Warren Harrop

Tel (desk): +61 3 9214 4558
Tel (802.11b VoIP phone): sip:410@sip.room52.net
Email: wharrop@swin.edu.au

Position: Sessional teacher

PhD topic: Monitoring and control of data networks using unique 3D metaphors (PhD candidature supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award - APA)

Qualifications:

Completed Bachelor of Applied Science (Multimedia Technologies) / Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications and Internet Technologies) in 2003

Industry Experience:

3 month internship with Cisco Systems USA, July - September 2007

Publications: List available here.

Grants/Funding: List available here.

Research Interests:

• Network security, including research into the development and deployment of Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS)

• Investigations into the monitoring and control of IP networks through the application of immersive virtual environment metaphors

Research Community Activities:

• Program committee member for VizSec 2011

• Program committee member for VizSec 2010

• Program committee member for VizSec 2009

• Local arrangements for Netgames 2007

Research Projects:

Current

• Leveraging 3D Game Engines (L3DGE): Novel techniques for anomalous traffic detection and collaborative network control.

• Greynets: Passive Detection of Unsolicited Network Scans in Small ISP and Enterprise networks.

• Game ENvironment Internet Utilisation Study (GENIUS).

• Re-Engineering For Internet Telephony (REFIT).

Presentations:

• W. Harrop, "Network Monitoring and Control Using the Open Source 'L3DGE' System," 2nd Australian Network Operators Group conference (AusNOG 02), Sydney, August 2008

• W. Harrop, "Real-Time Collaborative Network Monitoring and Control Using a 3D Game Engine for Representation and Interaction," 1st Australian Network Operators Group conference (AusNOG 01), Sydney, November 2007

Affiliations:

• Member ISOC-AU

• Member Victorian Telecommunications Museum.

Teaching:

• HET436 Broadband Multimedia Networks (Lab demonstrator 2004-2012, tutor 2009-2012).

• HET306/HIT8163 Unix for Telecommunications (Lab demonstrator 2006-2009, 2011-2012).

• HET412/HET758 Networking and Online Games (Tutor, Lab demonstrator 2009-2011).

• HET317/HIT7717 Network Security and Resilience (Lab demonstrator 2011).

• HIT7720 Secure Networks (Lecture, Lab demonstrator 2012).

Off the beaten path:

• Personal research and implementation interests include: Home networking, VoIP and IPv6 deployment

• Presentations relating to our "home network"

• Warren Harrop and Lawrence Stewart, Infinity + 1: The scope of the home network, 28th March 2007

• Warren Harrop (and Lawrence Stewart), Create the greatest home network of all time, in 3 easy steps (and 472 difficult ones), 22nd March 2006

• Warren Harrop and Lawrence Stewart, You da M.A.N. Voice, over IP, over Stuff, 23rd March 2005