Matthew Broadbent
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Dr Matthew Broadbent

Associate Professor

Biography

Dr Matthew Broadbent is an Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University. He was awarded his PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University in 2016 and also received his BSc in Computer Science Innovation from the same institution.

He is currently migrating into the Group Lead role for the Cyber-Security and Networks subject group.

Research Areas

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41 results

Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations

Conference Proceeding
Holik, F., Broadbent, M., Findrik, M., Smith, P., & Race, N. (2020)
Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations. In Intelligent Information and Database Systems: 12th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2020, Phuket, Thailand, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings (179-191). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3380-8_16
The next generation of smart electricity substations and grids are on the horizon. Part of the drive behind this movement is a need to improve safety and security. In parallel...

Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking

Conference Proceeding
Suwannasa, A., Broadbent, M., & Mauthe, A. (2020)
Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking. In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (146-151). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN48656.2020.9016429
In Named Data Networking (NDN) architectures, a content object is located according to the content's identifier and can be retrieved from all nodes that hold a replica of the ...

Self-generated intent-based system

Conference Proceeding
Bezahaf, M., Hernandez, M. P., Bardwell, L., Davies, E., Broadbent, M., King, D., & Hutchison, D. (2020)
Self-generated intent-based system. In 2019 10th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF) (138-140). https://doi.org/10.1109/NoF47743.2019.9015045
We propose an intent-based system where, on top of the user intentions, the system itself generates suitable Quality of Service and resilience parameters and may augment the i...

Opencache: Distributed sdn/nfv based in-network caching as a service

Conference Proceeding
Alalmaei, S., Broadbent, M., Race, N., & Chelloug, S. (2019)
Opencache: Distributed sdn/nfv based in-network caching as a service. In Advances in Data Science, Cyber Security and IT Applications: First International Conference on Computing, ICC 2019 (265-277). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36368-0_22
In-network content caching allows content to be located towards the edge of the network, closer to users. This approach addresses the challenge of exponentially increasing vid...

Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas

Conference Proceeding
Abozariba, R., Davies, E., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2019)
Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas. In 2019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF) (465-470). https://doi.org/10.1109/5GWF.2019.8911655
Rural communities are often neglected in the rollout of communication infrastructure, delaying or even preventing the delivery of common digital services that are now ubiquito...

CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications

Conference Proceeding
Kawano, M., Yonezawa, T., Tanimura, T., Giang, N. K., Broadbent, M., Lea, R., & Nakazawa, J. (2019)
CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications. In 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (3-15). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28925-6_1
A growing trend in smart cities is the use of machine learning techniques to gather city data, formulate learning tasks and models, and use these to develop solutions to city ...

An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies

Conference Proceeding
Razaak, M., Kerdegari, H., Davies, E., Abozariba, R., Broadbent, M., Mason, K., …Remagnino, P. (2019)
An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies. In Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (109-119). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29930-9_11
Wireless communication technology has made tremendous progress over the last two decades providing extensive coverage, high data-rate and low-latency. The current major upgrad...

Using P4 to enable scalable intents in software defined networks

Conference Proceeding
Lewis, B., Fawcett, L., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2018)
Using P4 to enable scalable intents in software defined networks. In 2018 IEEE 26th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) (442-443). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2018.00064
When designing Software Defined Networks (SDNs), there is a risk that the additional abstractions available can result in reduced scalability and performance. One such abstrac...

Tennison: A Distributed SDN Framework for Scalable Network Security

Journal Article
Fawcett, L., Scott-Hayward, S., Broadbent, M., Wright, A., & Race, N. (2018)
Tennison: A Distributed SDN Framework for Scalable Network Security. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 36(12), 2805-2818. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2018.2871313
Despite the relative maturity of the Internet, the computer networks of today are still susceptible to attack. The necessary distributed nature of networks for wide area conne...

Digital Authoring of Interactive Public Display Applications

Conference Proceeding
Mills, R., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2018)
Digital Authoring of Interactive Public Display Applications. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (127-136). https://doi.org/10.1145/3210825.3210835
HbbTV (Hybrid broadcast broadband TV) is an emerging force in the entertainment industry, and proper standarisation of technologies would be hugely beneficial for the creation...

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