Biswanath Mukherjee -- Professional Activities

• Corporate Board of Directors
• Technical Advisory Board, Consulting, etc.
• Keynote Speeches, Panels, and Equivalent
• Editorial
• NSF Panels/Workshops
• Conference Organization
• Refereeing for Journals, Conferences, Funding Agencies, etc.

• IPLocks, Inc.
  A startup company specializing in computer security products.

• Corporate Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
  • Teknovus
  • Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems (IFOS)
  • Lookahead Decisions, Inc. (LDI)
  • Alloptic (past service)
  • Roshnee (past service)
  • Invited to seven other TAB's... declined.

• Consultant (not updated since 2004)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Optivision, Inc.
  • Physical Optics Corporation
  • AKM Associates, Inc.
  • Teknologi Optic Malaysia
  • Brobek Phlegler & Harrison
  • Fuji-Keizai
  • Monaco
  • Zytera

• Keynote Speeches (and Equivalent)

  • (upcoming) April 28, 2008: Keynote Talk: ``Optical Networks -- The Road Ahead", to be presented at NGI 2008 (Fourth EURO-NGI Conference on Next-Generation Internet Networks, April 28-30, 2008, Krakow, Poland.

  • (upcoming) July 21-22, 2008: Keynote Talk: ``"Dynamic Optical Circuit Switching (DOCS) for the Future Internet", to be presented at Workshop on "Future Internet Design and Experimental Facilities", Wuerzburg, Germany.

  • (upcoming) August 2008: Keynote Address, 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008), August 4-7, 2008, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

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  • May 2, 2007: Keynote Address, "Designing Robust (Telecom) Networks", Fourth Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON), Concordia University, Canada, May 2-3, 2007.

  • April 1, 2006: Plenary Talk, ``Creating New Services and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in Telecom Networks," presented at the 8th Informs Telecom Conference, Dallas TX, April 2006.

  • February 6, 2006: Keynote Talk: ``Optical Networking: Its Inter-Disciplinary Nature and New Research Challenges," presented at COST291/GBOU ONNA Workshop on Design of Next-Generation Optical Networks, Ghent, Belgium, February 2006.

  • October 7, 2005: Keynote Talk: ``Traffic Grooming, Inverse Grooming, and Survivability Problems in Optical Networks," presented at Workshop on Traffic Grooming, Boston MA, October 2005.

  • December 22, 2004: Keynote Talk: ``Designing Robust (Telecom) Networks,"
    presented at the Trusted Internet Workshop (TIW-04), Bangalore, India.

  • Sept. 19, 2002: Keynote Address: ``R&D Priorities and Challenges for Optical Networking,'' presented at the Ninth Communications Horizon Seminar, Singapore, 2002.

  • Feb. 4, 2002: Keynote Address: ``Optical Networking: The Evolving Landscape,''
    presented at the Sixth IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2002.

  • October 29, 1999: Keynote address: ``Fault Management in IP-over-WDM Networks: WDM Protection vs. IP Restoration,'' CITO/OCRI TechTalk Technology Research Workshop on Optical Networks, Ottawa, Canada.

  • Sept. 24, 1997: Keynote address: ``Optical Networks -- Status Report and the Road Ahead'', Sixth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Las Vegas, NV.

• Recent Invited Talks at Major Events

  • (upcoming) October 2008: Invited Talk "Reliable Architectures for Next-Generation Broadband Access Networks (RANGBAN)", to be presented at APOC (Asia Pacific Optical Conference), October 26-30, 2008, Hangzhou, China.

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  • Invited Paper: ``Optical Networks -- The Road Ahead,''
    presented at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC'07), Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2007.

  • Invited Paper: ``Architecture, Control, and Management of Optical Switching Networks,''
    presented at the IEEE LEOS Photonics in Switching Conference, San Francisco, August 21, 2007.

  • ``Creating New Services and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in Telecom Networks,"
    presented at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2007), Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 13, 2007.

  • ``Implications of Emerging Optical Technologies on Future Internet,''
    presented at the International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC-06), Kolkata, India, December 18, 2006.

  • ``Implications of Emerging Optical Technologies on Future Internet,''
    presented at the Third TIDIA Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 17, 2006.

  • ``Creating New Services and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in Telecom Networks,"
    presented at the Third Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON), Concordia University, Canada, April 27, 2006.

  • ``Implications of Emerging Optical Technologies on Future Internet,''
    presented at the NSF FIND Informational Meeting, December 5, 2005.

  • ``Optical Networking: Its Inter-Disciplinary Nature and New Research Challenges,"
    presented at the Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series North Carolina State University, October 31, 2005.

  • ``Fiber Networks (Maps) Around the World and A Proposal for Africa,''
    presented at the Third Workshop on Open Access, Maputo Mozambique, May 10, 2005.

  • ``Traffic Grooming (Multiplexing) and Inverse Multiplexing Problems in Telecom Networks (Data/Ethernet over SDH/SONET over WDM),"
    presented at the Second Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON), University of Montreal, Canada, April 15, 2005.

