Ramesh K. Sitaraman

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
151 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Ramesh K. Sitaraman is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramesh K. Sitaraman has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 36 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Ramesh K. Sitaraman's work include Caching and Content Delivery (63 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (41 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (26 papers). Ramesh K. Sitaraman is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (63 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (41 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (26 papers). Ramesh K. Sitaraman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and India. Ramesh K. Sitaraman's co-authors include Bruce M. Maggs, Srinivas Krishnan, Kevin Spiteri, Erik Nygren, Jennifer K. Sun, Rahul Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, John Dilley, Jagdish Parikh and James Allan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cancer Research and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Ramesh K. Sitaraman

139 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Akamai network 2002 2026 2010 2018 2010 2002 2016 2013 100 200 300 400
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 Akamai network
    2010 485 citations Ramesh K. Sitaraman et al. profile →
  2. Globally distributed content delivery
    2002 469 citations Bruce M. Maggs, Jagdish Parikh et al. IEEE Internet Computing profile →
  3. BOLA: Near-optimal bitrate adaptation for online videos
    2016 387 citations Kevin Spiteri, Ramesh K. Sitaraman et al. profile →
  4. Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs
    2013 276 citations Ramesh K. Sitaraman et al. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ramesh K. Sitaraman United States 34 3.6k 1.4k 1.0k 700 678 151 4.8k
Sharad Agarwal United States 24 3.0k 0.8× 780 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 814 1.2× 228 0.3× 59 4.0k
Phuoc Tran‐Gia Germany 33 3.3k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 405 0.4× 1.6k 2.3× 778 1.1× 183 5.1k
Bruce M. Maggs United States 38 5.2k 1.4× 708 0.5× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 307 0.5× 143 6.4k
Carey Williamson Canada 32 4.2k 1.2× 483 0.4× 962 0.9× 949 1.4× 329 0.5× 200 5.0k
Joel L. Wolf United States 33 2.6k 0.7× 734 0.5× 1.3k 1.3× 262 0.4× 603 0.9× 85 4.1k
Anne-Marie Kermarrec France 34 7.5k 2.1× 694 0.5× 1.3k 1.2× 525 0.8× 405 0.6× 157 8.3k
Maarten van Steen Netherlands 36 4.7k 1.3× 413 0.3× 1.8k 1.7× 399 0.6× 549 0.8× 224 5.8k
Wolfgang Kellerer Germany 42 5.1k 1.4× 781 0.6× 680 0.7× 3.2k 4.6× 470 0.7× 456 6.5k
Junzhou Luo China 27 2.0k 0.5× 332 0.2× 1.4k 1.3× 532 0.8× 505 0.7× 350 3.4k
Chin‐Laung Lei Taiwan 30 1.3k 0.4× 908 0.7× 663 0.7× 276 0.4× 259 0.4× 149 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ramesh K. Sitaraman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ramesh K. Sitaraman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ramesh K. Sitaraman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Irwin, David, Prashant Shenoy, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, et al.. (2025). A Vision for Computational Decarbonization of Societal Infrastructure. IEEE Internet Computing. 29(2). 27–35. 1 indexed citations
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Hajiesmaili, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). BOLA360 : Near-optimal View and Bitrate Adaptation for 360-degree Video Streaming. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 22(3). 1–30.
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Hajiesmaili, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). SODA: An Adaptive Bitrate Controller for Consistent High-Quality Video Streaming. 613–644. 2 indexed citations
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Sitaraman, Ramesh K., et al.. (2024). Automated Assessment of Sarcopenia with Hounsfield Unit Average Calculation in Computed Tomography Scans Using Deep Learning Techniques. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 27–34. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Bo, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Jacob Chakareski, et al.. (2024). Scene Graph Driven Hybrid Interactive VR Teleconferencing. 11276–11278.
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Pfaff, Ben, et al.. (2023). Bringing Carbon Awareness to Multi-cloud Application Delivery. 1–6. 7 indexed citations
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Akella, Aditya, et al.. (2023). Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN Caching. 981–999. 3 indexed citations
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Sitaraman, Ramesh K., et al.. (2020). Midgress-aware traffic provisioning for content delivery. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 543–557. 7 indexed citations
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Spiteri, Kevin, et al.. (2019). From Theory to Practice. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 15(2s). 1–29. 80 indexed citations
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Ghaderi, Javad, et al.. (2018). Adaptive TTL-Based Caching for Content Delivery. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 26(3). 1063–1077. 18 indexed citations
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Berger, Daniel S., Ramesh K. Sitaraman, & Mor Harchol‐Balter. (2017). Adaptsize: orchestrating the hot object memory cache in a content delivery network. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 483–498. 86 indexed citations
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Chandra, Abhishek, et al.. (2015). Towards Optimizing Wide-Area Streaming Analytics. 452–457. 5 indexed citations
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Sitaraman, Ramesh K., et al.. (2013). Energy-efficient content delivery networks using cluster shutdown. 1–10. 9 indexed citations
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Barker, Sean, Timothy Wood, Prashant Shenoy, & Ramesh K. Sitaraman. (2012). An empirical study of memory sharing in virtual machines. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 25–25. 46 indexed citations
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Carterette, Ben, James Allan, & Ramesh K. Sitaraman. (2006). Minimal test collections for retrieval evaluation. 268–275. 165 indexed citations
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Maggs, Bruce M., et al.. (2002). Globally distribued content delivery. IEEE Internet Computing. 6(5). 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Richard, Bruce M. Maggs, & Ramesh K. Sitaraman. (2001). On the Benefit of Supporting Virtual Channels in Wormhole Routers. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 62(1). 152–177. 6 indexed citations
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Sitaraman, Ramesh K., et al.. (1995). Parallel Optimization of Motion Controllers via Policy Iteration. Neural Information Processing Systems. 8. 996–1002. 1 indexed citations

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