2026 Paul Barford: 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	54	4489	4360	2099	2024	187	14891

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to Internet measurement and security
2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to Internet measurement and analysis.
2014 - ACM Distinguished Member
2011 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Paul Barford is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Geophysics.

Their work covers a variety of topics within these areas, notably:

Software System Performance and Reliability
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Advanced Optical Network Technologies
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Network Traffic and Congestion Control

Barford's publications appear frequently in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
Seismological Research Letters

Their recent papers include:

"Assessing the Expansion of Ground-Motion Sensing Capability in Smart Cities via Internet Fiber-Optic Infrastructure," 2024, Seismological Research Letters
"BigBen: Telemetry Processing for Internet-Wide Event Monitoring," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
"Improving Scalability in Traffic Engineering via Optical Topology Programming," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
"Curvature-based Analysis of Network Connectivity in Private Backbone Infrastructures," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
"A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers," 2023, Communications of the ACM

Frequent co-authors include Scott Anderson, Loqman Salamatian, Walter Willinger, Mark Crovella, and Esteban Carisimo.

Barford has received several professional recognitions including:

IEEE Fellow, 2018, for contributions to Internet measurement and security
ACM Fellow, 2016, for contributions to Internet measurement and analysis
ACM Distinguished Member, 2014
ACM Senior Member, 2011

Best Publications

Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation

Paul Barford;Mark Crovella

2253
Citations
A signal analysis of network traffic anomalies

Paul Barford;Jeffery Kline;David Plonka;Amos Ron

1305
Citations
Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing

J. Chabarek;J. Sommers;P. Barford;C. Estan

988
Citations
Changes in Web client access patterns: Characteristics and caching implications

Paul Barford;Azer Bestavros;Adam Bradley;Mark Crovella

625
Citations
Characteristics of internet background radiation

Ruoming Pang;Vinod Yegneswaran;Paul Barford;Vern Paxson

524
Citations
An Inside Look at Botnets

Paul Barford;Vinod Yegneswaran

504
Citations
Characteristics of network traffic flow anomalies

Paul Barford;David Plonka

432
Citations
Internet intrusions: global characteristics and prevalence

Vinod Yegneswaran;Paul Barford;Johannes Ullrich

382
Citations
Global Intrusion Detection in the DOMINO Overlay System.

Vinod Yegneswaran;Paul Barford;Somesh Jha

367
Citations
Self-configuring network traffic generation

Joel Sommers;Paul Barford

306
Citations
An architecture for generating semantics-aware signatures

Vinod Yegneswaran;Jonathon T. Giffin;Paul Barford;Somesh Jha

293
Citations
On the design and use of Internet sinks for network abuse monitoring

Vinod Yegneswaran;Paul Barford;Dave Plonka

275
Citations
On the marginal utility of network topology measurements

Paul Barford;Azer Bestavros;John Byers;Mark Crovella

252
Citations
Data poisoning attacks against autoregressive models

Scott Alfeld;Xiaojin Zhu;Paul Barford

238
Citations
The network effects of prefetching

M. Crovella;P. Barford

237
Citations
Cell vs. WiFi: on the performance of metro area mobile connections

Joel Sommers;Paul Barford

231
Citations
Improving accuracy in end-to-end packet loss measurement

Joel Sommers;Paul Barford;Nick Duffield;Amos Ron

225
Citations
A performance evaluation of hyper text transfer protocols

Paul Barford;Mark Crovella

189
Citations
A learning-based approach for IP geolocation

Brian Eriksson;Paul Barford;Joel Sommers;Robert Nowak

188
Citations
Cyber SA : situational awareness for cyber defense

Paul Barford;Marc Dacier;Thomas G. Dietterich;Matt Fredrikson

183
Citations
Topology and routing: On the marginal utility of network topology measurements

Paul Barford;Azer Bestavros;John Byers;Mark E. Crovella

7
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Crovella Boston University

Vinod Yegneswaran SRI International

Robert Nowak University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nick Duffield Texas A&M University

Xiaojin Zhu University of Wisconsin–Madison

Azer Bestavros Boston University

Walter Willinger NIKSUN, Inc.

Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

John W. Byers Boston University

External Links

Personal website of Paul Barford Google Scholar page

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