About

Paul Smith is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications.  He submitted his PhD thesis in the area of programmable networking resource discovery in September 2003, and graduated in 1999 with an honours degree in Computer Science from Lancaster.

In general, Paul is interested in the various ways that networked (socio-technical) systems fail to provide a desired service when under duress from various challenges, such as attacks and mis-configurations, and developing approaches to improving their resilience.  In particular, his work has focused on the rich set of challenges that face community-driven wireless mesh networks.  He is currently co-coordinating the EU FP7 ResumeNet project, which is investigating a framework and mechanisms for future Internet resilience.

He also enjoys walking his dog Jack and is a keen runner.

Selected Recent Publications

P. Smith, D. Hutchison, J. P.G. Sterbenz, M. Schöller, A. Fessi, M. Karaliopoulos, C. Lac, and B. Plattner, Network Resilience: A Systematic Approach, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 88 – 97, July, 2011.

J. P.G. Sterbenz, D. Hutchison, E. K. Cetinkaya, A. Jabbar, J. P. Rohrer, M. Schöller, and P. Smith, “Resilience and survivability in communication networks: Strategies, principles, and survey of disciplines,” Computer Networks: Special Issue on Resilient and Survivable Networks (COMNET), vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1243–1342, June 2010.

S. Bury, J. Ishmael, N. J.P. Race, and P. Smith, “Designing for social interaction with mundane technologies: issues of security and trust,” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 227–236, April 2010.

F. Hugelshofer, P. Smith, D. Hutchison, and N. J.P. Race, “OpenLIDS: A Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Mesh Networks,” in proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'2009). Beijing, China, September, 2009.