Ram Ramanathan

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
75 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Ram Ramanathan is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ram Ramanathan has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ram Ramanathan's work include Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (57 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (30 papers) and Wireless Networks and Protocols (25 papers). Ram Ramanathan is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (57 papers), Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (30 papers) and Wireless Networks and Protocols (25 papers). Ram Ramanathan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Italy. Ram Ramanathan's co-authors include Jason Redi, Nitin H. Vaidya, Romit Roy Choudhury, César A. Santiváñez, Martha Steenstrup, Xue Yang, Stephen Polit, Ioannis Stavrakakis, David Wiggins and Prithwish Basu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

In The Last Decade

Ram Ramanathan

72 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Topology control of multihop wireless networks using transmit power adjustment

2002 1.1k citations Ram Ramanathan et al. profile →
Using directional antennas for medium access control in ad hoc networks

2002 519 citations Ram Ramanathan et al. profile →
Ad hoc networking with directional antennas: a complete system solution

2005 340 citations Ram Ramanathan, David Wiggins et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ram Ramanathan United States	27	4.6k	1.6k	635	85	78	75	5.0k
Douglas S. J. De Couto United States	6	6.6k 1.5×	2.2k 1.3×	173 0.3×	67 0.8×	67 0.9×	6	6.8k
Laurent Viennot France	18	3.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	129 0.2×	21 0.2×	103 1.3×	52	3.9k
Suresh Singh United States	27	5.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.8×	163 0.3×	97 1.1×	244 3.1×	94	6.0k
Gunther Auer Germany	25	2.5k 0.6×	3.3k 2.0×	187 0.3×	99 1.2×	72 0.9×	137	3.7k
Jeff Boleng United States	10	3.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	198 0.3×	53 0.6×	117 1.5×	22	3.8k
Alexander M. Wyglinski United States	30	2.0k 0.4×	2.2k 1.3×	391 0.6×	58 0.7×	206 2.6×	178	2.9k
E.M. Royer United States	12	12.8k 2.8×	4.8k 3.0×	343 0.5×	102 1.2×	183 2.3×	12	13.1k
Radha Krishna Ganti India	23	3.9k 0.9×	5.1k 3.2×	598 0.9×	106 1.2×	84 1.1×	99	5.7k
Krishna M. Sivalingam India	28	3.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.7×	88 0.1×	107 1.3×	148 1.9×	225	4.4k
Hamid Aghvami United Kingdom	25	2.8k 0.6×	2.8k 1.7×	230 0.4×	89 1.0×	91 1.2×	166	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ram Ramanathan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ram Ramanathan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Ramanathan, Ram, et al.. (2021). ECHO: Efficient Zero-Control-Packet Broadcasting for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 21(9). 3163–3175. 14 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, Samuel C. Nelson, Michael Atighetchi, et al.. (2019). Mission-Centric Content Sharing Across Heterogeneous Networks. 1034–1038. 2 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, et al.. (2019). VINE: Zero-Control-Packet Routing for Ultra-Low-Capacity Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 521–526. 3 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, et al.. (2018). ECHO: Efficient Zero-Control Network-Wide Broadcast for Mobile Multi-Hop Wireless Networks. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, et al.. (2016). Scalability and satisfiability of quality-of-information in wireless networks. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Johnson, Matthew P., et al.. (2016). Minimum-Cost Network-Wide Broadcast over Reliable MAC-Layer Multicast. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 16(12). 3390–3402. 2 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, et al.. (2014). Structure and evolution of missed collaborations in large networks. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 51. 849–854.

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Zhao, Qing, et al.. (2014). Dynamic Shortest Path Algorithms for Hypergraphs. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 23(6). 1805–1817. 30 indexed citations

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Urgaonkar, Rahul, et al.. (2013). Scalability analysis of grid-based multi-hop wireless networks. 53. 1–10. 2 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, Abhishek Samanta, & Tom La Porta. (2012). Symptotics. 31–38. 10 indexed citations

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Krishnan, Rajesh, et al.. (2011). Disconnection-resilient IP link-state routing for airborne networks. 1991–1996. 2 indexed citations

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Kranakis, Evangelos, Jennifer C. Hou, & Ram Ramanathan. (2007). Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking. 25 indexed citations

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Krishnan, Rajesh, Prithwish Basu, Christopher Small, et al.. (2007). The SPINDLE Disruption-Tolerant Networking System. 1–7. 51 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram. (2005). Challenges. 132–139. 83 indexed citations

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Lloyd, Errol L., Rui Liu, Madhav Marathe, Ram Ramanathan, & S. S. Ravi. (2002). Algorithmic aspects of topology control problems for ad hoc networks. 11 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram, et al.. (2002). A location management protocol for hierarchically organized multihop mobile wireless networks. 158–162. 26 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram. (2001). On the performance of ad hoc networks with beamforming antennas. 95–95. 119 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram. (1997). A Unified Framework and Algorithm for (T/F/C)DMA Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks. 4 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram. (1997). A Unified Framework and Algorithm for Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks. 12 indexed citations

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Ramanathan, Ram. (1996). An Algorithm for Multicast Tree Generation in Networks with Asymmetric Links.. 337–344. 1 indexed citations

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