Alyaa Al Barrak, a PhD student at the University of Northampton, is working on linking wireless networking using Galois Field Theory. An overview of the work is shown below.Abstract
Network Security (NS) is a concept
to protect data
transmission over network. Security is a
method to making sure that unauthorized people cannot influence the data. Coding
is a method to ensuring that data remain readable even in the existence of
errors. Network coding points out to each node taking its received packets,
computing a linear combination over a finite field, and forwarding the result
to another node till reach the final destination.
Data integrity is a major concept in
any coding system. For example, if a packet is traveled over a network which is
prone to noise, interference and channel fading then it could be altered by a
network coding method and determining the optimum coding coefficients is a
challenge.
Complexity and the overhead are two
significant keys in the NC which are used to measure the efficiency of the
coding algorithms in terms of errors correction rate and computational power.
The aim of this research is to evaluate
and design an algorithm for wireless communication networking using Galois
Field Theory taking into account data integrity. This algorithm will be able to
detect the damaged data and decrease the bit errors rate.
Supervisory team
Dr Ali Al-Sherbaz
Prof. Kamal Bechkoum
Dr Robin Crockett.
