Sidharth Sharma

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Publications

Patents

  1. Using graph neural networks to create table-less routers
    Abhiram Singh, Sidharth Sharma and Ashwin Gumaste
    US Patent 11,310,119, 2022.

  2. Flexible software-defined networking (SDN) protocol for service provider networks
    Ashwin Gumaste, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma and Mahesh Jagtap
    US Patent 10,728,139, 2020.

Journals

  1. Optimal Offloading from P4 Switches to NFV for Diverse Traffic Streams
    Sidharth Sharma, Yuan-Cheng Lai, Ashwin Gumaste, Ying-Dar Lin
    Computer Networks, Vol. 257, Article No. 110907, 2025.

  2. A Network Calculus Model for SFC Realization and Traffic Bounds Estimation in Data Centers
    Sidharth Sharma, Admela Jukan, Aashi Malik and Ashwin Gumaste
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 24, No. 4, Article No. 21, 2024.

  3. VERCEL: Verification and Rectification of Configuration Errors with Least Squares
    Abhiram Singh, Sidharth Sharma, and Ashwin Gumaste
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 4600-4614, 2024.

  4. Tuneman: Customizing Networks to Guarantee Application Bandwidth and Latency
    Sidharth Sharma, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Mohammad Alizadeh, George Varghese and Ashwin Gumaste
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 23, No. 1, Article No. 20, 2023.

  5. Grafnet: Using Graph Neural Networks to Create Table-Less Routers
    Abhiram Singh, Sidharth Sharma, Ashwin Gumaste and Jianping Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 740-754, 2021.

  6. Light-trail Design for 5G Backhaul: Architecture, SDN impact and Coordinated Multi-Point
    Sidharth Sharma, Abhiram Singh, Ashwin Gumaste and Biswanath Mukherjee
    IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 39, No. 17, pp. 5383-5396, 2021.

  7. VNF Availability and SFC Sizing Model for Service Provide Networks
    Sidharth Sharma, Anna Engelmann, Admela Jukan and Ashwin Gumaste
    IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 119768-119784, 2020.

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

  9. A 400 Gb/s Carrier-Class SDN White-Box Design and Demonstration: The Bitstream Approach
    Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma, Naveen Bazard and Ashwin Gumaste
    IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 36, No. 15, pp. 3115-3130, 2018.

  10. How Much NFV Should a Provider Adopt?
    Ashwin Gumaste, Tamal Das, Sidharth Sharma and Aniruddha Kushwaha
    IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 35, No. 13, pp. 2598-2611, 2017.

  11. Developing and Deploying a Carrier Class SDN-Centric Network Management System for a Tier-1 Service Provider Network
    Saurabh Hote, Puneet Ghodasara, Tamal Das, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Sidharth Sharma, Sarvesh Bidkar and Ashwin Gumaste
    IEEE/Optica Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 711-729, 2017.

Conferences

  1. SliAvailRAN: Availability-Aware Slicing and Adaptive Function Placement in Virtualized RANs
    Saad Ahmed, Mayank Ramnani and Sidharth Sharma
    IEEE 25th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Pisa, Italy, July 2024.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  12. On selection of attributes for Entropy-based Detection of DDoS
    Sidharth Sharma, Santosh Kumar Sahu and Sanjay Kumar Jena
    4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Kochi, India, August 2015.