Staff profile

Dr Johnson Ihyeh Agbinya

Associate Professor, Reader

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Electronic Engineering

Physical Sciences 2, Room 119, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

MSc Strathclyde , PhD La Trobe

Membership of professional associations

Member IEEE, ACM, AIM

Area of study

Electronic Engineering

Brief profile

Dr Agbinya is Associate Professor in telecommunication and also holds an Adjunct Professor position in computer science at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He comes from a practice-based research background through CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics where he was a Senior Research Scientist combining research and software and hardware implementation in biometrics and remote sensing.

Dr Agbinya was also Principal Engineer Research at Vodafone Australia. He managed Vodafone's R&D projects in mobile and wireless communications networks and multimedia in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji with interface to Vodafone Group Research.

He has published widely in broadband wireless communications, vehicular networks, video and speech compression and coding, contributing to the development of Voice over IP at CSIRO and Ericsson's multimedia platform and Dillithium data transcoding for 3G at Vodafone Australia. He co-designed and developed the first cut and requirements for Vodafone Australia 3G network. He is co-author of the book Internet Technology in a Nutshell and an up and coming text in Next Generation Broadband Networks and IP Communications (by Taylor and Francis, to be soon released). He is also a co-editor of the Auswireless 2006 and 2007 conference proceedings. He also has published key highly ranked papers in IEEE Journals in use as basis for interpolation and tracking in video.

Dr Agbinya has also served in the editorial boards of several Journals and the Editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Information and Communication Technology (published by the UTS ePress). He is ranked as an established researcher by the South African Research Fund (NRF) and also reviews its research grant applications. He has also reviewed venture capital funding applications for Deutsche Bank. He was a recipient of the best paper award in the IEEE 5th International Conference on Networking, ICN'06 in 2006.

Dr Agbinya has served in several advisory and management boards including the ATCRC Executive Board and the Nigerian National ICT Policy initiative and the Telkom Centre of Excellence in IP Computing at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Dr Agbinya's teaches telecommunication and networking subjects at the post graduate and undergraduate students levels.

Research interests

Bioinformatics and biometric security

- Online Identity Management and boarder control

Communications

- Near field communications, short range communications, inductive communications

Digital signal Processing

- sensor signal processing, biometric processing

Environmental geoscience

- remote sensing and sensor networks

Semiconductor materials and devices

- nano electronic devices and communication systems

Solar power

- wireless power transfer, solar energy applications

Teaching units

ELE2PWR - Electrical Power

ELE5NDE - Network Design Exercises

ELE5EDE - Electronic Design Exercises

Consulting

Broadband Communications, Remote sensing, Mobile Communications, Wireless Power and Renewable Energy

Recent publications

 1.   (Book) Agbinya JI, “Principles of Inductive Near Field Communications for Internet of Things”, ISBN: 978-87-92329-52-3; (River Publishers Denmark, PO Box 1657, Aalborg Postkontor, Algade 42, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark, due Oct. 2011)

2.      (Book) Agbinya, JI, IP Communications and Services for NGN, (ISBN: 978-1-4200-7090-3; Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, CRC Press; USA, January, 2010)

3.   (Book) Agbinya JI, Biermann E, Lal S and Hamam Y., Biomedical and Environmental Sensing, (River Publishers Denmark, PO Box 1657, Aalborg Postkontor, Algade 42, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark, ISBN: 978-87-92329-28-8; November 2009

4.    (Book) Agbinya, JI, “Planning and Optimisation of 3G and 4G Wireless Networks”, River Publishers Denmark, PO Box 1657, Aalborg Postkontor, Algade 42, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark), ISBN #: 978-87-92329-24-0  December 2009

5.    (Book) Agbinya, JI, Sevimli, O., Lal, S., Reisenfeld, S; Selvadurai, S; Li, Y and Aljumaily, A; “Emerging Broadband Communications and Applications: Next Generation Broadband Communications”; ISBN: 978-87-92329-00-4; ISBN E-Book: 978-87-92329-01-1 (River Publishers Denmark, September, 2008)

