Outputs (35)

PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform (2021)
Journal Article
Abramson, W., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform. Software Impacts, 9, Article 100101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2021.100101

PyDentity lowers the entry barrier for parties interested in experimenting with the Hyperledger’s verifiable information exchange platform. It enables educators, developers and researchers to configure and initialise a set of actors easily as associa... Read More about PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform.

Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments (2019)
Journal Article
Mclaren, P., Russell, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2019). Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments. Digital Investigation, 29, 109-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.010

Decrypting and inspecting encrypted malicious communications may assist crime detection and prevention. Access to client or server memory enables the discovery of artefacts required for decrypting secure communications. This paper develops the MemDe-... Read More about Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments.

Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, A. J., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Moradpoor, N. (2018, December). Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier. Presented at International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Threat Hunting, Seattle, WA, USA

Insider threats continue to present a major challenge for the information security community. Despite constant research taking place in this area; a substantial gap still exists between the requirements of this community and the solutions that are cu... Read More about Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier.

Experimental High Speed Data Encryption via SDM-CV-QKD Signaling for High-Capacity Access Network (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asif, R., Haithem, M., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018, July). Experimental High Speed Data Encryption via SDM-CV-QKD Signaling for High-Capacity Access Network. Presented at Advanced Photonics 2018 (BGPP, IPR, NP, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF)

We report a high capacity Quantum-to-the-Home (QTTH) network in a spatialdivision-multiplexing (SDM) network utilizing 7-core multicore fiber (MCF). Aggregate secure key rates of 33.6 Mbit/s over 9.8 km of fiber are the actual state-of-the-art.

Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare. (2018)
Journal Article
Bell, L., Buchanan, W. J., Cameron, J., & Lo, O. (2018). Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare. Blockchain in Healthcare Today,

There are several areas of healthcare and well-being that could be enhanced using blockchain technologies. These include device tracking, clinical trials, pharmaceutical tracing, and health insurance. Within device tracking, hospitals can trace their... Read More about Applications of Blockchain Within Healthcare..

Analysis: Building the Future of EU: Moving Forward with International Collaboration on Blockchain (2018)
Journal Article
Buchanan, B., & Naqvi, N. (2018). Analysis: Building the Future of EU: Moving Forward with International Collaboration on Blockchain. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 1(1), 1-4

A blockchain enabled 'Digital Single Economy " can act as a catalyst for growth and could provide a platform where borderless innovative practices will thrive and create a true collaborative global economy, with shared goals and objectives for the be... Read More about Analysis: Building the Future of EU: Moving Forward with International Collaboration on Blockchain.

Security Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Comparative Study (2018)
Journal Article
Tweneboah-Koduah, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018). Security Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Comparative Study. Computer Journal, 61(9), 1389-1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxy002

Recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure systems coupled with the technology-induced complexity of the system of systems have necessitated a review of existing methods of assessing critical systems security risk exposure. The question is; do ex... Read More about Security Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Comparative Study.

Distance Measurement Methods for Improved Insider Threat Detection (2018)
Journal Article
Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., Griffiths, P., & Macfarlane, R. (2018). Distance Measurement Methods for Improved Insider Threat Detection. Security and Communication Networks, 2018, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5906368

Insider threats are a considerable problem within cyber security and it is often difficult to detect these threats using signature detection. Increasing machine learning can provide a solution, but these methods often fail to take into account change... Read More about Distance Measurement Methods for Improved Insider Threat Detection.

Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment (2017)
Journal Article
Asif, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2017). Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment. Security and Communication Networks, 2017, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7616847

There is current significant interest in Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks, i.e. end-to-end optical connectivity. Currently, it may be limited due to the presence of last-mile copper wire connections. However, in near future it is envisaged that FTTH... Read More about Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment.

Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asif, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2017, June). Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption. Presented at 10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings‐2017), Exeter, UK

Quantum key distribution (QKD) systems have already attained much attention for providing end-to-end data encryption to the subscribers. However, it is very important that the QKD infrastructure is compatible with the already existing telecommunicati... Read More about Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption.

Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare (2017)
Book Chapter
Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2017). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (233-251). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12

The great leap forward of cyber-physical systems has made provision for future personalized medicine. However, these systems are prone to cyber attacks. To provide patients with secure and reliable healthcare experience, the security issues of cyber-... Read More about Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare.

3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Molla, R., Romdhani, I., & Buchanan, B. (2016, November). 3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application. Paper presented at 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2016

The rapid growth of e-commerce has been associated with a number of security concerns, which challenge its continual success. In view of this, an investigative study determining the most secure and convenient solution to protect online clients has be... Read More about 3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application..

Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Molla, R., Romdhani, I., Buchanan, W. J., & Fadel, E. Y. (2014, June). Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications. Paper presented at International Conference on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications 2014

E-commerce applications provide on-line clients and merchants with a quick and convenient way to exchange goods and services. However, the deployment of these applications is still facing many problems such as security threats; and on-line attacks. T... Read More about Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications..

Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, July). Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. Presented at IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012

Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. We propose an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health platforms under three main categories: usability evaluation, l... Read More about Technical evaluation of an e-health platform..

A new efficient distributed route discovery for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2012, April). A new efficient distributed route discovery for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Presented at Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 2012

High performance group communication, such as broadcast, requires matching efficient broadcast algorithms to effective route discovery approach. Broadcast communication in MANETs is essential for a wide range of important applications. Nevertheless,... Read More about A new efficient distributed route discovery for wireless mobile ad hoc networks..

A new adaptive broadcasting approach for mobile ad hoc networks (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2010, June). A new adaptive broadcasting approach for mobile ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been gaining tremendous attention owing to the advances in wireless technologies accompanied by many applications and implementations. However, there are still a number of issues in MANETs which require further in... Read More about A new adaptive broadcasting approach for mobile ad hoc networks.

Modelling infection spread using location tracking. (2010)
Journal Article
Mason, A. M., Dingle, N. J., Knottenbelt, W. J., Bell, D., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2010). Modelling infection spread using location tracking. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 11, 442-461. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2010.036925

The precision of location tracking technology has improved greatly over the last few decades. We aim to show that by tracking the locations of individuals in a closed environment, it is now possible to record the nature and frequency of interactions... Read More about Modelling infection spread using location tracking..

Correlation between academic and skills-based tests in computer networks (2005)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. (2006). Correlation between academic and skills-based tests in computer networks. British Journal of Educational Technology, 37(1), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2005.00476.x

Computing-related programmes and modules have many problems, especially related to large class sizes, large-scale plagiarism, module franchising, and an increased requirement from students for increased amounts of hands-on, practical work. This paper... Read More about Correlation between academic and skills-based tests in computer networks.

Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & Saliou, L. (2004, June). Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks. Presented at ITRE 2004. 2nd International Conference Information Technology: Research and Education, London, England, UK

Many computing-related programmes and modules have many problems caused with large class sizes, large-scale plagiarism, module franchising, and an increasing requirement from students for increased amounts of hands-on, practical work. This paper pres... Read More about Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks..

Critical analysis and error determination of locating-finding techniques in GSM. (2005)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Raja, A., & Munoz, J. (2005). Critical analysis and error determination of locating-finding techniques in GSM. International Journal of Mobile Communications, 3, 165-182. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2005.005905

GPS is a well-established technique for location-finding, but mobile phone-based methods are generally less expensive to implement, and can give reasonable accuracies. These techniques can thus be useful to network operators in providing services bas... Read More about Critical analysis and error determination of locating-finding techniques in GSM..