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Global Communications, 1561 to 2016 (2022)
Book Chapter
Linge, N. Global Communications, 1561 to 2016. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (425-444). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.44

This chapter explores how the UK has always been at the forefront of global communications. It starts with packet ships that were used to carry handwritten messages across the oceans of the world and established Falmouth in Cornwall as an internation... Read More about Global Communications, 1561 to 2016.

Personal data sovereignty : a sustainable interface layer for a human centered data ecosystem (2020)
Thesis
Lockwood, M. Personal data sovereignty : a sustainable interface layer for a human centered data ecosystem. (Thesis). University of Salford

The reality of ubiquitous computing and exponential personal data generation challenges the notion of privacy, as Surveillance Capitalism and Nation State endeavour to record and analyse personal data with the objective of leveraging influence and co... Read More about Personal data sovereignty : a sustainable interface layer for a human centered data ecosystem.

In celebration of the K8 telephone kiosk – Britain’s last red, cast-iron phonebox (2020)
Journal Article
Linge, N., Sutton, A., Hurley, A., & Johannessen, N. (2020). In celebration of the K8 telephone kiosk – Britain’s last red, cast-iron phonebox. Industrial Archaeology Review, 42(2), 141-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2020.1812026

Whilst every country in the world has introduced phoneboxes onto its streets, the UK stands alone in having adopted the red phonebox as a symbol of its national identity. However, that symbol is of phonebox designs produced by Giles Gilbert Scott... Read More about In celebration of the K8 telephone kiosk – Britain’s last red, cast-iron phonebox.

Low-complexity non-intrusive load monitoring using unsupervised learning and generalized appliance models (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Kamoto, K., Liu, X., Sun, M., & Linge, N. (2019). Low-complexity non-intrusive load monitoring using unsupervised learning and generalized appliance models. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 65(1), 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2019.2891160

Awareness of electric energy usage has both societal and economic benefits, which include reduced energy bills and stress on non-renewable energy sources. In recent years, there has been a surge in interest in the field of load monitoring, also refer... Read More about Low-complexity non-intrusive load monitoring using unsupervised learning and generalized appliance models.

The impact of atmospheric pressure on the performance of 60GHz point to point links within 5G networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Linge, N., Odum, R., Hill, S., von Hünerbein, S., Linnebank, P., Sutton, A., & Townend, D. (2018, November). The impact of atmospheric pressure on the performance of 60GHz point to point links within 5G networks. Presented at Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference 2018 (LAPC2018), Loughborough, UK

There is growing interest in the use of millimetre-wave spectrum as a potential candidate for the provision of high capacity, short range, back-haul solutions within future 5G ultra-dense network infrastructures. However, it is recognised that these... Read More about The impact of atmospheric pressure on the performance of 60GHz point to point links within 5G networks.

Atmospheric impact on the performance of a 60GHz point-to-point link for 5G infrastructures (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Linge, N., Odum, R., Hill, S., von Hünerbein, S., Linnebank, P., Sutton, A., & Townend, D. (2018, April). Atmospheric impact on the performance of a 60GHz point-to-point link for 5G infrastructures. Poster presented at 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018), London, UK

There is growing interest in the use of millimeter-wave spectrum as a potential candidate for the provision of high capacity, short range, back-haul solutions within future 5G ultra-dense network infrastructures. However, it is recognized that these... Read More about Atmospheric impact on the performance of a 60GHz point-to-point link for 5G infrastructures.

An architecture for evolving the electronic programme guide for online viewing (2017)
Thesis
Al Mohammed, E. An architecture for evolving the electronic programme guide for online viewing. (Thesis). University of Salford

Watching television and video content is changing towards online viewing due to the proliferation of content providers and the prevalence of high speed broadband. This trend is coupled to an acceleration in the move to watching content using non-trad... Read More about An architecture for evolving the electronic programme guide for online viewing.

A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment. Security and Communication Networks, 9(17), 4002-4012. https://doi.org/10.1002/sec.1582

A heterogeneous cloud system, for example, a Hadoop 2.6.0 platform, provides distributed but cohesive services with rich features on large‐scale management, reliability, and error tolerance. As big data processing is concerned, newly built cloud clus... Read More about A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment.

The heritage of 30 years of mobile communications in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Linge, N., & Sutton, A. (2016). The heritage of 30 years of mobile communications in the UK. Industrial Archaeology Review, 38(1), 2-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2016.1156462

The first mobile phone networks were launched in the UK in 1985. In the 30 years that have elapsed since then, the mobile phone has evolved from an expensive device owned by the few to a mass-market smartphone that is now regarded as an essential par... Read More about The heritage of 30 years of mobile communications in the UK.

