School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

The High Speed Networks (HSN) Research Group has been researching communications networks for over 25 years, with close ties to industry.

General research areas:

• Communication network measurement
• Network application detection
• Intrusion tolerance
• Wired/Wireless networks
• Cross-Layer measurements
• Network security
• Information security and privacy
• Biometrics

Specific areas of expertise:

• Network performance monitoring
• Internet fraud and abuse detection
• Intrusion tolerant network architecture
• Performance measurement of mixed wired/wireless networks
• Honeypots
• Security protocols
• Intrusion detection
• Network forensics
• Hash functions
• Age-dependent biometrics
• Capability management

Current Projects

• Cross Layer Techniques for Intrusion Tolerant Networks
• Enhancing Wireless and Wired Networks (Platform Grant in Communications)
• Understanding Structure in Complex Systems

Completed Projects

• Optical Powering & Communication for Pressure Sensors
• Modelling Approaches to Capability Provision
• Understanding Internet Attacks & Honeynets
• Measurement at All Scales in Time & Space (MASTS)
• Detecting & Preventing Criminal Activities on the Internet (NetCrime)
• Maximising the End-to-End Quality of the MPEG-4 & the H26L Video Coding Standards over Wired Networks
• Monitoring & Grading of Network Application QoS (Magnaqos)
• BT SMDS Monitoring
• Internet Friendly Active Networks (IFAN)
• Applying Distributed Application Detection to Identify Internet Fraud
• Networked Video for Surveillance Systems
• URI into Management of Multi Service Networks by using SuperJanet
• Generic Modelling of Network Scenarios
• Networks for Security Purposes
• Charisma Networking Project
• Call Charging for ATM Networks
• High Speed Computer Networks
• Orwell Rings
• High Speed Networks & their Applications

Industry:

• Actel Corporation
• Alcatel-Lucent
• BAE Systems
• BT
• CESG
• GE
• Infineon Technologies
• Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Laser Optical Engineering
• Nagravision SA, Switzerland
• NTL (Virgin Media)
• Pre Nexus Migration
• Rohde & Schwarz
• SAP
• SPSS
• Technicolor, France
• TOM

 Academia:

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Switzerland
• Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), the Netherlands
• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
• Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon, France
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Kingston University, UK
• Korea University
• Kyungnam University, Korea
• Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• Middlesex University, UK
• Multimedia University, Malaysia
• New York University
• Queens University Belfast, UK
• RHUL, UK
• Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz), Austria
• UCL, UK
• University of Cambridge, UK
• University of Naples, Italy
• University of Portsmouth, UK
• University of Seoul, Korea
• University of Waterloo, Canada
• University of York, UK

Kyriakopoulos, K.G. and Parish, D.J., '’An Evaluation of Wavelets for the Controlled Compression of Communication Network Measurements'', IET Communications, in press.

Clegg, R.G., Withall, M.S., Moore, A.W., Phillips, I.W., Parish, D.J., Rio, M., Landa, R., Haddadi, H., Kyriakopoulos, K., Auge, J., Clayton, R. and Salmon, D., ''Challenges in the capture and dissemination of measurements from high-speed networks'', IET Communications, 3(6), June 2009, pp.957-966, ISSN: 1751-8628.

Phan, R.C.-W., Whitley, J.N. and Parish, D.J., "On the Design of Forgiving Biometric Security Systems", Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Research Problems in Network Security (iNetSec '09), Zurich, Switzerland, IFIP Advances in Information & Communication Technology, Vol. 309, Springer, 2009, pp. 1-8.

Phan, R.C.-W. and Aumasson, J.-P.,  "On Hashing With Tweakable Ciphers", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '09), Dresden, Germany.

Withall, M.S., Phillips, I. and Parish, D.J., ''Network Visualisation: A Review'', IET Communications, 1(3), June 2007, pp. 365-372, ISSN 1751 8628.

Sandford, P., Parish, D.J. and Sandford, J.M., ''Understanding Increasing Traffic Levels for Internet Abuse Detection'', Security Journal, 202, 2007, pp 63-76, ISSN 0955-1662.

Phillips, I.W., Parish, D.J., Sandford, M., Bashir, O. and Pagonis, A., ''Architecture for the Management and Presentation of Communication Network Performance Data'', IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 55(3), 1st June 2006, 931-938, ISSN 00189456.

Parish, D.J., Pagonis, A., Barnett, D.M., Sandford, J.M. and Phillips, I.W., ''Presentation of Real-Time Communication Network Measurement Information'' , IEE Proceedings - Science, Measurement and Technology , 1515 , September 2004, 319-326, ISSN 1350 2344 .

Parish, D.J., Bharadia, K., Larkum, A., Phillips, I.W. and Oliver, M., ''Using packet size distributions to identify real-time networked applications'' , IEE Proc. Communications, 1504 , August 2003, pp 221-227, ISSN 1350-2425

Sandford, J.M., Parish, D.J. and Phillips, I.W., ''Neural approach to detecting communication network events'' , IEE Proc. Communications , 1495 , October 2002, pp 257-264, ISSN 1350-2425

Oliver, M.A., Phillips, I.W., Parish, D.J. and Bharadia, K.R., ''A Scheme for Predicting User Perceived Network Application Performance'' , BT Technology Journal, 17(3) , July 1999, pp 135-145, ISSN: 1358 3948 .

Chin, H.S., Goodge, J.W., Griffiths,J.W.R. and Parish,D.J, “Statistics of Video Signals of Viewphone Type Pictures”; IEEE JSAC, 1989  pp 826-832.