Book Chapters 

1.    Okuthe P. Kogeda and Johnson I Agbinya, Automation of Cellular Networks Faults, in Cellular Networks - Positioning, Performance Analysis, Reliability, ISBN 978-953-307-246-3, edited by Agassi Melikov,  2011, pp. 333 - 352

2.        Merhnoush Masihpour and Johnson I Agbinya, “Energy Scavenging Using Magneto Inductive Methods”,  in Energy Scavenging and Optimization Techniques for Mobile Devices", CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA., 2011

3.   Mahira M. Mowjoon and Johnson I Agbinya (2010). Secure Wireless Mesh Network based on Human Immune System and Self-Organizing Map, Self-Organizing Maps, George K Matsopoulos (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-074-2, INTECH,  Available from: http://sciyo.com/articles/show/title/secure-wireless-mesh-network-based-on-human-immune-system-and-self-organizing-map; April 2010, pp. 381 - 395

4.        Mahira M. Mowjoon, Johnson Agbinya, Wireless Mesh Immune System, book chapter published by IGI book publication, 2010

5.        Mahira M. Mowjoon and Agbinya JI., “Towards Self-Organising Map Classification in Human Immune System Inspired Adaptive Security Management in Wireless Mesh Networks”, Intechweb, Austria, August 2009

Short Lisf of Recent Journals Papers 

1.        Johnson I Agbinya, “A New framework for wide area networking of Inductive Internet of Things”, Electronics Letters, Vol 47, No 21, pp 1199-1201, 13th October 2011

2.        Johnson I Agbinya and Mehrnoush Masihpour, “Power Equations and Capacity Performance of Magnetic Induction Communication Systems”,  in Wireless Personal Communications Journal © Springer (www.springerlink.com), 2011

3.     Tran, Dai T; Agbinya, JI. and Al-Jumaily Adel, “Per node deployment based detection of controlled link establishment attack in distributed sensor networks” International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET) Inderscience (http://cs.ua.edu/~yangxiao/IJSNet.html),  vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp. 192-208, 2011

4.           Tran, DT and Agbinya, JI., Journal accepted) A Framework for Confronting Key-swapping Collusion Attack on Random Pairwise Key Pre-distribution Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks”; (Journal, Wiley Interscience) Security and Communication Networks; 2009

5. Okuthe P. Kogeda and Johnson I Agbinya, “Cellular Networks Faults and Services Dependency Modeling”, Intern. Mag. On Advances in Computer Science and Telecommunications, ISSN: 1857-7202;  IMACST: VOL. 1 No. 1, Dec. 2010, pp. 15 – 22.( http://imacst.com/web_documents/01_01_2_kogeda.pdf).

6.        Sara Lal, Axel Besinger, Tamara Szytinda, Johnson I Agbinya and Carmen Duthoit; “ Optical flow based analyses to detect emotion from human facial image data”, in Expert Systems and Analysis; June 2010

7.        Mohammad Al-Hattab and Johnson I Agbinya, “Self Trajectory Estimation for Wireless Mobile Networks”, International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, http://jet.zpt.tele.pw.edu.pl/node/4, Warsaw University of  Technology, Poland, 2010, pp. 451 - 456

8.        Agbinya JI, Gina Navarrette and Al-Jaafreh H., “A Study and Review of Self Managed Vehicular Networks”, International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, http://jet.zpt.tele.pw.edu.pl/node/4, Warsaw University of  Technology, Poland, 2010, pp. 433 - 444

9.        Johnson I. Agbinya, Nithya Selvaraj, Arthur Ollett, Stephane Ibos, Yasmin Ooi-Sanchez, Mark Brennan, and Zenon Chaczko, “Characteristics of the Magnetic Bubble ‘Cone of Silence’ in Near Field Magnetic Induction Communications”, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Argos Press, Vol. 13, No. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 21 – 25.

