Matthew Roughan

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Matthew Roughan is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Roughan has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthew Roughan's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (64 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (35 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (27 papers). Matthew Roughan is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (64 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (35 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (27 papers). Matthew Roughan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Matthew Roughan's co-authors include Hung Nguyen, Yin Zhang⋆, Walter Willinger, Rhys Bowden, Albert Greenberg, Nickolas Falkner, Simon Knight, Nick Duffield, Yin Zhang and Lili Qiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Roughan

134 papers receiving 5.6k 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. The Internet Topology Zoo
    2011 1.2k citations Simon Knight, Hung Nguyen 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
Matthew Roughan Australia 34 4.5k 1.9k 1.5k 617 540 139 5.9k
Nick Duffield United States 49 6.9k 1.5× 3.0k 1.6× 1.7k 1.1× 947 1.5× 386 0.7× 212 8.7k
Anukool Lakhina United States 19 4.1k 0.9× 2.6k 1.4× 540 0.4× 558 0.9× 237 0.4× 25 4.8k
Henrik Sandberg Sweden 39 3.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 2.8k 1.9× 689 1.1× 135 0.3× 258 8.5k
Nina Taft United States 33 2.3k 0.5× 1.9k 1.0× 782 0.5× 230 0.4× 257 0.5× 83 3.9k
Soummya Kar United States 42 4.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 2.9k 1.9× 399 0.6× 599 1.1× 230 7.2k
Christophe Diot United States 61 12.7k 2.8× 3.5k 1.8× 3.1k 2.1× 841 1.4× 317 0.6× 199 14.2k
Konstantina Papagiannaki United States 39 5.0k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 2.4k 1.6× 142 0.2× 129 0.2× 98 5.9k
David Eppstein United States 43 1.8k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 748 0.5× 293 0.5× 703 1.3× 248 6.5k
Mikkel Thorup United States 42 3.7k 0.8× 2.3k 1.2× 995 0.7× 213 0.3× 97 0.2× 232 6.3k
Kurt Mehlhorn Germany 41 1.5k 0.3× 1.7k 0.9× 628 0.4× 215 0.3× 451 0.8× 273 5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Roughan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Roughan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Roughan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kalenkova, Anna, Lewis Mitchell, & Matthew Roughan. (2025). Performance Analysis: Discovering Semi-Markov Models From Event Logs. IEEE Access. 13. 38035–38053.
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Humphries, Melissa, et al.. (2024). Optimal proposal particle filters for detecting anomalies and manoeuvres from two line element data. Acta Astronautica. 228. 709–723.
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Roughan, Matthew, et al.. (2024). The entropy rate of Linear Additive Markov Processes. PLoS ONE. 19(4). e0295074–e0295074.
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Sisson, Scott A., et al.. (2022). Likelihood-Based Inference for Modelling Packet Transit From Thinned Flow Summaries. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. 8. 571–583.
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Ragnhildstveit, Anya, et al.. (2021). Case Report: Unexpected Remission From Extreme and Enduring Bulimia Nervosa With Repeated Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 764112–764112. 21 indexed citations
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Roughan, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Verifiable Policy-Defined Networking Using Metagraphs. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 19(1). 482–494. 7 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Hung, et al.. (2017). MGtoolkit: A python package for implementing metagraphs. SoftwareX. 6. 91–93. 3 indexed citations
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Roughan, Matthew, et al.. (2016). Case Studies of SCADA Firewall Configurations and the Implications for Best Practices. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 13(4). 871–884. 14 indexed citations
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Bowden, Rhys, Hung Nguyen, Nickolas Falkner, Simon Knight, & Matthew Roughan. (2011). Planarity of data networks. 254–261. 5 indexed citations
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Sommers, Joel, Rhys Bowden, Brian Eriksson, et al.. (2011). Efficient network-wide flow record generation. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 2363–2371. 33 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Hung, et al.. (2011). Generalized graph products for network design and analysis. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 79–88. 14 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Hung & Matthew Roughan. (2010). Rigorous statistical analysis of internet loss measurements. 361–362. 6 indexed citations
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Mühlbauer, Wolfgang, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan, & Steve Uhlig. (2006). Building an AS-topology model that captures route diversity. 195–206. 58 indexed citations
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Roughan, Matthew, Jun Li, Randy Bush, Z. Morley Mao, & Timothy G. Griffin. (2006). Is BGP update storm a sign of trouble: Observing the internet control and data planes during internet worms. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 535–542. 1 indexed citations
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Alderson, David, Hyunseok Chang, Matthew Roughan, Steve Uhlig, & Walter Willinger. (2006). The many facets of internet topology and traffic. Networks and Heterogeneous Media. 1(4). 569–600. 49 indexed citations
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Roughan, Matthew. (2006). Public review for the devil and packet trace anonymization. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 36(1). 27–28. 2 indexed citations
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Doyle, John C., David Alderson, Lun Li, et al.. (2005). The “robust yet fragile” nature of the Internet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(41). 14497–14502. 304 indexed citations
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Zhang⋆, Yin, Zihui Ge, Albert Greenberg, & Matthew Roughan. (2005). Network anomography. 30–30. 152 indexed citations
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Gerber, Alexandre, et al.. (2003). P2P the gorilla in the cable. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 7(9). 937–45. 53 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yin, Matthew Roughan, Carsten Lund, & David L. Donoho. (2003). An information-theoretic approach to traffic matrix estimation. 301–312. 215 indexed citations

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