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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
48
Citations
16590
World Ranking
3009
National Ranking
1131

Computer Science

D-Index
57
Citations
18381
World Ranking
3755
National Ranking
1796

Balaji Prabhakar publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Balaji Prabhakar sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 120 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Balaji Prabhakar D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Balaji Prabhakar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award “For contributions to the theory and practice of network algorithms and protocols, in particular Internet routers, data centers, and self- programming networks.”
  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For developing algorithms and systems for large-scale data center networks and societal networks
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to network theory and algorithms
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Balaji Prabhakar is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States, focusing primarily on research in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics.

The scientist's research topics cover multiple areas related to network theory, distributed systems, and resource management. Frequent themes in their work include:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Wireless Networks and Protocols
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Caching and Content Delivery

Their publication record highlights several recent papers:

  • "Energy aware African buffalo-based optimized dynamic media access control protocol for mobile Adhoc network environment," 2023, International Journal of Information Technology
  • "Nezha," 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Iterative Krylov subspace methods for large sparse linear systems," 2025, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
  • "Mathematical analysis of orbital mechanics with perturbation methods," 2025, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics

The venues they frequently publish in include:

  • Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
  • International Journal of Information Technology
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Multidisciplinary Science Journal

Balaji Prabhakar has collaborated with various coauthors, among whom the most frequent include:

  • Jinkun Geng
  • Anirudh Sivaraman
  • Mendel Rosenblum
  • G. Sherlin Shobitha
  • Girish Chandra Ghivela

Throughout their career, the scientist has received several awards recognizing their contributions to network theory and algorithms, as well as large-scale data center networks and societal networks. These honors include:

  • IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2020) for contributions to network algorithms and protocols including Internet routers, data centers, and self-programming networks
  • ACM Fellow (2017) for developing algorithms and systems for large-scale data center networks and societal networks
  • IEEE Fellow (2011) for contributions to network theory and algorithms
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2000)

Best Publications

  • Data center TCP (DCTCP)

    Mohammad Alizadeh;Albert Greenberg;David A. Maltz;Jitendra Padhye

  • Randomized gossip algorithms

    Stephen Boyd;Arpita Ghosh;Balaji Prabhakar;Devavrat Shah

  • Throughput-delay trade-off in wireless networks

    A.El. Gamal;J. Mammen;B. Prabhakar;D. Shah

  • pFabric: minimal near-optimal datacenter transport

    Mohammad Alizadeh;Shuang Yang;Milad Sharif;Sachin Katti

  • CHOKe - a stateless active queue management scheme for approximating fair bandwidth allocation

    Rong Pan;B. Prabhakar;K. Psounis

  • Gossip algorithms: design, analysis and applications

    S. Boyd;A. Ghosh;B. Prabhakar;D. Shah

  • Matching output queueing with a combined input/output-queued switch

    Shang-Tse Chuang;A. Goel;N. McKeown;B. Prabhakar

  • Energy-efficient packet transmission over a wireless link

    Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu;Balaji Prabhakar;Abbas El Gamal

  • Less is more: trading a little bandwidth for ultra-low latency in the data center

    Mohammad Alizadeh;Abdul Kabbani;Tom Edsall;Balaji Prabhakar

  • The throughput of data switches with and without speedup

    J.G. Dai;B. Prabhakar

  • Optimal throughput-delay scaling in wireless networks: part I: the fluid model

    Abbas El Gamal;James Mammen;Balaji Prabhakar;Devavrat Shah

  • Energy-efficient transmission over a wireless link via lazy packet scheduling

    B. Prabhakar;E. Uysal Biyikoglu;A. El Gamal

  • Energy-efficient scheduling of packet transmissions over wireless networks

    A. El Gamal;C. Nair;B. Prabhakar;E. Uysal-Biyikoglu

  • EyeQ: practical network performance isolation at the edge

    Vimalkumar Jeyakumar;Mohammad Alizadeh;David Mazières;Balaji Prabhakar

  • Matching output queueing with a combined input output queued switch

    Shang-Tse Chuang;A. Goel;N. McKeown;B. Prabhakar

  • Counter braids: a novel counter architecture for per-flow measurement

    Yi Lu;Andrea Montanari;Balaji Prabhakar;Sarang Dharmapurikar

  • Multicast scheduling for input-queued switches

    B. Prabhakar;N. McKeown;R. Ahuja

  • On the speedup required for combined input- and output-queued switching

    Balaji Prabhakar;Nick McKeown

  • Approximate fairness through differential dropping

    Rong Pan;Lee Breslau;Balaji Prabhakar;Scott Shenker

  • Randomized load balancing with general service time distributions

    Maury Bramson;Yi Lu;Balaji Prabhakar

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Lu
Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Konstantinos Psounis
Konstantinos Psounis University of Southern California
Nick McKeown
Nick McKeown Stanford University
Paolo Giaccone
Paolo Giaccone Polytechnic University of Turin
Stephen Boyd
Stephen Boyd Stanford University
Mendel Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum Stanford University
Nicholas Bambos
Nicholas Bambos Stanford University
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

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