Dr. Steven Simpson

I am a Senior Research Associate in the Computing Department of Lancaster University.  I started my Ph.D. in October 1994 with the topic of ‘Management and Control of Future Broadband Networks’.

I have been involved in several research projects, including (but not limited to):

• FIRM — Community media editing
• INTERSECTION — Network security/​resilience
• MMAPPS — Peer-to-peer, Reputation
• GCAP — QoS
• CASPIAN — Active networking
• Alpine — Active networking
• ReTINA (AC048) — Distributed processing for connection management

For my Ph.D., I was funded by an EPSRC-CASE studentship (ref. 9456391X), and by sponsorship from BT Labs.

I am now engaged in researching the topics of:

• Network resilience,
• Spam,
• Programmable and Active Networks,
• URN resolution,

…and previously:

• improvements to RSVP,
• group management for multimedia multi-user applications,
• IP/ReTINA integration

…among many other things. My thesis, ‘Application of Media Channels to Large Scale Group Communication’, is available.