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Researcher · AT&T (United States) · United States

Wai Sum Lai

Wai Sum Lai publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Management Information Systems, on topics such as Network Traffic and Congestion Control, Advanced Optical Network Technologies and Software-Defined Networks and 5G.

OpenAlex
World rank
#7,028,287
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,577,229
of 1,627,098
Works
40
Citations
152
Citations per work
3.8
h-index
7
i10-index 3Top 68% in Computer Networks and Communications
Wai Sum Lai

What does Wai Sum Lai research?

Wai Sum Lai's work is mostly in Computer Science (58%), Engineering (29%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Physical Sciences: 35 works · 87.0% of their workComputer Science: 23 works · 57.7% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 22 works · 54.1% of their workHardware and Architecture: 1 works · 1.8% of their workSoftware: 1 works · 1.8% of their workEngineering: 12 works · 29.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 27.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 1.8% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 9.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 3.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 works · 3.7% of their workManagement Information Systems: 1 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWai Sum Lai40works
Physical Sciences87%Social Sciences4%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2357.7%
    2. Engineering1229.3%
  2. Everything else49.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting13.7%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications54% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering28% of their works
  3. 3Management Information Systems4% of their works
  4. 4Software2% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering2% of their works
  6. 6Hardware and Architecture2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wai Sum Lai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Wireless Networks, Congestion Control, TCP, Elastic Optical Networks, Optical Networks, Fault Tolerance, Network Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Wireless Networks262 topics
  2. Congestion Control211 topic
  3. TCP211 topic
  4. Elastic Optical Networks151 topic
  5. Optical Networks151 topic
  6. Fault Tolerance112 topics
  7. Network Virtualization91 topic
  8. Software-Defined Networking91 topic
  9. Mobile Agents61 topic
  10. Network Management61 topic
  11. CDMA Systems51 topic
  12. Interconnection Networks51 topic
  13. Networks on Chip51 topic
  14. Power Control51 topic
  15. Power Line Communications51 topic
  16. Smart Grid51 topic
  17. Handoff Decision Algorithms41 topic
  18. Mobility Support41 topic

Where does Wai Sum Lai work?

Wai Sum Lai's main affiliation in the publication record is AT&T (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Wai Sum Lai have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 152 citations for Wai Sum Lai, an h-index of 7, ranking #7,028,287 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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