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, Victor Firoiu, James F. Kurose, 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

Modeling TCP throughput 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2000 2000 2002 2002 500 1000 1.5k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Don Towsley 31.5k 12.8k 5.2k 3.5k 3.1k 877 37.8k
Scott Shenker 62.1k 2.0× 13.5k 1.0× 9.1k 1.7× 1.5k 0.4× 3.7k 1.2× 455 70.5k
David S. Johnson 16.6k 0.5× 7.3k 0.6× 8.5k 1.6× 639 0.2× 3.0k 1.0× 113 41.8k
Vern Paxson 21.3k 0.7× 4.0k 0.3× 10.9k 2.1× 1.1k 0.3× 864 0.3× 223 25.8k
Sally Floyd 18.8k 0.6× 8.0k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 80 20.2k
Van Jacobson 24.6k 0.8× 8.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.3× 1.5k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 71 25.9k
M. R. Garey 16.2k 0.5× 7.0k 0.5× 7.7k 1.5× 743 0.2× 2.8k 0.9× 77 40.7k
Randy H. Katz 31.5k 1.0× 6.9k 0.5× 5.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.3× 2.3k 0.7× 401 38.4k
Ion Stoica 48.8k 1.5× 5.4k 0.4× 9.9k 1.9× 1.5k 0.4× 6.5k 2.1× 416 60.0k
Walter Willinger 12.7k 0.4× 4.1k 0.3× 2.7k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 176 18.9k
Robert Morris 31.2k 1.0× 6.1k 0.5× 3.7k 0.7× 419 0.1× 1.0k 0.3× 206 34.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Don Towsley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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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.

All Works

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Dai, Wenhan, et al.. (2024). Quantum network utility: A framework for benchmarking quantum networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2314103121–e2314103121. 7 indexed citations
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Goodenough, Kenneth, et al.. (2024). Bipartite Entanglement of Noisy Stabilizer States Through the Lens of Stabilizer Codes. 545–550. 1 indexed citations
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Towsley, Don, et al.. (2023). On the Characterization of Quantum Flip Stars with Quantum Network Tomography. 1260–1270. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Bo, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, et al.. (2023). The Online Knapsack Problem with Departures. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 59–60. 1 indexed citations
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Basu, Prithwish, et al.. (2022). On the Analysis and Evaluation of Proximity-based Load-balancing Policies. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 7(2-4). 1–27. 3 indexed citations
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Huang, Ke-Wen, Hui‐Ming Wang, Don Towsley, & H. Vincent Poor. (2020). LPD Communication: A Sequential Change-Point Detection Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68(4). 2474–2490. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Pinghui, Junzhou Zhao, Xiangliang Zhang, et al.. (2017). MOSS-5: A Fast Method of Approximating Counts of 5-Node Graphlets in Large Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 30(1). 73–86. 38 indexed citations
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Menasché, Daniel Sadoc, et al.. (2010). Estimating Self-Sustainability in Peer-to-Peer Swarming Systems. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 25 indexed citations
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Key, Peter, Laurent Massoulié, & Don Towsley. (2007). Multipath Routing, Congestion Control and Load Balancing. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 4 indexed citations
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Vasudevan, Subramanyan, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Christophe Diot, Jim Kurose, & Don Towsley. (2005). Facilitating access point selection in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. 26–26. 127 indexed citations
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Guo, Yang, Zihui Ge, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, & Don Towsley. (2003). Dynamic Cache Reconfiguration Strategies for A Cluster-Based Streaming Proxy. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 4 indexed citations
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Cáceres, Rafaela, Nick Duffield, Sue Moon, & Don Towsley. (1999). Inferring link-level performance from end-to-end multicast measurements. Global Communications Conference. 0–0. 20 indexed citations
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Dey, Jayanta, Subhabrata Sen, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, & James D. Salehi. (1997). Playback restart in interactive streaming video applications. 458–465. 17 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhi-Li, et al.. (1997). On the efficient retrieval of VBR video in a multimedia server. 46–53. 19 indexed citations
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Kamath, M., Krithi Ramamritham, & Don Towsley. (1995). Continuous Media Sharing in Multimedia Database Systems. 79–86. 53 indexed citations
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Towsley, Don, et al.. (1991). Performance of a mirrored disk in a real-time transaction system. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 19(1). 198–207.
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Towsley, Don, et al.. (1991). Performance of a mirrored disk in a real-time transaction system. 198–207. 2 indexed citations
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Kurose, James F., et al.. (1991). Performance comparison of error control schemes in high-speed computer communication networks. IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks. 416–426. 1 indexed citations

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