Swarup Acharya (Swarup)  Technical Manager Multiservice Networking Software Research Bell Laboratories  Lucent Technologies Inc.   Murray Hill, NJ 07974 908 582-4321 (voice) 908 582-4092 (fax)  acharya -at- bell-labs -dot- com

I manage the Multiservice Networking Software Research group at Bell Labs. It is part of the Integrated Networks Research Department in the Optical Networking Research Division. The group's charter is to perform research and build software technologies to enhance Lucent's optical networking, data networking and services portfolio.

My broad research interests include:

• IP and Optical networks
  
• Next-gen SONET/SDH , Next-gen Ethernet
• MPLS, GMPLS, VPLS, Traffic Engineering
  
• Data and Optical Control Plane technologies, Data-over-optical transport
• IPTV and New Content Delivery Technologies
  
• Network Managment
  
• Mobile and wireless computing
• Database systems, Internet infrastructure

• Resume
• For research papers (and to get a feel of the research we do), visit my Publications page .
  
• For recent talks, visit my Talks page
  
• References and citations to my work, visit Citeseer, or, Google Scholar .
• For my granted patents (seven as of Feb '05), visit USPTO 

Lucent Product Contributions:

• Lucent Optical Network Navigator System (ONNS) [2001- ongoing] : ONNS is Lucent's GMPLS-style optical control plane for LambdaUnite^TM Multiservice switch. This collaboration with the ONG BU spans nearly all aspects of  control plane design and development. The specific contribution to the Network Engineering module with Bandwidth Defragmentation functionality (unique in the industry for control planes) recently received the Bell Labs Teamwork award. ONNS has been deployed till date in both North American and international markets.

• Navis Provisioning Manager (NPM) [2003-04]: We contributed the design and code for the MPLS provisioning module for NPM helping upgrade it from an ATM/DSL network manager in response to the Lucent-Juniper partnership in the data networking space. This collaboration led to support for innovative routing and traffic engineering algorithms in NPM and this effort also received the Bell Labs Teamwork award.  Supercomm Daily carried an article on some of these innovations.
  

• Optical Bandwith Recovery Service [2003-04]: Based on trasport network optimization research, the Lucent services unit LWS created the Optical Bandiwdth Recovery service to help service providers recover "stranded bandwidth" from their networks and in general, "clean up" central office networks.  Till date, this service had undergone numerous trials with US and international service providers.
  

• Optical Services Manager [2000-01]: I lead the team that designed and developed Optical Services Manager/OSM (aka SoftWave inside Bell Labs), the network management system for WaveStar LambdaRouter^TM, Lucent's (ex-)All-Optical Switch. OSM delivered novel features such as point-n-click provisioning, mesh restoration and Optical VPNs. As part of the LambdaRouter project, this team received the Bell Labs President's Gold Award for 2001.
  

Schools:

• Ph.D & Sc.M: Dept. of Computer Science,  Brown University. 
• My thesis introduced Broadcast Disks, a framework for data dissemination in broadcast/mobile environments. The first paper on Broadcast Disks, published in SIGMOD '95 has 200+ reference till date and is in many all-time most cited paper categories (per Citeseer):
• Top-100 most cited computer science publications of 1995. 
• Top-20 most cited paper in Wireless Networking. In addition, three other papers on Broadcast Disks are in the Top-100 papers in wireless networking. 

• B.Tech: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.