2026 Anja Feldmann: 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	78	1217	1176	47	47	303	22096

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
2009 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics

Overview

Anja Feldmann is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on computer networks, communications, and related subfields. Their work covers a range of topics including internet traffic analysis, network security, congestion control, and software-defined networking among others.

Their recent publications demonstrate involvement in analyzing the impact of global events on internet infrastructure and traffic patterns. Notable recent papers include:

"A year in lockdown," 2021, Communications of the ACM
"The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic," 2020, Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
"Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Internet Traffic," 2021, Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
"Marina: Realizing ML-Driven Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring at Terabit Scale," 2024, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
"On the Globalization of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Through Telegram," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Feldmann include Oliver Gasser, Georgios Smaragdakis, Franziska Lichtblau, Ingmar Poese, and Christoph Dietzel. These collaborations suggest a strong network within the research community focusing on network management and security.

Publication venues where Feldmann's work appears often include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Communications of the ACM

Feldmann's main field of study is computer science, with a concentration on the subfields of computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic engineering, hardware and architecture, and sociology and political science. The main research topics covered by Feldmann include:

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Network Traffic and Congestion Control
IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Caching and Content Delivery
Software System Performance and Reliability

Recognition for their work includes membership in the Academia Europaea since 2013 and induction into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2009, emphasizing their standing within the scientific community particularly in informatics.

Best Publications

Fitting mixtures of exponentials to long-tail distributions to analyze network performance models

Anja Feldmann;Ward Whitt

878
Citations
Data networks as cascades: investigating the multifractal nature of Internet WAN traffic

A. Feldmann;A. C. Gilbert;W. Willinger

754
Citations
Dynamics of IP traffic: a study of the role of variability and the impact of control

Anja Feldmann;Anna C. Gilbert;Polly Huang;Walter Willinger

656
Citations
Live wide-area migration of virtual machines including local persistent state

Robert Bradford;Evangelos Kotsovinos;Anja Feldmann;Harald Schiöberg

616
Citations
On dominant characteristics of residential broadband internet traffic

Gregor Maier;Anja Feldmann;Vern Paxson;Mark Allman

609
Citations
Can ISPS and P2P users cooperate for improved performance

Vinay Aggarwal;Anja Feldmann;Christian Scheideler

606
Citations
Rate of change and other metrics: a live study of the world wide web

Fred Douglis;Anja Feldmann;Balachander Krishnamurthy;Jeffrey Mogul

540
Citations
Deriving traffic demands for operational IP networks: methodology and experience

Anja Feldmann;Albert Greenberg;Carsten Lund;Nick Reingold

535
Citations
Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTP

Jeffrey C. Mogul;Fred Douglis;Anja Feldmann;Balachander Krishnamurthy

534
Citations
The changing nature of network traffic: scaling phenomena

A. Feldmann;A. C. Gilbert;W. Willinger;T. G. Kurtz

520
Citations
Logically centralized?: state distribution trade-offs in software defined networks

Dan Levin;Andreas Wundsam;Brandon Heller;Nikhil Handigol

460
Citations
Internet clean-slate design: what and why?

Anja Feldmann

446
Citations
Towards programmable enterprise WLANS with Odin

Lalith Suresh;Julius Schulz-Zander;Ruben Merz;Anja Feldmann

431
Citations
Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective

Fabian Schneider;Anja Feldmann;Balachander Krishnamurthy;Walter Willinger

426
Citations
Anatomy of a large european IXP

Bernhard Ager;Nikolaos Chatzis;Anja Feldmann;Nadi Sarrar

401
Citations
NetScope: traffic engineering for IP networks

A. Feldmann;A. Greenberg;C. Lund;N. Reingold

395
Citations
Locating internet routing instabilities

Anja Feldmann;Olaf Maennel;Z. Morley Mao;Arthur Berger

359
Citations
Performance of Web proxy caching in heterogeneous bandwidth environments

A. Feldmann;R. Caceres;F. Douglis;G. Glass

345
Citations
Network virtualization architecture: proposal and initial prototype

Gregor Schaffrath;Christoph Werle;Panagiotis Papadimitriou;Anja Feldmann

311
Citations
Dynamic application-layer protocol analysis for network intrusion detection

Holger Dreger;Anja Feldmann;Michael Mai;Vern Paxson

280
Citations
Potential Benefits Of Delta Encoding and Data Compression for HTTP (Corrected Version)

Jeffrey Mogul;Fred Douglis;Anja Feldmann;Balachander Krishnamurthy

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bachmann Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Stefan Schmid Technical University of Berlin

Georgios Smaragdakis Delft University of Technology

Marc Schmitz TU Dresden

Steve Uhlig Queen Mary University of London

Walter Willinger NIKSUN, Inc.

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

Balachander Krishnamurthy AT&T (United States)

Anna C. Gilbert Yale University

Jennifer Rexford Princeton University

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