Networking
Lancaster's Networking Research is focused on the design of the future Internet. This includes work on services and architectures, the application of new concepts to core Internet mechanisms and the extension of the Internet to an Internet of Things (IoT) that integrates embedded systems and mobile devices. A core element of our work is the evaluation of new ideas in practical deployments or testbeds. Security of networked systems is an important concern and we have close links with Security Lancaster.
Members and Interests
Dr Christopher Edwards
Chris currently researches projects in the areas of network infrastructure support for disaster recovery and rescue services, network mobility and multihoming, and networked multimedia caching. The network mobility work is looking at how Mobile Hosts or Mobile Networks (MN) are able to obtain quick, trouble-free, secure network access whilst they roam. The work to provide such access has been supported by a number of sources including the European Commission (the u2010 project), JANET UK (Mobile IP Trails), and perhaps most notably, Cisco Systems in their sponsorship of a number of Ph.D students at Lancaster. His general interests include future Internet protocols, multimedia communications, network support for GRID applications, quality of service and traffic engineering.
Dr Andreas Mauthe
My research is in the area of Networked Systems, focusing on two main areas, i.e. Network Management and Multimedia Systems. Further, I have also been working on research related to energy efficient computer architectures. Within all my research I take a systems approach by developing architectures and frameworks, protocols and communication mechanisms that are evaluated analytically, through simulations and prototypes. Through my research I am part of the Energy Lancaster and Security Lancaster schemes. My research has been published in more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and I have been a senior member in more than 9 projects in recent years.
Dr Nicholas Race
My research area is experimental networking and networked media. More specifically, this includes:
- Software Defined Networks (SDN), developing network-aware caching solutions that utilise emerging SDN technology (examples of this include the recent work on OpenCache).
- Networking Testbeds / Wireless Mesh Networking; particularly the associated technical platforms and management infrastructure. More recently the focus has been on issues relating to security, developing intrusion/anomaly detection techniques and appropriate remediation strategies (e.g. OpenLIDS presented at MobiCom 2009).
- Media Delivery (IPTV and Content Distribution); particularly studies of media consumption and system streaming behaviour patterns (e.g. recent work published at ACM Multimedia 2014).
I am currently the principal investigator at Lancaster of the FI-CONTENT2 EU project and the co-investigator of the EPSRC TOUCAN Programme Grant. Previously I was the principal investigator at Lancaster of the STEER, GN3plus, Fed4FIRE, OFELIA and P2P-Next EU projects.
Dr Utz Roedig
My research interest lies in the area of distributed embedded systems (This includes Wireless Sensor Networks and Cyber Physical Systems). Most computer systems surrounding us in our daily life are no longer the traditional personal computers but embedded devices. Recently, these embedded devices have become increasingly networked together to form distributed embedded systems. Examples of networked embedded systems are home automation systems, physical intrusion detection systems, smart cities or wireless sensor systems for factory automation. My work looks at communication mechanisms and software used to construct these systems. An important aspect of my work is to deploy and test systems in real-world application scenarios.
Dr Andrew Scott
Andrew is a practical computer scientist with broad interests in the development of systems and system architectures. His work has spanned from the implementation of embedded systems and network protocols to the development of active routers and networked multimedia workstations. Recent work has focused around the implementation of novel operating systems and virtualisation techniques, and the development of network testbeds to support the evaluation of new network architectures and protocols. The ability of such systems to support the growing number of devices having resource or connectivity constraints such mobile, embedded, and sensor network devices is of particular interest.
