Imad Aad

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Imad Aad is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Imad Aad has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Imad Aad's work include Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (19 papers), Wireless Networks and Protocols (19 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (13 papers). Imad Aad is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (19 papers), Wireless Networks and Protocols (19 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (13 papers). Imad Aad collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Imad Aad's co-authors include Jean‐Pierre Hubaux, Claude Castelluccia, Maxim Raya, Edward W. Knightly, Panos Papadimitratos, Mario Čagalj, Saurabh Ganeriwal, J. Laurila, Julien Eberle and Jan Blom and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

In The Last Decade

Imad Aad

36 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Differentiation mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300
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. Differentiation mechanisms for IEEE 802.11
    2002 390 citations Imad Aad, Claude Castelluccia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Imad Aad Switzerland 18 1.8k 989 325 199 135 37 2.2k
Marco Gramaglia Spain 25 1.4k 0.8× 947 1.0× 232 0.7× 153 0.8× 118 0.9× 93 1.9k
Jianfeng Guan China 20 1.4k 0.8× 652 0.7× 343 1.1× 86 0.4× 217 1.6× 148 1.9k
Fabián E. Bustamante United States 25 2.2k 1.3× 580 0.6× 544 1.7× 92 0.5× 353 2.6× 121 2.6k
Robin Kravets United States 34 4.1k 2.3× 1.5k 1.5× 188 0.6× 101 0.5× 194 1.4× 128 4.5k
Öznur Özkasap Türkiye 20 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 279 0.9× 77 0.4× 442 3.3× 116 2.2k
Wen-Tsuen Chen Taiwan 27 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 258 0.8× 54 0.3× 134 1.0× 166 2.4k
David Eckhoff Germany 18 566 0.3× 919 0.9× 451 1.4× 224 1.1× 169 1.3× 69 1.6k
Albert Banchs Spain 34 3.8k 2.1× 2.5k 2.6× 337 1.0× 100 0.5× 217 1.6× 177 4.4k
Stefano Secci France 21 1.4k 0.8× 656 0.7× 230 0.7× 129 0.6× 577 4.3× 85 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Imad Aad

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Imad Aad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Imad Aad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Imad Aad 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 Imad Aad. Imad Aad 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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Bilogrevic, Igor, et al.. (2014). Privacy-Preserving Optimal Meeting Location Determination on Mobile Devices. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 9(7). 1141–1156. 27 indexed citations
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Aad, Imad, et al.. (2013). Privacy Panel: Usable and Quantifiable Mobile Privacy. 218–223. 4 indexed citations
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Jadliwala, Murtuza, Igor Bilogrevic, Imad Aad, et al.. (2012). Track Me If You Can: On the Effectiveness of Context-based Identifier Changes in Deployed Mobile Networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 17 indexed citations
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Laurila, J., Daniel Gática-Pérez, Imad Aad, et al.. (2012). The Mobile Data Challenge: Big Data for Mobile Computing Research. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 292 indexed citations
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Jadliwala, Murtuza, Julien Freudiger, Imad Aad, Jean‐Pierre Hubaux, & Valtteri Niemi. (2011). Privacy-triggered communications in pervasive social networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Aad, Imad, et al.. (2011). E‐MAC: an elastic MAC layer for IEEE 802.11 networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 13(4). 393–409. 2 indexed citations
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Bilogrevic, Igor, Murtuza Jadliwala, Praveen Kumar, et al.. (2011). Meetings through the cloud: Privacy-preserving scheduling on mobile devices. Journal of Systems and Software. 84(11). 1910–1927. 20 indexed citations
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Cristofaro, Emiliano De, et al.. (2011). Reclaiming privacy for smartphone applications. 45. 84–92. 20 indexed citations
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Scalia, Luca, Joerg Widmer, & Imad Aad. (2010). On the side effects of packet detection sensitivity in IEEE 802.11 interference management. 1–7. 10 indexed citations
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Lichte, Hermann S., et al.. (2009). Rate-Per-Link Adaptation in Cooperative Wireless Networks with Multi-Rate Combining. 1–6. 4 indexed citations
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Lichte, Hermann S., Stefan Valentin, Holger Karl, Imad Aad, & Joerg Widmer. (2009). Analyzing space/capacity tradeoffs of cooperative wireless networks using a probabilistic model of interference. 54–62. 1 indexed citations
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Raya, Maxim, et al.. (2008). Certificate Revocation List Distribution in Vehicular Communication Systems : EPFL Technical Report, LCA-REPORT-2008-019. 3 indexed citations
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Aad, Imad, et al.. (2007). E-MAC: Self-Organizing 802.11-Compatible MAC with Elastic Real-time Scheduling. 1–10. 4 indexed citations
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Raya, Maxim, et al.. (2007). Eviction of Misbehaving and Faulty Nodes in Vehicular Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 25(8). 1557–1568. 286 indexed citations
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Raya, Maxim, et al.. (2006). DOMINO: Detecting MAC Layer Greedy Behavior in IEEE 802.11 Hotspots. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 5(12). 1691–1705. 103 indexed citations
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Aad, Imad, Claude Castelluccia, & Jean‐Pierre Hubaux. (2006). Packet Coding for Strong Anonymity in Ad Hoc Networks. 1–10. 21 indexed citations
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Widmer, Joerg, et al.. (2006). Lo~w-Comp-lexity Beamforming Techniques for Wireless Multihop Networks. 6. 489–497. 10 indexed citations
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Čagalj, Mario, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Imad Aad, & Jean‐Pierre Hubaux. (2004). On Cheating in CSMA/CA Ad Hoc Networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 46 indexed citations
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Aad, Imad, Jean‐Pierre Hubaux, & Edward W. Knightly. (2004). Denial of service resilience in ad hoc networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 202–215. 183 indexed citations
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Ni, Qiang, Lamia Romdhani, Thierry Turletti, & Imad Aad. (2002). QoS Issues and Enhancements for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 22 indexed citations

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