Balaji Prabhakar

Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Stanford University


Electrical Engineering Department
350 Serra Mall, Room 269
Stanford, CA 94305-9510
USA

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Teaching



Biography

Publications

Book Chapters
  1. T.S. Mountford, B. Prabhakar, “The Cesaro limit of departures from certain ·/GI /1 queueing tandems,” Stochastic Networks: Theory and Applications, 4:309-322, F.P. Kelly, S. Zachary and I. Ziedins, eds., Royal Statistical Society Lecture Note Series, Clarendon Press, Oxford, September 1996.

  2. T.S. Mountford, B. Prabhakar, “Convergence of departures from an infinite sequence of queues,” Stochastic Networks, F. Kelly, R. Williams, eds., series: IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 71:235- 237, Springer Verlag, New York, 1995.


Papers

  1. C. Pluntke, B. Prabhakar, "INSINC: A Platform for Managing Peak Demand in Public Transit," JOURNEYS, Land Transport Authority Academy of Singapore, Journeys , September 2013.

  2. M. Alizadeh, S. Yang, M. Sharif, S. Katti, N. McKeown, B. Prabhakar, S. Shenker, "pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 , pp 435-446, June 2013

  3. V. Jeyakumar, M. Alizadeh, D. Mazieres, B. Prabhakar, C. Kim, A. Greenberg, "EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation for the Multi-tenant Cloud," REM , Vol. 1005, Issue A1, Pages A2, April 2013.

  4. V. Jeyakumar, M. Alizadeh, D. Mazieres, B. Prabhakar, C. Kim, W. Azure, "EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation at the Edge,” USENIX Association, Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, p 8, December 2012.

  5. M. Alizadeh, S. Yang, S. Katti, N. McKeown, B. Prabhakar, B., S. Shenker, "Deconstructing Datacenter Packet Transport," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 , pp 435-446, June 2013

  6. M. Bramson, Y. Lu, B. Prabhakar, "Decay of Tails at Equilibrium for FIFO Join the Shortest Queue Networks," Annals of Applied Probability , Vol. 23, No. 5, 1841-1878, September 2013.

  7. M. Bramson, Y. Lu, B. Prabhakar, "Asymptotic Independence of Queues under Randomized Load Balancing," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 71 Issue 3, pp 247-292, July 2012.

  8. M. Alizadeh, A. Kabbani, T. Edsall, B. Prabhakar, A. Vahdat, M. Yasuda, "Less Is More: Trading a Little Bandwidth for Ultra-Low Latency in the Data Center," Proceedings of NSDI'12, 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2012.

  9. N. Gomes, D. Merugu, G. O'Brien, C. Mandyam, T. Yue, B. Atikoglu, A. Albert, N. Fukumoto, H. Liu, B. Prabhakar, D. Wischik, "Steptacular: an Incentive Mechanism for Promoting Wellness," NetHealth, Comsnets Workshop on Networked Healthcare Technology, January 2012.
  10. M. Alizadeh, A. Kabbani, B. Atikoglu, B. Prabhakar, "Stability Analysis of QCN: The Averaging Principle," Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Systems Performance, SIGMETRICS 2011, June 2011.

  11. M. Alizadeh, A. Javanmard,B. Prabhakar, "Analysis of DCTCP:Stability, Convergence, and Fairness," Proceedings of the ACMSpecial Interest Group on Computer Systems Performance, SIGMETRICS 2011, June 2011.

  12. M. Alizadeh, A. Greenberg, D.A. Maltz, J. Padhye, P. Patel, B. Prabhakar,S. Sengupta, M. Sridharan, "Data center TCP (DCTCP)," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2010, August 2010.

  13. A. Kabbani, M. Alizadeh, M. Yasuda, R. Pan,B. Prabhakar, "AD-QCN: Approximate fairness with quantized congestion notification for multi-tenanted data centers," Proceedings of the IEEE 2010 Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects, pp.58-65, August 2010.

  14. M. Bramson, Y. Lu,B. Prabhakar, "Randomized load balancing with general service time distributions," Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Systems Performance, SIGMETRICS 2010, June 2010.

  15. D. Merugu, B. Prabhakar, N. Rama, "An incentive mechanism for decongesting the roads: a pilot program in Bangalore," Proceedings of NetEcon '09, ACM Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems, July 2009.

