Simon Balon

737 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 496 citations indexed

About

Simon Balon is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Balon has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 496 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Simon Balon's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (12 papers), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (10 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (8 papers). Simon Balon is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (12 papers), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (10 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (8 papers). Simon Balon collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Austria and Italy. Simon Balon's co-authors include Bruno Quoitin, Steve Uhlig, Guy Leduc, Simon Pietro Romano, Ivan Gojmerac, Elio Salvadori, Antonio Pescapè and Jordi Domingo‐Pascual and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Computer Networks and Computer Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon Balon

13 papers receiving 479 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Providing public intradomain traffic matrices to the research community

2006 369 citations Steve Uhlig, Bruno Quoitin et al. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Balon Belgium	7	398	252	91	46	41	13	496
Paul Tune Australia	12	254 0.6×	113 0.4×	115 1.3×	23 0.5×	57 1.4×	27	331
Thomas Telkamp Spain	8	377 0.9×	288 1.1×	47 0.5×	5 0.1×	10 0.2×	9	456
Rene L. Cruz United States	13	533 1.3×	298 1.2×	50 0.5×	9 0.2×	7 0.2×	35	601
Sandrine Vaton France	11	257 0.6×	109 0.4×	116 1.3×	6 0.1×	6 0.1×	35	317
Junzhi Gong United States	9	578 1.5×	68 0.3×	333 3.7×	8 0.2×	13 0.3×	13	659
Dong Xiang China	7	413 1.0×	103 0.4×	60 0.7×	6 0.1×	10 0.2×	8	455
Nikola Milosavljević United States	8	210 0.5×	77 0.3×	116 1.3×	3 0.1×	9 0.2×	10	366
T. Bu United States	8	430 1.1×	300 1.2×	103 1.1×	4 0.1×	9 0.2×	14	511
David Julián United States	9	708 1.8×	832 3.3×	39 0.4×	5 0.1×	12 0.3×	15	972
Supratim Deb United States	14	578 1.5×	390 1.5×	59 0.6×	6 0.1×	9 0.2×	25	702

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Balon

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Balon, Simon & Guy Leduc. (2009). BGP-Aware IGP Link Weight Optimization in Presence of Route Reflectors. 220. 316–324. 4 indexed citations

2.

Balon, Simon & Guy Leduc. (2008). Combined intra- and inter-domain traffic engineering using hot-potato aware link weights optimization. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 36(1). 441–442. 3 indexed citations

3.

Balon, Simon & Guy Leduc. (2008). Combined intra- and inter-domain traffic engineering using hot-potato aware link weights optimization. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 441–442. 18 indexed citations

4.

Balon, Simon, et al.. (2007). Traffic Engineering an Operational Network with the TOTEM Toolbox. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 4(1). 51–61. 16 indexed citations

5.

Balon, Simon & Guy Leduc. (2006). Dividing the Traffic Matrix to Approach Optimal Traffic Engineering. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 26. 1–6. 6 indexed citations

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Balon, Simon, et al.. (2006). A scalable heuristic for hybrid IGP/MPLS traffic engineering - Case study on an operational network. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1–6. 14 indexed citations

7.

Balon, Simon, et al.. (2006). TOTEM: A Toolbox for Traffic Engineering Methods. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 21 indexed citations

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Uhlig, Steve, et al.. (2006). Providing public intradomain traffic matrices to the research community. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 36(1). 83–86. 369 indexed citations breakdown →

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Balon, Simon, et al.. (2006). A scalable and decentralized fast-rerouting scheme with efficient bandwidth sharing. Computer Networks. 50(16). 3043–3063. 9 indexed citations

10.

Balon, Simon, et al.. (2005). Architecture d'une boîte à outils d'algorithmes d'ingénierie de trafic et application au réseau GEANT. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations

11.

Leduc, Guy, Simon Balon, Jordi Domingo‐Pascual, et al.. (2005). An open source traffic engineering toolbox. Computer Communications. 29(5). 593–610. 30 indexed citations

12.

Balon, Simon, et al.. (2005). Comparing traffic engineering objective functions. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 224–224. 4 indexed citations

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Leduc, Guy, Simon Balon, Jordi Domingo‐Pascual, et al.. (2004). An Open Source Trac Engineering Toolbox. 1 indexed citations

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