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A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Jamnal, G., & Liu, X. (2017). A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (302-308). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006304103020308

In today’s world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home.

Visualization of Online Datasets (2017)
Journal Article
Peng, T., & Downie, C. (2017). Visualization of Online Datasets. International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing, 6(1), 11-23. https://doi.org/10.2991/ijndc.2018.6.1.2

As computing technology advances, computers are being used to orchestrate and advance wide spectrums of commercial and personal life, information visualization becomes even more significant as we immerse ourselves into the era of big data, leading to... Read More about Visualization of Online Datasets.

Aide Memoire (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Flint, T., & Dylan, T. H. (2018). Aide Memoire. In L. Hall, T. Flint, S. O'Hara, & P. Turner (Eds.), Proceedings of BHCI 2017. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.69

The Aide Memoire is a fully realised product constructed from discarded testing equipment. Born out of a series of creative sessions exploring the broad theme of interactivity the product was developed in partnership between Tom Flint and Tommy Dylan... Read More about Aide Memoire.

Eidolon360 – A VR Experience (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Hood, B., & Flint, T. (2018). Eidolon360 – A VR Experience. In L. Hall, T. Flint, S. O'Hara, & P. Turner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.63

Eidolon360 is a virtual reality artwork and experience that is interacted with through VR headsets. The viewer, reclining on a bed within the exhibition space, experiences a 360 film, shot within a medical simulation centre, that mimics clinical hosp... Read More about Eidolon360 – A VR Experience.

Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches (2017)
Book Chapter
Jamnal, G. S., Liu, X., Fan, L., & Ramachandran, M. (2017). Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches. In R. Mihajlovic, M. Ramachandran, R. Behringer, & P. Kocovic (Eds.), Emerging Trends and Applications of the Internet of Things; Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (277-309). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2437-3.ch010

In today's world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches.

Fast Filtering of Known PNG Files Using Early File Features (2017)
Conference Proceeding
McKeown, S., Russell, G., & Leimich, P. (2017). Fast Filtering of Known PNG Files Using Early File Features. In Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

A common task in digital forensics investigations is to identify known contraband images. This is typically achieved by calculating a cryptographic digest, using hashing algorithms such as SHA256, for each image on a given media, comparing individual... Read More about Fast Filtering of Known PNG Files Using Early File Features.

A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Essa, A., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Eshaftri, M. (2017). A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks. In S. Yang, J. Gao, Y. Zhang, K. Yang, V. C. M. Leung, & J. Hu (Eds.), Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies: First International Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 19-20, 2016 SmartGIFT 2016 (195-203)

Since sensor nodes have limited energy resources, prolonging network lifetime and improving scalability are essential elements in energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Most existing approaches consider the residual energy of a single node... Read More about A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks.

Modeling and analysis of a deep learning pipeline for cloud based video analytics (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Yaseen, M. U., Anjum, A., & Antonopoulos, N. (2017). Modeling and analysis of a deep learning pipeline for cloud based video analytics. In BDCAT '17 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, (121-130). https://doi.org/10.1145/3148055.3148081

Video analytics systems based on deep learning approaches are becoming the basis of many widespread applications including smart cities to aid people and traffic monitoring. These systems necessitate massive amounts of labeled data and training time... Read More about Modeling and analysis of a deep learning pipeline for cloud based video analytics.

Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2017, November). Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML. Presented at FTC 2017 - Future Technologies Conference 2017

The paper discuss possible cloud-based Information Rights Management (IRM) model extension with enhanced accountability for both a sticky policy and an attached data. This work compliments research on secure data sharing with Office Open XML (OOX... Read More about Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML..

Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Asif, R. (2017). Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies. In NoF 2017 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOF.2017.8251243

Data encryption is gaining much attention these days from the research community and industry for transmitting secure information over access networks, i.e. 'fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)' networks and data centers. It is important that the newly designed... Read More about Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies.

