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66
Citations
61496
World Ranking
2246
National Ranking
1119

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to networking infrastructure, including data center networking, network operating systems, and cloud networking
  • 2010 - ACM Software System Award For the GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems, which showed how to automate the process by which a distributed set of users could receive personalized recommendations by sharing ratings, leading to both commercial products and extensive research.

Overview

David A. Maltz is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant work in subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies

David A. Maltz has contributed to publications in venues including:

  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

One of the recent papers authored is "Surviving switch failures in cloud datacenters," published in 2021 in the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.

Collaborations have involved frequent coauthors such as Rachee Singh, Muqeet Mukhtar, Ashay Krishna, Aniruddha Parkhi, and Jitendra Padhye.

The scientist has been recognized with awards including:

  • ACM Fellow (2020) for contributions to networking infrastructure, including data center networking, network operating systems, and cloud networking
  • ACM Software System Award (2010) for the GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems, which demonstrated how distributed users could receive personalized recommendations by sharing ratings

Best Publications

  • Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

    David B. Johnson;David A. Maltz

  • A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols

    Josh Broch;David A. Maltz;David B. Johnson;Yih-Chun Hu

  • The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for IPv4

    David A. Maltz;David B. Johnson

  • GroupLens: applying collaborative filtering to Usenet news

    Joseph A. Konstan;Bradley N. Miller;David Maltz;Jonathan L. Herlocker

  • VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network

    Albert Greenberg;James R. Hamilton;Navendu Jain;Srikanth Kandula

  • DSR: the dynamic source routing protocol for multihop wireless ad hoc networks

    David B. Johnson;David A. Maltz;Josh Broch

  • Network traffic characteristics of data centers in the wild

    Theophilus Benson;Aditya Akella;David A. Maltz

  • Data center TCP (DCTCP)

    Mohammad Alizadeh;Albert Greenberg;David A. Maltz;Jitendra Padhye

  • The cost of a cloud: research problems in data center networks

    Albert Greenberg;James Hamilton;David A. Maltz;Parveen Patel

  • A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management

    Albert Greenberg;Gisli Hjalmtysson;David A. Maltz;Andy Myers

  • MSOCKS: an architecture for transport layer mobility

    D.A. Maltz;P. Bhagwat

  • Data center interconnect system

    Maltz David A;Greenberg Albert G;Patel Parveen K;Sengupta Sudipta

  • The effects of on-demand behavior in routing protocols for multihop wireless ad hoc networks

    D.A. Maltz;J. Broch;J. Jetcheva;D.B. Johnson

  • Towards highly reliable enterprise network services via inference of multi-level dependencies

    Paramvir Bahl;Ranveer Chandra;Albert Greenberg;Srikanth Kandula

  • Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis

    Chuanxiong Guo;Lihua Yuan;Dong Xiang;Yingnong Dang

  • Pointing the way: active collaborative filtering

    David Maltz;Kate Ehrlich

  • Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud

    Daniel Firestone;Andrew Putnam;Sambhrama Mundkur;Derek Chiou

  • Cloudward bound: planning for beneficial migration of enterprise applications to the cloud

    Mohammad Hajjat;Xin Sun;Yu-Wei Eric Sung;David Maltz

  • Towards a next generation data center architecture: scalability and commoditization

    Albert Greenberg;Parantap Lahiri;David A. Maltz;Parveen Patel

  • Supporting hierarchy and heterogeneous interfaces in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks

    J. Broch;D.A. Maltz;D.B. Johnson

  • VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network

    Albert Greenberg;James R. Hamilton;Navendu Jain;Srikanth Kandula

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Greenberg
Albert Greenberg Microsoft (United States)
David B. Johnson
David B. Johnson Rice University
Ming Zhang
Ming Zhang Alibaba Group (China)
Changhoon Kim
Changhoon Kim Intel (United States)
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang National University of Singapore
Sudipta Sengupta
Sudipta Sengupta Amazon (United States)
Srikanth Kandula
Srikanth Kandula Microsoft (United States)
Jitendra Padhye
Jitendra Padhye Microsoft (United States)
Ranveer Chandra
Ranveer Chandra Microsoft (United States)
Jennifer Rexford
Jennifer Rexford Princeton University

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