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Personal Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- g.fairhurst@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272201
- Office Address
Room 376, (top floor, East Wing), School of Engineering, Fraser Noble Building, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, United Kingdom
- School/Department
- School of Engineering
Biography
Gorry Fairhurst is an Internet Engineer and a Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering. He contributes to the School’s General Engineering programme of research-led teaching, and is the Academic Line Manager (ALM) where he coordinates the research across EEE staff.
He received his first degree in Applied Physics and Electronics from the University of Durham, UK, and a PhD in Communications Engineering from the University of Aberdeen, UK. He joined the University of Aberdeen academic staff after working with Prof. Tim Spracklen as a post-doctoral fellow with research in networking via satellite, funded by the UK Satellite Communications Centre, Defford, UK.
He has published more than 200 papers on topics in broadband and broadcast satellite, TV/video transmission, IPv6, IP multicast, X.25, together with work on Internet measurement, protocol architecture and Internet transport.
He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he chairs the Transport Area working group (TSVWG) and contributes to the IETF Internet area. He previously chaired the IPDVB and DCCP working groups. He has authored more than 32 RFCs with over 150 citations within the RFC-series. He is currently active in the TSVWG, TAPS, and TCPM working groups, as well as contributing to groups including: QUIC, PANRG, and MAPRG.
In previous years, he contributed to ETSI standardisation and the DVB Project, working on generic stream encapsulation and Higher Layer protocols for DVB-RCS2. He was a co-leader of the Future Internet working group in the EC ISI European Technology Platform, and a partner in European research projects funded by the EU, ESA, and industry.
- Research
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Research Overview
My current research interests focus on :
- Internet Engineering, where research includes analysis of control mechanisms for transport. link, and Internet protocols. A mixture of industry and science funding includes: rate-adaptive transport for multimedia, TCP and QUIC transport, Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), Internet capacity sharing, and low-latency services.
- Internet Measurement and Protocol Design, which includes the specification of protocol architecture and large scale measurement campaign exploring Internet path characteristics.
- Satellite Internet, with a long track record of working on IP over satellite, and satellite broadband delivery and link standards for IP transmission over DVB. I participate in the Satellite Network of Excellence.
- Video transport, I engage in research on Internet TV, characterisation of DASH performance, and TV transport architecture. I retain a great anticipation for IP multicast deployment, and have been an enthusiastic advocate, user, and experimenter for multicast transport.
- Cross-disclipinary research including work with geographers, social scientists and other discplines on topics including broadband access, sensor network design, video streaming, and specific control communications.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Engineering.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Internet Technologies
- Computer Networks
- Space Technology
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
I perform my research within the Electronics Group (ERG) in the School of Engineering at theUniversity of Aberdeen (UoA) is a part of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Research Group. My research has favoured a blend of simulation/measurement and protocol design.
I have worked for many years with IPv4 and IPv6, especially over challenging links with research in the development of new protocols, implementation of link-specific enhancements, testing and assessment of network performance.
Current work includes IP transport protocols for QUIC, Internet Television (IPTV), TCP evolution, the use of ECN, use of DiffSev, and the support transport and services. Research includes implementation (in Linux/BSD), large-scale measurement and satellite services. This work is linked to standardisation in the IETF.
I have a long-running activity in multicast deployment (IPv4 and IPv6), working with projects on routing and multicast transport.
Work in satellite communications has a focus on the IP interface, with work on the GSE specification, IPv6 over satellite, transport protocol optimisation and DVB-RCS systems. and contributing to specifications published by the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) Project. I currently am evaluating QUIC over satellite.
