2026 Ellen W. Zegura: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	56	3968	3856	1887	1820	235	19556

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to communication and computation in intermittingly-connected networks.

Overview

Ellen W. Zegura is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with notable subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Education, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as Service-Learning and Community Engagement, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Caching and Content Delivery, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, ICT in Developing Communities, and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development.

Among Ellen W. Zegura's recent publications are the following papers:

"Linking personal and professional social responsibility development to microethics and macroethics: Observations from early undergraduate education" (2020, Journal of Engineering Education)
"Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible" (2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review)
"As a Squash Plant Grows" (2021, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction)
"The impact of community engagement on undergraduate social responsibility attitudes" (2023, Studies in Higher Education)
"A tale of three datasets" (2022, Communications of the ACM)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ellen W. Zegura include:

Morgan Vigil-Hayes
Elizabeth Belding
Daniel Schiff
Jason Borenstein
Jeonghyun Lee

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues multiple times. These venues include:

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Engineering Education
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Ellen W. Zegura was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2013 for contributions to communication and computation in intermittently-connected networks.

Best Publications

How to model an internetwork

E.W. Zegura;K.L. Calvert;S. Bhattacharjee

2456
Citations
A message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks

W. Zhao;M. Ammar;E. Zegura

1823
Citations
The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks

Nick Feamster;Jennifer Rexford;Ellen Zegura

1512
Citations
Modeling Internet topology

K.L. Calvert;M.B. Doar;E.W. Zegura

1474
Citations
A quantitative comparison of graph-based models for Internet topology

Ellen W. Zegura;Kenneth L. Calvert;Michael J. Donahoo

742
Citations
Controlling the mobility of multiple data transport ferries in a delay-tolerant network

W. Zhao;M. Ammar;E. Zegura

641
Citations
Message ferry route design for sparse ad hoc networks with mobile nodes

Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq;Mostafa Ammar;Ellen Zegura

488
Citations
Serendipity: enabling remote computing among intermittently connected mobile devices

Cong Shi;Vasileios Lakafosis;Mostafa H. Ammar;Ellen W. Zegura

456
Citations
Performance of hashing-based schemes for Internet load balancing

Zhiruo Cao;Zheng Wang;E. Zegura

435
Citations
Directions in active networks

K.L. Calvert;S. Bhattacharjee;E. Zegura;J. Sterbenz

404
Citations
A novel server selection technique for improving the response time of a replicated service

Z.-M. Fei;S. Bhattacharjee;E.W. Zegura;M.H. Ammar

391
Citations
Femto Clouds: Leveraging Mobile Devices to Provide Cloud Service at the Edge

Karim Habak;Mostafa Ammar;Khaled A. Harras;Ellen Zegura

349
Citations
Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated Web service

Ellen W. Zegura;Mostafa H. Ammar;Zongming Fei;Samrat Bhattacharjee

322
Citations
Application-layer anycasting

S. Bhattacharjee;M.H. Ammar;E.W. Zegura;V. Shah

320
Citations
Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs

Wenrui Zhao;Yang Chen;Mostafa Ammar;Mark Corner

318
Citations
Multicasting in delay tolerant networks: semantic models and routing algorithms

Wenrui Zhao;Mostafa Ammar;Ellen Zegura

308
Citations
Utility max-min: an application-oriented bandwidth allocation scheme

Zhiruo Cao;E.W. Zegura

303
Citations
Routing in Space and Time in Networks with Predictable Mobility

Shashidhar Merugu;Mostafa H. Ammar;Ellen W. Zegura

297
Citations
Spectral analysis of Internet topologies

C. Gkantsidis;M. Mihail;E. Zegura

240
Citations
COSMOS: computation offloading as a service for mobile devices

Cong Shi;Karim Habak;Pranesh Pandurangan;Mostafa Ammar

238
Citations
The Road to SDN: An intellectual history of programmable networks

Nick Feamster;Jennifer Rexford;Ellen Zegura

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mostafa H. Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology

Elizabeth Belding University of California, Santa Barbara

Khaled A. Harras Carnegie Mellon University

Jun Xu Georgia Institute of Technology

Jennifer Rexford Princeton University

Rebecca E. Grinter Georgia Institute of Technology

Constantine Dovrolis Georgia Institute of Technology

Saurabh Bagchi Purdue University West Lafayette

Christos Gkantsidis Microsoft (United States)

George F. Riley Georgia Institute of Technology

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