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Requirements for 5G based telemetric cardiac monitoring
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C., Hindricks, G., Rolffs, C., Buchanan, W., & Bollmann, A. (2018, October). Requirements for 5G based telemetric cardiac monitoring. Presented at 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Limassol, Cyprus

Several white papers have been published on general requirements for 5G in the health vertical. As 5G research and implementation continue more detailed real world information for application research are needed. This paper is focusing on the require... Read More about Requirements for 5G based telemetric cardiac monitoring.

Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunathilake, N. A., Buchanan, W. J., & Asif, R. (2019, April). Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications. Presented at IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Limerick

High/ultra-high speed data connections are currently being developed, and by the year 2020, it is expected that the 5th generation networking (5GN) should be much smarter. It would provide great quality of service (QoS) due to low latency, less imple... Read More about Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications.

Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Christou, O., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Mckeown, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, February). Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach. Presented at ICISSP 2020, Valletta, Malta

Phishing is considered to be one of the most prevalent cyber-attacks because of its immense flexibility and alarmingly high success rate. Even with adequate training and high situational awareness, it can still be hard for users to continually be awa... Read More about Phishing URL Detection Through Top-Level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach.

Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bowditch, W., Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Pitropakis, N., & Hall, A. J. (2020, February). Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Security Systems and Privacy (ICISSP), Valletta, Malta

Data analysis and machine learning methods often involve the processing of cleartext data, and where this could breach the rights to privacy. Increasingly, we must use encryption to protect all states of the data: in-transit, at-rest, and in-memory.... Read More about Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption.

Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Müller, S., Penzkofer, A., Ku´smierz, B., Camargo, D., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, November). Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes. Presented at FTC 2020 - Future Technologies Conference 2020, Vancouver, Canada

The fast probabilistic consensus (FPC) is a voting consensus protocol that is robust and efficient in Byzantine infrastructure. We propose an adaption of the FPC to a setting where the voting power is proportional to the nodes reputations. We model t... Read More about Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes.

A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abramson, W., Hall, A. J., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, September). A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. Presented at The 17th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business - TrustBus2020, Bratislava, Slovakia

When training a machine learning model, it is standard procedure for the researcher to have full knowledge of both the data and model. However, this engenders a lack of trust between data owners and data scientists. Data owners are justifiably reluct... Read More about A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning.

Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aaby, P., Giuffrida, M. V., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2020, August). Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour. Presented at CyberSciTech 2020, Calgary, Canada

In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of 30 features used in touch-based continuous authentication. It is essential to identify the most significant features for each user, as behaviour is different amongst humans. Thus, a fixed feature s... Read More about Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour.

Trust-based Ecosystem to Combat Fake News
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Alissa, M., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, May). Trust-based Ecosystem to Combat Fake News. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Toronto, ON, Canada

The growing spread of misinformation and dis-information has grave political, social, ethical, and privacy implications for society. Therefore, there is an ethical need to combat the flow of fake news. This paper attempts to resolves some of the aspe... Read More about Trust-based Ecosystem to Combat Fake News.

PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2020, December). PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism. Presented at ICVISP 2020: The 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Bangkok

The original consensus algorithm-Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, among many others. Nevertheless, the concept has received criticisms o... Read More about PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism.

GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chrysoulas, C., Thomson, A., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., Domalis, G., Karacapilidis, N., Tsakalidis, D., & Tsolis, D. (2021, October). GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS. Presented at 7th Workshop On The Security Of Industrial Control Systems & Of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2021). In Conjunction With ESORICS 2021, Darmstadt, Germany

The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bureaucratic problems faced by eGovernance services. This innovation led them to an era of automation, broadened the attack surface and made them a popular target for cyber attacks.... Read More about GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS.

A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., & Rana, O. (2021, December). A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports. Presented at 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Leicester

Digital vaccination passports are being proposed by various governments internationally. Trust, scalability and security are all key challenges in implementing an online vaccine passport. Initial approaches attempt to solve this problem by using cent... Read More about A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports.

Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2021, October). Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems. Presented at 2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the principal signalling protocol in Voice over IP (VoIP) systems, responsible for initialising, terminating, and maintaining sessions amongst call parties. However, the problem with the SIP protocol is that i... Read More about Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems.

PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Sayeed, S., Pitropakis, N., & Lo, O. (2021, December). PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching. Presented at 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Edinburgh [Online]

The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for a robust contact tracing infrastructure that enables infected individuals to have their contacts traced, and followed up with a test. The key entities involved within a contact tracing infrastructur... Read More about PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching.

Privacy-preserving and Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing using Distributed Ledgers
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, H., Papadopoulos, P., Ahmad, J., Pit, N., Jaroucheh, Z., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, December). Privacy-preserving and Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing using Distributed Ledgers. Presented at IEEE SINCONF: 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Edinburgh

Threat information sharing is considered as one of the proactive defensive approaches for enhancing the overall security of trusted partners. Trusted partner organizations can provide access to past and current cybersecurity threats for reducing the... Read More about Privacy-preserving and Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing using Distributed Ledgers.

Exploring the Need For an Updated Mixed File Research Data Set
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, October). Exploring the Need For an Updated Mixed File Research Data Set. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), Istanbul, Turkey

Mixed file data sets are used in a variety of research areas, including Digital Forensics, Malware analysis and Ransomware detection. Researchers recently seem to either have to create their own custom data sets or well-known data sets are used, but... Read More about Exploring the Need For an Updated Mixed File Research Data Set.

Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grierson, S., Ghaleb, B., Buchanan, W. J., Thomson, C., Maglaras, L., & Eckl, C. (2023, November). Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks. Presented at 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburgh, UK

Within a trust infrastructure, a private key is often used to digitally sign a transaction, which can be verified with an associated public key. Using PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), a trusted entity can produce a digital signature, verifying the au... Read More about Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks.

Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W., Grierson, S., & Uribe, D. (2024, February). Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode. Presented at 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Rome, Italy

Biometric data is often highly sensitive, and a leak of this data can lead to serious privacy breaches. Some of the most sensitive of this type of data relates to the usage of DNA data on individuals. A leak of this type of data without consent could... Read More about Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode.

Transforming EU Governance: The Digital Integration Through EBSI and GLASS
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kasimatis, D., Buchanan, W. J., Abubakar, M., Lo, O., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Sayeed, S., & Sel, M. (2024, June). Transforming EU Governance: The Digital Integration Through EBSI and GLASS. Presented at 39th IFIP International Conference, Edinburgh, UK

Traditionally, government systems managed citizen identities through disconnected data systems, using simple identifiers and paper-based processes, limiting digital trust and requiring citizens to request identity verification documents. The digital... Read More about Transforming EU Governance: The Digital Integration Through EBSI and GLASS.

VisCrypt: Image Encryption Featuring Novel Chaotic Key Generation and Block Permutation Techniques with Visual Cryptography
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Ahmad, J., Ali, M., Dubai, A. A., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024, July). VisCrypt: Image Encryption Featuring Novel Chaotic Key Generation and Block Permutation Techniques with Visual Cryptography. Presented at 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Advanced Technologies, Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP), Sousse, Tunisia

In this digital era, ensuring the security of data transmission is critically important. Digital data, especially image data, needs to be secured against unauthorized access. In this regards, this paper presents a robust image encryption scheme named... Read More about VisCrypt: Image Encryption Featuring Novel Chaotic Key Generation and Block Permutation Techniques with Visual Cryptography.

An Intelligent Digital Twin Model for Attack Detection in Zero-Touch 6G Networks
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bolat-Akça, B., Bozkaya-Aras, E., Canberk, B., Buchanan, B., & Schmid, S. (2024, June). An Intelligent Digital Twin Model for Attack Detection in Zero-Touch 6G Networks. Presented at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Denver, CO, USA

The rapid adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the increasingly stringent dependability and performance requirements are transforming next-generation wireless network management towards zero-touch 6G networks. Zero-touch management is al... Read More about An Intelligent Digital Twin Model for Attack Detection in Zero-Touch 6G Networks.