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Network Packet Processing and Optimization

Network Packet Processing and Optimization is a research topic within Hardware and Architecture. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1963. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on algorithms and architectures for packet classification, including deep packet inspection, content-addressable memory (CAM), firewall configuration, regular expression matching, intrusion detection, network security policies, TCAM architectures, pattern matching, and high-speed networks.

  • Packet Classification
  • Deep Packet Inspection
  • Content-Addressable Memory
  • Firewall Configuration
  • Regular Expression Matching
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Network Security Policies
  • TCAM Architectures
  • Pattern Matching
  • High-Speed Networks
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1963
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Network Packet Processing and Optimization

Which countries lead Network Packet Processing and Optimization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (536 and 298 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 536 works
  2. 2 India 298 works
  3. 3 United States 223 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 67 works
  5. 5 Japan 55 works
  6. 6 South Korea 50 works
  7. 7 Germany 49 works
  8. 8 Italy 42 works
  9. 9 Taiwan 38 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 36 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 38.5%India: 21.4%United States: 16.0%Indonesia: 4.8%6 others listed: 19.3%39%largest
China536 · 38.5%India298 · 21.4%United States223 · 16.0%Indonesia67 · 4.8%6 others listed269 · 19.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Network Packet Processing and Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Network Packet Processing and Optimization research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and Tsinghua University.

Who are the leading researchers in Network Packet Processing and Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Network Packet Processing and Optimization include John P. A. Ioannidis, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Eugene Wimberly Myers Germany 163k citations
  5. 5 Philip S. Yu United States 141k citations
  6. 6 T. J. Kim Germany 139k citations
  7. 7 F. Palla France 119k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Network Packet Processing and Optimization?

The most cited paper in Network Packet Processing and Optimization is "Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics" (Steven J. Plimpton, 1995), with 45,350 citations. Next come "Fibonacci heaps and their uses in improved network optimization algorithms" (2,695) and "A guided tour to approximate string matching" (2,595).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics Steven J. Plimpton · Journal of Computational Physics Mar 1995 45,350
2 Fibonacci heaps and their uses in improved network optimization algorithms Michael L. Fredman, Robert Endre Tarjan · Journal of the ACM Open access Jul 1987 2,695
3 A guided tour to approximate string matching Gonzalo Navarro · ACM Computing Surveys Open access Mar 2001 2,595
4 Network Applications of Bloom Filters: A Survey Andrei Broder, Michael Mitzenmacher · Internet Mathematics Open access 2004 2,003
5 Linear pattern matching algorithms Peter D. Weiner Conference paper Oct 1973 1,836
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Network Packet Processing and Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Network Packet Processing and Optimization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chennai (India) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbatore, Bengaluru and Chennai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 146 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 36 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 34 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 33 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 31 works
  6. 6 BengaluruIndia 28 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 27 works
  8. 8 CoimbatoreIndia 22 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 21 works
  10. 10 ZhengzhouChina 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoimbatoreIN · 21.8 works6.8×
  2. BengaluruIN · 28.0 works4.5×
  3. ChennaiIN · 34.2 works3.8×
  4. ChangshaCN · 33.0 works3.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Network Packet Processing and Optimization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Network Packet Processing and Optimization?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Torino, National University of Defense Technology and Tsinghua University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Politecnico di TorinoNational University …Tsinghua UniversityAmrita Vishwa Vidyap…
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Politecnico di TorinoItaly 70.030.6%11.1×8 +65.5%
2National University of Defense TechnologyChina 64.217.1%19.2×24 +20.1%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 54.916.2%5.3×20 -7.5%
4Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 51.510.4%17.6×15 +145.6%
5Peking UniversityChina 47.611.7%4.0×13 +56.2%
6Southeast UniversityChina 39.29.6%5.0×12 +28.6%
7Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 36.720.1%11.0×11 -32.8%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 34.417.9%2.0×9 +98.1%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 33.020.6%3.3×9 -12.1%
10University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 30.810.9%4.2×8 +42.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Network Packet Processing and Optimization, country by country

Is Network Packet Processing and Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009. The fastest-growing topics are Network Packet Processing and Optimization.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Network Packet Processing and Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0068% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Network Packet Processing and Optimization0.0095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Network Packet Processing and Optimization over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Network Packet Processing and Optimization9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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