Philip Branch

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
96 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Philip Branch is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Branch has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 31 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Philip Branch's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (23 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (22 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (19 papers). Philip Branch is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (23 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (22 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (19 papers). Philip Branch collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Iraq and United States. Philip Branch's co-authors include Grenville Armitage, Sebastian Zander, Jonathan Kua, Srikanth Thudumu, Jason But, Jiong Jin, Thuy Nguyen Thi Thu, Mark Claypool, Oscar Nierstrasz and Markus Lumpe and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Surgery, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

In The Last Decade

Philip Branch

89 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

A survey of covert channels and countermeasures in comput... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2020 100 200 300
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. A survey of covert channels and countermeasures in computer network protocols
    2007 369 citations Sebastian Zander, Grenville Armitage et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  2. A comprehensive survey of anomaly detection techniques for high dimensional big data
    2020 237 citations Philip Branch 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
Philip Branch Australia 21 1.4k 1.0k 489 478 367 96 2.1k
Rocky K. C. Chang Hong Kong 21 1.6k 1.2× 857 0.8× 814 1.7× 610 1.3× 348 0.9× 115 2.2k
Antonio Montieri Italy 24 1.7k 1.2× 1.5k 1.4× 258 0.5× 625 1.3× 281 0.8× 51 2.3k
Jinshu Su China 30 1.9k 1.4× 1.3k 1.3× 271 0.6× 373 0.8× 781 2.1× 248 3.1k
Pietro Michiardi France 22 1.6k 1.2× 953 0.9× 164 0.3× 537 1.1× 173 0.5× 110 2.5k
Haibo Hu Hong Kong 28 726 0.5× 1.4k 1.3× 303 0.6× 735 1.5× 290 0.8× 154 2.5k
Vana Kalogeraki Greece 25 2.2k 1.6× 529 0.5× 220 0.4× 324 0.7× 237 0.6× 185 2.8k
Howon Kim South Korea 23 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 305 0.6× 547 1.1× 492 1.3× 175 2.4k
Dan Lin United States 28 772 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 509 1.0× 474 1.0× 324 0.9× 95 2.4k
Song Han Australia 23 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 795 1.6× 211 0.4× 327 0.9× 111 2.3k
Qi Shi United Kingdom 21 2.0k 1.5× 1.4k 1.3× 202 0.4× 767 1.6× 577 1.6× 150 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Philip Branch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philip Branch

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philip Branch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Philip Branch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Philip Branch 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 Philip Branch. Philip Branch 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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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2025). Performance evaluation of low-bitrate voice using spread spectrum techniques for satellite-based emergency communication. Computer Networks. 270. 111560–111560. 1 indexed citations
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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2025). Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later: A Temporal Cybersecurity Risk in the Quantum Transition. Telecom. 6(4). 100–100.
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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2024). Voice Over LoRa™. 526–531.
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Zander, Sebastian, Grenville Armitage, & Philip Branch. (2024). Dynamics of the IP Time To Live field in internet traffic flows. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology).
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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2024). Rapidly Deployable Satellite-Based Emergency Communications Infrastructure. IEEE Access. 12. 139368–139410. 8 indexed citations
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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Blockchain Networks’ Scalability Limitations in Low-Powered Internet of Things (IoT) Sensor Networks. Future Internet. 15(9). 317–317. 8 indexed citations
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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2023). Blockchain health sensor network performance analysis on low powered microcontroller devices. 51. 1–8. 3 indexed citations
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Liaqat, Rao Muzamal, Philip Branch, & Jason But. (2023). A Novel Approach to Collision Avoidance in LoRa Networks. 412–417. 5 indexed citations
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Liaqat, Rao Muzamal, Philip Branch, & Jason But. (2022). LoRa Based Linear Network Applications, Design Considerations and Open Challenges. 913–917. 6 indexed citations
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Kua, Jonathan, Philip Branch, & Grenville Armitage. (2020). Detecting Bottleneck Use of PIE or FQ-CoDel Active Queue Management During DASH-like Content Streaming. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 445–448. 6 indexed citations
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Armitage, Grenville, et al.. (2019). A Survey of Delay-Based and Hybrid TCP Congestion Control Algorithms. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 21(4). 3609–3638. 80 indexed citations
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Kua, Jonathan, et al.. (2017). Using Active Queue Management to Assist IoT Application Flows in Home Broadband Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 4(5). 1399–1407. 38 indexed citations
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Dinh, Trish, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, & Philip Branch. (2013). Exploiting per user information for supercomputing workload prediction requires care. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 2–9. 2 indexed citations
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Branch, Philip, et al.. (2012). The Ex-Gaussian distribution as a model of first-person shooter game traffic. Multimedia Systems. 19(3). 221–229. 3 indexed citations
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Zander, Sebastian, Philip Branch, & Grenville Armitage. (2010). Capacity of Temperature-Based Covert Channels. IEEE Communications Letters. 15(1). 82–84. 15 indexed citations
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Branch, Philip & Sebastian Zander. (2008). Bit-stuffing rate in the high-level data link control (HDLC) protocol. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology).
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Zander, Sebastian, Grenville Armitage, & Philip Branch. (2007). A survey of covert channels and countermeasures in computer network protocols. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 9(3). 44–57. 369 indexed citations breakdown →
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Branch, Philip & Mohammed Atiquzzaman. (1997). ATM Category of service for interactive video-on-demand. 1 indexed citations

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