Xenofon Vasilakos

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Xenofon Vasilakos is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Xenofon Vasilakos has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Xenofon Vasilakos's work include Caching and Content Delivery (17 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (14 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (11 papers). Xenofon Vasilakos is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (17 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (14 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (11 papers). Xenofon Vasilakos collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Greece and United States. Xenofon Vasilakos's co-authors include Vasilios A. Siris, George C. Polyzos, George Xylomenos, Christos Tsilopoulos, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Nikos Fotiou, Christopher N. Ververidis, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou and Carlos Colman-Meixner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Xenofon Vasilakos

40 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

A Survey of Information-Centric Networking Research 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 250 500 750 1000
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. A Survey of Information-Centric Networking Research
    2013 1.0k citations George Xylomenos, Christopher N. Ververidis et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xenofon Vasilakos United Kingdom 13 1.4k 221 128 121 85 40 1.5k
George Xylomenos Greece 19 2.2k 1.5× 478 2.2× 179 1.4× 139 1.1× 108 1.3× 114 2.4k
Tian Pan China 16 860 0.6× 259 1.2× 60 0.5× 184 1.5× 112 1.3× 124 958
Vasilis Sourlas Greece 18 933 0.6× 186 0.8× 67 0.5× 178 1.5× 80 0.9× 60 1.0k
Christopher N. Ververidis Greece 9 1.2k 0.9× 178 0.8× 121 0.9× 103 0.9× 47 0.6× 21 1.3k
Giovanna Carofiglio France 17 946 0.7× 120 0.5× 132 1.0× 29 0.2× 41 0.5× 49 1.0k
Matthias Wählisch Germany 17 930 0.6× 289 1.3× 49 0.4× 126 1.0× 239 2.8× 150 1.1k
Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury Canada 16 1.8k 1.3× 844 3.8× 36 0.3× 294 2.4× 166 2.0× 50 2.0k
Reaz Ahmed Canada 18 2.2k 1.5× 929 4.2× 37 0.3× 435 3.6× 156 1.8× 49 2.2k
Luca Muscariello France 20 1.0k 0.7× 227 1.0× 93 0.7× 54 0.4× 109 1.3× 56 1.1k
Paris Flegkas Greece 20 842 0.6× 266 1.2× 37 0.3× 217 1.8× 124 1.5× 53 978

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xenofon Vasilakos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xenofon Vasilakos

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xenofon Vasilakos. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xenofon Vasilakos 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 Xenofon Vasilakos. Xenofon Vasilakos 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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Zeb, Shah, et al.. (2025). Federated Intelligent Service Function Chain Orchestration in Future 6G Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 22(6). 5690–5704. 1 indexed citations
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Hussain, Rasheed, Xenofon Vasilakos, Yulei Wu, et al.. (2025). Lifecycle Management of Trustworthy AI Models in 6G Networks: the Reason Approach. IEEE Wireless Communications. 32(2). 42–51. 1 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2024). iOn-Profiler: Intelligent Online Multi-Objective VNF Profiling With Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 21(2). 2339–2352. 9 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2024). Federated Analytics With Data Augmentation in Domain Generalization Toward Future Networks. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 560–579. 4 indexed citations
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Dang, Shuping, et al.. (2024). Blended Laboratory Design Using Raspberry Pi Pico for Digital Circuits and Systems. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 17. 1170–1183. 3 indexed citations
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Hussain, Rasheed, et al.. (2024). GAN-Based Privacy Abuse Attack on Federated Learning in IoT Networks. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Assis, K. D. R., Raul C. Almeida, Xenofon Vasilakos, et al.. (2023). Deployment of VNF service chains with grooming and resilience in elastic optical networks. Optical Fiber Technology. 81. 103482–103482. 2 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2022). HELICON: Orchestrating low-latent & load-balanced Virtual Network Functions. ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. 353–358. 6 indexed citations
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Colman-Meixner, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Service Function Chains Placement. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 18(4). 4134–4150. 36 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2021). Towards Low-latent & Load-balanced VNF Placement with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. Explore Bristol Research. 162–167. 5 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2020). End-to-End Performance-Based Autonomous VNF Placement With Adopted Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. 6(2). 534–547. 44 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2020). A Novel Autonomous Profiling Method for the Next-Generation NFV Orchestrators. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 18(1). 642–655. 23 indexed citations
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Colman-Meixner, Carlos, et al.. (2019). A Software-Defined IoT Device Management Framework for Edge and Cloud Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(3). 1718–1735. 38 indexed citations
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Wang, Qi, José M. Alcaraz Calero, Anastasius Gavras, et al.. (2019). SliceNet Control Plane for 5G Network Slicing in Evolving Future Networks. Explore Bristol Research. 450–457. 5 indexed citations
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Nikaein, Navid, et al.. (2018). LL-MEC: Enabling Low Latency Edge Applications. Explore Bristol Research. 1–7. 20 indexed citations
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Katsaros, Konstantinos V., et al.. (2015). On the inter-domain scalability of route-by-name Information-Centric Network Architectures. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 1–9. 9 indexed citations
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Vasilakos, Xenofon & Vasilios A. Siris. (2014). Adapting data popularity in mobility-based proactive caching decisions for heterogeneous wireless networks. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 12. 191–192. 1 indexed citations
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Siris, Vasilios A., Xenofon Vasilakos, & George C. Polyzos. (2014). Efficient proactive caching for supporting seamless mobility. Explore Bristol Research. 1–6. 43 indexed citations
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Xylomenos, George, Christopher N. Ververidis, Vasilios A. Siris, et al.. (2013). A Survey of Information-Centric Networking Research. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 16(2). 1024–1049. 1003 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vasilakos, Xenofon, et al.. (2012). Proactive selective neighbor caching for enhancing mobility support in information-centric networks. Explore Bristol Research. 61–66. 68 indexed citations

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