Kevin Fall

16.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
63 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Kevin Fall is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Fall has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 8 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 5 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kevin Fall's work include Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (28 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (23 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (16 papers). Kevin Fall is often cited by papers focused on Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (28 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (23 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (16 papers). Kevin Fall collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Kevin Fall's co-authors include Sally Floyd, Sushant Jain, Rabin Patra, Michael Demmer, Stephen Farrell, Scott Burleigh, Adrian J. Hooke, Keith Scott, Vinton G. Cerf and Leigh Torgerson and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Fall

61 papers receiving 10.2k 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.

A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets

2003 2.1k citations Kevin Fall profile →
Routing in a delay tolerant network

2004 1.3k citations Sushant Jain, Kevin Fall et al. profile →
Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet

1999 1.1k citations Kevin Fall et al. profile →
Delay-tolerant networking: an approach to interplanetary Internet

2003 1.1k citations Scott Burleigh, Adrian J. Hooke et al. profile →
A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets

2003 973 citations Kevin Fall profile →
Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP

1996 775 citations Kevin Fall et al. profile →
Advances in network simulation

2000 566 citations Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin et al. profile →
RouteBricks

2009 371 citations Mihai Dobrescu, Norbert Egi et al. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) profile →
DTN: an architectural retrospective

2008 317 citations Kevin Fall et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Fall United States	30	10.6k	2.6k	636	472	456	63	11.2k
Giuseppe Bianchi Italy	41	11.0k 1.0×	7.1k 2.7×	619 1.0×	1.0k 2.2×	270 0.6×	296	12.8k
Thomas Moscibroda United States	51	6.1k 0.6×	3.5k 1.3×	866 1.4×	568 1.2×	206 0.5×	146	7.9k
Jim Kurose United States	55	10.7k 1.0×	4.1k 1.6×	520 0.8×	958 2.0×	134 0.3×	217	12.0k
Narayan B. Mandayam United States	46	6.3k 0.6×	7.0k 2.7×	646 1.0×	1.1k 2.3×	630 1.4×	246	9.4k
Jörg Ott Germany	33	5.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	527 0.8×	282 0.6×	233 0.5×	242	6.1k
Stephen B. Wicker United States	35	6.3k 0.6×	4.4k 1.7×	363 0.6×	1.4k 3.1×	236 0.5×	165	8.1k
Petri Mähönen Germany	37	5.0k 0.5×	4.5k 1.7×	181 0.3×	367 0.8×	425 0.9×	380	6.8k
Wolfgang Kellerer Germany	42	5.1k 0.5×	3.2k 1.2×	680 1.1×	490 1.0×	320 0.7×	456	6.5k
Dan S. Wallach United States	34	2.6k 0.2×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	2.1k 4.4×	279 0.6×	104	5.2k
K. K. Ramakrishnan United States	46	6.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.1×	1.7k 2.7×	506 1.1×	199 0.4×	382	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Fall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Fall

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Fall, Kevin, Gianluca Iannaccone, Maziar Manesh, et al.. (2011). RouteBricks. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 45(1). 112–125. 17 indexed citations

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Fall, Kevin, et al.. (2010). A disruption-tolerant architecture for secure and efficient disaster response communications.. ISCRAM. 37 indexed citations

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Egi, Norbert, Mihai Dobrescu, Jiaqing Du, et al.. (2009). Understanding the packet Processing Capabilities of Multi-core Servers. Vaccine. 35(41). 5487–5494. 11 indexed citations

4.

Stevens, W. Richard & Kevin Fall. (2009). TCP/IP Illustrated: The Protocols v. 1. 43(2). 656–656.

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McGillivary, Philip A., Kurt Schwehr, & Kevin Fall. (2009). Enhancing AIS to improve whale-ship collision avoidance and maritime security. 1–8. 17 indexed citations

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Argyraki, Katerina, Salman Baset, Byung-Gon Chun, et al.. (2008). Can software routers scale?. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 21–26. 45 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lixia, David Meyer, & Kevin Fall. (2007). Report from the IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing. 4984. 1–39. 232 indexed citations

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Curcio, J. A., et al.. (2006). Self-Positioning Smart Buoys, The "Un-Buoy" Solution: Logistic Considerations using Autonomous Surface Craft Technology and Improved Communications Infrastructure. University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester). 1–5. 20 indexed citations

9.

Fall, Kevin, et al.. (2006). Alternative custodians for congestion control in delay tolerant networks. 229–236. 62 indexed citations

10.

Fall, Kevin, et al.. (2005). You Don’t Know Jack about Network Performance. Queue. 3(4). 54–59. 7 indexed citations

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Fall, Kevin & Srinivasan Keshav. (2005). Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking. 91 indexed citations

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Fall, Kevin & Srinivasan Keshav. (2004). Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future directions in network architecture. 80(5). 415–418. 2 indexed citations

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Demmer, Michael, et al.. (2004). Implementing Delay Tolerant Networking. 64 indexed citations

14.

Alonso, José M. & Kevin Fall. (2003). A Linear Programming Formulation of Flows over Time with Piecewise Constant Capacity and Transit Times. 14 indexed citations

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Burleigh, Scott, Vinton G. Cerf, R.C. Durst, et al.. (2003). The interplanetary internet: A communications infrastructure for Mars exploration. Acta Astronautica. 53(4-10). 365–373. 35 indexed citations

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Burleigh, Scott, Vinton G. Cerf, R.C. Durst, et al.. (2002). The Interplanetary Internet: A Communications Infrastructure for Mars Exploration. 700. 8 indexed citations

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Breslau, Lee, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, et al.. (1999). Improving Simulation for Network Research. 95 indexed citations

18.

Breslau, Lee, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, et al.. (1998). Virtual InterNetwork Testbed: Status and Research Agenda. 10 indexed citations

19.

Fall, Kevin, et al.. (1997). Ns Simulator Tests for Random Early Detection (RED) Queue Management. 4 indexed citations

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Pasquale, Joseph, et al.. (1995). High-performance I/O and networking software in Sequoia 2000. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 7(3). 84–94. 6 indexed citations

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