10.     Chaczko Z, Agbinya JI and Aboura K., “Software Engineering for Mapping Radio Frequency Pollution”, in International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, http://jet.zpt.tele.pw.edu.pl/node/4, Warsaw University of  Technology, Poland, 2010

11.  Johnson I. Agbinya, Vivian Lee, Zenon Chaczko and Khalid Aboura, “Recognition of Radio SIgnal Pollution Levels and Signatures”,  Polish Academy of Science  Quarterly, 2010

12.    Tran, DT and Agbinya, JI., Journal accepted) A Framework for Confronting Key-swapping Collusion Attack on Random Pairwise Key Pre-distribution Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks”; (Journal, Wiley Interscience) Security and Communication Networks; 2009

13.        Agbinya, JI and Phiri, J. “Establishing the Significance of Credential Attributes in Digital Identity Management Systems” in Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4773, pp, 2007

14.        Chiang, F., Agbinya,JI and Braun, R. (2007), "Self-adaptability and Vulnerability Assessment of Secure Autonomic Communication Networks", Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4773, pp. 112-122, 2007

15.        Chiang, F., Braun R. and Agbinya, JI., “Self Configuration of Network Services with Nature-Inspired Learning and Adaptation”, in issue on Autonomic Pervasive and Context-aware Systems of the Journal of Networks and Systems Management (JNSM), Online First Springer NL., Feb. 2007, (http://www.springerlink.com/content/fn655v4258338053/).

16.        Chiang, F; Fernandez, H; Braun, R, Agbinya JI, “Integrating object-oriented O : XML semantics into autonomic decentralised functionalities”, International Symposium on Communication and Information Technology, Date: OCT 17-19, 2007 Sydney AUSTRALIA Source: 2007 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, Vols 1-3, pp. 768-773, 2007.

17.        Agbinya JI & Phiri J;  (Lecture Notes in Computer Science); “Establishing the Significance of Credential Attributes in Digital Identity Management Systems” in Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4773;.2007

18.   Chiang F, Agbinya JI and Braun R; "Self-adaptability and Vulnerability Assessment of Secure Autonomic Communication Networks", Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4773, pp. 112-122; 2007

19.   Agbinya, JI., Design Considerations of MoHotS and Wireless Chain Networks”, in Wireless Personal Communications © Springer 2006, Vol. 40, pp. 91 -106.

20. Agbinya, J.I. and Rees, D., Multi-Object Tracking In Video, Real-Time Imaging, Academic Press, Vol. 5, October 1999, pp. 295-304, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com; Ranked as No.1 in the list of the most requested journal papers (pre-2000) from the Journal of Real-Time Imaging. Ranked 12th all time most requested paper from Journal of RTI in 2003 and 14th in 2004

Older publications

Short listed recent conference papers

1.        Jackson Phiri, Tie-Jun Zhao and Johnson I Agbinya, “Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System in a Mutlifactor Authentication System”  in Proc.   2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Theory and Information Security (ICITIS2011), November 4-6, 2011, Hangzhou, China

2.        J.I. Agbinya, ” A High Capacity Near-Field Inductive Coupled MISO Communication System for Internet of Things”, to appear in Proc. IB2COM, Nov. 21 – 24, Melbourne, Australia, 2011

3.        Rumana Islam, Nazia Mastali, Johnson I Agbinya3 and Jackson Phiri, “Design and Implementation of Multimodal Digital Identity Management Systems Using Fingerprint Matching and Face Recognition”, to appear in Proc. IB2COM, Melbourne, November 21-24, 2011

4.        Phiri, J., Zhao, Tiejun and Agbinya, JI,  “Biometrics, Device Metrics and Pseudo Metrics in a Multifactor Authentication with Artificial Intelligence”, to appear in Proc. IB2COM, Melbourne, November 21-24, 2011

5.        Frank Jiang, Steve Ling and Johnson Agbinya, “Biologically Inspired host-based anomaly detection system using multiple detection engines and sequential pattern recognition system”, to appear in Proc. IB2COM, Melbourne, November 21-24, 2011.

