Steven Simpson: Research

Research

I am a 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’.

Funding

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

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

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

Topics

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.