Research Grants since 2005 (PI, co-PI, and Collaborator)
2016 - Present
2005 - 2015
Recent Research Grants
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NSERC Alliance
Developing a Novel PPP-RTK Location Accuracy Technique for the Android Platform
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MITACS Accelerate
Developing a Novel PPP-RTK Location Accuracy Technique for the Android Platform
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Western Carbon Emission Research Grant
Drone based Multispectral Imager for Monitoring Methane Emissions from Landfills
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Grant
Multi-scale Monitoring of Methane Emission from the City of London W12A Landfill
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Bell – Western 5G Research grant
Towards a Novel 5G-MEC-enabled Zero-client (ultra-thin) Green Computing Framework
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Bell – Western 5G Research grant
Towards a cost-effective Image-Sensing-Smart-Parking Systems (ISenSmaP)
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Bell – Western 5G Research grant
Smart Traffic-Aware Signaling at Intersections using 5G-V2X Technology
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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
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NSERC USRA Grant
Modeling the impact of social factors on Covid-19 transmission
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WING Labs Infrastructure Donation by Juniper Networks
Next Generation End-to-End Software Defined Networking (SDN) Labs”, Network equipment support received from Juniper. This carrier-grade SDN network test-bed will be the first end-to-end network research Labs in Canadian academia
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Western WIN 4.0 Research Grant
Anomaly detection in water lines using acoustic-based smart sensing
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Western WIN 4.0 Research Grant
Classifying Appliances Operation Modes Using Machine Learning
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Western Undergraduate Summer Research Grant
Towards the Development of a Smart Home Energy Management System
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
This project (with Juniper Networks) is about developing a scalable and optimal IP MPLS traffic allocation model while minimizing the overall network cost
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
This project (with Juniper Networks) targets finding network capacity allocation execution plans involving several intermediate steps whereby each step includes a subset of traffic assignment changes. While executing these steps, the network operator’s objectives need to be guaranteed.
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
This project (with Juniper Networks) proposes a novel two-phase Disjointpath SR-based reliability framework to enhance the current network reliability. This framework drives network traffic flows through disjoint paths, resulting in effective load balancing and enhancing network reliability to meet stringent requirements of various services.
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
This project (with Juniper Networks) will develop algorithms that can predict network failures and attacks (in an end-to-end packet-optical network) using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.
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MITACS Travel Grant
RESPOND (Resource Efficient Smart Packet Optical Network Design)”, (with Juniper Networks). This grant is to support PDF’s travel to the company location. This project is about developing a scalable and optimal IP MPLS traffic allocation model while minimizing the overall network cost
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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
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NSERC CONNECT Grant
Smart connected Infrastructure and digital Services (SIS) Workshop”, (with multiple companies). This project is about developing the necessary foundation to form a workgroup that will play a vital role in shaping the Canadian smart services and technology landscape in coming years. This grant is to support the operational expenses to organize the SIS workshop in Nov 2018
Past Funded Grants
My role as an Industry Sponsor and Collaborator since 2005 at Bell Canada-
NSERC Strategic
pWeb: A distributed Web hosting infrastructure
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ORF
Ultra-large Scale Services
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ORF
Security and Mobility over the Global Information Transport Platform
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NSERC CRD
Building and monitoring compromise resilient distributed service software
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NSERC IRC
Network Demand and Forecast
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NSERC Strategic
Availability-Aware Survivable Routing Architecture for GMPLS Networks
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NSERC CRD
Network intrusion detection and prediction systems
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NSERC CRD
MPLS Hybrid Survivable Routing
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MITACS Accelerate
Defense System Against DDoS Attacks
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CITO Internship
Development of Network Intrusion Forecasting Systems
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NSERC CRD
Building and monitoring compromise resilient distributed service software
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NSERC CRD
Survivable design and availability analysis on service-guaranteed modern overlay carrier networks
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CITO Internship
Availability and Survivability Analysis for Modern Communication Networks
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NSERC Strategic
Firestone: Anomaly discovery, and proactive security for next-generation firewalls
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CITO Internship
Multi-Period Demand Forecasting for Networking Planning
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NSERC CRD
CyberPlanner: An autonomous network planning framework