Wireless Networks (WiNe) Research Group

Announcements

• 16 August 2025 - Duncan's paper on "PURPLE CAKE: Dynamic Control of CAKE" has been accepted by the 23rd International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), Oct 21-24, 2025, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.
• 1 July 2025 - Ran's paper on "DHERC: Dynamic Hybrid ECN-RTT Congestion Control for RDMA Network" has been accepted by the 50th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 14-16, 2025, Sydney, Australia.
• 24 June 2025 - Terry has been awarded a Master of Engineering with Distinction. Well done and congratulations, Terry !!!
• Terry's paper "An Auction-Based Caching Decision Algorithm for IoT Traffic with Popular and Fresh Content" has been accepted by the 29th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2025) among 21 full papers accepted out of 70 submissions!
• First success of 2025 - Duncan's paper "ElasticRoute: Dynamic Flow Routing for Wireless Access Networks" has been accepted by AINA 2025.
• "David" among the "Goliaths" -- Brandon Ru presenting his ENGR489 research at the 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management in Prague, Czech Republic on 29 October 2024.

• Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) - winner of the ISIF Asia Award for Outstanding Research in Digital Development. The award was for research in "Realtime detection and visualization of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomalies using machine learning" and was accepted by Professor Winston Seah (far right) at the APNIC 58 conference in Wellington on 4 September 2024.

• ISIF Asia Grant 2023, Realtime detection and visualization of BGP anomalies using machine learning. USD$85,000. VUW (Lead): Professor Winston Seah, Dr Alvin Valera and Dr Jyoti Sahni; IMU (China): Associate Professor Wuyungerile Li; PSU (Thailand): Associate Professor Sinchai Kamolphiwong and Dr Chidchanok Choksuchat.

Presentations by group members

• CISIS2025 Keynote - Machine Learning in Network Anomaly Detection.pdf
• ICETC2024 Keynote - Quantum Internet
• Blockchains after Bitcoin

Professor Winston Seah has been awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship in Engineering Sciences and Technology for research titled ‘Quantum Networking Algorithms and Protocols’

2024 Graduation Ceremony -- Congratulations Atefeh on her "Choice With No Regret"

2021 Graduation Ceremony -- Congratulations Muru

Emerging Innovator Muru at the KiwiNet Investment Committee August 2021 - Emerging innovator presentation, held in the Parliament.

Our Emerging Innovators - Muru (centre) and Duncan (right) with Paul (Wellington UniVentures Commercialisation Manager)

Recent Achievements

• Duncan E Cameron, Alvin C Valera and Winston KG Seah, PURPLE CAKE: Dynamic Control of CAKE, accepted by the 23rd International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), Oct 21-24, 2025, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan.

• Ran Huang, Jyoti Sahni and Winston KG Seah, DHERC: Dynamic Hybrid ECN-RTT Congestion Control for RDMA Network, accepted by the 50th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 14-16, 2025, Sydney, Australia.

• Ye Zhang, Baiyun Xiao, Jyoti Sahni, Alvin C Valera, Wuyungerile Li and Winston KG Seah, Admission Control with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Mobile Edge Computing, accepted by the IEEE 102nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Fall), October 19-22, 2025, Chengdu, China.

• Xiaohan Hu, Jyoti Sahni, Colin R. Simpson, Normalia Samian and Winston KG Seah, Efficient patient-centric EMR sharing block tree, accepted as workshop paper by the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2025), July 16-20, 2025, Hangzhou, China.

• Hao Xu, Alvin C Valera, Wuyungerile Li and Winston KG Seah, An Auction-Based Caching Decision Algorithm for IoT Traffic with Popular and Fresh Content, 29th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2025), July 2-4, 2025, Hangzhou, China.

• Duncan E Cameron, Murugaraj Odiathevar, Alvin C Valera and Winston KG Seah, ElasticRoute: Dynamic Flow Routing for Wireless Access Networks, 39th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2025), April 9 to April 11, 2025, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

International Collaboration Success

Journals

• Jia Hao, Lei Wang, Murugaraj Odiathevar, Winston KG Seah, Gang Xu, Baoqi Huang and Yongqiang Gao, Prune-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing, accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 30 September 2025.

• Feng Zhang, Chenhao Luo, Winston KG Seah, Gang Xu and Zhao Kailiang, Temporal Graph Attention and Contrastive Learning Model for Link Prediction in Dynamic Networks (Free download until Oct 10, 2025), Computer Networks, Volume 271, October 2025, 111596.

• Guanghui Wei, Feng Zhang, Gang Xu, Winston KG Seah, Zixuan Yuan, Yongqiang Shi, "Social relationships and location information based routing algorithm in opportunistic networks," Internet of Things, Volume 29, 2025. [Open Access until 20 January 2025.]

