Sagar Naik, PEng

Sagar Naik, PEng
Professor, Graduate Officer - Research
Location: EIT 4174
Phone: 519-888-4567 x35313

Biography

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.

Research Interests

  • 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

Education

  • 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

Teaching*

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

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • 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

Graduate studies