Dr Joe Finney

Senior Lecturer

Research Overview

My research revolves around the investigation of network and system support for mobile, embedded and ubiquitous computing. I typically employ an experimental methodology in my research. Through the prototyping of novel and emerging applications, I work to discover new requirements, architectures, protocols and techniques for future networks and systems. I find adopting such a pragmatic and experimental approach not only provides accurate research results and insights, but also enables more direct dissemination of research results into both the academic and industrial research communities. As an example of this, previous work I undertook around the Mobile IPv6 protocol was later adopted by Microsoft and integrated in their Windows XP and CE operating systems, and have developed patented and licensed technology for the creation of emergent displays.

Experiences with a social travel information system
Harding, M., Finney, J., Hannon, J., Davies, N., Rouncefield, M. 2013 In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp '13). ACM p. 173-182. 10 p.
Conference contribution

Where's My Pixel? Multi-view Reconstruction of Smart LED Displays
Lewis, C., Chandler, A., Finney, J. 2011 In: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies. XPS p. 83-89. 7 p.
Paper

Toward emergent technology for blended public displays
Chandler, A., Finney, J., Lewis, C., Dix, A. 2009 In: Ubicomp '09: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 101-104. 4 p.
Paper

Exploring the Design of Pay-Per-Use Objects in the Construction Domain
Fitton, D., Sundramoorthy, V., Kortuem, G., Brown, J., Efstratiou, C., Finney, J., Davies, N. 2008 In: Smart Sensing and Context. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Verlag p. 192-205. 14 p.
Paper

Experiences of designing and deploying intelligent sensor nodes to monitor hand-arm vibrations in the field
Efstratiou, C., Davies, N., Kortuem, G., Finney, J., Hooper, R., Lowton, M. 12/2007 In: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services. p. 127 - 138.
Paper

Method And Apparatus For Signal Presentation
Finney, J., Dix, A., Alan Dix and Joe Finney (Patent applicant) 1/03/2007
Patent

Sensing Danger - Challenges in Supporting Health and Safety Compliance in the Field
Davies, N., Efstratiou, C., Finney, J., Hooper, R., Kortuem, G., Lowton, M. 02/2007 In: HOTMOBILE '07 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. p. 34-38. 5 p.
Paper

Network Interrupts: supporting delay sensitive applications in low power wireless control networks
Brown, J., Finney, J., Efstratiou, C., Green, B., Davies, N., Lowton, M., Kortuem, G. 2007 In: Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks. New York : ACM p. 51-58. 8 p.
Paper

Finding NEMO: On the Accuracy of Inferring Location in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
Lowton, M., Brown, J., Finney, J. 06/2006
Conference paper

Public ubiquitous computing systems: lessons from the e-campus display deployments
Storz, O., Friday, A., Davies, N., Finney, J., Sas, C., Sheridan, J. 01/2006 In: IEEE Pervasive Computing. 5, 3, p. 40-47. 8 p.
Journal article

Proximity sensing using IEEE 802.15.4 radios
Lowton, M., Brown, J., Finney, J., Kortuem, G. 2006 In: Smart Sensing and Context : First European Conference, EuroSSC 2006 Enschede, Netherlands, October 25-27, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin : Springer Verlag p. 248-249. 2 p.
Paper

On the Effects of Loose Causal Consistency in Mobile Multiplayer Games
Chandler, A., Finney, J. 10/2005 In: Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games. ACM p. 1-11. 1 p.
Paper

Low Latency Optimisation of Content Based Publish Subscribe for Real-Time Mobile Gaming Applications
McCaffery, D., Finney, J. 06/2005
Other

Mobile 4-in-6: a novel IPv4/IPv6 transitioning mechanism for mobile hosts
Finney, J., Scott, A., Schmid, S. 13/03/2005 In: Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE. IEEE p. 1427-1433. 7 p.
Paper

Rendezvous: An Alternative Approach to Conflict Resolution for Real time Multi-user
Chandler, A., Finney, J. 01/2005 In: Proceeding PDP '05 Proceedings of the 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing.
Paper

Rendezvous: supporting real-time collaborative mobile gaming in high latency environments
Chandler, A., Finney, J. 2005 In: ACE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology. New York : ACM p. 310-313. 4 p.
Paper

Rendezvous: the case for a highly optimistic real-time consistency mechanism
Chandler, A., Finney, J. 12/2004
Other

The need for real-time consistency management in P2P mobile gaming environments
McCaffery, D., Finney, J. 06/2004 In: Proceeding ACE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology.
Paper

