Nathan Farrington

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Nathan Farrington is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Farrington has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 15 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 9 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Nathan Farrington's work include Advanced Optical Network Technologies (11 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (10 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (9 papers). Nathan Farrington is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Optical Network Technologies (11 papers), Software-Defined Networks and 5G (10 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (9 papers). Nathan Farrington collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Nathan Farrington's co-authors include Amin Vahdat, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, George Porter, George C. Papen, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Andreas Pamboris, Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz, Alex Forencich and Hoa G. Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and IEEE Micro.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Farrington

27 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

PortLand

2009 732 citations Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Nathan Farrington et al. profile →
Helios

2010 687 citations Nathan Farrington, George Porter et al. profile →
PortLand

2009 309 citations Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Nathan Farrington et al. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Farrington United States	19	2.3k	1.6k	1.4k	174	151	27	3.1k
P. Castoldi Italy	35	2.9k 1.2×	400 0.3×	5.2k 3.6×	431 2.5×	81 0.5×	528	6.3k
Eduardo Cuervo United States	12	1.9k 0.8×	868 0.5×	850 0.6×	105 0.6×	28 0.2×	23	2.4k
Juan Felipe Botero Colombia	19	2.7k 1.2×	595 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	225 1.3×	135 0.9×	83	2.9k
Lin Xiao China	23	1.6k 0.7×	539 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	86 0.5×	86 0.6×	98	2.4k
Huaxi Gu China	23	1.2k 0.5×	286 0.2×	1.4k 1.0×	422 2.4×	43 0.3×	229	2.3k
Ayse K. Coskun United States	31	1.5k 0.7×	674 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	243 1.4×	77 0.5×	180	3.1k
Xianfu Chen Finland	19	1.2k 0.5×	244 0.2×	809 0.6×	301 1.7×	79 0.5×	33	1.7k
Victor Wen United States	4	3.1k 1.3×	299 0.2×	317 0.2×	563 3.2×	79 0.5×	6	3.3k
Ren Wang United States	19	1.4k 0.6×	116 0.1×	880 0.6×	158 0.9×	41 0.3×	80	1.8k
David Powell France	21	921 0.4×	177 0.1×	567 0.4×	267 1.5×	158 1.0×	71	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Farrington

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan Farrington

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Farrington

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathan Farrington. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathan Farrington 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 Nathan Farrington. Nathan Farrington 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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Minkenberg, Cyriel, Nathan Farrington, Aaron Zilkie, et al.. (2018). Reimagining Datacenter Topologies With Integrated Silicon Photonics. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 10(7). B126–B126. 43 indexed citations

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Jin, Xin, Nathan Farrington, & Jennifer Rexford. (2016). Your Data Center Switch is Trying Too Hard. 1–6. 24 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, et al.. (2013). Facebook's data center network architecture. 49–50. 109 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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Farrington, Nathan, Alex Forencich, George Porter, et al.. (2013). A Multiport Microsecond Optical Circuit Switch for Data Center Networking. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 25(16). 1589–1592. 51 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, George Porter, Alex Forencich, et al.. (2013). Optical/Electrical Hybrid Switching for Datacenter Communications. MT2_1–MT2_1. 1 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, et al.. (2012). A demonstration of ultra-low-latency data center optical circuit switching. 95–96. 8 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, et al.. (2012). A demonstration of ultra-low-latency data center optical circuit switching. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 42(4). 95–96. 9 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, George Porter, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George C. Papen, & Amin Vahdat. (2012). Hunting mice with microsecond circuit switches. 115–120. 27 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Hong Liu, George C. Papen, & Amin Vahdat. (2011). Hardware Requirements for Optical Circuit Switched Data Center Networks. OTuH3–OTuH3. 13 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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Farrington, Nathan, George Porter, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2010). Helios. 339–350. 687 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vahdat, Amin, Mohammad Al-Fares, Nathan Farrington, et al.. (2010). Scale-Out Networking in the Data Center. IEEE Micro. 30(4). 29–41. 93 indexed citations

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Farrington, Nathan, et al.. (2009). Data Center Switch Architecture in the Age of Merchant Silicon. 93–102. 77 indexed citations

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Everett, H. R., Nathan Farrington, Tim Kramer, et al.. (2005). Transitioning unmanned ground vehicle research technologies. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5804. 521–521. 9 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Hoa G., et al.. (2004). Maintaining Communication Link for Tactical Ground Robots. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 20 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Hoa G., et al.. (2004). Segway robotic mobility platform. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5609. 207–207. 160 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Hoa G., et al.. (2004). A Segway RMP-based robotic transport system. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5609. 244–244. 20 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Hoa G., et al.. (2004). Maintaining Communication Link for a Robot Operating in a Hazardous Environment. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 40 indexed citations

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Everett, H. R., et al.. (2004). Toward a warfighter’s associate: eliminating the operator control unit. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5609. 267–267. 11 indexed citations

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