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2013
November
- 10 November: The paper 'Road-Casting: A New Distributed Dissemination Protocol for Safety Messages in Urban Areas' by S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, and J. Murphy has been accepted for publication at The 2013 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference(VNC), Boston, USA, December 16-18, 2013.
- 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
- 11 September: The paper 'A Cost-Capacity Analysis for Assessing the Efficiency of Heterogeneous Computing Assets in an Enterprise Cloud' by Jesus Omana Iglesias, Philip Perry, Nicola Stokes, James Thorburn and Liam Murphy, has been accepted for publication at The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013). See more.
- 10 September: The paper 'Comprehensive Performance Analysis and Comparison of Vehicles Routing Algorithms in Smart Cities' by S. Wang, S. Djahel, J. McManis, C. McKenna and L. Murphy has been accepted for publication at The 2013 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2013),Trento Italy 28-31 October 2013.
- 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).
- 16 August: The paper 'VFDS: Very Fast Database Sampling System' by Teodora Sandra Buda, Thomas Cerqueus, John Murphy and Morten Kristiansen has received the best paper award at IEEE IRI 2013, 14th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. See more.
- 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.
- 1 July: The paper 'Analysis of Performance Regression Testing Data by Transaction Profiles' by Shadi Ghaith has been accepted for publication at The ISSTA Doctoral Symposium. 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.
- 24 June: The paper 'VFDS: Very Fast Database Sampling System' by Teodora Sandra Buda, Thomas Cerqueus, John Murphy and Morten Kristiansen has been accepted for publication at IEEE IRI 2013, 14th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. 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.
- 4 June: The paper 'Automatic, Load-Independent Detection of Performance Regressions by Transaction Profiles' by Shadi Ghaith, Miao Wang, Philip Perry and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at Joining AcadeMiA and Industry Contributions to testing Automation (JAMAICA 2013). See more.
May
- 31 May: The paper 'Data Population of Testing Environments' by Teodora Sandra Buda has been accepted for publication at The ISSTA Doctoral Symposium. See more.
- 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.
- 21 May: The paper 'CoDS: A Representative Sampling Method for Relational Databases' by Teodora Sandra Buda, Thomas Cerqueus, John Murphy and Morten Kristiansen has been accepted for publication at DEXA 2013 (24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications). See more.
- 17 May: Soufiene Djahel and John Murphy are organisers of a special session at the 17th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013. See more.
- 15 May: Patrick McDonagh and Liam Murphy are organisers of a special session at the 17th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013. 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.
- 16 April: The paper 'dSUMO: Towards a Distributed SUMO' by Quentin Bragard, Anthony Ventresque and Liam Murphy has been accepted for publication at The first SUMO User Conference (SUMO2013).See more.
- 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.
- 12 March: The paper 'Accuracy Analysis on Call Quality Assessments in Voice over IP' by Yi Han, John Fitzpatrick, Liam Murphy, Jonathan Dunne has been accepted for publication at The 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC'2013).
- 12 March: The paper 'A Lightweight Countermeasure to Cope with Flooding Attacks Against Session Initiation Protocol' by I. Hussain, S. Djahel, D. Geneiatakis and F. Nait-Abdesselam has been accepted for publication at The 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC'2013).
- 12 March: The paper 'Improving Emergency Messages Transmission Delay in Road Monitoring based WSNs' by Horiya Imane Brahmi, Soufiene Djahel and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at The 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC'2013).
- 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.
- 4 February: Welcome to Damien Magoni, new Engineering Research Manager in the group. See more.
- 1 February: Welcome to Thomas Cerqueus, new research fellow in the group. 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.
- 20 October: The paper 'A Comparative Study of Vehicles' Routing Algorithms for Route Planning in Smart Cities' by Vi Tran Ngoc Nha, Soufiene Djahel and John Murphy has been accepted for publication at The first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012).
- 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
- 25 September: The paper 'SParTSim: A Space Partitioning Guided by Road Network for Distributed Traffic Simulations' by Anthony Ventresque, Quentin Bragard, Elvis S. Liu, Dawid Nowak, Liam Murphy, Georgios Theodoropoulos and Jacky Qi Liu has been accepted for publication at IEEE/ACM Distributed Simulations and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT 2012).
- 24 September: Welcome to Nicola Stokes, new research fellow in the group. See more.
- 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 'Improving Software Security using Search-Based Refactoring' by Shadi Ghaith and Mel Ó Cinnéide has been accepted for publication at the 4th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE'12)
- 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.
- 15 June: 4 PEL-ers are organising the 2012 edition of Wireless Days. Don't miss it! See more.
- 13 June: we now have a twitter account and a facebook page! See more.
- 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
- 18 May: Sean Murphy is running a course called NoSQL Data Management in the Cloud. See more.
- 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.
- 1 February: Welcome to Soufiene Djahel, new research fellow in the group. See more.
- 1 February: Welcome (back) to John Fitzpatrick, new research fellow with us. See more.
January
- 23 January: Welcome to Anthony Ventresque, new research fellow in the group. See more.
- 23 January: Welcome to Andres Omar Portillo Dominguez, new PhD student in the group. See more.
- 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.