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John Ronan MSc.

Senior Researcher

Telecommunications Software & Systems Group,
Waterford Institute of Technology,
Cork Road,
Waterford,
Ireland.

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I'm a researcher in the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road, Waterford, Ireland. When not experimenting with radio, I spend my time researching in the general areas of networks and security.

Research Interests

• Exposing the Features in IP version Six protocols that can be exploited/extended for the purposes of designing/building Autonomic Networks and Services (EU FP7 project EFIPSANS)
• A Geographically Aware Information Support System. (EI-PoC)
• Enabling Efficient and Operational Mobility in Large Heterogeneous IP Networks (EU-FP6 project Enable)
Security Expert Initiative (EU-FP6 project SEINIT)
• Technology for a Realistic End User Access Network Test-bed (EU-FP5 project TORRENT)
• Bandwidth 2000
• SUSIE

Previous Courses

• Internal & External Supervisor of MSc. students. (2005/6)
• Supervision of final year BSc in Applied Computing Degree Projects (2000/1/2)
• Supervision of final year Commercial Software Development Degree Projects (2000/1/2)
• Lecturing Years 1 and 2 of National Certificate in Computer Applications, Networks & Communications (2001/2, 2003/4)
• Network/systems administration of the CIM Laboratory Servers/clients in TSSG.

Publications

• John Ronan, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Adnan K Kiani, Wenbing Yao, On the use of SHIM6 for mobility support in IMS networks, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and research infrastructures for the development of network & communities, Innsbruck, Austria, 2008. (BibTeX)
• Matthew Ford, Jonathan Stevens, John Ronan, Initial Results from an IPv6 Darknet, icisp , p. 13, 2006. More
• Latif Ladid, Jimmy McGibney, John Ronan, Micheal O'Foghlu; Security and Privacy with IPv6 , Annual Review of Communications, Vol 58, no. 22, pp. 85-90, 2005.
• J. McGibney, M. Ponce de Leon, J. Ronan; SEINIT Security for Heterogeneous Mobile Network Services , eChallenges 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2005.
• J. McGibney, M. Ponce de Leon, J. Ronan; Securing Mobile Services, in 1st Euro Conference on Mobile Government (Euro mGov 2005), I.Kushchu & M. Halid Kuscu, eds.. Sussex University, Brighton UK, 10th-12th July 2005 July 2005.
• L. Ladid, J. McGibney, J. Ronan; Security with IPv6, Upgrade - The European Journal for Informatics Professionals, vol 6, no. 22, pp. 27-30, April 2005. PDF.
• J. Rossebø, J. Ronan, S.Davy; An analysis of IPsec deployment performance in high and low power devices., 17th Nordic Teletraffic Seminar, Norway, August 2004.
• J. Ronan, S.Davy, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlu; Performance Implications of IPsec Deployment, IPS2004 Interdomain Performance and Simulation (Intermon Workshop), Budapest Hungary, March 2004. More.
• Judith Rossebø, John Ronan, Kristian Walsh; Authentication Issues in Multi-Service Residential Access Networks Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2839, Sep 2003, Pages 381 - 395. More. BibTeX
• J. Ronan, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlu; Overhead Issues for Local Access Points in IPsec enabled VPNs, IPS2003 Interdomain Performance and Simulation (Intermon Workshop), Salzburg Austria, February 2003. More.
• Scharf, E.; Hamer, P.; Smparounis, K.; Payer, W.; Ronan, J.; Crotty, M.: Customer choice in a multi-service residential access network environment. Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Multimedia and Telecommunications (MTT2002), Dortmund, 2002. BibTeX
• Scharf, E.; Hamer, P.; Smparounis, K.; Payer, W.; Ronan, J.; Crotty, M.: An intelligent integrated approach to multi-service residential access networks. Proceedings of the 41st FITCE European Telecommunications Congress, Genoa, 2002.

• Leigh Griffin and John Ronan; Xen Installation and Configuration, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, February 2007, Volume 32, Number 1.PDF (Needs Login)
• J. Ronan; Tipperary Radio Group on the Galtees again, Journal of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, May/August 2006.
• J. Ronan; A closer look at APRS, Journal of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, Sept/Oct 2005.
• J. Ronan; An introduction to APRS, Journal of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, May/June 2005. More
• J. Ronan; Tipperary Amateur Radio Group, Experiments in the Galtees, Journal of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, March/April 2005. PDF

Reports/Talks

• J. Ronan; An examination on an evolving architecture to facilitate an IPv4/IPv6 Test-bed. IT&T 2002, Waterford.
• J. Ronan; IP Telephony, Second International Distributor Forum 2000, October 2000, Dublin.
• J. Ronan; Internet (In)Security, W.I.T Computer Society, IT Week, November 2000, Waterford.