I received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering Department from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. My research is in the area of networked computer systems, with current interests in network optimization, network management, Reliable network design.

Publications

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Book Chapters:

1. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi, Ellore Akhil Reddy, and S. V. Rao, Game Theory based Network Partitioning approaches for Controller placement in SDN, Communication Systems and Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Dec 2018, pp. 245-267.

Journals:

1. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Poly-stable matching based scalable controller placement with balancing constraints in SDN, Elsevier Computer Communications. [Accepted]
2. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Controller Placemenk.balat in Software Defined Networks, A Comprehensive Survey, Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 163, Aug 2019 .
3. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Towards Improving Resilience of Controller Placement with Minimum Backup Capacity in Software Defined Networks, Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 149, pp. 102-114, Feb 2019.
4. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, On Placement of Controllers and Hypervisors in Virtualized Software Defined Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 840-853, June 2018.
5. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Capacitated Next Controller Placement in Software Defined Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 514–527, September 2017.
6. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Optimal Model for Failure Foresight Capacitated Controller Placement in Software Defined Networks,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1108–1111, June 2016.

Conferences:

1. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi, Ellore Akhil Reddy, and S. V. Rao, Cooperative Game Theory based Network Partitioning for Controller placement in SDN, 10th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), January, 2018, pp. 105-112.
2. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Controller placement with planning for failures in software defined networks, 10th International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), November, 2016, pp. 1-6.
3. Bala Prakasa Rao Killi and S. V. Rao, Link Failure Aware Capacitated Controller Placement in software defined networks, 32nd International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), January, 2018, pp. 1-6.
4. Rishi Sharma, Ranu Vikram, Bala Prakasa Rao Killi, and S. V. Rao," CO2 Penalty and Disaster Aware Data Center and Service Placement for Cost Minimization, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, 2017, pp. 94-104.