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Securing the networks 6G will run on.

A research group in the UCD School of Computer Science, advancing security and privacy for 5G and 6G networks, with research supported by our own Open RAN testbed.

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SECURENET 2027

Summit on Security and Privacy in Future Mobile Networks

SECURENET brings together researchers, graduate students and industry experts to exchange ideas on security and privacy in 5G, 6G and IoT systems.

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Publications

Latest publications

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  1. Evaluating Data Trust in Blockchain-Based IoT Systems Using Machine Learning Techniques

    Rashmi Ratnayake, Madhusanka Liyanage, Liam Murphy

    Conference paper2025

    DOI
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{netslab5132,
      title = {Evaluating Data Trust in Blockchain-Based IoT Systems Using Machine Learning Techniques},
      author = {Ratnayake, Rashmi and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Murphy, Liam},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10975901},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10975901},
      booktitle = {2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC)},
      pages = {1-6},
      publisher = {IEEE}
    }
  2. Demo: Enabling Trustworthy Cold Chain Logistics Through Blockchain and Machine Learning

    Rashmi Ratnayake, Madhusanka Liyanage, Liam Murphy

    Conference paper2025

    DOI
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{netslab5136,
      title = {Demo: Enabling Trustworthy Cold Chain Logistics Through Blockchain and Machine Learning},
      author = {Ratnayake, Rashmi and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Murphy, Liam},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10976215},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10976215},
      booktitle = {2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC)},
      pages = {1-2},
      publisher = {IEEE}
    }
  3. SHIELD - Secure Aggregation Against Poisoning in Hierarchical Federated Learning

    Yushan Siriwardhana, Pawani Porambage, Madhusanka Liyanage, Samuel Marchal, Mika Ylianttila

    Journal article2025

    DOI
    BibTeX
    @article{netslab5156,
      title = {SHIELD - Secure Aggregation Against Poisoning in Hierarchical Federated Learning},
      author = {Siriwardhana, Yushan and Porambage, Pawani and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Marchal, Samuel and Ylianttila, Mika},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/tdsc.2024.3472869},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tdsc.2024.3472869},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
      volume = {22},
      number = {2},
      pages = {1845-1863},
      publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}
    }
  4. Power Line Monitoring-Based Consensus Algorithm for Performance Enhancement of Energy Blockchain Applications in Smart Grid 2.0

    Charithri Yapa, Chamitha De Alwis, Uditha Wijewardhana, Madhusanka Liyanage, Janaka Ekanayake

    Journal article2025

    DOI
    BibTeX
    @article{netslab5176,
      title = {Power Line Monitoring-Based Consensus Algorithm for Performance Enhancement of Energy Blockchain Applications in Smart Grid 2.0},
      author = {Yapa, Charithri and De Alwis, Chamitha and Wijewardhana, Uditha and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Ekanayake, Janaka},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/tsg.2024.3445659},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2024.3445659},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid},
      volume = {16},
      number = {1},
      pages = {277-287},
      publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}
    }
  5. Non-Fungible Token Enabled Resource Trading Marketplace for 6G Network Slicing

    Nisita Weerasinghe, Pawani Porambage, An Braeken, Madhusanka Liyanage, Mika Ylianttila

    Conference paper2025

    DOI
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{netslab5182,
      title = {Non-Fungible Token Enabled Resource Trading Marketplace for 6G Network Slicing},
      author = {Weerasinghe, Nisita and Porambage, Pawani and Braeken, An and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Ylianttila, Mika},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10975970},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10975970},
      booktitle = {2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC)},
      pages = {1-6},
      publisher = {IEEE}
    }
  6. Demo: Blockchain-Based NFT Resource Marketplace for Efficient 6G Network Slicing

    Nisita Weerasinghe, Pawani Porambage, An Braeken, Madhusanka Liyanage, Mika Ylianttila

    Conference paper2025

    DOI
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{netslab5187,
      title = {Demo: Blockchain-Based NFT Resource Marketplace for Efficient 6G Network Slicing},
      author = {Weerasinghe, Nisita and Porambage, Pawani and Braeken, An and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Ylianttila, Mika},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10976071},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ccnc54725.2025.10976071},
      booktitle = {2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC)},
      pages = {1-2},
      publisher = {IEEE}
    }

Data

Open datasets

Open datasets

Open datasets

Datasets / Network intrusion detection

5G-NIDD: a network intrusion detection dataset generated over a 5G wireless network

Yushan Siriwardhana, Sehan Samarakoon, Pawani Porambage, Madhusanka Liyanage, Sang-Yoon Chang, Jinoh Kim, Jonghyun Kim, Mika Ylianttila

Captured on
5G Test Network, University of Oulu
Formats
pcapng, csv
Hosted on
IEEE DataPort

Attack scenarios

  • ICMP flood
  • UDP flood
  • SYN flood
  • HTTP flood
  • Slow-rate DoS
  • SYN scan
  • TCP connect scan
  • UDP scan
@article{siriwardhana2025descriptor, title={Descriptor: 5G Wireless Network Intrusion Detection Dataset (5G-NIDD)}, author={Siriwardhana, Yushan and Samarakoon, Sehan and Porambage, Pawani and Liyanage, Madhusanka and Chang, Sang-Yoon and Kim, Jinoh and Kim, Jonghyun and Ylianttila, Mika}, journal={IEEE Data Descriptions}, year={2025}, publisher={IEEE} }
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Check each dataset’s hosting page for its licence and citation requirements.

The published UCD testbed description reports OpenAirInterface and a ComReg Test & Trial licence for 3.8–4.2 GHz.

About the 6G AI-RAN Testbed

Projects

Funded by Europe and Ireland

We lead and partner on Horizon Europe, MSCA and Research Ireland projects.

Explore projects

Earlier projects: CONFIDENTIAL6G (2023 to 2025) and SPATIAL (2021 to 2024).