Gaming, fine art, and familiar strangers
Correia, N., Romero, L., Santiago, J., Jegers, K., Wiberg, M., Paulos, E., Wechsler, R., Weiss, F., McCaffery, D., Finney, J., Schmid, S., Scott, A., Lock, S., Sheridan, J.G., Lindsay, A.T., Kember, S., Phillips, P., Allanson, J. 01/2004 In: IEEE Pervasive Computing. 3, 1, p. 35-37. 3 p.
Journal article

Real tournament - mobile context aware gaming for the next generation
Wu, M., Mitchell, K., McCaffery, D., Finney, J., Friday, A. 01/2004 In: Electronic Library. 22, 1, p. 55-64. 10 p.
Journal article

Real tournament: location-aware mobile multiplayer gaming
McCaffery, D., Finney, J., Schmid, S., Scott, A. 01/2004
Other contribution

Supporting interaction with office door displays
Fitton, D., Cheverst, K., Finney, J., Dix, A. 01/2004
Other contribution

A Hybrid of Network and Application Layer Multicast for Mobile IPv6 Networks
Garyfalos, A., Almeroth, K., Finney, J. 10/2003 In: Proceedings of SRDS workshop on Large Scale Group Communication. p. 1-6. 6 p.
Paper

Network layer access control for context-aware IPv6 applications
Friday, A., Wu, M., Finney, J., Schmid, S., Cheverst, K., Davies, N. 01/2003 In: Wireless Networks. 9, 4, p. 299-309. 11 p.
Journal article

A comparison of network and application layer multicast for mobile IPv6 networks
Garyfalos, A., Almeroth, K., Finney, J. 2003 In: MSWIM '03: Proceedings of the 6th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems. New York : ACM p. 58-65. 8 p.
Paper

Six in the city: introducing Real Tournament - a mobile IPv6 based context-aware multiplayer game
Mitchell, K., McCaffery, D., Metaxas, G., Finney, J., Schmid, S., Scott, A. 2003 In: NetGames '03: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Network and system support for games. New York : ACM p. 91-100. 10 p.
Paper

Mobile-IPv6 and IPv6 Implementations for Microsoft Windows.
Scott, A.C., Chart, T., Finney, J., Schmid, S. 4/12/2002
Other contribution

An access control architecture for microcellular wireless IPv6 networks
Schmid, S., Finney, J., Wu, M., Friday, A., Scott, A., Shepherd, D. 11/2001 In: Local Computer Networks, 2001. Proceedings. LCN 2001. 26th Annual IEEE Conference on. p. 454-463. 10 p.
Paper

Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on interactive distributed multimedia systems (IDMS 2001)
Shepherd, W., Finney, J., Mathy, L., Race, N.J.P. 01/2001 Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-42530-4.
Book

A wireless public access infrastructure for supporting mobile context-aware IPv6 applications
Friday, A., Wu, M.W., Schmid, S., Finney, J., Cheverst, K., Davies, N. 2001 In: WMI '01 Proceedings of the first workshop on Wireless mobile internet. New York : ACM p. 11-18. 8 p.
Paper

An access control architecture for metropolitan area wireless networks
Schmid, S., Finney, J., Wu, M., Friday, A., Scott, A., Shepherd, W. 2001 In: Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems. Berlin : Springer p. 29-37. 9 p.
Paper

Component-based active network architecture
Schmid, S., Finney, J., Scott, A., Shepherd, W. 2001 In: Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'01). IEEE p. 114-121. 8 p.
Paper

Mobile 4-in-6: A Novel Mechanism for IPv4/v6 Transitioning
Finney, J., O'Shea, G. 2001 In: Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems 8th International Workshop, IDMS 2001 Lancaster, UK, September 4–7, 2001 Proceedings. Berlin : Springer Verlag p. 205-212. 8 p.
Paper

Active Component Driven Network Handoff for Mobile Multimedia Systems
Schmid, S., Finney, J., Scott, A., Shepherd, W. 10/2000 In: Proceeding IDMS '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services.
Paper

Component-based active networks for mobile multimedia systems
Schmid, S., Finney, J., Scott, A., Shepherd, W. 06/2000 In: Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2000. 8 p.
Paper

Implementing Mobile IPv6 for Real-Time Multimedia
Finney, J., Scott, A. 10/1999
Other

LARA: a prototype system for supporting high performance active networking
Cardoe, R., Finney, J., Scott, A., Shepherd, W. 06/1999 In: Active Networks. Berlin : Springer p. 117-131. 15 p.
Paper

Supporting Continuous Multimedia Seervices in Next Generation Mobile Systems
Finney, J. 01/1999
Doctoral Thesis

Supporting Adaptive Video Applications in Mobile Environments
Davies, N., Finney, J., Friday, A., Scott, A. 06/1998 In: IEEE Communications Magazine. 36, 6, p. 138-143. 6 p.
Journal article

Implementing Mobile IPv6 for Multimedia
Finney, J., Scott, A. 05/1998
Other contribution