India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC) in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services (Phase Two Follow-on)
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Computing & Communications
Abstract
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Organisations
- Lancaster University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- University of Toronto (Collaboration)
- Austrian Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
Publications
Alberto Schaeffer-Filho (Author)
(2013)
Simulation and Evaluation of Network Resilience with PReSET
in in proceedings of IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM 2013)
Alberto Schaeffer-Filho (Author)
(2013)
PReSET: A_ Toolset for the Evaluation of Network Resilience Strategies
in in proceedings of IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM 2013)
Angelos Marnerides (Author)
(2013)
On the Comprehension of DSL SyncTrap Events in IPTV Networks
Da Silva A
(2015)
Resilience support in software-defined networking: A survey
in Computer Networks
Marnerides A
(2015)
Power Consumption Profiling Using Energy Time-Frequency Distributions in Smart Grids
in IEEE Communications Letters
Marnerides A
(2013)
Malware analysis in cloud computing: Network and system characteristics
Marnerides A
(2015)
Malware detection in the cloud under Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition
Marnerides A
(2013)
Internet traffic classification using energy time-frequency distributions
Noor Shirazi (Author)
(2013)
A Multilevel Approach Towards Challenge Detection in Cloud Computing.
in Proceedings of 2nd international Workshop on Cyberpaterns
Noor Shirazi (Author)
(2012)
Attack Pattern Recognition through Corellating Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks
in Proceedings of 1st international Workshop on Cyberpaterns
Schaeffer-Filho A
(2014)
Network resilience with reusable management patterns
in IEEE Communications Magazine
Schaeffer-Filho A
(2014)
Cyberpatterns - Unifying Design Patterns with Security and Attack Patterns
Shirazi, N.
(2014)
Assessing the Impact of Intra-Cloud live Migration on Anomaly Detection
Watson M
(2014)
Self-Organizing Systems
Watson M
(2016)
Malware Detection in Cloud Computing Infrastructures
in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Yu Y
(2012)
Network and System Security
| Description | The work developed within IU-ATC Group 2 WP 4 produced a number of major finding rested to resilient networks and the provision and cloud resilience, including malware detection in Cloud environments. These findings help to provide more secure network and cloud services and to ensure that these can be used more reliably and safely. As such the results are crucial for the the further development of products and services based on cloud environments since they safeguard commercial as well as data protection interests. This has been achieved through producing results in major research areas such as anomaly and malware detection, distributed systems architectures and network management. The key findings are: (1) Multi-layered policy-based resilience management provides flexibility in the configuration of system/network components to adapt in response to events and context changes. This is a key property when building resilient systems and networks, This result is a further development of the policy based resilience work in Phase I; (2) Anomaly detection mechanisms that help to identify unusual events of different scales and allow further causal attribution; (3) Malware detection in clouds is feasible and can help to make cloud environments more resilient. This is even the case when considering specific cloud properties related to virtualisation and dynamic resource management (e.g. VM migration). This has resulted in a patent proposal together with an industry partner |
| Exploitation Route | Parts of the research finding are currently being considered for patenting, i.e. IP protection is ongoing. This has been initiated by our industry partner BT who see opportunities in using the developed technology as part of their service offering. Further, the policy-based resilience framework and simulator has been used by a number of other institutions in their own research. This is an open source toolkit and through these partners further contributions have been made, Additionally, the work has resulted in further funding of students (e.g. through CASE studentships with EADS), and research projects on national and EU level. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Security and Diplomacy |
| URL | http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/PReSET/ |
| Description | In research activities led by Lancaster has resulted in 21 papers overall of which there are 5 journal papers. The papers focus on resilience and security aspects in computer networks and the cloud, but also span across into the other domains of IU-ATC (e.g. energy efficiency, content distribution) on security and resilience in computer networks. Additionally, 1 PhD dissertation is being complete and 5 Master dissertations have been completed in Lancaster in areas related to IU-ATC. Within the IU-ATC project the collaboration between the UK and Indian partners has continued to strengthen, both in academia and industry. This allowed us to jointly explore and combine expertise (from the UK and Indian sides) in the area of multi-level network resilience framework for end-to-end monitoring including system aspects as they occur in Cloud computing. Research results obtained in IU-ATC Theme have also resulted in efforts to protect the IP generated. Together with our Industry partner BT we are currently filing a patent application in the area of detect of malware infection in Cloud environments specifically considering system dynamics and elasticity. The research aspects investigated by Lancaster has attracted further investment in the form of two joint CASE studentships with EADS. A third studentship related to IU-ATC with EADS is currently being negotiated. Further, the research has helped to bit successfully for further projects on the European and national level. Also, part from the links to India the project has also allowed us to establish links to Austria (i.e. Austrian Institute of Technology) and Brazil (i.e. the Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, UFRGS). This strengthens the international links the IU-ATC has created. Finally, results of the project have contributed to the discussion with society, policy makers and the wider public (.e.g at an event of the Industry and Parliament Trust on Cyber Security). |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Airbus Group |
| Amount | £97,121 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CASE-EADS |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | France |
| Start | 05/2012 |
| End | 04/2015 |
| Description | BT |
| Amount | £95,838 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CASE-BT |
| Organisation | BT Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2011 |
| End | 06/2014 |
| Description | EU FP7 Project SECCRIT |
| Amount | € 450,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | FP7-SEC-2012-1, grant agreement no 312758 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 12/2015 |
| Title | PReSET Network Resilience Simulator |
| Description | This is a network simulator that helps to asses policy based resilience methodologies |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | It has been used by research partners in India, Austria, Australia and Brazil to assess resilience policies in networked environments |
| URL | http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/PReSET/ |
| Description | Austrian Institute of Technology collaboration in Cloud Assurance |
| Organisation | Austrian Institute of Technology |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Within this collaboration Dr. Andreas Mauthe spent three months at AIT Vienna to jointly do research in the areas of Cloud Assurance as a basic concept for more formalised Cloud resilience and security. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided funding for the stay as well as facilities that were require during the visit. The partner also provided contact to various Austrian partners (user and research partners) to discuss and carry out research. |
