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6G Resilience -- White Paper Open

Hirley Alves, Nurul Huda Mahmood, Onel L. Alcaraz López, Sumudu Samarakoon, Seppo Yrjölä , et al. · 2025

6G must be designed to withstand, adapt to, and evolve amid prolonged, complex disruptions. Mobile networks' shift from efficiency-first to sustainability-aware has motivated this white paper to assert that resilience is a primary design g…

REMEDIATE: Improving Network and Middlebox Resilience With Virtualisation Open

Lyn Hill, Charalampos Rotsos, Christopher Edwards, David Hutchison · 2024

The increasing demand for low‐latency, high‐bandwidth connectivity has introduced novel challenges to delivering strong resilience guarantees in production network environments. Closed hardware platforms, known as middleboxes, that lack vi…

Dead Man’s PLC: Towards Viable Cyber Extortion for Operational Technology Open

Richard Derbyshire, Benjamin Green, Charl van der Walt, David Hutchison · 2024

For decades, operational technology (OT) has enjoyed the luxury of being suitably inaccessible, and thus has experienced directly targeted cyber attacks from only the most advanced and well-resourced adversaries. However, security via obsc…

Risk-based safety scoping of adversary-centric security testing on Operational Technology Open

Alexander Staves, Antonios Gouglidis, Sam Maesschalck, David Hutchison · 2024

Due to the recent increase in cyber attacks targeting Critical National Infrastructure, governments and organisations alike have invested considerably into improving the security of their underlying infrastructure, commonly known as Operat…

Parental perception of paediatric lower urinary tract dysfunction during the <span>COVID</span>‐19 shutdown Open

Susan V. Leroy, David Hutchison, Nora G. Kern · 2023

We aimed to investigate how staying at home and stress from the pandemic shutdown impacts lower urinary tract symptoms in paediatric patients. The COVID‐19 pandemic shut down most of the world in March 2020. In the state of Virginia, a man…

Dead Man's PLC: Towards Viable Cyber Extortion for Operational Technology Open

Richard Derbyshire, Benjamin Green, Charl van der Walt, David Hutchison · 2023

For decades, operational technology (OT) has enjoyed the luxury of being suitably inaccessible so as to experience directly targeted cyber attacks from only the most advanced and well-resourced adversaries. However, security via obscurity …

An Analysis of Adversary-Centric Security Testing within Information and Operational Technology Environments Open

Alexander Staves, Antonios Gouglidis, David Hutchison · 2023

Assurance techniques such as adversary-centric security testing are an essential part of the risk assessment process for improving risk mitigation and response capabilities against cyber attacks. While the use of these techniques, includin…

Walking under the ladder logic: PLC-VBS: a PLC control logic vulnerability scanning tool Open

Sam Maesschalck, Alexander Staves, Richard Derbyshire, Benjamin Green, David Hutchison · 2023

Cyber security risk assessments provide a crucial starting point towards the understanding of existing risk exposure, via which suitable mitigation strategies can be formed. Risk is viewed as a product of threat, vulnerability and impact, …

On Improving the Accuracy of Internet Infrastructure Mapping Open

Paul Mccherry, Vasileios Giotsas, David Hutchison · 2023

This study identifies a method to create fine-grained multilayer maps of the Internet’s structure, which are currently lacking. We begin with an investigation of current techniques for geolocating hosts using passive, active, and hybrid me…

Federated Experimentation Infrastructure Interconnecting Sites from Both Europe and South Korea (SmartFIRE) Open

Kostas Choumas, Thanasis Korakis, Jordi Ordiz, Antonio Skármeta, Pedro Martínez-Julia , et al. · 2022

The main achievement of SmartFIRE [1, 2] is the design and implementation of a shared experimental facility spanning different testbeds, which are platforms located in Europe (EU) and South Korea (KR) and offered for conducting transparent…

F-Interop – Online Platform of Interoperability and Performance Tests for the Internet of Things Open

Sébastien Ziegler, Löıc Baron, David Hutchison · 2022

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Future Internet Congestion Control: The Diminishing Feedback Problem Open

Michael Welzl, Peyman Teymoori, Safiqul Islam, David Hutchison, Stein Gjessing · 2022

It is increasingly difficult for Internet congestion control mechanisms to obtain the feedback that they need. This lack of feedback can have severe performance implications, and it is bound to become worse. In the long run, the problem ma…

An ICT architecture for enabling ancillary services in Distributed Renewable Energy Sources based on the SGAM framework Open

Armin Stocker, Ali Alshawish, Martin Bor, John Vidler, Antonios Gouglidis , et al. · 2022

Broadcasting and devolution: Radical future? Open

David Hutchison · 2022

The mismatch between political devolution in the United Kingdom and the apparent retention at the centre of responsibility for broadcasting policy, particularly in relation to the BBC, is examined, and the anomalies therein explored. The a…