Past Research
My current publications are listed on the publications tab. Here are examples of my current work:
- Secchi, R., Mohideen, AC. & Fairhurst, G. (2018). 'Performance analysis of next generation web access via satellite'. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol 36, no. 1, pp. 29 -43. DOI: 10.1002/SAT.1201
- Khademi, N., Armitage, G., Welzl, M., Zander, S., Fairhurst, G. & Ross, D. (2017). Alternative Backoff: Achieving Low Latency and High Throughput with ECN and AQM. in G Karlsson, A Brunstrom, H Jiang, T Wolf & V Fodor (eds), Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2017. NETWORKING2017/1570335770
- Khademi, N., Ros, D., Welzl, M., Bozakov, Z., Brunstrom, A., Fairhurst, G., Grinnemo, K-J, Hayes, D., Hurtig, P., Jones, T., Mangiante, S., Tüxen, M. & Weinrank, F. (2017). 'NEAT: A Platform- And Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API'. IEEE Communications Magazine, vol 55, no. 6, pp. 46-54. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601052
- Jones, T., Fairhurst, G. & Perkins, C. (2017). Raising the Datagram API to Support Transport Protocol Evolution. in G Karlsson, A Brunstrom, H Jiang, T Wolf & V Fodor (eds), 16th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 12-15 June. NETWORKING2017/1570347877
- Papastergiou, G., Fairhurst, G., Ross, D., Brunstrom, A., Grinnemo, K-J, Hurtig, P., Khademi, N., Tüxen, M., Welzl, M., Damjanovic, D. & Mangiante, S. (2017). 'De-ossifying the Internet Transport Layer: A Survey and Future Perspectives'. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 19, no. 1, pp. 619 - 639. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2626780
- Briscoe, B., Brunstrom, A., Petlund, A., Hayes, D., Ross, D., Tsan, I-J, Gjessing, S., Fairhurst, G., Griwodz, C. & Welzl, M. 'Reducing Internet Latency: A Survey of Techniques and their Merit'. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 18, no. 3, pp. 2149 - 2196. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2375213
- Fairhurst, G., Secchi, R. & Yun, A. (2013). 'A flexible QoS architecture for DVB-RCS2'. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol 31, no. 5, pp. 219-232. DOI: 10.1002/SAT.1026
- Townsend, L., Sathiaseelan, A., Fairhurst, G. & Wallace, C. (2013). 'Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide'. Local Economy, vol 28, no. 6, pp. 580-595. DOI: 10.1177/0269094213496974
Collaborations
I participate in research projects at the UK national level and in European research projects.
Since 2004, my research group has been a member of the prestigious European SatNEx Network of Excellence, which brings together 22 leading European research establishments in the satellite communications field, and within this, he leads the work on Standardisation.
ERG participates as an experimenter and contributor in the MONROE measurement platform.
Funding and Grants
Over the years my research has been funded from a range of sources including: EPSRC, European Space Agency (ESA), European Commission (EC), industry (e.g., Astrium, Inmarsat, QinetiQ, Thales, Delta Communications), and UK government agencies (including JISC, DSTL, BNSC, RSRE, DERA, BIS).
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
I have supervised over 50 student honours projects, including co-supervision of projects with Computer Science and a number of placements from overseas universities (Socrates/Erasmus).
I currently teach two undergraduate courses:
- Level 3: Communications Engineering I (a lab-based course in digital control protocols, such as DMX, RDM, and CAN bus)
- Level 4: Communications Engineering II (Networking technologies, Ethernet, the TCP/IP protocol stack and Internet Engineering)
I have been an invited speaker at many professional and research meetings on TCP/IP, broadband standards, and the future evolution of the transport service for the Internet.
I am part of the team who deliver the annual professional Satellite Communications Course by the IET, Savoy Place, London.
