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2014

September

  • 20 September: The paper 'VANETs Signal Quality-based Route Selection in Smart Cities' by Michal Vondra, Soufiene Djahel, and John Murphy has been accepted for publication in Wireless Days 2014, November 12-14, 2014 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 11 September: The paper 'Messages Prioritization in IEEE 802.15.4 based WSNs for Roadside Infrastructure' by Imane Brahmi, Soufiene Djahel, Damien Magoni and John Murphy has been accepted for publication in IEEE ICCVE 2014, The 3rd International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2014), November 3-7, 2014, Vienna, Austria.

August

  • 29 August: The paper 'Transaction Profile Estimation of Queueing Network Models for IT Systems Using A Search-based Technique' by Shadi Ghaith, Miao Wang, Philip Perry and John Murphy won the best graduate student track paper at the 6th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2014)
  • 20 August: The paper 'Smart Adaptation of Beacons Transmission Rate and Power for Enhanced Vehicular Awareness in VANETs' by Sofiane Zemouri, Soufiene Djahel, and John Murphy has been accepted for publication in IEEE ITSC 2014, The 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct. 8-11, 2014, Qingdao, China.
  • 14 August: The paper 'A Multi-Agent Based Vehicles Re-routing System for Unexpected Traffic Congestion Avoidance' by Shen Wang, Soufiene Djahel, and Jennifer McManis has been accepted for publication in IEEE ITSC 2014, The 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct. 8-11, 2014, Qingdao, China.
  • 14 August: The paper 'Padovan Sequence based Backoff Algorithm for Improved Wireless Medium Access in MANETs' by Dalil Moad, Soufiene Djahel, and Farid Nait-Abdesselam has been accepted for publication in GIIS 2014, The 2014 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), Sep. 15-18, 2014, Montreal, Canada.
  • 14 August: PEL researchers are organizing The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2015) in conjunction with IEEE CCNC 2015, 9-12 January 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

July

  • 21 July: Prof. Toyotaro Suzumura and his team win first place in Graph 500 “Big Data” supercomputer ranking. See more.
  • 10 July: The paper 'Optimistic Parallel Simulation of Very Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems' by Masatoshi Hanai and Kazuyuki Shudo has been accepted for publication in DS-RT 2014, The 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications.
  • 9 July: The paper 'Towards a Framework for Adaptive Resource Provisioning in Large-Scale Distributed Agent-based Simulation' by Masatoshi Hanai, Anthony Ventresque, Kazuyuki Shudo and Toyotaro Suzumura has been accepted for publication in PADABS 2014, The 2nd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations, satellite Workshop of Euro-Par 2014.
  • 4 July: The paper 'A Communications-oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approaches' by Soufiene Djahel, Ronan Doolan, Gabriel-Miro Muntean and John Murphy has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Impact Factor: 4.818).
  • 4 July: Congratulations to Anthony Ventresque who has been awarded an SFI Industry Fellowship of €110,000 to work in collaboration with IBM Research Lab in Dublin on performance improvement of Urban Mobility Simulation. See more.
  • 3 July: The poster 'An Evaluation of Space and Graph Partitioning Methods for Distributed Road Network Simulation' by Aravind Vasudevan, Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque, Liam Murphy and David Gregg has been accepted for publication in WSC 2014, the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference.
  • 3 July: The paper 'Ontology-Based Quality Evaluation of Value Generalization Hierarchies for Data Anonymization' by Vanessa Ayala-Rivera, Patrick McDonagh, Thomas Cerqueus and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication in the Privacy in Statistical Databases Conference 2014.

June

  • 26 June: The paper 'A Fair Comparison of VM Placement Heuristics and a More Effective Solution' by Xi Li, Anthony Ventresque, John Murphy and James Thorburn received the best paper award at ISPDC 2014, the 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing!
  • 17 June: Congratulations to Adriana Hava who successfully defended her viva this lovely hot summer morning! Well done Adriana...
  • 2 June: The paper 'Global Dynamic Load-Balancing for Decentralised Distributed Simulation ' by Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque, and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication in WSC 2014, the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference.
  • 1 June: The paper 'Multi-Objective VM Reassignment for the Enterprise' by Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque, Liam Murphy and El-Ghazali Talbi has been accepted for publication in META 2014, The 5th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing.

