Sagar Naik, PEng

Professor, Graduate Officer - Research
Email: snaik@uwaterloo.ca
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.
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
- Currently considering applications from graduate students. A completed online application is required for admission; start the application process now.