Mostafa Afgani

856 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 647 citations indexed

About

Mostafa Afgani is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mostafa Afgani has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 647 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mostafa Afgani's work include Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms (3 papers), Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques (3 papers) and Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing (3 papers). Mostafa Afgani is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms (3 papers), Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques (3 papers) and Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing (3 papers). Mostafa Afgani collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Germany. Mostafa Afgani's co-authors include Harald Haas, Hany Elgala, Dietmar Knipp, G.J.R. Povey, Ian Underwood and Sinan Sinanović and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communications, International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and ResearchOnline (Glasgow Caledonian University).

In The Last Decade

Mostafa Afgani

10 papers receiving 629 citations

Hit Papers

Using a CMOS camera sensor for visible light communication 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 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. Using a CMOS camera sensor for visible light communication
    2012 326 citations Mostafa Afgani, G.J.R. Povey et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mostafa Afgani United Kingdom 5 585 83 64 60 50 10 647
Trang Nguyen South Korea 11 479 0.8× 92 1.1× 75 1.2× 31 0.5× 43 0.9× 35 507
Koji Kamakura Japan 11 510 0.9× 136 1.6× 91 1.4× 28 0.5× 31 0.6× 53 531
Dahai Han China 17 731 1.2× 76 0.9× 69 1.1× 78 1.3× 133 2.7× 102 831
Svilen Dimitrov Germany 15 1.3k 2.1× 112 1.3× 24 0.4× 43 0.7× 174 3.5× 34 1.3k
Niranjini Rajagopal United States 10 484 0.8× 26 0.3× 91 1.4× 191 3.2× 107 2.1× 15 575
Liying Fan Singapore 7 415 0.7× 46 0.6× 111 1.7× 245 4.1× 117 2.3× 17 624
Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi Chile 9 237 0.4× 34 0.4× 27 0.4× 28 0.5× 36 0.7× 64 346
Nuo Huang China 19 884 1.5× 37 0.4× 44 0.7× 122 2.0× 225 4.5× 103 1.0k
Kyesan Lee South Korea 12 435 0.7× 31 0.4× 19 0.3× 57 0.9× 32 0.6× 65 485
Sabit Ekin United States 12 357 0.6× 18 0.2× 16 0.3× 18 0.3× 84 1.7× 60 473

Countries citing papers authored by Mostafa Afgani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mostafa Afgani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mostafa Afgani

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
1.
Afgani, Mostafa, et al.. (2012). Using a CMOS camera sensor for visible light communication. 1244–1248. 326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Afgani, Mostafa, Sinan Sinanović, & Harald Haas. (2010). The Information Theoretic Approach to Signal Anomaly Detection for Cognitive Radio. International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. 2010. 1–18. 3 indexed citations
3.
Afgani, Mostafa, et al.. (2009). Radio Frequency Signature Correlation Based Speed Estimation for Indoor Positioning. Journal of Communications. 4(2). 4 indexed citations
4.
Afgani, Mostafa & Harald Haas. (2009). Information Content Analysis and Clustering for Signal Anomaly Detection. 1–5. 2 indexed citations
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Afgani, Mostafa, Sinan Sinanović, & Harald Haas. (2009). Hardware implementation of a Kullback-Leibler Divergence based signal anomaly detector. ResearchOnline (Glasgow Caledonian University). 1–6. 7 indexed citations
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Afgani, Mostafa, Sinan Sinanović, & Harald Haas. (2008). Information Theoretic Approach to Signal Feature Detection for Cognitive Radio. ResearchOnline (Glasgow Caledonian University). 18. 1–5. 6 indexed citations
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Afgani, Mostafa, Sinan Sinanović, & Harald Haas. (2008). Anomaly detection using the Kullback-Leibler divergence metric. ResearchOnline (Glasgow Caledonian University). 1–5. 27 indexed citations
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Afgani, Mostafa, et al.. (2008). Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 08). 1 indexed citations
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Afgani, Mostafa & Harald Haas. (2007). Speed Estimation Using Relative Radio Frequency Signature Matching. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. 1970–1974. 2 indexed citations
10.
Afgani, Mostafa, Harald Haas, Hany Elgala, & Dietmar Knipp. (2006). Visible light communication using OFDM. 6 pp.–134. 269 indexed citations

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