Muhammad Shahzad

5.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
80 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Shahzad is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Shahzad has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 17 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Shahzad's work include Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (23 papers), Wireless Networks and Protocols (12 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (12 papers). Muhammad Shahzad is often cited by papers focused on Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (23 papers), Wireless Networks and Protocols (12 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (12 papers). Muhammad Shahzad collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Pakistan. Muhammad Shahzad's co-authors include Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Sanglu Lu, Kang Ling, Wei Wang, Kamran Ali, Arjmand Samuel, Muhammad Shafiq, Shaohu Zhang and Munindar P. Singh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and Information Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Shahzad

75 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding and Modeling of WiFi Signal Based Human Act... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 2015 2017 250 500 750
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. Understanding and Modeling of WiFi Signal Based Human Activity Recognition
    2015 816 citations Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu et al. profile →
  2. Gait recognition using wifi signals
    2016 446 citations Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad et al. profile →
  3. Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals
    2015 421 citations Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu et al. profile →
  4. Device-Free Human Activity Recognition Using Commercial WiFi Devices
    2017 382 citations Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Muhammad Shahzad United States 26 2.6k 1.5k 1.2k 860 750 80 4.0k
Hongbo Liu China 34 2.9k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 965 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 584 0.8× 168 4.5k
Jinsong Han China 35 2.1k 0.8× 947 0.6× 669 0.5× 698 0.8× 369 0.5× 173 3.8k
Sanglu Lu China 35 3.1k 1.2× 3.1k 2.1× 658 0.5× 1.2k 1.4× 579 0.8× 342 6.1k
Panlong Yang China 32 2.0k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 490 0.4× 545 0.6× 360 0.5× 213 3.3k
Jizhong Zhao China 30 2.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 411 0.3× 705 0.8× 270 0.4× 158 3.5k
Yuanqing Zheng Hong Kong 32 1.9k 0.8× 788 0.5× 385 0.3× 410 0.5× 421 0.6× 116 3.2k
Wei Xi China 25 2.0k 0.8× 741 0.5× 549 0.4× 548 0.6× 283 0.4× 124 2.8k
Zhenjiang Li China 30 1.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 490 0.4× 517 0.6× 252 0.3× 130 3.3k
Longfei Shangguan United States 35 2.2k 0.8× 681 0.5× 457 0.4× 643 0.7× 355 0.5× 85 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Muhammad Shahzad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Shahzad

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shahzad, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Leveraging the Movements of Occupants to Generate Indoor Maps Using RF Signals. 319–328. 1 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Characterizing the Availability and Latency in AWS Network From the Perspective of Tenants. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 30(4). 1554–1568. 3 indexed citations
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Khalid, Ayesha, et al.. (2022). Dissecting Cloud Gaming Performance with DECAF. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 50(1). 13–14.
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Khalid, Ayesha, et al.. (2021). Dissecting Cloud Gaming Performance with DECAF. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems. 5(3). 1–27. 12 indexed citations
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Shen, Yulong, et al.. (2020). SF-Sketch: A Two-Stage Sketch for Data Streams. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 31(10). 2263–2276. 13 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad, et al.. (2020). Leveraging Polarization of WiFi Signals to Simultaneously Track Multiple People. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 4(2). 1–24. 24 indexed citations
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Dai, Haipeng, et al.. (2018). Identifying and Estimating Persistent Items in Data Streams. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 26(6). 2429–2442. 25 indexed citations
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Yang, Tong, Yulong Shen, Muhammad Shahzad, et al.. (2018). Empowering Sketches with Machine Learning for Network Measurements. 15–20. 19 indexed citations
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Yang, Tong, Muhammad Shahzad, Yulong Shen, et al.. (2017). SF-sketch: slim-fat-sketch with GPU assistance. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Kamran, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, & Muhammad Shahzad. (2017). Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 35(5). 1175–1190. 93 indexed citations
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Yang, Tong, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, et al.. (2017). A Shifting Framework for Set Queries. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 25(5). 3116–3131. 33 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad, et al.. (2017). Position and Orientation Agnostic Gesture Recognition Using WiFi. 252–264. 203 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad, et al.. (2016). An efficient intrusion detection scheme for cluster based AMI networks. 38. 95–101.
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Shahzad, Muhammad & Alex X. Liu. (2015). Expecting the unexpected: Fast and reliable detection of missing RFID tags in the wild. 1939–1947. 37 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad & Alex X. Liu. (2014). Probabilistic Optimal Tree Hopping for RFID Identification. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 23(3). 796–809. 58 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad & Alex X. Liu. (2014). Fast and Accurate Estimation of RFID Tags. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 23(1). 241–254. 58 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad, Muhammad Shafiq, & Alex X. Liu. (2012). A large scale exploratory analysis of software vulnerability life cycles. International Conference on Software Engineering. 771–781. 70 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Farrukh, Sohail Masood Bhatti, Muhammad Shahzad, & Muddassar Farooq. (2011). In-Execution Malware Detection Using Task Structures of Linux Processes. 14 indexed citations
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Shahzad, Muhammad, et al.. (2009). Keystroke-Based User Identification on Smart Phones. Lecture notes in computer science. 224–243. 3 indexed citations

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