Research Grants

Research Grants since 2005 (PI, co-PI, and Collaborator)

$5,500,000+
Awarded a total of ~$2.5M of funding as an academic PI and co-PI (plus ~$3M industry support in the form of Lab equipment for setting up the next-gen SDN labs at Western).
2016 - Present
$10,000,000+
funding as an industry (Bell Canada) collaborator
2005 - 2015

Recent Research Grants

  1. Bell – Western 5G Research grant

    Towards a cost-effective Image-Sensing-Smart-Parking Systems (ISenSmaP)

  2. Bell – Western 5G Research grant

    Smart Traffic-Aware Signaling at Intersections using 5G-V2X Technology

  3. MITACS Accelerate Grant

    Some studies on anomalous ISP traffic prediction using AI techniques, (with Juniper Networks).

  4. MITACS Accelerate Grant

    Reinforcement Learning (RL) for QoS-centric routing in end-to-end IP network, (with Juniper Networks)

  5. MITACS Accelerate Grant

    A Novel Network Failure Forecast Model Using Machine Learning, (with Juniper Networks)

  6. Western Interdisciplinary Development Initiatives - IDI

    Drones for Health: Mapping the successes and challenges of Drones for Health at the intersection of social, ethical, and technological considerations

  7. MITACS Accelerate Grant

    Disjoint-Path Segment Routing: Network Reliability Perspective”, (with Juniper Networks)

  8. Western WIN 4.0 Research Grant

    Anomaly detection in water lines using acoustic-based smart sensing

  9. Western WIN 4.0 Research Grant

    Classifying Appliances Operation Modes Using Machine Learning

  10. MITACS Accelerate Grant

    Safely Engineering Egress Traffic Changes”, (with Juniper Networks).

  11. MITACS Accelerate Grant

    Efficient execution plan for egress traffic engineering, (with Juniper Networks).

  12. NSERC Discovery Grant

    Towards a cost-effective, software-centric, and Quality of Service (QoS) friendly framework for next generation networks”. This research program is about developing a novel software-centric, cost-effective, and QoS friendly network architecture that would offer carrier-grade quality guarantees (i.e., QoS) while minimizing network capital and operational expenses.

  13. NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement Grant

    Towards a cost-effective, software-centric, and Quality of Service (QoS) friendly framework for next generation networks”. This research program is about developing a novel software-centric, cost-effective, and QoS friendly network architecture that would offer carrier-grade quality guarantees (i.e., QoS) while minimizing network capital and operational expenses

  14. OCE/SOSCIP Talentedge Grant

    Fault localization and resiliency in Smart Grid”, (with Tillsonburg Hydro Inc., and IBM). This project is about automating the power failure notification system in Hydro’s grid systems

  15. OCE/SOSCIP Accelerator HQP Grant

    Fault localization and resiliency in Smart Grid”, (with Tillsonburg Hydro Inc., and IBM). This project is about automating the power failure notification system in Hydro’s grid systems

  16. NSERC Strategic Project Grant

    Smart Virtualized Platform for Cloud Management Systems”, (with TELUS, Ericsson). This project is about designing a comprehensive framework for smart cloud management

  17. NSERC Strategic Project Grant

    Middleware framework and programming infrastructure for IoT Services , (with Bell Canada, IBM, and Tillsonburg Hydro Inc.). This project is about specification and design of novel frameworks that would allow for the runtime monitoring, active management, and adaptation of large scale IoT systems (i.e. devices, networks, computational resources, applications)

  18. Bell Canada Research Grant

    Internet Traffic Growth, its impact, associated network economics in ISPs”, (with Bell Canada)”. This project is about exploring top Internet applications that are responsible for increasing the traffic growth network costing methodologies and compare Bell Canada’s costing methods and models with other costing concepts and methodologies

  19. TELUS Research Grant

    Network QoS Impact on Customer Experience (NiCE)”, (with TELUS). This project is about improving TELUS customers’ quality of experience (QoE) through understanding the impact of network Quality of Service (QoS) on customer services

STUDENTS GRANTS UNDER MY SUPERVISION

  1. NSERC USRA Grant

    Flight Path Synchronization for a Network of Autonomous Drones in Search and Rescue Applications”. This project is about developing inter-drone communication protocol for the network of autonomous drones

  2. Western Undergraduate Summer Research Grant

    Towards the Development of a Smart Home Energy Management System

  3. Western Summer 2021 Student Internship

  4. NSERC USRA Grant

    Modeling the impact of social factors on Covid-19 transmission

  5. NSERC USRA Grant

    A Novel Cell-based Flight Path Model for Autonomous Drone Delivery

LAB EQUIPMENT DONATION

  1. 5G QoS and Cyber security Research

    Donated by Bell Canada in Equipment Donation

  2. Next Generation End-to-End Software Defined Networking (SDN) Labs

    Donated by Juniper Networks in Equipment Donation

  3. Next Generation End-to-End Software Defined Networking (SDN) Labs

    Donated by HPE in Equipment Donation

Past Funded Grants

My role as an Industry Sponsor and Collaborator since 2005 at Bell Canada

These were the grants that I participated in as an industry sponsor and collaborator while I was at Bell Canada.

  1. NSERC Strategic

    pWeb: A distributed Web hosting infrastructure

  2. ORF

    Ultra-large Scale Services

  3. ORF

    Security and Mobility over the Global Information Transport Platform

  4. NSERC CRD

    Building and monitoring compromise resilient distributed service software

  5. NSERC IRC

    Network Demand and Forecast

  6. NSERC Strategic

    Availability-Aware Survivable Routing Architecture for GMPLS Networks

  7. NSERC CRD

    Network intrusion detection and prediction systems

  8. NSERC CRD

    MPLS Hybrid Survivable Routing

  9. MITACS Accelerate

    Defense System Against DDoS Attacks

  10. CITO Internship

    Development of Network Intrusion Forecasting Systems

  11. NSERC CRD

    Building and monitoring compromise resilient distributed service software

  12. NSERC CRD

    Survivable design and availability analysis on service-guaranteed modern overlay carrier networks

  13. CITO Internship

    Availability and Survivability Analysis for Modern Communication Networks

  14. NSERC Strategic

    Firestone: Anomaly discovery, and proactive security for next-generation firewalls

  15. CITO Internship

    Multi-Period Demand Forecasting for Networking Planning

  16. NSERC CRD

    CyberPlanner: An autonomous network planning framework