Jimmy McGibney

About Me - Teaching - Research - Taught MSc

Activities

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 CoMiFin (Communications Middleware for Monitoring Financial Critical Infrastructure) project. CoMiFin is funded by the European Commission under the FP7 ICT programme. I recently participated in FP6 project OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems) and before that in FP6 project SEINIT (Security Expert Initiative).

Research MSc Supervision

Mary-Christine Nolan, MSc (by research & thesis), graduated 2003
Seán Hearne, MSc (by research & thesis), graduated 2004

Taught MSc Supervision

Tony Power, MSc in Communications Software, graduated 2006

Jose Sebastian, MSc in Communications Software, graduated 2008

Raghvendra Sahu, MSc in Communications Software, graduated 2009

Joe Heung, MSc in Communications Software, current

PhD Studies

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

Refereed Publications

• D. Botvich, J. McGibney, G. Ostapenko, S. De Paoli, A. Kerr, and M. Keatinge, Integrating Players, Reputation and Ranking to Manage Cheating in MMOGs, FDG 2010: The 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, June 2010, Monterey, CA, USA.

• J. McGibney and D. Botvich, "A trust based system for enhanced spam filtering ", Journal of Software (JSW), vol. 3, no. 5, pp 55-64, May 2008. [This is an extended version of the paper presented at ARES in April 2007]

• 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 (IPOM), San Jose, CA, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4786, pp 95-106, Springer, November 2007. [shortlisted for best paper]

• 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, 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, 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, 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 and J. McGibney, "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.

Other Publications

• Latif Ladid, Jimmy McGibney, John Ronan, Micheál Ó Foghlú, "Security and privacy with IPv6", IEC Annual Review of Communications (Vol 58), Nov. 2005.

• Latif Ladid, Jimmy McGibney, John Ronan, "Security with IPv6", Upgrade – The European Journal for Informatics Professionals, Vol 6, Issue 2, pp 27-30, April 2005
   - Also Spanish and Italian language versions in: Novática, Issue 174, March-April 2005

Masters Thesis

• Modern global optimisation heuristics in the long term planning of telecommunications networks, Master of Engineering Thesis, Dublin City University, June 1995.

Invited Tutorials

• Intrusion detection systems and honeypots, Tutorial on 'Trust and Security in Pervasive Networking', TERENA Networking Conference, Poznan, June 2005

• Building trust with intrusion detection systems and honeypots, SEINIT Training Event, Paris, April 2005

• Intrusion detection and honeypots, Tutorial on Emerging Security Technologies, INET/IGC 2004, Barcelona, May 2004

Reviewing Activities

Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health), 2009

Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2008

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Fall 2007 & Spring 2007
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2007
Information Technology & Telecommunications (IT&T) Conference, 2003-2007
IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM), 2006
IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM), 2006
IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM), 2006
IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM), 2006
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2005
IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2005
International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS), 2004

Some Activities & Projects with which I've been involved

CoMiFin [EU ICT]

sTRUST [Enterprise Ireland]
OPAALS [EU IST]
SEINIT [EU IST]
SecurIST [EU IST]
Converge [Irish Govt TSR Strand III]
Wireless Multimedia Applications [Enterprise Ireland]
Bandwidth 2000 [EU TEN Telecom]
SUSIE [EU ACTS]
CANCAN [EU ACTS]
DESSERT [EU RACE II]
+ various industry projects

Some companies for whom I've worked directly

Airtel ATN
Nextel Communications (now part of Sprint)
Teltec DCU
Aldiscon (now part of LogicaCMG)
INFORM GmbH