May

  • 31 May: The paper 'A SUMO Based Evaluation of Road Incidents' Impact on Traffic Congestion Level in Smart Cities' by David Smith, Soufiene Djahel, and John Murphy has been accepted for publication in goSMART 2014, The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on GlObal Trends in SMART Cities, co-located with IEEE LCN 2014, Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada.
  • 22 May: Prof. Josemaría Malgosa-Sanahuja, Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain is giving a talk on 'Network innovation using SDN'. See more.
  • 15 May: New MSc vacancies in Software Performance Engineering in collaboration with IBM. See more
  • 13 May: Welcome to Alexis Dumas and Julien Langlois, new interns in the group! They are masters students from Ecole Centrale de Nantes who will be working with PEL for a 4 month internship under the supervision of Christina Thorpe. See more.
  • 9 May: Well done to Thibaud Rohmer who passed his Ph.D. viva exam earlier today. His thesis was accepted with minor corrections & is entitled Analysis, Modelling, and Optimisation of a Peer-to-Peer-based Video-on-Demand Streaming System. The Extern Examiner was Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi from University of Lille 1, France. See more.

April

  • 25 April: The paper 'A Fair Comparison of VM Placement Heuristics and a More Effective Solution' by Xi Li, Anthony Ventresque, John Murphy and James Thorburn has been accepted for publication in ISPDC 2014, the 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing. See more.
  • 24 April: The paper 'Towards Efficient Data Collection in WSNs' by H. I. Brahmi has been accepted for publication at ACM MobiSys 2014 (PhD Forum), Bretton Woods, NH,USA, June 16-19, 2014.
  • 11 April: Welcome to Lucile Leclerc, new intern in the group. See more.
  • 11 April: Welcome to Masatoshi Hanai, new PhD student (visiting) in the group. See more.
  • 4 April: The paper 'Synchronisation for Dynamic Load Balancing of Decentralised Conservative Distributed Simulation' by Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque, and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication in SIGSIM PADS 2014, the 28th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (formerly known as Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation or Parallel and Distributed Simulation, PADS). See more.
  • 1 April: Congratulations to Christina Thorpe who was awarded a Seed Funding Dissemination & Outputs grant from University College Dublin. The Dissemination & Outputs programme aims to build UCD’s profile and reputation by communicating our research outcomes and successes to a wider national and international audience.

March

  • 28 March: The paper 'GeNePi: a Multi-Objective Machine Reassignment Algorithm for Data Centres' by Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque, Xavier Gandibleux and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication in HM 2014, the 9th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics. See more.
  • 26 March: Dr. Anshul Gandhi (IBM Research Watson) is giving a talk on 'Providing Performance Guarantees for Cloud Applications'. See more.

February

  • 20 February: The paper 'Towards a Multi-objective Capital Allocation within Data Centres' by Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque, Xavier Gandibleux and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication in IFORS 2014, the 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. See more.
  • 18 February: The paper 'A Survey of Adaptive Carrier Sensing Mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks' by Christina Thorpe and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.


  • 13 February: The paper 'A DSL for Deployment and Testing in the Cloud' by Adrien Thiery, Thomas Cerqueus, Christina Thorpe, Gerson Sunye, and John Murphy has been accepted for publication in the 2nd International Workshop on Testing The Cloud (TTC2014) co-located with ICST 2014, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

January

  • 30 January: Dr Kazuyuki Shudo (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) is giving a talk on 'Performance of Distributed Systems, 15 years of research' See more.
  • 13 January: The paper 'An Experimental Study of Energy Efficiency versus Performance in an Enterprise Virtualized Environment' by Jesus Omana Iglesias, Liam Murphy, Philip Perry, James Thorburn and Teodora Sandra Buda has been accepted for publication in ICPE 2014. See more.
  • 03 January: PEL researchers are organizing The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014) in conjunction with IEEE VTC2014 spring, 18-21 May 2014, Seoul, Korea.

