Funding Agency: TIH, IIT Bombay, DST funded. Duration: 2024-25 Fund: INR 6,00,000 Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury Title: Development of a Light-weight Scheduling Mechanism for the LoRa MAC.
Funding Agency: SERB: Startup Research Grant Duration: 2024-26 Fund: INR 19,00,000 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: TIH, IIT Bombay, DST funded. Duration: 2023-2027 Fund: INR 27,00,000 Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury Title: Exploiting Adaptive Data-Rate Technique for Longer Network Lifetime & Resource Allocation of LoRa based IoT Applications.
Funding Agency: CDRF-BITS Pilani Duration: 2023-2025 Fund: INR 30,00,000 Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury Title: An End-to-End Integrated Air-to-Underwater Quantum Communication System.
ASCRIN Joint PhD Proposal with La Trobe University, Australia Resource Allocation for Low-power Networks in Smart Cities BITS PI: Dr. Nikumani Choudhury La Trobe University 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) 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.