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3380
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the technology of high-speed networking.

Overview

Jonathan M. Smith is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality.

The scientist's work spans a variety of topics, notably:

  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography

Jonathan M. Smith has authored papers published in several distinct venues including the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Maine Policy Review, Communications of the ACM, Science, and the arXiv preprint server hosted by Cornell University.

Recent papers by this scientist include:

  • Software Packet-Level Network Analytics at Cloud Scale, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • What's Keeping Public Library Trustees Up at Night?, 2024, Maine Policy Review
  • It Takes a Village: Bridging the Gaps between Current and Formal Specifications for Protocols, 2025, Communications of the ACM
  • Classical-decisive quantum internet by integrated photonics, 2025, Science
  • It Takes a Village: Bridging the Gaps between Current and Formal Specifications for Protocols, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators include David Basin, Nate Foster, Kenneth L. McMillan, Kedar S. Namjoshi, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru, each with multiple joint publications.

Jonathan M. Smith has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow since 2001 for contributions to the technology of high-speed networking.

Best Publications

  • A survey of active network research

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

  • Location enhanced information delivery system

    Frederick Herz;Jonathan M. Smith;David C. Parkes

  • Implementing a distributed firewall

    Sotiris Ioannidis;Angelos D. Keromytis;Steve M. Bellovin;Jonathan M. Smith

  • Smudge attacks on smartphone touch screens

    Adam J. Aviv;Katherine Gibson;Evan Mossop;Matt Blaze

  • A secure and reliable bootstrap architecture

    W.A. Arbaugh;D.J. Farber;J.M. Smith

  • EROS: a fast capability system

    Jonathan S. Shapiro;Jonathan M. Smith;David J. Farber

  • The SwitchWare active network architecture

    D.S. Alexander;W.A. Arbaugh;M.W. Hicks;P. Kakkar;P. Kakkar

  • The QOS Broker [distributed multimedia computing]

    K. Nahrstedt;J.M. Smith

  • Overcoming an Untrusted Computing Base: Detecting and Removing Malicious Hardware Automatically

    Matthew Hicks;Murph Finnicum;Samuel T. King;Milo M. K. Martin

  • Practicality of accelerometer side channels on smartphones

    Adam J. Aviv;Benjamin Sapp;Matt Blaze;Jonathan M. Smith

  • A survey of process migration mechanisms

    Jonathan M. Smith

  • Giving applications access to Gb/s networking

    J.M. Smith;C.B.S. Traw

  • A high-performance host interface for ATM networks

    C. Brendan S. Traw;Jonathan M. Smith

  • Active bridging

    D. Scott Alexander;Marianne Shaw;Scott M. Nettles;Jonathan M. Smith

  • Quad-tree segmentation for texture-based image query

    J. Smith;S.-F. Chang

  • Protocol boosters

    D.C. Feldmeier;A.J. McAuley;J.M. Smith;D.S. Bakin

  • A secure active network environment architecture: realization in SwitchWare

    D.S. Alexander;W.A. Arbaugh;A.D. Keromytis;J.M. Smith

  • Activating networks: a progress report

    J.M. Smith;K.L. Calvert;S.L. Murphy;H.K. Orman

  • Hardware/software organization of a high-performance ATM host interface

    C.B.S. Traw;J.M. Smith

  • Design, implementation, and experiences of the OMEGA end-point architecture

    K. Nahrstedt;J.M. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelos D. Keromytis
Angelos D. Keromytis Georgia Institute of Technology
Sotiris Ioannidis
Sotiris Ioannidis Technical University of Crete
William A. Arbaugh
William A. Arbaugh University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Keller
Eric Keller University of Colorado Boulder
Klara Nahrstedt
Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Boon Thau Loo
Boon Thau Loo University of Pennsylvania
André DeHon
André DeHon University of Pennsylvania
Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.
Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. Royal Institute of Technology
Zachary G. Ives
Zachary G. Ives University of Pennsylvania
Kostas G. Anagnostakis
Kostas G. Anagnostakis Institute for Infocomm Research

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