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...
Prediction of electric fields from conductors on a PCB by 3D finite-difference time-domain method.
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., & Gupta, N. K. (1995)
Prediction of electric fields from conductors on a PCB by 3D finite-difference time-domain method. Engineering Science and Education Journal, 4, 177-182. https://doi.org/10.1049/esej%3A19950410
The finite-difference time-domain method gives accurate results for the calculation of electromagnetic wave propagation and hence can be used in a number of university final-y...
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...
A Privacy-Preserving Secure Framework for Electric Vehicles in IoT using Matching Market and Signcryption
Journal Article
Kumar, G., Rai, M., Saha, R., Buchanan, W. J., Thomas, R., Geetha, G., …Rodrigues, J. (2020)
A Privacy-Preserving Secure Framework for Electric Vehicles in IoT using Matching Market and Signcryption. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(7), 7707-7722. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2020.2989817
The present world of vehicle technology is inclined to develop Electric Vehicles (EVs) with various optimized features. These vehicles need frequent charging which takes a lon...
If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This m...
Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture.
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., Burns, N., Lo, O., Lawson, A., …Anderson, C. (2013)
Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. In M. Felici (Ed.), Cyber Security and Privacy, (91-101). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41205-9_8
We live in a world where trust relationships are becoming ever more important. This paper outlines how an architecture which abstracts these relationships between domains, org...
Analysis and migration of location-finding methods for GSM and 3G networks.
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Munoz, J., Manson, R., & Raja, K. A. (2004)
Analysis and migration of location-finding methods for GSM and 3G networks. https://doi.org/10.1049/cp%3A20040695
This paper initially reviews the current range of location techniques on GSM networks, such as Cell-ID, GPS, AGPS, time difference of arrival (TDOA) and E-OTD (enhanced observ...
Towards simulation of patient data for evaluation of E-health platform and services.
Presentation / Conference
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., & Lawson, A. (2012, June)
Towards simulation of patient data for evaluation of E-health platform and services. Paper presented at 13th Annual Post Graduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool
This paper presents the design and implementation of the Patient Simulator, a software application used for the simulation of patient data. The simulator aims to evaluate e- H...
Mining malware command and control traces
Conference Proceeding
McLaren, P., Russell, G., & Buchanan, B. (2018)
Mining malware command and control traces. In Proceedings of the SAI Computing Conference 2017https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2017.8252185
Detecting botnets and advanced persistent threats is a major challenge for network administrators. An important component of such malware is the command and control channel, w...
If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too
We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it’s great to see Bara...