2026 Mark Handley: 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	80	1046	1012	55	55	159	65926

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Mark Handley is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span multiple fields primarily including Engineering and Computer Science, with specific focus areas such as Computer Networks and Communications, Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary topics addressed in their work include:

Interconnection Networks and Systems
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Advanced Optical Network Technologies
Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology
Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods
Guidance and Control Systems
Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Mark Handley has authored and co-authored papers published in several venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
Proceedings of the Vertical Flight Society 77th Annual Forum

Their recent papers reflect a diversity of research interests and include:

Designing a Platform for Flexible and Performant Virtual Routers on Commodity Hardware (2024), Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
Improvements to a Helicopter Gun System Controller Using Active Damping and Ramp Rates for the Bending Corrections (2021), Proceedings of the Vertical Flight Society 77th Annual Forum
Reliable Low-Delay Routing In Space with Routing-Oblivious LEO Satellites (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)
FASTFLOW: Flexible Adaptive Congestion Control for High-Performance Datacenters (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)
20 Years in Life of a Smart Building: A retrospective (2025), arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaboration is evident through frequent co-authors, which include:

Norbert Egi
Adam Greenhalgh
Mickaël Hoerdt
Felipe Huici
Laurent Mathy

Mark Handley was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2019.

Best Publications

A scalable content-addressable network

Sylvia Ratnasamy;Paul Francis;Mark Handley;Richard Karp

10985
Citations
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

J. Rosenberg;H. Schulzrinne;G. Camarillo;A. Johnston

10672
Citations
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

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5007
Citations
SDP: Session Description Protocol

M. Handley;V. Jacobson

4082
Citations
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications

Sally Floyd;Mark Handley;Jitendra Padhye;Jörg Widmer

2305
Citations
RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

B Fenner;M Handley;H Holbrook;I Kouvelas

2206
Citations
Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks

Dina Katabi;Mark Handley;Charlie Rohrs

1932
Citations
TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses

Mark Handley;Olivier Bonaventure;Costin Raiciu;Alan Ford

1716
Citations
TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification

M. Handley;S. Floyd;J. Padhye;J. Widmer

1540
Citations
Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification

D. Estrin;D. Farinacci;A. Helmy;D. Thaler

1449
Citations
RAP: An end-to-end rate-based congestion control mechanism for realtime streams in the Internet

R. Rejaie;M. Handley;D. Estrin

1243
Citations
Topologically-aware overlay construction and server selection

S. Ratnasamy;M. Handley;R. Karp;S. Shenker

1232
Citations
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)

S. Floyd;M. Handley;E. Kohler

1212
Citations
Improving datacenter performance and robustness with multipath TCP

Costin Raiciu;Sebastien Barre;Christopher Pluntke;Adam Greenhalgh

952
Citations
Application-Level Multicast Using Content-Addressable Networks

Sylvia Ratnasamy;Mark Handley;Richard M. Karp;Scott Shenker

939
Citations
Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP

Damon Wischik;Costin Raiciu;Adam Greenhalgh;Mark Handley

831
Citations
Architectural Guidelines for Multipath TCP Development

Mark Handley;Costin Raiciu;Alan Ford;Janardhan Iyengar

824
Citations
How hard can it be? designing and implementing a deployable multipath TCP

Costin Raiciu;Christoph Paasch;Sebastien Barre;Alan Ford

725
Citations
Session Announcement Protocol

M. Handley;C. Perkins;E. Whelan

711
Citations
Network intrusion detection: evasion, traffic normalization, and end-to-end protocol semantics

Mark Handley;Vern Paxson;Christian Kreibich

684
Citations
TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses : draft-ietf-mptcp-multiaddressed-03

Alan Ford;Costin Raiciu;Mark Handley;Olivier Bonaventure

152
Citations
Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version

Sally Floyd;Mark Handley;Jitendra Padhye;Jörg Widmer

102
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Estrin Cornell University

Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge

Sally Floyd International Computer Science Institute

Reza Rejaie University of Oregon

Ahmed Helmy University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

Jitendra Padhye Microsoft (United States)

Michael Luby BitRipple

Sylvia Ratnasamy University of California, Berkeley

Eddie Kohler Harvard University

External Links

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