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
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
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China 536 works
- 2
India 298 works
- 3
United States 223 works
- 4
Indonesia 67 works
- 5
Japan 55 works
- 6
South Korea 50 works
- 7
Germany 49 works
- 8
Italy 42 works
- 9
Taiwan 38 works
- 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.
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.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China 39 works
- 2
National University of Defense Technology
China 24 works
- 3
Tsinghua University
China 20 works
- 4
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
India 15 works
- 5
Peking University
China 13 works
- 6
Southeast University
China 12 works
- 7
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
China 11 works
- 8
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
India 10 works
- 9
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China 9 works
- 10
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France 9 works
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.
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John P. A. Ioannidis
United States 317k citations
- 2
Kai You Wang
China 224k citations
- 3
Lei Jiang
China 214k citations
- 4
Eugene Wimberly Myers
Germany 163k citations
- 5
Philip S. Yu
United States 141k citations
- 6
T. J. Kim
Germany 139k citations
- 7
F. Palla
France 119k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
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
Where it is the local speciality
- CoimbatoreIN · 21.8 works6.8×
- BengaluruIN · 28.0 works4.5×
- ChennaiIN · 34.2 works3.8×
- ChangshaCN · 33.0 works3.7×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Network Packet Processing and Optimization than the world average.
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.
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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politecnico di Torino |
70.0 | 30.6% | 11.1× | 8 | +65.5% |
| 2 | National University of Defense Technology |
64.2 | 17.1% | 19.2× | 24 | +20.1% |
| 3 | Tsinghua University |
54.9 | 16.2% | 5.3× | 20 | -7.5% |
| 4 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham |
51.5 | 10.4% | 17.6× | 15 | +145.6% |
| 5 | Peking University |
47.6 | 11.7% | 4.0× | 13 | +56.2% |
| 6 | Southeast University |
39.2 | 9.6% | 5.0× | 12 | +28.6% |
| 7 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
36.7 | 20.1% | 11.0× | 11 | -32.8% |
| 8 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
34.4 | 17.9% | 2.0× | 9 | +98.1% |
| 9 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
33.0 | 20.6% | 3.3× | 9 | -12.1% |
| 10 | University of Science and Technology of China |
30.8 | 10.9% | 4.2× | 8 | +42.6% |
| 11 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology |
27.6 | 3.1% | 6.4× | 10 | +591.0% |
| 12 | Vellore Institute of Technology University |
27.6 | 9.5% | 5.3× | 8 | +5.8% |
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 countryIs 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.
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.
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.
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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