BBC6521 Project
Dr Cathryn Peoples
c.peoples@qmul.ac.uk
Skype: cathryn.peoples
Contact Details
Dr Cathryn Peoples
c.peoples@qmul.ac.uk
Skype: cathryn.peoples
Room 206 (Engineering building)
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London
E1 4NS
United Kingdom
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Biography
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Cathryn Peoples received the BA degree (with honours and diploma in industrial
studies) in Business Studies with Computing, MSc degree in Telecommunications
and Internet Systems, and PhD degree in Networking from Ulster University,
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in 2004, 2005, and 2009, respectively.
She became a Certified Associate in Project Management in August 2008 and an
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in February 2015.
Cathryn has been employed as a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Computing and
Engineering at Ulster University, teaching on an MSc degree in Professional
Software Development.
Prior to her appointment into this post, she worked as a Research Associate at Ulster
University in the Area of next generation networking.
Her research interests include cloud management, cross-layer protocol optimisation,
delay-tolerant networking, smart cities, and green IT.
She won an achievement award in recognition and appreciation of service
contributions in the field of network security for the 2013 World Congress in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, and won the Best
Paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing,
Communications and Informatics in 2014.
Cathryn is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) professional bodies.
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PROJECT TITLES
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My Project Supervision for BBC6521 2015-16
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Project Titles
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Smart Cities
ID
Project Title
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QCP3
A Protocol to Support Device-to-device Communication in
the Smart City
Like DDS protocol, Data
Distribution Service.
QCP4
A Protocol to Support Device-to-infrastructure
Communications in the Smart City
Like MQTT, XMPP
protocols.
QCP5
A Middleware to Support Operation in the Smart City*
(potential of targeting the International Middleware Conference)
Like Oracle Fusion
Middleware, IoT-A.
QCP6
Efficient Quality of Service Monitoring of Smart City Data
Repositories
Like OpenIoT-D46-140805.
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Project Titles
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Smart Cities
ID
Project Title
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QCP7
A Website to Promote Wellbeing in Smart Cities* Researching and implementing a
(potential of targeting the International Conference
solution to contribute to
on Wireless Mobile Communications & Healthcare)
improving wellbeing using
technology.
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Previous Project Experience in Improving
Wellbeing using Information Technologies
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Wellbeing Website Solution Front-end
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Wellbeing Website Solution Front-end
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Wellbeing Website Solution Front-end
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Project Titles
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Smart Cities
ID
Project Title
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QCP8
Dynamic Operation of the NS-3 Flow Monitor for
Efficiency Objectives in Smart Cities
Open, standardised protocol,
not vendor-specific,
application-agnostic
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Project
Titles
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Cloud
Management
ID
Project Title
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QCP2
Managing the Digital Legacy in ‘Green’
Clouds* (potential of targeting the IEEE
International Conference on Cloud Computing)
Potential to contribute to work
of the CMWG, potential to
contribute a commercial
product.
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Recent Paper
Accepted on
Digital Legacy
Management
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Digital Legacy Management: Website Front-end
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Project Titles
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eCommerce
ID
Project Title
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QCP9
Routing Money in the Smart City IoT
Contribute to routing protocol
standards specific to IoT.
QCP10
Bitcoin Incentive Programme: An
Algorithm to Dynamically Adapt the
Incentive Offered for Optimised Uptake
Potential to contribute to
IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Automated Software
Engineering
QCP11
A Website Supporting Bitcoin Payments
and Minimises Negative Impact of the
Value Volatility of Cryptocurrency
Potential of contributing a
commercial product.
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Project Titles
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Networking in
Deep Space
C.Peoples, G. Parr, B. Scotney
and A. Moore, "Autonomic
Context-Aware Management
in Interplanetary
Communications Systems,"
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Magazine, Vol. 26, No.
2, Feb. 2011, pp. 26-33; doi:
10.1109/MAES.2011.5739487.
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Project Title
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QCP1
Supporting Deep Space Missions using the
Linux OS* (Potential of targeting IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Automated Software
Engineering)
Potential of contribution to the
DTNRG
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Project Management in Slack
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My Expectations of Project Students
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Be responsible
Be independent
Take risks
Be critical
Show authority
Accept feedback and apply
Be responsive
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BBC6521 Project
Dr Cathryn Peoples
c.peoples@qmul.ac.uk
Skype: cathryn.peoples