George Porter

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
68 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

George Porter is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, George Porter has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 35 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in George Porter's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (33 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (26 papers) and Advanced Optical Network Technologies (20 papers). George Porter is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (33 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (26 papers) and Advanced Optical Network Technologies (20 papers). George Porter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Dominican Republic. George Porter's co-authors include Amin Vahdat, Alex C. Snoeren, George C. Papen, Nathan Farrington, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Arjun Roy, Hongyi Zeng, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz and Geoffrey M. Voelker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Communications of the ACM and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

George Porter

65 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Helios

2010 687 citations Nathan Farrington, George Porter et al. profile →
Inside the Social Network's (Datacenter) Network

2015 607 citations Arjun Roy, Hongyi Zeng et al. profile →
X-trace: a pervasive network tracing framework

2007 318 citations Rodrigo Fonseca, George Porter et al. Networked Systems Design and Implementation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Porter United States	27	3.3k	2.1k	1.7k	341	337	68	4.0k
T. S. Eugene Ng United States	28	4.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	247 0.7×	327 1.0×	100	4.4k
Ram Rajamony United States	18	2.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	634 0.4×	1.5k 4.5×	196 0.6×	28	2.8k
Hitesh Ballani United Kingdom	28	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	674 0.4×	384 1.1×	450 1.3×	70	3.5k
Nikos Hardavellas United States	22	1.8k 0.5×	560 0.3×	813 0.5×	1.7k 5.0×	254 0.8×	73	2.5k
L.E. Moser United States	26	2.5k 0.8×	689 0.3×	307 0.2×	597 1.8×	520 1.5×	122	2.9k
Song Jiang United States	29	3.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	326 0.2×	1.5k 4.5×	269 0.8×	96	3.6k
Scott Rixner United States	28	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	635 0.4×	2.5k 7.3×	329 1.0×	79	3.8k
Austin Donnelly United Kingdom	15	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	149 0.1×	544 1.6×	329 1.0×	25	2.2k
John L. Henning United States	7	1.5k 0.4×	454 0.2×	707 0.4×	1.6k 4.8×	398 1.2×	9	2.1k
Aamer Jaleel United States	30	3.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	976 0.6×	3.7k 10.9×	671 2.0×	87	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by George Porter

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Porter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Porter

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Forencich, Alex, et al.. (2024). Realizing RotorNet: Toward Practical Microsecond Scale Optical Networking. 392–414. 3 indexed citations

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Porter, George, et al.. (2022). FaaSnap. 730–746. 31 indexed citations

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Forencich, Alex, Alex C. Snoeren, George Porter, & George C. Papen. (2020). Corundum: An Open-Source 100-Gbps Nic. 38–46. 51 indexed citations

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Porter, George, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the performance of software NICs for 100-gb/s datacenter traffic control. 74–88. 6 indexed citations

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Roy, Arjun, et al.. (2015). Inside the Social Network's (Datacenter) Network. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 45(4). 123–137. 153 indexed citations

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Vahdat, Amin, et al.. (2015). Achieving cost-efficient, data-intensive computing in the cloud. 302–314. 10 indexed citations

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Kilper, Daniel C., Keren Bergman, Vincent W. S. Chan, et al.. (2014). Optical Networks Come of Age. Optics and Photonics News. 25(9). 50–50. 29 indexed citations

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Porter, George, Alex C. Snoeren, & George C. Papen. (2014). High-Speed Datacenter Interconnects [Guest editors' introduction]. IEEE Micro. 34(5). 6–7. 1 indexed citations

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Aguinaldo, Ryan, Alex Forencich, Christopher T. DeRose, et al.. (2014). Energy-efficient, digitally-driven “fat pipe” silicon photonic circuit switch in the UCSD MORDIA data-center network. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). STu1J.2–STu1J.2. 1 indexed citations

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Porter, George. (2013). See straight through data center bandwidth limitations with X-Rays.. 2. 8 indexed citations

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Fainman, Yeshaiahu & George Porter. (2013). Directing Data Center Traffic. Science. 342(6155). 202–203. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, He, Feng Lu, Rishi Kapoor, et al.. (2013). REACToR: A reconfigurable packet and circuit ToR switch. 235–236. 5 indexed citations

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Porter, George, Richard Strong, Nathan Farrington, et al.. (2013). Integrating microsecond circuit switching into the data center. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 43(4). 447–458. 87 indexed citations

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Porter, George. (2012). TinyTOCS as an Experimental Laboratory. 1.

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Bazzaz, Hamid Hajabdolali, Malveeka Tewari, Guohui Wang, et al.. (2011). Switching the optical divide. 1–8. 56 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, Michael J. Freedman, & George Porter. (2010). Experiences with tracing causality in networked services. 10–10. 20 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, George Porter, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2010). Helios. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 40(4). 339–350. 266 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, George Porter, Randy H. Katz, Scott Shenker, & Ion Stoica. (2007). X-trace: a pervasive network tracing framework. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 20–20. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

19.

Porter, George. (1982). Nondestructive Die Attach Integrity Test. Reliability physics. 45–46.

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Porter, George, et al.. (1962). Chemistry for the modern world. 1 indexed citations

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