Dr Nicholas Race

Reader in Networking

Research Overview

My research area is experimental networking and networked media. More specifically, this includes:

- Software Defined Networks (SDN), developing network-aware caching solutions that utilise emerging SDN technology (examples of this include the recent work on OpenCache).

- Networking Testbeds / Wireless Mesh Networking; particularly the associated technical platforms and management infrastructure. More recently the focus has been on issues relating to security, developing intrusion/anomaly detection techniques and appropriate remediation strategies (e.g. OpenLIDS presented at MobiCom 2009).

- Media Delivery (IPTV and Content Distribution); particularly studies of media consumption and system streaming behaviour patterns (e.g. recent work published at ACM Multimedia 2014).

I am currently the principal investigator at Lancaster of the FI-CONTENT2 EU project and the co-investigator of the EPSRC TOUCAN Programme Grant. Previously I was the principal investigator at Lancaster of the STEER, GN3plus, Fed4FIRE, OFELIA and P2P-Next EU projects.

At home with users: a comparative view of Living Labs
Ley, B., Ogonowski, C., Mu, M., Hess, J., Race, N., Randall, D., Rouncefield, M., Wulf, V. 2015 In: Interacting with Computers. 27, 1, p. 21-35. 15 p.
Journal article

Let’s share a story: socially-enhanced multimedia storytelling
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Race, N., Niamut, O., Koot, G., Kaptein, R., Taal, J., Mori, L. 2015 In: IEEE MultiMedia.
Journal article

Susceptibility to email fraud: a review of psychological perspectives, data-collection methods, and ethical considerations
Jones, H., Towse, J., Race, N. 2015 In: International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning. 5, 3, p. 13-29. 17 p.
Journal article

Just browsing?: understanding user journeys in online TV
Elkhatib, Y., Killick, R., Mu, M., Race, N. 11/2014 In: MM '14 Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia. New York : ACM p. 965-968. 4 p.
Paper

A survey of rural Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) deployments
Ajayi, A.O., Roedig, U., Edwards, C., Race, N. 28/08/2014 In: Wireless and Mobile, 2014 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on. IEEE p. 119-125. 7 p.
Paper

Designing Mobile Augmented Reality interfaces for locative games and playful experiences
Burnett, D., Coulton, P., Murphy, E., Race, N. 6/08/2014 In: Proceedings of Digital Games Research Conference 2014. Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA 11 p.
Paper

Cache as a service: leveraging SDN to efficiently and transparently support Video-on-Demand on the last mile
Georgopoulos, P., Broadbent, M., Plattner, B., Race, N. 08/2014
Poster

Vision social TV: towards personalised media experience and community atmosphere
Mu, M., Trench-Jellicoe, J., Race, N. 05/2014 In: ACM TVX2014. 2 p.
Conference contribution

OpenCache: leveraging SDN to demonstrate a customisable and configurable cache
Broadbent, M., Georgopoulos, P., Kotronis, V., Plattner, B., Race, N. 04/2014 In: Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2014 IEEE Conference on. Piscataway, N.J. : IEEE p. 151-152. 2 p.
Paper

Cache as a service: leveraging SDN to efficiently and transparently support Video-on-Demand on the last mile
Georgopoulos, P., Broadbent, M., Plattner, B., Race, N. 2014 In: 23rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014). IEEE p. 1-9. 9 p.
Paper

Scarecrows, robots and time machines
Coulton, P., Race, N., Burnett, D. 4/11/2013
Conference paper

Synchronising video playback information within a distributed framework
Bojko, C., Mu, M., Race, N. 28/10/2013 In: Media Synchronization Workshop (MediaSync) 2013. Nantes 4 p.
Paper

Storisphere: from TV watching to community story telling
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., Race, N., Hutchison, D. 08/2013 In: IEEE Communications Magazine. 51, 8
Journal article

HomeVisor: adapting home network environments
Frątczak, T., Broadbent, M., Georgopoulos, P., Race, N. 2013 In: Second European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN). Piscataway, N.J. : IEEE p. 32-37. 6 p.
Paper

Quality Evaluation in Peer-to-Peer IPTV Services
Mu, M., Knowles, W., Georgopoulos, P., Simpson, S., Cerqueira, E., Race, N., Mauthe, A., Hutchison, D. 2013 In: Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From Measurement, Classification and Anomaly Detection to Quality of Experience. Berlin : Springer p. 302-319. 18 p. ISBN: 978-3-642-36783-0. Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-36784-7.
Chapter

