I am a PhD research student at Lancaster University, in the North-West of England. I undertake research in the area of secured Wireless Sensor Networks, with Dr Utz Roedig.

Sensor networks are now finding increased use in situations where there is a need for greater security to support privacy and authentication. However, WSNs have limited resources which frustrates use of industrial strength cryptography. Existing protocols cannot be used due to new threats applicable to WSNs. My research aims to apply better security to such systems.

So far the research has focused on key management involving research, experimentation and development in areas such as public key cryptography, broadcast authentication and symmetric ciphering. There is considerable overlap into related fields such as radio communication, smart cards, embedded systems and Internet protocol.

You can find out more about Wireless Sensor Networks here.

Downloads of existing publications, posters and presentations are also available here.

My final year project at the University of Essex involved the design and implementation of a model-train control system. This involved a from-scratch implementation using the C programming language on the Cyan eCog1k embedded platform. Trains and network status were managed from a Linux basestation.

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