Sanjay Rao

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sanjay Rao is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Sanjay Rao has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 19 papers in Information Systems and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Sanjay Rao's work include Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (39 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (38 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (25 papers). Sanjay Rao is often cited by papers focused on Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (39 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (38 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (25 papers). Sanjay Rao collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Sanjay Rao's co-authors include Yang Hua-chu, Hui Zhang, Srinivasan Seshan, Yang Chu, Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Ruben Torres, Xin Sun, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Marco Mellia and Maurizio Matteo Munafò and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Sanjay Rao

90 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

A case for end system multicast

2002 1.0k citations Sanjay Rao et al. profile →
A case for end system multicast (keynote address)

2000 701 citations Sanjay Rao, Hui Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sanjay Rao United States	26	4.2k	918	656	600	382	94	4.5k
Ernst W. Biersack France	36	3.9k 0.9×	388 0.4×	282 0.4×	386 0.6×	684 1.8×	136	4.2k
Steven McCanne United States	29	4.9k 1.2×	868 0.9×	648 1.0×	323 0.5×	1.3k 3.5×	64	5.6k
Frans Kaashoek United States	22	3.7k 0.9×	240 0.3×	220 0.3×	683 1.1×	685 1.8×	31	4.2k
Frank Dabek United States	16	5.1k 1.2×	201 0.2×	306 0.5×	1.0k 1.7×	150 0.4×	16	5.3k
Rocky K. C. Chang Hong Kong	21	1.6k 0.4×	814 0.9×	236 0.4×	156 0.3×	348 0.9×	115	2.2k
Nikita Borisov United States	34	2.2k 0.5×	458 0.5×	560 0.9×	1.2k 2.0×	361 0.9×	87	4.0k
Pedro Casas Austria	25	1.5k 0.4×	857 0.9×	245 0.4×	227 0.4×	303 0.8×	148	2.2k
Antony Rowstron United Kingdom	38	8.4k 2.0×	503 0.5×	684 1.0×	2.0k 3.4×	327 0.9×	96	8.9k
Jibin Zhan United States	12	1.4k 0.3×	866 0.9×	257 0.4×	132 0.2×	355 0.9×	21	1.9k
Ethan Katz-Bassett United States	28	2.4k 0.6×	417 0.5×	102 0.2×	516 0.9×	422 1.1×	89	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sanjay Rao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sanjay Rao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sanjay Rao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sanjay Rao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sanjay Rao 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 Sanjay Rao. Sanjay Rao 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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Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh, et al.. (2024). Transferable Neural WAN TE for Changing Topologies. 86–102. 3 indexed citations

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Qiu, Xiaokang, et al.. (2024). P4CGO: Control Plane Guided P4 Program Optimization. 1–7.

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Govindan, Ramesh, et al.. (2023). Dragonfly: Higher Perceptual Quality For Continuous 360° Video Playback. 516–532. 11 indexed citations

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Rao, Sanjay, et al.. (2020). PCF. 139–153. 12 indexed citations

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Rao, Sanjay, et al.. (2017). Robust Validation of Network Designs under Uncertain Demands and Failures.. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 347–362. 19 indexed citations

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Petri, Gustavo, et al.. (2017). Composing middlebox and traffic engineering policies in SDNs. 396–401. 2 indexed citations

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Chandrasekaran, B., et al.. (2016). Reducing Latency Through Page-aware Management of Web Objects by Content Delivery Networks. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 44(1). 89–100. 8 indexed citations

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Raha, Arnab, Subrata Mitra, Vijay Raghunathan, & Sanjay Rao. (2015). VIDalizer: An energy efficient video streamer. 2233–2238. 1 indexed citations

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Hajjat, Mohammad, et al.. (2012). Dealer. 157–168. 14 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, Ruben Torres, & Sanjay Rao. (2010). Preventing DDoS attacks on internet servers exploiting P2P systems. Computer Networks. 54(15). 2756–2774. 3 indexed citations

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Sung, Yu-Wei Eric, Xin Sun, Sanjay Rao, Geoffrey G. Xie, & David A. Maltz. (2010). Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 19(3). 695–708. 43 indexed citations

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Hajjat, Mohammad, Xin Sun, Yu-Wei Eric Sung, et al.. (2010). Cloudward bound. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 40(4). 243–254. 68 indexed citations

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Sung, Yu-Wei Eric, et al.. (2009). Modeling and understanding end-to-end class of service policies in operational networks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 39(4). 219–230. 5 indexed citations

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Sung, Yu-Wei Eric, et al.. (2009). Modeling and understanding end-to-end class of service policies in operational networks. 219–230. 29 indexed citations

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Enck, William, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, et al.. (2007). Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience. 6. 35 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, Ruben Torres, & Sanjay Rao. (2007). DDoS Attacks by Subverting Membership Management in P2P Systems. 1–6. 16 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiangchuan, Sanjay Rao, Bo Li, & Hui Zhang. (2007). Opportunities and Challenges of Peer-to-Peer Internet Video Broadcast. Proceedings of the IEEE. 96(1). 11–24. 229 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, Ruben Torres, & Sanjay Rao. (2007). Feasibility of DDos Attacks with P2P Systems and Prevention Through Robust Membership Management. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 2 indexed citations

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Rao, Sanjay & Hui Zhang. (2004). Establishing the viability of end system multicast using a systems approach to protocol design. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations

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Rao, Sanjay & S. V. Raghavan. (1999). Fast techniques for the optimal smoothing of stored video. Multimedia Systems. 7(3). 222–233. 15 indexed citations

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