Madhusanka Liyanage
Assistant Professor
Madhusanka Liyanage is currently an Assistant Professor/Ad Astra Fellow and Director of Graduate Research at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is also a Docent/Adjunct Professor at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, and Honorary Adjunct Professor of Network Security, The Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka and The Department of Electrical and electronic Engineering, University of Sri Jarawardhenepura, Sri Lanka. He received his B.Sc. degree (First Class Honours) in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2009, the M.Eng. degree from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2011, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, in 2011, and the Doctor of Technology degree in communication engineering from the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, in 2016. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a Research Scientist at the I3S Laboratory and Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France. He also received the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship and Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship during 2018-2020. During 2015-2018, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the CSIRO, Australia, the Infolabs21, Lancaster University, U.K., Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia, School of IT, University of Sydney, Australia, LIP6, Sorbonne University, France and Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Oxford, U.K. He is also a senior member of IEEE. In 2020, he received the “2020 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher” award by IEEE ComSoc EMEA. In 2021 and 2022, he was ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2020 & 2021) in the List prepared by Elsevier BV, Stanford University, USA. Also, he was awarded an Irish Research Council (IRC) Research Ally Prize as part of the IRC Researcher of the Year 2021 awards for his positive impact as a supervisor. In 2022, he received “2022 The Tom Brazil Excellence in Research Award”by SFI CONNECT Center. Moreover, Madhusanka received a Special Commendation for IRC Early Career Researcher of 2022 by Irish Research Council, Ireland.
He has co-authored over 140+ publications, including three authored books, four edited books with Wiley, and two patents (Google Citations: 5500+, h-index: 35+). Moreover, He has received four Best Paper Awards for SDMN security (at NGMAST 2015), 5G Security (at IEEE CSCN 2017), MEC Security (IEEE MCE 2021) and 5G IoT (ICT Express 2022). Additionally, he has been awarded two research grants and 19 other prestigious awards/scholarships during his research career. Liyanage has worked for more than fifteen EU, international and national projects in the ICT domain. Moreover, he was the Finnish national coordinator for EU COST Action CA15127 on resilient communication services. He serves as a management committee member for three other EU COST action projects, namely EU COST Action IC1301, IC1303, CA15107, CA16226, CA2011, and CA20136. Liyanage has over six years of experience in research project management, research group leadership, proposal preparation, project progress documentation, and graduate student co-supervision/mentoring. He has secured over 5 Million Euro research funding via various research projects. Currently, he is a PI for two large EU H2020/Horizon Europe projects. As a leader of work packages in several projects, he held responsibilities, including SIGMONA and Naked approach projects. In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021 he won the Best Researcher Award at the Centre for Wireless Communications, the University of Oulu, and the school of computer science in 2020 for his excellent contribution to project management and research activities. Additionally, two research projects (MEVICO and SIGMONA projects) received the CELTIC Excellence and CELTIC Innovation Awards in 2013, 2017, and 2018.
He is also an expert consultant at European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). In 2021, Liyanage was elevated as Funded Investigator of Science Foundation Ireland CONNECT Research Centre, Ireland. Moreover, he is an expert reviewer at different funding agencies in France, Qatar, UAE, Sri Lanka, and Kazakhstan. In addition, Madhusanka has been nominated as a Named Supervisor of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning to supervise the doctoral students at the center. In addition, Madhusanka is a member of the Graduate School Board (GSB), College Graduate Research Forum, and Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) Committee at UCD.
Publications
Utilization of a blockchainized reputation management service for performance enhancement of Smart Grid 2.0 applications
Blockchain has become the technology enabler in delivering modern Smart Grid 2.0 functionalities. Many services including Peer-to-Peer energy trading, distribution network management, financial settlements, and
Utilization of a Blockchain-based Reputation Management System for Energy Trading in SmartGrid 2.0
The futuristic energy grids comprise of predominantly renewable generation, to align with the sustainable development goals. This would require integration of renewable energy sources at
Rec-Def: A Recommendation-based Defence Mechanism for Privacy Preservation in Federated Learning Systems
An emergence of attention and regulations on consumer privacy can be observed over the recent years with the ubiquitous availability of IoT systems handling personal
From Opacity to Clarity: Leveraging XAI for Robust Network Traffic Classification
A wide adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be observed in recent years over networking to provide zero-touch, full autonomy of services towards the next
Privacy-preserved Collaborative Federated Learning Platform for Industrial Internet of Things
Federated learning (FL) is an intriguing approach to privacy-preserving collaborative learning. Decentralised FL is achieving increased favour for investigation due to the mitigation of vulnerability
FL-TIA: Novel Time Inference Attacks on Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging privacy-preserved distributed Machine Learning (ML) technique where multiple clients can contribute to training an ML model without sharing private
