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333 citations · 933 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.NI2011★ 35 cited

Fitting Square Pegs Through Round Pipes: Unordered Delivery Wire-Compatible with TCP and TLS

Michael F. Nowlan, Nabin Tiwari, Janardhan Iyengar +2

Internet applications increasingly employ TCP not as a stream abstraction, but as a substrate for application-level transports, a use that converts TCP's in-order semantics from a…

cs.NI2009★ 6 cited

Flow Splitting with Fate Sharing in a Next Generation Transport Services Architecture

Janardhan Iyengar, Bryan Ford

The challenges of optimizing end-to-end performance over diverse Internet paths has driven widespread adoption of in-path optimizers, which can destructively interfere with TCP's e…

cs.NI2006★ 11 cited

User-Relative Names for Globally Connected Personal Devices

Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas +3

Nontechnical users who own increasingly ubiquitous network-enabled personal devices such as laptops, digital cameras, and smart phones need a simple, intuitive, and secure way to s…

cs.NI2006★ 20 cited

Unmanaged Internet Protocol: Taming the Edge Network Management Crisis

Bryan Ford

Though appropriate for core Internet infrastructure, the Internet Protocol is unsuited to routing within and between emerging ad-hoc edge networks due to its dependence on hierarch…

cs.NI2006★ 333 cited

Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators

Bryan Ford, Pyda Srisuresh, Dan Kegel

Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP addres…