Charith Perera

9.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
105 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Charith Perera is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Charith Perera has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 40 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 31 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Charith Perera's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (36 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (30 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (21 papers). Charith Perera is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (36 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (30 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (21 papers). Charith Perera collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Charith Perera's co-authors include Arkady Zaslavsky, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Peter Christen, Chi Harold Liu, Srimal Jayawardena, Min Chen, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Júlio Cézar Estrella and Omer Rana and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Charith Perera

96 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

Context Aware Computing f... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2014 2015 2017 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Context Aware Computing for The Internet of Things: A Survey
    2013 1.8k citations Charith Perera et al. profile →
  2. Sensing as a service model for smart cities supported by Internet of Things
    2013 608 citations Charith Perera et al. profile →
  3. A Survey on Internet of Things From Industrial Market Perspective
    2014 429 citations Charith Perera et al. IEEE Access profile →
  4. The Emerging Internet of Things Marketplace From an Industrial Perspective: A Survey
    2015 358 citations Charith Perera et al. profile →
  5. Fog Computing for Sustainable Smart Cities
    2017 309 citations Charith Perera et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →
  6. The role of big data analytics in industrial Internet of Things
    2019 255 citations Muhammad Habib ur Rehman, Ibrar Yaqoob et al. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology) profile →
  7. Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review
    2022 113 citations Omer Rana, Pete Burnap et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Charith Perera 3.4k 1.6k 1.4k 1.2k 899 105 5.7k
Arkady Zaslavsky 3.5k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 289 6.5k
Paolo Bellavista 4.0k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.6× 912 1.0× 357 6.5k
Slaven Marusic 5.1k 1.5× 1.5k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 2.5k 2.1× 1.1k 1.2× 31 9.0k
Ejaz Ahmed 5.0k 1.5× 963 0.6× 2.6k 1.9× 2.1k 1.8× 1.4k 1.6× 81 8.1k
Mehdi Mohammadi 4.1k 1.2× 782 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 2.7k 2.3× 873 1.0× 35 6.4k
Chin‐Feng Lai 2.6k 0.8× 910 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 808 0.9× 201 5.4k
Mohammed Aledhari 4.2k 1.2× 755 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 2.5k 2.1× 1.2k 1.3× 25 6.5k
Moussa Ayyash 4.3k 1.3× 745 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 3.2k 2.7× 813 0.9× 70 6.9k
Lianyong Qi 4.4k 1.3× 1.7k 1.0× 3.3k 2.4× 1.6k 1.3× 2.8k 3.1× 218 8.7k
Shancang Li 4.2k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 2.0k 1.7× 1.6k 1.8× 77 8.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rana, Omer, et al.. (2025). SpaceSense: Exploring the Use of Sensors Data to Understand Occupants' Behavior in Heterogeneous Study Space Types. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 3(3). 1–38.
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Heartfield, Ryan, et al.. (2025). Real-Time Anomaly Detection for Industrial Robotic Arms Using Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(15). 29696–29712. 1 indexed citations
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Meedeniya, Dulani, Oktay Karakuş, Omer Rana, et al.. (2025). Review on Sustainable Forestry with Artificial Intelligence. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 3(4). 1–48. 1 indexed citations
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Meedeniya, Dulani, et al.. (2025). Elephant Sound Classification Using Deep Learning Optimization. Sensors. 25(2). 352–352. 3 indexed citations
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Rana, Omer, et al.. (2025). Self-adaptive Federated Learning in Internet of Things Systems: A Review. ACM Computing Surveys. 57(10). 1–36.
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Heartfield, Ryan, et al.. (2024). CASPER: Context-Aware IoT Anomaly Detection System for Industrial Robotic Arms. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 5(3). 1–36. 5 indexed citations
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Meedeniya, Dulani, et al.. (2024). ESC-NAS: Environment Sound Classification Using Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for the Edge. Sensors. 24(12). 3749–3749. 14 indexed citations
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Lloyd, Camille, et al.. (2024). Stress-GPT: Stress detection with an EEG-based foundation model. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2341–2346.
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Meedeniya, Dulani, et al.. (2024). A Comparative Study of Preprocessing and Model Compression Techniques in Deep Learning for Forest Sound Classification. Sensors. 24(4). 1149–1149. 11 indexed citations
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Rana, Omer, Sean I. Savitz, & Charith Perera. (2023). Edge analytics on resource constrained devices. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering. 26(5). 513–527.
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Alosaimi, Mohammed F., et al.. (2023). Dataset for cyber–physical anomaly detection in smart homes. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2. 1 indexed citations
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Barhamgi, Mahmoud, et al.. (2023). Personal Data Stores (PDS): A Review. Sensors. 23(3). 1477–1477. 14 indexed citations
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Meedeniya, Dulani, et al.. (2023). Forest Sound Classification Dataset: FSC22. Sensors. 23(4). 2032–2032. 16 indexed citations
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Meedeniya, Dulani, Charith Perera, Soumya Ranjan Nayak, et al.. (2021). License plate recognition using neural architecture search for edge devices. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 37(12). 10211–10248. 18 indexed citations
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Hussein, Ahmed Taha, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Massimo Vecchio, & Charith Perera. (2019). Crowdsourced Peer Learning Activity for Internet of Things Education: A Case Study. IRIS eCampus Telematic University (Università degli Studi eCampus). 9 indexed citations
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Rehman, Muhammad Habib ur, Ibrar Yaqoob, Khaled Salah, et al.. (2019). The role of big data analytics in industrial Internet of Things. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 255 indexed citations breakdown →
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Makhoul, Abdallah, et al.. (2019). A Spatial-Temporal Correlation Approach for Data Reduction in Cluster-Based Sensor Networks. IEEE Access. 7. 50669–50680. 33 indexed citations
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Azad, Muhammad Ajmal, Samiran Bag, Charith Perera, Mahmoud Barhamgi, & Feng Hao. (2019). Authentic Caller: Self-Enforcing Authentication in a Next-Generation Network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 16(5). 3606–3615. 16 indexed citations
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Safa, Nader Sohrabi, Carsten Maple, Steven Furnell, et al.. (2019). Deterrence and prevention-based model to mitigate information security insider threats in organisations. Future Generation Computer Systems. 97. 587–597. 59 indexed citations
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Baarslag, Tim, et al.. (2017). An Automated Negotiation Agent for Permission Management. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 380–390. 27 indexed citations

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