Kun Cao

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kun Cao is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Cao has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Kun Cao's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (16 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (8 papers). Kun Cao is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (16 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (8 papers). Kun Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Kun Cao's co-authors include Tongquan Wei, Shiyan Hu, Junlong Zhou, Mingsong Chen, Yangguang Cui, Liying Li, Peijin Cong, Stamatis Karnouskos, Keqin Li and Xin Li and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

In The Last Decade

Kun Cao

47 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

A Survey on Edge and Edge-Cloud Computing Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems

2021 181 citations Kun Cao, Shiyan Hu et al. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics profile →

Peers

Kun Cao

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Man Lin Canada

Maria Kihl Sweden

Hee Yong Youn South Korea

Christian Prehofer Germany

Tsutomu Yoshinaga Japan

Dimitrios P. Pezaros United Kingdom

Guochu Shou China

Shuo Wang China

Zhenhua Liu United States

Man Lin Canada

Kun Cao

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CNC

473 ×1.1

EEE

404 ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Kun Cao Kun Cao (= 1×) peers Man Lin

Countries citing papers authored by Kun Cao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kun Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun Cao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Haizhou, et al.. (2025). An Elastic Federated Learning Collaboration Framework for Computing-Constrained IoT. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 45(3). 1197–1210. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Kun, et al.. (2025). Personalized Federated Learning With State-Adaptive IoT Device Scheduling in Mobile-Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 44(11). 4086–4099. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Kun, Mingsong Chen, Stamatis Karnouskos, & Shiyan Hu. (2024). Reliability-Aware Personalized Deployment of Approximate Computation IoT Applications in Serverless Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 44(2). 430–443. 20 indexed citations

Tong, Weiqin, Tong Liu, Kun Cao, et al.. (2024). Energy-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Hierarchical Federated Learning Using Water Filling Technique. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 20(12). 14214–14225. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Kun, et al.. (2022). Low-Complexity Joint Estimation for Asynchronous Massive Internet of Things: An ADMM Approach. 13–20. 3 indexed citations

Cui, Yangguang, Kun Cao, Junlong Zhou, & Tongquan Wei. (2022). HELCFL: High-Efficiency and Low-Cost Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Mobile-Edge Computing. 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE). 1227–1232. 8 indexed citations

Cao, Kun, Yangguang Cui, Liying Li, Junlong Zhou, & Shiyan Hu. (2022). CPU-GPU Cooperative QoS Optimization of Personalized Digital Healthcare Using Machine Learning and Swarm Intelligence. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 21(4). 521–533. 10 indexed citations

Cao, Kun, et al.. (2021). Power-Efficient Layer Mapping for CNNs on Integrated CPU and GPU Platforms. 627–632. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Kun, Liying Li, Yangguang Cui, Tongquan Wei, & Shiyan Hu. (2020). Exploring Placement of Heterogeneous Edge Servers for Response Time Minimization in Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 17(1). 494–503. 106 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiquan, Feiran Huang, Jian Weng, et al.. (2020). BTMPP: Balancing Trust Management and Privacy Preservation for Emergency Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(7). 5386–5407. 51 indexed citations

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Cao, Kun, et al.. (2019). QoS-Adaptive Approximate Real-Time Computation for Mobility-Aware IoT Lifetime Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 38(10). 1799–1810. 93 indexed citations

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Cao, Kun, et al.. (2019). Lifetime-aware real-time task scheduling on fault-tolerant mixed-criticality embedded systems. Future Generation Computer Systems. 100. 165–175. 30 indexed citations

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Huang, Xinli, et al.. (2018). A Survey of Deployment Solutions and Optimization Strategies for Hybrid SDN Networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 21(2). 1483–1507. 66 indexed citations

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Huang, Xinli, et al.. (2018). Queueing Theoretic Approach for Performance-Aware Modeling of Sustainable SDN Control Planes. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. 5(1). 121–133. 6 indexed citations

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Cong, Peijin, Liying Li, Junlong Zhou, et al.. (2018). Developing User Perceived Value Based Pricing Models for Cloud Markets. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 29(12). 2742–2756. 46 indexed citations

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Hua, Jing, et al.. (2018). Makespan Minimization for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems under Thermal and Timing Constraints. Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers. 28(9). 1950145–1950145. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Junlong, Kun Cao, Peijin Cong, et al.. (2017). Reliability and temperature constrained task scheduling for makespan minimization on heterogeneous multi-core platforms. Journal of Systems and Software. 133. 1–16. 42 indexed citations

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Zhou, Junlong, Jianming Yan, Kun Cao, et al.. (2017). Thermal-aware correlated two-level scheduling of real-time tasks with reduced processor energy on heterogeneous MPSoCs. Journal of Systems Architecture. 82. 1–11. 78 indexed citations

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Zhou, Junlong, et al.. (2016). Game Theoretic Energy Allocation for Renewable Powered In-Situ Server Systems. 721–728. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaohua, Kun Cao, & Licheng Jiao. (2009). A contourlet-based interpolation restoration method for super-resolution of SAR image. 5 indexed citations

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