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A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar Mishra, A., Kumar Tripathy, A., Obaidat, M. S., Tan, Z., Prasad, M., Sadoun, B., & Puthal, D. (2018, July). A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors. Presented at The 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business, Porto, Portugal

Due to lack of an efficient monitoring system to periodically record environmental parameters for food grain storage, a huge loss of food grains in storage is reported every year in many developing countries, especially south-Asian countries. Althoug... Read More about A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors.

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.

Cloud Computing & Cyber Security (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manoussos, B. (2018, April). Cloud Computing & Cyber Security. Presented at The Law Society of Scotland - Law & Technology Roadshow, Glasgow

Presentation on Cloud Computing and Cyber Security in relation to Law Firms in Scotland.

A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment (2018)
Journal Article
Babar, M., Khan, F., Iqbal, W., Yahya, A., Arif, F., Tan, Z., & Chuma, J. (2018). A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment. IEEE Access, 6, 43088-43099

Smart societies have an increasing demand for quality-oriented services and infrastructure in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm. Smart urbanization faces numerous challenges. Among them, secured energy Demand Side Management (DSM) is o... Read More about A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment.

NgramPOS: A Bigram-based Linguistic and Statistical Feature Process Model for Unstructured Text Classification (2018)
Journal Article
Yazdania, S., Tan, Z., Kakavand, M., & Lau, S. (2022). NgramPOS: A Bigram-based Linguistic and Statistical Feature Process Model for Unstructured Text Classification. Wireless Networks, 28(3), 1251-1261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-01909-0

Research in financial domain has shown that sentiment aspects of stock news have a profound impact on volume trades, volatility, stock prices and firm earnings. With the ever growing social inetworking and online marketing sites, the reviews obtained... Read More about NgramPOS: A Bigram-based Linguistic and Statistical Feature Process Model for Unstructured Text Classification.

A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT (2018)
Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Romdhani, I., Nasser, Y., & Boukerche, A. (2018). A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(6), 12. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2018.2862364

In this paper, we introduce Drizzle, a new algorithm for maintaining routing information in the Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The aim is to address the limitations of the currently standardized routing maintenance (i.e. Trickle algorithm) in s... Read More about A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT.

Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2018, August). Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Technology Trends, Babahoyo, Ecuador

Critical infrastructures such as nuclear plants or water supply systems are mainly managed through electronic control systems. Such systems comprise of a number of elements, such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), networking devices, and actua... Read More about Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System.

Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aaby, P., Mata De Acuña, J. J., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018, August). Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset. Presented at 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), New York, NY, USA

Stricter data protection regulations and the poor application of privacy protection techniques have resulted in a requirement for data-driven companies to adopt new methods of analysing sensitive user data. The RAPPOR (Randomized Aggregatable Privacy... Read More about Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset.

Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Carson, D. (2018, August). Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device. Presented at ACM Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Hamburg, Germany

Traditional cryptographic techniques have proven to work well on most modern computing devices but they are unsuitable for devices (e.g. IoT devices) where memory, power consumption or processing power is limited. Thus, there has been an increasing a... Read More about Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device.

A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations (2018)
Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Ekonomou, E., Alsarhan, A., Nasser, Y., Mackenzie, L. M., & Boukerche, A. (2019). A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 21(2), 1607-1635. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2018.2874356

Driven by the special requirements of the Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs), the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL) was standardized by the IETF some six years ago to tackle the routing issue in such networks. Since its introduction, however, num... Read More about A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations.

Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks (2018)
Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Mackenzie, L. (2019). Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(1), 68-71. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2878151

In RPL routing protocol, the DAO (Destination Advertisement Object) control messages are announced by the child nodes to their parents to build downward routes. A malicious insider node can exploit this feature to send fake DAOs to its parents period... Read More about Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks.

MOSAIC: Simultaneous Localization and Environment Mapping using mmWave without a-priori Knowledge (2018)
Journal Article
Yassin, A., Nasser, Y., Al-Dubai, A., & Awad, M. (2018). MOSAIC: Simultaneous Localization and Environment Mapping using mmWave without a-priori Knowledge. IEEE Access, 6, 68932-68947. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2879436

Simultaneous Localization and environment mapping (SLAM) is the core to robotic mapping and navigation as it constructs simultaneously the unknown environment and localizes the agent within. However, in millimeter wave (mmWave) research, SLAM is stil... Read More about MOSAIC: Simultaneous Localization and Environment Mapping using mmWave without a-priori Knowledge.

A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, S., Li, X., Tan, Z., Peng, T., & Wang, G. (2019). A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services. Future Generation Computer Systems, 94, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.10.053

With the rapid pervasion of location-based services (LBSs), protection of location privacy has become a significant concern. In most continuous LBSs' privacy-preserving solutions, users need to transmit the location query data to an untrusted locatio... Read More about A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services.

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.

Open-source Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Asthma Hospitalisation Rates (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rooney, L., Chute, C., Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., & Hepburn, L. (2018, November). Open-source Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Asthma Hospitalisation Rates. Presented at Global Health 2018, Athens, Greece

Long-term conditions in Scotland account for 80% of all GP consultations; they also account for 60% of all deaths in Scotland. Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are common long-term respiratory diseases [1]. Asthma is a heteroge... Read More about Open-source Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Asthma Hospitalisation Rates.

The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime (2018)
Journal Article
Dyson, S., Buchanan, W., & Bell, L. (2018). The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 1(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-1-2-%288%292018

We increasingly live in a world where there is a balance between the rights to privacy and the requirements for consent, and the rights of society to protect itself. Within this world, there is an ever-increasing requirement to protect the identities... Read More about The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime.

Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching (2018)
Journal Article
Lin, C., Lu, W., Huang, X., Liu, K., Sun, W., Lin, H., & Tan, Z. (2019). Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(21), 30081-30096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6922-4

Recently, the research of Internet of Things (IoT) and Multimedia Big Data (MBD) has been growing tremendously. Both IoT and MBD have a lot of multimedia data, which can be tampered easily. Therefore, the research of multimedia forensics is necessary... Read More about Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching.

Moving Towards Highly Reliable and Effective Sensor Networks. (2018)
Journal Article
Ahmad, M., Tan, Z., He, X., & Ni, W. (2018). Moving Towards Highly Reliable and Effective Sensor Networks. Ad-hoc & sensor wireless networks, 40(3-4), 163-168

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been the preferred choice for the design and deployment of next generation monitoring and control systems [1]. In these networks, the sensor nodes forward their sensed data towards a centralized base station. The... Read More about Moving Towards Highly Reliable and Effective Sensor Networks..

Design of Multi-View Based Email Classification for IoT Systems via Semi-Supervised Learning (2018)
Journal Article
Li, W., Meng, W., Tan, Z., & Xiang, Y. (2019). Design of Multi-View Based Email Classification for IoT Systems via Semi-Supervised Learning. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 128, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2018.12.002

Suspicious emails are one big threat for Internet of Things (IoT) security, which aim to induce users to click and then redirect them to a phishing webpage. To protect IoT systems, email classification is an essential mechanism to classify spam and l... Read More about Design of Multi-View Based Email Classification for IoT Systems via Semi-Supervised Learning.