Balaji Prabhakar publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Balaji Prabhakar between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Balaji Prabhakar published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 14 publications in 2002. 5 of the 169 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10

1994 2025

169 publications in total across all disciplines

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Balaji Prabhakar: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year	Publications
1994	2
1995	2
1996	4
1997	1
1998	4
1999	8
2000	5
2001	8
2002	14
2003	12
2004	8
2005	13
2006	8
2007	6
2008	5
2009	7
2010	10
2011	3
2012	11
2013	7
2014	2
2015	4
2016	0
2017	4
2018	2
2019	6
2020	1
2021	4
2022	2
2023	1
2024	0
2025	5
Total	169

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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.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

34–53 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.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
34–53	24
54–73	52
74–93	114
94–113	203
114–133	269	120
134–153	355
154–173	403
174–193	445
194–213	430
214–233	431
234–253	399
254–273	366
274–293	335
294–313	300
314–333	276
334–353	250
354–373	214
374–393	187
394–413	152
414–433	169
434–453	147
454–473	111
474–493	117
494–513	103
514–533	99
534–553	92
554–573	75
574–593	58
594–613	69
614–633	50
634–653	62
654–673	54
674–693	44
694–713	37
714–733	28
734–753	26
754–773	26
774–793	19
794–813	23
814–833	20
834–853	16
854–873	20
874–893	11
894–913	11
914–933	16
934–953	13
954–973	10
974–993	11
994–1,013	9
1,014–1,033	9
1,034–1,053	10
1,054–1,064	6
1,065+	99

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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.

No. of scientists

50 100 150 200 250

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.

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Number of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,875 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	178
31	257
32	263
33	262
34	244
35	236
36	211
37	220
38	214
39	214
40	205
41	187
42	194
43	201
44	155
45	189
46	148
47	160
48	134	48
49	130
50	141
51	156
52	108
53	130
54	112
55	97
56	111
57	102
58	108
59	120
60	103
61	93
62	92
63	74
64	77
65	73
66	64
67	69
68	60
69	39
70	57
71	59
72	46
73	49
74	38
75	35
76	32
77	35
78	31
79	22
80	34
81	31
82	34
83	23
84	18
85	30
86	19
87	19
88	20
89	8
90	17
91	7
92	14
93	9
94	15
95	10
96	12
97	10
98	10
99	12
100	16
101	5
102	7
103	7
104	8
105	9
106	13
107	4
108	5
109	10
110	8
111+	96

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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

2596
Citations
Randomized gossip algorithms

Stephen Boyd;Arpita Ghosh;Balaji Prabhakar;Devavrat Shah

2512
Citations
Throughput-delay trade-off in wireless networks

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

870
Citations
pFabric: minimal near-optimal datacenter transport

Mohammad Alizadeh;Shuang Yang;Milad Sharif;Sachin Katti

820
Citations
CHOKe - a stateless active queue management scheme for approximating fair bandwidth allocation

Rong Pan;B. Prabhakar;K. Psounis

735
Citations
Gossip algorithms: design, analysis and applications

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

719
Citations
Matching output queueing with a combined input/output-queued switch

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

705
Citations
Energy-efficient packet transmission over a wireless link

Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu;Balaji Prabhakar;Abbas El Gamal

639
Citations
Less is more: trading a little bandwidth for ultra-low latency in the data center

Mohammad Alizadeh;Abdul Kabbani;Tom Edsall;Balaji Prabhakar

557
Citations
The throughput of data switches with and without speedup

J.G. Dai;B. Prabhakar

554
Citations
Optimal throughput-delay scaling in wireless networks: part I: the fluid model

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

454
Citations
Energy-efficient transmission over a wireless link via lazy packet scheduling

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

453
Citations
Energy-efficient scheduling of packet transmissions over wireless networks

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

368
Citations
EyeQ: practical network performance isolation at the edge

Vimalkumar Jeyakumar;Mohammad Alizadeh;David Mazières;Balaji Prabhakar

315
Citations
Matching output queueing with a combined input output queued switch

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

282
Citations
Counter braids: a novel counter architecture for per-flow measurement

Yi Lu;Andrea Montanari;Balaji Prabhakar;Sarang Dharmapurikar

266
Citations
Multicast scheduling for input-queued switches

B. Prabhakar;N. McKeown;R. Ahuja

234
Citations
On the speedup required for combined input- and output-queued switching

Balaji Prabhakar;Nick McKeown

230
Citations
Approximate fairness through differential dropping

Rong Pan;Lee Breslau;Balaji Prabhakar;Scott Shenker

207
Citations
Randomized load balancing with general service time distributions

Maury Bramson;Yi Lu;Balaji Prabhakar

181
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Devavrat Shah MIT

Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mohammad Alizadeh MIT

Konstantinos Psounis University of Southern California

Nick McKeown Stanford University

Paolo Giaccone Polytechnic University of Turin

Stephen Boyd Stanford University

Mendel Rosenblum Stanford University

Nicholas Bambos Stanford University

Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

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