  • Invited Tutorial: ``Resilient Mesh Networks,''
    presented at the International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), Kolkata, India, December 27, 2004.

  • ``Designing Survivable Networks (Protection and Restoration),''
    presented at the IEEE OPTICOS Meeting, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 12, 2004.

  • Invited Paper: ``Impairment-Aware Routing in Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks,''
    presented at the 2004 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, November 10, 2004.

  • ``Resilient (Mesh) Networks,'' presented at the Distinguished Panel on "Hot Topics in Networking", Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), March 12, 2004.

  • Invited Paper: ``Traffic Grooming in Mesh Optical Networks,''
    presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC'04), Los Angeles, CA, February 26, 2004.

  • ``Resilient (Mesh) Networks,'' presented at the The Girvan Technology Showcase, Girvan Institute, Santa Clara, April 22, 2004.

  • ``Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Networks,'' presented at the IEEE OPTICOS Meeting, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 12, 2003.

  • ``R&D Priorities and Challenges for Optical Networking,'' presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '02), Miami, FL, October 16, 2002.

  • ``Optical Networking: The Shifting Research Paradigms,'' presented at the Conference on Optical Internet (COIN), Cheju Island, Korea, July 22, 2002.

  • ``Computer Security Research and Education at UC Davis,'' presented at the Presidents' Retreat on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, June 14, 1999.

  • ``Future High-Performance WDM Networks,'' presented at the IBC Conference on Optical Networking: Next Generation Network Planning, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 19, 1999.

  • ``Optical WDM Networks: Challenges for the 21st Century,'' presented at the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 28, 1998.

  • ``Twentyfirst-Century Photonics: Future High-Performance WDM Networks,'' presented at the WDM Forum, London, England, June 25, 1998.

• Key Panels

  • Panel Presenter: ``GENI Optical Workshop: Summary from a Networking Perspective,'' NSF/BBN GENI Optical Workshop, Washington DC, September 25, 2007.

  • Breakout Session Leader and Presenter: ``Intelligent High-Capacity Networks,'' Intel/UCD Internet Innovations Workshop, Santa Clara CA, June 20, 2007.

  • Panel Presenter: ``Comments on: "Grand Challenges in Computer Science Research in Brazil –- 2006 – 2016",'' Third TIDIA Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16, 2006.

  • Breakout Session Co-Chair and Panel Presenter: ``GENI Breakout Session: From Core to Edge – Optical Networks, Measurements, and Real-Time Issues,'' NSF GENI Town Hall Meeting, Chicago, May 5-6, 2006.

  • Panel Presenter: ``Optical Networking: The “Real” System Value Proposition and Extending Our “Boundaries”,'' NSF/UCSB Workshop on Optical Networking, April 13, 2005.

  • Panel Presenter: ``Data/Ethernet over SDH/SONET over WDM,'' Workshop on Traffic Grooming, October 29, 2004.

  • IEEE Infocom '03 -- Panel on "Optical Networking: What is It's Future?" (April 2, 2003)
    Panelists: Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis (Organizer and Moderator);
    Chris Rust, CEO, Mahi Networks;
    Rajiv Ramaswami, CTO, Optical Networking, Cisco;
    Hui Zang, Sprint Advanced Technology Lab.;
    Young-chon Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea (Korean perspective).
    (Please click on a panelist's name for his/her presentation.
    Please note that all opinions in these talks are only those of the presenters.)

  • Panelist (and Panel Moderator): ``Next Challenges in Networking Research,'' IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '02), Miami, FL, October 16, 2002.

  • Panelist: ``Traffic Engineering in Next Generation Networks: Market Drivers, Solutions for Intelligent Optical Networks, Control Plane Architectures,'' Sixth IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2002, February 5, 2002.

  • Panel Presenter: ``Future Trends of Optical Networks,'' CITO/OCRI TechTalk Technology Research Workshop on Optical Networks, Ottawa, Canada, October 29, 1999.

  • Panel Presenter: ``Optical Networking in the Convergent Networks: Challenges and Opportunities,'' Eighth IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '99), Boston, MA, October 12, 1999.

  • Panel Presenter (and Moderator): ``Security Technology,'' Workshop on Security in Large-Scale Distributed Systems and President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) R&D Exchange, Purdue University, October 20, 1998.

• Book Series Editor, Optical Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004 onwards)
  (If you are interested in proposing a book on optical networks, please drop me an email at mukherje@cs.ucdavis.edu.)

• Chairman, IEEE Communications Society Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), Dec. 2003 to Dec. 2005.
  (This is a volunteer committee, whose objective is to promote optical networking activities on behalf of the IEEE Communications Society. If you are interested in joining this group, please drop me an email at mukherje@cs.ucdavis.edu.)

• Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1994-2000)

• Member of the Editorial Board and Senior Technical Editor, IEEE Network (1996-2000)

• Member of the Editorial Board, ACM/Baltzer Wireless Information Networks (WINET) (past service)

• Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of High-Speed Networks (current)

• Member of the Founding Editorial Board, Photonic Network Communications (Springer) (current)

• Member of the Founding Editorial Board, SPIE/Kluwer Optical Network Magazine (past service)

• Member of the Founding Editorial Board, Journal on Optical Switching and Networking (OSN) (current)

• Editor-at-Large, Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE Communications Society (1999-2000).

