Kirak Hong

913 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 641 citations indexed

About

Kirak Hong is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirak Hong has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 641 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 4 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Kirak Hong's work include Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (5 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (4 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (3 papers). Kirak Hong is often cited by papers focused on Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods (5 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (4 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (3 papers). Kirak Hong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Kirak Hong's co-authors include Umakishore Ramachandran, Beate Ottenwälder, Boris Koldehofe, David Lillethun, Kurt Rothermel, Posu Yan, Liviu Iftode, Allen Y. Yang, S. Shankar Sastry and Parvez Ahammad and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Software Practice and Experience and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

In The Last Decade

Kirak Hong

16 papers receiving 612 citations

Hit Papers

Mobile fog 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 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. Mobile fog
    2013 343 citations Kirak Hong, David Lillethun et al. Fachbereich Informatik (University of Stuttgart) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kirak Hong United States 8 561 225 208 171 66 16 641
Beate Ottenwälder Germany 9 634 1.1× 262 1.2× 207 1.0× 166 1.0× 77 1.2× 12 697
David Lillethun United States 8 443 0.8× 170 0.8× 143 0.7× 152 0.9× 58 0.9× 10 502
Mohammad Goudarzi Australia 11 700 1.2× 373 1.7× 151 0.7× 245 1.4× 80 1.2× 18 797
José Santos Belgium 14 588 1.0× 279 1.2× 103 0.5× 181 1.1× 49 0.7× 38 696
Arsham Farshad United Kingdom 11 426 0.8× 108 0.5× 119 0.6× 207 1.2× 56 0.8× 18 555
Nitinder Mohan Germany 14 475 0.8× 237 1.1× 96 0.5× 143 0.8× 74 1.1× 41 640
R. Serral-Gracià Spain 11 497 0.9× 133 0.6× 76 0.4× 217 1.3× 90 1.4× 35 589

Countries citing papers authored by Kirak Hong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kirak Hong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kirak Hong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kirak Hong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kirak Hong 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 Kirak Hong. Kirak Hong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ottenwälder, Beate, Boris Koldehofe, Kurt Rothermel, Kirak Hong, & Umakishore Ramachandran. (2014). RECEP. Fachbereich Informatik (University of Stuttgart). 59–70. 14 indexed citations
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Ottenwälder, Beate, Boris Koldehofe, Kurt Rothermel, et al.. (2014). MCEP. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. 14(1). 1–24. 41 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, David Lillethun, Umakishore Ramachandran, Beate Ottenwälder, & Boris Koldehofe. (2013). Mobile fog. Fachbereich Informatik (University of Stuttgart). 15–20. 343 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hong, Kirak, et al.. (2013). A Distributed Framework for Spatio-Temporal Analysis on Large-Scale Camera Networks. 309–314. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Phoebus, Kirak Hong, S. Shankar Sastry, et al.. (2013). A low-bandwidth camera sensor platform with applications in smart camera networks. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. 9(2). 1–23. 23 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, David Lillethun, Umakishore Ramachandran, Beate Ottenwälder, & Boris Koldehofe. (2013). Opportunistic spatio-temporal event processing for mobile situation awareness. Fachbereich Informatik (University of Stuttgart). 195–206. 37 indexed citations
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Ramachandran, Umakishore, Kirak Hong, Liviu Iftode, et al.. (2012). Large-Scale Situation Awareness With Camera Networks and Multimodal Sensing. Proceedings of the IEEE. 100(4). 878–892. 19 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, et al.. (2012). A Distributed System for Supporting Spatio-temporal Analysis on Large-scale Camera Networks. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, et al.. (2011). StreamPI: a stream-parallel programming extension for object-oriented programming languages. The Journal of Supercomputing. 61(1). 118–140. 1 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, et al.. (2011). TinyVM: an energy‐efficient execution infrastructure for sensor networks. Software Practice and Experience. 42(10). 1193–1209. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Allen Y., Subhransu Maji, Kirak Hong, Posu Yan, & S. Shankar Sastry. (2009). Distributed compression and fusion of nonnegative sparse signals for multiple-view object recognition. International Conference on Information Fusion. 1867–1874. 7 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, Posu Yan, Phoebus Chen, Shankar Sastry, & Songhwai Oh. (2009). Poster abstract: Multihop routing in camera sensor networks - An experimental study. Information Processing in Sensor Networks. 381–382. 3 indexed citations
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Hong, Kirak, Sungho Kim, Yousun Ko, et al.. (2009). TinyVM, an efficient virtual machine infrastructure for sensor networks. 399–400. 5 indexed citations
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Kim, Sungho, et al.. (2009). An Efficient Mixed-Mode Execution Environment for C on Mobile Phone Platforms. 4367. 320–328. 1 indexed citations

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