Theophilus Benson

7.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
83 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Theophilus Benson is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Theophilus Benson has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 37 papers in Information Systems and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Theophilus Benson's work include Software-Defined Networks and 5G (46 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (27 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (24 papers). Theophilus Benson is often cited by papers focused on Software-Defined Networks and 5G (46 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (27 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (24 papers). Theophilus Benson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Theophilus Benson's co-authors include Aditya Akella, David A. Maltz, Ashok Anand, Ming Zhang, Ming Zhang, B. Chandrasekaran, Jennifer Rexford, Anees Shaikh, Sambit Sahu and Nick Feamster and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review and IEEE Internet Computing.

In The Last Decade

Theophilus Benson

80 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Network traffic characteristics of data centers in the wild 2009 2026 2014 2020 2010 2011 2010 2009 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Theophilus Benson United States 26 4.3k 2.2k 1.2k 591 338 83 4.7k
Paolo Costa United Kingdom 31 3.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 775 0.6× 446 0.8× 254 0.8× 108 3.7k
Xiaofei Liao China 25 2.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 656 0.5× 611 1.0× 645 1.9× 314 3.6k
Mingwei Xu China 25 2.2k 0.5× 690 0.3× 653 0.5× 537 0.9× 184 0.5× 255 2.6k
Hari Balakrishnan United States 19 1.7k 0.4× 980 0.5× 689 0.6× 305 0.5× 171 0.5× 36 2.3k
Chen Qian United States 29 1.5k 0.3× 528 0.2× 1.0k 0.8× 651 1.1× 166 0.5× 173 2.7k
Robert Ricci United States 21 2.8k 0.6× 875 0.4× 531 0.4× 450 0.8× 374 1.1× 70 3.1k
Martin S. Beck Singapore 3 1.8k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 298 0.2× 898 1.5× 647 1.9× 8 2.7k
Diego Kreutz Brazil 9 3.9k 0.9× 568 0.3× 1.2k 1.0× 725 1.2× 113 0.3× 65 4.1k
Mary Baker United States 24 4.4k 1.0× 508 0.2× 1.5k 1.2× 582 1.0× 101 0.3× 84 4.9k
Rashid Mijumbi Spain 19 2.9k 0.7× 645 0.3× 1.3k 1.1× 289 0.5× 115 0.3× 32 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Theophilus Benson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Theophilus Benson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Theophilus Benson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Theophilus Benson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Theophilus Benson 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 Theophilus Benson. Theophilus Benson 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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Satapathy, Utkalika, et al.. (2025). BeeGuard: Explainability-based Policy Enforcement of eBPF Codes for Cloud-native Environments. 757–765. 1 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2024). Towards Measuring Content Locality. 88–90.
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2024). An Empirical Study on the Challenges of eBPF Application Development. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2024). NetEdit: An Orchestration Platform for eBPF Network Functions at Scale. 721–734. 4 indexed citations
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Schaeffer-Filho, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Foxhound: Server-Grade Observability for Network-Augmented Applications. 18–32.
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2022). KubeKlone: A Digital Twin for Simulating Edge and Cloud Microservices. 29–35. 7 indexed citations
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Kassler, Andreas, et al.. (2021). Providing In-network Support to Coflow Scheduling. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zhenyu, Theophilus Benson, Marco Canini, & B. Chandrasekaran. (2021). Tardis. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). 108–121. 4 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2020). Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Inferring TCP Congestion Control Algorithms and Protocol Configurations.. 2 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2019). ConfigTron: Tackling network diversity with heterogeneous configurations. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Raghavendra, Ramya, et al.. (2018). Learning to Simplify Distributed Systems Management. 1837–1845. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Huan, et al.. (2018). DeepConf. 8–14. 52 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2018). ShadowP4. 150–152. 3 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, et al.. (2017). Dapper. 61–74. 80 indexed citations
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Greenler, L., Theophilus Benson, J. J. Cherwinka, et al.. (2014). Modeling hole size, lifetime and fuel consumption in hot-water ice drilling. Annals of Glaciology. 55(68). 115–123. 12 indexed citations
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Gember-Jacobson, Aaron, Robert Grandl, Ashok Anand, et al.. (2013). Stratos: A Network-Aware Orchestration Layer for Middleboxes in the Cloud. arXiv (Cornell University). 101 indexed citations
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Kim, Hyojoon, Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, & Nick Feamster. (2011). The evolution of network configuration. 499–514. 42 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, & Ming Zhang. (2010). The case for fine-grained traffic engineering in data centers. Minds at UW (University of Wisconsin). 2–2. 36 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, Sambit Sahu, Aditya Akella, & Anees Shaikh. (2010). A first look at problems in the cloud. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 15–15. 20 indexed citations
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Benson, Theophilus, Aditya Akella, & David A. Maltz. (2009). Unraveling the complexity of network management. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 335–348. 119 indexed citations

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