2013

November

  • 28 November: Dr. Jérôme Rocheteau (ICAM, Nantes, France) is giving a talk on 'How Green Are Java Best Coding Practices?' See more.
  • 6 November: Well done to Cristian Olariu who passed his Ph.D. viva exam with an excellent performance in Waterford this afternoon. His thesis title is "Quality of Service Support for Voice over IP in Wireless Access Networks". See more.

October

  • 29 October: Dr. Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson AB, Karlstad University, Mälardalen University, Sweden) is giving a talk on 'Research in Industry: From Test Design Techniques to Automation, Analysis and Metrics!'. See more.
  • 21 October: The Car Demo presentation given at the Lero workshop (19 September 2013, Athlone) is now online.
  • 1 October: PEL is proud and happy for Logentries who secured $10M! Logentries was founded by Dr. Trevor Parsons and Dr. Viliam Holub, while at PEL@UCD. See more.

September

  • 9 September: PEL will attend the 1st IAIS Workshop on Cloud Computing Research, 27th September 2013. See more.
  • 2 September: Welcome to Nikki Cranley, new research fellow in the group. See more.
  • 2 September: Welcome to Takfarinas Saber, new PhD student in the group. See more.

August

  • 27 August: PEL is running the first Irish SUMO user Workshop (ISUW 2013).
  • 5 August: The paper 'ROThAr: Real-time On-line Traffic Assignment with Load Estimation' by Takfarinas Saber, Anthony Ventresque and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013. See more.

July

  • 9 July: Eduardo Cunha de Almeida is giving a talk on 'Testing Orders of Magnitude'. See more.

June

  • 28 June: The paper 'Provisioning Call Quality and Capacity for Femtocells over Wireless Mesh Backhaul' by Cristian Olariu, John Fitzpatrick, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication at PIMRC 2013. See more.
  • 19 June: Openet acquires UCD spin-out Forkstream! We are proud and happy for Dr John Fitzpatrick and Dr Hamid Nafaa, who were PELers when they founded this successful spin-out company from University College Dublin! See more.
  • 6 June: The paper 'CQE: An approach to automatically estimate the code quality using an objective metric from an empirical study' by Saima Arif, Miao Wang, Philip Perry and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at ICSOFT 2013, 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies. See more.

May

  • 22 May: The paper 'iVMp: an Interactive VM Placement Algorithm for Agile Capital Allocation' by Xi Li, Anthony Ventresque, Nicola Stokes, James Thorburn and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at The IEEE CLOUD Conference. See more.
  • 14 May: The paper 'Towards the Automatic Detection of Efficient Computing Assets in a Heterogeneous Cloud Environment' by Jesus Omana Iglesias, Nicola Stokes, Anthony Ventresque, James Thorburn and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication at The IEEE CLOUD Conference 2013. See more.
  • 1 May: Welcome to Arnaud Cordier and Anthony Labaere, new interns in the group working on the CAR Demonstrator. See more.

April

  • 17 April : Soufiene Djahel and John Murphy are organizing a special session on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities at IEEE PIMRC 2013.
  • 12 April: Congrats to Sebastian Robitzsch who passed his PhD viva this morning!See more.
  • 8 April: Welcome to Nicolas Noel and Adrien Thiery, new interns in the group working on the CAR Demonstrator. See more.

March

  • 21 March: Congratulations to Newres Al Haider who successfully defended his viva today. See more.
  • 11 March: Welcome to Takfarinas Saber, new intern in the group working on MULE. See more.
  • 11 March: Congratulations to Adriana Chis who successfully defended her viva today. See more.

