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Edward W. Knightly

Edward W. Knightly

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
72
Citations
20159
World Ranking
808
National Ranking
347

Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
20088
World Ranking
1684
National Ranking
862

Edward W. Knightly publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edward W. Knightly sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 257 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Edward W. Knightly D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edward W. Knightly sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 89th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For contributions to multi-user wireless LANs, wireless networks for underserved regions, and cross-layer wireless networking
  • 2001 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Edward W. Knightly is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Wireless Communication Security Techniques
  • Terahertz technology and applications
  • Wireless Networks and Protocols
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides

Among recent papers authored are:

  • Single-shot link discovery for terahertz wireless networks, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Wireless communications sensing and security above 100 GHz, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Wavefront Engineering: Realizing Efficient Terahertz Band Communications in 6G and Beyond, 2023, IEEE Wireless Communications
  • Jamming a terahertz wireless link, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Wi-Fi Multi-Link Operation: An Experimental Study of Latency and Throughput, 2023, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Daniel M. Mittleman
  • Hichem Guerboukha
  • Boris Bellalta
  • Rabi Shrestha
  • Josep Miquel Jornet

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Edward W. Knightly has been recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2017 for contributions spanning multi-user wireless LANs, wireless networks for underserved regions, and cross-layer wireless networking. They were also named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks

    B. Sadeghi;V. Kanodia;A. Sabharwal;E. Knightly

  • Low-rate TCP-targeted denial of service attacks: the shrew vs. the mice and elephants

    Aleksandar Kuzmanovic;Edward W. Knightly

  • Modeling per-flow throughput and capturing starvation in CSMA multi-hop wireless networks

    Michele Garetto;Theodoros Salonidis;Edward W. Knightly

  • IEEE 802.11ad: directional 60 GHz communication for multi-Gigabit-per-second Wi-Fi [Invited Paper]

    Thomas Nitsche;Carlos Cordeiro;Adriana B. Flores;Edward W. Knightly

  • End-to-end performance and fairness in multihop wireless backhaul networks

    Violeta Gambiroza;Bahareh Sadeghi;Edward W. Knightly

  • Endpoint admission control: architectural issues and performance

    Lee Breslau;Edward W. Knightly;Scott Shenker;Ion Stoica

  • Modulation rate adaptation in urban and vehicular environments: cross-layer implementation and experimental evaluation

    Joseph Camp;Edward Knightly

  • Denial of service resilience in ad hoc networks

    Imad Aad;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Edward W. Knightly

  • Security and eavesdropping in terahertz wireless links.

    Jianjun Ma;Rabi Shrestha;Jacob Adelberg;Chia-Yi Yeh

  • Admission control for statistical QoS: theory and practice

    E.W. Knightly;N.B. Shroff

  • IEEE 802.11ay: Next-Generation 60 GHz Communication for 100 Gb/s Wi-Fi

    Yasaman Ghasempour;Claudio R. C. M. da Silva;Carlos Cordeiro;Edward W. Knightly

  • IEEE 802.11af: a standard for TV white space spectrum sharing

    Adriana B. Flores;Ryan E. Guerra;Edward W. Knightly;Peter Ecclesine

  • Opportunistic fair scheduling over multiple wireless channels

    Y. Liu;E. Knightly

  • Steering with eyes closed: Mm-Wave beam steering without in-band measurement

    Thomas Nitsche;Adriana B. Flores;Edward W. Knightly;Joerg Widmer

  • Distributed multi-hop scheduling and medium access with delay and throughput constraints

    V. Kanodia;C. Li;A. Sabharwal;B. Sadeghi

  • Mobility resilience and overhead constrained adaptation in directional 60 GHz WLANs: protocol design and system implementation

    Muhammad Kumail Haider;Edward W. Knightly

  • Deterministic delay bounds for VBR video in packet-switching networks: fundamental limits and practical trade-offs

    Dallas E. Wrege;Edward W. Knightly;Hui Zhang;Jörg Liebeherr

  • Measurement driven deployment of a two-tier urban mesh access network

    Joseph Camp;Joshua Robinson;Christopher Steger;Edward Knightly

  • Enabling large-scale wireless broadband: the case for TAPs

    R. Karrer;A. Sabharwal;E. Knightly

  • Measurement-based admission control with aggregate traffic envelopes

    Jingyu Qiu;Edward W. Knightly

  • Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks

    Aleksandar Kuzmanovic;Edward W. Knightly

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashutosh Sabharwal
Ashutosh Sabharwal Rice University
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang National University of Singapore
Theodoros Salonidis
Theodoros Salonidis IBM (United States)
Michele Garetto
Michele Garetto University of Turin
Josep Miquel Jornet
Josep Miquel Jornet Northeastern University
Carlos Cordeiro
Carlos Cordeiro Intel (United States)
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas Northeastern University
Daniel M. Mittleman
Daniel M. Mittleman Brown University
Zhi Sun
Zhi Sun Tsinghua University
Sung-Ju Lee
Sung-Ju Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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