Conferences / Symposiums / Workshops

• Nisuna Bao, Wanying Zhang, Wuyungerile Li and Winston KG Seah, A Network Coding Based Energy-efficient Opportunistic Routing Protocol in Low-Power and Lossy Networks, accepted by the 25th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Oct 30 - Nov 02, 2025, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

• Ran Huang, Tao Zhang, Hui Yu, Ao Zhang, Siyuan Fan, Jyoti Sahni and Winston KG Seah, SMAR: Short-Flow Multi-Path Adaptive Routing for Heterogeneous RDMA Workloads, accepted by the ICA3PP Workshop on AI for Networks and Networking for AI (ICA3PP-ANNA), Oct 30 - Nov 02, 2025, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

• Qi Sun, Winston KG Seah and Gang Xu, EQ-STAR: Energy-Efficient high-Quality Routing based on Spatio-Temporal Attention and Reinforcement Learning, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), July 2–4, 2025, Gold Coast, Australia.

• Mengfan Yuan, Bing Jia, Baoqi Huang and Winston KG Seah, "WTBFlaw-YOLO: YOLO Network for Surface Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades," Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), June 30 to July 5, 2025, Rome, Italy.

Best Paper Award

PhD student, Hang Yu's paper on "Pulse Arrival Scheduling for Nanonetworks Under Limited IoT Access Bandwidth" has won the Best Paper Award in the 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) held in Singapore 9-12 Oct 2017. We have four papers, including the Best Paper, in this conference which is ranked A by CORE/ERA since 2008. A recording of the presentation can be found here.

Scholarships

VUW PhD scholarships

Three times a year, Victoria University of Wellington accepts applications for admission into our PhD programme with Wellington Doctoral Scholarships as well as other externally funded scholarships. The application process is managed by our Faculty of Graduate Research and details are available from their website. Applicants who are interested to do research in 5G/6G networks, quantum internet, quantum networking, IoT, wireless networks and future internet technologies, are strongly encouraged to contact Prof Winston Seah or any of our Research Team staff members.

WiNe Research Areas

WiNe focuses on networking technology that enables the plethora of diverse devices in the Internet to communicate effectively and reliably over wireless communication, including both the wireless access as well as relevant core network technologies to achieve these goals. We study advanced networking protocols and architectures for the fast evolving Internet and 5G/6G mobile telecommunication systems.

• Wireless Networking Algorithms and Protocols: The research addresses challenging issues with environmentally friendly energy efficient algorithms and protocols for different forms of wireless networks operating in day-to-day as well as extreme conditions. We are the first to propose packet attribute aware routing to fully utilize scarce network resources, viz. routing over best links is not necessarily better for wireless networks. Of particular interest are the MAC, RLC and random access protocols for 5G/6G networks to support the massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and the use of network function virtualization (NFV) for resource management and optimization.
• End-to-end Wired/Wireless Network Inter-connectivity: The focus of our research is on algorithms/protocols/techniques for interconnecting wireless access networks to and across the wired backbone. This research will consider the relevant core network technologies needed to provide end-to-end connectivity, focusing on latest technology trends, like Software Defined Networking (SDN), NFV, Mobile Edge Computing, Distributed Mobility Management, as well as the core network aspect of 5G/6G networks which has evolved towards an IP-centric network.
• Wireless Network Anomaly Detection: The focus of our current research is on novel ways of detecting anomalous behaviour in wireless networks, that goes beyond security. We explore new ways of identifying and detecting anomalous network traffic that may be the precursors to attacks and other malicious activities, utilizing machine learning and deep learning. A key research focus is on establishing trust in the IoT and building a secure trust framework.

Externally Funded Research Projects

Current Ongoing

• ISIF Asia Grant 2023, Realtime detection and visualization of BGP anomalies using machine learning. February 1, 2024 - July 31, 2025. VUW (Lead): Professor Winston Seah, Dr Alvin Valera and Dr Jyoti Sahni; IMU (China): Associate Professor Wuyungerile Li; PSU (Thailand): Associate Professor Sinchai Kamolphiwong and Dr Chidchanok Choksuchat. USD$85,000.

Completed

• SfTI BioSecurity Technology, "Finding the last predators," CALLAGHAN INNOVATION, October 1, 2021 - June 30, 2024, Co-PI Winston Seah, with team members, Alvin Valera, Jyoti Sahni and Yau Hee Kho, NZ$395,306.56.

• SfTI Seed Project, "Enabling Seamless communication in UAV swarms," CALLAGHAN INNOVATION, March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2024, PI Jyoti Sahni, NZ$ $199,532.74.

• Conference Attendance Funding, Internet NZ, $5,000 each.
  • Duncan Cameron - APNIC 56, September 7-14, 2023, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Winston Seah - IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 4-8, 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Establishing Trust in Internet of Things using Physically Unclonable Functions and Blockchains, Royal Society of New Zealand, July 2018 Catalyst Seeding: General, Ref. No. 18-VUW-043-CSG, February 1, 2019 – January 31, 2021, NZ$79,750. Collaborating partners are National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia).

• Software-Defined Green Internet of Things, Huawei NZ, July 1, 2016 - 30 June, 2019, NZ$330,000.

• Scalable Traffic Classification in Internet of Things (IoT) for Network Anomaly Detection, ISIF Asia, Internet Operations Research Grants, January 1 - December 31, 2018, US$34,000.

Research Team

Find out more about our Research Team and how to work with them:

Research Publications

Members of the group have produced a number of publications over the years: