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Adrian Perrig

Adrian Perrig

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
102
Citations
81069
World Ranking
328
National Ranking
11

Adrian Perrig publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrian Perrig sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 433 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Adrian Perrig D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrian Perrig sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 102 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions in protocols for network and system security.
  • 2012 - ACM Senior Member
  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Adrian Perrig is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has made contributions primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, and Signal Processing.

The main topics of Perrig's research encompass Software-Defined Networks and 5G, Network Traffic and Congestion Control, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Advanced Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance.

Recent publications by Perrig include:

  • "Internet backbones in space," 2020, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • "Website Fingerprinting in the Age of QUIC," 2021, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • "Low-rate Overuse Flow Tracer (LOFT): an efficient and scalable algorithm for detecting overuse flows," 2022, Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • "Resilience Evaluation of Multi-Path Routing against Network Attacks and Failures," 2021, Electronics
  • "NeVerMore," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Frequent co-authors working with Perrig include Markus Legner, David Basin, Laurent Chuat, David Hausheer, and Samuel Hitz.

Perrig's work has been published in a variety of venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review

They have also authored a book titled The Complete Guide to SCION, published by Springer Nature in 2022.

Among notable recognitions, Adrian Perrig was named an ACM Fellow in 2016 for contributions in protocols for network and system security. Additionally, Perrig holds the titles of ACM Senior Member as of 2012 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • SPINS: security protocols for sensor networks

    Adrian Perrig;Robert Szewczyk;J. D. Tygar;Victor Wen

  • Ariadne: a secure on-demand routing protocol for ad hoc networks

    Yih-Chun Hu;Adrian Perrig;David B. Johnson

  • Practical techniques for searches on encrypted data

    Dawn Xiaoding Song;D. Wagner;A. Perrig

  • Random key predistribution schemes for sensor networks

    Haowen Chan;A. Perrig;D. Song

  • SPINS: security protocols for sensor networks

    Adrian Perrig;Robert Szewczyk;Victor Wen;David Culler

  • SEAD: Secure efficient distance vector routing for mobile wireless ad hoc networks

    Yih Chun Hu;David B. Johnson;Adrian Perrig

  • Packet leashes: a defense against wormhole attacks in wireless networks

    Y.-C. Hu;A. Perrig;D.B. Johnson

  • Security in wireless sensor networks

    Adrian Perrig;John Stankovic;David Wagner

  • The Sybil attack in sensor networks: analysis & defenses

    James Newsome;Elaine Shi;Dawn Song;Adrian Perrig

  • Efficient authentication and signing of multicast streams over lossy channels

    A. Perrig;R. Canetti;J.D. Tygar;Dawn Song

  • Advanced and authenticated marking schemes for IP traceback

    Dawn Xiaodong Song;A. Perrig

  • Cyber–Physical Security of a Smart Grid Infrastructure

    Yilin Mo;Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim;K. Brancik;D. Dickinson

  • The TESLA Broadcast Authentication Protocol

    Adrian Perrig;Ran Canetti;J. D. Tygar;Dawn Song

  • Déjà Vu: a user study using images for authentication

    Rachna Dhamija;Adrian Perrig

  • SIA: secure information aggregation in sensor networks

    Bartosz Przydatek;Dawn Song;Adrian Perrig

  • Rushing attacks and defense in wireless ad hoc network routing protocols

    Yih-Chun Hu;Adrian Perrig;David B. Johnson

  • Wormhole attacks in wireless networks

    Yih-Chun Hu;A. Perrig;D.B. Johnson

  • Distributed detection of node replication attacks in sensor networks

    B. Parno;A. Perrig;V. Gligor

  • Efficient and Secure Source Authentication for Multicast.

    Adrian Perrig;Ran Canetti;Dawn Xiaodong Song;J. D. Tygar

  • SWATT: softWare-based attestation for embedded devices

    A. Seshadri;A. Perrig;L. van Doorn;P. Khosla

  • SecVisor: a tiny hypervisor to provide lifetime kernel code integrity for commodity OSes

    Arvind Seshadri;Mark Luk;Ning Qu;Adrian Perrig

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. McCune
Jonathan M. McCune Google (United States)
Bryan Parno
Bryan Parno Carnegie Mellon University
Dawn Song
Dawn Song University of California, Berkeley
Yih-Chun Hu
Yih-Chun Hu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J. D. Tygar
J. D. Tygar University of California, Berkeley
Heejo Lee
Heejo Lee Korea University
Elaine Shi
Elaine Shi Carnegie Mellon University
Michael K. Reiter
Michael K. Reiter Duke University
Pradeep K. Khosla
Pradeep K. Khosla University of California, San Diego
David B. Johnson
David B. Johnson Rice University

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