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Nihal Sharma
dblp:259/0632
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0003-1289-5852ORCID · reported
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Computer networks · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer networks
2 papers |
Network management and operations · 60% Content delivery and video streaming · 40% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network management and operations
network control |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | UNUM: A New Framework for Network Control · NSDI 2026 |
Content delivery and video streaming › content delivery network
CDN caching |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN Caching · SIGCOMM 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
network control framework · 1.0unsupervised clustering · 0.7reinforcement learning · 0.7neural bandit · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | UNUM: A New Framework for Network Control
Nihal Sharma, Debajit Chakraborty, Jeffrey Zhou, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai |
NSDI | 2 |
| 2023 | Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN CachingabstractCache management is critical for Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), impacting their performance and operational costs. Most production CDNs apply static, hand-tuned caching policy parameters at cache servers, such as admission frequency or size thresholds for the Hot Object Caches (HOC) of their system. However, these static policies fall short when a server is faced with unpredictable traffic pattern changes, even when policies employ multiple control parameters/knobs. Recent approaches have proposed learning-based solutions to dynamically adjust policy parameters, but they are limited in action space, caching objectives, or impose high overhead. We propose Darwin, a CDN cache management system that is robust to traffic pattern changes and can flexibly optimize different caching objectives with unrestricted action spaces. Darwin employs a three-stage pipeline involving traffic pattern feature collection, unsupervised clustering for classification, and neural bandit expert selection to choose the optimal caching policy. Through extensive simulations, experiments using an Apache Traffic Server (ATS)-based prototype, and theoretical analysis, we show that Darwin achieves significant performance gain w.r.t. different objectives such as maximizing object hit rates and minimizing disk writes, while simultaneously adapting to traffic pattern shifts. Darwin imposes negligible overhead and achieves high throughput compared to the state-of-the-art. Nihal Sharma, Tarannum Khan, Brian Chang, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai, Ramesh K. Sitaraman |
SIGCOMM | 2 |