Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research

University of Plymouth

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The Scalability of Wireless Mesh Networks (2008 - Present)

European Society of Surgery Web Site (2005 - Present)

The ESS web site was developed in ASP for the European Society of Surgery. The site is being revised to include a members section providing resources to medical experts across the globe and a discussion forum dedicated to general surgery. The site integrated into the Conference-Papers abstract management system to support the submission and review of abstracts.

British Computer Society (South West Branch) Web Site (2005)

The BCS South West Branch web site was developed to provide a portal for news stories and useful information relating to the activites of the British Computer Society's South West branch and includes a full content management system.

Centre for Leadership Studies Web Site (2005)

Marine Climate Change Encyclopedia [Pilot] (2005)

Over a three month period in the summer of 2005, a pilot CD and web based encyclopedia that provides summary information on the important role that the oceans play in climate change, as well as presenting the evidence for the impacts of climate change in marine and other natural systems, has been designed and developed as an interactive, open access, software system. The demonstration CD is intended to show what can be achieved and to better guage the amount of time and effort that will need to be invested in what it is hoped will be a longer term project. The pilot has been completed on a modest financial budget that does not reflect the work hours and resources that have been put in to the demonstrator. As can be seen from the authorship the project has been a team effort involving input from a number of institutions in France and the UK and was completed at the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS).

Initial financial support for the project was provided by a grant from National Aquarium Ltd, Plymouth with additional funding under contract to English Nature. It is intended that the project will fit well into proposed plans at the National Marine Aquarium to develop a new visitor theme focusing on climate change over the next twelve months. A short time was available to check and edit the contents as English Nature intends to use the CD to support a major European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) conference that is being held in Oxford in September as part of the UK Presidency of the European Union. Interest has also been expressed by the Executive Secretary of OSPAR in the CD and copies will be made available for a meeting of OSPAR that will address climate issues later in the autumn. The Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hosted at the Meteorological Office, Exeter have also expressed a desire to be involved in the project as it develops. It is expected that the product will also be of use to a new UK government initiative on climate change: the ?Marine Climate Change Impact Partnership? (MCCIP) set up as a response to the recently published assessment of UK seas: Charting Progress The interim Secretariat for MCCIP was based at SAHFOS until July when it ceased to operate prior to a tendering process for a fully established partnership secretariat.

The presentation format adopted in the Marine climate CD is an important innovation that will help to raise public awareness of climate change issues and the key role that the oceans play in modulating change. Before long we hope that it will be possible to make the pilot available to a global audience via the SAHFOS web site. The experiences gained in this initial exercise will help plan and cost a full development of the web based ?CD?.

Methodological Innovations Web Site (2005)

Port Isaac Web Site (2005)

British Hernia Society Web Site (2004 - Present)

The British Hernia Society web site was developed in ASP for the BHS's 2005 inaugral conference. Since its original development, the site has been extended to incorporate a full content management system, a members section providing resources to medical experts across the globe and a discussion forum dedicated to hernia surgery. The site integrated into the Conference-Papers abstract management system to support the submission and review of abstracts.

Biometric Terminal - Phase 2 (2004)

The project was conducted for Orange.

HGML - Phase 2 (2004)

The project was conducted for Orange.

Subscriber Authentication via Keystroke Analysis on a Mobile Handset (2004)

The project was conducted for Orange.

AMEMR Conference Web Site (2004 - 2005)

The AMEMR conference web site was developed in ASP for Plymouth Marine Laboratory's 2005 conference on marine ecology. The site integrated into the Conference-Papers abstract management system to support the submission and review of abstracts.

LRN Conference Web Site (2004 - 2005)

The LRN conference web site was developed in ASP for the Logistics Research Networks 2005 annual conference. The site integrated into the Conference-Papers abstract management system to support the submission and review of abstracts.

MedVoices Web Site (2004 - 2005)

Biometric Terminal - Phase 1 (2003)

The project was conducted for Orange.

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PC Integrity Testing (2003 - 2004)

The project was conducted for Plymouth Trading Standards.

Appplause South West Web Site (2003 - 2005)

WinCPR Software Implementation and Web Site (2003 - 2005)

The WinCPR web site was developed to provide access to the WinCPR software and facilitate user tracking and software bug monitoring. Implemented in ASP, it provides on-line registration for world-wide users, access to documentation as well as a discussion forum for environmental and ecological (as well as technical!) discussions.

The WinCPR software was developed by the Network Research Group in collaboration with the University of Genoa and the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS).

WinCPR is a gridded database of plankton abundance in the North Sea compiled from monthly sampling by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey. The available data covers the years 1948 to 1997 (representing 50 years of month-by-month data) and contains interpolated statistics for 112 planktonic organisms or indices (both animal, zooplankton and plant, phytoplankton). WinCPR software provides a flexible interface to allow users to access a subset of this data.

Conference-Papers Web Site (2002 - Present)

The Conference-Papers web site was originally developed for our own series of INC conferences (International Network Conference). Since the development of the site in 2002 it has been used to handle paper submission and review for a number of major international conferences. This has included IFIP working group conferences and our own INC events (including INC2005 in Samos).

The web site is implemented in ASP and supports the on-line submission of papers, full reviewing (optional double-blind implementation) and has been recently modified to support abstract only conferences.

Cybersign (1999)

CyberSign was designed as an aid to the deaf community, translating text into video images of a signer using Sign Supported English, for application within personal communication and Internet browsing contexts. The prototype stage focused upon signing text from a remote source, using a series of discrete video clips of individual sentences, words and letters being signed as appropriate.

HGML - Phase 1 (1997 - 1998)

Mobile access to the World Wide Web (WWW) is now technically feasible via cellular communications equipment and other wireless technologies. However, the usability of the resulting service is limited by the fact that much web content is represented in graphical form, which requires significant bandwidth and impedes downloading over the wireless medium.

In collaboration with Orange, members of the Network Research Group designed the Hyper Graphics Markup Language (HGML), providing a graphically-oriented alternative to HTML specifically designed for use in wireless contexts. HGML is highly optimised for use in conjunction with narrow-bandwidth channels between client and server. It offers three key features that enable it to reduce / replace the use of conventional bitmap images in WWW pages : namely drawing primitives, pre-stored image themes and image manipulation.

The implementation of and findings from a prototype implementation indicated that the HGML approach can deliver dramatic savings on both overall file size and download time when contrasted with a traditional HTML approach. A W3C Note on was submitted at the conclusion of the feasibility project.