Decentralised Systems Engineering Lab

Laboratory

Decentralised Systems Engineering Lab

The lab central focus is to foster cross-unit, cross-subject, international collaboration, which is align with one of the core strategic goals for NTNU: Interdisciplinary research and Research within and across disciplines. Security, privacy, decentralization, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data analytics and combination and interaction of those various technologies.

Research activity

About DSE

Illustration to show IT security. The main goals of the Lab:

Research focus on emerging technologies and decentralisation.
Privacy, security and anonymity.
Focus on emerging trends and technologies on the intersection of established research areas.
Establish critical mass competence and expertise in the decentralised finance, blockchain and self-sovereign identity systems.
Bridge the research activities between departments, campuses and research groups.
Increase research-based education across IDI units and IE.

Infrastructure

Our infrastructure includes:

Blockchain/cryptocurrency cloud server used for anonymity research in cryptocurrencies (deployed IIK Skyhigh)
Cyber security training and competition lab (deployed on IIK Skyhigh)
Secure code warrior (Purchased software game for teaching software security)
XR headset (Hololens 2 and Google glasses)
Drones
5G modem and phones (modified for measuring communication metrics)
Wearables (E4 wristband)

Research projects

Ongoing projects:

Paas4Chain (NRC): Blockchain and decentralised technoolgies in supply chain
EA grant: Romanian Police Law Enforcement decentralisation training (crypto currencies, tor/i2p)
Norwegian police funding: research on crypto currency privacy properties with Norwegian and international law enforcement
Privacy Preserving Edge Intelligence for Internet of Things Data Streams, Academy of Finland Postdoc fellow, PI. (Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2022)
Context-aware and Veracious Big Data Analytics for Industrial IoT (ABIDI), CHIST-ERA, FET programme of EU, Academy of Finland, (Co-PI, with Röning).
5G Edge Computing Enhanced Augmented Reality (5GEAR), Academy of Finland ICT 2013 Beyond 5G program, (Co-PI, with Hui and Ylianttila).
A Universal Plug-n-Play Framework for IoT, ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Pgm (PI)
Large Scale Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Performance Analysis & Performance Improvement, funded by STDFM, Headed by Macau Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (MUST) (Co-PI, with Hong-Ning Dai from MUST)

Strategic partners & collaborators

We have a strategic collaboration with the following international partners and universities:

DIN – Digital Identitet Norden

DIF – Digital Identity Foundation, University of Helsinki, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, TU Munich, TU Delft, University of Oulu, Tsinghua University, China Fudan University, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ICL, TU Wien, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Washington, University of St. Andrews, Trinity Colleague Dublin, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Nanjing University, China, Macau Univ. of Science and Technology, Macau

Topics for Bsc and Msc

We offer the following topics for thesis:

Enabling technologies with blockchain and distributed ledgers
Decentralisation and peer-to-peer technology
Energy efficient consensus mechanisms
Security and privacy in systems engineering, with a focus on decentralized systems
Cryptocurrencies anonymity, privacy, and cryptocurrency analytics/forensics
Federated and privacy-preserving Machine Learning, multi-party computing
Self-sovereign identity and decentralized identity systems
Decentralised finance (DeFI)
Payment networks (Lightning Network)
Mobile blockchain systems

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