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Muriel Medard

Muriel Medard

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Computer Science

D-Index
82
Citations
43173
World Ranking
929
National Ranking
505

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
82
Citations
41827
World Ranking
444
National Ranking
205

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the theory and practice of network coding.
  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Muriel Medard is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans important subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's publication record includes frequent contributions to notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 74 publications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (6 publications), IEEE Transactions on Communications (5 publications), 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (5 publications), and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (4 publications).

Medard's research covers a range of topics, focusing significantly on Error Correcting Code Techniques, Wireless Communication Security Techniques, Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques, Cooperative Communication and Network Coding, Coding Theory and Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, and Cryptography and Data Security.

Frequent collaborators include Ken R. Duffy, Alejandro Cohen, Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira, Homa Esfahanizadeh, and Peihong Yuan, indicating strong professional networks and co-authorship in related disciplines.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Ordered Reliability Bits Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Keep the Bursts and Ditch the Interleavers, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • Is 5 just what comes after 4?, 2020, Nature Electronics
  • FlEC: Enhancing QUIC With Application-Tailored Reliability Mechanisms, 2022, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Repeat-Free Codes, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Medard's contributions have been recognized through awards such as election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for work on the theory and practice of network coding, and designation as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018.

Best Publications

  • XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding

    Sachin Katti;Hariharan Rahul;Wenjun Hu;Dina Katabi

  • An algebraic approach to network coding

    Ralf Koetter;Muriel Médard

  • A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to Multicast

    T. Ho;M. Medard;R. Koetter;D.R. Karger

  • The benefits of coding over routing in a randomized setting

    T. Ho;R. Koetter;M. Medard;D.R. Karger

  • The effect upon channel capacity in wireless communications of perfect and imperfect knowledge of the channel

    M. Medard

  • On Coding for Reliable Communication over Packet Networks

    Desmond S. Lun;Muriel Medard;Ralf Koetter;Michelle Effros

  • On Randomized Network Coding

    Tracey Ho;Muriel Médard;Jun Shi;Michelle Effros

  • Resilient network coding in the presence of Byzantine adversaries

    S. Jaggi;M. Langberg;S. Katti;T. Ho

  • Minimum-cost multicast over coded packet networks

    Desmond S. Lun;Niranjan Ratnakar;Muriel Médard;Ralf Koetter

  • Toward Interconnected Virtual Reality: Opportunities, Challenges, and Enablers

    Ejder Bastug;Mehdi Bennis;Muriel Medard;Merouane Debbah

  • On Practical Network Coding for Wireless Environments

    D. Katabi;S. Katti;Wenjun Hu;H. Rahul

  • Full length article: On coding for reliable communication over packet networks

    Desmond S. Lun;Muriel MéDard;Ralf Koetter;Michelle Effros

  • Method and apparatus for automatic protection switching

    Muriel Medard;Steven G. Finn;Richard A. Barry;Robert G. Gallager

  • Redundant trees for preplanned recovery in arbitrary vertex-redundant or edge-redundant graphs

    M. Medard;S.G. Finn;R.A. Barry;R.G. Gallager

  • Symbol-level network coding for wireless mesh networks

    Sachin Katti;Dina Katabi;Hari Balakrishnan;Muriel Medard

  • Resilient Network Coding in the Presence of Byzantine Adversaries

    S. Jaggi;M. Langberg;S. Katti;T. Ho

  • Network Coding Meets TCP: Theory and Implementation

    Jay Kumar Sundararajan;Devavrat Shah;Muriel Médard;Szymon Jakubczak

  • Codecast: a network-coding-based ad hoc multicast protocol

    Joon-Sang Park;M. Gerla;D.S. Lun;Yunjung Yi

  • Network deconvolution as a general method to distinguish direct dependencies in networks

    Soheil Feizi;Soheil Feizi;Daniel Marbach;Daniel Marbach;Muriel Médard;Manolis Kellis;Manolis Kellis

  • Achieving minimum-cost multicast: a decentralized approach based on network coding

    D.S. Lun;N. Ratnakar;R. Koetter;M. Medard

  • Proceedings of the 6th International COnference

    Jaudelice de Oliveira;Maximilian Ott;Tim Griffin;Muriel Medard

  • A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to

    Tracey Ho;Muriel Médard;Ralf Koetter;David R. Karger

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle Effros
Michelle Effros California Institute of Technology
Ralf Koetter
Ralf Koetter Technical University of Munich
Milica Stojanovic
Milica Stojanovic Northeastern University
Joao Barros
Joao Barros University of Porto
Tracey Ho
Tracey Ho California Institute of Technology
Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith Stony Brook University
Atilla Eryilmaz
Atilla Eryilmaz The Ohio State University

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