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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. I graduated with a Ph.D. in CSE from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2020, advised by Prof. Ashwin Gumaste. My Ph.D. research was focused on various modeling, experimentation, and analytical aspects of network management in next-generation software-defined networks.

Currenly, I am interested in network verification and application of AI/ML techniques for network management. I am looking for motivated students to join my research group. Please send me your CV if you are interested in doing a PhD in my research interests.

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Publications

Patents

1. US Patent "Using graph neural networks to create table-less routers", Abhiram Singh, Sidharth Sharma and Ashwin Gumaste, US Patent 11,310,119, 2022.
2. US Patent "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. ACM TOIT'23 "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 20, pp. 1-26, 2023.
2. IEEE TNSE'21 "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.
3. JLT'21 "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.
4. IEEE Access'20 "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.
5. ISJ'21 "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.
6. JLT'18 "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.
7. JLT'17 "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.
8. JOCN'17 "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 Communication networking, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 711-729, 2017.

Conferences

1. HPSR'24 "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 (Accepted).
2. ICCCN'21 "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. NFV-SDN'20 "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. HPSR'20 "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. DRCN'20 "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. ICCCN'19 "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. OFC'19 "Using Light-trails as an Optical Backhaul for 5G", Sidharth Sharma, Ashwin Gumaste, and Biswanath Mukherjee, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Diego, USA, March 2019.
8. OFC'19 "VNF Availability Model for Service Provider Networks", Sidharth Sharma, Aniruddha Kushwaha, Ashwin Gumaste and Admela Jukan, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), San Diego, USA, March 2019.
9. ICC'18 "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. ICC'17 "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. OFC'17 "Strategies for VNF Placements in Large Provider Networks", Ashwin Gumaste, Sidharth Sharma, Tamal Das and Aniruddha Kushwaha, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Los Angeles, USA, March 2017.
12. ICACCI'15 "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.

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Teaching

Instructor

• CS 306 Computer Networks (IIT Indore, Spring 2024)
• CS 356 Computer Networks Lab (IIT Indore, Spring 2024)
• CS 427/627 Advanced Computer Network (IIT Indore, Autumn 2023)
• CS 204 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (IIT Indore, Spring 2023)
• CS 254 Design and Analysis of Algorithms Lab (IIT Indore, Spring 2023)
• CS 203 Data Structures and Algorithms (IIT Indore, Autumn 2022)
• CS 253 Data Structures and Algorithms Lab (IIT Indore, Autumn 2022)

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Professional Service

Peer Reviewer for Academic Journals

1. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
3. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
4. IEEE Networking Letters
5. IEEE Communications Magazine
6. Elsevier Journal on Optical Switching and Networking

Experience

1. Indian Insitute of Technology, Indore
   Assistant Professor   Department of Computer Science and Engineering   Jan 2022 - Present
2. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
   Post-doctoral Fellow   Department of Computer Science and Engineering   Oct 2020 - Jan 2022

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Grants

1. "Developing a Network Digital Twin of a Self-Optimized Virtualized Network for 5G and Beyond" (Role: PI)
   Agency: SERB (Start-up Research Grant); Duration: 2024-2026
2. "Designing a Self-Optimized 5G Virtualized Radio Access Network" (Role: PI)
   Agency: IIT Indore (Young Faculty Research Seed Grant); Duration: 2022-2024
3. "Development of a Scalable Information Extraction Framework using Machine Learning Techniques" (Role: PI)
   Agency: eSoftLogics Pvt. Ltd.; Duration: 8 months (May 2023 - Dec 2023)

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Advising

1. Ph.D. (ongoing) Mayank Ramnani, Research Scholar at IIT Indore

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