2026 Sally Floyd: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	70	1816	920	112	63703

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

1816

920

112

63703

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - ACM Fellow For deep and lasting contributions to the understanding and design of the Internet; for pioneering development of scalable traffic control techniques.

Overview

Sally Floyd was affiliated with the International Computer Science Institute in the United States. Their research contributions focused primarily on computer science and engineering fields, with particular emphasis on computer networks, communications, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist published work related to network traffic, congestion control, software-defined networks, 5G technologies, and advanced optical network technologies. These topics reflect an interdisciplinary approach combining network systems and emerging communication technologies.

One notable recent publication by Sally Floyd was titled Towards a common TCP evaluation suite, published in 2024 through the Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). This work relates specifically to computer networks.

Their frequent coauthors included:

Lachlan L. H. Andrew
César Marcondes
Lawrence H. Dunn
Romaric Guillier
Gang Wang

Sally Floyd's publications appeared in venues such as:

Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)

The scientist contributed to both main and subfields of study including:

Computer Science
Engineering
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The main topics of their research covered:

Network Traffic and Congestion Control
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Sally Floyd was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2001 for contributions to internet design and scalable traffic control techniques.

Best Publications

Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance

Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson

9342
Citations
Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling

Vern Paxson;Sally Floyd

5943
Citations
TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options

M. Mathis;J. Mahdavi;S. Floyd;A. Romanow

2929
Citations
Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet

Sally Floyd;Kevin Fall

2647
Citations
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications

Sally Floyd;Mark Handley;Jitendra Padhye;Jörg Widmer

2305
Citations
Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

B. Braden;D. Clark;J. Crowcroft;B. Davie

2263
Citations
The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm

S. Floyd;T. Henderson;A. Gurtov

2226
Citations
The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

K. Ramakrishnan;S. Floyd;D. Black

2187
Citations
Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP

Kevin Fall;Sally Floyd

1699
Citations
Link-sharing and resource management models for packet networks

Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson

1682
Citations
HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows

S. Floyd

1680
Citations
TCP and explicit congestion notification

Sally Floyd

1593
Citations
A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson;Ching-Gung Liu;Steven McCanne

1543
Citations
TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification

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

1540
Citations
Advances in network simulation

L. Breslau;D. Estrin;K. Fall;S. Floyd

1318
Citations
A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson;Steve McCanne;Ching-Gung Liu

1311
Citations
Difficulties in simulating the internet

Sally Floyd;Vern Paxson

1276
Citations
Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)

S. Floyd;M. Handley;E. Kohler

1212
Citations
A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

K. Ramakrishnan;S. Floyd

1144
Citations
Controlling high bandwidth aggregates in the network

Ratul Mahajan;Steven M. Bellovin;Sally Floyd;John Ioannidis

1134
Citations
Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: the Extended Version

Sally Floyd;Mark Handley;Jitendra Padhye;Jörg Widmer

102
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Handley University College London

Eddie Kohler Harvard University

Van Jacobson University of California, Los Angeles

Mark Allman International Computer Science Institute

Jitendra Padhye Microsoft (United States)

Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan University of California, Riverside

Deborah Estrin Cornell University

Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

Lixia Zhang University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

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