  16. Y. Lu, A. Montanari, B. Prabhakar, "Counter braids: asymptotic optimality of the message passing decoding algorithm," Proceedings of the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, September 2008.

  17. R. Pan, F. Bonomi, B. Prabhakar, "Approximate bandwidth partitioning – from academia to industry," Proceedings of the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, September 2008.

  18. M. Alizadeh, B. Atikoglu, A. Kabbani, A. Laksmikantha, R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, M. Seaman, "Data center transport mechanisms: congestion control theory and IEEE standardization," Proceedings of the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, September 2008.

    Best Paper Award. Y. Lu, A. Montanari, B. Prabhakar, S. Dharmapurikar, A. Kabbani, "Counter braids: a novel counter architecture for per-flow measurement," Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Sigmetrics, International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, pp.121-132, June 2008.

  19. Y. Lu, A. Montanari and B. Prabhakar, "Counter braids," Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, pp. 220-221, May 2008.

  20. Y. Lu, A. Montanari, B. Prabhakar, "Detailed network measurements using sparse graph counters: The theory," Proceedings of the 45th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2007

  21. Y. Lu, M. Wang, B. Prabhakar, F. Bonomi, "ElephantTrap: A low cost device for identifying large flows," Proceedings of HOT Interconnects, August 2007.

  22. M. Bayati, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, M. Sharma, "Iterative scheduling algorithms," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2007, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, pp.445-453, May 2007.

  23. A. Firoozshahian, V. Manshadi, A. Goel, B. Prabhakar, "Efficient, fully local algorithms for CIOQ switches," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2007, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, pp.2491-2495, May 2007.

  24. El Gamal, J. Mammen, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Optimal throughput-delay trade-off in wireless networks – Part II: Constant-size packets," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 52(11):5111-5116, November 2006.

  25. Y. Lu, R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, D. Bergamasco, V. Alaria, A. Baldini, "Congestion control in networks with no congestion drops," Proceedings of the 44th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2006.

  26. Y. Lu, B. Prabhakar, F. Bonomi, "Perfect hashing for network applications," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp.2774-2778, July 2006.

  27. S. Boyd, A. Ghosh, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Randomized gossip algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 52(6):2508-2530, June 2006.

  28. El Gamal, J. Mammen, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Optimal throughput-delay scaling in wireless networks – Part I: The fluid model," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 52(6):2568-2592, June 2006.

  29. C. Nair, B. Prabhakar, M. Sharma, "Proofs of the Parisi and Coppersmith-Sorkin random assignment conjectures," Random Structures and Algorithms, 27(4):413-444, December 2005.

  30. B. Prabhakar, "Network hardware algorithms," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, p.1, December 2005.

  31. R. Pan, K. Psounis, B. Prabhakar, D. Wischik, "SHRiNK: A method for enabling scaleable performance prediction and efficient network simulation," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(5):975-989, October 2005.

  32. K. Psounis, P. Molinero Fernandez, B. Prabhakar, F. Papadopoulos, "Systems with multiple servers under heavy-tailed workloads," Performance Evaluation, 62:456-474, October 2005.

  33. Y. Lu, B. Prabhakar, F. Bonomi, "Bloom filters: Design innovations and applications," Proceedings of the 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2005.

  34. V. Farias, C. Moallemi, B. Prabhakar, "Load balancing with migration penalties," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp.558-562, September 2005.

  35. K. Psounis, A. Ghosh, B. Prabhakar, G. Wang, "SIFT: A simple algorithm for tracking elephant flows and taking advantage of power laws," Proceedings of the 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2005.

  36. A. Montanari, B. Prabhakar, D. Tse, "Belief propagation based multi-user detection," Proceedings of the 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2005.

  37. A. El Gamal, J. Mammen, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Throughput-delay scaling in wireless networks with constant-size packets," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp.1329-1333, September 2005.

  38. S. Boyd, A. Ghosh, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Gossip algorithms: Design, analysis and applications," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005 - The Conference on Computer Communications, 1:1653-1664, March 2005.

  39. S. Boyd, A. Ghosh, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Mixing times for random walks on geometric random graphs," Proceedings of ANALCO, Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics, pp.240-249, January 2005.

  40. S. Boyd, A. Ghosh, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Analysis and optimization of randomized gossip algorithms," Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 5:5310-5315, December 2004.

