Nigel Thomas

About

I am co-lead of the Scalable Systems Research Group in the School of Computing. Until October 2024 I was the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering. I joined the School of Computing Science in January 2004 from the University of Durham, where I had been a lecturer since 1998. I was promoted to reader in 2009. My research interests lie in scalable performance analysis for security using queueing theory, stochastic process algebra and simulation.

Education

• PhD, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997
• MSc, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991

Selected publications

• Comparing the Use of Simu5G and 5G-Sim-V2I/N Modules When Analysing the Edge Computing Resource Management Efficiency
• Analysing the Performance of a Trust-Based AODV in the Presence of a Flooding Attack
• A Quantitative Analysis of the Security of PoW-based Blockchains
• Energy Consumption of TAGS in a Heterogeneous Environment under Unknown Service Demand
• Virtual Machine Live Migration in Trace-driven Energy-Aware Simulation of High-Throughput Computing Systems
• Performance modelling of the impact of cyber attacks on a web-based sales system
• Energy Consumption by Servers under Unknown Service Demand
• A Hybrid Task Scheduling Scheme for Heterogeneous Vehicular Edge Systems
• Investigating the Cost of Transfer Delay on the Performance of Security in Cloud Computing
• Performance modelling of patient flow scheduling through a formal method