Trust Management and Bad Data Reduction in Internet of Vehicles Using Blockchain and AI
Blockchain offers cryptographically secure storage for recording transactions. However, one issue with blockchains is the problem of bad data and data reliability, where bad data
Survey on Network Slicing for Internet of Things Realization in 5G Networks
Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that makes people’s lives smart by conquering a plethora of diverse application and service areas. In near
A Federated Learning Approach for Improving Security in Network Slicing
Network Slicing (NS) is a predominant technology in future telecommunication networks, including Fifth Generation (5G), which supports the realization of heterogeneous applications and services. It
A Comprehensive Analysis on Network Slicing for Smart Hospital Applications
Network slicing (NS) is a utilitarian technology that enables heterogeneous smart use cases in Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond networks. Smart hospitals require NS to
Security Orchestration Framework for Federated Network Slicing
Network slicing is a utilitarian technology in future mobile networks that can facilitate heterogeneous network requirements of a plethora of applications over a shared physical
Realizing Internet of Things with Network Slicing: Opportunities and Challenges
Internet of Things (IoT) is a lucrative technology within the modern community that realizes the concept of the smart world, by expanding within a myriad
The Role of Security Orchestrator in Network Slicing for Future Networks
The traditional paradigm of connecting mobile devices over the telecommunication networks for voice communication has evolved to a myriad of novel applications with heterogeneous network
A Novel Network Slicing based Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) Framework for Private 5G Networks
Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond telecommunication networks introduce a set of novel technologies such as private 5G networks, also known as Local 5G Operator (L5GO),
Privacy of the Metaverse: Current Issues, AI Attacks, and Possible Solutions
Metaverse is a key emerging digital transformation concept for the next generation of cyberspace. It is expected to create a self-sustaining virtual ecosystem of fully
Blockchain-based Roaming and Offload Service Platform for Local 5G Operators
Local 5G Operator (L5GO) concept is one of themost prominent versatile applications of the 5G in the nearfuture. The popularity of L5GOs will trigger a
A Novel Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) Platformfor Local 5G Operators
5G is a promising technology that has the potentialto support verticals and applications such as Industrial Internetof Things IoT (IIoT), smart cities, autonomous vehicles, remotesurgeries,
Proof-of-Monitoring (PoM): A Novel ConsensusMechanism for Blockchain-based Secure ServiceLevel Agreement Management
AIn the current 5th Generation (5G) networkingparadigm, the enforcement of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)is a non-trivial measure to ensure the scope and the qual-ity of
Multi-Access Edge Computing and Blockchain-based Secure Telehealth System Connected with 5G and IoT
There is a global hype in the development of digital healthcare infrastructure to cater the massive elderly population and infectious diseases. The digital facilitation is
Service Migration Authentication Protocol for MEC
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is a novel edge computing paradigm that enhances the access level capacity of mobile networks by shifting the serviceable Data center
Need of 6G for the Metaverse Realization
The concept of the Metaverse aims to bring a fully-fledged extended reality environment to provide next generation applications and services. Development of the Metaverse is
A Survey on Privacy for B5G/6G: New Privacy Challenges, and Research Directions
Massive developments in mobile wireless telecommunication networks have been made during the last few decades. At present, mobile users are getting familiar with the latest
An improved and provably secure symmetric-key based 5G-AKA Protocol
One of the primary authentication mechanisms defined for the 5G system is the 5G-Authentication and Key Agreement (5G-AKA) protocol. It is set to be used in the
A survey on the convergence of edge computing and AI for UAVs: Opportunities and challenges
The latest 5G mobile networks have enabled many exciting Internet of Things (IoT) applications that employ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs/drones). The success of most UAV-based
An EAP-Based Mutual Authentication Protocol for WLAN-Connected IoT Devices
Several symmetric and asymmetric encryption based authentication protocols have been developed for the wireless local area networks (WLANs). However, recent findings reveal that these protocols
Blockchain enabled Smart Grid 2.0
Smart Grid 2.0 (SG 2.0) architecture is envisaged to revolutionize the next generation of electricity networks. Further, it is identified as a key role player
Robust and Resilient Federated Learning for Securing Future Networks
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are widely adopted in the telecommunication industry, especially to automate beyond 5G networks. Federated Learning (FL) recently
Federated Learning based Anomaly Detection as an Enabler for Securing Network and Service Management Automation in Beyond 5G Networks
Network automation is a necessity in order to meet the unprecedented demand in the future networks and zero touch network architecture is proposed to cater
Blockchain-based Network Slice Broker to Facilitate Factory-as-a-Service
The novel concept of Factory-as-a-Service (FaaS) allows the agility of adapting the manufacturing process by identifying the industry’s supply chain and user requirements. To cater
LEMAP: A Lightweight EAP based Mutual Authentication Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLAN
The growing usage of wireless devices has significantly increased the need for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) during the past two decades. However, security (most
Realizing Contact-less Applications with Multi-Access Edge Computing
The entire world progression has ceased with the unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and urges the requirement for contact-less and autonomous services and applications.
