Rahul Urgaonkar

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Rahul Urgaonkar is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Rahul Urgaonkar has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Rahul Urgaonkar's work include Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (11 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (10 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (9 papers). Rahul Urgaonkar is often cited by papers focused on Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (11 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (10 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (9 papers). Rahul Urgaonkar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Rahul Urgaonkar's co-authors include Michael J. Neely, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Kevin Spiteri, Kevin Chan, Murtaza Zafer, Shiqiang Wang, Ting He, Kin K. Leung, Bhuvan Urgaonkar and Anand Sivasubramaniam and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

In The Last Decade

Rahul Urgaonkar

39 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

BOLA: Near-optimal bitrate adaptation for online videos 2011 2026 2016 2021 2016 2011 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. BOLA: Near-optimal bitrate adaptation for online videos
    2016 387 citations Kevin Spiteri, Rahul Urgaonkar et al. profile →
  2. Optimal power cost management using stored energy in data centers
    2011 329 citations Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rahul Urgaonkar United States 19 1.9k 1.1k 616 509 256 40 2.4k
Liam Murphy Ireland 22 1.1k 0.6× 786 0.7× 168 0.3× 417 0.8× 277 1.1× 141 1.7k
Wanjiun Liao Taiwan 31 2.5k 1.3× 1.9k 1.7× 165 0.3× 219 0.4× 121 0.5× 220 3.1k
Navid Nikaein France 34 2.9k 1.5× 2.3k 2.0× 298 0.5× 196 0.4× 79 0.3× 144 3.6k
Nelson L. S. da Fonseca Brazil 25 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.4× 727 1.2× 185 0.4× 48 0.2× 317 3.0k
Chengzhe Lai China 22 1.6k 0.8× 901 0.8× 890 1.4× 204 0.4× 79 0.3× 67 2.1k
Mohammad Alizadeh United States 11 1.2k 0.6× 350 0.3× 510 0.8× 873 1.7× 483 1.9× 22 2.1k
Marinho Barcellos Brazil 15 1.5k 0.8× 549 0.5× 524 0.9× 187 0.4× 58 0.2× 90 1.8k
Giovanni Schembra Italy 21 1.2k 0.6× 689 0.6× 144 0.2× 264 0.5× 120 0.5× 156 1.5k
Niki Pissinou United States 21 1.8k 0.9× 610 0.5× 372 0.6× 102 0.2× 157 0.6× 143 2.1k
Enzo Mingozzi Italy 27 2.5k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 422 0.7× 276 0.5× 56 0.2× 144 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Rahul Urgaonkar

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Rahul Urgaonkar's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Rahul Urgaonkar with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Rahul Urgaonkar more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Rahul Urgaonkar

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Rahul Urgaonkar. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Rahul Urgaonkar. The network helps show where Rahul Urgaonkar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rahul Urgaonkar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rahul Urgaonkar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rahul Urgaonkar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rahul Urgaonkar. Rahul Urgaonkar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Lu, Zongqing, Kevin Chan, Rahul Urgaonkar, Shiliang Pu, & Thomas La Porta. (2019). NetVision: On-Demand Video Processing in Wireless Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 28(1). 196–209. 6 indexed citations
2.
Silvestri, Simone, Rahul Urgaonkar, Murtaza Zafer, & Bong Jun Ko. (2018). A Framework for the Inference of Sensing Measurements Based on Correlation. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. 15(1). 1–28. 14 indexed citations
3.
Qiu, Hang, Xiaochen Liu, Swati Rallapalli, et al.. (2018). Kestrel: Video Analytics for Augmented Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 48–59. 28 indexed citations
4.
Spiteri, Kevin, Rahul Urgaonkar, & Ramesh K. Sitaraman. (2016). BOLA: Near-optimal bitrate adaptation for online videos. 1–9. 387 indexed citations breakdown →
5.
Lee, Stephen, et al.. (2016). How to cool internet-scale distributed networks on the cheap. 1–12. 4 indexed citations
6.
Urgaonkar, Rahul, Prithwish Basu, Saikat Guha, & Ananthram Swami. (2015). Optimal multicast in dense multi-channel multi-radio wireless networks. 621–629. 2 indexed citations
7.
Lee, Stephen, Rahul Urgaonkar, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, & Prashant Shenoy. (2015). Cost Minimization Using Renewable Cooling and Thermal Energy Storage in CDNs. 121–126. 6 indexed citations
8.
Chan, Kevin, et al.. (2015). Security-aware service migration for tactical mobile micro-clouds. 1. 1058–1063. 6 indexed citations
9.
Wang, Shiqiang, Rahul Urgaonkar, Kevin Chan, et al.. (2015). Dynamic service placement for mobile micro-clouds with predicted future costs. 32 indexed citations
10.
Urgaonkar, Rahul & Michael J. Neely. (2014). Delay-Limited Cooperative Communication With Reliability Constraints in Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 60(3). 1869–1882. 15 indexed citations
11.
Urgaonkar, Rahul, et al.. (2013). Scalability analysis of grid-based multi-hop wireless networks. 53. 1–10. 2 indexed citations
12.
Urgaonkar, Rahul, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neely, & Anand Sivasubramaniam. (2011). Optimal power cost management using stored energy in data centers. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 39(1). 181–181. 22 indexed citations
13.
Neely, Michael J. & Rahul Urgaonkar. (2011). Optimal resource allocation and cross-layer control in cognitive and cooperative wireless networks. 2 indexed citations
14.
Urgaonkar, Rahul & Michael J. Neely. (2010). Routing with Mutual Information Accumulation in Wireless Networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
15.
Urgaonkar, Rahul & Michael J. Neely. (2009). Delay-Limited Cooperative Communication with Reliability Constraints in Wireless Networks. 1. 2561–2565. 21 indexed citations
16.
Neely, Michael J. & Rahul Urgaonkar. (2008). Opportunism, backpressure, and stochastic optimization with the wireless broadcast advantage. 25 indexed citations
17.
Urgaonkar, Rahul & Michael J. Neely. (2008). Opportunistic Scheduling with Reliability Guarantees in Cognitive Radio Networks. 1301–1309. 73 indexed citations
18.
Urgaonkar, Rahul & Michael J. Neely. (2008). Opportunistic Scheduling with Reliability Guarantees in Cognitive Radio Networks. 2008 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM - The 27th Conference on Computer Communications. 143 indexed citations
19.
Urgaonkar, Rahul & Michael J. Neely. (2006). Capacity Region, Minimum Energy and Delay for a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network. 1–10. 4 indexed citations
20.
Baruah, Pallav Kumar, Rahul Urgaonkar, & Bhaskar Krishnamachari. (2004). Learning-enforced time domain routing to mobile sinks in wireless sensor fields. 525–532. 51 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Liam Murphy Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Wanjiun Liao Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Navid Nikaein Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nelson L. S. da Fonseca Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Chengzhe Lai Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mohammad Alizadeh Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Marinho Barcellos Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Giovanni Schembra Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Niki Pissinou Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Enzo Mingozzi
Rankless by CCL
2026