February

  • 22 February: Welcome to Emmanuel Rieg and Filipe Oliveira, new interns in the group working on FAME. See more.
  • 8 February: Glenn Hawe, Research Associate in Durham University, UK, is giving a talk in UCD CSI to PEL members: "agent-based simulation of UK major incident response". See more.

January

  • 30 January: Christina Thorpe and Anthony Ventresque are organising the 1st International Workshop on Testing The Cloud (TTC 2013) at ISSTA next July. See more.
  • 22 January: Mischa Dohler is giving 2 talks on Machine-to-Machine Vision, Technologies & Applications and lessons he learnt whilst growing his own company. Unmissable! See more.
  • 7 January: The paper 'Adaptive Traffic Management for Secure and Efficient Emergency Services in Smart Cities' by Soufiene Djahel, Mazeiar Salehie, Irina Tal and Pooyan Jamshidi has been accepted for publication at PerCom 2013 (WiP track).
  • 1 January: PEL wishes you a happy new year!

2012

December

  • 07 December: Congratulations to PEL postdocs Dr. Miao Wang, Dr. Christina Thorpe and Dr. Patrick McDonagh (DCU), who were recently conferred in UCD. See more.

November

  • 20 November: Final year PEL PhD candidate Sebastian Robitzsch showcases his Wireless Mesh Network at the Campus Company Development Programme Awards Evening. See more.
  • 17 November: PEL is having a demo at UCD Open Day, showcasing Quentin's distributed simulation.
  • 14 November: Ulrich will be giving Python Ireland Group a talk on "DevOps 101 with Python". See more.

October

  • 22 October: Welcome to Shen Wang, new PhD student in the group. See more.
  • 19 October: It's our pleasure to let everyone know that Patrick Mc Donagh passed his PhD viva today. See more.
  • 17 October: It's our pleasure to let everyone know that Miao Wang passed his Ph.D. viva today. See more.

September

  • 17 September: Dr. John Fitzpatrick has been selected to present at Enterprise Irelands Big Ideas Showcase taking place this November with Forkstream. See more.

August

  • 23 August: Welcome to Ulrich Dangel, new PhD student in the group. See more.
  • 14 August: \o/ LogEntries Raises $1M to join the big data log management crowd. See more.

July

  • 16 July: It's our pleasure to let everyone know that Enda Fallon passed his Ph.D. viva today. See more.
  • 12 July: The paper 'Fast and Efficient Countermeasure for MAC Layer Misbehavior in MANETs' by Soufiene Djahel, Zonghua Zhang, Farid Naït-Abdesselam and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
  • 2 July: The paper 'A Hidden Markov Model based Scheme for Efficient and Fast Dissemination of Safety Messages in VANETs' by Imane Horiya Brahmi, Soufiene Djahel and Yacine Ghamri-Doudane has been accepted for publication at IEEE Globecom 2012.


June

  • 27 June: Toyotaro Suzumura (IBM and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) is giving a talk for PEL-UCD: X10-based Massive Parallel Large- Scale Traffic Flow Simulation.
  • 1 June: Soufiene Djahel, Liam Murphy, Dawid Nowak and Anthony Ventresque are organisers of a special session at the 16th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2012. See more.


May

  • 8 May: Welcome to Vi Tran Ngoc Nha, new PhD student in the group. See more.


April

  • 16 April: The paper 'Analysis and Validation of the Maximal Reasonable Link Group Size in Static 802.11a Wireless Mesh Networks: A Study Towards Channel Assignment' by Sebastian Robitzsch and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication at IEEE HotMESH'12.

February

  • 23 February: Welcome to Saima Arif, new PhD student in the group. See more.


January

  • 17 January: Congratulations to a Cristian Olariu, John Fitzpatrick, Philip Perry and Liam Murphy who won the overall best paper award at IEEE/COMSOC CCNC 2012 (Consumer Communications and Networking Conference) See more.

2011

  • 7 November: Welcome to Somnath Mazumdar, new PhD student in the group. See more.
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