Jimmy McGibney, Researcher

Jimmy McGibney
Researcher
Ph: +353 (0)51 302906
Email: jmcgibney@tssg.org

Personal Summary

I carry out research and occasionally supervise students at the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology. The vision of the TSSG is to develop a service framework that allows for ubiquitous service solutions for a disappearing communication infrastructure. My specialism is network security and my main current focus in trust models and their applications, especially in distributed intrusion detection. I currently participate in the OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems) project, in the areas of distributed identity, trust and accountability. OPAALS is funded by the European Commission under the FP6 IST programme. I recently worked on another FP6 project, SEINIT (Security Expert Initiative).

I am also working on a PhD on trust models for distributed intrusion detection.

Publications

J. McGibney and D. Botvich, “Distributed dynamic protection of services on ad hoc and p2p networks”, Proc. 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management”, San Jose, CA, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, to appear in October 2007.
J. McGibney and D. Botvich, “A service-centric approach to access control and monitoring based on distributed trust”, Proc. 3rd IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, to appear in October 2007.
J. McGibney, D. Botvich, and S. Balasubramaniam, “A combined biologically and socially inspired approach to mitigating ad hoc network threats”, Proc. 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Baltimore, MD, USA, to appear in October 2007.
J. McGibney and D. Botvich, “Collaborative strategies for reducing attacks on ad hoc network nodes”, Proc. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC – CAMAD workshop), Athens, Greece, to appear in September 2007.
J. McGibney and D. Botvich, “Establishing trust between mail servers to improve spam filtering”, Proc. 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), Hong Kong, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4610, pp 146-155, Springer, July 2007.
J. McGibney and D. Botvich, “A trust overlay architecture and protocol for enhanced protection against spam”, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Vienna, Austria, pp 749-756, April 2007. [doi:10.1109/ARES.2007.28]
J. McGibney, M. Ponce de Leon, and J. Ronan, “SEINIT security for heterogeneous mobile network services”, eChallenges 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2005.
M. Ponce de Leon, J. Ronan, and J. McGibney, “Securing mobile services”, in 1st Euro Conference on Mobile Government (Euro mGov 2005), Brighton, England, July 2005.
J McGibney, N. Schmidt, and A. Patel, “A service-centric model for intrusion detection in next-generation networks”, Computer Standards & Interfaces, Vol 27, Issue 5, pp 513-520, June 2005.
J. McGibney and S. Hearne, “An approach to rules based fraud management in emerging converged networks”, IEEE/IEI Irish Telecommunications Systems Research Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, May 2003.
E. de Leastar, J. McGibney, and D. Morris, “Flexible multi-service telecommunications accounting system”, INC 2000 Plymouth, England, July 2000.
D. Botvich, T. Curran, P. McEntee, J. McGibney, and D. Morris, “A techno-economic analysis of some ATM charging schemes for aggregate LAN interconnect”, IEE Colloquium: Charging for ATM – The Reality Arrives, London, England, November 1997.
D. Botvich, Y. Chen, T. Curran, B. Kerswell, J. McGibney, and D. Morris, “On charging for Internet services provided over an ATM network”, IEEE ATM’97 Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, May 1997.
J. McGibney, D. Morris, and T. Curran, “Contracts for ATM services: a structured analysis”, IEE Colloquium on Charging for ATM, London, England, November 1996.
J. McGibney, D. Botvich, and T. Curran, “Modern global optimisation heuristics in the long term planning of networks”, ATNAC’94, Melbourne, Australia, December 1994.