Towards network-wide QoE fairness using openflow-assisted adaptive video streaming
Georgopoulos, P., Elkhatib, Y., Broadbent, M., Mu, M., Race, N. 2013 In: FhMN '13 Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future human-centric multimedia networking. New York : ACM p. 15-20. 6 p.
Paper

P2P-Based IPTV Services: Design, Deployment, and QoE Measurement
Mu, M., Ishmael, J., Knowles, W., Rouncefield, M., Race, N., Stuart, M., Wright, G. 1/12/2012 In: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 14, 6, p. 1515-1527. 13 p.
Journal article

Understanding Your Needs: An Adaptive VoD System
Mu, M., Knowles, W., Race, N. 12/2012 In: Multimedia (ISM), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on. IEEE p. 255-260. 6 p.
Paper

Localising peers in P2P live streaming systems within resource-constrained networks
Shah, W., Race, N. 06/2012 In: Computer Information Science (ICCIS), 2012 International Conference on. Piscataway, N.J. : IEEE p. 683-688. 6 p.
Paper

Evaluation of the socio-economic implications of contractual mobility in roaming architectures
Corliano, G., Edwards, C., Race, N. 2012 In: 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). New York : IEEE p. 2840-2845. 6 p.
Paper

Introducing NextShareMobile, An Interactive Second Screen Application
Knowles, W., Mu, M., Bamford, W., Race, N., Needham, C. 2012 In: MobiSys '12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services. New York : ACM p. 489-490. 2 p.
Paper

OpenCache: Exploring Efficient and Transparent Content Delivery Mechanisms for Video-on-Demand
Broadbent, M., Race, N. 2012 In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on CoNEXT student workshop. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 15-16. 2 p.
Paper

STEER: A Social Telemedia Environment for Experimental Research
Denazis, S., Efthymiopoulos, N., Koufopavlou, O., Den Hartog, F., Niamut, O., Hutchison, D., Race, N., Mu, M., Taal, J., Mori, L., Boniface, M., C Phillips, S., Wu, F. 2012
Conference paper

Social TV: The impact of social awareness on content navigation within IPTV systems
Mitchell, K., Jones, A., Ishmael, J., Race, N.J.P. 1/11/2011 In: Computers in Entertainment (CIE). 9, 3, 29 p.
Journal article

Next generation satellite broadband enablers
Ewald, N., Fairhurst, G., Race, N., Baker, T., Skoutaridis, P. 1/10/2011 In: Telecom World (ITU WT), 2011 Technical Symposium at ITU. IEEE Publishing p. 39-44. 6 p.
Paper

Multimodal QoE evaluation in P2P-based IPTV systems
Mu, M., Ishmael, J., Mitchell, K., Race, N., Mauthe, A. 2011 In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 1321-1324. 4 p.
Paper

Service Design, New Media and Community Development
Bury, S., Cheverst, K., Ishmael, J., Mitchell, K., Race, N., Rouncefield, M., Smith, P., Taylor, N. 2011 In: Design for services. Farnham : Gower p. 125-130. 6 p. ISBN: 9780566089206.
Chapter

Network virtualization in energy-efficient office environments
Berl, A., Race, N., Ishmael, J., de Meer, H. 15/11/2010 In: Computer Networks. 54, 16, p. 2856-2868. 13 p.
Journal article

Designing for social interaction with mundane technologies: issues of security and trust
Bury, S., Ishmael, J., Race, N.J.P., Smith, P. 04/2010 In: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 14, 3, p. 227-236. 10 p.
Journal article

MeshUp: reliably evolving a living lab
Ishmael, J., Hugelshofer, F., Smith, P., Race, N.J. 2010 In: Proceedings of the fifth ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 23-30. 8 p.
Paper

Social TV: toward content navigation using social awareness
Mitchell, K., Jones, A., Ishmael, J., Race, N.J. 2010 In: EuroITV '10 Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 283-292. 10 p.
Paper

TriggerTV: exploiting social user journeys within an interactive tv system
Jones, A., Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P. 2010 In: Proceedings of the 20th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. New York : ACM p. 51-56. 6 p.
Paper

