Don Towsley

57.5k total citations · 13 hit papers
877 papers, 37.8k citations indexed

About

Don Towsley is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Don Towsley has authored 877 papers receiving a total of 37.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 678 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 253 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 156 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Don Towsley's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (295 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (156 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (126 papers). Don Towsley is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (295 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (156 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (126 papers). Don Towsley collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Don Towsley's co-authors include Jim Kurose, Weibo Gong, Vishal Misra, James F. Kurose, Victor Firoiu, Jitendra Padhye, C.V. Hollot, Dennis Goeckel, Cliff C. Zou and Benyuan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

In The Last Decade

Don Towsley

848 papers receiving 35.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Modeling TCP throughput

1998 1.5k citations Don Towsley, Jim Kurose et al. profile →
Fluid-based analysis of a network of AQM routers supporting TCP flows with an application to RED

2000 939 citations Don Towsley et al. profile →
Modeling TCP Reno performance: a simple model and its empirical validation

2000 824 citations Don Towsley, James F. Kurose et al. profile →
On designing improved controllers for AQM routers supporting TCP flows

2002 715 citations Don Towsley et al. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) profile →
A control theoretic analysis of RED

2002 651 citations Don Towsley et al. profile →
Analysis and design of controllers for AQM routers supporting TCP flows

2002 631 citations Don Towsley et al. profile →
Modeling TCP throughput

1998 584 citations Don Towsley, Jim Kurose et al. profile →
Performance modeling of epidemic routing

2006 571 citations Jim Kurose, Don Towsley et al. profile →
Code red worm propagation modeling and analysis

2002 520 citations Don Towsley et al. profile →
The effect of network topology on the spread of epidemics

2005 488 citations Don Towsley et al. profile →
Mobility improves coverage of sensor networks

2005 401 citations Don Towsley et al. profile →
Resisting structural re-identification in anonymized social networks

2008 387 citations Gerome Miklau, Don Towsley et al. profile →
Covert Communication in the Presence of an Uninformed Jammer

2017 287 citations Saikat Guha, Don Towsley et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Don Towsley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Don Towsley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Don Towsley 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 Don Towsley. Don Towsley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Asynchronous Multi-Agent Bandits: Fully Distributed vs. Leader-Coordinated Algorithms 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Don Towsley, John C. S. Lui	0
2	Quantum network utility: A framework for benchmarking quantum networks 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Wenhan Dai, Don Towsley, Dirk Englund	7
3	Bipartite Entanglement of Noisy Stabilizer States Through the Lens of Stabilizer Codes 2024 ·Kenneth Goodenough, (unknown), Eneet Kaur, Saikat Guha, Don Towsley	1
4	The Online Knapsack Problem with Departures 2023 ·Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) ·Bo Sun, (unknown), Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, John C. S. Lui, Don Towsley, Danny H. K. Tsang	1
5	On the Characterization of Quantum Flip Stars with Quantum Network Tomography 2023 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Don Towsley	3
6	LPD Communication: A Sequential Change-Point Detection Perspective 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Communications ·Ke-Wen Huang, Hui‐Ming Wang, Don Towsley, H. Vincent Poor	19
7	MOSS-5: A Fast Method of Approximating Counts of 5-Node Graphlets in Large Graphs 2017 ·IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering ·Pinghui Wang, Junzhou Zhao, Xiangliang Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Jiefeng Cheng, John C. S. Lui, Don Towsley, Jing Tao, Xiaohong Guan	38
8	Diffusion-Convolutional Neural Networks 2016 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·James Atwood, Don Towsley	264
9	On the Performance of General Cache Networks 2015 ·(unknown), Mostafa Dehghan, Don Towsley, (unknown), Dennis Goeckel	3
10	Estimating Self-Sustainability in Peer-to-Peer Swarming Systems 2010 ·ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·Daniel Sadoc Menasché, (unknown), Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Rosa M. M. Leão, Don Towsley, Arun Venkataramani	25
11	A Relay Assisted Cooperative Transmission Protocol for Wireless Multiple Access Systems 2010 ·IEEE Transactions on Communications ·Zhiguo Ding, Kin K. Leung, Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley	11
12	Analyzing Privacy in Enterprise Packet Trace Anonymization. 2008 ·Network and Distributed System Security Symposium ·Bruno Ribeiro, Weifeng Chen, Gerome Miklau, Don Towsley	29
13	Dynamic Cache Reconfiguration Strategies for A Cluster-Based Streaming Proxy 2003 ·ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·Yang Guo, Zihui Ge, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, Don Towsley	4
14	Playback restart in interactive streaming video applications 1997 ·Jayanta Dey, Subhabrata Sen, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, James D. Salehi	17
15	On the efficient retrieval of VBR video in a multimedia server 1997 ·(unknown), Zhi-Li Zhang, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley	19
16	Continuous Media Sharing in Multimedia Database Systems 1995 ·M. Kamath, Krithi Ramamritham, Don Towsley	53
17	Efficient on-line processor scheduling for a class of IRIS ( increasing reward with increasing service ) real-time tasks 1993 ·Jayanta Dey, James F. Kurose, Don Towsley, C.M. Krishna, (unknown)	35
18	Performance of a mirrored disk in a real-time transaction system 1991 ·ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ·(unknown), Don Towsley	0
19	Performance of a mirrored disk in a real-time transaction system 1991 ·(unknown), Don Towsley	2
20	On discrete-time queueing systems 1979 ·International Conference on Communications ·(unknown), Don Towsley, J.K. Wolf	9

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