Most cited papers in Network Traffic and Congestion Control
What are the most cited papers in Network Traffic and Congestion Control?
The most cited paper in Network Traffic and Congestion Control is "OpenFlow" (Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan et al., 2008), with 8,532 citations. Next come "Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance" (6,305) and "Congestion avoidance and control" (5,334).
Showing 50 of 96 papers. Every paper with more than 883 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenFlow Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | 31 Mar 2008 | 8,532 |
| 2 | Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance Sally Floyd, Van L. Jacobson · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1993 | 6,305 |
| 3 | Congestion avoidance and control Van L. Jacobson · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | 11 Jan 1995 | 5,334 |
| 4 | Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability Frank P. Kelly, A.K. Maulloo, D K H Tan · Journal of the Operational Research Society | Mar 1998 | 5,106 |
| 5 | On power-law relationships of the Internet topology Michalis Faloutsos, Petros Faloutsos, Christos Faloutsos | 30 Aug 1999 | 4,258 |
| 6 | A generalized processor sharing approach to flow control in integrated services networks: the single-node case Abhay K. Parekh, Robert G. Gallager · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Jun 1993 | 3,732 |
| 7 | Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling Vern Paxson, Sally Floyd · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Jun 1995 | 3,729 |
| 8 | Centrality and network flow Stephen P. Borgatti · Social Networks | 2005 | 3,219 |
| 9 | Charging and rate control for elastic traffic Frank P. Kelly · European Transactions on Telecommunications | 1997 | 2,979 |
| 10 | Routing of multipoint connections Bernard M. Waxman · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1988 | 2,897 |
| 11 | Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes Mark E. Crovella, Azer Bestavros · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1997 | 2,720 |
| 12 | Finding the K Shortest Loopless Paths in a Network Jin Y. Yen · Management Science | Jul 1971 | 2,628 |
| 13 | The click modular router Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, Benjie Chen et al. · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems | Aug 2000 | 2,426 |
| 14 | CUBIC Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review | Jul 2008 | 2,286 |
| 15 | Fair end-to-end window-based congestion control Jeonghoon Mo, Jean C. Walrand · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 2000 | 2,135 |
| 16 | Modeling TCP throughput Jitendra Padhye, Victor Firoiu, Don Towsley et al. | Oct 1998 | 2,112 |
| 17 | Optimization flow control. I. Basic algorithm and convergence Steven H. Low, D.E. Lapsely · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1999 | 1,982 |
| 18 | A calculus for network delay. I. Network elements in isolation R.L. Cruz · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 1991 | 1,916 |
| 19 | Analysis of the increase and decrease algorithms for congestion avoidance in computer networks Dah Ming Chiu, Raj Kumar Jain · Computer Networks and ISDN Systems | Jun 1989 | 1,907 |
| 20 | Data center TCP (DCTCP) Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh, Albert G. Greenberg, David A. Maltz et al. | 30 Aug 2010 | 1,885 |
| 21 | Worst-Case Equilibria Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H. Papadimitriou · Lecture notes in computer science | 1999 | 1,853 |
| 22 | MACAW Vaduvur Bharghavan, Alan J. Demers, Scott J. Shenker et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | Oct 1994 | 1,778 |
| 23 | The Internet Topology Zoo Simon Knight, Hung Nguyen, Nickolas Falkner et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Oct 2011 | 1,752 |
| 24 | Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm Alan J. Demers, Srinivasan Keshav, Scott J. Shenker | Aug 1989 | 1,731 |
| 25 | TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global Internet Lawrence S. Brakmo, Larry Peterson · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1995 | 1,708 |
| 26 | How to model an internetwork Ellen Witte Zegura, Kenneth L. Calvert, S. Bhattacharjee | 23 Dec 2002 | 1,680 |
| 27 | Self-similarity through high-variability: statistical analysis of Ethernet LAN traffic at the source level Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu, Robert P. Sherman et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1997 | 1,667 |
| 28 | Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet Sally Floyd, Kevin Fall · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1999 | 1,652 |
| 29 | Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications Zheng Wang, Jon Crowcroft · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1996 | 1,630 |
| 30 | Network Calculus: A Theory of Deterministic Queuing Systems for the Internet Jean‐Yves Le Boudec, Patrick Thiran | 6 Jul 2001 | 1,621 |
| 31 | A case for end system multicast Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay Rao, S. Seshan et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Oct 2002 | 1,519 |
| 32 | The macroscopic behavior of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm Matthew Mathis, Jeffrey Semke, Jamshid Mahdavi et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | Jul 1997 | 1,504 |
| 33 | The ns-3 Network Simulator George F. Riley, Thomas R. Henderson | 2010 | 1,504 |
| 34 | RSVP: a new resource ReSerVation Protocol Li Zhang, S. Deering, Deborah L. Estrin et al. · IEEE Network | Sep 1993 | 1,503 |
| 35 | Scalable application layer multicast Suman Banerjee, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Christopher Kommareddy | 19 Aug 2002 | 1,492 |
| 36 | Dynamical and Correlation Properties of the Internet Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Alexei Vázquez, Alessandro Vespignani · Physical Review Letters | Nov 2001 | 1,487 |
| 37 | Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarrec et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Oct 2002 | 1,465 |
| 38 | Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation Paul Barford, Mark E. Crovella | Jun 1998 | 1,436 |
| 39 | Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications Sally Floyd, Mark James Handley, Jitendra Padhye et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | 28 Aug 2000 | 1,419 |
| 40 | Efficient fair queuing using deficit round-robin M. Shreedhar, George Varghese · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | Jun 1996 | 1,394 |
| 41 | A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1997 | 1,377 |
| 42 | Equivalent capacity and its application to bandwidth allocation in high-speed networks Roch A. Guérin, H. Ahmadi, M. Naghshineh · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 1991 | 1,316 |
| 43 | An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks Brian S. White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh B. Stoller et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review | 31 Dec 2002 | 1,307 |
| 44 | Fluid-based analysis of a network of AQM routers supporting TCP flows with an application to RED Vishal Misra, Weibo Gong, Don Towsley · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | 28 Aug 2000 | 1,278 |
| 45 | Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel Neil T. Spring, Ratul Mahajan, David J. Wetherall | 19 Aug 2002 | 1,275 |
| 46 | SplitStream Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarrec et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review | 19 Oct 2003 | 1,252 |
| 47 | Virtual Network Embedding: A Survey Andreas Fischer, Juan Felipe Botero, Michael Till Beck et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | 2013 | 1,250 |
| 48 | Rethinking virtual network embedding Minlan Yu, Yung Yi, Jennifer Rexford et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | 31 Mar 2008 | 1,245 |
| 49 | An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks Shree Murthy, Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves · Mobile Networks and Applications | Jun 1996 | 1,241 |
| 50 | Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP -- Thomas Stockhammer | 15 Feb 2011 | 1,232 |
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