Ibrahim Matta

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
176 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Ibrahim Matta is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ibrahim Matta has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 52 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ibrahim Matta's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (92 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (52 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (33 papers). Ibrahim Matta is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (92 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (52 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (33 papers). Ibrahim Matta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Greece. Ibrahim Matta's co-authors include Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Georgios Smaragdakis, A. M. Gago, Anukool Lakhina, Liang Guo, Mark Crovella, Mina Guirguis, Flavio Esposito and Vassilis Tsaoussidis and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ibrahim Matta

169 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

  1. SEP: A Stable Election Protocol for clustered heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
    2004 1.0k citations Georgios Smaragdakis, Ibrahim Matta et al. OpenBU/Boston University Institutional Repository (Boston University) profile →
  2. BRITE: an approach to universal topology generation
    2002 866 citations Ibrahim Matta 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
Ibrahim Matta United States 31 4.7k 1.9k 699 460 345 176 5.1k
Wolfgang Kellerer Germany 42 5.1k 1.1× 3.2k 1.7× 490 0.7× 680 1.5× 166 0.5× 456 6.5k
Francesco Lo Presti Italy 30 2.6k 0.6× 614 0.3× 620 0.9× 1.1k 2.4× 179 0.5× 99 3.1k
Georgios Smaragdakis Germany 27 2.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 581 0.8× 321 0.7× 56 0.2× 101 3.0k
Luiz A. DaSilva United States 34 4.3k 0.9× 2.9k 1.5× 496 0.7× 278 0.6× 121 0.4× 248 5.5k
George Kesidis United States 31 2.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 858 1.2× 612 1.3× 73 0.2× 241 3.8k
Anne-Marie Kermarrec France 34 7.5k 1.6× 525 0.3× 890 1.3× 1.3k 2.7× 491 1.4× 157 8.3k
Ramana Rao Kompella United States 28 3.0k 0.7× 783 0.4× 808 1.2× 1.6k 3.4× 294 0.9× 106 3.8k
Matthias Grossglauser Switzerland 34 5.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.0× 854 1.2× 194 0.4× 258 0.7× 93 6.5k
Patrick Eugster United States 27 4.0k 0.9× 363 0.2× 861 1.2× 1.2k 2.6× 138 0.4× 170 4.7k
Konstantinos Psounis United States 33 6.6k 1.4× 2.0k 1.0× 256 0.4× 304 0.7× 110 0.3× 108 7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ibrahim Matta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kalavri, Vasiliki, et al.. (2025). CAPSys: Contention-aware task placement for data stream processing. 654–670. 2 indexed citations
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Esposito, Flavio, et al.. (2023). Privacy and Efficiency of Communications in Federated Split Learning. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. 9(5). 1380–1391. 33 indexed citations
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Raza, Ali, et al.. (2023). Configuration and Placement of Serverless Applications Using Statistical Learning. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 20(2). 1065–1077. 10 indexed citations
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Akhtar, Nabeel, Ali Raza, Vatche Ishakian, & Ibrahim Matta. (2020). COSE: Configuring Serverless Functions using Statistical Learning. 129–138. 55 indexed citations
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Esposito, Flavio, et al.. (2014). RINA: An Architecture for Policy-Based Dynamic Service Management. OpenBU (Boston University). 5 indexed citations
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Matta, Ibrahim, et al.. (2009). On the Performance and Robustness of Managing Reliable Transport Connections. OpenBU/Boston University Institutional Repository (Boston University). 5 indexed citations
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Smaragdakis, Georgios, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, & Ioannis Stavrakakis. (2007). Mistreatment-resilient distributed caching. Computer Networks. 51(11). 2917–2937. 3 indexed citations
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Matta, Ibrahim, et al.. (2007). A Geometric Approach to Slot Alignment in Wireless Sensor Networks. 817–822. 2 indexed citations
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Kfoury, A. J., et al.. (2005). Safe Compositional Specification of Networking Systems: A Compositional Analysis Approach. OpenBU/Boston University Institutional Repository (Boston University). 1 indexed citations
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Matta, Ibrahim, et al.. (2005). Analysis of caching-based location management in personal communication networks. 293–300. 7 indexed citations
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Sharma, Abhishek, Azer Bestavros, & Ibrahim Matta. (2005). dPAM: A distributed prefetching protocol for scalable asynchronous multicast in P2P systems. 2. 1139–1150. 41 indexed citations
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Bestavros, Azer, Adam D. Bradley, A. J. Kfoury, & Ibrahim Matta. (2004). Safe compositional specification of networking systems. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 34(3). 21–34. 5 indexed citations
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Hassan, Mohamed S., Marwan Krunz, & Ibrahim Matta. (2004). Markov-based channel characterization for tractable performance analysis in wireless packet networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 3(3). 821–831. 60 indexed citations
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Medina, Andrés Muñoz, Kavé Salamatian, Nina Taft, Ibrahim Matta, & Christophe Diot. (2004). A Two-step Statistical Approach for Inferring Network TrafficDemands (Revises Technical Report BUCS-2003-003). OpenBU (Boston University). 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Liang & Ibrahim Matta. (2003). QDMR: an efficient QoS dependent multicast routing algorithm. 213–222. 35 indexed citations
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Guo, Liang, Mark Crovella, & Ibrahim Matta. (2002). Corrections to "How Does TCP Generate Pseudo-Self-Similarity?". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 32(2). 30–30. 7 indexed citations
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Tsaoussidis, Vassilis & Ibrahim Matta. (2001). Open issues on TCP for mobile computing. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2(1). 3–20. 74 indexed citations
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Matta, Ibrahim, Azer Bestavros, & Marwan Krunz. (1999). Load Profiling Based Routing for Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. European Transactions on Telecommunications. 10(2). 165–181. 4 indexed citations
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Matta, Ibrahim & Achyut Shankar. (1995). Z -iteration. 126–135. 2 indexed citations

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