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D-Index
85
Citations
40964
World Ranking
789
National Ranking
428

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the design of flexible, robust, and secure networks
  • 2011 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computer network design.
  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David Wetherall is affiliated with Google in the United States. Their professional work is situated within the field of computer networking, focusing on the design and development of flexible, robust, and secure network architectures.

Their contributions have been recognized through several prestigious fellowships. In 2013, they were named an IEEE Fellow for their work on network design. Earlier, in 2011, they received the ACM Fellow distinction for contributions to computer network design. Additionally, they were awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Measuring ISP topologies with Rocketfuel

    Neil Spring;Ratul Mahajan;David Wetherall;Thomas Anderson

  • Towards an active network architecture

    David L. Tennenhouse;David J. Wetherall

  • A survey of active network research

    D.L. Tennenhouse;J.M. Smith;W.D. Sincoskie;D.J. Wetherall

  • Practical network support for IP traceback

    Stefan Savage;David Wetherall;Anna Karlin;Tom Anderson

  • Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel

    Neil Spring;Ratul Mahajan;David Wetherall

  • Tool release: gathering 802.11n traces with channel state information

    Daniel Halperin;Wenjun Hu;Anmol Sheth;David Wetherall

  • Ambient backscatter: wireless communication out of thin air

    Vincent Liu;Aaron Parks;Vamsi Talla;Shyamnath Gollakota

  • ANTS: a toolkit for building and dynamically deploying network protocols

    D.J. Wetherall;J.V. Guttag;D.L. Tennenhouse

  • Reducing network energy consumption via sleeping and rate-adaptation

    Sergiu Nedevschi;Lucian Popa;Gianluca Iannaccone;Sylvia Ratnasamy

  • Network support for IP traceback

    Stefan Savage;David Wetherall;Anna Karlin;Tom Anderson

  • Understanding BGP misconfiguration

    Ratul Mahajan;David Wetherall;Tom Anderson

  • Predictable 802.11 packet delivery from wireless channel measurements

    Daniel Halperin;Wenjun Hu;Anmol Sheth;David Wetherall

  • Wi-fi backscatter: internet connectivity for RF-powered devices

    Bryce Kellogg;Aaron Parks;Shyamnath Gollakota;Joshua R. Smith

  • These aren't the droids you're looking for: retrofitting android to protect data from imperious applications

    Peter Hornyack;Seungyeop Han;Jaeyeon Jung;Stuart Schechter

  • A protocol-independent technique for eliminating redundant network traffic

    Neil T. Spring;David Wetherall

  • Detecting and defending against third-party tracking on the web

    Franziska Roesner;Tadayoshi Kohno;David Wetherall

  • Controlling high-bandwidth flows at the congested router

    R. Mahajan;S. Floyd;D. Wetherall

  • Measurement-based models of delivery and interference in static wireless networks

    Charles Reis;Ratul Mahajan;Maya Rodrig;David Wetherall

  • A DoS-limiting network architecture

    Xiaowei Yang;David Wetherall;Thomas Anderson

  • Towards IP geolocation using delay and topology measurements

    Ethan Katz-Bassett;John P. John;Arvind Krishnamurthy;David Wetherall

  • TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter

    Radhika Mittal;Nandita Dukkipati;Emily Blem

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Anderson
Thomas Anderson University of Washington
Ratul Mahajan
Ratul Mahajan University of Washington
Joshua R. Smith
Joshua R. Smith University of Washington
Neil Spring
Neil Spring University of Maryland, College Park
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Arvind Krishnamurthy University of Washington
Tadayoshi Kohno
Tadayoshi Kohno University of Washington
John Zahorjan
John Zahorjan University of Washington
Srinivasan Seshan
Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego

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