Boubakr Nour

3.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
51 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Boubakr Nour is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Boubakr Nour has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 13 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Boubakr Nour's work include Caching and Content Delivery (28 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (17 papers) and Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (16 papers). Boubakr Nour is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (28 papers), IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (17 papers) and Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (16 papers). Boubakr Nour collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Boubakr Nour's co-authors include Hassine Moungla, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li, Hakima Khelifi, Yu Wang, Senlin Luo, Sujit Biswas, Mohsen Guizani, Adlen Ksentini and Rasheed Hussain and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Sensors and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Boubakr Nour

46 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Named Data Networking in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges

2019 252 citations Hakima Khelifi, Senlin Luo et al. profile →
Edge and fog computing for IoT: A survey on current research activities & future directions

2021 172 citations Boubakr Nour, Hassine Moungla et al. Computer Communications profile →
An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks

2021 164 citations Rehmat Ullah, Jawad Ahmad et al. Sensors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boubakr Nour China	25	1.6k	527	509	359	143	51	2.0k
Spyridon Mastorakis United States	21	1.1k 0.7×	225 0.4×	333 0.7×	292 0.8×	50 0.3×	57	1.5k
Jianfeng Guan China	20	1.4k 0.9×	652 1.2×	217 0.4×	343 1.0×	111 0.8×	148	1.9k
Azana Hafizah Mohd Aman Malaysia	19	763 0.5×	487 0.9×	334 0.7×	223 0.6×	98 0.7×	86	1.4k
Hassine Moungla France	21	1.2k 0.7×	475 0.9×	253 0.5×	191 0.5×	30 0.2×	72	1.5k
Ki‐Hyung Kim South Korea	23	994 0.6×	506 1.0×	350 0.7×	201 0.6×	122 0.9×	136	1.5k
Rui L. Aguiar Portugal	25	2.1k 1.3×	1.5k 2.9×	387 0.8×	338 0.9×	96 0.7×	371	3.0k
Song Wu China	24	1.5k 0.9×	341 0.6×	1.2k 2.4×	206 0.6×	64 0.4×	182	2.1k
Jianli Pan United States	18	1.5k 0.9×	514 1.0×	621 1.2×	293 0.8×	73 0.5×	47	2.0k
Ioannis Stavrakakis Greece	24	2.1k 1.3×	596 1.1×	176 0.3×	99 0.3×	62 0.4×	189	2.5k
Jingjing Guo China	17	463 0.3×	450 0.9×	330 0.6×	452 1.3×	40 0.3×	56	1.2k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive Advanced Persistent Threats Dataset. IEEE Networking Letters. 7(2). 150–154.

Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2024). AUTOMA: Automated Generation of Attack Hypotheses and Their Variants for Threat Hunting Using Knowledge Discovery. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 21(5). 5178–5196. 5 indexed citations

Kabir, Mohammad Ekramul, Suryadipta Majumdar, Lingyu Wang, et al.. (2024). ACE-WARP: A Cost-Effective Approach to Proactive and Non-Disruptive Incident Response in Kubernetes Clusters. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 8204–8219.

Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2024). ThreatScout: Automated Threat Hunting Solution Using Machine Reasoning. IEEE Security & Privacy. 23(5). 56–67.

Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2022). PbCP: A profit-based cache placement scheme for next-generation IoT-based ICN networks. Computer Communications. 194. 311–320. 4 indexed citations

Ullah, Rehmat, Jawad Ahmad, Sadaqat Ur Rehman, et al.. (2021). An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks. Sensors. 21(2). 446–446. 164 indexed citations breakdown →

Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2021). CoxNet: A Computation Reuse Architecture at the Edge. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 5(2). 765–777. 12 indexed citations

Nour, Boubakr, Soumaya Cherkaoui, & Zoubeir Mlika. (2021). Federated Learning and Proactive Computation Reuse at the Edge of Smart Homes. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 9(5). 3045–3056. 19 indexed citations

Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2021). A Latin rectangles-based TSCH scheduling and interference mitigation design. Computer Networks. 197. 108275–108275. 3 indexed citations

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Alam, Iqbal, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li, et al.. (2020). A Survey of Network Virtualization Techniques for Internet of Things Using SDN and NFV. ACM Computing Surveys. 53(2). 1–40. 152 indexed citations

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Khelifi, Hakima, Senlin Luo, Boubakr Nour, & Hassine Moungla. (2020). In-Network Caching in ICN-based Vehicular Networks: Effectiveness & Performance Evaluation. 1–6. 13 indexed citations

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Nour, Boubakr, et al.. (2020). A Survey of ICN Content Naming and In-Network Caching in 5G and Beyond Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(6). 4081–4104. 57 indexed citations

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Nour, Boubakr, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li, & Yu Wang. (2019). Security and Privacy Challenges in Information-Centric Wireless Internet of Things Networks. IEEE Security & Privacy. 18(2). 35–45. 35 indexed citations

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Khelifi, Hakima, Senlin Luo, Boubakr Nour, & Hassine Moungla. (2019). A QoS-Aware Cache Replacement Policy for Vehicular Named Data Networks. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 20 indexed citations

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Nour, Boubakr, Adlen Ksentini, Nicolas Herbaut, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, & Hassine Moungla. (2019). A Blockchain-Based Network Slice Broker for 5G Services. IEEE Networking Letters. 1(3). 99–102. 90 indexed citations

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Nour, Boubakr, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li, et al.. (2018). NCP: A near ICN Cache Placement Scheme for IoT-Based Traffic Class. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 32 indexed citations

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Khelifi, Hakima, Senlin Luo, Boubakr Nour, et al.. (2018). Bringing Deep Learning at the Edge of Information-Centric Internet of Things. IEEE Communications Letters. 23(1). 52–55. 88 indexed citations

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Khelifi, Hakima, Senlin Luo, Boubakr Nour, & Sayed Chhattan Shah. (2018). Security and Privacy Issues in Vehicular Named Data Networks: An Overview. Mobile Information Systems. 2018. 1–11. 38 indexed citations

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Biswas, Sujit, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li, Boubakr Nour, & Yu Wang. (2018). A Scalable Blockchain Framework for Secure Transactions in IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 6(3). 4650–4659. 184 indexed citations

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Al‐Refaie, Abbas, et al.. (2014). Imprecise data envelopment analysis model for robust design with multiple fuzzy quality responses. Advances in Production Engineering & Management. 9(2). 83–94. 7 indexed citations

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