidoon Shams Aliee, & Bahar Farahani. (2024). A Lightweight and Secure Deep Learning Model for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in Intelligent Enterprises. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(19). 31988–31998. 8 indexed citations
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Fotohi, Reza, Fereidoon Shams Aliee, & Bahar Farahani. (2024). Decentralized and robust privacy-preserving model using blockchain-enabled Federated Deep Learning in intelligent enterprises. Applied Soft Computing. 161. 111764–111764. 12 indexed citations
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Aliee, Fereidoon Shams, et al.. (2023). An Efficient Method For Selecting and Prioritizing Business Processes In Robotic Process Automation. 85–92. 1 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2023). Exploiting Federated Learning for EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface System. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 6 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2021). A hierarchical privacy-preserving IoT architecture for vision-based hand rehabilitation assessment. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 80(20). 31357–31380. 17 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2021). Systematic and ontology-based approach to interoperable cross-domain open government data services. Transforming Government People Process and Policy. 16(1). 110–127. 6 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2020). Social Internet of Things: Interoperability and Autonomous Computing Challenges. 1–7. 4 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2019). Towards collaborative intelligent IoT eHealth: From device to fog, and cloud. Microprocessors and Microsystems. 72. 102938–102938. 79 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, Farshad Firouzi, Victor Chang, et al.. (2017). Towards fog-driven IoT eHealth: Promises and challenges of IoT in medicine and healthcare. Future Generation Computer Systems. 78. 659–676. 623 indexed citations breakdown →
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Farahani, Bahar & Saeed Safari. (2015). A cross-layer approach to online adaptive reliability prediction of transient faults. 215–220. 6 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2015). A cross-layer SER analysis in the presence of PVTA variations. Microelectronics Reliability. 55(7). 1013–1027. 12 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, Ali Azarpeyvand, Saeed Safari, & S.M. Fakhraie. (2013). Reliability-aware cross-layer custom instruction screening. 258–262. 3 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2010). PSO based Deployment Algorithms in Hybrid Sensor Networks. 14 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar & Mahmood Fathy. (2009). Improving coverage in mobile sensor networks using overlap concept. 633–639. 1 indexed citations
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Farahani, Bahar, et al.. (2009). Distance Constrained Deployment (DCD) Algorithm in Mobile Sensor Networks. 435–440. 4 indexed citations

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