Research Grants

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

$3,500,000+
2016 - Present
$10,000,000+
2005 - 2015

Recent Research Grants

  1. NSERC Alliance

    Developing a Novel PPP-RTK Location Accuracy Technique for the Android Platform

  2. MITACS Accelerate

    Developing a Novel PPP-RTK Location Accuracy Technique for the Android Platform

  3. Western Carbon Emission Research Grant

    Drone based Multispectral Imager for Monitoring Methane Emissions from Landfills

  4. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Grant

    Multi-scale Monitoring of Methane Emission from the City of London W12A Landfill

  5. Bell – Western 5G Research grant

    Towards a Novel 5G-MEC-enabled Zero-client (ultra-thin) Green Computing Framework

  6. Bell – Western 5G Research grant

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

  7. Bell – Western 5G Research grant

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

  8. 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

  9. NSERC USRA Grant

    Modeling the impact of social factors on Covid-19 transmission

  10. 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

  11. Western WIN 4.0 Research Grant

    Anomaly detection in water lines using acoustic-based smart sensing

  12. Western WIN 4.0 Research Grant

    Classifying Appliances Operation Modes Using Machine Learning

  13. Western Undergraduate Summer Research Grant

    Towards the Development of a Smart Home Energy Management System

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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)

  22. 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

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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
  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