Utpal Mukherji Associate Professor Department of Electrical Communication Engineering Office Phone: (+91)-80 23600855 or (+91)-80-22933152 Fax: (+91)-80 23600563 or (+91)-80-23600991 Email: utpal@ece.iisc.ernet.in  Biography Sc.D. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986; E.E., M.I.T., 1984; S.M., M.I.T., 1982; B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering), I.I.T. Bombay, 1980; Associate Professor, ECE Department, I.I.Sc., 1996 to date; Assistant Professor, ECE Department, I.I.Sc., 1989-1996; Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, 1986-1989.  Awards and Affiliations Senior Member, IEEE, 1999  Research Interests Communication Networking: modelling, analysis, control, and optimisation.  Research Highlights The proportional fairness of delays in statistical multiplexing based on optimal balancing of weighted cumulative queue lengths has been shown. The stability of scheduled multi-access communication over quasi-static flat fading channels with random coding and independent decoding of messages has been investigated.  Sponsored Projects Delay Differentiation by Optimal-Balancing-of-Queue-Lengths Scheduling, DRDO, Dec 2003 - Dec 2005 Establishment of a nationwide Quality of Service Network Testbed, DIT, Apr 2004 - Mar 2007  Books Utpal Mukherji and K.V.S. Hari (eds.), Communications'98 - Proceedings of the National Conference on Communications, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1998.  Selected Journal Papers R.R. Pillai, J. Biswas, U. Mukherji, "Throughput Performance of Distributed Applications in Switched Networks in Presence of End-system Bottlenecks," Telecommunication Systems, 12(4), pp. 369-387, Jul1999 R.R. Pillai, U. Mukherji, H.Adiseshu, V.Sharma, "Distributed Queue Dual Bus Metropolitan Area Network: A Review of Performance Analysis of the Medium Access Control Protocol," Journal of the IETE, 39(2), pp. 111-124, Mar1993 U. Mukherji, "A Periodic Scheduling Problem in Flow Control for Data Communication Networks," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 35(2), pp. 436-443, May1989 M.G. Gouda, N.F. Maxemchuk, U.Mukherji, K. Sabnani, "Delivery and Discrimination: The Seine Protocol," Computer Communication Review, 18(4), pp. 292-302, Aug1988  Selected Conference Papers KCV K.S. Sayee, U. Mukherji, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, "Stability of Scheduled Multi-access Communication over Quasi-static Flat Fading Channels with Random Coding and Independent Decoding", Sep2005 A. Chakraborty, U. Mukherji, 2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication, "Achieving Delay Differentiation by Scheduling Based on Optimal Balancing of Weighted Instantaneous and Cumulative Queue Lengths", Dec2004 A. Chakraborty, R. Roy, U. Mukherji, 2003 IEEE Region 10 Conference, "Delay Differentiation by Optimal-Balancing-of-Queue-Lengths Scheduling", Oct2003 U. Mukherji, S.V. Ramdurg, KCV Sayee, V. Dua, T.N. Krishnan, 2002 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, "Multi-access Poisson Traffic Communication with Random Coding, Independent Decoding and Unequal Powers", Oct2002