| Impact | There have been two conference publications, one journal, and one communications letter paper so far. Further, two project proposals have been submitted as a result of this collaboration |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Cross-layer WiFi Security |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This work aims to bind the information-theoretical aspect of physical layer security in WiFi networks and overcomes limitations posed by cryptographic methods. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lancaster contribution was on the algorithmic aspect of anomaly detection within the collaboration |
| Impact | The collaboration has resulted in joint publications at the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communication and Networking Techniques for Contemporary Video 2014, and IEEE ICNC 2015 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Energy Management for Wireless Sensor Networks |
| Organisation | University of Toronto |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This work addresses the aspect of energy management for highly demanding multimedia applications running on sensor networks. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lancaster has focused on algorithmic aspects of energy distribution and management. |
| Impact | There are papers in submission and the results of this activity has contributed to our work on SCADE systems |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | FP 7 SECCRIT (SEcure Cloud computing for CRitical infrastructure IT) |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked on the systems aspect of malware detection in the Cloud and provided our results on the actual detection under different scenarios to the project partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project partners worked on the network anomaly detection aspects in Cloud environments. They also provide part of a test-bed that is jointly used |
| Impact | Maint output to date are joint publications, specifically: - Shirazi, N., Simpson, S., Marnerides, A., K., Watson, M., Mauthe, A., Hutchison, D., Assessing the Impact of Intra-Cloud Live Migration on Anomaly Detection to appear in IEEE CLOUDNET 2014, Luxembourg, October, 2014 - Marnerides, A., K., Watson, M., Shirazi, N., Mauthe, A., Hutchison, D., Malware Analysis in Cloud Computing: Network and System Characteristics , in IEEE Global Communications Conference 2013, IEEE GLOBECOM CCSNA workshop 2013, Atlanta, USA, December, 2013 |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Internet Traffic Classification , Network Security, Cloud Computing |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration aims to provide novel mechanisms for improved traffic classification that would be a beneficial tool for network security within cloud environments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in this collaboration had an equal share in terms of designing and implementing this tool |
| Impact | A project proposal for the T3 call has been based on this. The proposal was successful |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Research Partnership on Policy-based Resilience with UFRGS |
| Organisation | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | In this research collaboration issues related to policy-based resilience are being researched. Lancaster's contribution is in the area of anomaly detection and within the remediation framework. Further, there has been research on resilience in smart grids. Here Lancaster analysed the relevant data sets that underpin the research work on how to detect anomalies. A research visit of three months has taken place which was finance by CAPES, the Brazilian RC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UFRGS mainly focuses on the policy based aspects of the research. UFRGS has provided the hosting environment and also resources for tests and experiments. |
| Impact | Four journal papers are being published. Further papers are under submission. Further, there is a research collaboration between the UFRGS and the Lancaster team of IU-ATC has been established. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | A. Mauthe, Colloquium: "Resilience in Autonomic Network Architectures", TU Darmstadt, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Through this activity a better understanding of the IU-AC research and the results we achieved could be given. The talk resulted in further discussion on how network resilience can be considered within the DFG Sonderforschungsbereich MAKI After my talk I was offered a position as TUD Research Fellow, a senior visiting researcher position |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | A. Mauthe: Anomaly detection in Cloud Computing, Presentation at AIT, Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Through this activity our collaboration with AIT could be strengthened and further discussions both joint project took place. After my talk I was offered a three month visiting position and based on the discussion we developed research and project ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | A. Mauthe: Validation of Future Civil Security Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Member of Expert Panel on Critical and Emerging Technologies for the Elaboration of a Security Research Agenda International expert panel on emerging technologies like homomorphic encryption, cognitive radio, indoor navigation, sensor technologies, small scale energy harvesting and smart textiles related to future scenarios. Awarding Body - European Commission, 7th Framework, Name of Scheme - ETCETERA Project Further information requests and discussions with participants in the panel and other projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | A. Mauthe: etwork and System Resilience , Research Presentation at UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | There has been increased discussion and request for further joint research after this presentation After my presentation I was asked if we can host researchers from Brazil and if further joint research is possible. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Marneriderides, A.., Malware Detection in the Cloud under Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition, March 2014, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The results of this activity was an increased collaboration between Lancaster and AIT The main impact is the increased engagement regarding projects and further research opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Marnerides, A., K., Insights of Malware Analysis in Cloud Environments, November 2013, University College London (UCL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The presentation resulted in further discussions on Malware detection in Cloud environments with UCL colleagues Raising awareness of IU-ATC and the research carried out by Lancaster therein |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Marnerides, A., K., Internet Traffic Classification using Energy Time-Frequency Distributions, April 2013, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus (invited seminar talk) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talked sparked further discussion with research partners in Cyprus Joint project opportunities are explored. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Marnerides, A., K., Online Malware Detection in the Cloud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Further discussion amongst the research community in the UK about the results of Lancaster's research in IU-ATC. After the presentation we had further discussions with potential partners from UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Position Statement at Industry and Parliament Trust Breakfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Andreas Mauthewas invited to speak at the Parliament Trust Breakfast in Westminster on "Defence in the Digital Age". The purpose of the event was to discuss openly opportunities created in the digital age, but also what safeguards are required to protect industries and infrastructures from cybercrime. It was attended by members of both houses of parliament, as well as senior decision makers from industry and government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ipt.org.uk/BlogDetail/tabid/248/ArticleID/430/Infrastructure-Resilience-Security-beyond-t... |