Amin Tootoonchian

3.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
10 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Amin Tootoonchian is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Amin Tootoonchian has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Amin Tootoonchian's work include Caching and Content Delivery (8 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (6 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (2 papers). Amin Tootoonchian is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (8 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (6 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (2 papers). Amin Tootoonchian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Amin Tootoonchian's co-authors include Yashar Ganjali, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Martín Casado, Scott Shenker, Teemu Koponen, Rob Sherwood, Ali Ghodsi, Yin Lin, Bruce M. Maggs and Ka Chung Ng and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review and Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

In The Last Decade

Amin Tootoonchian

10 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

HyperFlow: a distributed control plane for OpenFlow

2010 708 citations Amin Tootoonchian, Yashar Ganjali profile →
On scalability of software-defined networking

2013 360 citations Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Amin Tootoonchian et al. IEEE Communications Magazine profile →
On controller performance in software-defined networks

2012 354 citations Amin Tootoonchian, Yashar Ganjali et al. profile →
Less pain, most of the gain

2013 239 citations Yin Lin, Amin Tootoonchian et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amin Tootoonchian United States	9	2.0k	639	369	289	103	10	2.2k
Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury Canada	16	1.8k 0.9×	844 1.3×	294 0.8×	166 0.6×	17 0.2×	50	2.0k
Reaz Ahmed Canada	18	2.2k 1.1×	929 1.5×	435 1.2×	156 0.5×	14 0.1×	49	2.2k
Matthias Wählisch Germany	17	930 0.5×	289 0.5×	126 0.3×	239 0.8×	60 0.6×	150	1.1k
George Xylomenos Greece	19	2.2k 1.1×	478 0.7×	139 0.4×	108 0.4×	61 0.6×	114	2.4k
Olivier Festor France	16	706 0.3×	205 0.3×	204 0.6×	293 1.0×	41 0.4×	130	886
Saverio Niccolini Italy	16	722 0.4×	346 0.5×	221 0.6×	314 1.1×	81 0.8×	66	950
Tuomas Aura Finland	18	523 0.3×	193 0.3×	202 0.5×	242 0.8×	71 0.7×	61	750
Kiran Nagaraja United States	12	1.0k 0.5×	135 0.2×	246 0.7×	126 0.4×	54 0.5×	36	1.1k
Paris Flegkas Greece	20	842 0.4×	266 0.4×	217 0.6×	124 0.4×	117 1.1×	53	978
Laurent Mathy United Kingdom	21	1.3k 0.6×	267 0.4×	213 0.6×	209 0.7×	76 0.7×	75	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Amin Tootoonchian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amin Tootoonchian

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Tootoonchian, Amin, Aurojit Panda, Chang Lan, et al.. (2018). ResQ: enabling SLOs in network function virtualization. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 283–297. 65 indexed citations

2.

Panda, Aurojit, et al.. (2016). Open Network Interfaces for Carrier Networks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 46(1). 5–11. 5 indexed citations

3.

Yeganeh, Soheil Hassas, Amin Tootoonchian, & Yashar Ganjali. (2013). On scalability of software-defined networking. IEEE Communications Magazine. 51(2). 136–141. 360 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Yin, Amin Tootoonchian, Ali Ghodsi, et al.. (2013). Less pain, most of the gain. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 43(4). 147–158. 106 indexed citations

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Lin, Yin, Amin Tootoonchian, Ali Ghodsi, et al.. (2013). Less pain, most of the gain. 147–158. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tootoonchian, Amin, et al.. (2012). On controller performance in software-defined networks. 10–10. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Casado, Martín, Teemu Koponen, Scott Shenker, & Amin Tootoonchian. (2012). Fabric. 85–90. 162 indexed citations

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Tootoonchian, Amin & Yashar Ganjali. (2010). HyperFlow: a distributed control plane for OpenFlow. 3–3. 708 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Tootoonchian, Amin, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, & Alec Wolman. (2009). Lockr. 169–180. 97 indexed citations

10.

Tootoonchian, Amin, et al.. (2008). Lockr. 43–48. 57 indexed citations

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