Research Grants since 2005 (PI, co-PI, and Collaborator)
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
funding as an industry (Bell Canada) collaborator
2005 - 2015
Recent Research Grants
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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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MITACS Accelerate Grant
Some studies on anomalous ISP traffic prediction using AI techniques, (with Juniper Networks).
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
Reinforcement Learning (RL) for QoS-centric routing in end-to-end IP network, (with Juniper Networks)
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
A Novel Network Failure Forecast Model Using Machine Learning, (with Juniper Networks)
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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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MITACS Accelerate Grant
Disjoint-Path Segment Routing: Network Reliability Perspective”, (with Juniper Networks)
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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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MITACS Accelerate Grant
Safely Engineering Egress Traffic Changes”, (with Juniper Networks).
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MITACS Accelerate Grant
Efficient execution plan for egress traffic engineering, (with Juniper Networks).
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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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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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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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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
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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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Western Undergraduate Summer Research Grant
Towards the Development of a Smart Home Energy Management System
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Western Summer 2021 Student Internship
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NSERC USRA Grant
Modeling the impact of social factors on Covid-19 transmission
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NSERC USRA Grant
A Novel Cell-based Flight Path Model for Autonomous Drone Delivery
LAB EQUIPMENT DONATION
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5G QoS and Cyber security Research
Donated by Bell Canada in Equipment Donation
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Next Generation End-to-End Software Defined Networking (SDN) Labs
Donated by Juniper Networks in Equipment Donation
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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 CanadaThese were the grants that I participated in as an industry sponsor and collaborator while I was at Bell Canada.
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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