Research

My research interest spans the areas of cognitive, self organised, opportunistic networks and systems that are agile and adaptive to users' demands and dynamic patterns of the underlying mobile ad hoc communications. End devices are capable of learning, predicting the patterns of behaviour of other devices and resources, and dynamically sharing the resources. I am interested in a number of open research questions such as improving energy efficiency, designing new and more efficient data dissemination and routing protocols and new adaptive security and privacy techniques for data tranmission in such enviroments.
I lead the Wireless Ad-Hoc Networking Research Group (WANRG) that investigates the issues of energy efficiency, congestion control and reliability in large scale fully distributed opportunistic self organised networks.

PhD Researchers

My current PhD students include: Iain Fraser, Sameh Zakhary,

My former PhD students who recently successfully completed their PhDs include: Dr. Bartosz Wietrzyk, in 2007, Dr. Andrew Grundy in 2011

Recently examined PhD students: Dr. Afra Mashhadi at UCL, London, Dr. Paul Kiddie at the University of Birmigham, Birmigham,