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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:
Presentations to following include:
An invited lecture talk from Prof Saleem Bhatti is at:
e-Health,
Forensic/Security Framework,
Group Communications,
Location tracking of mobile devices,
Mobile Agents,
Mobile IP,
Network Emulators,
Pervasive Adaptation,
Risk Analysis in e-Crime,
Wireless Mesh Networks
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Current and Recent Projects
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.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. |
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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. |
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e-Crime Detection This research is a collaboration with FSA on the detection of e-Crime, and investigates highly authenticated transactions in e-Commerce. |
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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. |
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| Centres |
Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security , 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, Tel: (0131) 455 2700 |