Waleed Ejaz

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Waleed Ejaz is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Waleed Ejaz has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 100 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 33 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Waleed Ejaz's work include Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (54 papers), Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing (43 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (31 papers). Waleed Ejaz is often cited by papers focused on Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (54 papers), Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing (43 papers) and Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks (31 papers). Waleed Ejaz collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Pakistan and South Korea. Waleed Ejaz's co-authors include Alagan Anpalagan, Muhammad Naeem, Mohamed Ibnkahla, Minho Jo, Hyung Seok Kim, Najam Ul Hasan, Adnan Shahid, Saleem Aslam, Naveed Ejaz and Shree Krishna Sharma and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Waleed Ejaz

146 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Efficient Energy Management for the Internet of Things in... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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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. Efficient Energy Management for the Internet of Things in Smart Cities
    2017 349 citations Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Naeem 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
Waleed Ejaz Canada 30 1.9k 1.7k 514 230 227 156 3.0k
Xiangming Wen China 27 2.3k 1.3× 2.3k 1.3× 470 0.9× 221 1.0× 346 1.5× 367 3.6k
Dirk Pesch Ireland 28 2.0k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 246 0.5× 181 0.8× 323 1.4× 190 3.0k
Rashid A. Saeed Sudan 26 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 413 0.8× 274 1.2× 221 1.0× 224 2.6k
Xiongwen Zhao China 27 2.3k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 2.2× 178 0.8× 193 0.9× 175 3.2k
Ahmed Al‐Dubai United Kingdom 30 1.7k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 464 0.9× 312 1.4× 363 1.6× 160 3.4k
Prashant Pillai United Kingdom 16 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 371 0.7× 154 0.7× 131 0.6× 82 2.2k
Yim Fun Hu United Kingdom 20 1.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 401 0.8× 84 0.4× 227 1.0× 137 2.5k
Lamia Chaari Fourati Tunisia 27 1.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 351 0.7× 254 1.1× 286 1.3× 203 2.5k
Eduardo Cerqueira Brazil 23 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 353 0.7× 199 0.9× 389 1.7× 241 2.7k
Guowei Wu China 30 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 202 0.4× 343 1.5× 202 0.9× 197 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Waleed Ejaz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Waleed Ejaz

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Manzoor, S., et al.. (2025). Priority‐based resource optimisation and user association in integrated networks. IET Networks. 14(1). 1 indexed citations
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Naeem, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Resource optimization for minimizing latency and cost in UAV-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. Computer Networks. 271. 111587–111587.
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Naeem, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Digital twin-assisted multi-layer networks for low-latency and energy-efficient communication. Computer Communications. 241. 108219–108219.
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Shaikh, Faisal Karim, et al.. (2024). Converging Towards Open Radio Access Networks – A Comprehensive Review. Journal of Mobile Multimedia. 49–86.
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Ejaz, Waleed, et al.. (2024). Computational Offloading and Delay Minimization for UAV-aided Edge Federated Learning. 1292–1297. 1 indexed citations
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Raja, Gunasekaran, et al.. (2024). CPP-OTPO: A Cognitive Multi-UAV System for Adaptive Path and Trajectory Optimization. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Ejaz, Waleed, et al.. (2024). Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network. IEEE Access. 12. 171087–171098.
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Naeem, Muhammad, et al.. (2024). Robust Multicriterion Offloading in Digital-Twin-Assisted UAV Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(2). 1643–1654. 2 indexed citations
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Maheshwari, Mukesh Kumar, et al.. (2023). Low-Cost 3D Holographic Display With Gesture Control. Liverpool John Moores University. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Dong‐Seong, et al.. (2023). MAD‐DDS: Memory‐efficient automatic discovery data distribution service for large‐scale distributed control network. IET Communications. 17(12). 1432–1446. 3 indexed citations
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Haider, Sajjad, et al.. (2023). IoT-assisted energy cooperation in adjacent buildings with interrupted utility. Journal of Building Engineering. 79. 107877–107877. 1 indexed citations
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Ejaz, Waleed, et al.. (2023). Multi-objective Resource Optimization in Space-Aerial-Ground-Sea Integrated Networks. 109–114. 2 indexed citations
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Ejaz, Waleed, et al.. (2022). Holistic resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks: An optimization perspective. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 205. 103439–103439. 21 indexed citations
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Ejaz, Waleed, et al.. (2021). Enhanced network sensitive access control scheme for LTE–LAA/WiFi coexistence: Modeling and performance analysis. Computer Communications. 172. 45–53. 7 indexed citations
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Ejaz, Waleed, et al.. (2020). A comprehensive survey on resource allocation for CRAN in 5G and beyond networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 160. 102638–102638. 75 indexed citations
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Ali, Mudassar, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Naeem, et al.. (2018). Devices to Devices (Ds2Ds) Communication: Towards Energy Efficient IoT. pp. 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Bouk, Safdar Hussain, Houbing Song, Waleed Ejaz, Syed Hassan Ahmed, & Danda B. Rawat. (2017). IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications. IEEE Access. 5. 27831–27835. 2 indexed citations
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Mehmood, Irfan, Muhammad Sajjad, Waleed Ejaz, & Sung Wook Baik. (2014). Saliency-directed prioritization of visual data in wireless surveillance networks. Information Fusion. 24. 16–30. 49 indexed citations
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Ejaz, Waleed, Najam Ul Hasan, & Hyung Seok Kim. (2011). Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad hoc Networks: a Survey. 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집. 376–377. 2 indexed citations

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