Sean Rhea

8.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
27 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Sean Rhea is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Rhea has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 2 papers in Information Systems and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sean Rhea's work include Caching and Content Delivery (20 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (17 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (15 papers). Sean Rhea is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (20 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (17 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (15 papers). Sean Rhea collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Sean Rhea's co-authors include John Kubiatowicz, Dennis Geels, Patrick Eaton, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Y. Zhao, Chris Wells, Bi Zhao, David Bindel, Westley Weimer and Steven E. Czerwinski and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review and ACM SIGPLAN Notices.

In The Last Decade

Sean Rhea

27 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

OceanStore 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2004 2000 2004 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sean Rhea United States 20 4.9k 848 637 247 195 27 5.1k
Dennis Geels United States 13 3.3k 0.7× 601 0.7× 454 0.7× 122 0.5× 98 0.5× 16 3.5k
Zhichen Xu United States 20 1.5k 0.3× 571 0.7× 395 0.6× 111 0.4× 270 1.4× 39 2.0k
Hakim Weatherspoon United States 27 4.0k 0.8× 1.4k 1.6× 641 1.0× 102 0.4× 117 0.6× 84 4.4k
Andy Bavier United States 21 3.0k 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 410 0.6× 128 0.5× 165 0.8× 45 3.3k
Steven E. Czerwinski United States 8 2.6k 0.5× 607 0.7× 382 0.6× 148 0.6× 70 0.4× 10 2.8k
Rodrigo Rodrigues Germany 26 2.1k 0.4× 1.3k 1.6× 805 1.3× 98 0.4× 177 0.9× 73 2.7k
Mike Dahlin United States 31 2.9k 0.6× 1.2k 1.5× 607 1.0× 68 0.3× 118 0.6× 69 3.1k
Chunqiang Tang United States 24 1.8k 0.4× 1.0k 1.2× 340 0.5× 51 0.2× 219 1.1× 78 2.1k
Allen Clement United States 19 1.6k 0.3× 868 1.0× 495 0.8× 88 0.4× 76 0.4× 31 1.8k
Vivek S. Pai United States 25 2.9k 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 436 0.7× 56 0.2× 130 0.7× 52 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Rhea

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Rhea

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Rhea

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Rhea, Sean, et al.. (2008). Fast, inexpensive content-addressed storage in foundation. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 143–156. 74 indexed citations
2.
Ford, Bryan, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, et al.. (2006). Persistent personal names for globally connected mobile devices. Operating Systems Design and Implementation. 233–248. 65 indexed citations
3.
Ford, Bryan, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, et al.. (2006). User-Relative Names for Globally Connected Personal Devices. ArXiv.org. 7 indexed citations
4.
Rhea, Sean, Brighten Godfrey, Brad Karp, et al.. (2005). OpenDHT. 73–84. 309 indexed citations
5.
Rhea, Sean, Brighten Godfrey, Brad Karp, et al.. (2005). OpenDHT. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 35(4). 73–84. 67 indexed citations
6.
Kubiatowicz, John & Sean Rhea. (2005). Opendht: a public dht service. 15 indexed citations
7.
Freedman, Michael J., Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sean Rhea, & Ion Stoica. (2005). Non-transitive connectivity and DHTs. 55–60. 60 indexed citations
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Condie, Tyson, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Petros Maniatis, Sean Rhea, & Timothy Roscoe. (2005). A need for componentized transport protocols. 1–10. 3 indexed citations
9.
Rhea, Sean, Byung-Gon Chun, John Kubiatowicz, & Scott Shenker. (2005). Fixing the embarrassing slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab. 25–30. 50 indexed citations
10.
Rhea, Sean, Dennis Geels, Timothy Roscoe, & John Kubiatowicz. (2004). Handling Churn in a DHT (Awarded Best Paper. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 127–140. 30 indexed citations
11.
Rhea, Sean, Dennis Geels, Timothy Roscoe, & John Kubiatowicz. (2004). Handling churn in a DHT. UC Berkeley. 10–10. 551 indexed citations breakdown →
12.
Zhao, Bi, Ling Huang, Jeremy Stribling, et al.. (2004). Tapestry: A Resilient Global-Scale Overlay for Service Deployment. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 22(1). 41–53. 991 indexed citations breakdown →
13.
Rhea, Sean, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, et al.. (2003). Pond: the oceanstore prototype. File and Storage Technologies. 1–1. 274 indexed citations
14.
Rhea, Sean, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, et al.. (2003). Awarded Best Student Paper! - Pond: The OceanStore Prototype. File and Storage Technologies. 1–14. 70 indexed citations
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Rhea, Sean, et al.. (2003). Value-based web caching. 619–619. 72 indexed citations
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Rhea, Sean & John Kubiatowicz. (2003). Probabilistic location and routing. 3. 1248–1257. 181 indexed citations
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Rhea, Sean, et al.. (2003). Value-based web caching. 9 indexed citations
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Kubiatowicz, John, David Bindel, Yan Chen, et al.. (2000). OceanStore. 190–201. 677 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kubiatowicz, John, David Bindel, Yan Chen, et al.. (2000). OceanStore. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 35(11). 190–201. 1307 indexed citations breakdown →
20.
Kubiatowicz, John, David Bindel, Yan Chen, et al.. (2000). OceanStore. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 34(5). 190–201. 31 indexed citations

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