Rakesh Matam

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 966 citations indexed

About

Rakesh Matam is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Rakesh Matam has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 966 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Rakesh Matam's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (26 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (15 papers) and Wireless Networks and Protocols (14 papers). Rakesh Matam is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (26 papers), Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (15 papers) and Wireless Networks and Protocols (14 papers). Rakesh Matam collaborates with scholars based in India, China and Spain. Rakesh Matam's co-authors include Mithun Mukherjee, Nikumani Choudhury, Vikas Kumar, Lei Shu, Λέανδρος Μαγλαράς, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Jaime Lloret, Somanath Tripathy, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis and George Mastorakis and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

In The Last Decade

Rakesh Matam

60 papers receiving 929 citations

Hit Papers

Security and Privacy in Fog Computing: Challenges 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 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. Security and Privacy in Fog Computing: Challenges
    2017 387 citations Mithun Mukherjee, Rakesh Matam et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rakesh Matam India 14 802 309 301 164 138 69 966
Wenhao Fan China 18 776 1.0× 309 1.0× 445 1.5× 145 0.9× 94 0.7× 72 1.1k
Hailiang Zhao China 12 745 0.9× 357 1.2× 268 0.9× 239 1.5× 166 1.2× 20 1.1k
Guochu Shou China 14 876 1.1× 215 0.7× 496 1.6× 218 1.3× 162 1.2× 130 1.2k
Ashok Kumar Turuk India 18 856 1.1× 350 1.1× 418 1.4× 123 0.8× 82 0.6× 140 1.1k
Hancong Duan China 13 764 1.0× 339 1.1× 283 0.9× 230 1.4× 133 1.0× 42 980
Katsuya Suto Japan 15 1.0k 1.3× 303 1.0× 610 2.0× 203 1.2× 160 1.2× 48 1.4k
Rahul Yadav China 16 884 1.1× 454 1.5× 393 1.3× 142 0.9× 121 0.9× 49 1.1k
Xingxia Dai China 7 725 0.9× 235 0.8× 261 0.9× 165 1.0× 142 1.0× 10 917
Atay Özgövde Türkiye 12 1.0k 1.3× 421 1.4× 345 1.1× 111 0.7× 241 1.7× 30 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rakesh Matam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rakesh Matam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rakesh Matam. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Rakesh Matam. The network helps show where Rakesh Matam may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rakesh Matam

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sehgal, Rakesh, et al.. (2025). IMTD: intelligent malware threat detection using transfer learning methods in IoT environment. 1–31. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Nurzaman, et al.. (2024). OptiFog: A Framework for Acquiring State Information and Predicting Resource Availability for Task Offloading in Cooperative Fog-Networks. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 1–13. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Nurzaman, et al.. (2024). Analyzing the suitability of IEEE 802.11ah for next generation Internet of Things: A comparative study. Ad Hoc Networks. 156. 103437–103437. 8 indexed citations
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Tripathy, Somanath, et al.. (2024). Towards optimal edge resource utilization: Predictive analytics and reinforcement learning for task offloading. Internet of Things. 26. 101147–101147. 6 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Nurzaman, et al.. (2023). SDN-Based Reconfigurable Edge Network Architecture for Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(18). 16494–16503. 13 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Nurzaman, et al.. (2022). IEEE 802.11ah-Enabled Internet of Drone Architecture. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. 5(1). 174–178. 12 indexed citations
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Choudhury, Nikumani, Rakesh Matam, Mithun Mukherjee, & Jaime Lloret. (2021). A Beacon and GTS Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.15.4 DSME Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 9(7). 5162–5172. 7 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Mithun, Vikas Kumar, Qi Zhang, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, & Rakesh Matam. (2021). Optimal Pricing for Offloaded Hard- and Soft-Deadline Tasks in Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(7). 9829–9839. 17 indexed citations
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Choudhury, Nikumani, et al.. (2020). NCHR: A Nonthreshold-Based Cluster-Head Rotation Scheme for IEEE 802.15.4 Cluster-Tree Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(1). 168–178. 18 indexed citations
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Choudhury, Nikumani, Rakesh Matam, Mithun Mukherjee, & Jaime Lloret. (2020). A Performance-to-Cost Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC With 802.15.4e MAC Modes. IEEE Access. 8. 41936–41950. 39 indexed citations
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Matam, Rakesh, et al.. (2020). A secure task-offloading framework for cooperative fog computing environment. 1–6. 5 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Mithun, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, et al.. (2019). Latency-Driven Parallel Task Data Offloading in Fog Computing Networks for Industrial Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 16(9). 6050–6058. 72 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Mithun, et al.. (2019). Task Data Offloading and Resource Allocation in Fog Computing With Multi-Task Delay Guarantee. IEEE Access. 7. 152911–152918. 40 indexed citations
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Choudhury, Nikumani, Rakesh Matam, Mithun Mukherjee, & Lei Shu. (2018). Beacon Synchronization and Duty-Cycling in IEEE 802.15.4 Cluster-Tree Networks: A Review. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 5(3). 1765–1788. 25 indexed citations
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Choudhury, Nikumani, Rakesh Matam, Mithun Mukherjee, & Jaime Lloret. (2018). A Non-Threshold-Based Cluster-Head Rotation Scheme for IEEE 802.15.4 Cluster-Tree Networks. 28. 1–6. 9 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Mithun, Rakesh Matam, Lei Shu, et al.. (2017). Security and Privacy in Fog Computing: Challenges. IEEE Access. 5. 19293–19304. 387 indexed citations breakdown →
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Choudhury, Nikumani, et al.. (2016). Priority based ZigBee routing protocol for LR-WPAN. 196–201. 1 indexed citations
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Matam, Rakesh & Somanath Tripathy. (2014). Provably Secure Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks.. International journal of network security. 16. 168–178. 9 indexed citations

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