Tom Leighton

7.0k citations
81 papers · 3.8k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 22

Tom Leighton

77 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Tom Leighton
Comparison fields: 5 of 94
  • Computer Networks and Communications 2.9k
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics 893
  • Hardware and Architecture 336
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 152
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics 72
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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Leighton

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Tom Leighton, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 200833
2 20073
3 20068
4 20065
5 200619
6 20064
7 200611
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The Challenges of Delivering Content and Applications on the Internet
20052
9 200512
10 200510
11
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19971235
12 19963
13 199518
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Secret-key agreement without public-key
199415
15 19942
16
Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
19916
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Empirical Evaluation of Randomly-Wired Multistage Networks (Extended Abstract)
19906
18
Nearly optimal algorithms and bounds for multilayer channel routing
19890
19
A Survey of Algorithms for Integrating Wafer-Scale Systolic Arrays.
19868
20
Parallel Computation Using Meshes of Trees.
198323

About Tom Leighton

Tom Leighton is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, having authored 81 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (25 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (24 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (22 papers), Advanced Graph Theory Research (20 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (10 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (8 papers), VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques (7 papers) and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Networks and Communications (2.9k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (893 citations) and Hardware and Architecture (336 citations). Tom Leighton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Satish Rao, David R. Karger, Matthew Levine, Eric Lehman, Rina Panigrahy‎, Baruch Awerbuch, Mor Harchol‐Balter, Ankur Moitra, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi and Johan Håstad. Their work appears in journals such as SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Journal of the ACM, Journal of Computer and System Sciences and Theoretical Computer Science.

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