2026 Frank Mueller: 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	55	4281	4163	2017	1947	305	13374

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the predictability of real-time systems, resilience in high-performance computing, and multi-threading techniques
2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to timing analysis of real-time systems
2011 - ACM Distinguished Member
2006 - ACM Senior Member
1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Frank Mueller is a researcher affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States, with a focus on computer science and related subfields. Their work spans multiple areas including computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, hardware and architecture, computer vision and pattern recognition, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study and topics explored in their research include:

Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Software system performance and reliability
Real-time systems scheduling
Parallel computing and optimization techniques
Cloud computing and resource management
Quantum computing algorithms and architecture
Neural networks and reservoir computing

Frank Mueller's recent publication record highlights contributions to various interdisciplinary domains. Selected papers include:

"NUMA-aware memory coloring for multicore real-time systems," 2021, Journal of Systems Architecture
"Hummingbird: efficient performance prediction for executing genomic applications in the cloud," 2021, Bioinformatics
"BarrierFinder: recognizing ad hoc barriers," 2020, Empirical Software Engineering
"Guest editorial: Special issue on the 2020 IEEE symposium on real-time distributed computing (ISORC)," 2022, Journal of Systems Architecture
"P-ckpt: Coordinated Prioritized Checkpointing," 2022, 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)

Their frequent co-authors include:

Srikar Chundury
In-Saeng Suh
Xing Pan
Amir Bahmani
Ziye Xing

Publication venues where Frank Mueller has regularly contributed encompass:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Systems Architecture
Bioinformatics
Empirical Software Engineering
2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)

Their academic recognition includes fellowships and distinctions such as:

ACM Fellow (2018) for contributions to the predictability of real-time systems, resilience in high-performance computing, and multi-threading techniques
IEEE Fellow (2016) for contributions to timing analysis of real-time systems
ACM Distinguished Member (2011)
ACM Senior Member (2006)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1963

Best Publications

The worst-case execution-time problem—overview of methods and survey of tools

Reinhard Wilhelm;Jakob Engblom;Andreas Ermedahl;Niklas Holsti

2717
Citations
Proactive fault tolerance for HPC with Xen virtualization

Arun Babu Nagarajan;Frank Mueller;Christian Engelmann;Stephen L. Scott

519
Citations
Analyzing and modeling encryption overhead for sensor network nodes

Prasanth Ganesan;Ramnath Venugopalan;Pushkin Peddabachagari;Alexander Dean

372
Citations
Bounding pipeline and instruction cache performance

C.A. Healy;R.D. Arnold;F. Mueller;D.B. Whalley

328
Citations
* Bounding Worst-case Instruction Cache Performance

Robert D. Arnold;Frank Mueller;David B. Whalley;Marion G. Harmon

326
Citations
A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads under UNIX.

Frank Mueller

308
Citations
Timing Analysis for Instruction Caches

Frank Mueller

281
Citations
Feedback EDF Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks Exploiting Dynamic Voltage Scaling

Yifan Zhu;Frank Mueller

280
Citations
Detection and correction of silent data corruption for large-scale high-performance computing

David Fiala;Frank Mueller;Christian Engelmann;Rolf Riesen

278
Citations
Communication characteristics of large-scale scientific applications for contemporary cluster architectures

J. S. Vetter;F. Mueller

267
Citations
Proactive process-level live migration in HPC environments

Chao Wang;Frank Mueller;Christian Engelmann;Stephen L. Scott

234
Citations
Cross-Platform Performance Prediction of Parallel Applications Using Partial Execution

Leo T. Yang;Xiaosong Ma;Frank Mueller

232
Citations
Compiler support for software-based cache partitioning

Frank Mueller

231
Citations
Timing analysis for data caches and set-associative caches

R.T. White;F. Mueller;C.A. Healy;D.B. Whalley

231
Citations
Detection and correction of silent data corruption for large-scale high-performance computing

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224
Citations
Combining Partial Redundancy and Checkpointing for HPC

James Elliott;Kishor Kharbas;David Fiala;Frank Mueller

209
Citations
A Comparison of Static Analysis and Evolutionary Testing for the Verification of Timing Constraints

Joachim Wegener;Frank Mueller

201
Citations
Feedback EDF scheduling exploiting dynamic voltage scaling

Yifan Zhu;F. Mueller

190
Citations
ScalaTrace: Scalable compression and replay of communication traces for high-performance computing

Michael Noeth;Prasun Ratn;Frank Mueller;Martin Schulz

172
Citations
Auto-generation and auto-tuning of 3D stencil codes on GPU clusters

Yongpeng Zhang;Frank Mueller

168
Citations
Time-based intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems

Christopher Zimmer;Balasubramanya Bhat;Frank Mueller;Sibin Mohan

147
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Whalley Florida State University

Bronis R. de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Martin Schulz Technical University of Munich

Sally A. McKee Chalmers University of Technology

Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California

Laxmikant V. Kale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ron Brightwell Sandia National Laboratories

Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University

Zhe Zhang Netflix (United States)

Mihail L. Sichitiu North Carolina State University

External Links

Personal website of Frank Mueller Google Scholar page

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