Kevin Lai

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Kevin Lai is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Lai has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 9 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Kevin Lai's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (9 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (7 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (6 papers). Kevin Lai is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (9 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (7 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (6 papers). Kevin Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Kevin Lai's co-authors include Mary Baker, TJ Giuli, Sergio Marti, Michal Feldman, Ion Stoica, John Chuang, Carlos Tokunaga, Wei-Hsiang Ma, David Blaauw and Sanjay Pant and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Computers & Education and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Lai

39 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Mitigating routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks

2000 2.3k citations Sergio Marti, TJ Giuli et al. profile →
RazorII: In Situ Error Detection and Correction for PVT and SER Tolerance

2009 430 citations Shidhartha Das, Carlos Tokunaga et al. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits profile →

Peers

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Ellen Zegura United States

Douglas E. Comer United States

Arjun Singh United States

Junzhou Luo China

Georgios Kambourakis Greece

Steven McCanne United States

Richard Mortier United Kingdom

Kevin C. Almeroth United States

Ren‐Hung Hwang Taiwan

Carey Williamson Canada

Ellen Zegura United States

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8.1k ×2.0

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2.4k ×1.5

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597 ×1.7

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Citations per year, relative to Kevin Lai Kevin Lai (= 1×) peers Ellen Zegura

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Lai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kevin Lai. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kevin Lai. The network helps show where Kevin Lai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Lai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin Lai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin Lai 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 Kevin Lai. Kevin Lai 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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Schoen, Robert C., et al.. (2023). Impact of Lesson Study and Fractions Resources on Instruction and Student Learning. The Journal of Experimental Education. 92(2). 225–246. 2 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, et al.. (2018). Procedurally Generating Game Level with Specified Difficulty. 1–9. 3 indexed citations

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Donnelly‐Hermosillo, Dermot, Bahadır Namdar, Jonathan M. Vitale, Kevin Lai, & Marcia C. Linn. (2016). Enhancing student explanations of evolution: Comparing elaborating and competing theory prompts. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 53(9). 1341–1363. 14 indexed citations

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Gupta, Ashish, Fan Yang, Adam Kirsch, et al.. (2016). Mesa. Communications of the ACM. 59(7). 117–125. 9 indexed citations

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Gupta, Ashish, Fan Yang, Adam Kirsch, et al.. (2014). Mesa. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 7(12). 1259–1270. 56 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, et al.. (2013). How groups cooperate in a networked geometry learning environment. Instructional Science. 42(4). 615–637. 12 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, et al.. (2012). Exploring quadrilaterals in a small group computing environment. Computers & Education. 59(3). 963–973. 14 indexed citations

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Wallace, Matthew P., et al.. (2012). Graphing in Groups: Learning About Lines in a Collaborative Classroom Network Environment. Mathematical Thinking and Learning. 14(2). 149–172. 18 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, et al.. (2010). Common Errors in Counting Problems. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12. 103(6). 402–409. 19 indexed citations

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Avetisyan, Arutyun, Roy H. Campbell, Indranil Gupta, et al.. (2010). Open Cirrus: A Global Cloud Computing Testbed. Computer. 43(4). 35–43. 110 indexed citations

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Das, Shidhartha, Carlos Tokunaga, Sanjay Pant, et al.. (2009). RazorII: In Situ Error Detection and Correction for PVT and SER Tolerance. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 44(1). 32–48. 430 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sandholm, Thomas, Kevin Lai, & Scott H. Clearwater. (2008). Admission Control in a Computational Market. 1. 277–286. 7 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin, Lars Rasmusson, Eytan Adar, Li Zhang, & Bernardo A. Huberman. (2005). Tycoon: An implementation of a distributed, market-based resource allocation system. Multiagent and Grid Systems. 1(3). 169–182. 160 indexed citations

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Feldman, Michal, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, & John Chuang. (2004). Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks. 102–111. 359 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin & Mary Baker. (2001). Nettimer: a tool for measuring bottleneck link, bandwidth. 11–11. 181 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin & Mary Baker. (2000). Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 30(4). 283–294. 255 indexed citations

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Marti, Sergio, TJ Giuli, Kevin Lai, & Mary Baker. (2000). Mitigating routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks. 255–265. 2337 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roussopoulos, Mema, et al.. (1999). Person-level routing in the mobile people architecture. 15–15. 48 indexed citations

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Maniatis, Petros, et al.. (1999). The mobile people architecture. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review. 3(3). 36–42. 72 indexed citations

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Lai, Kevin & Mary Baker. (1996). A performance comparison of UNIX operating systems on the Pentium. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 22–22. 13 indexed citations

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