  41. P. Gupta, B. Prabhakar, S. Boyd, "Near-optimal depth-constrained codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 50(12):3294-3298, December 2004.

  42. M. Sharma, D. Katabi, R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, "An in-band easy-to-deploy mechanism for network-to-transport signaling," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM, 2:1278-1283, November 2004.

  43. K. Psounis, A. Zhu, B. Prabhakar, R. Motwani, "Modeling correlations in web traces and implications for designing replacement policies," Computer Networks, 45(4):379-398, July 2004.

  44. C. Nair, B. Prabhakar, M. Sharma, "A new proof of Parisi's conjecture for the finite random assignment problem," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p.61, June 2004.

  45. A. El Gamal, J. Mammen, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Throughput-delay trade-off in energy constrained wireless networks," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p.439, June 2004.

  46. Best Paper Award. A. El Gamal, J. Mammen, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Throughput-delay trade-off in wireless networks," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 23(1):464-475, March 2004.

  47. P. Giaccone, E. Leonardi, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Delay bounds for combined input-output switches with low speedup," Performance Evaluation, 55(1-2):113-128, January 2004.

  48. P. Giaccone, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Constrained wireless scheduling: throughput, energy and delay," Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, October 2003.

  49. J. Mairesse, B. Prabhakar, "The existence of fixed points for the ·/GI/1 queue," Annals of Probability, 31(4):2216-2236, October 2003.

  50. C. Nair, B. Prabhakar, M. Sharma, "Proofs of the Parisi and Coppersmith-Sorkin conjectures for the finite random assignment problem," Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp.168-178, October 2003.

  51. B. Prabhakar, "The attractiveness of the fixed points of a ·/GI/1 queue," Annals of Probability, 31(4):2237-2269, October 2003.

  52. P. Giaccone, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Randomized scheduling algorithms for high-aggregate bandwidth switches," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,21(4):546-559, May 2003.

  53. A.J. Ganesh, N. O'Connell, B. Prabhakar, "Invariant rate functions for discrete-time queues," Annals of Applied Probability, 13(2):446-474, May 2003.

  54. R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, K. Psounis, D. Wischik, "SHRiNK: A method for scaleable performance prediction and efficient network simulation," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 22(1):1943-1953, March 2003.

  55. Invited. K. Leyton-Brown, R. Porter, B. Prabhakar, Y. Shoham, S. Venkataraman, "Incentive mechanisms for smoothing out a focused demand for network resources," Computer Communications, 26(3):237-250, February 2003.

  56. B. Prabhakar, R. Gallager, "Entropy and the timing capacity of discrete queues," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 49(2):357-370, February 2003.

  57. R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, L. Breslau, S. Shenker, "Approximate fair allocation of link bandwidth," IEEE Micro, 23(1): 36-43, January-February 2003.

  58. Invited. K. Psounis, R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, D. Wischik, "The scaling hypothesis: simplifying the prediction of network performance using scaled-down simulations," Proceedings of HotNets-1, October 2002. Also appears in ACM Computer Communication Review, 33(1):35-40, January 2003.

  59. P. Giaccone, E. Leonardi, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Delay performance of high-speed packet switches with low speedup," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM, 21(1):2636-2640, November 2002.

  60. P. Giaccone, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Switching under energy constraints," Proceedings of the 36th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2:1538-1542, November 2002.

  61. M. Mitzenmacher, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Load balancing with memory," Proceedings of the 43rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp.799-808, November 2002.

  62. E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, A. El Gamal, B. Prabhakar, "Adaptive transmission of variable-rate data over a fading channel for energy-efficiency," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM, 21(1):98-102, November 2002.

  63. Invited. M. Sharma, B. Prabhakar, "On Parisi's conjecture for the random assignment problem," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.657-666, October 2002.

  64. Invited. R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, K. Psounis, M. Sharma, "A study of the applicability of a scaling hypothesis," Proceedings of the 4th Asian Control Conference, September 2002.

  65. K. Psounis, B. Prabhakar, "Efficient randomized web-cache replacement schemes using samples from past eviction times" IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 10(4):441-454, August 2002.

  66. Invited. E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, B. Prabhakar, A. El Gamal, "Energy-efficient packet transmission over a wireless link," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 10(4):487-499, August 2002.

