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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for optical networks

Overview

Biswanath Mukherjee is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their academic work primarily revolves around engineering and computer science, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, computer networks and communications, and information systems. A smaller portion of their research also touches on general agricultural and biological sciences, along with urban studies.

The areas of study that dominate Mukherjee's research include advanced optical network technologies, advanced photonic communication systems, and software-defined networks and 5G. Other topics of interest involve optical network technologies, cloud computing and resource management, caching and content delivery, and IoT and edge/fog computing.

Mukherjee's recent publications highlight their engagement with evolving technologies in network management and optical communication. Key recent papers include:

  • "Cost-Efficient VNF Placement and Scheduling in Public Cloud Networks" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "Dynamic routing, spectrum, and modulation-format allocation in mixed-grid optical networks" (2020), Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • "C+L-band upgrade strategies to sustain traffic growth in optical backbone networks" (2021), Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • "Joint Progressive Network and Datacenter Recovery After Large-Scale Disasters" (2020), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • "Towards Optimal Parallelism-Aware Service Chaining and Embedding" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

The frequent collaborative network of Mukherjee includes several co-authors with significant numbers of joint publications. These co-authors are:

  • Massimo Tornatore
  • Sifat Ferdousi
  • Sugang Xu
  • Yusuke Hirota
  • Yoshinari Awaji

Mukherjee's research has been disseminated widely across scientific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Photonic Network Communications
  • Optics Express

In recognition of contributions to the field, Mukherjee was named an IEEE Fellow in 2007 for their work on architectures, algorithms, and protocols for optical networks.

Best Publications

  • Wireless sensor network survey

    Jennifer Yick;Biswanath Mukherjee;Dipak Ghosal

  • A Review of Routing and Wavelength Assignment Approaches for Wavelength- Routed Optical WDM Networks

    Hui Zang;Jason P. Jue;Biswanath Mukherjee

  • Network intrusion detection

    B. Mukherjee;L.T. Heberlein;K.N. Levitt

  • Optical Communication Networks

    Biswanath Mukherjee

  • IPACT a dynamic protocol for an Ethernet PON (EPON)

    G. Kramer;B. Mukherjee;G. Pesavento

  • WDM optical communication networks: progress and challenges

    B. Mukherjee

  • Survivable WDM mesh networks. Part I-Protection

    S. Ramamurthy;B. Mukherjee

  • Optical WDM Networks

    Biswanath Mukherjee

  • Survivable WDM mesh networks

    S. Ramamurthy;L. Sahasrabuddhe;B. Mukherjee

  • WDM-based local lightwave networks. I. Single-hop systems

    B. Mukherjee

  • Traffic grooming in an optical WDM mesh network

    Keyao Zhu;B. Mukherjee

  • Advances in photonic packet switching: an overview

    Shun Yao;B. Mukherjee;S. Dixit

  • A practical approach for routing and wavelength assignment in large wavelength-routed optical networks

    D. Banerjee;B. Mukherjee

  • Some principles for designing a wide-area WDM optical network

    Biswanath Mukherjee;Dhritiman Banerjee;S. Ramamurthy;Amarnath Mukherjee

  • An efficient multicast protocol for content-based publish-subscribe systems

    G. Banavar;T. Chandra;B. Mukherjee;J. Nagarajarao

  • Light trees: optical multicasting for improved performance in wavelength routed networks

    L.H. Sahasrabuddhe;B. Mukherjee

  • Wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) technologies for broadband access: a review (Invited)

    Amitabha Banerjee;Youngil Park;Frederick Clarke;Huan Song

  • DIDS (distributed intrusion detection system)—motivation, architecture, and an early prototype

    Steven R. Snapp;James Brentano;Gihan V. Dias;Terrance L. Goan

  • Wavelength conversion in WDM networking

    B. Ramamurthy;B. Mukherjee

  • Wavelength-routed optical networks: linear formulation, resource budgeting tradeoffs, and a reconfiguration study

    Dhritiman Banerjee;Biswanath Mukherjee

  • Network Intrusion Detection Intrusion detection is a new, retrofit approach for providing a sense of security in existing computers and data networks, while allowing them to operate in their current "open" mode.

    Biswanath Mukherjee;L. Todd Heberlein;Karl N. Levitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Tornatore
Massimo Tornatore Polytechnic University of Milan
Dipak Ghosal
Dipak Ghosal University of California, Davis
Charles U. Martel
Charles U. Martel University of California, Davis
Hui Zang
Hui Zang Sprint (United States)
Sudhir Dixit
Sudhir Dixit University of Oulu
Jason P. Jue
Jason P. Jue The University of Texas at Dallas
Achille Pattavina
Achille Pattavina Polytechnic University of Milan
Byrav Ramamurthy
Byrav Ramamurthy University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Karl N. Levitt
Karl N. Levitt University of California, Davis

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