Research

Interests

My main area of interest is IP-based networking, specifically, the aspects of network connectivity, topology and infrastructure, including IPv6, routing, overlays and multicast. I have an interest also in the aspects of mobility and distributed computation within this context.

Projects

I was involved in the IST-funded RUNES project from December 2005 until it's completion in July 2007. The main focus was to design and develop a flexible and scalable atchitecture capable of supporting the the creation of large-scale, widely distributed and heterogeneous networks of embedded systems. Such systems must be able to inter-operate and to adapt to their changing environments.

To overcome the complexity of the future environments envisaged for such systems, a flexible and scalable architecture is required. The approach used to achieve this project goal, involves the development of an adaptive middleware platform that allows such systems to self-organise and evolve with their environment.

I was involved in the IST-funded SEINIT project since it began in December 2003. The primary objective was to develop a trusted and dependable security framework that was ubiquitous, and able to operate across multiple heterogeneous devices and security domains. This has been achieved through the SEINIT middleware by abstracting away from low-level technology-specific security configuration and focusing instead around users in a user-comprehensible manner. The level of security that users need is maintained by transparently downloading and launching appropriate technology components that implement the negotiated security policies.

I was involved in the IST-funded 6net project between January 2003 and July 2004. My main activities involved investigations into the deployment of dynamic IPv6-enabled VPN infrastructures The investigations have uncovered a number of issues and promoted a number of collaborative efforts. Further details can be found on our VPN page. Other 6NET activities, Video and Voice over IPv6, were demonstrated across the VPN infrastructures that were deployed.

Between April and September 2000, I was involved in a project to carry out a kernel-level BSD router implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol.

Papers and Publications

• Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish Lad, Cecilia Mascolo, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Thirunavukkarasu Sivaharan, Nirmal Weerasinghe, and Stefanos Zachariadis. "The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario", . Proceedings of The Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2007) , White Plains, New York City, USA, 19-23 March 2007


• Stefanos Zachariadis, Manish Lad, Cecilia Mascolo and Wolfgang Emmerich. "Building Adaptable Mobile Middleware Services Using Logical Mobility Techniques", [PDF] . Book Chapter in Contributions to Ubiquitous Computing , Bernd Kraemer; Wolfgang A. Halang (Eds.), Springer Book Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 42, ISBN: 3-540-44909-4, January 2007.


• Randall Atkinson, Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Stephen Hailes. "A Proposal for Coalition Networking in Dynamic Operational Environments", Proceedings of Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2006) , Washington DC, USA, 23-25 October 2006.


• Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish Lad, Cecilia Mascolo, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco, Stefanos Zachariadis. "Dynamic Reconfiguration in the RUNES Middleware", [PDF]. Public Demonstration. Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2006) , Vancouver, Canada, 9-12 October 2006.


• Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Stephen Hailes and Peter Kirstein. "Coalition-Based Peering for Flexible Connectivity", [PDF] . Proceedings of The 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'06) , Helsinki, Finland, 11-14 September 2006.
  Department of Computer Science, UCL, Technical Research Note Number: RN/06/07


• Daniele Quercia, Manish Lad, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra and Saleem Bhatti. "Survivable Wireless Networking: Autonomic Bandwidth Sharing in Mesh Networks", [PDF]. BT Technology Journal , Springer, Vol. 24, No. 3, Pages 99-107, ISSN: 1358-3948, July 2006.


• Daniele Quercia, Manish Lad, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra and Saleem Bhatti. "STRUDEL: Supporting Trust in the Dynamic Establishment of peering coaLitions", [PDF] [BIB]. Proceedings of The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) , 23-27 April 2006.


• Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Stephen Hailes and Peter Kirstein. "Enabling Coalition-Based Community Networking", [PDF] [BIB]. Proceedings of The London Communications Symposium 2005 (LCS 2005) , 8-9 September 2005.
  Department of Computer Science, UCL, Technical Research Note Number: RN/05/15

Posters

• Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Stephen Hailes and Peter Kirstein. "Coalition-Based Peering for Flexible Connectivity", [PDF (27MB)]. Produced for The 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'06) , Helsinki, Finland, 11-14 September 2006.


• Manish Lad, SEINIT Consortium. "Security for the Pervasive Computing World", [PDF]. Produced for the UCL Security Initiative. 30 March 2005.

Talks

• Manish Lad. "Challenges of Resource-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems", [PPT] [PDF]. Invited talk presented at the 2nd meeting of the Wireless Sensing Interest Group (WiSIG) . National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK. 27 September 2006.


• Manish Lad. Ran Atkinson, Saleem Bhatti, Steve Hailes, Peter Kirstein. "Coalition-Based Networking in Dynamic Operational Environments", [PDF] [HTML]. Presented at the Next Generation Networking - Multi-Service Networks 2006 (MSN 2006) Workshop . The Cosener's House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. 13-14 July 2006.


• Manish Lad. "Coalition-Based Connectivity for Flexible Communication", [PDF]. Presented to the Interconnection Working Group at the CRN Meeting on "Research, Development and Profit: What Makes Telecoms Successful?" . Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, UK. 22 June 2006.


• Manish Lad. "The Coalition Peering Domain: A New Entity In The Routing Landscape", [PPT] [HTML]. Presented at the Next Generation Networking - Multi-Service Networks 2005 (MSN 2005) Workshop . The Cosener's House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. 7-8 July 2005.

Technical Reports

• Manish Lad. "The Coalition Peering Domain: A New Entity on the Routing Landscape", [PDF]. Transfer Report. 2 November 2005.
  Department of Computer Science, UCL, Technical Research Note Number: RN/05/25


• Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Stephen Hailes, Peter Kirstein and Adam Greenhalgh. "Motivation for Coalition-Based Community Networking", [PDF]. 1 August 2005.
  Department of Computer Science, UCL, Technical Research Note Number: RN/05/16


• Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Peter Kirstein and Stephen Hailes. "Challenges, Opportunities and Incentives for Coalition-Based Community Networking", [PDF]. 06 June 2005.
  Department of Computer Science, UCL, Technical Research Note Number: RN/05/08


• Manish Lad, Saleem Bhatti, Peter Kirstein and Stephen Hailes. "The Coalition Peering Domain: A New Entity In The Routing Landscape", [PDF]. 15 March 2005.
  Department of Computer Science, UCL, Technical Research Note Number: RN/05/03

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