Staff profiles

Intelligent Simulation, Modelling and Networking Group.

Research students:

• Ismail Kucukdurgut
• Yueyue Li
• Emad Gammati.

Areas of research include the traffic simulation and modelling; mobile ad-hoc networks; ad-hoc network architecture; and mobile networking.

• Traffic simulation and modelling: The application of mathematical models for traffic simulation and modelling. Uncertainties for producing accurate real-time predictions of the traffic flow.
• Mobile ad-hoc networks: MANET mobile ad-hoc networks applied to the urban and motorway traffic. Design and implantation of urban traffic information systems based on ad-hoc wireless networking.
• Ad-hoc network architecture: Introducing new ad-hoc network architectures for intelligent mobile nodes and investigating their characteristics. Identifying the range of traffic information that can be collaboratively extracted and generated by the pier-to-pier communication.
• Mobile networking: Assessing the feasibility of using new Mobile TCP/IP (MTCP/IP) stack for delivering web-services in mobile ad-hoc network based environment. Designing new feature based location dependent services on the move.

Current and recent research is being conducted with the collaboration, funding and/or support of:

• Telecom Paris
• Nottingham City Council
• European Funding
• East Midland Development Agency (EMDA).

University collaborations include:

• Konan (Japan)
• Naval Academy (France)
• Barcelona Polytechnic (Spain)
• Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
• Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria).

Research funding in the period since 2001 includes:

• EMDA SIS, E Peytchev, BusCam (2006 to 2007), £10,000.
• EMDA SIS, E Peytchev, BusInternet (2006 to 2007), £10,000.
• EMDA SIS, E Peytchev, Hospital Route Finding (2006 to 2007), £20,000.
• Traffimatics, E Peytchev, DTI Technology Programme (2003 to 2005), £140,000.
• Pathfinder, E Peytchev, Nottingham City Council (2002 to 2003), £40,000.
• Integration of heterogeneous traffic and travel information through a combined internet and mobile communications, A Bargiela, E Peytchev and J Hartley, EPSRC GR/32468/01 (2001 to 2002), £63,429.

• Track Co-Chair of European Simulation Society (ESS).
• Program Committee Member of Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W²GIS).
• Program Committee Member of European Simulation Society.
• Program Committee Member of NGMAST (2007).
• Program Committee Member of Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems (ASIIS) (2006).
• Invited Lecturer for Third International Conference "Computer Science" (Istanbul, Turkey, 2006).
• Invited Lecturer for CompSysTech International conference (Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 2005).
• Invited Lecturer for IEEE 5th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (Brest, France, 2005).

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD or MSc by research exist in all the areas identified above.

Further information may be obtained from the University Graduate School.

Dr Peytchev is available for consultancy and/or undertaking small highly challenging projects to successful end as deployment or proof of concept outcomes. Prospective areas include:

• mesh networks
• ad-hoc wireless networks
• traffic information systems
• mobile phones programming
• J2ME programming
• C++ programming
• enterprise computing
• mobile networking
• wireless networking
• multi-hop wireless environment
• sensor networks
• ubiquitous computing
• BlueTooth and Wifi wireless devices.