Steven McCanne

8.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
64 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Steven McCanne is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Sociology and Political Science and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven McCanne has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Steven McCanne's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (34 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (22 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (16 papers). Steven McCanne is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (34 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (22 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (16 papers). Steven McCanne collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Steven McCanne's co-authors include Van Jacobson, Martin Vetterli, Sally Floyd, Elan Amir, Cheng Liu, Liang Zhang, Randy H. Katz, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Deborah Estrin and Haobo Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM Computing Surveys and Computer.

In The Last Decade

Steven McCanne

60 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Receiver-driven layered multicast 1993 2026 2004 2015 1996 1997 1993 2000 250 500 750
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.

  1. Receiver-driven layered multicast
    1996 827 citations Steven McCanne, Van Jacobson et al. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) profile →
  2. A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing
    1997 785 citations Sally Floyd, Van Jacobson et al. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking profile →
  3. The BSD packet filter: a new architecture for user-level packet capture
    1993 627 citations Steven McCanne, Van Jacobson profile →
  4. Advances in network simulation
    2000 566 citations Deborah Estrin, Sally Floyd et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steven McCanne United States 29 4.9k 1.3k 868 786 648 64 5.6k
Ernst W. Biersack France 36 3.9k 0.8× 684 0.5× 388 0.4× 452 0.6× 282 0.4× 136 4.2k
Subhabrata Sen United States 40 6.3k 1.3× 2.3k 1.7× 1.1k 1.3× 923 1.2× 388 0.6× 124 7.2k
Harrick M. Vin United States 31 3.8k 0.8× 739 0.6× 395 0.5× 348 0.4× 730 1.1× 143 4.2k
David L. Tennenhouse United States 22 2.9k 0.6× 642 0.5× 348 0.4× 210 0.3× 284 0.4× 47 3.4k
Frans Kaashoek United States 22 3.7k 0.8× 685 0.5× 240 0.3× 414 0.5× 220 0.3× 31 4.2k
Virgil D. Gligor United States 31 5.9k 1.2× 971 0.7× 402 0.5× 943 1.2× 426 0.7× 120 7.5k
Tzi‐cker Chiueh United States 32 4.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 314 0.4× 1.0k 1.3× 132 0.2× 252 5.6k
Luigi Rizzo Italy 26 3.4k 0.7× 982 0.7× 379 0.4× 255 0.3× 127 0.2× 77 3.7k
Sanjay Rao United States 26 4.2k 0.9× 382 0.3× 918 1.1× 359 0.5× 656 1.0× 94 4.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven McCanne

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven McCanne

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven McCanne. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven McCanne 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 Steven McCanne. Steven McCanne 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
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Cheung, Gene & Steven McCanne. (2003). A framework for computation-memory algorithmic optimization for signal processing. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 5(2). 174–185.
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Amir, E., Steven McCanne, & Martin Vetterli. (2002). A layered DCT coder for Internet video. 1. 13–16. 19 indexed citations
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Podolsky, Matthew, Martin Vetterli, & Steven McCanne. (2002). Limited retransmission of real-time layered multimedia. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 591–596. 17 indexed citations
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Chawathe, Yatin, et al.. (2000). An Architecture for Internet Content Distribution as an Infrastructure Service. 31 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven, et al.. (2000). A reliable multicast webcast protocol for multimedia collaboration and caching. 21–30. 3 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven, et al.. (2000). The breadcrumb forwarding service. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 30(2). 41–49. 15 indexed citations
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Estrin, Deborah, et al.. (1999). Network Visualization with the VINT Network Animator Nam. 23 indexed citations
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Cheung, Gene & Steven McCanne. (1999). Optimal routing table design for IP address lookups under memory constraints. 1437–1444 vol.3. 54 indexed citations
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Ratnasamy, Sylvia & Steven McCanne. (1999). Inference of multicast routing trees and bottleneck bandwidths using end-to-end measurements. 353–360 vol.1. 119 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven, Randy H. Katz, Elan Amir, et al.. (1999). MASH. ACM Computing Surveys. 31(2es). 2–2. 1 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven. (1999). Scalable multimedia communication using IP Multicast and lightweight sessions. IEEE Internet Computing. 3(2). 33–45. 23 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven, et al.. (1998). Asymptotic behavior of global recovery in SRM. 90–99. 6 indexed citations
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Gupta, Rajarshi, Mike Y. Chen, Steven McCanne, & Jean Walrand. (1998). WebTP: A Receiver-Driven Web Transport Protocol. 12 indexed citations
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Chawathe, Yatin, et al.. (1998). A proxy architecture for reliable multicast in heterogeneous environments. 151–159. 37 indexed citations
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Floyd, Sally, Van Jacobson, Cheng Liu, Steven McCanne, & Liang Zhang. (1997). A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 5(6). 784–803. 785 indexed citations breakdown →
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Amir, Elan, Steven McCanne, & Randy H. Katz. (1997). Receiver-driven bandwidth adaptation for light-weight sessions. 415–426. 66 indexed citations
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Amir, Elan, Steven McCanne, & Hui Zhang. (1995). An application level video gateway. 255–265. 172 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven & Van Jacobson. (1995). vic. 511–522. 334 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven & Martin Vetterli. (1995). JOINT SOURCE/CHANNEL CODING FOR MUL'TICAST PACKET VIDEO. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1 indexed citations
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McCanne, Steven, et al.. (1993). A Randomized Sampling Clock for CPU Utilization Estimation and Code Profiling.. 387–394. 15 indexed citations

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