Building a new nation: risk, goverance and trust.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2013, January)
Building a new nation: risk, goverance and trust. Presented at Cyber Security 2013, Edinburgh
This presentation outlines some of the opportunities and threats that Scotland faces within an Information Age.
Advanced security and network forensics: network forensics.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2011)
Advanced security and network forensics: network forensics. Edinburgh Napier University
3 NETWORK FORENSICS
3.1 Objectives
3.2 Introduction
3.3 The key protocols
3.4 Ethernet, IP and TCP headers
3.5 TCP connection
3.6 ARP
3.7 SYN
3.8 Application Layer Ana...
Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses
Conference Proceeding
Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., & Kellil, M. (2009)
Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses. In International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, 2009. ICPPW '09. , (228-235). https://doi.org/10.1109/icppw.2009.81
IP multicast is an efficient and scalable network layer delivering method for multimedia content to a large number of receivers across the Internet. It saves the network bandw...
HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., & van Deursen, N. (2016)
HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence. In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)https://doi.org/10.1109/healthcom.2016.7749536
Information security threat intelligence is a prevalent topic amongst researchers, long-established IT-vendors and start-ups. The possibilities of Big Data analytics to securi...
Embedded document security using sticky policies and identity based encryption
Thesis
Spyra, G. K. Embedded document security using sticky policies and identity based encryption. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090564
Data sharing domains have expanded over several, both trusted and insecure environments. At the same time, the data security boundaries have shrunk from internal network perim...
Analysis of electromagnetic wave propogation using 3D finite-difference time-domain methods with parallel processing.
Thesis
Buchanan, W. J. Analysis of electromagnetic wave propogation using 3D finite-difference time-domain methods with parallel processing. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4022
The 3D Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method simulates structures in the time-domain using a direct form of Maxwell’s curl equations. This method has the advantage over ...
Who would you trust to identify you in accessing your health record?
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Anderson, C., Smales, A., Varga, J., Burns, N., Uthmani, O., …Lawson, A. (2013)
Who would you trust to identify you in accessing your health record?
Within health and social care there is a strong need to provide access to highly sensitive information, and one which requires high levels of identity assurance. This paper ou...
Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications
Journal Article
Yassin, A., Nasser, Y., Awad, M., Al-Dubai, A., Liu, R., Yuen, C., …Aboutanios, E. (2017)
Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 19(2), 1327-1346. https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.2016.2632427
Nowadays, the availability of the location information becomes a key factor in today’s communications systems for allowing location based services. In outdoor scenarios, the M...
How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2014)
How the love of one teenager brought Tweetdeck to its knees
TweetDeck, a Twitter app with millions of users, is back online after a rather surprising security scare. For several hours, the service was taken down all because a 19-year-o...
Cross-Layer Multipath Multichannel MAC protocol for MANETs
Conference Proceeding
Mirza, N., Taylor, H., Abdelshafy, M., King, P., Romdhani, I., & Alghamdi, A. (2018)
Cross-Layer Multipath Multichannel MAC protocol for MANETs. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2018.8530886
Utilising multiple disjoint paths in multiple channels can improve network performance by enabling a node to reroute data along discovered paths seamlessly when link failure i...