Publications:

Journals:

R. Roy, Mukesh Kumar, Navin K. Sharma, and S. Sural,    "Bottom-Up Construction of Bluetooth Topology under a Traffic-Aware Scheduling Scheme,"    IEEE  Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 72-86, Jan., 2007.

R. Roy, Mukesh Kumar, Navin K. Sharma, and S. Sural,    "A Self-Organizing Protocol for Bluetooth Scatternet Formation," European Transactions on    Tele-Communications (ETT), Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 483-493, 2005.

S. Sural, Mukesh Kumar, Navin K Sharma, and R. Roy,    "A Power-Aware Master and Bridge Scheduling Scheme for Bluetooth Scatternets,"    International Journal of Ad hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, pp. 119-132, 2007.

Conferences

During PhD

Ting Zhu, Aditya Mishra, David Irwin, Navin Sharma, Prashant Shenoy, Don Towsley,    "Efficient Renewable Energy Management for Smart Homes ,"    BuildSys 2011 .

Navin Sharma, Pranshu Sharma, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy,    "Predicting Solar Generation from Weather Forecasts Using Machine Learning ,"    SmartGridComm 2011 .

David Irwin, Navin Sharma, Prashant Shenoy,    "Towards Continuous Policy-driven Demand Response in Data Centers,"    GreenNet 2011 . (Best Paper Award, Re-published in October 2011 edition of ACM CCR in SIGCOMM 2011 Best Workshop Papers section)

Navin Sharma, Sean Barker, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy,    "Blink: Managing Server Clusters on Intermittent Power,"    ASPLOS 2011 .

Navin Sharma, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, Michael Zink,    "MultiSense: Fine-grained Multiplexing for Steerable Camera Sensor Networks,"    ACM Multimedia Systems 2011.

Navin Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy,    "Cloudy Computing: Leveraging Weather Forecasts in Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems,"    SECON 2010, Boston, MA, June 2010.

David Irwin, Navin Sharma, Prashant Shenoy, Michael Zink,    "Towards a Virtualized Sensing Environment,"    TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 2010.

Navin Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy,    "SRCP: Simple Remote Control for Perpetual High-Power Sensor Networks,"    EWSN 2009 - 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, Cork, Ireland, Feb. 2009.

Before PhD

Navin K Sharma,    "Weighted Center of Mass Based Trilateration Approach for Locating Wireless Devices in Indoor Environment,"    in Proc. of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2006), Terromolinos, Spain, pp. 112 - 115, Oct., 2006.

Navin K Sharma and Mukesh Kumar,    "An Energy Constrained Multi Hop Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks,"    IEEE 4th International Conference on Networking (IEEE ICN 05), Reunion Island, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS - 3420), Springer - Verlag, pp. 706-712, April, 2005.

R. Roy, Mukesh Kumar, Navin K. Sharma, and S. Sural,    "P3 - A Power-Aware Polling Scheme with Priority for Bluetooth,"    in Proc. of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2004) - Workshops, Montreal, Canada, pp. 480-487, Aug, 2004.

R. Roy, Mukesh Kumar, Navin K. Sharma, and S. Sural,    "Dynamic Topology Construction in Bluetooth Scatternets,"    International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC-2004), Bangalore, India, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS-3296), Springer Verlag, pp. 30-39, 2004.

Industrial Experience:

2006 - 2007: Software Consultant, Dimdim Inc

2004 - 2006: Software Engineer, Wireless Development Group, CA Computer Associates India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad.

Patents:

Navin Kumar Sharma,    "System and Method for Locating Wireless Devices,"    US Patent No. 7,683,835.

Rahul Golash, Rohit Shankar, Sumit B. Deshpande, Navin Kumar Sharma, Rajesh Dharmalingam,    "Method and System for Managing Channels in a Wireless Network,"    US Patent No. 7,782,828.