User perception and requirements for future IPTV services: case studies from Finland and UK
Oksman, V., Tammela, A., Mitchell, K., Ishmael, J., Rouncefield, M., Race, N. 2010 In: Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV & Video. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 1-4. 4 p.
Paper

Characterising and exploiting workloads of highly interactive video-on-demand
Brampton, A., MacQuire, A., Fry, M., Rai, I., Race, N.J.P., Mathy, L. 1/02/2009 In: Multimedia Systems. 15, 1, p. 3-17. 15 p.
Journal article

Localization to Enhance Security and Services in Wi-Fi Networks under Privacy Constraints
Ayres, G., Mehmood, R., Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P. 2009 In: Communications Infrastructure. Systems and Applications in Europe. Berlin : Springer-Verlag p. 175-188. 14 p.
Paper

OpenLIDS: a lightweight intrusion detection system for wireless mesh networks
Hugelshofer, F., Smith, P., Hutchison, D., Race, N.J.P. 2009 In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2009). New York : ACM p. 309-320. 12 p.
Paper

Reconciling community resource requirements in U-Nets
Bury, S., Ishmael, J., Race, N.J., Rouncefield, M., Smith, P. 2009 In: Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking. New York, NY, USA : ACM p. 19-24. 6 p.
Paper

Wireless Mesh Networks: Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications
Ishmael, J., Race, N. 2009 In: Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Springer Berlin Heidelberg p. 149-166. 18 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-89706-4.
Chapter

Deploying rural community wireless mesh networks
Ishmael, J., Bury, S., Pezaros, D., Race, N. 07/2008 In: IEEE Internet Computing. 12, 4, p. 22-29. 8 p.
Journal article

Towards resilient community wireless mesh networks
Bury, S., Race, N.J.P. 07/2008 In: AIMS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Resilient Networks and Services. Springer-Verlag p. 195-199. 5 p.
Paper

Authentication in stealth distributed hash tables
MacQuire, A., Brampton, A., Rai, I.A., Race, N.J., Mathy, L. 06/2008 In: Journal of Systems Architecture. 54, 6, p. 607 - 618. 12 p.
Journal article

A Case for Hybrid Content Distribution for Interactive Video-on-Demand
MacQuire, A., Brampton, A., Race, N.J.P., Mathy, L., Fry, M. 2008 In: Proceedings of the 2008 The Second International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies. IEEE Computer Society p. 556-561. 6 p.
Paper

Intrusion Detection Systems for Community Wireless Mesh Networks
Makaroff, D., Smith, P., Race, N.J.P., Hutchison, D. 2008 In: 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2008. MASS 2008. . IEEE p. 610-616. 7 p.
Paper

Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities
Bury, S., Ishmael, J., Race, N.J.P., Smith, P., Rouncefield, M. 2008 In: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Mobile Computing, Networking Communication. Washington, DC, USA : IEEE Computer Society p. 478-483. 6 p.
Paper

Probing Communities: Study of a Village Photo Display
Taylor, N., Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., Race, N.J.P., Rouncefield, M., Graham, C., EPSRC (Funder) 11/2007 In: OZCHI '07 Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces. p. 17-24. 8 p.
Paper

Characterising User Interactivity for Sports Video-on-Demand
Brampton, A., MacQuire, A., Rai, I., Race, N.J.P., Mathy, L., Fry, M. 06/2007 In: 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV’07).
Paper

Building a rural community mesh network
Ishmael, J., Race, N.J.P. 12/2006
Conference paper

Stealth distributed hash table: a robust and flexible super-peered DHT
Brampton, A., MacQuire, A., Rai, I., Race, N.J.P., Mathy, L. 12/2006 In: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference. ACM
Paper

Unified and Personalised Messaging to Support E-Learning
Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P., McCaffery, D., Bryson, M., Zhen, C. 11/2006 In: Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, 2006. WMUTE '06. . IEEE p. 164-168. 5 p.
Paper

Authentication in stealth distributed hash tables
MacQuire, A., Brampton, A., Rai, I., Race, N.J.P., Mathy, L. 28/08/2006 In: 32nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2006. IEEE p. 348-355. 8 p.
Paper

