V. S. Anil Kumar

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

V. S. Anil Kumar is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, V. S. Anil Kumar has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 4 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in V. S. Anil Kumar's work include Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (17 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (11 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (8 papers). V. S. Anil Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (17 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (11 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (8 papers). V. S. Anil Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Germany. V. S. Anil Kumar's co-authors include Madhav Marathe, Aravind Srinivasan, Zoltán Toroczkai, Stephen Eubank, Nan Wang, Hasan Güçlü, Bo Han, Pan Hui, Jianhua Shao and Guanhong Pei and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

V. S. Anil Kumar

38 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks

2004 1.4k citations Stephen Eubank, Hasan Güçlü et al. Nature profile →
Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation

2011 369 citations Bo Han, Pan Hui et al. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
V. S. Anil Kumar United States	18	1.2k	765	643	502	356	39	2.8k
Aravind Srinivasan United States	40	3.2k 2.7×	709 0.9×	650 1.0×	1.0k 2.1×	438 1.2×	175	6.8k
Chris Watkins United Kingdom	14	663 0.6×	456 0.6×	456 0.7×	609 1.2×	79 0.2×	33	5.5k
Franco Blanchini Italy	36	882 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	271 0.4×	410 0.8×	66 0.2×	251	8.5k
Patrizio Colaneri Italy	42	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	664 1.0×	317 0.6×	74 0.2×	269	7.8k
Christopher L. Barrett United States	15	362 0.3×	716 0.9×	253 0.4×	174 0.3×	92 0.3×	60	1.8k
Alessandro Rizzo Italy	33	773 0.7×	384 0.5×	829 1.3×	211 0.4×	72 0.2×	179	3.3k
Caterina Scoglio United States	28	779 0.7×	439 0.6×	974 1.5×	567 1.1×	35 0.1×	172	2.9k
Wouter Van den Broeck Italy	13	287 0.2×	679 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	65 0.1×	439 1.2×	16	2.3k
Chris Barrett United States	22	284 0.2×	567 0.7×	211 0.3×	100 0.2×	87 0.2×	100	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, V. S. Anil, et al.. (2025). Exploring Jugaad in architecture: Theory and strategies for implementation in resource-constrained environments. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. 11. 101469–101469.

Heath, Lenwood S., et al.. (2016). Labeled cuts in graphs. Theoretical Computer Science. 648. 34–39. 4 indexed citations

Kuhlman, Chris J., V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav Marathe, S. S. Ravi, & Daniel J. Rosenkrantz. (2014). Inhibiting diffusion of complex contagions in social networks: theoretical and experimental results. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 29(2). 423–465. 19 indexed citations

Stack, J. Conrad, Shweta Bansal, V. S. Anil Kumar, & Bryan T. Grenfell. (2012). Inferring population-level contact heterogeneity from common epidemic data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 10(78). 20120578–20120578. 14 indexed citations

Barrett, Chris, Richard J. Beckman, Keith Bisset, et al.. (2012). Optimizing epidemic protection for socially essential workers. 31–40. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, V. S. Anil, Madhav Marathe, Samarth Swarup, et al.. (2011). Inhibiting the Diffusion of Contagions in Bi-Threshold Systems: Analytical and Experimental Results. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 5 indexed citations

Barrett, Christopher L., et al.. (2011). From biological and social network metaphors to coupled bio-social wireless networks. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. 4(2). 122–122. 1 indexed citations

Pei, Guanhong, V. S. Anil Kumar, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, & Aravind Srinivasan. (2011). Approximation algorithms for throughput maximization in wireless networks with delay constraints. 28. 1116–1124. 5 indexed citations

Bisset, Keith, Jiangzhuo Chen, Chris J. Kuhlman, V. S. Anil Kumar, & Madhav Marathe. (2011). Interaction-based HPC modeling of social, biological, and economic contagions over large networks. 101. 2933–2947. 3 indexed citations

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Han, Bo, Pan Hui, V. S. Anil Kumar, et al.. (2011). Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 11(5). 821–834. 369 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghosh, Amitabha, Özlem Durmaz İncel, V. S. Anil Kumar, & Bhaskar Krishnamachari. (2010). Bounded-Degree Minimum-Radius Spanning Trees for Fast Data Collection in Sensor Networks. 1–2. 4 indexed citations

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Beckman, Richard J., Fei Huang, V. S. Anil Kumar, et al.. (2010). Synthesis and Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Spectrum Demand Patterns: A First Principles Approach. 1–12. 10 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Amitabha, Özlem Durmaz İncel, V. S. Anil Kumar, & Bhaskar Krishnamachari. (2009). Multi-channel scheduling algorithms for fast aggregated convergecast in sensor networks. 363–372. 43 indexed citations

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Kumar, V. S. Anil, et al.. (2009). Bi-Criteria Approximation Algorithms for Power-Efficient and Low-Interference Topology Control in Unreliable Ad Hoc Networks. 370–378. 9 indexed citations

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Huang, Fei, Binoy Ravindran, & V. S. Anil Kumar. (2009). An approximation algorithm for minimum-delay peer-to-peer streaming. 71–80. 8 indexed citations

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Pandurangan, Gopal, V. S. Anil Kumar, Ming Gu, Yunhao Liu, & Yingshu Li. (2008). Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. 1 indexed citations

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Choi, Yongwook, Maleq Khan, V. S. Anil Kumar, & Gopal Pandurangan. (2008). Energy-optimal distributed algorithms for minimum spanning trees. 188–190. 5 indexed citations

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Khan, Maleq, Gopal Pandurangan, & V. S. Anil Kumar. (2007). A simple randomized scheme for constructing low-weight k-connected spanning subgraphs with applications to distributed algorithms. Theoretical Computer Science. 385(1-3). 101–114. 5 indexed citations

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Chafekar, Deepti, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav Marathe, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, & Aravind Srinivasan. (2007). Cross-layer latency minimization in wireless networks with SINR constraints. 110–119. 58 indexed citations

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Eubank, Stephen, Hasan Güçlü, V. S. Anil Kumar, et al.. (2004). Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks. Nature. 429(6988). 180–184. 1387 indexed citations breakdown →

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