Overview

Director: Professor William Buchanan

The Centre for Distributed Computing and Security at Napier University is a large and growing research centre with ten RAE-focused academics and many researchers. This group focuses on:

• e-Health. This includes work on RFID in health care (especially for infection tracking), and patient-centric systems. Collaboration: NHS, and many other industry/domain partners.
• Mobile IP. This includes the work on enhanced mobility for devices.
• Group Communications. This includes work on effective group communications.
• Crisis Management Systems. This involves a collaboration between the police, health care and academic on next generation crisis management systems.
• Enhanced security and forensic computing systems. This includes enhanced dynamic performance modelling, enhanced digital forensics systems and oblivious transfer systems.
• Patient-centric health care systems.
• Ad-hoc routing over wireless networks.
• Intelligent intrusion detection systems.
• The usage of mobile agents.
• Location-tracking of mobile devices.

At the core of its work is the successful transfer of knowledge between the research group and professionals, along with its excellent reputation for: its depth of skills; its links with industry and in enterprise; and, in its record on dissemination. It has extensive links with industry, and has developed a novel system for an agent-based system for ad-hoc routing over wireless networks, and innovative methods for device tracking and in content generation.

Presentations from recent group meetings include:

• Oblivious Transfer. Presented Nov 2008.
• Enhanced Educational Framework. MSc thesis. Presented Oct 2008.
• SQL Injection Attack. MSc thesis. Presented Oct 2008.
• Analysis of QoS. MSc thesis. Presented Oct 2008.
• QoS Aware Mulitcast Algorithms for Wireless Mesh Networks. Presented Dec 2008.

Presentations to following include:

• Distributed Healthcare Framework using Patient-centric Role-based Security Modelling and Workflow.

An invited lecture talk from Prof Saleem Bhatti is at:

• SICSIA Overview.
• Hot Topics.

	Current and Recent Projects .net Mobile Agents Mobile agents are capable of enhancing distributed applications due to their inherent characteristics, such as code and state mobility, network awareness, intelligence, and so on. DigitalDNA This work is funded by Scottish Enterprise for a Proof-of-Concept, and involves translating system call information into Digital DNS. It investigates highly authenticated and verifiable digital forensics. e-Crime Detection This research is a collaboration with FSA on the detection of e-Crime, and investigates highly authenticated transactions in e-Commerce. Mobile Agents in Ad-hoc routing Recent advances in technology provided the ground for highly dynamic, mobile, infrastructure-less networks, namely, ad-hoc networks. Despite their enormous benefits, the full potential cannot be reached unless certain issues are resolved.