A Provably Secure and Efficient 5G-AKA Authentication Protocol using Blockchain
The next generation of mobile communication systems must be secured because of the ongoing entrance of numerous security attacks. Thus, to secure the underlying network,
Fog Computing and Blockchain-Based Security Service Architecture for 5G Industrial IoT-Enabled Cloud Manufacturing
Recent evolution of the industrial Internet of Things empowers the classical manufacturing model with cloud computing integration for Industry 4.0. Cloud integration advances the capabilities
Energy Efficient Contact Tracing and Social Interaction based Patient Prediction System for COVID-19 Pandemic
Due to the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the world has encountered an ongoing pandemic to date. It is a highly contagious disease. In
Survey on blockchain for future smart grids: Technical aspects, applications, integration challenges and future research
Smart Grid 2.0 is envisaged to automate the operations of the intelligent electricity grid. Blockchainand smart contracts are integrated to facilitate the transformation from DSO-centric
Can Blockchain Strengthen the Energy Internet?
Emergence of the Energy Internet (EI) demands restructuring of traditional electricity gridsto integrate heterogeneous energy sources, distribution network management with grid intelligenceand big data management.
Security enhanced Emergency Situation Detection System for Ambient Assisted LivingSystem for Ambient Assisted Living
Typical wearable devices use a dedicated mobile phone as relay node to transfer the collected sensor data toa server. However, such relay nodes can be
AI and 6G security: Opportunities and challenges
While 5G is well-known for network cloudification with micro-service based architecture, the next generation networks or the 6G era is closely coupled with intelligent network
Identifying Factors Enabling the Enhancement of
Service Migration of Multi-Access Edge Computing
Edge computing is a novel concept proposed to overcome the limitations of the prevailing cloud-based telecommunication networks. Various concepts have emerged with edge computing that
The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges
COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive impact on healthcare, social life, and economies on a global scale. Apparently, technology has a vital role to enable ubiquitous
Survey on blockchain-based smart contracts: Technical aspects and future research
The industrial and computing research context revolutionized in various directions during the last decades. The blockchain-based smart contract embraced as a significant research interest due
Survey on Multi-Access Edge Computing Security and Privacy
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has introduced the paradigm of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to enable efficient and fast data processing in mobile networks.
A survey on mobile augmented reality with 5G mobile edge computing: architectures, applications, and technical aspects
The Augmented Reality (AR) technology enhances the human perception of the world by combining the real environment with the virtual space. With the explosive growth
Secure and user efficient eap-based authentication protocol for ieee 802.11 wireless lans
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have experienced significant growth in the last two decades due to the extensive use of wireless devices. Security (especially authentication)
Performance analysis of local 5G operator architectures for industrial internet
5G calls for a network architecture that ensures ultraresponsive and ultrareliable communication links, in addition to the high degree of flexibility and customization required by
Novel MEC-based Approaches for Smart Hospitals to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 or Coronavirus has thrilled the entire world population with uncertainty over their survival and well-being. The impact this pathogen has caused over the globe
Social Interaction Tracking and Patient Prediction System for Potential COVID-19 Patients
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus is an infectious disease which has spread globally since 2019, resulting in an ongoing pandemic. Since it is a new
Local 5g operator architecture for delay critical telehealth applications
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are widely adopted in the Network softwarization enables the novel concept of Local 5G Operator (L5GO) networks,
Survey on blockchain based smart contracts: Applications, opportunities and challenges
Blockchain is one of the disruptive technical innovation in the recent computing paradigm. Many applications already notoriously hard and complex are fortunate to ameliorate the service
The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic with 5G technologies
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the world in an unexpected manner. The human race is battling against the pandemic while schools, universities, industries,
An Emergency Situation Detection System for Ambient Assisted Living
This paper proposes “An Emergency Situation Detection System for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)”, to support elderly people and patients with chronic conditions and potential health-related
Dynamic Orchestration of Security Services at Fog Nodes for 5G IoT
Fog Computing is one of the edge computing paradigms that envisages being the proximate processing and storage infrastructure for a multitude of IoT appliances. With
Security as a Service Platform Leveraging
Multi-Access Edge Computing Infrastructure
Provisions
The mobile service platform envisaged by emerging IoT and 5G is guaranteeing gigabit-level bandwidth, ultra-low latency and ultra-high storage capacity for their subscribers. In The
Blockchain for 5G and IoT: Opportunities and Challenges
Hitherto, the evolution of mobile networks have fulfilled the increasing demands for enhanced performance, availability, portability, elasticity, and energy efficiency posed by the ever growing
The Role of Blockchain in 6G: Challenges,Opportunities and Research Directions
The world is going through a fundamental transformation with the emergence of the intelligent information era. The key domains linked with human life such as
Blockchain-based Automated Certificate Revocation for 5G IoT
Internet of Things (IoT) is a key topic of interest in modern communication context with the evolution of 5G and beyond ecosystems. 5G will interconnects
Realizing Multi-Access Edge Computing
Feasibility: Security Perspective
Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G are emerging technologies that prompt a mobile service platform capable of provisioning billions of communication devices which enable ubiquitous
Micro-Operator driven Local 5G Network Architecture for Industrial Internet
In addition to the high degree of flexibility and customization required by different vertical sectors, 5G calls for a network architecture that ensures ultra-responsive and