Network Engineering Research Group

Research Areas

The Network Engineering Research Group work in the following areas:

• Cognitive networks: Cognitive Radio, wireless multihop networks, network measurement, MIMO systems, and wireless channel modelling.
• Distributed Systems? : Clouds and Grid, eScience and sensor information processing.
• Security, Trust and Cooperation : Client honeypots, secure auctions and e-Commerce protocols.

Research Team

Staff

• Dr Kris Bubendorfer - Grids, Clouds, Trustworthy Interactions and Reputation
• Prof John Hine - eScience, Role Based Security
• Dr Qiang Fu - Internet architecture and protocols, wireless and mobile systems, and network measurement and security
• Dr Peter Komisarczuk - Next Generation Internet/Next Generation Networks, Network measurement and security, Cognitive Radio & Wireless Networking
• Andy Linton - Network Building and Management, Internet Governance
• Prof Winston Seah - Wireless multihop (ad hoc/sensor) networks, robust networks for harsh environments, theoretic approaches to networking, Green wireless networks
• Dr Wei Li - Information theory and cognitive wireless networks
• Dr Ian Welch - Internet security and Preservation of digital artifacts

Thesis Students

Many of our projects are carried out by thesis students. This is a list of our current students:

• Kyle Chard - A Distributed Economic Meta-Scheduler for the Grid (PhD)
• Hugh Davenport - Implementing a Framework for Verifying Reseller Transactions (ME)
• Christian Seifert - Using Honeynets for Intrusion Protection Systems (PhD)
• Kok-Lim Yau - Context-Awareness and Intelligence in Cognitive Radio Networks: Design and Applications (PhD)
• Van Lam Le - Applying AI to Client Honeypot Systems (PhD)
• Pacharawit Topark-Ngarm - Mobile Client Honeypots (PhD)
• Benjamin Palmer - Verifying Reseller Transactions (PhD)
• Paul Radford - An Architecture for Managing Security Alerts (MSc)
• Yu Ren - Developing a Cognitive Radio Testbed (MSc)
• Deborah Shepherd - Developing, Analysing and Testing the Fringe Routing Protocol (MSc)

Research Publications

Selected publications are available here

Working with Us

If you are interested in our research areas, please contact any of the staff below whose interests match your own. Unfortunately, our School is not able to not offer any internal MSc or PhD scholarships. Please refer to the Victoria University scholarships page on University funded or other scholarship sources.

Internal Resources

Some of our resources are only to members of our group.