Current and Recent Research Projects

The Group has an international reputation for excellence in bringing intelligence and performance assessment techniques to both fixed and mobile communication networks. Group members are key players in several international collaborative projects, including:

• Optimal Design of Performance Measurement Experiments for Complex, Large-Scale Networks (finishing Oct 2011). EPSRC EP/G012628/1, (£312380), PI Schormans, CI's Pitts and Gilmour (Maths). Partner project PI Andrew Moore at Cambridge computer lab.
• Building a New Community: Modelling, Visualisation and Verification of Large Scale Systems (01/08 to 12/10); EPSRC EP/F033133 (CI): £247,978, led by John Schormans.
• MANMADE - Diagnosing vulnerability, emergent phenomena, and volatility in man-made networks (2006-9); EU STREP (CI) 1.1M Euros, led by David Arrowsmith in the School of Mathematical Sciences, plus 5 other EU partners.
• Machine Learning For Resource Management In Next Generation Optical Networks (10/06 to 09/09); EPSRC EP/D078741 (CI): £220,096, led by Chris Phillips.
• Topology and Congestion Invariants in Global Internet-scale Networks (11/05 to 10/08); EPSRC EP/C520246 (CI): £195,421, led by Raul Mondragon.
• Whole system modelling of large-scale communication networks for what-if evaluation (10/04 to 9/07); EPSRC GR/T18615 (PI): £237,237 (plus £62,372 Services on CSAR and HPCx), with John Schormans, Chris Phillips, Raul Mondragon and David Arrowsmith.
• BT-QMUL Interdisciplinary PhD Studenship, 2004-2007, Value 25,000
  
• EPSRC Topology and congestion Invariants in Global Internet-scale
  Networks, 2006-2008, Value 195,421
• Security for E-Goverment Applications. Funded by Macau Government. Started November 2006. Vulnerability detection and resolution in web based applications.
• FP7 GEMOM Genetic Message Oriented Middleware - addressing security and resilience in message oriented middleware. Started January 2008
• EPSRC Reference: EP/F033133/1, Building a New Community: Modelling, Visualisation and Verification of Large Scale Systems, Principal Investigator: Dr J Schormans
• My-e-Director 2012 Real-Time Context-Aware and Personalized Media Streaming Environments for Large Scale Broadcasting Applications, EU FP7, ICT-1-1.5
• Networked Media Action project, Project No. 215248, 2008-02-01 to 2011-01-31
• EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship with BT, EPC137831, Context-based Information Management for Mobile Workers, 01-06-2006-31-11-2009
• ADAMANT: Airport Decision And MANagement Network - GIWLAN
• CORAS: Risk Analysis of Security Critical Systems
• EDEN-IW, (07/2001-06/2004): a distributed shared semantic work-space for environmental data (uses ideas from the so-called 2nd generation WWW called the Semantic Web.)
• ITrust, 09/2002-08/2005) Thematic network on electronic trust management
• Agentlink 2: the core network of excellence for agent technology in Europe. QMUL teaches at its main educational event, a Spring / Summer school and focuses on engineering agent applications.
• Agentcities.UK: an EPSRC funded Research Network
• Current projects funded from other sources include:
• Quote-Driven Automated Market, EPSRC: development of a quote-driven automated market as a means of facilitating trading of real-time products
• Cooperative wireless resource management , Office of Naval Research Washington: extending previous work in the IST SHUFFLE project where agent technology was used to build a system for cooperative and distributed control of 3G wireless networks
• Small-world Modelling of Internet Behaviour (EPSRC: £54,000) Apr 2001 to Mar 2004
• Sources of long range dependence in internet traffic (ESPRC MathFIT: £84,000) Apr 2002 to Mar 2005
• SAFEGUARD (EU: £250,000) Dec 2001 to Apr 2004: agent technology to support network dependability and survivability of large scale critical infrastructures – including telecom and electricity distribution networks
• TORRENT: Technology for a Realistic End User Access Network Test-bed (EU: £256,000) May 2001 to Oct 2003
• CoRAS: A Platform for Risk Analysis of Security Critical Systems (EU) Jan 2001
• CRUMPET: Creation of User-friendly Mobile services Personalised for Tourism (EU: £221,000) Oct 2000 to Sep 2002
• Agile Transport Network (Nortel Networks plc: £21,000) Jun 2000 to May 2001
• Radio resource control in 3G networks (internal) July 2000 to June 2003
• SHUFFLE: An agent based approach to controlling resources in UMTS networks (EU: £275,000) Jan 2000 to Jun 2002
• Internet Teletraffic Theory (BT Exact CASE Studentship: £21,210) Oct 1999 to Sep 2002
• Agent approach for strategic resource management in telecommunications networks (EPSRC: £175,469) Sep 1999 to Aug 2002
• Network Scalability (Lucent Technologies: £56,804) Mar 1999 to Mar 2002
• Quote-Driven Automated Markets (EPSRC: £54,779) Nov 2000 to Nov 2003
• Traffic Engineering Using Agent Technology Applied to MPLS Networks (Nokia: £75,000) Oct 2000 to Oct 2003
• Montage (RSG Engineering Ltd: £6,000) May 2000 to Oct 2000
• Service Availability Model (DERA: £60,000) Aug 1999 to Nov 2000
• Satcom Systems (DERA: £39,000) Oct 1998 to Mar 1999
• Research Studentship (Fujitsu: £45,000) Oct 1998 to Sep 2001
• RSVP over Satellite (Nortel Networks plc: £25,000) Oct 1998 to Sep 1999
• Chaotic control for fast resource management in ATM networks (EPSRC: £255,423) Jul 1998 to Jun 2001
• IMPACT: Implementation of Agents for CAC on an ATM Testbed (EU: £108,287) Mar 1998 to Feb 2000
• Hot Emulation (TCD/Nortel: £188,480) Sep 1997 to Sep 2000
• Study and simulation of ATM traffic control (ESA: £33,950 Mar 1997) Aug 1998
• Agent technology for connection admission control in complex ATM Networks (EPSRC: £164,051) Feb 1997 to Feb 2000
• Trilogy: a tripartite virtual laboratory for research students (EPSRC: £128,151) Oct 1996 to Sep 1999
• Load balancing of a mobile network using agents (internal) Jul 1996 to Nov 2000
• Protocols for ATM on satellite (Nortel Networks plc: £58,750) Jan 1996 to Mar 1998
• Control Mechanisms within MPLS Networks (BT CASE) Oct 1996 to Sep 2000
• Data Network Protocols
• Internet Protocols
• Internet Research Laboratory
• Intelligent Techniques for VBR Traffic Control in ATM Networks (internal) Jun 1997 to May 2000
• AgentLink II (EU)
• MARINER (EU)

The Networks Research Group has also attracted funding from the USA for its pioneering work on cooperative load balancing in wireless networks.