Aaron Zollinger

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Aaron Zollinger is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Zollinger has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aaron Zollinger's work include Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (22 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (10 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (10 papers). Aaron Zollinger is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (22 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (10 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (10 papers). Aaron Zollinger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland and United States. Aaron Zollinger's co-authors include Rogert Wattenhofer, Fabian Kühn, Roger Wattenhofer, Yan Zhang, Pascal von Rickenbach, Martin Burkhart, Thomas Moscibroda, Stefan Schmid, R. Wattenhofer and Thomas Locher and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Wireless Networks and Computers & Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Zollinger

24 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Geometric ad-hoc routing 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Geometric ad-hoc routing
    2003 453 citations Fabian Kühn, Rogert Wattenhofer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aaron Zollinger Switzerland 14 2.1k 765 155 106 96 26 2.2k
F. Chin Singapore 14 360 0.2× 482 0.6× 115 0.7× 36 0.3× 50 0.5× 90 735
Kaixin Xu United States 18 2.3k 1.1× 861 1.1× 101 0.7× 30 0.3× 5 0.1× 24 2.4k
H. Sampath United States 13 1.5k 0.7× 2.1k 2.7× 198 1.3× 14 0.1× 9 0.1× 27 2.1k
F.P.S. Chin Singapore 13 317 0.2× 383 0.5× 88 0.6× 10 0.1× 42 0.4× 35 574
Stavros Toumpis Greece 16 1.3k 0.6× 680 0.9× 78 0.5× 35 0.3× 5 0.1× 58 1.4k
Thomas Clouqueur United States 7 596 0.3× 329 0.4× 34 0.2× 40 0.4× 5 0.1× 13 692
A.U.H. Sheikh Canada 15 1.1k 0.5× 1.2k 1.6× 83 0.5× 17 0.2× 4 0.0× 118 1.3k
Allen H. Levesque United States 9 486 0.2× 562 0.7× 67 0.4× 35 0.3× 2 0.0× 20 749
Srinivasan Ramasubramanian United States 19 1.2k 0.6× 903 1.2× 14 0.1× 23 0.2× 3 0.0× 62 1.4k
Georgia Athanasiadou Greece 18 356 0.2× 861 1.1× 346 2.2× 22 0.2× 3 0.0× 80 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Aaron Zollinger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Aaron Zollinger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron Zollinger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aaron Zollinger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aaron Zollinger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aaron Zollinger. Aaron Zollinger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kühn, Fabian, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2008). An Algorithmic Approach to Geographic Routing in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 16(1). 51–62. 71 indexed citations
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Moscibroda, Thomas, Rogert Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2006). Topology control meets SINR. 310–321. 149 indexed citations
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Rickenbach, Pascal von, Stefan Schmid, R. Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2005). A Robust Interference Model for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. 239a–239a. 76 indexed citations
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Locher, Thomas, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2005). Received-Signal-Strength-Based Logical Positioning Resilient to Signal Fluctuation. 396–402. 14 indexed citations
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Wattenhofer, Roger, et al.. (2005). Interference Arises at the Receiver. 1. 427–432. 21 indexed citations
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Burkhart, Martin, Pascal von Rickenbach, Rogert Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2004). Does topology control reduce interference?. 9–19. 276 indexed citations
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Wattenhofer, Roger & Aaron Zollinger. (2004). XTC: a practical topology control algorithm for ad-hoc networks. 216–223. 186 indexed citations
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Wattenhofer, Roger, et al.. (2004). On Interference Reduction in Sensor Networks. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 5 indexed citations
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Wattenhofer, Roger & Aaron Zollinger. (2004). XTC: A Practical Topology Control Algorithm for Ad-Hoc Networks. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 8 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Rogert Wattenhofer, Yan Zhang, & Aaron Zollinger. (2003). Geometric ad-hoc routing. 63–72. 453 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kühn, Fabian, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2003). Worst-Case optimal and average-case efficient geometric ad-hoc routing. 23 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2003). Worst-Case Optimal and Average-Case Efficient Geometric Ad-Hoc Routing. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 1 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Rogert Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2003). Worst-Case optimal and average-case efficient geometric ad-hoc routing. 267–278. 368 indexed citations
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Arbenz, Peter, Richard B. Lehoucq, & Aaron Zollinger. (2003). A comparison of algorithms for modal analysis in the absence of a sparse direct method. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 394. 1–21. 1 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Rogert Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2003). Ad-hoc networks beyond unit disk graphs. 69–78. 150 indexed citations
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Lamboray, Edouard, Aaron Zollinger, Oliver Staadt, & Markus Groß. (2003). Interactive multimedia streams in distributed applications. Computers & Graphics. 27(5). 735–745. 6 indexed citations
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Giesen, Joachim, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2002). Towards a Theory of Peer-to-Peer Computability.. 115–132. 4 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Rogert Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2002). Asymptotically optimal geometric mobile ad-hoc routing. 24–33. 172 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2002). Geometric Ad-Hoc Routing for Unit Disk Graphs and General Cost Models. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 3 indexed citations
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Kühn, Fabian, Roger Wattenhofer, & Aaron Zollinger. (2002). Asymptotically optimal geometric mobile ad-hoc routing. 13 indexed citations

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