Reliable multipath multi-channel route migration over multi link-failure in wireless ad hoc networks (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Mirza, N. S., King, P. J. B., Romdhani, I., Abdelshafy, M. A., & Alghamdi, A. A. (2017). Reliable multipath multi-channel route migration over multi link-failure in wireless ad hoc networks. In Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob). https://doi.org/10.1109/wimob.2017.8115854

The route recovery algorithm is a crucial part of an ad hoc routing protocol. Designing an efficient and fast route recovery mechanism scheme without incurring extra overheads or delays to repair the broken link is a desirable goal for any routing pr... Read More about Reliable multipath multi-channel route migration over multi link-failure in wireless ad hoc networks.

Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Tsiros, A., & Leplâtre, G. (2017). Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI 2017 (128-136). https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136798

This paper presents the results of an investigation into audio-visual (AV) correspondences conducted as part of the development of Morpheme, a painting interface to control a corpus-based concatenative sound synthesis algorithm. Previous research has... Read More about Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis.

Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Torres Vega, M., Koonen, A. M. J., Liotta, A., & Famaey, J. (2018). Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7(2), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2017.2771771

In light of the extreme radio congestion, the time has come to consider the upper parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical beam-steered wireless communications offer great potential for future indoor short-range connectivity, due to virtually u... Read More about Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks.

Generalized proportional fair (GPF) scheduler for LTE-A (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Aramide, S. O., Barakat, B., Wang, Y., Keates, S., & Arshad, K. (2017). Generalized proportional fair (GPF) scheduler for LTE-A. In 2017 9th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CEEC) (128-132). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEEC.2017.8101612

The growth of wireless traffic and the demand for higher data rates motivated researchers around the world to enhance the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) performance. Recently, a considerable amount of the research had been done to optimise the... Read More about Generalized proportional fair (GPF) scheduler for LTE-A.

A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2018). A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1093-2

In a non-uniformly distributed network, the dataconcentrating centre equipped with sparse nodes rapidly depletes its battery energy due to the hotspot problem. To solve this problem, a Virtual Uneven Grid-based Routing protocol (VUGR) is proposed in... Read More about A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system.

An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Uwagbole, S. O., Buchanan, W. J., & Fan, L. (2017). An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack. In 2017 Seventh International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST),. https://doi.org/10.1109/est.2017.8090392

Emerging computing relies heavily on secure back-end storage for the massive size of big data originating from the Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices to the Cloud-hosted web applications. Structured Query Language (SQL) Injection Attack (SQLIA) r... Read More about An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack.

A Closer Look at Adaptation Mechanisms in Simulated Environment-Driven Evolutionary Swarm Robotics (2017)
Thesis
Steyven, A. S. W. A Closer Look at Adaptation Mechanisms in Simulated Environment-Driven Evolutionary Swarm Robotics. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253630

This thesis investigates several aspects of environment-driven adaptation in simulated evolutionary swarm robotics. It is centred around a specific algorithm for distributed embodied evolution called mEDEA. Firstly, mEDEA is extended with an explici... Read More about A Closer Look at Adaptation Mechanisms in Simulated Environment-Driven Evolutionary Swarm Robotics.

Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017). Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment. In X. Sun, H. Chao, X. You, & E. Bertino (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2017 (361-372). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68505-2_31

This work proposed an activity recognition model which focus on the power con-suming activity in home environment, to help residents modify their behavior. We set the IoT system with lower number of sensors. The key data for identifying activity come... Read More about Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment.

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kintis, P., Miramirkhani, N., Lever, C., Chen, Y., Romero-Gómez, R., Pitropakis, N., …Antonakakis, M. (2017). Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse. In CCS '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. https://doi.org/10.1145/3133956.3134002

Domain squatting is a common adversarial practice where attackers register domain names that are purposefully similar to popular domains. In this work, we study a specific type of domain squatting called "combosquatting," in which attackers register... Read More about Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse.