Joint Investigator of a project on Technology Verification Via Deployment of a Small-Scale PIR-Based Wireless Sensor, 2013-2017, funded by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
Principal Investigator of a project on Wireless Sensor Networking for Industrial Automation, 2009-2011, funded by the Department of Information Technology, through the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Trivandrum.
Principal Investigator of a project on Wireless Sensor Networking for Intrusion Detection, 2006-2009.
Principal Investigator of a project on Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Networks for Industrial Monitoring Applications, sponsored by Honeywell, 2005.
Joint Investigator of a project on Wireless Networking funded by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research, 2003 – 2006.
Joint Investigator of Intel funded projects on Quality of Service in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs, 2003-2006.
Joint Investigator of Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd. (HFCL) funded projects in the areas of “Voice over IP; Internet Bandwidth Management; Internet Traffic Engineering;” 2000-2004.
Principal investigator of Nortel Networks funded research projects in the areas: “Engineering Models for Quality of Service in a Differentiated Services Internet; Measurement Based Connection Admission Control in Packet Networks; Performance of Rate Adaptive TCP; Performance of TCP over the ABR Service in an ATM Network; Algorithms for Explicit Rate Control of ABR Sessions in ATM Networks;” 1996-2001.
Past Coordinator of the Ministry of Information Technology (MIT) funded ERNET (Education and Research NETwork) project (June 1989 – present). The project group at IISc has equipment worth Rs. 100 lakhs (US $200,000), receives annual grants averaging to about Rs. 20 lakhs (US $40,000), and employs 8 full-time project engineers. The goal of this project is to establish and operate a nationwide Internet for the Indian academic and research community.