• Co-Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on ``Traffic Engineering in Multi-Granular Networks" (Pub. Date: June 2007).

• Co-Guest Editor, Journal of High-Speed Networks' Special Issue on WDM Networks (Pub. Date: 1995).

• Co-Guest Editor, Wireless Information Networks (WINET) Journal's Special Issue on Advances in Wireless Networking (Pub. Date: Jan. 1997).

• Regular/CAREER NSF Proposal Evaluation Panels: Networking and Communications Research; Optical Communication Systems and Lightwave Technology (1993 onwards)

• Member of the Organizing Committee, Intel/UCD Internet Innovations Workshop, Santa Clara CA, June 19-20, 2007.

• Invited Leader: ``GENI Breakout Session: From Core to Edge – Optical Networks, Measurements, and Real-Time Issues,'' NSF GENI Town Hall Meeting, Chicago, May 5-6, 2006.

• Invited Participant and Presenter, NSF FIND Informational Meeting, December 5, 2005.

• Invited Participant, NASA Ames Workshop on Optical Networking Testbeds, (September 2005).

• Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, NSF/EU Workshop on “Key Issues and Grand Challenges in Optical Networking”, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, June 27-28, 2005.
  (Final Workshop Report: dated June 2006.)

• Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Optical Networking, UC Santa Barbara (April 2005).

• Member of the Organizing Committee, NSF Workshop on "Residential Broadband Revisited: Research Challenges in Residential Networks, Broadband Access and Applications", Chicago, October 22-24, 2003.

• Member of the Organizing Committee, NSF Workshop on Fundamental Research in Networking, Airlie House, VA, April 22-23, 2003.

• Co-Chair, Provisioning Group, DOE Workshop on Network Provisioning and Protocols for DOE Large-Science Applications, Argonne, IL, April 10-11, 2003.

• Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on Ultra-High Capacity Optical Communications and Networking, Washington DC, October 21-22, 2002.

• Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Enhancing International Cooperation in CS/CE Research and Education (October 1997).

• Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Optical Communications Systems and Networks: Research and Education (March 1994).
  The objective of this workshop was to identify critical research and educational issues in optical communications systems and networks, including (1) future research directions in all-optical networks, (2) identification of contributions from academia and industry, (3) successes and failures of industry/university interactions, and (4) optical communications curriculum development.

• Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on All-Optical Telecommunications for Local-, Metropolitan-, and Wide-Area Networks (January 1993).
  The charge of this Workshop was to prepare a formal report for NSF which (1) identifies key issues and their relationships, (2) describes a substantive research program to apply optical networks in support of HPCC, (3) suggests new and important applications, and (4) distinguishes the type of individual research activities needed for forming cross-disciplinary research teams.

• Technical Program Co-Chair, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2009), San Diego, California, March 22-26, 2009.

• Steering Committee Chair, Second International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecom Systems (ANTS 2008), Mumbai, India, December 15-17, 2008. (Please submit your 2-page papers.)

• Steering Committee Chair and General Co-Chair, First International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecom Systems (ANTS 2007), Mumbai, India, December 17-18, 2007.

• Chairman, Networking Track, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2007), Anaheim, California, March 2007.

• Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, NSF/EU Workshop on “Key Issues and Grand Challenges in Optical Networking”, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, June 27-28, 2005.
  (Final Workshop Report: dated June 2006.)
  (Fifteen US optical networking researchers from academe and industry were joined by 15 EU optical networking researchers from academe and industry to discuss the key issues in the field and prepare this Workshop Report.)

• Technical Program Chairman, IEEE INFOCOM '96 Conference.

• Member of the Technical Program Committee (not tracked after 2004)
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for 2004 conferences
    • Workshop on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) '04, Ghent, Belgium
    • IEEE Infocom '04, Hong Kong
    • IEEE ICC '04, Paris
    • High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) '04, Phoenix
    • Broadnets '04, San Jose, CA
    • Workshop on Traffic Grooming '04, San Jose, CA
    • PATHNets '04, San Jose, CA
    • ICON '04, Singapore
    • IWDC (International Workshop on Distributed Computing), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, Dec. 2004.
  • IEEE INFOCOM 89 - 90, 92 - 2000, 2003-04 conferences
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 92 conference
  • 1992 IEEE Optical Multiple Access Networks conference
  • ACM SIGCOMM '93 conference
  • Malaysian International Conference on Communications (MICC) '93 - '97
  • International Conference on Comuputer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) '95 - '99
  • Singapore International Conference on Networks (SICON) 97-99
  • International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) '97

• Co-organizer/co-chair of the Workshop on ``Future Directions in Computer Misuse and Anomaly Detection" (March-April 1992, Davis, CA)

• Fund Raising Chair, ACM SIGCOMM '93 Conference