2026 Peter Steenkiste: 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	67	2179	2112	1094	1053	267	19523

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Computer Science

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19523

Overview

Peter Steenkiste is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of computer science and engineering, with a specific focus on computer networks and communications as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

Their subfields of study include:

Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems
Transportation

Main research topics covered in their publications include:

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Wireless Networks and Protocols
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Caching and Content Delivery

They have contributed to various scholarly venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

Proceedings of the ACM on Networking
arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Among their recent papers are:

"Time-Sensitive Cooperative Perception for Real-Time Data Sharing over Vehicular Communications: Overview, Challenges, and Future Directions" (2022, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine)
"Improving the On-Vehicle Experience of Passengers Through SC-M*: A Scalable Multi-Passenger Multi-Criteria Mobility Planner" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems)
"Wi-Fi Assist: Enhancing Vehicular Wi-Fi Connectivity with an Infrastructure-driven Approach" (2022, arXiv)
"A Dataset for Exploring Wi-Fi Network Diversity in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication" (2020, Zenodo)
"Sketchy With a Chance of Adoption: Can Sketch-Based Telemetry Be Ready for Prime Time?" (2020, arXiv)

Steenkiste has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Marco Mellia
Olivier Bonaventure
Gareth Tyson
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
António Rodrigues

They have also authored book publications with Morgan & Claypool Publishers, including two editions of Introduction to Wireless Networking and Its Impact on Applications published in 2023 and 2025.

Best Publications

Rainbow: architecture-based self-adaptation with reusable infrastructure

D. Garlan;S.-W. Cheng;A.-C. Huang;B. Schmerl

1721
Citations
Rainbow: architecture-based self-adaptation with reusable infrastructure

Shang-Wen Cheng;An-Cheng Huang;D. Garlan;B. Schmerl

1440
Citations
Project Aura: toward distraction-free pervasive computing

D. Garlan;D.P. Siewiorek;A. Smailagic;P. Steenkiste

1395
Citations
Evaluation and characterization of available bandwidth probing techniques

Ningning Hu;P. Steenkiste

1058
Citations
Self-management in chaotic wireless deployments

Aditya Akella;Glenn Judd;Srinivasan Seshan;Peter Steenkiste

607
Citations
On path selection for traffic with bandwidth guarantees

Qingming Ma;P. Steenkiste

592
Citations
Self-management in chaotic wireless deployments

Aditya Akella;Glenn Judd;Srinivasan Seshan;Peter Steenkiste

560
Citations
Quality-of-Service Routing for Traffic with Performance Guarantees

Qingming Ma;Peter Steenkiste

441
Citations
Measurement and analysis of the error characteristics of an in-building wireless network

David Eckhardt;Peter Steenkiste

344
Citations
Locating internet bottlenecks: algorithms, measurements, and implications

Ningning Hu;Li (Erran) Li;Zhuoqing Morley Mao;Peter Steenkiste

328
Citations
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments

Glenn Judd;Xiaohui Wang;Peter Steenkiste

312
Citations
Providing contextual information to pervasive computing applications

G. Judd;P. Steenkiste

301
Citations
Experimental study on the impact of vehicular obstructions in VANETs

Rui Meireles;Mate Boban;Peter Steenkiste;Ozan Tonguz

274
Citations
The Cost of the "S" in HTTPS

David Naylor;Alessandro Finamore;Ilias Leontiadis;Yan Grunenberger

271
Citations
Routing high-bandwidth traffic in max-min fair share networks

Qingming Ma;Peter Steenkiste;Hui Zhang

248
Citations
Catnap: exploiting high bandwidth wireless interfaces to save energy for mobile devices

Fahad R. Dogar;Peter Steenkiste;Konstantina Papagiannaki

227
Citations
XIA: efficient support for evolvable internetworking

Dongsu Han;Ashok Anand;Fahad Dogar;Boyan Li

226
Citations
Enabling MAC protocol implementations on software-defined radios

George Nychis;Thibaud Hottelier;Zhuocheng Yang;Srinivasan Seshan

223
Citations
The design of nectar: a network backplane for heterogeneous multicomputers

Emmanuel Arnould;H. T. Kung;Francois Bitz;Robert D. Sansom

218
Citations
Collecting network status information for network-aware applications

N. Miller;P. Steenkiste

198
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University

Urs Hengartner University of Waterloo

David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University

Konstantina Papagiannaki Google (United States)

Thomas R. Gross ETH Zurich

Hui Zhang National University of Singapore

Aditya Akella The University of Texas at Austin

Tsuhan Chen Cornell University

Bradley Schmerl Carnegie Mellon University

Joao Barros University of Porto

External Links

Personal website of Peter Steenkiste Google Scholar page

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