Kapal Dev

7.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
155 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Kapal Dev is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kapal Dev has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 53 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 47 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kapal Dev's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (30 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (21 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (19 papers). Kapal Dev is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (30 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (21 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies (19 papers). Kapal Dev collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Ireland and Pakistan. Kapal Dev's co-authors include Quoc‐Viet Pham, Madhusanka Liyanage, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Sunder Ali Khowaja, N. Deepa, B. Prabadevi, Rukhsana Ruby, Weizheng Wang and Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kapal Dev

147 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications

2021 1.0k citations Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, N. Deepa et al. profile →
Survey on 6G Frontiers: Trends, Applications, Requirements, Technologies and Future Research

2021 488 citations Kapal Dev et al. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society profile →
Fusion of Federated Learning and Industrial Internet of Things: A survey

2022 180 citations Kapal Dev, Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta et al. profile →
AI and 6G Into the Metaverse: Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Research Trends

2024 70 citations Fayaz Ali Dharejo, Sunder Ali Khowaja et al. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society profile →
ChatGPT Needs SPADE (Sustainability, PrivAcy, Digital divide, and Ethics) Evaluation: A Review

2024 49 citations Sunder Ali Khowaja, Parus Khuwaja et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kapal Dev South Africa	35	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	780	694	155	4.7k
Mithun Mukherjee China	26	2.5k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	578 0.5×	822 1.1×	539 0.8×	149	4.2k
Kevin I‐Kai Wang New Zealand	33	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	794 1.0×	976 1.4×	168	5.4k
Tu N. Nguyen United States	39	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	784 0.7×	680 0.9×	238 0.3×	126	3.9k
Dong‐Seong Kim South Korea	37	2.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	698 0.9×	379 0.5×	462	5.9k
Saeed Hamood Alsamhi Ireland	36	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	655 0.6×	755 1.0×	310 0.4×	156	4.1k
Muhammad Bilal South Korea	33	1.7k 1.1×	840 0.6×	714 0.6×	866 1.1×	213 0.3×	197	3.3k
Wazir Zada Khan Saudi Arabia	31	1.9k 1.2×	845 0.6×	963 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	225 0.3×	104	4.4k
Tiago M. Fernández‐Caramés Spain	37	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	750 0.6×	2.1k 2.7×	929 1.3×	103	5.6k
Qi Hao China	38	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	932 0.8×	434 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	216	6.0k
Chunsheng Zhu China	37	3.1k 2.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	223 0.3×	177	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kapal Dev

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Ranjha, Ali, et al.. (2025). Zero SolarWing: A Net-Zero Solar Wind-Powered UAV-Enabled RIS System for URLLC Services in 6G Compute First Networks. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 71(3). 8141–8152. 1 indexed citations

Dev, Kapal, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Engin Zeydan, Keshav Singh, & Mérouane Debbah. (2025). Advanced Architectures Integrated With Agentic AI for Next-Generation Wireless Networks. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. 1–8. 3 indexed citations

Khan, Wali Ullah, Eva Lagunas, Zain Anwar Ali, et al.. (2024). Deep Reinforcement Learning for Backscatter Communications: Augmenting Intelligence in Future Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. 7(5). 72–78. 1 indexed citations

Singh, Daljeet, Atul Kumar, Hem Dutt Joshi, et al.. (2024). Generalized Adaptive Spreading Modulation: A Novel Waveform for Integrated Sensing and Communication Oriented Vehicular Applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(18). 29486–29493. 2 indexed citations

Khowaja, Sunder Ali, Parus Khuwaja, Kapal Dev, et al.. (2024). ZETA: ZEro-Trust Attack Framework with Split Learning for Autonomous Vehicles in 6G Networks. 1–6. 7 indexed citations

Dev, Kapal, et al.. (2024). Dynamic CPU Frequency Scaling for Efficient Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Fog Networks for CIoT Applications. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 70(4). 7365–7372.

Raja, Gunasekaran, et al.. (2024). CPP-OTPO: A Cognitive Multi-UAV System for Adaptive Path and Trajectory Optimization. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

Gadekallu, Thippa Reddy, Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, N. Deepa, et al.. (2024). XAI for Industry 5.0—Concepts, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 6. 2706–2729. 15 indexed citations

Ghayvat, Hemant, et al.. (2024). Digitally Enhanced Home to the Village: AIoMT-Enabled Multisource Data Fusion and Power-Efficient Sustainable Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(24). 39030–39040. 2 indexed citations

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Dev, Kapal, et al.. (2024). Comparative evaluation of Large Language Models using key metrics and emerging tools. Expert Systems. 42(2). 1 indexed citations

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Hassoun, Abdo, Hana Trollman, Guillermo Garcia‐Garcia, et al.. (2024). From Food Industry 4.0 to Food Industry 5.0: Identifying technological enablers and potential future applications in the food sector. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety. 23(6). e370040–e370040. 28 indexed citations

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Raja, Gunasekaran, et al.. (2024). Synergistic Analysis of Lung Cancer's Impact on Cardiovascular Disease Using ML-Based Techniques. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 30(1). 65–72. 5 indexed citations

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Kottursamy, Kottilingam, et al.. (2024). An Efficient 6G Federated Learning-Enabled Energy-Efficient Scheme for UAV Deployment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(2). 2057–2066. 7 indexed citations

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Khowaja, Sunder Ali, Parus Khuwaja, Fayaz Ali Dharejo, et al.. (2023). ReFuSeAct: Representation fusion using self-supervised learning for activity recognition in next generation networks. Information Fusion. 102. 102044–102044. 9 indexed citations

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Khowaja, Sunder Ali, Parus Khuwaja, Kapal Dev, & Angelos Antonopoulos. (2023). SPIN: Simulated Poisoning and Inversion Network for Federated Learning-Based 6G Vehicular Networks. 6205–6210. 13 indexed citations

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Khan, Wali Ullah, Fida Hussain Memon, Kapal Dev, et al.. (2022). Ambient BackCom in beyond 5G NOMA networks: A multi-cell resource allocation framework. Digital Communications and Networks. 8(6). 1005–1013. 9 indexed citations

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Deebak, B. D., Fida Hussain Memon, Kapal Dev, et al.. (2022). TAB-SAPP: A Trust-Aware Blockchain-Based Seamless Authentication for Massive IoT-Enabled Industrial Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 19(1). 243–250. 50 indexed citations

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Dev, Kapal, Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, et al.. (2022). Energy Optimization for Green Communication in IoT Using Harris Hawks Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 6(2). 685–694. 55 indexed citations

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Liu, Dengzhi, Yong Zhang, Weizheng Wang, Kapal Dev, & Sunder Ali Khowaja. (2021). Flexible Data Integrity Checking With Original Data Recovery in IoT-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 1–12. 32 indexed citations

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Dev, Kapal, et al.. (2020). Comparative Analysis of Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Personal Communications. 116(2). 1311–1323. 24 indexed citations

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