Sponsored Projects
Funding Agency: SERB: Startup Research Grant
Duration: 2 years
Fund: INR ~19,00,000 (PhD-1)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
Title: Development of a Seamless Communication Framework in IEEE 802.15.4-DSME based IoT-Enabled Smart Cities.
Funding Agency: DST: TIH, IIT Bombay
Duration: 4 years
Fund: INR ~32,00,000 (PhD-1, UG-4)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
Title: Exploiting Adaptive Data-Rate Technique for Longer Network Lifetime & Resource Allocation of LoRa based IoT Applications
Funding Agency: Cross-Disciplinary Research Framework (CDRF): BITS Pilani
Duration: 2 years
Fund: INR ~30,00,000 (PhD-1)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Syed Mohammad Zafaruddin, Prof. Jayendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
Title: An End-to-End Integrated Air-to-Underwater Quantum Communication System
Asian Smart Cities Research Innovation Network (ASCRIN) Joint PhD Project with La Trobe University, Australia
Project: Resource allocation for Low-power networks in Smart CIties.
BITS PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
LTU PI: Prof. Wei Xiang
Joint PhD Proposal with RMIT Australia
a) Secured & Intelligent Vehicular Transportation Framework
BITS PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury, Co-PI: Dr. Jay Dave
RMIT PI: Prof. Ke (Desmond) Wang
b) Online Network Capacity Planning
BITS PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury, Co-PI: Prof. Tathagata Ray
RMIT PI: Prof. Mark Gregory
c) Securing Joining procedure in OTAA and ABP Techniques for LoRa based IoT Applications
BITS PI: Dr. Jay Dave, Co-PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
RMIT PI: Prof. Iqbal Gondal
d) Secure and Adaptive Resource Allocation Framework for 6TiSCH based Smart City IoT Applications
BITS PI: Dr. Jay Dave, Co-PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
RMIT PI: Prof. Iqbal Gondal
e) Security of Cloud-based Healthcare Systems
BITS PI: Dr. Jay Dave, Co-PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
RMIT PI: Prof. Iqbal Gondal
f) Privacy and Security in Online Social Networks
BITS PI: Dr. Jay Dave, Co-PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
RMIT PI: Prof. Iqbal Gondal
Funding Agency: Research Initiation Grant, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
Duration: 2022-2024
Fund: INR 2,00,000
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
Title: Development of a complete DSME-MAC framework for IEEE 802.15.4 based IoT networks.
Funding Agency: The College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Duration: 2022-2023
Fund: Saudi Riyals 30,000
Principal Investigator: Prof. Moustafa Nasralla
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
Title: Development of DSME-MAC protocols for IEEE 802.15.4 based IoT networks.
Funding Agency: Additional Competitive Research Grant, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
Duration: 2022-2024
Fund: INR 10,00,000
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury
Title: Towards Smart Living (BPHC) Campus: Leveraging LoRaWAN Technologies for IoT Network Applications.