2026 Klara Nahrstedt: 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	93	515	499	275	265	731	33763

Klara Nahrstedt publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klara Nahrstedt sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 731 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Klara Nahrstedt D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klara Nahrstedt sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2013 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics
2012 - Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society For pioneering contributions to end-to-end quality of service and resource management in wired and wireless networks
2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to quality-of-service management for distributed multimedia systems.

Overview

Klara Nahrstedt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the fields of computer science and engineering, with a focus on subfields such as computer vision and pattern recognition, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include image and video quality assessment, network security and intrusion detection, anomaly detection techniques and applications, advanced neural network applications, visual attention and saliency detection, wireless networks and protocols, and IoT and edge/fog computing.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Klara Nahrstedt include:

Safety, Security, and Privacy Threats Posed by Accelerating Trends in the Internet of Things (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
Early Attack Detection for Securing GOOSE Network Traffic (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
TWIN-ADAPT: Continuous Learning for Digital Twin-Enabled Online Anomaly Classification in IoT-Driven Smart Labs (2024), published in Future Internet
Detection of DoS Attacks Using ARFIMA Modeling of GOOSE Communication in IEC 61850 Substations (2020), published in Energies
Federated domain generalization for condition monitoring in ultrasonic metal welding (2024), published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Their frequent co-authors include Beitong Tian, Ahmadreza Eslaminia, Chenhui Shao, Bo Chen, and Qian Zhou.

Publication venues where Klara Nahrstedt has consistently contributed are arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Future Internet, and the Journal of Manufacturing Systems.

In recognition of their professional achievements, Klara Nahrstedt has received several awards, including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019
Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2013, specifically in Informatics
Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 2012 for contributions to end-to-end quality of service and resource management in wired and wireless networks
ACM Fellow in 2012 for contributions to quality-of-service management for distributed multimedia systems

Best Publications

A middleware infrastructure for active spaces

M. Roman;C. Hess;R. Cerqueira;A. Ranganathan

1888
Citations
An overview of quality of service routing for next-generation high-speed networks: problems and solutions

Shigang Chen;K. Nahrstedt

1438
Citations
Distributed quality-of-service routing in ad hoc networks

Shigang Chen;K. Nahrstedt

1329
Citations
A distributed resource management architecture that supports advance reservations and co-allocation

I. Foster;C. Kesselman;C. Lee;B. Lindell

1050
Citations
PDA: Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wenbo He;Xue Liu;Hoang Nguyen;K. Nahrstedt

655
Citations
On finding multi-constrained paths

Shigang Chen;K. Nahrstedt

591
Citations
Energy-efficient soft real-time CPU scheduling for mobile multimedia systems

Wanghong Yuan;Klara Nahrstedt

583
Citations
A control-based middleware framework for quality-of-service adaptations

Baochun Li;K. Nahrstedt

551
Citations
Detecting False Data Injection Attacks on DC State Estimation

Rakesh B. Bobba;Katherine M. Rogers;Qiyan Wang;Himanshu Khurana

544
Citations
The QOS Broker [distributed multimedia computing]

K. Nahrstedt;J.M. Smith

531
Citations
Multiple description wavelet based image coding

S.D. Servetto;K. Ramchandran;V.A. Vaishampayan;K. Nahrstedt

449
Citations
A QoS-aware multicast routing protocol

Shigang Chen;K. Nahrstedt;Y. Shavitt

412
Citations
Comparison of MPEG encryption algorithms

Lintian Qiao;Klara Nahrstedt

380
Citations
oStream: asynchronous streaming multicast in application-layer overlay networks

Yi Cui;Baochun Li;K. Nahrstedt

373
Citations
Effective location-guided tree construction algorithms for small group multicast in MANET

K. Chen;K. Nahrstedt

333
Citations
A trust management framework for service-oriented environments

William Conner;Arun Iyengar;Thomas Mikalsen;Isabelle Rouvellou

330
Citations
Resource management in networked multimedia systems

K. Nahrstedt;R. Steinmetz

314
Citations
Optimal resource allocation in wireless ad hoc networks: a price-based approach

Yuan Xue;Baochun Li;Klara Nahrstedt

311
Citations
Predictive location-based QoS routing in mobile ad hoc networks

S.H. Shah;K. Nahrstedt

293
Citations
Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications

Ralf Steinmetz;Klara Nahrstedt

291
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenbo He McMaster University

Roy H. Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Indranil Gupta Dalhousie University

Dongyan Xu Purdue University West Lafayette

Baochun Li University of Toronto

Ralf Steinmetz Technical University of Darmstadt

Xiaohui Gu North Carolina State University

Shigang Chen University of Florida

Ruzena Bajcsy University of California, Berkeley

Li Xiao Michigan State University

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