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Professor Alan Marshall PhD/ FIET, SMIEEE

Chair in Communications Networks Electrical Engineering and Electronics

    Research

    Research Interest 1

    Network architectures and protocols; Mobile and Wireless networks; Network Security; high-speed packet switching, Quality of Service & Experience (QoS/QoE) architectures; and Distributed Haptics.

    Trust and reputation mechanisms for Machine-to-machine communications

    Research Grants

    Using Novel Sensing Approaches to Understand Processing of Touch in the Brain

    UNILEVER PLC (UK)

    October 2018 - March 2024

    Context Aware network architectures for Sending Multiple Senses (CASMS)

    ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

    February 2017 - February 2022

    Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Green Wireless Sensor Networks

    ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

    March 2016 - March 2019

    Creating a Stink - Investigating Olfactory Transport Streams

    ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

    September 2015 - September 2018

    Research Collaborations

    Professor J Cavallero

    Project: PhD programme
    External: Rice University, Texas, USA

    Consensus mechanisms for co-operative trust in radio spectrum sensing

    Dr S Ferguson

    Project: PhD programme
    External: Queens University Belfast

    Intelligent scheduling algorithms for Haptic and multi-sensory transmission

    Prof R Woods (QUB), Prof J Cavallero (Rice), Dr C Bleakley (UCD)

    Project: NSF programme: "WiPhyLoc8: Dynamic WiFi Positioning using Physical Layer Parameters for Location-based Services and Security"
    External: QUB, UCD, Rice

    NSF funded USA-Ireland partnership with Rice University, Texas, Queen's University Belfast, and University College Dublin