Dr William Buchanan (Senior Lecturer, Napier University)

1 Details

Name: / William Buchanan, BSc (Hons.), PhD, CEng.
Date of Birth: / 6th March, 1961.
WWW page: / http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~bill
http://buchananweb.co.uk
Current Post: / Reader, School of Computing
Email: / |

2 Conference Papers

38 Conference papers. Some of the most recent ones are:

· Buchanan W, Migration of Location Services from GMS to 3G, 5th IEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communications, London, Oct 2004 (invited paper).

· Buchanan W and Llamas D, Covert Channel Analysis and Detection using Reverse Proxy Servers, 3rd International Conference on Electronic Warfare and Security (EIWC), University of London, June 2004.

· Migas, N, Buchanan W and McArtney K, Migration of Mobile Agents in Ad-hoc, Wireless Networks, IEEE ECBS 2004, Prague.

· Migas, N, Buchanan W and McArtney K, Mobile Agents for Routing, Topology Discovery, and Automatic Network Reconfiguration in Ad-Hoc Networks, Proceedings 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. IEEE Comput. Soc. 2003, pp.200-6. Los Alamitos.

3 Papers published in Refereed Journals

23 Journal papers. Some of the most recent ones are:

· Buchanan WJ, Raja A, and Munoz J, "Critical Analysis and Error Determination of Locating-finding Techniques in GSM", International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), 2004 (accepted).

· Buchanan WJ, Network-based Computer Forensics for Misuse Detection, Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS) Journal, 2004 (accepted).

· Buchanan WJ, Correlation between academic and skills-based tests in computer networks, British Journal of Education Technology (BJET), 2004 (accepted).

· Raja A, Buchanan WJ and Munoz J, "Analytical Review of Mobile Phone-based Location-finding", IEE Communication Engineer, 2004 (accepted).

· Buchanan WJ, Migas N, Sinclair G and McArtney, Analysis of an Agent-based Metric-Driven for Ah-hoc, On-Demand Routing, Journal of Ad-hoc Networks, 2004 (accepted).

4 Book/CD-ROM publications

25 academic books. Some of the most recent ones are:

· Buchanan WJ, “Mastering Computing”, 2000, Macmillan, ISBN 0333748069.

· Buchanan WJ, “Mastering Delphi”, 2002, ISBN 0-333-91897-5, Macmillan.

· Buchanan WJ, “Distributed Systems and Networks”, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-077-09583-9.

· Buchanan WJ, Handbook of the Internet, Kluwer, June 2002, 2000 pages. ISBN 1-4020-7289-9. Definitive reference on the Internet + CD-ROM. Two volumes, and contains some of the most comprehensive material on the Internet.

· Buchanan WJ, Handbook of Security, Kluwer, June 2004, 2500 pages. Definitive reference on the Internet + CD-ROM. Two volumes, and contains some of the most comprehensive material on the security.

· Buchanan WJ, “Security and Forensic Computing”, 2004, CRC Press.

· Buchanan WJ, “Mastering Information Technology”, 2004, Palgrave (forthcoming).

5 Grants and Awards

Grants over the last few years include:

• 3-year, EPSRC-funded CASE award in Intelligent Control of Large-Scale Systems. This involves PI Ltd, British Gas Transco and MOBIL. The research involves intelligently controlling industrial equipment that cannot be controlled by conventional methods. £60,000.

• TCS (Teaching Company Scheme) with Viasystems, North Tyneside. £120K.

• TCS with Seven Layer Communications Limited, South Queensferry. TCS Programming No. 2966. Development of high-speed configurable networking test equipment. £60,000.

• TCS with Justfone plc. Java development for mobile computing using GSM. £120,000.

• TCS with Canan. June 2001. Development of a multimedia system for minority languages, such as Scots and Irish Gaelic. Awarded Certificate of Excellence (Grade 1), Jan 2004.

• TCS/KTP with Fibrehub Europe Ltd. £60K.

• MoD funding research in network fault finding. £20K.

• Networking and Security Training for Sun Microsystems. £20K.

• .NET Training for Agilent (South Queensferry). £40K.

Awards include:

· Winning Programme, KTP Awards, 2003 [http://www.dti.gov.uk/ktp/sevenlayer.pdf].

· Winning Programme, KTP Awards, 2004 (forthcoming, 1st December 2004).

Some of my other internal and external activities are:

· 12 PhD/MPhil Examinations/ 9 PhD/MPhil Completions/ 4 External Examinerships.

· Chair of the IEEE Conference in ECBS (Electronic Computer Based Systems), Napier University, April 2000.

· Programme Committee Member, IEEE Conference in ECBS.

· Leader, Distributed Systems and Mobile Agents research group, School of Computing.

· Area Editor, Journal of Ad-hoc Networks.

· Chair of the BCS Colloquium on Mobile Agents, Napier University, September 2004.