  67. Best Paper Award. R. Pan, L. Breslau, B. Prabhakar, S. Shenker, "Flow table-based design to approximate fairness," Proceedings of Hot Interconnects 10 - Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, pp.37-42, August 2002.

  68. P. Giaccone, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "Towards simple, high-performance schedulers for high-aggregate bandwidth switches," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 21(1):1160-1169, June 2002.

  69. D. Shah, B. Prabhakar, "The use of memory in randomized load balancing," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 125, June 2002.

  70. A. El Gamal, C. Nair, B. Prabhakar, E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, S. Zahedi, "Energy-efficient scheduling of packet transmissions over wireless networks," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 21(1):1773-1782, June 2002.

  71. R. Pan, L. Breslau, B. Prabhakar, S. Shenker, "Approximate fairness through differential dropping (a summary)," from Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2001, ACM Computer Communication Review, 32(1):72, January 2002.

  72. P. Giaccone, D. Shah, B. Prabhakar, "An implementable parallel scheduler for input-queued switches," IEEE Micro, 22(1):19-25, January-February 2002.

  73. D. Shah, S. Iyer, B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, "Maintaining statistics counters in router line cards," IEEE Micro, 22(1):76-81, January-February 2002.

  74. D. Shah, P. Giaccone, B. Prabhakar, "Efficient randomized algorithms for input-queued switch scheduling," IEEE Micro, 22(1):10-18, January-February 2002.

  75. K. Leyton-Brown, R. Porter, S. Venkataraman, B. Prabhakar, "Smoothing out focused demand for network resources," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, pp.245-248, October 2001.

  76. Invited. R. Pan, C. Nair, B. Yang, B. Prabhakar, "Packet dropping schemes, some examples and analysis," Proceedings of the 39th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.563-572, October 2001.

  77. Invited. C. Nair, B. Prabhakar, D. Shah, "The randomness in randomized load balancing," Proceedings of the 39th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.912-921, October 2001.

  78. P. Giaccone, D. Shah, B. Prabhakar, "An implementable parallel scheduler for input-queued switches," Proceedings of Hot Interconnects 9 Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, pp.9-14, August 2001.

  79. D. Shah, S. Iyer, B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, "Analysis of a statistics counter architecture," Proceedings of Hot Interconnects 9 - Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, pp.107-111, August 2001.

  80. D. Shah, P. Giaccone, B. Prabhakar, "An efficient randomized algorithm for input-queued switch scheduling," Proceedings of Hot Interconnects 9 Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, pp.3-8, August 2001.

  81. B. Prabhakar, R. Gallager, "Entropy and the timing capacity of discrete queues," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p.228, June 2001.

  82. K. Psounis, B. Prabhakar, "A randomized web-cache replacement scheme," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, pp.1407-1415, April 2001.

  83. B. Prabhakar, E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, A. El Gamal, "Energy-efficient transmission over a wireless link via lazy packet scheduling," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, pp.386-394, April 2001.

  84. Invited. K. Psounis, R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, "Approximate fair dropping for variable length packets," IEEE Micro, 21(1):48-56, January-February 2001.

  85. B. Prabhakar, N. Bambos, T.S. Mountford, "The synchronization of Poisson processes and queueing networks with service and synchronization nodes," Advances in Applied Probability, 32(3):824-843, September 2000.

  86. K. Psounis, R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, "An approximate fair dropping scheme for variable length packets," Proceedings of Hot Interconnects 8 - Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, August 2000.

  87. R. Pan, B. Prabhakar, K. Psounis, "CHOKe – a stateless active queue management scheme for approximating fair bandwidth allocation," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, pp.942-951, March 2000.

  88. P. Gupta, B. Prabhakar, S. Boyd, "Near-optimal routing lookups with bounded worst case performance," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, pp.1184-1192, March 2000.

  89. K. Psounis, B. Prabhakar, D. Engler, "A randomized cache replacement approximating LRU," Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2:FA05, March 2000.

  90. J. Dai, B. Prabhakar, "The throughput of data switches with and without speedup," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 2:556-564, March 2000.

  91. Invited. B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, "On the speedup required for combined input and output queued switching," Automatica, 35(12):1909-1920, December 1999.

  92. Invited. A. Goel, B. Prabhakar, "Stochastic analysis of stable marriages in combined input output queued switches," Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 3:3096-3101, December 1999.

  93. B. Prabhakar, R. Pan, "CHOKe – A stateless mechanism for providing quality of service in the Internet," Proceedings of the 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.1122-1131, September 1999.

