Sidharth Sharma



Post Doctoral Fellow

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mumbai, India

Address: Gigabit Networking Laboratory (SIC-210)
Kresit Building, CSE Department, IIT Bombay

Tel: +91-22-2576-4970
Email: sidharth@cse.iitb.ac.in

General Information

Research Interests
My research interest lies in modeling and experimental aspects of challenges in next-generation computer networks, especially in the domain of telecom service providers. Currently, I am working on problems related to Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization and 5G.

Short Bio

Publications


Patent

  1. Ashwin Gumaste, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma and Mahesh Jagtap
    Flexible software-defined networking (SDN) protocol for service provider networks
    US Patent Number: 10,728,139

Journals

  1. Abhiram Singh, Sidharth Sharma and Ashwin Gumaste
    Grafnet: Using Graph Neural Networks to Create Table-Less Routers
    To appear in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2022.

  2. Sidharth Sharma, Abhiram Singh, Ashwin Gumaste and Biswanath Mukherjee
    Light-trail Design for 5G Backhaul: Architecture, SDN Impact and Coordinated Multipoint
    IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), Vol. 39, No. 17, pp. 5383-5396, Sept. 2021.

  3. Sidharth Sharma, Anna Engelmann, Admela Jukan and Ashwin Gumaste
    VNF Availability and SFC Sizing Model for Service Provider Networks
    IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pages 119768-119784, June 2020.

  4. Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma, Naveen Bazard, Ashwin Gumaste and Biswanath Mukherjee
    Design, Analysis and a Terabit Implementation of a Source-Routing-Based SDN Data Plane
    IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, pages 56-67, March 2021.

  5. Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma, Tamal Das, Naveen Bazard and Ashwin Gumaste
    A 400Gbps Carrier-Class SDN White-Box Design and Demonstration: The Bitstream Approach
    IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), Vol. 36, No. 15, pages 3115-3130, August 2018.

  6. Ashwin Gumaste, Tamal Das, Sidharth Sharma and Aniruddha Kushwaha
    How much NFV Should a Service provider adopt?
    IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), Vol. 35, No. 13, pages 2598-2611, July 2017.

  7. Saurabh Hote, Punit Ghodasara, Tamal Das, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma, Sarvesh Bidkar and Ashwin Gumaste
    Developing and Deploying a Carrier-class SDN-Centric Network Management System for a Tier-1 Service Provider Network
    IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communication and Networks (JOCN), Vol. 9, No. 8, pages 711-728, August 2017.


Conferences

  1. Abhiram Singh, Sidharth Sharma and Ashwin Gumaste
    Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Routing in IP Networks
    IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Athens, Greece, July 2021.

  2. Sidharth Sharma and Ashwin Gumaste
    SLA-Aware Flow Provisioning in Next-Generation Software-Defined Networks
    IEEE 6th Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), Madrid, Spain, November 2020.

  3. Sidharth Sharma, Ashwin Gumaste and Mallik Tatipamula
    Dynamic Network Slicing Using Utility Algorithms and Stochastic Optimization
    IEEE 21st International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Newark, USA, May 2020.

  4. Sidharth Sharma, Ashwin Gumaste and Mallik Tatipamula
    High-availability Service Chain Realization Theory
    IEEE 16th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Milan, Italy, March 2020.

  5. Sidharth Sharma, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Arun Somani and Ashwin Gumaste
    Designing Highly-Available Service Provider Networks with NFV Components
    IEEE 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Valencia, Spain, August 2019.

  6. Sidharth Sharma, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Ashwin Gumaste and Admela Jukan
    VNF Availability Model for Service Provider Networks
    IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Diego, USA, March 2019.

  7. Sidharth Sharma, Ashwin Gumaste and Biswanath Mukherjee
    Using Light-trails as an Optical Backhaul for 5G
    IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Diego, USA, March 2019.

  8. Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma, Naveen Bazard and Ashwin Gumaste
    Bitstream: A Flexible SDN Protocol for Service Provider Networks
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, USA, May 2018.

  9. Ashwin Gumaste, Sidharth Sharma, Tamal Das and Aniruddha Kushwaha
    Analyzing the Impact of NFV in Large Provider Networks: A Use Case Perspective
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, June 2017.

  10. Ashwin Gumaste, Sidharth Sharma, Tamal Das and Aniruddha Kushwaha
    Strategies for VNF Placements in Large Provider Networks
    IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Los Angeles, USA, March 2017.