Distributed computing and security
Research interests
The research group conducts research in a broad area of distributed computing and security, including:
- big data and IoT processing platform, analytics and applications
- cloud computing, high-performance computing technologies and applications
- wireless communication protocols such as space time block codes and turbo codes
- security and privacy in distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, IoT, blockchain, etc.
- AI techniques in data security and privacy such as risk-aware access control, securing data provenance, sharing personal data
- cryptography, data anonymization.
Group members
The Distributed Computing and Security Research Group consists of the following members of staff at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London:
- Professor Wei Jie - Associate Professor in Computing (Group Lead)
- Dr Waqar Asif - Senior Lecturer in Computing Science and Cyber Security
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Dr Abel Yeboah-Ofori - Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Research projects
A Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for the UK e-Science National Grid Service
Funded by UK Jisc, this project developed a proxy certificate auditing infrastructure and demonstrated a solution that enables thorough auditing and monitoring of proxy credential usage in widely distributed and heterogeneous research environments exemplified by the UK National Grid Service.
A Self-organizing Community Detection Algorithm for Large-scale Social Network
Funded by the Amazon Research Grant program, this project presents a self-organizing community detection algorithm for large-scale networks based on the idea of swarm intelligence. The results help us understand the behaviours of individual members in a large social network, interaction models between members and the properties of belonging communities. The algorithm and tool will be tested and evaluated on the Amazon cloud platform.
Doctoral research
The research group welcomes applications from students interested in conducting PhD study in any aforementioned research areas. Visit our doctoral research page to see possible topics of study.
For more information about the research group, please contact Dr Wei Jie (via email at wei.jie@uwl.ac.uk).
Research publications (since 2010)
Journal papers
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2020
Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Zhongmin Wang, Hai Wang and Sugang Ma. Network Representation Learning Guided by Partial Community Structure. Vol.8, Issue 1, pp. 46665-46681, IEEE Access, Dec 2020
Syed Muhammad Danish, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Kaiwen Zhang, Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. Securing the LoRaWAN Join Procedure using Blockchains. Cluster Computing, 23(3), pp. 2123-2138. 202
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2019
K. Rajesh Rao, Indranil Ghosh Ray, Waqar Asif, Ashalatha Nayak, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. R-PEKS: RBAC Enabled PEKS for Secure Access of Cloud Data. Vol. 7, pp. 133274-133289, IEEE Access.
Nouman Ashraf, Muhammad Faizan Ghuman, Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Adnan Iqbal, Marios Lestas. Energy Management in Harvesting Enabled Sensing Nodes: Prediction and Control. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol, pp. 104-117, April 2019
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2018
Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Jonathan Loo, Lizhe Wang, Sugang Ma, Gang Han, Zhongmin Wang, Wei Xing. A Parallel Self-Organizing Overlapping Community Detection Algorithm Based on Swarm Intelligence for Large Scale Complex Networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol 89, pp. 265-285. 2018
Yangfan Li, Wei Ren, Tianqing Zhu, Yi Ren, Yue Qin, Wei Jie. RIMS: A Real-time and Intelligent Monitoring System for live-broadcasting platforms. Future Generation Computer Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 87, pp. 259-266, October 2018.
Jining Yan, Yan Ma, Lizhe Wang, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Wei Jie. A cloud-based remote sensing data production system. Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 86, pp. 1154-1166, September 2018
Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Marios Lestas. Increasing User Controllability on Device Specific Privacy in the Internet of Things. Computer Communications, Vol 116, pp. 200 – 211, January 201
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2017
Chengyu Hu, Guo Ren, Chao Liu, Ming Li and Wei Jie. A Spark-based Genetic Algorithm for Sensor Placement in Large Scale Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Journal of Cluster Computing, S.I on Big Data Computing. Vol 20, Issue 2, pp. 1089 - 1099, Jun 2017.
Ze Deng, Wei Han, Lizhe Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Albert Zomaya and Wei Jie. An Efficient Online Direction-Preserving Compression Approach for Trajectory Streaming Data. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 68, pp 150-162, March 2017.
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2016
Jie Zhang, Jining Yan, Yan Ma, Dong Xu, Pengfei Li and Wei Jie. Infrastructures and Services for Remote Sensing Data Production Management across Multiple Satellite Data Centers. Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer, Vol.19, Issue 3, pp 1243–1260, Sep 2016.
Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Marios Lestas. Combined Banzhaf & Diversity Index (CBDI) for Critical Node Detection. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 64, pp. 76-88. April 2016.
Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. Optimization Based Spectral Partitioning for Node Criticality Assessment. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 75, pp. 279-292. November 2016.
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2015
Lajiao Chen, Yan Ma, Peng Liu, Jingbo Wei, Wei Jie and Jijun He. A Review of Parallel Computing for Large-scale Remote Sensing Image Mosaicking. Cluster Computing, Special Issue on Big Data Computing, Vol. 18, No.2, pp. 517-529, Jun 2015.
Miranda Zhang, Rajiv Ranjan, Michael Menzel, Surya Nepal, Peter Strazdins, Wei Jie and Lizhe Wang. A Cloud Infrastructure Service Recommendation System for Optimizing Real-time QoS Provisioning Constraints of Big Data Processing Applications. IEEE System Journal, 2015.
Wei Xing, Wei Jie, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Moustafa Ghanem. A Network Approach for Managing and Processing Big Cancer Data in Clouds. Cluster Computing, Special Issue on Big Data Computing, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp 1285-1294, Sep 2015.
