Rodrigo Fonseca

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Rodrigo Fonseca is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodrigo Fonseca has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 42 papers in Information Systems and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Rodrigo Fonseca's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (35 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (20 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (15 papers). Rodrigo Fonseca is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (35 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (20 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (15 papers). Rodrigo Fonseca collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Rodrigo Fonseca's co-authors include Philip Levis, Omprakash Gnawali, Kyle Jamieson, David Moss, Ion Stoica, Scott Shenker, Andrew D. Ferguson, David Culler, Jonathan Mace and George Porter and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Communications of the ACM and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Rodrigo Fonseca

85 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Collection tree protocol

2009 1.0k citations Omprakash Gnawali, Rodrigo Fonseca et al. profile →
X-trace: a pervasive network tracing framework

2007 318 citations Rodrigo Fonseca, George Porter et al. Networked Systems Design and Implementation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rodrigo Fonseca United States	28	4.1k	1.3k	1.2k	521	288	90	4.5k
Tongquan Wei China	31	1.6k 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	874 0.7×	511 1.0×	260 0.9×	108	3.0k
Vojislav B. Mišić Canada	30	2.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	500 1.0×	216 0.8×	322	3.7k
Stein Gjessing Norway	33	2.5k 0.6×	695 0.5×	3.1k 2.6×	620 1.2×	120 0.4×	113	4.5k
Sujata Banerjee United States	39	6.4k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.9×	489 0.9×	225 0.8×	157	6.7k
P. Venkata Krishna India	28	2.3k 0.6×	850 0.6×	826 0.7×	489 0.9×	190 0.7×	166	3.0k
Nael Abu‐Ghazaleh United States	35	3.0k 0.7×	566 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.6k 3.0×	281 1.0×	201	4.4k
Peter Bodík United States	23	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	328 0.3×	573 1.1×	871 3.0×	36	3.2k
Saman Zonouz United States	24	955 0.2×	587 0.4×	687 0.6×	643 1.2×	175 0.6×	103	2.5k
Samuel Kounev Germany	30	2.6k 0.6×	2.1k 1.6×	250 0.2×	959 1.8×	158 0.5×	210	3.3k
Ayman Kayssi Lebanon	24	1.6k 0.4×	722 0.5×	728 0.6×	846 1.6×	181 0.6×	223	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Rodrigo Fonseca

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rodrigo Fonseca

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rodrigo Fonseca. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Rodrigo Fonseca. The network helps show where Rodrigo Fonseca may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rodrigo Fonseca

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rodrigo Fonseca. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rodrigo Fonseca 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 Rodrigo Fonseca. Rodrigo Fonseca is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zhang, Jue, C. Bansal, Eli Cortez, et al.. (2025). Workload Intelligence: Workload-Aware IaaS abstraction for Cloud Efficiency. 2203–2215.

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Goiri, Íñigo, et al.. (2025). TAPAS: Thermal- and Power-Aware Scheduling for LLM Inference in Cloud Platforms. 1266–1281. 3 indexed citations

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Bansal, Chetan, et al.. (2024). Exploring LLM-Based Agents for Root Cause Analysis. 208–219. 20 indexed citations

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Berger, Daniel S., Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Chaojie Zhang, et al.. (2024). Designing Cloud Servers for Lower Carbon. 452–470. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuchao, et al.. (2024). LM-PACE: Confidence Estimation by Large Language Models for Effective Root Causing of Cloud Incidents. 388–398. 3 indexed citations

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Shahrad, Mohammad, Rodrigo Fonseca, Íñigo Goiri, et al.. (2020). Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider. arXiv (Cornell University). 205–218. 12 indexed citations

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Rasley, Jeff, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan, Olatunji Ruwase, & Rodrigo Fonseca. (2017). HyperDrive. 1–13. 22 indexed citations

8.

Mace, Jonathan, et al.. (2016). Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 41. 16 indexed citations

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Mace, Jonathan, Peter Bodík, Rodrigo Fonseca, & Madanlal Musuvathi. (2014). Towards General-Purpose Resource Management in Shared Cloud. 8–8. 2 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, et al.. (2013). Application modes. 1–6. 16 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Andrew D., Arjun Guha, Liang Chen, Rodrigo Fonseca, & Shriram Krishnamurthi. (2012). Hierarchical policies for software defined networks. 37–42. 55 indexed citations

12.

Fonseca, Rodrigo, Michael J. Freedman, & George Porter. (2010). Experiences with tracing causality in networked services. 10–10. 20 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, et al.. (2010). Network-wide energy profiling of CTP. 439–440. 2 indexed citations

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Cooper, Brian F., Rodrigo Fonseca, James J. Kistler, et al.. (2009). Challenges, Techniques and Directions in Building XSeek: an XML Search Engine.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 32. 36–43. 31 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, George Porter, Randy H. Katz, Scott Shenker, & Ion Stoica. (2007). X-trace: a pervasive network tracing framework. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 20–20. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, Omprakash Gnawali, Kyle Jamieson, & Philip Levis. (2007). Four-Bit Wireless Link Estimation.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 253 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo & Joyojeet Pal. (2006). Computing Devices for All: Creating and Selling the Low-Cost Computer. 3. 11–20. 5 indexed citations

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Culler, David, Prabal Dutta, Cheng Tien Ee, et al.. (2005). Towards a sensor network architecture: lowering the waistline. 24–24. 74 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Jerry Zhao, et al.. (2005). Beacon vector routing: scalable point-to-point routing in wireless sensornets. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 329–342. 219 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rodrigo, Prabal Dutta, Philip Levis, & Ion Stoica. (1961). Quanto: tracking energy in networked embedded systems. Operating Systems Design and Implementation. 24. 323–338. 124 indexed citations

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