Derek L. Eager

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Derek L. Eager is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek L. Eager has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Derek L. Eager's work include Caching and Content Delivery (45 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (40 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (29 papers). Derek L. Eager is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (45 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (40 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (29 papers). Derek L. Eager collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Sweden. Derek L. Eager's co-authors include John Zahorjan, Edward D. Lazowska, Mary K. Vernon, Niklas Carlsson, Kenneth C. Sevcik, Anirban Mahanti, Richard B. Bunt, Jussara M. Almeida, Sivarama P. Dandamudi and Carey Williamson and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Derek L. Eager

106 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Adaptive load sharing in homogeneous distributed systems 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 200 400 600
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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. Adaptive load sharing in homogeneous distributed systems
    1986 658 citations Derek L. Eager, Edward D. Lazowska 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
Derek L. Eager Canada 32 3.3k 965 729 475 411 107 3.8k
Joel L. Wolf United States 33 2.6k 0.8× 433 0.4× 1.3k 1.8× 734 1.5× 262 0.6× 85 4.1k
James F. Kurose United States 30 4.7k 1.4× 564 0.6× 333 0.5× 605 1.3× 2.0k 4.8× 115 5.5k
Patrick Eugster United States 27 4.0k 1.2× 549 0.6× 1.2k 1.7× 317 0.7× 363 0.9× 170 4.7k
Carey Williamson Canada 32 4.2k 1.3× 298 0.3× 962 1.3× 483 1.0× 949 2.3× 200 5.0k
Darrell D. E. Long United States 39 5.0k 1.5× 1.0k 1.1× 2.1k 2.8× 324 0.7× 356 0.9× 212 5.7k
Kevin Jeffay United States 27 2.2k 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 186 0.3× 126 0.3× 526 1.3× 97 2.8k
Edward D. Lazowska United States 41 5.7k 1.7× 3.3k 3.4× 1.5k 2.1× 168 0.4× 460 1.1× 150 6.9k
George C. Polyzos Greece 33 4.7k 1.4× 219 0.2× 662 0.9× 253 0.5× 1.4k 3.3× 240 5.4k
Anna R. Karlin United States 37 5.2k 1.6× 1.6k 1.7× 764 1.0× 165 0.3× 380 0.9× 109 6.4k
Azer Bestavros United States 39 7.5k 2.3× 699 0.7× 1.3k 1.8× 436 0.9× 1.9k 4.7× 244 8.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Derek L. Eager

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek L. Eager

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brecht, Tim, et al.. (2016). Characterizing the workload of a netflix streaming video server. 1–12. 33 indexed citations
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Ardon, Sébastien, et al.. (2011). Characterizing and modelling popularity of user-generated videos. Performance Evaluation. 68(11). 1037–1055. 78 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Mayank, et al.. (2009). Characterizing web-based video sharing workloads. 1191–1192. 5 indexed citations
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Carlsson, Niklas & Derek L. Eager. (2006). Non-Euclidian geographic routing in wireless networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 5(7). 1173–1193. 13 indexed citations
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Mahanti, Anirban, et al.. (2006). Scalable streaming for heterogeneous clients. 337–346. 29 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., Carey Williamson, Sem Borst, & John C. S. Lui. (2005). Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems. 15 indexed citations
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Carlsson, Niklas, Derek L. Eager, & Mary K. Vernon. (2005). Multicast protocols for scalable on-demand download. Performance Evaluation. 63(9-10). 864–891. 3 indexed citations
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Almeida, Jussara M., Derek L. Eager, M.K. Vernon, & Stephen J. Wright. (2004). Minimizing Delivery Cost in Scalable Streaming Content Distribution Systems. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 6(2). 356–365. 43 indexed citations
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Mahanti, Aniket, et al.. (2003). Scalable on-demand media streaming with packet loss recovery. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 11(2). 195–209. 71 indexed citations
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Bunt, Richard B., et al.. (2002). Write caching in distributed file systems. 457–466. 3 indexed citations
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Makaroff, Dwight & Derek L. Eager. (2002). Disk cache performance for distributed systems. 212–219. 10 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., et al.. (2002). Quality of service evaluations of multicast streaming protocols. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 30(1). 183–194. 1 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., Daniel J. Sorin, & Mary K. Vernon. (2000). AMVA techniques for high service time variability. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 28(1). 217–228. 5 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., John Zahorjan, & Edward D. Lazowska. (1995). Speedup versus efficiency in parallel systems. IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks. 76–91. 67 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., et al.. (1993). Chores: enhanced run-time support for shared-memory parallel computing. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 11(1). 1–32. 29 indexed citations
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Dandamudi, Sivarama P. & Derek L. Eager. (1990). The Effectiveness of Combining in Reducing Hot-Spot Contention in Hypercube Multicomputers.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 291–295. 2 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., et al.. (1989). A Novel Strategy for Controlling Hot Spot Congestion.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 14–18. 19 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L. & Kenneth C. Sevcik. (1986). Bound hierarchies for multiple-class queuing networks. Journal of the ACM. 33(1). 179–206. 32 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L., Edward D. Lazowska, & John Zahorjan. (1985). A comparison of receiver-initiated and sender-initiated adaptive load sharing (extended abstract). 1–3. 17 indexed citations
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Eager, Derek L. & Kenneth C. Sevcik. (1983). Achieving robustness in distributed database systems. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 8(3). 354–381. 94 indexed citations

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