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Computer Science
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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
127
Citations
77848
World Ranking
110
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to design and analysis of mobile wireless protocols for vehicular safety and traffic applications

Overview

Mario Gerla was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to research primarily in the fields of engineering and computer science, with a focus on several specialized subfields.

Their work covered areas including computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, control and systems engineering, building and construction, and media technology. Several main topics characterized their research output:

  • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
  • Traffic control and management
  • Traffic prediction and management techniques
  • Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks
  • Distributed and parallel computing systems
  • IoT and edge/fog computing
  • Remote-sensing image classification

Mario Gerla published papers in various venues. Noteworthy among these were:

  • Adaptive Data Transmission Control for Spatio-temporal Data Retention over Crowds of Vehicles, published in 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Self-supervised image change detection method based on lightweight capsule network, published in 2024 in Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence

Collaborations were a part of their research activity, involving frequent co-authors such as Daiki Nobayashi, Ichiro Goto, Teshiba Hiroki, Kazuya Tsukamoto, and Takeshi Ikenaga.

For their contributions to the design and analysis of mobile wireless protocols focused on vehicular safety and traffic applications, they were recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Multicluster, mobile, multimedia radio network

    Mario Gerla;Jack Tzu-Chieh Tsai

  • Adaptive clustering for mobile wireless networks

    C.R. Lin;M. Gerla

  • GloMoSim: a library for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks

    Xiang Zeng;Rajive Bagrodia;Mario Gerla

  • A group mobility model for ad hoc wireless networks

    Xiaoyan Hong;Mario Gerla;Guangyu Pei;Ching-Chuan Chiang

  • Split multipath routing with maximally disjoint paths in ad hoc networks

    S.-J. Lee;M. Gerla

  • TCP westwood: Bandwidth estimation for enhanced transport over wireless links

    Saverio Mascolo;Claudio Casetti;Mario Gerla;M. Y. Sanadidi

  • Fisheye state routing: a routing scheme for ad hoc wireless networks

    Guangyu Pei;M. Gerla;Tsu-Wei Chen

  • On-demand multicast routing protocol

    Sung-Ju Lee;M. Gerla;Ching-Chuan Chiang

  • Scalable routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks

    Xiaoyan Hong;Kaixin Xu;M. Gerla

  • On-demand multicast routing protocol in multihop wireless mobile networks

    Sung Ju Lee;William Su;Mario Gerla

  • Scalable routing strategies for ad hoc wireless networks

    A. Iwata;Ching-Chuan Chiang;Guangyu Pei;M. Gerla

  • AODV-BR: backup routing in ad hoc networks

    S.-J. Lee;M. Gerla

  • Internet of vehicles: From intelligent grid to autonomous cars and vehicular clouds

    Mario Gerla;Eun-Kyu Lee;Giovanni Pau;Uichin Lee

  • How effective is the IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS handshake in ad hoc networks

    Kaixin Xu;M. Gerla;Sang Bae

  • The challenges of building mobile underwater wireless networks for aquatic applications

    Jun-Hong Cui;Jiejun Kong;M. Gerla;Shengli Zhou

  • Mobility prediction and routing in ad hoc wireless networks

    William Su;Sung-Ju Lee;Mario Gerla

  • GloMoSim: A Scalable Network Simulation Environment

    Lokesh Bajaj;Mineo Takai;Rajat Ahuja;Ken Tang

  • The flow deviation method: An approach to store-and-forward communication network design

    Luigi Fratta;Mario Gerla;Leonard Kleinrock

  • The impact of multihop wireless channel on TCP throughput and loss

    Z. Fu;P. Zerfos;H. Luo;S. Lu

  • A performance comparison study of ad hoc wireless multicast protocols

    Sung-Ju Lee;W. Su;J. Hsu;M. Gerla

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Y. Sanadidi
M. Y. Sanadidi University of California, Los Angeles
Giovanni Pau
Giovanni Pau University of California, Los Angeles
Uichin Lee
Uichin Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Xiaoyan Hong
Xiaoyan Hong University of Alabama
Jun-Hong Cui
Jun-Hong Cui Jilin University
Claudio E. Palazzi
Claudio E. Palazzi University of Padua
Luigi Fratta
Luigi Fratta Polytechnic University of Milan
Sung-Ju Lee
Sung-Ju Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Saverio Mascolo
Saverio Mascolo Polytechnic University of Bari
Rajive Bagrodia
Rajive Bagrodia Scalable Network Technologies (United States)

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