Reaz Ahmed

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Reaz Ahmed is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Reaz Ahmed has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Reaz Ahmed's work include Software-Defined Networks and 5G (30 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (24 papers) and Advanced Optical Network Technologies (16 papers). Reaz Ahmed is often cited by papers focused on Software-Defined Networks and 5G (30 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (24 papers) and Advanced Optical Network Technologies (16 papers). Reaz Ahmed collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Bangladesh. Reaz Ahmed's co-authors include Raouf Boutaba, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Md. Faizul Bari, Nashid Shahriar, Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Bertrand Mathieu, Qi Zhang, Arup Roy and Md Shafiqul Bari and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Reaz Ahmed

47 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Orchestrating Virtualized Network Functions

2016 332 citations Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed et al. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management profile →
PayLess: A low cost network monitoring framework for Software Defined Networks

2014 246 citations Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Md. Faizul Bari et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reaz Ahmed Canada	18	2.2k	929	435	156	71	49	2.2k
Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury Canada	16	1.8k 0.8×	844 0.9×	294 0.7×	166 1.1×	60 0.8×	50	2.0k
Stefano Salsano Italy	25	2.1k 1.0×	957 1.0×	233 0.5×	154 1.0×	114 1.6×	148	2.3k
Amin Tootoonchian United States	9	2.0k 0.9×	639 0.7×	369 0.8×	289 1.9×	61 0.9×	10	2.2k
N. M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury Canada	5	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	488 1.1×	76 0.5×	43 0.6×	8	2.1k
Martin Izzard United States	6	3.0k 1.4×	927 1.0×	539 1.2×	417 2.7×	513 7.2×	18	3.1k
Michael Jarschel Germany	20	1.8k 0.8×	728 0.8×	326 0.7×	122 0.8×	114 1.6×	52	1.9k
Niels Bouten Belgium	13	1.9k 0.9×	791 0.9×	387 0.9×	80 0.5×	79 1.1×	26	2.0k
Tian Pan China	16	860 0.4×	259 0.3×	184 0.4×	112 0.7×	125 1.8×	124	958
Lei Guo China	19	642 0.3×	708 0.8×	249 0.6×	151 1.0×	20 0.3×	79	1.1k
Xenofon Vasilakos United Kingdom	13	1.4k 0.7×	221 0.2×	121 0.3×	85 0.5×	19 0.3×	40	1.5k

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Shahriar, Nashid, Reaz Ahmed, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, et al.. (2019). Virtual Network Embedding With Guaranteed Connectivity Under Multiple Substrate Link Failures. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68(2). 1025–1043. 20 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Shihabur Rahman, Sara Ayoubi, Reaz Ahmed, et al.. (2018). Multi-Layer Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 15(3). 1132–1145. 12 indexed citations

Shahriar, Nashid, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, et al.. (2017). Joint backup capacity allocation and embedding for survivable virtual networks. 1–9. 4 indexed citations

Shahriar, Nashid, Reaz Ahmed, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, et al.. (2017). Generalized Recovery From Node Failure in Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 14(2). 261–274. 38 indexed citations

Bays, Leonardo Richter, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Reaz Ahmed, & Raouf Boutaba. (2016). Virtual network embedding in software-defined networks. 10–18. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Zhihong, Qi Zhang, Reaz Ahmed, et al.. (2016). Dynamic Resource Allocation for MapReduce with Partitioning Skew. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 65(11). 3304–3317. 16 indexed citations

Shahriar, Nashid, Reaz Ahmed, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, et al.. (2016). Connectivity-aware virtual network embedding. 46–54. 13 indexed citations

Bari, Md. Faizul, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, & Raouf Boutaba. (2015). Orchestrating Virtualized Network Functions. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

Amin, Md Tanvir Al, Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Shiguang Wang, et al.. (2015). Social Trove: A Self-Summarizing Storage Service for Social Sensing. 41–50. 14 indexed citations

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Bari, Md. Faizul, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, & Raouf Boutaba. (2015). On orchestrating virtual network functions. 50–56. 209 indexed citations

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Ghaznavi, Milad, Aimal Khan, Nashid Shahriar, et al.. (2015). Elastic virtual network function placement. 255–260. 156 indexed citations

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Bari, Md. Faizul, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Qi Zhang, Reaz Ahmed, & Raouf Boutaba. (2014). CQNCR: Optimal VM migration planning in cloud data centers. 1–9. 49 indexed citations

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Bradai, Abbas, Toufik Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba, & Reaz Ahmed. (2014). Efficient content delivery scheme for layered video streaming in large-scale networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 45. 1–14. 12 indexed citations

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Roy, Arup, Md. Faizul Bari, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Reaz Ahmed, & Raouf Boutaba. (2014). DOT. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 44(4). 367–368. 2 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Reaz & Raouf Boutaba. (2014). Design considerations for managing wide area software defined networks. IEEE Communications Magazine. 52(7). 116–123. 65 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Reaz, Md. Faizul Bari, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, et al.. (2013). αRoute: A name based routing scheme for Information Centric Networks. 90–94. 14 indexed citations

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Bari, Md Shafiqul, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba, & Bertrand Mathieu. (2012). A survey of naming and routing in information-centric networks. IEEE Communications Magazine. 50(12). 44–53. 235 indexed citations

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Shahriar, Nashid, Mahfuza Sharmin, Reaz Ahmed, & Raouf Boutaba. (2011). Diurnal Availability for Peer-to-Peer Systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Bari, Md. Faizul, Md. Rakibul Haque, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba, & Bertrand Mathieu. (2011). Persistent naming for P2P Web hosting. 1101. 270–279. 2 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Reaz, Noura Limam, Jin Xiao, Youssef Iraqi, & Raouf Boutaba. (2007). Resource and service discovery in large-scale multi-domain networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 9(4). 2–30. 20 indexed citations

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