Philippe Nain

4.2k citations

113 papers · 2.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Computer Networks and Communications top 0.5%
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
- Caching and Content Delivery
- Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
- Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
Management Information Systems top 1%
- Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis

Papers in

Management Information Systems 40
- Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis 40
Computer Networks and Communications 79
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 23
- Caching and Content Delivery 17
- Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks 17
- Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies 16
- Cooperative Communication and Network Coding 16
- Network Traffic and Congestion Control 15

Co-authors: Don Towsley Robin Groenevelt Ger Koole Benyuan Liu Eitan Altman Ahmad Al Hanbali Peter Braß Olivier Dousse
Journals: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (15 papers)Performance Evaluation (13 papers)Queueing Systems (9 papers)IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (5 papers)Journal of Applied Probability (5 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Philippe Nain

110 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Mobility improves coverage of sensor networks 2005 · 401 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 Mobility improves coverage of sensor networks
2005 Performance Evaluation

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1	Fundamental Scaling Laws of Covert DDoS Attacks ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ·Amir Reza Ramtin, Philippe Nain, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Don Towsley, Edmundo de Souza e Silva	2022	0
2	On the Analysis of a Multipartite Entanglement Distribution Switch ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ·Philippe Nain, Gayane Vardoyan, Saikat Guha, Don Towsley	2020	4
3	File Dissemination in Dynamic Graphs HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	2016	2
4	Impact of mobility on the performance of relaying in ad hoc networks – Extended version Computer Networks ·Ahmad Al Hanbali, Arzad A. Kherani, Robin Groenevelt, Philippe Nain, Eitan Altman	2007	8
5	Stochastic fluid models for cache clusters Performance Evaluation ·Paul Israel Cornejo, Philippe Nain, Keith W. Ross	2005	7
6	Properties of random direction models Philippe Nain, Don Towsley, Benyuan Liu, Zhen Liu	2005	247
7	Stochastic scheduling in a multiclass G/G/1 queue Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	2005	3
8	Estimating membership in a multicast session ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ·Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat, Philippe Nain	2003	3
9	Exponential bounds for a class of stochastic processes with application to call admission control in networks Catherine Ruth Schetina, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	2002	4
10	On achievable service differentiation with token bucket marking for TCP Sambit Sahu, Philippe Nain, Christophe Diot, Victor Firoiu, Don Towsley	2000	87
11	Asymptotic behavior of a multiplexer fed by a long-range dependent process Journal of Applied Probability ·Zhen Liu, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley, Zhili Zhang	1999	4
12	Asymptotic behavior of a multiplexer fed by a long-range dependent process Journal of Applied Probability ·Zhen Liu, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley, Zhi-Li Zhang	1999	41
13	Exponential bounds with applications to call admission Journal of the ACM ·Zhen Liu, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	1997	25
14	Optimal control of admission to a multiserver queue with two arrival streams IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control ·J.P.C. Blanc, Peter R. de Waal, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	1992	23
15	Sensitivity results in open, closed and mixed product form queueing networks Performance Evaluation ·Zhen Liu, Philippe Nain	1991	7
16	A New Device for the Synthesis Problem of Optimal Control of Admission to an M/M/c Queue Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands ·J.P.C. Blanc, Peter R. de Waal, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	1990	2
17	Properties of the ML(n) policy for scheduling jobs with real-time constraints Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	1990	1
18	Comparison of Hybrid Minimum Laxity/First-in-First-Out Scheduling Policies Philippe Nain, Don Towsley	1990	1
19	Qualitative properties of the Erlang blocking model with heterogeneous user requirements Queueing Systems ·Philippe Nain	1990	22
20	Interchange arguments for classical scheduling problems in queues Systems & Control Letters ·Philippe Nain	1989	40

About Philippe Nain

Philippe Nain is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mathematical Physics, having authored 113 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (40 papers), Advanced Wireless Network Optimization (30 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (23 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (17 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (17 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (16 papers), Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (16 papers) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Networks and Communications (2.3k citations), Management Information Systems (504 citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (850 citations), Transportation (97 citations) and Management Science and Operations Research (161 citations). Philippe Nain has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Don Towsley, Robin Groenevelt, Ger Koole, Benyuan Liu, Eitan Altman, Ahmad Al Hanbali, Peter Braß, Olivier Dousse, Zhen Liu and Zhen Liu. Their work appears in journals such as ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Performance Evaluation, Queueing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Journal of Applied Probability.

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