Hany Elgala

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Hany Elgala is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hany Elgala has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 13 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hany Elgala's work include Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (73 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (47 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (27 papers). Hany Elgala is often cited by papers focused on Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (73 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (47 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (27 papers). Hany Elgala collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Hany Elgala's co-authors include Harald Haas, Raed Mesleh, Thomas D. C. Little, Moussa Ayyash, Abdallah Khreishah, Sihua Shao, Haythem Bany Salameh, Michael Rahaim, Dietmar Knipp and Mostafa Afgani and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Optics Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Hany Elgala

99 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Indoor optical wireless communication: potential and state-of-the-art

2011 946 citations Hany Elgala, Raed Mesleh et al. profile →
Coexistence of WiFi and LiFi toward 5G: concepts, opportunities, and challenges

2016 364 citations Moussa Ayyash, Hany Elgala et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hany Elgala United States	30	4.4k	521	460	380	184	100	4.7k
Hoa Le Minh United Kingdom	34	5.1k 1.2×	795 1.5×	413 0.9×	425 1.1×	251 1.4×	175	5.5k
Shinichiro Haruyama Japan	24	2.1k 0.5×	505 1.0×	219 0.5×	294 0.8×	171 0.9×	99	2.4k
Stefan Videv United Kingdom	24	3.5k 0.8×	304 0.6×	533 1.2×	206 0.5×	112 0.6×	64	3.6k
Wen‐De Zhong Singapore	28	3.0k 0.7×	211 0.4×	569 1.2×	266 0.7×	132 0.7×	174	3.2k
Toshihiko Komine Japan	16	3.8k 0.9×	860 1.7×	244 0.5×	327 0.9×	289 1.6×	27	3.9k
Majid Safari United Kingdom	27	3.3k 0.7×	153 0.3×	373 0.8×	788 2.1×	66 0.4×	167	3.5k
Steve Hranilovic Canada	35	4.8k 1.1×	238 0.5×	279 0.6×	1.4k 3.6×	106 0.6×	150	5.0k
Fang Yang China	29	2.7k 0.6×	122 0.2×	427 0.9×	296 0.8×	58 0.3×	265	3.1k
Hiraku Okada Japan	19	1.8k 0.4×	383 0.7×	642 1.4×	194 0.5×	131 0.7×	213	2.1k
Sridhar Rajagopal United States	16	4.3k 1.0×	224 0.4×	506 1.1×	1.2k 3.2×	89 0.5×	52	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hany Elgala

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20 of 20 papers shown

Salameh, Haythem Bany, et al.. (2024). Energy-Efficient OIRS-Aided VLC Systems Employing ML-Based User Orientation and Obstacle Awareness. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(24). 42118–42126.

Salameh, Haythem Bany, et al.. (2024). Performance Analysis of OIRS-Aided Indoor VLC Systems Under Dynamic Human Blockages and Random UE Orientation. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(20). 33110–33119. 7 indexed citations

Salameh, Haythem Bany, et al.. (2024). Efficient Power Allocation and Saving Framework for VLC-Enabled Indoor Networks With Crowded Heterogeneous Obstacles. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(9). 15491–15500. 2 indexed citations

Salameh, Haythem Bany, et al.. (2024). Generalized hybrid LiFi-WiFi UniPHY learning framework towards intelligent UAV-based indoor networks. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 255–266. 2 indexed citations

Elgala, Hany, et al.. (2023). Unified Physical-Layer Learning Framework Toward VLC-Enabled 6G Indoor Flying Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(3). 5545–5557. 7 indexed citations

Salameh, Haythem Bany, et al.. (2023). A Survey of Indoor and Outdoor UAV-Based Target Tracking Systems: Current Status, Challenges, Technologies, and Future Directions. IEEE Access. 11. 68324–68339. 39 indexed citations

Alhijawi, Bushra, Sufyan Almajali, Hany Elgala, Haythem Bany Salameh, & Moussa Ayyash. (2022). A survey on DoS/DDoS mitigation techniques in SDNs: Classification, comparison, solutions, testing tools and datasets. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 99. 107706–107706. 63 indexed citations

Salameh, Haythem Bany, et al.. (2021). Jamming-Aware Simultaneous Multi-Channel Decisions for Opportunistic Access in Delay-Critical IoT-Based Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(3). 2889–2898. 4 indexed citations

Almajali, Sufyan, et al.. (2021). A Novel Trust-Aware and Energy-Aware Clustering Method That Uses Stochastic Fractal Search in IoT-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Systems Journal. 16(2). 2693–2704. 30 indexed citations

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Elgala, Hany, et al.. (2021). Machine learning-based security-aware spatial modulation for heterogeneous radio-optical networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 477(2248). 1 indexed citations

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Sofotasios, Paschalis C., et al.. (2020). Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Hybrid VLC-RF Networks with Imperfect Channel State Information. Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University. 28 indexed citations

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Shao, Sihua, Guanxiong Liu, Abdallah Khreishah, et al.. (2019). Optimizing Handover Parameters by Q-Learning for Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks. IEEE photonics journal. 12(1). 1–15. 25 indexed citations

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Chaaban, Anas, et al.. (2019). Achievable Rates of Multi-Carrier Modulation Schemes for Bandlimited IM/DD Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 18(3). 1957–1973. 20 indexed citations

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Nauryzbayev, Galymzhan, Mohamed Abdallah, & Hany Elgala. (2018). Outage of SEE-OFDM VLC-NOMA Networks. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 31(2). 121–124. 10 indexed citations

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Rahaim, Michael, Thomas D. C. Little, Hany Elgala, & Siddhartan Govindasamy. (2017). An Ultra-Dense IoT Architecture using Hybrid CSMA with Sector Based Scheduling (CSMA/SS) via Visible Light Communications. 335–336. 1 indexed citations

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Mesleh, Raed, Hany Elgala, & Harald Haas. (2012). LED Nonlinearity Mitigation Techniques in Optical Wireless OFDM Communication Systems. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 4(11). 865–865. 89 indexed citations

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Mesleh, Raed, et al.. (2011). Optical spatial modulation with transmitter-receiver alignments. 1–4. 2 indexed citations

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Elgala, Hany, Raed Mesleh, & Harald Haas. (2010). An LED Model for Intensity-Modulated Optical Communication Systems. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 22(11). 835–837. 157 indexed citations

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Elgala, Hany, Raed Mesleh, & Harald Haas. (2009). Practical considerations for indoor wireless optical system implementation using OFDM. International Conference on Telecommunications. 25–29. 68 indexed citations

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Elgala, Hany, Raed Mesleh, & Harald Haas. (2009). A study of LED nonlinearity effects on optical wireless transmission using OFDM. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 1–5. 111 indexed citations

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