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20182023
most citedThe Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

187 citations · 732 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.DS2023★ 18 cited

An Overview of Analysis Methods and Evaluation Results for Caching Strategies

Gerhard Hasslinger, Mahshid Okhovatzadeh, Konstantinos Ntougias +2

We survey analytical methods and evaluation results for the performance assessment of caching strategies. Knapsack solutions are derived, which provide static caching bounds for in…

cs.SI2023

Reviewing War: Unconventional User Reviews as a Side Channel to Circumvent Information Controls

José Miguel Moreno, Sergio Pastrana, Jens Helge Reelfs +6

During the first days of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's media regulator blocked access to many global social media platforms and news sites, including Twitter, Face…

cs.NI2022

Reviewing Best Practices in Online Conferencing

Simone Ferlin, Oliver Hohlfeld, Vaibhav Bajpai

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the usual ways the networking research community operates. This article reviews experiences organising and participating in virtual conferences duri…

cs.SI2022★ 1 cited

Characterizing the country-wide adoption and evolution of the Jodel messaging app in Saudi Arabia

Jens Helge Reelfs, Oliver Hohlfeld, Markus Strohmaier +1

Social media is subject to constant growth and evolution, yet little is known about their early phases of adoption. To shed light on this aspect, this paper empirically characteriz…

cs.SI2022★ 2 cited

Anonymous Hyperlocal Communities: What do they talk about?

Jens Helge Reelfs, Oliver Hohlfeld, Niklas Henckell

In this paper, we study what users talk about in a plethora of independent hyperlocal and anonymous online communities in a single country: Saudi Arabia (KSA). We base this perspec…

cs.SI2022★ 1 cited

Differences in Social Media Usage Exist Between Western and Middle-East Countries

Jens Helge Reelfs, Oliver Hohlfeld, Niklas Henckell

In this paper, we empirically analyze two examples of a Western (DE) versus Middle-East (SA) Online Social Messaging App. By focusing on the system interactions over time in compar…