Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Information Technology

Dr Robin Doss

   Phone   +61 3 925 17305
Email   robin.doss@deakin.edu.au
Position   Associate Head of School (Development and International)
Campus   Burwood
Research grouping   Network Security and Computing
Securing Cyberspace

Robin received his PhD (2004) & MEng (2000) from RMIT and is currently the Associate Head of School
(Development and International). His research is focused on communication protocols, network
security and data management in autonomous networks. Since 2008, his research has been funded by
an NSST grant and an ARC Linkage grant. In 2006, he was a visiting scientist with IBM Research Labs,
Switzerland. In 2010, Robin received a 'Commendation for Excellence in Teaching' from Deakin
University.

Research interests

  1. Communication Protocols in Wireless Networks (MANETs, WSNs, OPPNets, RFID)
  2. Network Security and Cryptography (lightweight techniques)
  3. Data Dissemination, Storage and Information Retrieval in WSNs


Career

2012 Associate Head of School (Development and International)
2011 Senior Lecturer & Course Director (Bachelor of Network Engineering & Master of Networking and Security)
2006 Visiting Scientist, IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
2005 Lecturer & Course Director (IT Postgraduate), Deakin University
2003 Associate Lecturer, Deakin University

Key publications

R. Doss, W. Zhou and S. Yu, (2013) Secure RFID Tag Ownership Transfer based on Quadratic Residues, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol 8, No 2, pp. 390 - 401, IEEE (Impact Factor: 1.340)

R. Doss, S. Sundaresan and W. Zhou, (2013) A Practical Quadratic Residues based Scheme for Authentication and Privacy in Mobile RFID Systems, Ad Hoc Networks, Vol 11, pp. 383 - 396, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Impact Factor: 2.110)

R. Doss, W. Zhou, S. Saravanan, S. Yu and L. Gao, (2012) A Minimim Disclosure Based Approach to Authentication and Privacy in RFID Systems, Computer Networks, Vol 56, pp. 3401 - 3416, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Impact Factor: 1.200)

S. Yu, W. Zhou, R. Doss and W. Jia, (2011) Traceback of DDoS Attacks Using Entropy Variations, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol 11, No 3, pp. 412 - 425, IEEE (Impact Factor: 1.402)

R. Doss, G. Li, V. Mak, M. Tissera, (2010) Information Discovery in Mission Critical Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networks, Vol 54, No 14, pp. 2383-2399, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Impact Factor: 1.200)

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Professional activities

Reviewer, Australian Research Council (ARC), IEEE Wireless Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Communications Letters
Reviewer, The Computer Journal, Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, Business Process Management Journal, Computer and Security Journal
TPC member, ANIA 2012, ATIS2012, ObCom2012
General Chair, International Symposium on RFID Technology (RFID2007, 2009), Melbourne, Australia.
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Related links

Personal Webpage
www.deakin.edu.au/~rchell

Twitter feed (@robdoss78)
twitter.com/robdoss78

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Bai LiNetwork Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks Menik TisseraInformation Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks Theerasak TapagnamDDoS Traceback in the Internet Majeed AljeelySecurity in Opportunistic Networks Saravanan SundaresanRFID Security  

 

Masters students

Student nameThesis title Asmaa AhmedRouting in Opportunistic Networks  

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Hou In TseAuthentication Protocols for RFID Systems Tommy Tanzil (summer intern)Anti-Collision Techniques in RFID Systems Harindra D'AlwisAddressless Routing in the Internet Praveen HewageLocation-aware addressing in WSNs  

 

Teaching areas

SIT737 Service Oriented Architectures and Technologies (Chair)
SIT794 Services Management (Chair)
SIT202 Computer Networks



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8th February 2013