Tom Edsall

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Tom Edsall is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Edsall has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 5 papers in Information Systems and 1 paper in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tom Edsall's work include Software-Defined Networks and 5G (9 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (9 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (5 papers). Tom Edsall is often cited by papers focused on Software-Defined Networks and 5G (9 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (9 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (5 papers). Tom Edsall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Tom Edsall's co-authors include Mohammad Alizadeh, Rong Pan, Sarang Dharmapurikar, Vinh The Lam, George Varghese, Balaji Prabhakar, Masato Yasuda, Amin Vahdat, Abdul Kabbani and Anirudh Sivaraman and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Cloud Computing.

In The Last Decade

Tom Edsall

11 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

CONGA

2014 524 citations Mohammad Alizadeh, Tom Edsall et al. profile →
Less is more: trading a little bandwidth for ultra-low latency in the data center

2012 317 citations Mohammad Alizadeh, Abdul Kabbani et al. Networked Systems Design and Implementation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Edsall United States	9	1.5k	863	334	166	78	11	1.5k
Vinh The Lam United States	9	1.4k 0.9×	850 1.0×	280 0.8×	151 0.9×	68 0.9×	11	1.5k
José Renato Santos United States	14	956 0.6×	576 0.7×	144 0.4×	191 1.2×	59 0.8×	29	1.0k
Yunfeng Shi China	4	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	359 1.1×	92 0.6×	31 0.4×	8	1.4k
Yiannis Yiakoumis United States	11	1.1k 0.8×	508 0.6×	488 1.5×	47 0.3×	52 0.7×	14	1.2k
Milad Sharif United States	8	861 0.6×	591 0.7×	225 0.7×	83 0.5×	53 0.7×	10	968
Arjun Roy United States	7	906 0.6×	532 0.6×	334 1.0×	63 0.4×	83 1.1×	10	1.0k
Rama Govindaraju United States	10	741 0.5×	621 0.7×	122 0.4×	392 2.4×	82 1.1×	16	906
Kushagra Vaid United States	12	580 0.4×	421 0.5×	150 0.4×	340 2.0×	42 0.5×	23	669
Naga Praveen Kumar Katta United States	9	1.1k 0.7×	332 0.4×	274 0.8×	153 0.9×	123 1.6×	12	1.1k
Srini Seetharaman United Kingdom	11	1.0k 0.7×	497 0.6×	414 1.2×	51 0.3×	71 0.9×	14	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Edsall

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Edsall

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tom Edsall. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tom Edsall. The network helps show where Tom Edsall may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Edsall

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Fahmy, Sonia, et al.. (2023). Congestion Control for Datacenter Networks: A Control-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 34(5). 1682–1696. 4 indexed citations

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Fahmy, Sonia, et al.. (2020). RoCC. 17–30. 34 indexed citations

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Pan, Rong, et al.. (2017). Let It Flow: Resilient Asymmetric Load Balancing with Flowlet Switching. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 407–420. 123 indexed citations

4.

Ma, Sha, Anirudh Sivaraman, Shay Vargaftik, et al.. (2017). dRMT. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1–14. 106 indexed citations

5.

Sivaraman, Anirudh, Suvinay Subramanian, Mohammad Alizadeh, et al.. (2016). Programmable Packet Scheduling at Line Rate. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 44–57. 199 indexed citations

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Sivaraman, Anirudh, Suvinay Subramanian, Shang-Tse Chuang, et al.. (2015). Towards Programmable Packet Scheduling. 1–7. 24 indexed citations

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Alizadeh, Mohammad, Tom Edsall, Sarang Dharmapurikar, et al.. (2014). CONGA. 503–514. 524 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alizadeh, Mohammad, Tom Edsall, Sarang Dharmapurikar, et al.. (2014). CONGA. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 44(4). 503–514. 114 indexed citations

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Yousif, Mazin, et al.. (2014). Cloud Computing Roundtable. IEEE Cloud Computing. 1(1). 40–49. 3 indexed citations

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Alizadeh, Mohammad & Tom Edsall. (2013). On the Data Path Performance of Leaf-Spine Datacenter Fabrics. 71–74. 83 indexed citations

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Alizadeh, Mohammad, Abdul Kabbani, Tom Edsall, et al.. (2012). Less is more: trading a little bandwidth for ultra-low latency in the data center. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 6(59). 19–19. 317 indexed citations breakdown →

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