Sagar Naik, PEng

Dr. Kshirasagar Naik is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has been a member of IEEE since 1994.

Dr. Naik’s research interests include computer network protocols, wireless and mobile communication systems, sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, cognitive radio systems and energy efficiency in handheld devices and data centers. His work also covers delay-tolerant networks, body-area networks, mHealth (mobile health) and eHealth applications, vehicular networks, and intelligent transportation systems.

• Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks

• Low Power Software

• Optical Networks

• Communication & Information Systems

• Mobile Communication and Computing

• Sensor Networks / AMR

• Energy-Cost Modeling of Wireless Applications

• Green Applications of Information Technology

• Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Distributed and Network Computing

• Multimedia Synchronization

• Testing Communication Protocols

• Connectivity and Internet of Things (IoT)

• Cybersecurity

• Infrastructure and Integrity

• IoT Devices

• Application Domains

• Networking and Data

• Dependability and Security

• 1992, Doctorate Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Ontario

• 1988, Master of Mathematics Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario

• 1983, MTech Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

• 1981, BScEng Electronics and Telecommunication, Sambalpur University, India

• ECE 358 - Computer Networks
  • Taught in 2024, 2025
• ECE 655 - Protocols, Software and Issues in Mobile Systems
  • Taught in 2024, 2025

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• Verma, Pawan Kumar and Verma, Rajesh and Prakash, Arun and Agrawal, Ashish and Naik, Kshirasagar and Tripathi, Rajeev and Alsabaan, Maazen and Khalifa, Tarek and Abdelkader, Tamer and Abogharaf, Abdulhakim, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications: A survey, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 83, 2016

• Abdelkader, Tamer and Naik, Kshirasagar and Nayak, Amiya and Goel, Nishith and Srivastava, Vineet, A performance comparison of delay-tolerant network routing protocols, IEEE Network, 46, 2016

• Altamimi, Majid and Abdrabou, Atef and Naik, Kshirasagar and Nayak, Amiya, Energy cost models of smartphones for task offloading to the cloud, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 384, 2015

• Singh, Jasmeet and Naik, Kshirasagar and Mahinthan, Veluppillai, Impact of developer choices on energy consumption of software on servers, Procedia Computer Science, 385, 2015

• Abogharaf, Abdulhakim and Mahinthan, Veluppillai and Naik, Kshirasagar, An energy-efficient and client-centric data streaming technique on smartphones, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 183, 2015