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Computer Science

D-Index
36
Citations
5828
World Ranking
11220
National Ranking
4639

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Computer network
  • Operating system
  • Ethernet

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Computer network, Network packet, Real-time computing, Fibre Channel and Frame. His research in Packet analyzer, Virtual LAN, Enterprise private network, Queue and Port are components of Computer network. Thomas J. Edsall is interested in Packet forwarding, which is a branch of Network packet.

His Real-time computing study combines topics in areas such as Port and Reduction. His work deals with themes such as Timestamp, Latency and Electrical engineering, which intersect with Fibre Channel. His Frame research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Computer hardware, Direct-attached storage, Converged storage, Storage virtualization and Storage area network.

His most cited work include:

  • Efficient network multicast switching apparatus and methods (278 citations)
  • Methods and apparatus for implementing virtualization of storage within a storage area network (277 citations)
  • Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network (228 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Computer network, Network packet, Real-time computing, Networking hardware and Fibre Channel. His research brings together the fields of Distributed computing and Computer network. The Network packet study combines topics in areas such as Frame and Queue.

The Real-time computing study which covers Latency that intersects with Timestamp and Computer hardware. His Networking hardware research incorporates themes from Drop, Latency and Buffer. Thomas J. Edsall combines subjects such as Routing, Electronic engineering, Port and Storage area network with his study of Fibre Channel.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Computer network (66.67%)
  • Network packet (46.15%)
  • Real-time computing (24.36%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2012-2021)?

  • Computer network (66.67%)
  • Network packet (46.15%)
  • Networking hardware (19.23%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Thomas J. Edsall spends much of his time researching Computer network, Network packet, Networking hardware, Real-time computing and Processing delay. His Computer network study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Lookup table and Distributed computing. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Queue, Traffic flow, Telecommunications link and Header.

His Networking hardware study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Computer security, Policy enforcement and Buffer. His work carried out in the field of Real-time computing brings together such families of science as Latency, Load balancing, Latency and Network scheduler. His Processing delay research incorporates elements of Packet analyzer and Burst switching.

Between 2012 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Network fabric overlay (117 citations)
  • Managing routing information for tunnel endpoints in overlay networks (88 citations)
  • Method for scaling address lookups using synthetic addresses (75 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Computer network
  • Operating system
  • Ethernet

Thomas J. Edsall mostly deals with Network packet, Computer network, Real-time computing, Load balancing and Lookup table. Network packet is often connected to Policy enforcement in his work. His study focuses on the intersection of Computer network and fields such as Distributed computing with connections in the field of Network traffic control.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Port mirroring, Multi path, Input/output completion port, Queue and Telecommunications link in addition to Real-time computing. His study in Load balancing is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Port and Port triggering. His Lookup table research includes elements of Identifier and Host.

Best Publications

  • Methods and apparatus for implementing virtualization of storage within a storage area network

    Thomas James Edsall;Silvano Gai

  • Efficient network multicast switching apparatus and methods

    Umesh Mahajan;Ramana Mellacheruvu;Thomas J. Edsall;Raymond Kloth

  • Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network

    Raymond J. Kloth;Thomas J. Edsall;Michael Fine;Dinesh G. Dutt

  • Managing routing information for tunnel endpoints in overlay networks

    Kit Chiu Chu;Thomas J. Edsall;Navindra Yadav;Francisco M. Matus

  • Methods and apparatus for encapsulating a frame for transmission in a storage area network

    Thomas James Edsall;Dinesh Ganapathy Dutt;Silvano Gai

  • Method and apparatus for high-speed parsing of network messages

    Silvano Gai;Thomas J. Edsall

  • Network switch with hash table look up

    Daniel Ullum;Thomas J. Edsall;Soei-Shin Hang

  • Randomized per-packet port channel load balancing

    Mohammadreza Alizadeh Attar;Sha Ma;Thomas J. Edsall

  • Forwarding table reduction and multipath network forwarding

    Lawrence Kreeger;Thomas Edsall;Elango Ganesan;Silvano Gai

  • Switch port analyzers

    Raymond J. Kloth;Thomas James Edsall;Kalyan K. Ghosh;Gaurav Rastogi

  • Multi-function high-speed network interface

    Andreas V. Bechtolsheim;Howard M. Frazier;Thomas J. Edsall

  • Security groups for VLANs

    Silvano Gai;Thomas Edsall

  • Router with class of service mapping

    Arthur Lin;Thomas J. Edsall;Tauseef Hashmi

  • Network fabric overlay

    Thomas James Edsall;Navindra Yadav;Francisco M. Matus;Kit Chiu Chu

  • Apparatus and method for performing fast fibre channel write operations over relatively high latency networks

    Murali Basavaiah;Satish Ambati;Magesh Iyengar;Thomas Edsall

  • Method and apparatus for updating and synchronizing forwarding tables in a distributed network switch

    Thomas J. Edsall;Herman Levenson;Claudette Lucille Surma;Ajit Sanzgiri

  • Network device architecture for consolidating input/output and reducing latency

    Silvano Gai;Thomas Edsall;Davide Bergamasco;Dinesh Dutt

  • Apparatus and method for a scalable network attach storage system

    Thomas James Edsall;Mario Mazzola;Prem Jain;Silvano Gai

  • Triple-tier anycast addressing

    Dino Farinacci;Thomas Edsall

  • Method and apparatus for remote powering of device connected to network

    Luca Cafiero;Maurilio De Nicolo;Thomas Edsall;Karl Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvano Gai
Silvano Gai Cisco Systems (United States)
Dino Farinacci
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Keith McCloghrie
Keith McCloghrie Cisco Systems (United States)

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