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Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

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Computer Science
Iran
2026

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Rising Stars

D-Index
41
Citations
4070
World Ranking
631
National Ranking
30

Computer Science

D-Index
45
Citations
4957
World Ranking
7331
National Ranking
9

Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 75 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Iran Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Iran Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani is affiliated with the Islamic Azad University of Qom in Iran. Their main academic focus is within the field of Computer Science, with a significant emphasis on Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research spans multiple subfields including:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The primary topics in their work cover:

  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • IoT Networks and Protocols
  • Age of Information Optimization

Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "A cost-efficient IoT service placement approach using whale optimization algorithm in fog computing environment," 2022, Expert Systems with Applications
  • "An autonomous computation offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A deep learning-based hybrid approach," 2021, Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • "A survey on the computation offloading approaches in mobile edge computing: A machine learning-based perspective," 2020, Computer Networks
  • "A Survey on the Computation Offloading Approaches in Mobile Edge/Cloud Computing Environment: A Stochastic-based Perspective," 2020, Journal of Grid Computing
  • "Resource provisioning using workload clustering in cloud computing environment: a hybrid approach," 2020, Cluster Computing

Common co-authors who have frequently collaborated with Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani include:

  • Ali Shahidinejad
  • Mohsen Ghorbian
  • Ali Shakarami
  • Leila Esmaeili
  • Saeid Ghorbian

The venues where Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani most frequently publishes are:

  • Cluster Computing
  • Software Practice and Experience
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Computing
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Best Publications

  • Resource Management Approaches in Fog Computing: a Comprehensive Review

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Alireza Souri;Ali A. Rahmanian

  • A survey on the computation offloading approaches in mobile edge computing: A machine learning-based perspective

    Ali Shakarami;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Ali Shahidinejad

  • An efficient task scheduling approach using moth-flame optimization algorithm for cyber-physical system applications in fog computing

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Alireza Souri;Fatemeh Safara;Monire Norouzi

  • A cost-efficient IoT service placement approach using whale optimization algorithm in fog computing environment

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  • An autonomic resource provisioning approach for service-based cloud applications: A hybrid approach

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Sam Jabbehdari;Mohammad Ali Pourmina

  • Resource provisioning in edge/fog computing: A Comprehensive and Systematic Review

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  • A Survey on the Computation Offloading Approaches in Mobile Edge/Cloud Computing Environment: A Stochastic-based Perspective

    Ali Shakarami;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Mohammad Masdari;Mehdi Hosseinzadeh;Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

  • Resource provisioning using workload clustering in cloud computing environment: a hybrid approach

    Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Mohammad Masdari

  • A review on the edge caching mechanisms in the mobile edge computing: A social-aware perspective

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  • An autonomous computation offloading strategy in Mobile Edge Computing: A deep learning-based hybrid approach

    Ali Shakarami;Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

  • Auto-scaling web applications in clouds: A cost-aware approach

    Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Adel Nadjaran Toosi

  • A learning automata-based ensemble resource usage prediction algorithm for cloud computing environment

    Ali Asghar Rahmanian;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Sajjad Tofighy

  • Resource provisioning for IoT services in the fog computing environment: An autonomic approach

    Masoumeh Etemadi;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Ali Shahidinejad

  • An Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Technique to Deploy the IoT Services in Fog-enabled Networks: An Autonomous Approach

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  • Light-Edge: A Lightweight Authentication Protocol for IoT Devices in an Edge-Cloud Environment

    Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Alireza Souri;Mohammad Shojafar

  • CSA-WSC: cuckoo search algorithm for web service composition in cloud environments

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Ali Asghar Rahmanian;Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour;Seyed Ebrahim Dashti

  • An autonomous resource provisioning framework for massively multiplayer online games in cloud environment

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Reihaneh Khorsand;Mohammadreza Ramezanpour

  • A review on the computation offloading approaches in mobile edge computing: A game-theoretic perspective

    Ali Shakarami;Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

  • Autonomous computation offloading and auto-scaling the in the mobile fog computing: a deep reinforcement learning-based approach

    Fatemeh Jazayeri;Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani

  • A learning‐based approach for virtual machine placement in cloud data centers

    Mostafa Ghobaei‐Arani;Ali Asghar Rahmanian;Mahboubeh Shamsi;Abdolreza Rasouli‐Kenari

  • A moth-flame optimization algorithm for web service composition in cloud computing: Simulation and verification

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Ali Asghar Rahmanian;Alireza Souri;Amir Masoud Rahmani

  • Joint computation offloading and resource provisioning for edge‐cloud computing environment: A machine learning‐based approach

    Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei‐Arani

  • An autonomic approach for resource provisioning of cloud services

    Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Sam Jabbehdari;Mohammad Ali Pourmina

  • An elastic controller using Colored Petri Nets in cloud computing environment

    Ali Shahidinejad;Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani;Leila Esmaeili

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammad Masdari
Mohammad Masdari Islamic Azad University Urmia Branch
Saru Kumari
Saru Kumari Chaudhary Charan Singh University
Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Washington State University
Amir Masoud Rahmani
Amir Masoud Rahmani National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Thar Baker
Thar Baker University of Khorfakkan
Adel Nadjaran Toosi
Adel Nadjaran Toosi University of Melbourne

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