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 |