6.        Agbinya, J.I., Cloaking and Anti-Cloaking (Keynote Address), IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and, Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia, May 17 – 19, 2011.

7.        J.I. Agbinya and M. Masihpour, "Power Equations and Capacity Performance of Magnetic Induction Body Area Network Nodes,"   in Proc. of IB2Com, Malaga, Spain, December 15 - 18, 2010.

8.        M. Masihpour and J.I. Agbinya, "Cooperative Relay in Near Field Magnetic Induction: A New Technology for Embedded Medical Communication Systems,"  in Proc. of IB2Com, Malaga, Spain, December 15 - 18, 2010.

9.        J.I. Agbinya and M. Masihpour, "Excitation Methods for Magneto Inductive Waveguide Communication Systems,"  in Proc. of IB2Com, Malaga, Spain, December 15 - 18, 2010

10.        Nazia Mastali and JI Agbinya, “Authentication of Subjects and Drivers Using Biometrics and Identity Management Systems for Pervasive Mobile Computing: A Survey Paper”, in Proceedings of IB2Com, Malaga, Spain, December 15 - 18, 2010

11        Tran TD &  Agbinya JI; “Feasibility of Key-swapping Collusion Attack on Distributed Sensor Networks”,  in Proceedings of IB2Com, Malaga, Spain, December 15 - 18, 2010

12.        Agbinya JI and Masihpour M., “Magnetic Induction Channel Models and Link Budgets: A Comparison between Two Agbinya-Masihpour Models”, in Proc. the Third International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2010), 11 – 13 August, 20, 2010, Nha Trang, Vietnam

13. Tran TD &  Agbinya JI;, “Revisiting Key-swapping Collusion Attack on Distributed Sensor Network” in Proc. The Fourth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOM), July 18 - 25, 2010 - Venice/Mestre, Italy, 2010

14.        Agbinya JI and Umuhoza D, “A New Trust Chain Model”, in Proc. 24th International Conference in Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshop (AINA’2010); April 20-23, Perth, Western Australia, 2010, pp. 1077 - 1084

15. Denise Umuhoza, Johnson I Agbinya and Anwar Vahed, “A Multi-Tier Trust Framework for the Geospatial Domain”, 4th International Workshop on Intelligent, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS 2010), Krakow, Poland, 15-18 February 2010

16.        Tran TD &  Agbinya JI;, “Early and Lightweight Distributed Detection of Node Replication Attack in Sensor Networks, WCNC Sydney, April 18 – 21, 2010

17.        Essam AlRahali , Johnson Agbinya and Zenon Chaczko; “The Role of Re-engineering Education and Training Operations in Creating Job Opportunities and Reducing Unemployment Rates”, The 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, 28 – 30 March, 2010 Cairo, EGYPT

18.        Essam AlRahali , Johnson Agbinya and Zenon Chaczko; “Business Process Re-engineering in Saudi Arabia: A Survey of Understanding and Attitudes”, Water Desalination Conference in the Arab Countries 11-14 April,2010 , Saudi Arabia

19.     Tamara Sztynda, Sara Lal, Victor Wong and Johnson Agbinya, “Determining Emotion from Facial Image Vectors”, in Proc. 20th International Symposium on the Forensic Sciences, 5 - 9 September 2010, Sydney Australia

20.        Agbinya, JI, Selvaraj N., Ollett A, Ibos S., Oi-Chanchez Y., Brennan M. and Chaczko Z., “Size and Characteristics of the ‘Cone of Silence’ in Near Field Magnetic Induction Communications”, in Proc.  MILCIS2009, Canberra, 10-12 November 2009

21.        Al-hattab M and Agbinya JI., “Self-Trajectory Estimation for Wireless Mobile Networks”, in Proc. 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications”, July 17 – 20, Wroclaw Poland, 2009

22.        Al-Ja’afreh H and Agbinya, JI., “Self-Managed Vehicular Networks: A Survey Paper”, in Proc. 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications”, July 17 – 20, Wroclaw Poland, 2009

