David Wetherall

29.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
164 papers, 20.5k citations indexed

About

David Wetherall is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wetherall has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 20.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 43 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 43 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Wetherall's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (46 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (39 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (34 papers). David Wetherall is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (46 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (39 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (34 papers). David Wetherall collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. David Wetherall's co-authors include Ratul Mahajan, Neil Spring, Daniel Halperin, Anmol Sheth, Tom Anderson, David L. Tennenhouse, Wenjun Hu, Thomas E. Anderson, Stefan Savage and Joshua R. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Wetherall

161 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

Tool release 1997 2026 2006 2016 2011 2002 2013 1997 2000 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Wetherall United States 75 15.1k 8.1k 4.8k 2.7k 2.4k 164 20.5k
Robert Morris United States 65 31.2k 2.1× 6.1k 0.8× 3.7k 0.8× 4.2k 1.6× 2.0k 0.8× 206 34.2k
Alex X. Liu United States 56 5.7k 0.4× 5.3k 0.7× 2.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 352 12.1k
Ramesh Govindan United States 74 24.0k 1.6× 9.1k 1.1× 2.8k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 338 28.1k
Kang G. Shin United States 78 17.6k 1.2× 9.0k 1.1× 3.6k 0.7× 3.3k 1.2× 2.2k 0.9× 851 25.6k
Adrian Perrig United States 72 23.3k 1.5× 5.5k 0.7× 11.7k 2.4× 6.6k 2.5× 4.2k 1.7× 314 31.0k
Tarek Abdelzaher United States 68 13.3k 0.9× 6.3k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.9× 622 0.3× 468 19.4k
Ashok Kumar Das India 77 13.0k 0.9× 3.1k 0.4× 5.6k 1.2× 12.4k 4.7× 2.9k 1.2× 454 18.6k
Rongxing Lu Canada 70 10.1k 0.7× 7.0k 0.9× 10.3k 2.2× 6.6k 2.5× 1.5k 0.6× 633 20.9k
Nick McKeown United States 70 28.3k 1.9× 10.0k 1.2× 3.9k 0.8× 5.0k 1.9× 1.4k 0.6× 216 30.1k
Jennifer Rexford United States 87 30.0k 2.0× 9.1k 1.1× 5.8k 1.2× 5.3k 2.0× 1.2k 0.5× 356 31.7k

Countries citing papers authored by David Wetherall

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Wetherall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Wetherall

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Wetherall. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Wetherall 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 David Wetherall. David Wetherall 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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Yeganeh, Soheil Hassas, Neal Cardwell, Van Jacobson, et al.. (2023). Fathom: Understanding Datacenter Application Network Performance. 394–405.
2.
Wetherall, David, Abdul Kabbani, Van Jacobson, et al.. (2023). Improving Network Availability with Protective ReRoute. 684–695. 3 indexed citations
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Krishnamurthy, Arvind, et al.. (2016). Speeding up web page loads with Shandian. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 109–122. 53 indexed citations
4.
Han, Seungyeop, Haichen Shen, Taesoo Kim, et al.. (2015). MetaSync: file synchronization across multiple untrusted storage services. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 83–95. 23 indexed citations
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Balasubramanian, Aruna, et al.. (2014). How speedy is SPDY. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 387–399. 94 indexed citations
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Han, Seungyeop, Jinseong Jeon, Tanzirul Azim, et al.. (2014). Brahmastra: driving apps to test the security of third-party components. USENIX Security Symposium. 1021–1036. 76 indexed citations
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Balasubramanian, Aruna, et al.. (2013). Demystifying page load performance with WProf. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 473–486. 124 indexed citations
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Roesner, Franziska, Tadayoshi Kohno, & David Wetherall. (2012). Detecting and defending against third-party tracking on the web. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 12–12. 216 indexed citations
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Roesner, Franziska, et al.. (2012). ShareMeNot: Balancing Privacy and Functionality of Third-Party Social Widgets.. 37. 2 indexed citations
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Wetherall, David, et al.. (2011). Privacy revelations for web and mobile apps. 21–21. 22 indexed citations
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Mahajan, Ratul, David Wetherall, & Thomas E. Anderson. (2007). Mutually controlled routing with independent ISPs. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 26–26. 26 indexed citations
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Liu, Xin, Xiaowei Yang, David Wetherall, & Thomas E. Anderson. (2006). Efficient and secure source authentication with packet passports. 2–2. 37 indexed citations
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Hellerstein, Joseph M., Vern Paxson, Larry Peterson, et al.. (2005). The Network Oracle.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 28. 3–10. 8 indexed citations
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Mahajan, Ratul, Maya Rodrig, David Wetherall, & John Zahorjan. (2005). Sustaining cooperation in multi-hop wireless networks. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 231–244. 88 indexed citations
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Patel, Parveen, David Wetherall, Jay Lepreau, & Andrew Whitaker. (2003). TCP meets mobile code. 6–6. 6 indexed citations
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Spring, Neil, David Wetherall, & Tom Anderson. (2003). Scriptroute: a public internet measurement facility. 17–17. 117 indexed citations
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Jain, Sushant, Ratul Mahajan, & David Wetherall. (2003). A study of the performance potential of DHT-based overlays. 11–11. 28 indexed citations
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Spring, Neil & David Wetherall. (2000). A protocol-independent technique for eliminating redundant network traffic. 87–95. 115 indexed citations
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Wetherall, David, et al.. (1998). Increasing effective link bandwidth by suppressing replicated data. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 18–18. 22 indexed citations
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Tennenhouse, David L., et al.. (1994). A Software-Oriented Approach to the Design of Media Processing Environments.. 435–444. 1 indexed citations

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