Zoran Despotovic

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Zoran Despotovic is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zoran Despotovic has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Zoran Despotovic's work include Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (35 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (34 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (18 papers). Zoran Despotovic is often cited by papers focused on Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (35 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (34 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (18 papers). Zoran Despotovic collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Zoran Despotovic's co-authors include Karl Aberer, Wolfgang Kellerer, Wojciech Galuba, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Artur Hecker, Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Magdalena Punceva, Roman Schmidt and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Computer Networks and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Zoran Despotovic

60 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300 400 500
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. Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system
    2001 550 citations Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zoran Despotovic Germany 17 1.2k 610 471 336 186 64 1.7k
Vijay Erramilli Spain 16 839 0.7× 266 0.4× 212 0.5× 228 0.7× 195 1.0× 25 1.3k
Sonja Buchegger Switzerland 20 3.4k 2.8× 804 1.3× 707 1.5× 323 1.0× 657 3.5× 40 3.9k
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy United States 14 598 0.5× 254 0.4× 415 0.9× 399 1.2× 54 0.3× 25 1.2k
Pankaj Gupta United States 10 626 0.5× 106 0.2× 421 0.9× 215 0.6× 134 0.7× 39 1.1k
Sharon Goldberg United States 22 980 0.8× 141 0.2× 935 2.0× 543 1.6× 170 0.9× 55 1.6k
Bram Cohen Belgium 3 1.7k 1.4× 213 0.3× 318 0.7× 242 0.7× 58 0.3× 3 1.9k
Francesco Buccafurri Italy 16 345 0.3× 176 0.3× 502 1.1× 360 1.1× 43 0.2× 104 972
Angelo Spognardi Italy 21 874 0.7× 494 0.8× 457 1.0× 808 2.4× 71 0.4× 49 1.5k
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai Thailand 19 2.0k 1.7× 292 0.5× 190 0.4× 660 2.0× 125 0.7× 46 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Zoran Despotovic

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zoran Despotovic

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zoran Despotovic

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Despotovic, Zoran, et al.. (2024). Standardization Roadmap towards Sustainable 6G. 129–134. 1 indexed citations
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Trossen, Dirk, et al.. (2022). On-path vs off-path traffic steering, that is the question. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 37–42.
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Rahman, Akbar, et al.. (2019). Optimized Service Function Chaining. 1 indexed citations
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Rahman, Akbar, et al.. (2018). Alternative Handling of Dynamic Chaining and Service Indirection. 1 indexed citations
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Despotovic, Zoran, et al.. (2018). Transactional Network Updates in SDN. abs cs 508033. 203–208. 5 indexed citations
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Khalili, Ramin, Zoran Despotovic, & Artur Hecker. (2018). Flow Setup Latency in SDN Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 36(12). 2631–2639. 21 indexed citations
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Carle, Georg, et al.. (2017). SDN on ACIDs. 19–24. 2 indexed citations
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Khalili, Ramin, et al.. (2016). Reducing State of OpenFlow Switches in Mobile Core Networks by Flow Rule Aggregation. 1–9. 6 indexed citations
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Marquezan, Clarissa Cassales, et al.. (2016). Understanding processing latency of SDN based mobility management in mobile core networks. 1–7. 8 indexed citations
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Hecker, Artur, et al.. (2015). On optimal hierarchical SDN. 5374–5379. 10 indexed citations
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Guerzoni, Riccardo, Zoran Despotovic, Riccardo Trivisonno, & Ishan Vaishnavi. (2014). Modeling Reliability Requirements in Coordinated Node and Link Mapping. 23 indexed citations
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Trivisonno, Riccardo, Ishan Vaishnavi, Riccardo Guerzoni, et al.. (2013). Virtual Links Mapping in Future SDN-Enabled Networks. 1–5. 15 indexed citations
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Lee, Jae Wook, Henning Schulzrinne, Wolfgang Kellerer, & Zoran Despotovic. (2011). 0 to 10k in 20 Seconds: Bootstrapping Large-Scale DHT Networks. 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Galuba, Wojciech, Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Zoran Despotovic, & Wolfgang Kellerer. (2010). Outtweeting the twitterers - predicting information cascades in microblogs. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3–3. 170 indexed citations
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Lehrieder, Frank, Simon Oechsner, Tobias Hoßfeld, et al.. (2010). Can P2P-Users Benefit from Locality-Awareness?. 1–9. 19 indexed citations
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Despotovic, Zoran, et al.. (2010). An Operator Approach to Popularity-Based Caching in DHTs. 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Galuba, Wojciech, Panos Papadimitratos, Marcin Poturalski, et al.. (2009). More on Castor: the Scalable Secure Routing for Ad-hoc Networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1 indexed citations
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Galuba, Wojciech, Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic, & Wolfgang Kellerer. (2007). Authentication-free fault-tolerant peer-to-peer service provisioning. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 5 indexed citations
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Despotovic, Zoran & Karl Aberer. (2004). Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Peers" Performance in P2P Networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 29 indexed citations
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Despotovic, Zoran & Karl Aberer. (2004). Possibilities for Managing Trust in P2P Networks. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 11 indexed citations

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