- Publications
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Exploration of RTP Circuit Breaker with Applications to Video Streaming
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsRate Adaptation and Congestion Avoidance for Scalable Video Streaming
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsWireless Internet Sensing Environment (WiSE): Resource Management using Satellite and Wireless Sensor Networks
Zoological Society London Symposium. London.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Other ContributionsComparison of methods for accelerating the response time of TCP sessions over long delay paths
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2013.6754953
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Evaluating Web Traffic Performance over DVB-RCS2
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_18
Enhancing TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic
Contributions to Conferences: PapersDCCP-UDP: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol Encapsulation for NAT Traversal: DCCP-UDP
Internet Society. 20 pages.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3170/1/rfc6773.pdf
A WIreless Smartcam Environment (WiSE)
Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference – Digital FuturesContributions to Conferences: PostersConnecting Creative Communities: WS3, Digital Futures 2012, The Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference
.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsDigital content distribution using the Digital Advanced Rural Testbed (DART)
Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference – Digital FuturesContributions to Conferences: PostersNext Generation Satellite Broadband for enabling Universal Service Commitment
Contributions to Conferences: PapersPAWS: Public Access WiFi Service
Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference – Digital FuturesContributions to Conferences: PostersUnified Time-Slicing and Intra-/Inter-Burst FEC Extension Headers for GSE over DVB
Contributions to Conferences: PapersSystem Design for Second-Generation DVB-RCS RA-DAMA Integration
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsIP/UDP Header Suppression for Signalling in an all-IP DVB Transmission Syste
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 301-304Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TBC.2012.2189332
OAM Technique Based on ULE for DVB-S/S2 Transmission Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23825-3_11
Next Generation Satellite Broadband Enablers: IEEE Conference Proceedings
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE] http://www.itu.int/WORLD2011/
TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) for bursty media flows
Computer Communications, vol. 34, no. 15, pp. 1836-1847Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2011.05.003
Delivering multicast network services to rural communities
TRANS-EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKING ASSOCIATIONContributions to Conferences: PostersTransport challenges facing a next-generation hybrid satellite Internet
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 249-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.974
GSE: a New Step for DVB Networks Convergence
Contributions to Conferences: Other ContributionsTESLA and FLUTE over Satellite Networks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286405
The integration of TESLA and FLUTE over satellite networks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5683427
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Universal Service Provisioning using Next Generation Access technologies
Digital Futures (2010)Contributions to Conferences: PostersReaching Unserved Communities
Contributions to Conferences: PapersEncapsulation requirements for return links and mesh systems over satellite
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594095
GSSTP: a signalling transport protocol for DVB-S2 GSE-only transmission systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586852
Delivery of triple-play services over broadband satellite networks
IET Communications, vol. 4, no. 13, pp. 1544-1555Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2009.0205
A cross-layer framework for IPsec over satellite links
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 28, no. 5-6, pp. 272-290Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.963
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A framework for an IP-based DVB transmission network
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, vol. 2010, 394965Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/394965
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Analysing TCP for busy traffic
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 585-592Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEnforcing layered multicast congestion control using ECN-nonce
Computer Networks, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 489-505Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2009.09.015
Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and Brief Survey
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Trust.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5757
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3174/1/rfc5757.pdf
Impact of ROHC on IP encapsulation efficiency in a DVB-S2 GSE-only transmission system
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586872
Towards an IP/GSE-Only Signalling Framework for DVB Transmission Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_11
Cross-layer study for resource management in DVB-S2 with mobile users
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286370
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Performance impact of ECN on multimedia traffic with satellite delay
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286402
Unified Link Layer Security Design for IP Encapsulation using Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation over Satellites
Contributions to Conferences: PapersDCCP Simultaneous-Open Technique to Facilitate NAT/Middlebox Traversal
Internet Society. 25 pages.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3171/1/rfc5596.pdf
Integration of TESLA and FLUTE over Satellite Networks
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286405
The DCCP Service Code
Internet Society.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5595
QuickStart for DCCP
Internet Society.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsNext Generation Internet Transport
Contributions to Conferences: PapersUsing Quick-Start to enhance TCP-friendly rate control performance in bidirectional satellite networks
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 141-161Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.929
IPv6 - The network protocol of the future
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASMS.2008.7
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Analysis of IPv6 encapsulation over ULE and MPE using a regenerative satellite payload
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2008.4656784
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FIRST: Future internet - A role for satellite technology
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2008.4656774
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Scheduling TCP-friendly flows over a satellite network
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSSC.2008.4656773
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Waveform Diversity and Design: Issues for Services and Applications
Contributions to Conferences: PapersUnicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Internet Society, vol. IETF RFC 5405Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles- [ONLINE] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5405
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3169/1/rfc5405.pdf