Currently, working as a Research Associate in Computational Science Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY.

Previously, graduated with:
a PhD degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2010;
an MS degree in Computer Science from Univ. of New Mexico in 2005;
and a BE degree in Computer Engineering from Univ. of Pune in 2002.

 

Research Interests: High Performance Networking, Network Virtualization, Software Defined Networking, Optimization, Algorithms.

Journal Publications

  1. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Jia Liu, Y. Thomas Hou, Sastry Kompella, and Scott F. Midkiff, Network Coding in Cooperative Communications: Friend or Foe?IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 11, no. 7, pages 1073-1085, July 2012. [IEEEXplore]
  2. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Hanif D. Sherali, Sastry Kompella, and Scott F. Midkiff, Joint Flow Routing and Relay Node Assignment in Cooperative Multi-hop NetworksIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 30, no. 2, pages 254-262, February 2012.[IEEEXplore]
  3. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou and Sastry Kompella, An Optimal Algorithm for Relay Node Assignment in Cooperative Ad Hoc Networks [pdf], IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), volume 19, issue 3, pages 879-892, June 2011.

Conference Publications

  1. Sushant Sharma, Dimitrios Katramatos, Dantong Yu, and Li Shi, Design and Implementation of an Intelligent End-to-End Network QoS System, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2012
  2. Dimitrios Katramatos, Sushant Sharma, Dantong Yu, Virtual Network On Demand: Dedicating Network Resources to Distributed Scientific Workflows, DIDC WorkshopACM HPDC 2012
  3. Sushant Sharma, Dimitrios Katramatos, and Dantong Yu, End-to-End Network QoS via Scheduling of Flexible Resource Reservation Requests [pdf], ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2011
  4. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Sastry Kompella, and Scott F. Midkiff, Optimal Grouping and Matching for Network-Coded Cooperative CommunicationsIEEE MILCOM 2011
  5. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, and Sastry Kompella, Achievable Rate Analysis in Network-Coded Cooperative Communications with Multiple Relay NodesIEEE ICC 2011
  6. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Hanif D. Sherali, and Sastry Kompella, Optimizing Network-Coded Cooperative Communications via Joint Session Grouping and Relay Node Selection [pdf], IEEE INFOCOM 2011
  7. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Jia Liu, Y. Thomas Hou and Sastry Kompella, Is Network Coding Always Good for Cooperative Communications?IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (Correct version that fixes a calculation mistake in results).
  8. Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Hanif D. Sherali, and Sastry Kompella, Cooperative Communications in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Joint Flow Routing and Relay node Assignment [pdf], IEEE INFOCOM 2010
  9. Sushant Sharma, Donald W. Gillies, Wu-chun Feng, On the Goodput of TCP NewReno in Mobile Networks [pdf], ICCCN 2010
  10. Yi Shi, Sushant Sharma, Y. Thomas Hou and Sastry Kompella, Optimal Relay Assignment for Cooperative Communications [pdf][ACM Authorizer], ACM MobiHoc 2008
  11. Pallab Datta, Wu-chun Feng and Sushant Sharma, End-System Aware, Rate-Adaptive Protocol for Network Transport in LambdaGrid Environments [pdf] [ACM Authorizer], ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2006 (SC 06)
  12. Pallab Datta, Sushant Sharma and Wu-chun Feng, Feedback Mechanism for Network Scheduling in LambdaGrids [pdf], IEEE CCGrid 2006
  13. Sushant Sharma, Chung-Hsing Hsu and Wu-chun Feng, Making a Case for a Green500 List [pdf], HP-PAC Workshop, IEEE IPDPS 2006
  14. Sushant Sharma, Patrick G. Bridges and Arthur B. Maccabe, A Framework for Analyzing Linux System Overheads on HPC Applications [pdf], LACSI Symposium 2005

Thesis

  1. Sushant Sharma, Cooperation in Wireless Networks, Ph.D. Thesis, Virginia Tech, December 2010
  2. Sushant Sharma, Per-Request Performance Monitoring Framework for the Linux Kernel, Master’s Thesis, University of New Mexico, July 2005