Resilience Enhancement at Edge Cloud Systems Open

José Moura, David Hutchison · 2022

It is becoming common practice to push interactive and location-based services from remote datacenters to resource-constrained edge domains. This trend creates new management challenges at the network edge, not least to ensure resilience. …

A Model-Driven and Business Approach to Autonomic Network Management Open

Mehdi Bezahaf, Stephen Cassidy, David Hutchison, Daniel King, Nicholas Race , et al. · 2021

As corporate networks continue to expand, the technologies that underpin these enterprises must be capable of meeting the operational goals of the operators that own and manage them. Automation has enabled the impressive scaling of network…

Design and Engineering of Resilience for Networked Computer Systems Open

David Hutchison, Mark Rouncefield, Antonios Gouglidis, Tom Anderson · 2021

In this chapter, the authors introduce and describe the notion of resilience for networked computer systems. Central to our viewpoint is that such systems need to be designed and engineered to have resilience as a major property. This is i…

“Talking a different Language”: Anticipating adversary attack cost for cyber risk assessment Open

Richard Derbyshire, Benjamin Green, David Hutchison · 2021

Typical cyber security risk assessment methods focus on the system under consideration, its vulnerabilities, and the resulting impact in the event of a system compromise. Cyber security, however, increasingly requires anticipating the move…

Ukko: Resilient DRES management for Ancillary Services using 5G service orchestration Open

Charalampos Rotsos, Angelos K. Marnerides, Abubakr Magzoub, Anish Jindal, Paul Mccherry , et al. · 2020

The modern Smart Grid (SG) requires the adequate exploitation of Ancillary Services (AS) in order to dynamically support evolving energy demands, ensure grid stability and optimize energy trading transactions. Distributed Renewable Energy …

ICS Testbed Tetris: Practical Building Blocks Towards a Cyber Security Resource Open

Benjamin Green, Richard Derbyshire, William Knowles, James Boorman, Pierre Ciholas , et al. · 2020

Cyber attacks on Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) can be hugely detrimental to society, notably via compromising Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that underpin core CNI functions. In order to explore in-depth ICS Cyber Security chall…

Modeling cooperative behavior for resilience in cyber-physical systems using SDN and NFV Open

José Moura, David Hutchison · 2020

Fog computing systems: State of the art, research issues and future trends, with a focus on resilience Open

José Moura, David Hutchison · 2020

A flexible ICT architecture to support ancillary services in future electricity distribution networks: an accounting use case for DSOs Open

Anish Jindal, Jakob Kronawitter, Ramona Kühn, Martin Bor, Hermann de Meer , et al. · 2020

With the increased penetration of distributed renewable energy sources (DRES) in the grid, new pathways are required to keep the electricity distribution system stable. The provision of ancillary services (AS) by the DRES can contribute in…

A Framework to Support ICS Cyber Incident Response and Recovery Open

Alex Staves, Harry Balderstone, Benjamin Green, Antonios Gouglidis, David Hutchison · 2020

During the past decade there has been a steady increase in cyber attacks targeting Critical National Infrastructure. In order to better protect against an ever-expanding threat landscape, governments, standards bodies, and a plethora of in…

Fogbanks: Future Dynamic Vehicular Fog Banks for Processing, Sensing and Storage in 6G Open

Amal A. Alahmadi, Mohamed O. I. Musa, Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi, Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, Susan Grant‐Muller , et al. · 2020

Fixed edge processing has become a key feature of 5G networks, while playing a key role in reducing latency, improving energy efficiency and introducing flexible compute resource utilization on-demand with added cost savings. Autonomous ve…

Modeling Cooperation for SDN and NFV-Based Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems. Open

José Moura, David Hutchison · 2020

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are increasing their importance in very distinct aspects of our society such as intelligent power grids, next generation mobile devices, or smart buildings. The operation of CPSs show stringent characteristics…

Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems: Using NFV Orchestration Open

José Moura, David Hutchison · 2020

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are increasingly important in critical areas of our society such as intelligent power grids, next generation mobile devices, and smart buildings. CPS operation has characteristics including considerable hetero…

RINA 2020 - Technical Program Committee Open

Marco Bonola, Davide Careglio, Neil M Davies, David A. Hayes, David Hutchison , et al. · 2020

The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet Infrastructure: Overview, Capabilities and Use Cases Deployment Open

Hamada Alshaer, Navdeep Uniyal, Konstantinos Katsaros, Κωνσταντίνος Αντωνάκογλου, Steven Simpson , et al. · 2020

Leading state-of-the-art research facilities at the Universities of Edinburgh (UoE), Bristol (UoB), Lancaster (UoLan), King’s College London (KCL) and Digital Catapult (DCAT) are interconnected through a dedicated JISC/JANET network infras…

Fog Computing Systems: State of the Art, Research Issues and Future Trends Open

José Moura, David Hutchison · 2020

Many future innovative computing services will use Fog Computing Systems (FCS), integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) resources. These new services, built on the convergence of several distinct technologies, need to fulfil time-sensitiv…

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