SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Network Engineering Research Group

Research Areas

The Network Engineering Research Group focuses on the core technology that enables the plethora of diverse devices in the Internet to communicate effectively and reliably.

  • Wireless networks: The research addresses challenging issues with environmentally friendly energy efficient algorithms and protocols for different forms of wireless networks operating in day-to-day as well as extreme conditions.

  • Distributed Systems: Current research is centred on Grid and Cloud computing. We also have interests in eScience and sensor information processing.

  • Security, Trust and Cooperation: The focus of our current research is how to improve security for the users who access resources via networks. We contribute to the international Honeynet project and share their goal of learning the tactics and motives involved in computer and network attacks, and sharing the lessons learned.

  • Digital preservation: The problem of ensuring that resources created electronically are accessible to future generations is becoming a world wide concern as more and more of our documents and artifacts are "born digital".

Research Team

Find out more about our Research Team and how to work with them:

Research Publications

Members of the group have produced a number of publications over the years:

Seminars and Presentations

The group holds regular discussions and members present their research. Past (and upcoming) seminars are shown below:

Date Presenter Topic
19 May 2011 Van Lam Le Identification of Potential Malicious Web Pages: Anomaly Score Approaches
02 Jun 2011 Zakwan Al-Arnaout A Novel Distributed Content Replication and Placement Scheme for WMNs
16 Jun 2011 Ben Palmer Anonymously Establishing Digital Provenance in Reseller Chains
30 Jun 2011 Juan Rada-Vilela

(I) Swarm Intelligence for Swarm Robotics

(II) A Performance Study on Synchronous and Asynchronous Updates in Particle Swarm Optimization (GECCO paper)
21 Jul 2011 Ferry Hendrikx OpenRep
17 Aug 2011 Josh Bailey (Google Research)
01 Sep 2011 No presentation; IEEE Central Section Postgraduate Event
15 Sep 2011 Wei-Chuan Lin Exploiting Radio Irregularity for Detection and Monitoring
29 Sep 2011 Koshy John A Social Cloud for Public eResearch
13 Oct 2011 Kiattikul Sooksomsatarn (A.J.) Defense Against Pollution Attacks in Content Distribution with Network Coding
27 Oct 2011 Muhammad Adeel Mahmood Event Reliability for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Dong Xia An Experimental Study on Performance Comparison of Rate Adaptation and Fixed Rate in IEEE 802.11g
  Zakwan Arnaout A Novel Distributed Content Replication and Placement Scheme for WMNs
10 Nov 2011 Chisato Fujii Multi-Tier Probabilistic Polling for Wireless Sensor Networks Powered by Energy Harvesting
  Ankit Chopra Utilizing the Inherent Properties of Preamble Sequences in Cellular Networks
28 Nov 2011 Nan Liu Routing Metrics for Community Wireless Mesh Networks

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