Samira Afzal

639 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 386 citations indexed

About

Samira Afzal is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Networks and Communications and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Samira Afzal has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 386 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 8 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Samira Afzal's work include Image and Video Quality Assessment (12 papers), Video Coding and Compression Technologies (7 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (5 papers). Samira Afzal is often cited by papers focused on Image and Video Quality Assessment (12 papers), Video Coding and Compression Technologies (7 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (5 papers). Samira Afzal collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Brazil and United States. Samira Afzal's co-authors include Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Mateus Augusto Silva Santos, Christian Timmerer, Hamid Beigy, Vignesh V Menon, Vanessa Testoni, Prakash Kolan, Hadi Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and Radu Prodan and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, Computer Networks and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

In The Last Decade

Samira Afzal

18 papers receiving 376 citations

Hit Papers

Mininet-WiFi: Emulating software-defined wireless networks 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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. Mininet-WiFi: Emulating software-defined wireless networks
    2015 273 citations Samira Afzal, Mateus Augusto Silva Santos 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
Samira Afzal Austria 7 313 168 65 49 33 22 386
Alfonso Ariza Quintana Spain 10 199 0.6× 118 0.7× 27 0.4× 20 0.4× 31 0.9× 46 291
Raed T. Al‐Zubi Jordan 16 399 1.3× 335 2.0× 129 2.0× 57 1.2× 25 0.8× 48 590
Scott Fowler Sweden 11 249 0.8× 252 1.5× 41 0.6× 29 0.6× 25 0.8× 60 381
Pralhad Deshpande United States 9 455 1.5× 447 2.7× 62 1.0× 28 0.6× 14 0.4× 11 564
Hossam Afifi France 10 316 1.0× 217 1.3× 30 0.5× 18 0.4× 21 0.6× 55 377
Marwan Fayed United Kingdom 10 203 0.6× 75 0.4× 70 1.1× 38 0.8× 35 1.1× 33 273
Yun‐Sheng Yen Taiwan 10 398 1.3× 200 1.2× 29 0.4× 32 0.7× 18 0.5× 36 467
Maghsoud Abbaspour Iran 11 371 1.2× 160 1.0× 38 0.6× 77 1.6× 81 2.5× 63 444
César Marcondes Brazil 10 269 0.9× 74 0.4× 28 0.4× 42 0.9× 72 2.2× 37 332
N.J. Davis United States 14 403 1.3× 274 1.6× 27 0.4× 57 1.2× 58 1.8× 30 573

Countries citing papers authored by Samira Afzal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samira Afzal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Samira Afzal. 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 Samira Afzal. The network helps show where Samira Afzal may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samira Afzal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samira Afzal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samira Afzal 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 Samira Afzal. Samira Afzal 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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Timmerer, Christian, Hadi Amirpour, Farzad Tashtarian, et al.. (2025). HTTP Adaptive Streaming: A Review on Current Advances and Future Challenges. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 21(7). 1–27. 1 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2024). VEED. 332–338.
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2024). VEEP: Video Encoding Energy and CO2 Emission Prediction. 16–21.
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Tashtarian, Farzad, et al.. (2024). COCONUT. 346–352.
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Amirpour, Hadi, et al.. (2024). MVCD: Multi-Dimensional Video Compression Dataset. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Menon, Vignesh V, et al.. (2023). Energy-Efficient Multi-Codec Bitrate-Ladder Estimation for Adaptive Video Streaming. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–5. 6 indexed citations
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Amirpour, Hadi, Vignesh V Menon, Samira Afzal, Radu Prodan, & Christian Timmerer. (2023). Optimizing Video Streaming for Sustainability and Quality: The Role of Preset Selection in Per-Title Encoding. 1679–1684. 8 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2023). VE-Match: Video Encoding Matching-based Model for Cloud and Edge Computing Instances. 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, Radu Prodan, & Christian Timmerer. (2023). Green Video Streaming: Challenges and Opportunities. 15(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, Vanessa Testoni, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Prakash Kolan, & Imed Bouazizi. (2023). A holistic survey of multipath wireless video streaming. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 212. 103581–103581. 10 indexed citations
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Amirpour, Hadi, Vignesh V Menon, Samira Afzal, M. Ghanbari, & Christian Timmerer. (2022). VCD. 234–239. 18 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2022). MPEC2: Multilayer and Pipeline Video Encoding on the Computing Continuum. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). AWS ec2. 181–190. 3 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2022). Analysis of Web-Based IoT through Heterogeneous Networks: Swarm Computing over LoRaWAN. Sensors. 22(2). 664–664. 3 indexed citations
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Costa, Laisa C. P., et al.. (2020). Collaborative Mobile Surveillance System for Smart Cities. 1193–1194. 2 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Vanessa Testoni, Prakash Kolan, & Imed Bouazizi. (2020). Multipath MMT-based approach for streaming high quality video over multiple wireless access networks. Computer Networks. 185. 107638–107638. 6 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2018). A Novel Scheduling Strategy for MMT-Based Multipath Video Streaming. 206–212. 8 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira, et al.. (2015). Mininet-WiFi: Emulating software-defined wireless networks. 384–389. 273 indexed citations breakdown →
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Afzal, Samira & Hamid Beigy. (2014). A localization algorithm for large scale mobile wireless sensor networks: a learning approach. The Journal of Supercomputing. 69(1). 98–120. 17 indexed citations
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Afzal, Samira. (2012). A Review of Localization Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks. 19 indexed citations

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