  94. A.J. Ganesh, N. O'Connell, B. Prabhakar, "Invariant rate functions for discrete time queues," Proceedings of the 37th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.288-296, September 1999.

  95. S.-T. Chuang, A. Goel, N. McKeown, B. Prabhakar, "Matching output queueing with a combined input/output-queued switch," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Next Generation IP Switches and Routers, 17(6):1030-1039, June 1999.

  96. Invited. R. Gallager, B. Prabhakar, "The entropies of queue arrivals and queue departures," Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory and Networking Workshop, p.42, June 1999.

  97. Invited. R. Gallager, B. Prabhakar, "Entropy and the Shannon capacity of queueing systems," Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Workshop, p.1, June 1999.

  98. B. Prabhakar, P. Gupta, S. Boyd, "A two-bit scheme for routing lookup," Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory and Networking Workshop, p.45, June 1999.

  99. S.T. Chuang, A. Goel, N. McKeown, B. Prabhakar, "Matching output queueing with a combined input output queued switch," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 3:1169-1178, March 1999.

  100. B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, "On the speedup required for combined input and output queued switching," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p.165, August 1998.

  101. Invited. A.J. Ganesh, N. O'Connell, B. Prabhakar, "A large deviations characterization of the fixed point of a ·/G/1 queue," Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, pp.143-144, June 1998.

  102. N. McKeown, B. Prabhakar, M. Zhu, "Matching output queueing with combined input and output queueing," Proceedings of the 35th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, pp.595-603, September 1997.

  103. B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, R. Ahuja, "Multicast scheduling for input-queued switches," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Advances in ATM Switching Systems for B-ISDN, 15(5):855-866, June 1997.

  104. B. Prabhakar, T.S. Mountford, N. Bambos, "Convergence of departures in tandem networks of ·/GI/∞ queues," Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences,10:487-500, October 1996.

  105. B. Prabhakar, N. Bambos, "On a singular feature of critical G/M/1 queues," Systems & Control Letters, 28(5):239-245, September 1996.

  106. N. McKeown, B. Prabhakar, "Scheduling multicast cells in an input-queued switch," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Conference on Computer Communications, 1:271-278, March 1996.

  107. B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, J. Mairesse, "Tetris models for multicast switches," Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 1:216- 221, March 1996.

  108. B. Prabhakar, N. Bambos, "The entropy and delay of processes in ATM networks," Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Information Theory, Multiple Access and Queueing, pp.448-453, 1995.

  109. B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, "Designing a multicast switch scheduler," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.984-993, October 1995.

  110. B. Prabhakar, N. Bambos, "Entropy methods for high speed communications," Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp.448-453, March 1995.

  111. T.S. Mountford, B. Prabhakar, "On the weak convergence of departures from an infinite series of ·/M/1 queues," Annals of Applied Probability, 5(1):121-127, February 1995.

  112. N. Bambos, B. Prabhakar, "On infinite queueing tandems," Systems & Control Letters,23(4):305-314, October 1994.

  113. B. Prabhakar, T.S. Mountford, N. Bambos, "The asymptotics of traffic processes in large queueing networks," Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.563-572, September 1994.

  114. A.V. Balakrishnan, B. Prabhakar, "Estimation of wind profile from laser beam propagation distortion," Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Research Review Meeting of the NASA-UCLA Flight Systems Research Center, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992.

US Patents

  1. B. Prabhakar, P. Newman, "Method and System to Manage network Traffic Congestion," US Patent #7,773,519, issued August 2010.

  2. P. Rong, B. Prabhakar, K. Psounis “Active Queue Management Toward Fair Bandwidth Allocation,” US Patent #7,324,442, issued January 2008.

  3. N. McKeown, C. Costas, S.-T. Chuang, S. Lin, R. Muralt, B. Prabhakar, A. Swahn, G. Watson, “Packet-Switch System,” US Patent #6,647,019, issued November 2003.

  4. B. Prabhakar, N. McKeown, “Switching Systems and Methods of Operation of Switching Systems,” US Patent #6,351,466, issued February 2002.

  5. N. McKeown, R. Ahuja, B. Prabhakar, “Apparatus and Method for Processing Multicast Cells in an Input-Queued Multicast Switch,” US Patent #5,923,644, issued July 1999.



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