Research in the Department of Computer Science
Dr Donna O’Shea
introduction
Donna O’Shea is Head of Department of Computer Science (acting) at Cork Institute of Technology, Funded Investigator at the SFI research centres CONNECT and ENABLE and group lead of Ríomh – Intelligent Secure Systems research group and member of Nimbus Research Centre.
Donna’s research expertise lies in the area of enterprise security (i.e. SDN and NFV security) and network and service management with a specific focus on the design, analysis and optimisation of wired and wireless communication systems, networks and services. During her PhD she made a significant contribution in the area of service provisioning for Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) networks. On completion of her PhD she spent five years working for IBM and this work exposed her to the rigorous design discipline that is a prerequisite for the successful development of large, complex systems across several sites, multiple design teams and various target platforms. The work in IBM also deepened her technical knowledge in the area of network and service management for mobile and Cloud based services.
Donna has been a central figure in establishing the IDA funded National Cybersecurity Cluster called Cyber Ireland the goal of which is to ensure that Ireland is well positioned both to service the already significant activities in the area of cybersecurity research and innovation and to build excellence and talent that will enable further growth in this expanding field.
Donna is director of IT@Cork a not-for-profit independent business organisation representing the interests of the IT industry in Cork, is chair of the Computing Department’s research studies committee and is a committee member of IEEE UK Ireland Women in Engineering and is an IEEE Senior Member.
peer reviewed journals
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2007 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “A Survey on Web Services in Telecommunications”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol 45, No. 7, July 2007. |
| 2006 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “A Service Provision Platform for 3G and Beyond Mobile Communications Systems – The Telecommunication Service Exchange,” IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 3, No. 2 Second Quarter 2006 |
Book Chapters
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “Agents, Auctions and eMarkets”, Multi Agent Systems, Robotics & Automation Open Access Platform, October 2008. |
| 2008 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “Context in Pervasive Systems”, Augmented Materials and Smart Objects, Building Ambient Intelligence through Microsystems Technology, ed. Kieran Delaney, Springer Publications, September 2008. |
conference publications
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016 | P. Corbalán, R. Marfievici, V. Cionca, D. O’Shea and D. Pesch, “Into the Smog: The Stepping Stone to Centralised WSN Control”, 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems, Brazil, Oct 2016 |
| 2016 | D. Smyth, V. Cionca, S. McSweeney and D. O'Shea, "Exploiting pitfalls in software-defined networking implementation," International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection Of Digital Services (Cyber Security), London, 2016, pp. 1-8. |
| 2016 | S. Callanan, D. O'Shea and E. O'Regan, "Automated Environment Migration to the Cloud," 27th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Londonderry, 2016, pp. 1-6. |
| 2016 | R. Katona, D. O'Shea, V. Cionca and D. Pesch, "Challenges in supporting diverse applications in a shared WSN: The Motley middleware," 27th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Londonderry, 2016, pp. 1-6. |
| 2016 | Pablo Corbalan, Victor Cionca, Ramona Marfievici, Donna O’Shea, Dirk Pesch, “Building a Stairway to Centralised WSN Control”, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2016), Austria, Feb 2016 |
| 2015 | D. O’Shea, V. Cionca, D. Pesch, “The Presidium of Wireless Sensor Networks – A Software Defined Wireless Sensor Network Architecture”, in Proc. 7th EAI International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Santander, Spain, Sept 2015 |
| 2014 | S. Subramanian, D. O'Shea, "ChargeFlow – Workflow based chargeback", IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, London, Dec 7-11 2014 |
| 2014 | S. Subramanian, D. O'Shea, "ChargeFlow - A workflow based solution to chargeback processing", Proc IT&T Conference, Dublin, May, 2014 |
| 2009 | G. O'Connor, S. Weber, A. Guinard, D. Griffin, D. Pesch, "Embedded Automated Mobile Tracking & Security System", Proc. IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2009, Spain, April 2009 |
| 2007 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “A Service Oriented Marketplace Approach for Next Generation Networks”, Proc. IEEE Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Hawaii, May 2007 |
| 2007 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “Market Based Service Orchestration for Next Generation Networks”, Proc. IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2007, Dublin, April 2007 |
| 2006 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “Research Abstract for the Agent Grid Service Marketplace”, Proc. Doctorial Symposium IT&T Conference, Carlow, October 2006. |
| 2006 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “The Agent Grid Service Marketplace, A Framework for a Dynamic Service Provisioning Platform for B3G,” Proc. IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS), in cooperation with Pervasive 2006, Cork, May 2006. |
| 2005 | Donna Griffin, Dirk Pesch, “Telecommunication Services Exchange Architecture for 3G and Beyond Mobile Communication Systems,” Proc. IEEE ISWCS, International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Siena, Italy, September, 2005. |
| 2004 | Donna Griffin, Fergus O Reilly, “A Multimedia Delivery Systems for UMTS,” Proc. IEE Wireless 2004, Calgary, Canada, July 2004. (Winner of Best Student Paper Award) |
| 2004 | Donna Griffin, Fergus O Reilly, “Integrating SIP, Presence and FTP to provide Wireless Multimedia Messaging,” Proc IEEE WCNC Wireless Communications & Networking Conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 2004. |
| 2004 | Donna Griffin, Fergus O Reilly, “A Multimedia Delivery Service for UMTS,” Proc. IEE ISSC 2004, Irish Signals and Signaling Conference, Belfast, July 2004. |
Posters
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016 | P. Corbalán, V. Cionca, R. Marfievici, D. O’Shea and D. Pesch, “Building a Stairway to Centralised WSN Control. Network”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Graz, Austria, February, 2016. (Winner: Best Student Poster Award) |
Professional Associations
| Organisation | Role |
|---|---|
| Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) | Senior Member |
Committees
| Committee | Role |
|---|---|
| IEEE UK Ireland Women in Engineering | Member |
other
Invited Presentations:
- EMC Architecture Forum UK – Virtualization Techniques in Cloud Computing, June 2015.
- IBM Innovation Committee presentation - Agile Software Development for the Cloud, June 2014.
