Yashar Ganjali

5.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
79 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Yashar Ganjali is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Yashar Ganjali has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 17 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Yashar Ganjali's work include Software-Defined Networks and 5G (47 papers), Network Traffic and Congestion Control (32 papers) and Advanced Optical Network Technologies (17 papers). Yashar Ganjali is often cited by papers focused on Software-Defined Networks and 5G (47 papers), Network Traffic and Congestion Control (32 papers) and Advanced Optical Network Technologies (17 papers). Yashar Ganjali collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Iran. Yashar Ganjali's co-authors include Amin Tootoonchian, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Nick McKeown, Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, A. Keshavarzian, Rob Sherwood, Martín Casado, Chen‐Nee Chuah, Soudeh Ghorbani and Supratik Bhattacharyya and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

In The Last Decade

Yashar Ganjali

72 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

HyperFlow: a distributed ... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2012 2013 2012 200 400 600
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.

  1. HyperFlow: a distributed control plane for OpenFlow
    2010 708 citations Amin Tootoonchian, Yashar Ganjali profile →
  2. Kandoo
    2012 503 citations Yashar Ganjali et al. profile →
  3. On scalability of software-defined networking
    2013 360 citations Amin Tootoonchian, Yashar Ganjali et al. profile →
  4. On controller performance in software-defined networks
    2012 354 citations Amin Tootoonchian, Yashar Ganjali et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yashar Ganjali Canada 26 3.5k 1.5k 724 530 131 79 3.9k
Peilin Hong China 34 2.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 912 1.7× 73 0.6× 124 3.3k
Jin Cao China 26 1.6k 0.4× 932 0.6× 941 1.3× 922 1.7× 71 0.5× 125 2.5k
Laurent Vanbever Switzerland 25 2.2k 0.6× 711 0.5× 549 0.8× 466 0.9× 198 1.5× 106 2.5k
Lee Breslau United States 21 5.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 625 0.9× 496 0.9× 212 1.6× 44 5.4k
Mary Baker United States 24 4.4k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 508 0.7× 582 1.1× 101 0.8× 84 4.9k
T. S. Eugene Ng United States 28 4.0k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 1.5k 2.0× 327 0.6× 247 1.9× 100 4.4k
Brandon Heller United States 15 4.3k 1.2× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 405 0.8× 180 1.4× 21 4.5k
Ramana Rao Kompella United States 28 3.0k 0.9× 783 0.5× 1.6k 2.2× 808 1.5× 299 2.3× 106 3.8k
Olivier Bonaventure Belgium 36 4.3k 1.2× 2.2k 1.5× 344 0.5× 489 0.9× 369 2.8× 199 4.5k
Dejan Kostić Switzerland 31 3.5k 1.0× 521 0.4× 1.0k 1.4× 344 0.6× 415 3.2× 104 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yashar Ganjali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yashar Ganjali

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Munir, Ali, et al.. (2021). Accord. 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Ganjali, Yashar, et al.. (2020). Load Migration in Distributed SDN Controllers. 1–9. 10 indexed citations
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Shirali-Shahreza, Sajad & Yashar Ganjali. (2015). ReWiFlow. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 45(5). 29–35. 20 indexed citations
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Ghorbani, Soudeh, Brighten Godfrey, Yashar Ganjali, & Amin Firoozshahian. (2015). Micro Load Balancing in Data Centers with DRILL. 1–7. 45 indexed citations
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Shirali-Shahreza, Sajad & Yashar Ganjali. (2014). Traffic statistics collection with FleXam. 117–118. 11 indexed citations
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Shirali-Shahreza, Sajad & Yashar Ganjali. (2014). Traffic statistics collection with FleXam. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 44(4). 117–118. 6 indexed citations
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Koudas, Nick, et al.. (2013). Bursty subgraphs in social networks. 213–222. 4 indexed citations
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Ghorbani, Soudeh & Yashar Ganjali. (2012). Will you be my friend? privacy implications of accepting friendships in online social networks. International Conference on Information Society. 340–345. 6 indexed citations
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Tootoonchian, Amin, et al.. (2012). On controller performance in software-defined networks. 10–10. 354 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tootoonchian, Amin & Yashar Ganjali. (2010). HyperFlow: a distributed control plane for OpenFlow. 3–3. 708 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gill, Phillipa, Yashar Ganjali, Bernard Wong, & David Lie. (2010). Dude, where’s that IP?: circumventing measurement-based IP geolocation. USENIX Security Symposium. 16–16. 38 indexed citations
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Tootoonchian, Amin, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, & Alec Wolman. (2009). Lockr. 169–180. 97 indexed citations
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Beheshti, Neda, et al.. (2008). Experimental study of router buffer sizing. 197–210. 60 indexed citations
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Ganjali, Yashar & Nick McKeown. (2006). Update on buffer sizing in internet routers. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 36(5). 67–70. 59 indexed citations
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Enachescu, Mihaela, Yashar Ganjali, Ashish Goel, Nick McKeown, & Tim Roughgarden. (2006). Routers with Very Small Buffers. 1–11. 109 indexed citations
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Ganjali, Yashar & Nick McKeown. (2005). Routing in a highly dynamic topology. 164–175. 9 indexed citations
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Ganjali, Yashar. (2003). Optimum multi-dimensional interval routing schemes on networks with dynamic cost links. Computing and Informatics / Computers and Artificial Intelligence. 22(1). 1–17. 1 indexed citations
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Ganjali, Yashar, et al.. (2002). Uniquely 2-list colorable graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 119(3). 217–225. 5 indexed citations
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Ganjali, Yashar. (2001). Characterization of Networks Supporting Multi-dimensional Linear Interval Routing Schemes.. 163–178. 1 indexed citations

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