Wireless Networks (WiNe) Research Group

Announcements

• More success coming... - 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

• ICETC2024 Keynote - Quantum Internet
• Machine Learning for Network Anomaly Detection
• 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

• 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, accepted by the 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, to be presented at the 39th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2025), April 9 to April 11, 2025, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

• Duncan E Cameron, Murugaraj Odiathevar, Alvin C Valera and Winston KG Seah, ElasticWISP-NG: Proactive Energy Management for Scalable WISP Access Networks, accepted by the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 28 November 2024.

• Brandon Ru, Winston KG Seah and Alvin C Valera, "Synchronization Control-Plane Protocol for Quantum Link Layer," 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), October 28-31, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic. [Acceptance rate - 17.35%] Note: Papers will be published as Open Access on the conference website.

International Collaboration Success

• Qi Sun, Winston KG Seah and Gang Xu, EQ-STAR: Energy-Efficient high-Quality Routing based on Spatio-Temporal Attention and Reinforcement Learning, accepted by 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," accepted by the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), June 30 to July 5, 2025, Rome, Italy.

• 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.]

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: