Other Research Interests

Research Overview/Summary of Contributions:
I am interested in wide range of topics in networking, and I have written papers on some of these, although they do not constitute my primary research interests at the moment. Here is a list of a few such topics/papers:

• Switch Scheduling and Design:
  • K. Kar, T. V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, L. Tassiulas, Scheduling Algorithms for Optical Packet Fabrics, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 7, September 2003, pp. 1143-1155.


• Overlay Network Topology Construction:
  • S. Banerjee, C. Kommareddy, K. Kar, B. Bhattacharjee, S. Khuller, OMNI: An Efficient Infrastructure for Real-time Applications, Computer Networks Journal, Vol.50, No. 6, pp. 826-841, April 2006. (The conference version of this paper has received 195+ citations)


• RFID System Load Balancing:
  • Q. Dong, V. Shrivastava, A. Shukla, D. Agrawal, S. Banerjee and K. Kar, Load Balancing in Large-Scale RFID Systems, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2007 Mini-Symposium, Anchorage, May 2007.

Other papers on various topics can be found on my full publication page.