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Mario Pickavet

Mario Pickavet

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
47
Citations
10902
World Ranking
3171
National Ranking
66

Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
11151
World Ranking
6396
National Ranking
67

Mario Pickavet 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 Mario Pickavet sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 558 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mario Pickavet 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 Mario Pickavet sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mario Pickavet is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, focusing on research in engineering and computer science. Their work primarily intersects electrical and electronic engineering as well as computer networks and communications, with additional interests in industrial and manufacturing engineering, artificial intelligence, and transportation.

Their research covers various topics that include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization

Mario Pickavet has contributed to multiple publications across several notable scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Computer Networks
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Among recent papers associated with Mario Pickavet are:

  • Graph Representations for Programmable Photonic Circuits, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • VNF Performance Modelling: From Stand-alone to Chained Topologies, 2020, Computer Networks
  • Photonic Network-on-Wafer for Multichiplet GPUs, 2023, IEEE Micro
  • VNF-AAPC: Accelerator-aware VNF Placement and Chaining, 2020, Computer Networks
  • Optimized Sampling Strategies to Model the Performance of Virtualized Network Functions, 2020, Journal of Network and Systems Management

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, with the most common collaborators being:

  • Didier Colle
  • Wouter Tavernier
  • Pieter Audenaert
  • Kenneth Stoop
  • Gourav Prateek Sharma

Best Publications

  • Network Recovery: Protection and Restoration of Optical, SONET-SDH, IP, and MPLS

    Jean-Philippe Vasseur;Mario Pickavet;Piet Demeester

  • Trends in worldwide ICT electricity consumption from 2007 to 2012

    Ward Van Heddeghem;Sofie Lambert;Bart Lannoo;Didier Colle

  • Worldwide energy needs for ICT: The rise of power-aware networking

    M. Pickavet;W. Vereecken;S. Demeyer;P. Audenaert

  • Pan-European optical transport networks: An availability-based comparison

    Sophie De Maesschalck;Didier Colle;Ilse Lievens;Mario Pickavet

  • Power consumption modeling in optical multilayer networks

    Ward Van Heddeghem;Filip Idzikowski;Willem Vereecken;Didier Colle

  • OpenFlow: Meeting carrier-grade recovery requirements

    Sachin Sharma;Dimitri Staessens;Didier Colle;Mario Pickavet

  • The European IST project DAVID: a viable approach toward optical packet switching

    L. Dittmann;C. Develder;D. Chiaroni;F. Neri

  • IST-LASAGNE: towards all-optical label swapping employing optical logic gates and optical flip-flops

    F. Ramos;E. Kehayas;J.M. Martinez;R. Clavero

  • Worldwide electricity consumption of communication networks.

    Sofie Lambert;Ward Van Heddeghem;Willem Vereecken;Bart Lannoo

  • Enabling fast failure recovery in OpenFlow networks

    Sachin Sharma;Dimitri Staessens;Didier Colle;Mario Pickavet

  • Radio-over-fiber-based solution to provide broadband internet access to train passengers [Topics in Optical Communications]

    B. Lannoo;D. Colle;M. Pickavet;P. Demeester

  • Optical Networks for Grid and Cloud Computing Applications

    C. Develder;M. De Leenheer;B. Dhoedt;M. Pickavet

  • Data-centric optical networks and their survivability

    D. Colle;S. De Maesschalck;C. Develder;P. Van Heuven

  • Overall ICT footprint and green communication technologies

    Willem Vereecken;Ward Van Heddeghem;Didier Colle;Mario Pickavet

  • Network service chaining with optimized network function embedding supporting service decompositions

    Sahel Sahhaf;Wouter Tavernier;Matthias Rost;Stefan Schmid

  • Software defined networking: Meeting carrier grade requirements

    Dimitri Staessens;Sachin Sharma;Didier Colle;Mario Pickavet

  • Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Access Networks: a Survey and an Outlook

    Lukasz Budzisz;Fatemeh Ganji;Gianluca Rizzo;Marco Ajmone Marsan

  • Intelligent optical networking for multilayer survivability

    S. De Maesschalck;D. Colle;A. Groebbens;C. Develder

  • Hybrid optical network architectures: bringing packets and circuits together

    C.M. Gauger;P.J. Kuhn;E.V. Breusegem;M. Pickavet

  • Fast failure recovery for in-band OpenFlow networks

    S. Sharma;D. Staessens;D. Colle;M. Pickavet

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Colle
Didier Colle Ghent University
Piet Demeester
Piet Demeester Ghent University
Chris Develder
Chris Develder Ghent University
Bart Dhoedt
Bart Dhoedt Ghent University
Wout Joseph
Wout Joseph Ghent University
Luc Martens
Luc Martens Ghent University
Ingrid Moerman
Ingrid Moerman Ghent University
Ann Nowé
Ann Nowé Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Filip De Turck
Filip De Turck Ghent University
Lena Wosinska
Lena Wosinska Chalmers University of Technology

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