Localised Ad Hoc Address Autoconfiguration via Clustering in Nomadic As Hoc Networks
Metaxas, G., Hutchison, D., Race, N.J.P. 08/2006 In: Proceedings of International Conference of Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WinSys ’06).
Conference contribution

Routing challenges: Peer to peer applications on a community mesh network
Ishmael, J., Race, N.J.P. 08/2006 In: First International Workshop on "Wireless mesh: moving towards applications" (WiMeshNets).
Conference contribution

Oi: capturing user attention within pervasive display environments
Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P. 05/2006 In: Proceedings of Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices - Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices (PERMID’06).
Conference contribution

iCapture: Facilitating Spontaneous User-Interaction with Pervasive Displays using Smart Devices
Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P., Suggitt, M. 05/2006 In: Proceedings of Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices - Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices (PERMID’06).
Conference contribution

Stealth Distributed Hash Table: Unleashing the Real Potential of Peer-to-Peer
Brampton, A., MacQuire, A., Rai, I., Race, N.J.P., Mathy, L. 10/2005
Poster

CANVIS: context-aware network visualisation using smartphones
Race, N., Clarke, M., Mitchell, K. 19/09/2005 In: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services (MobileHCI 2005). New York : ACM p. 175-182. 8 p.
Paper

If you build it, they will come
Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P., Forde, B. 05/2005
Conference paper

Swarm: a multimedia delivery network for highly dynamic networking environments
Denney, J., Race, N.J.P. 01/2005 In: Multimedia computing and networking 2005 : 19-20 January, 2005, San Jose, California, USA. Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering p. 38-52. 15 p.
Paper

uLearn: facilitating ubiquitous learning through camera equipped mobile phones
Mitchell, K., Race, N.J.P., Clarke, M. 01/2005 In: IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, 2005. WMTE 2005. . IEEE Press 8 p.
Paper

Content Distribution Networks and End-to-End Quality of Service Guarantees
Race, N., Eccles, S. 12/2004 In: Proceedings of the Broadband Europe Conference (BBEurope 2004).
Conference contribution

Visawin: visualising a wireless network
Ishmael, J., Race, N. 1/05/2004 In: Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2004). IEEE Publishing p. 2623-2626. 4 p.
Paper

Dynamic system adaptation in a wireless-aware media streaming architecture
Denney, J., Race, N.J.P. 03/2004 In: Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Networking (ICN’04).
Paper

Towards scalable and affordable content distribution services
Plagemann, T., Goebel, V., Mathy, L., Race, N., Zink, M., Griwodz, C., Halvorsen, P. 06/2003 In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2003) . IEEE Publishing p. 307-313. 7 p.
Paper

The impact of wireless device access on content delivery networks
Denney, J., Race, N. 2003 In: Interactive multimedia on next generation networks. Berlin : Springer Verlag p. 1-15. 15 p.
Paper

Mobile IPv6 in 3G wireless networks
Denney, J., Race, N.J.P. 06/2002
Other chapter contribution

Multimedia Caching - An Overview
Kara, H., Edwards, C., Race, N.J.P. 06/2002
Conference paper

Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on interactive distributed multimedia systems (IDMS 2001)
Shepherd, W., Finney, J., Mathy, L., Race, N.J.P. 01/2001 Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-42530-4.
Book

A dynamic RAM cache for high quality distributed video
Race, N.J.P., Waddington, D., Shepherd, W. 10/2000 In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS '00). London : Springer Verlag p. 26-39. 14 p.
Paper

An experimental dynamic RAM video cache
Race, N.J.P., Waddington, D., Shepherd, W. 06/2000 In: Proceedings of Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2000).
Paper

Support for Video Distribution through Multimedia Caching
Race, N.J.P. 01/2000
Doctoral Thesis

The hybrid edge device concept and implementation in the PETERPAN network architecture: a proposal for IP QoS provisioning on ATM networks
Ciulli, N., Giordano, S., Casaca, A., Silva, P., Dunmore, M., Race, N. 24/05/1999 In: Proceedings of IEEE ATM Workshop '99. Kochi, Japan : IEEE Publishing p. 57-62. 6 p.
Paper

Supporting QoS over Heterogeneous Networks using RSVP and IPv6
Race, N.J.P., Dunmore, M., Shepherd, W. 25/09/1998 In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Distributed Conference (IDC '98) 'Technology Serving the Information Society'.
Conference contribution