Research

From Website of Anirban Basu

Research publications

Please see Research publications for a chronological list of my publications including links to electronically available documents.

Current research (October 2005 - present)

My current research is broadly in the area of distributed systems and pervasive computing.

From October 2008, I will be working as a Research Fellow on a £1 million EPSRC funded project to investigate means of supporting shy users in pervasive computing - Shyness.

I am involved with a £1.4 million EPSRC funded project on trust in pervasive computing - Utiforo.

For my doctoral (PhD) research, I am working on developing reputation system based on behavioural history of network clients, which can be used as a service level control to protect network services from attacks and unsolicited communication. At present, I have developed my model, which I am simulating using a parallelised discrete event simulator on a dual quad-core machine.

I am also working, in collaboration with other researchers, on discrete event peer-to-peer network simulators.

Past research (July 2003 - September 2005)

I have past research experience in software development for digital cultural heritage applications.

I was working in a €2.8 million EU IST Framework Programme V funded digital cultural heritage project - Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects (ARCO) - and its lightweight prototype (ARCOLite) between July 2003 and September 2005. ARCO was aimed at providing museums with useful technologies for digitising, managing and presenting virtual museum artefacts in virtual cultural environments. Two years after the project started, it became apparent to the designers of ARCO that the total cost of ownership of ARCO was too high for certain smaller heritage institutions due to licensing of components such as Oracle and X-VRML. For this reason, a lightweight digital cultural heritage prototype (called ARCOLite) having similar functionalities was developed primarily as my undergraduate final year project. Further to that, a portable version of ARCOLite was also developed which could run off a CD-ROM. This was developed for educational purposes.

Details of the initial prototype implementation of ARCOLite can be found in some of the papers and my undergraduate thesis available from my Research publications page.