The cable that wired the world (2016)
Journal Article
Linge, N., & Burns, B. (2016). The cable that wired the world. ˜The œjournal (Institute of Telecommunications Professionals), 10(2), 41-45

A load-balancing approach based on modified K-ELM and NSGA-II in a heterogeneous cloud environment (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Jin, D., & Linge, N. (2016, January). A load-balancing approach based on modified K-ELM and NSGA-II in a heterogeneous cloud environment. Presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA

MapReduce is a popular programming model widely used in distributed systems. With regard to large-scale applications, e.g. home energy management in a city, online social community etc., load-balancing becomes critical affecting the performance of di... Read More about A load-balancing approach based on modified K-ELM and NSGA-II in a heterogeneous cloud environment.

A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using extreme learning approaches (2016)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Jin, D., Shen, J., Fu, Z., & Linge, N. (2016). A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using extreme learning approaches. In 2016 18th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) (730-735). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACT.2016.7423609

Monitoring and controlling microclimate in a greenhouse becomes one of the research hotspots in the field of agrometeorology, where the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) recently attracts more attentions due to its features of self-adapti... Read More about A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using extreme learning approaches.

GLRM: An improved grid-based load-balanced routing method for WSN with single controlled mobile sink (2016)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Zhang, K., Shen, J., Fu, Z., & Linge, N. (2016). GLRM: An improved grid-based load-balanced routing method for WSN with single controlled mobile sink. In 2016 18th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) (34-38). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACT.2016.7423264

Different from the previous duster-based structure, in this paper, we present a grid-based load-balanced routing method (GLRM) that aims to use a controlled sink to achieve load-balance in a non-uniform distributed network. Cell-header election of ea... Read More about GLRM: An improved grid-based load-balanced routing method for WSN with single controlled mobile sink.

A novel neural computing model for fast predicting network traffic (2015)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Fu, Z., & Linge, N. (2015). A novel neural computing model for fast predicting network traffic. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 12(12), 6056-6062. https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2015.5076

Currently existing web traffic prediction models have the shortages of low accuracy, low stability and slow training speed. Aiming at such problems, this paper proposes a new model to predict the network traffic called MRERPM (MapReduce-based ELM Reg... Read More about A novel neural computing model for fast predicting network traffic.

30 years of mobile phones in the UK (2015)
Book
Linge, N., & Sutton, A. (2015). 30 years of mobile phones in the UK. Amberley Publishing

In 1985, the seeds of a revolution were sown in the UK when people were first able to communicate using one of the most remarkable items of personal technology to have been developed – the mobile phone. The authors, both acknowledged experts in this... Read More about 30 years of mobile phones in the UK.

EECD : a code dissemination protocol in a WSN-based Home Energy Management System (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, Q., Shen, J., Xiao, B., Wang, B., & Linge, N. (2015, January). EECD : a code dissemination protocol in a WSN-based Home Energy Management System. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV USA

A WSN enabled Home Energy Management System (HEMS) can achieve user behaviour change by providing real-time feedback of domestic energy consumption. However, features in collecting nodes within HEMS Systems need to change to allow new working pattern... Read More about EECD : a code dissemination protocol in a WSN-based Home Energy Management System.

A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., Shen, J., Xiao, B., & Linge, N. (2015). A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach. In 2015 17th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) (133-137). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACT.2015.7224772

Monitoring and controlling microclimate in a greenhouse becomes one of the research hotspots in the field of agrometeorology, where the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) recently attracts more attentions due to its features of self-adapti... Read More about A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach.

An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Fu, Z., Shen, J., & Linge, N. (2015). An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment. In 2015 9th International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) (9-12). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FGCN.2015.9

MapReduce is a popular programming model for the purposes of processing large data sets. Speculative execution known as an approach for dealing with the above problems works by backing up those tasks running on a low performance machine to a higher o... Read More about An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment.

Discreet verification of user identity in pervasive computing environments using a non-intrusive technique (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Karkhi, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Linge, N. (2014). Discreet verification of user identity in pervasive computing environments using a non-intrusive technique. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 41, 102-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2014.10.006

This paper presents a new approach for verifying user identity in pervasive environments using a non-intrusive behaviour tracking technique that offers minimum interruption to the user’s activities. The technique, termed Non-intrusive Identity Assert... Read More about Discreet verification of user identity in pervasive computing environments using a non-intrusive technique.