Yan Ma, Haiping Wu, Lizhe Wang, Bormin Huang, Rajiv Ranjan, Albert Zomaya and Wei Jie. Remote Sensing Big Data Computing: Challenges and Opportunities. Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 51, pp. 47-60, Oct 2015.
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2012
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu and Wei Jie. Cloud Computing Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls. International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (IJGHPC), Vol 4, No. 1, 2012, IGI Global.
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2011
Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad, Richard Sinnott, Paul Townend and Zhou Lei. A Review of Grid Authentication and Authorization Technologies and Support for Federated Access Control. ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 43, No. 2, Jan 2011.
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2010
Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad and Pascal Ekin. Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure for Grids - Issues, Technologies, Trends and Experiences. The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 82-96, Springer Publisher, 2010.
Conference papers
Conference papers
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2020
Faiez Altamimi, Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. DADS: Decentralized (Mobile) Applications Deployment System Using Blockchain : Secured Decentralized Applications Store. International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2020). Oct 2020, Hangzhou, China.
Akanksha Dixit, Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. Smart-Contract Enabled Decentralized Identity Management Framework for Industry 4.0. The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2020). Oct 2020, Singapore.
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2019
Karolina K. Dluzniak; Wei Jie; Hai Wang; Wei Xing. Key Concepts of group pattern discovery algorithms from spatio-temporal trajectories. The 15th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, September 2019, Guangzhou, China.
Hui Gao, Karolina K. Dluzniak, Hong Xia, Wei Jie, Yanping Chen, Wei Xing, Xin Wang, Zhongmin Wang. A Service Clustering Method based on Wisdom of Crowds. IEEE Big Data Congress 2019, July 2019, Italy.
Syed Muhammad Danish, Marios Lestas, Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. A Lightweight Blockchain Based Two Factor Authentication Mechanism for LoRaWAN Join Procedure. IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). July 2019, Shanghai, China.
Iván García-Magariño, Geraldine Gray, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Waqar Asif. Agent-based IoT Coordination for Smart Cities Considering Security and Privacy. Sixth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS). Oct 2019, Granada, Spain.
Akash Aggarwal, Waqar Asif, Habibul Azam, Milan Markovic, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Peter Edwards. User Privacy Risk Analysis For The Internet of Things. Sixth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS). Oct 2019, Granada, Spain.
Syed Naqvi, Sean Enderby, Ian Williams, Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Cristi Potlog, Monica Florea. Privacy-Preserving Social Media Forensic Analysis for Preventive Policing of Online Activities. 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS). June 2019, Canary Islands, Spain.
Aditya Shyam Bazari, Akash Aggarwal, Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. Node Criticality Assessment in a Blockchain Network. 2nd Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor. November 2019, New York, USA.
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2018
Muntaha Saleem, Stefan Poslad, Waqar Asif. Internet of Things: Smart Ubiquitous Architecture of Intelligent Transport System. 2nd European Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Dec 2018, Bern, Switzerland
Waqar Asif, Indranil Ghosh Ray, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. An Attack Tree Based Risk Evaluation Approach for the Internet of Things. 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things. Oct 2018, Santa Barbara, USA
Milan Markovic, David Corsar, Waqar Asif, Peter Edwards, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. Towards Transparency of IoT Message Brokers. International Provenance and Annotation Workshop. July 2018, London, UK.
Milan Markovic, Waqar Asif, David Corsar, Naomi Jacobs, Peter Edwards, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Caitlin Doyle Cottrill. Towards Automated Privacy Risk Assessments in IoT Systems. 5th Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things. December 2018, Rennes, France.
Waqar Asif, Indranil Ghosh Ray, Shahzaib Tahir, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. Privacy-preserving Anonymization with Restricted Search (PARS) on Social Network Data for Criminal Investigations. 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD). June 2018. Busan, Korea.
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2017
Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Christian Sauer, Sugang Ma, Gang Han, Zhongmin Wang and Kui Xing. A Parallel Self-Organizing Community Detection Algorithm Based on Swarm Intelligence for Large Scale Complex Networks. The 41st IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2017), July 2017, Italy.
Chao Wang, Ying Zhang, Wei Jie, Christian Sauer and Xiaojie Yuan. Hierarchical Semantic Representations of Online News Comments for Emotion Tagging using Multiple Information Sources. The 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (Dasfaa 2017), March 2017, China.
Nouman Ashraf, Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Marios Lestas. Active Energy Management for Harvesting Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks. 13th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS). February 2017, Jackson, USA.
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2016
Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Christian Sauer, Sugang Ma, Gang Han and Wei Xing. A Self-Organizing Algorithm for Community Structure Analysis in Complex Networks. The 17th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2016), May 2016, China.
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2015
Wei Xing, Wei Jie, et al. SCAN: A Smart Application Platform for Empowering Parallelizations of Big Genomic Data Analysis in Clouds. The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2015), Beijing, China, Sep 2015.
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2011
Christopher Bayliss, Richard Sinnott, Wei Jie and Junaid Arshad. The Design, Development and Application of a Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for Collaborative Research. The 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on e-Technologies (MCETECH 2011), Switzerland, Jan 2011.
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2010
Christopher Bayliss, Richard Sinnott, Wei Jie and Junaid Arshad. A Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for UK e-Science National Grid Service. The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2010), Brussels, Belgium, Oct 2010.
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