Walter Willinger

28.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
176 papers, 18.9k citations indexed

About

Walter Willinger is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Willinger has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 18.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 71 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Walter Willinger's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (75 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (70 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (37 papers). Walter Willinger is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (75 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (70 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (37 papers). Walter Willinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Walter Willinger's co-authors include Murad S. Taqqu, Daniel V. Wilson, W.E. Leland, Robert P. Sherman, Mark W. Garrett, Vadim Teverovsky, Anja Feldmann, Anna C. Gilbert, David Alderson and Matthew Roughan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

In The Last Decade

Walter Willinger

172 papers receiving 17.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)

1994 3.7k citations Murad S. Taqqu, Walter Willinger et al. profile →
Self-similarity through high-variability: statistical analysis of Ethernet LAN traffic at the source level

1997 1.1k citations Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu et al. profile →
ESTIMATORS FOR LONG-RANGE DEPENDENCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

1995 895 citations Murad S. Taqqu, Vadim Teverovsky et al. profile →
Long-range dependence in variable-bit-rate video traffic

1995 858 citations Murad S. Taqqu, Walter Willinger et al. profile →
On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic

1993 756 citations Murad S. Taqqu, Walter Willinger et al. profile →
Analysis, modeling and generation of self-similar VBR video traffic

1994 695 citations Walter Willinger et al. profile →
Experimental queueing analysis with long-range dependent packet traffic

1996 522 citations Ashok Erramilli, Onuttom Narayan et al. profile →
Proof of a fundamental result in self-similar traffic modeling

1997 476 citations Murad S. Taqqu, Walter Willinger et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Query Planning for Robust and Scalable Hybrid Network Telemetry Systems 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Arpit Gupta, (unknown), Daniel Lokshtanov, Walter Willinger	4
2	Bootstrapping Trust in ML4Nets Solutions with Hybrid Explainability 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Walter Willinger	0
3	Leveraging Prefix Structure to Detect Volumetric DDoS Attack Signatures with Programmable Switches 2024 ·(unknown), Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Arpit Gupta, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger	1
4	A Case for Performance- and Cost-Aware Multi-Cloud Overlays 2023 ·(unknown), Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger	1
5	On the Practicality of Learning Models for Network Telemetry. 2020 ·(unknown), (unknown), Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Daniel Lowd, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger	2
6	Dasu: pushing experiments to the internet's edge 2013 ·Networked Systems Design and Implementation ·Mario A. Sánchez, John S. Otto, Zachary S. Bischof, David Choffnes, Fabián E. Bustamante, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Walter Willinger	62
7	Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference 2011 ·Patrick Thiran, Walter Willinger	13
8	Hot today, gone tomorrow: on the migration of MySpace users 2009 ·(unknown), Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger	2
9	The “robust yet fragile” nature of the Internet 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John C. Doyle, David Alderson, Lun Li, Steven H. Low, Matthew Roughan, Stanislav Shalunov, Reiko Tanaka, Walter Willinger	304
10	An empirical approach to modeling inter-AS traffic matrices 2005 ·Hyunseok Chang, Sugih Jamin, Z. Morley Mao, Walter Willinger	58
11	Supplement to "Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs: Definition, Properties, and Implications" 2005 ·Internet Mathematics ·Lun Li, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, Walter Willinger	18
12	On TCP and self-similar traffic 2005 ·Performance Evaluation ·Daniel R. Figueiredo, Benyuan Liu, Anja Feldmann, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley, Walter Willinger	15
13	More "normal" than normal: scaling distributions and complex systems 2004 ·Winter Simulation Conference ·Walter Willinger, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, Lun Li	31
14	On the impact of variability on the buffer dynamics in IP networks 1999 ·Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (Rice University) ·(unknown), Vinay J. Ribeiro, Anja Feldmann, Anna C. Gilbert, Walter Willinger	14
15	Modeling and management of self-similar traffic flows in high-speed networks 1999 ·Ashok Erramilli, Walter Willinger, (unknown)	4
16	Self-similarity and heavy tails: structural modeling of network traffic 1998 ·Walter Willinger, Vern Paxson, Murad S. Taqqu	233
17	Fractal queueing models 1998 ·CRC Press, Inc. eBooks ·Ashok Erramilli, Onuttom Narayan, Walter Willinger	11
18	Stock Market Prices and Long-Range Dependence 1998 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu, Vadim Teverovsky	2
19	Stochastic modeling of traffic processes 1998 ·CRC Press, Inc. eBooks ·David L. Jagerman, Benjamin Melamed, Walter Willinger	53
20	Pathwise stochastic integration and applications to the theory of continuous trading 1989 ·Stochastic Processes and their Applications ·Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu	14

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