23.        Agbinya JI, Lee V, Chaczko Z and Aboura K, Recognition of Radio Signal Pollution Levels and Signatures”, in Proc. 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications”, July 17 – 20, Wroclaw Poland, 2009

24.        Agbinya JI, Chaczko Z and Aboura K, Radio Frequency Pollution Mapping”, in Proc. 4th International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications”, July 17 – 20, Wroclaw Poland, 2009

25.        Mahira M Mowjoon (Mahira Atham Lebbe ), Johnson I Agbinya, and Zenon Chaczko, “Replicating Cytokines in Modelling Signal Exchange between Nodes in Wireless Mesh Networks” in Proc. of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, 2009, pp315-318

26.        Agbinya, JI, Selvaraj N., Ollett A, Ibos S., Oi-Chanchez Y., Brennan M. and Chaczko Z., “Size and Characteristics of the ‘Cone of Silence’ in Near Field Magnetic Induction Communications”, in Proc.  MILCIS2009, Canberra, 10-12 November 2009

27.        Agbinya JI and Agbinya MA; A New Address Allocation Scheme and Planning of Personal Area and Sensor Networks,  in IEEE Xplore and Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-08) Sydney, Australia, December 10th ~ 12th, http://ipc2008.he.nias.ac.jp/page9.html ; 2008

28.        Al-Hattab, M. and Agbinya, JI; Use of Street Maps to Aid Node Localization in Mobile Wireless Networks”,  in IEEE Xplore and Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-08) Sydney, Australia, December 10th ~ 12th, http://ipc2008.he.nias.ac.jp/page9.html ; 2008

29.        Mabuza PG, Agbinya JI  & Biermann E; „Non-Destructive Sensing of Food Materials Using Radio Frequencies; in Proc. IEEE BroadCom 2008 and IEEE Xplore; , November 23-26, 2008

30.        Agbinya, JI and Chiang F., “Bio-Inspired Topology Convergence Algorithms in Vehicular Networks”, in Proc. ICT Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 12 – 16, 2008

31.        Agbinya, JI., “Impact of Internet on African Female Social Behaviour: Issues Raised By Online Dating Sites”, in Proc. ICT Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 12 – 16, 2008

32.        Mahadevan V. and Agbinya, JI., “Replacing Intuition with Soft Computational Modeling Technique in Telecollaboration Business Environments”, in Proc. India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), Hyderabad India, Feb. 19 – 22, 2008

33.        Carmen Duthoit, Tamara Sztynda, Sara Lal, Budi Yap and Johnson Agbinya, “Optical Flow Image Analysis of Facial Expressions of Human Emotion – Forensic Applications”, e-Forensics 2008, Adelaide, South Australia, January 21-23, 2008

34.        Lebbe, MA., Agbinya JI and Chaczko, Z., “Policy based danger management in Artificial Immune System inspired secure routing in Wireless Mesh Networks,  presented at the International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008

35.        Lebbe, MA., Agbinya JI and Chaczko, Z., “Artificial Immune System inspired danger modeling in Wireless Mesh Networks”,  presented at the International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008

36.        Al-Hattab, M. and Agbinya, JI., “Topology Prediction and Convergence for Networks on Mobile Vehicles”,  presented at the International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008

37.        Tran TD &  Agbinya JI; "A Framework for Confronting Key-swapping Collusion Attack on Random Pairwise Key"; in Proc. 4th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor; Atlanta, USA; September 2009

38.        TD &  Agbinya JI; “Non-threshold Deterministic Parwise Key Establishment Scheme for Clustered Distributed Sensor Networks”; in Proc. IEEE BroadCom 2008 and IEEE Xplore, November 23-26, 2008

39.        Essam Rahali, Johnson Agbinya, Zenon Chaczko, Chris Chiu; Business Process Re-engineering in Saudi Arabia: A Survey of Understanding and Attitudes”, ”; in Proc. IEEE BroadCom 2008, November 23-26, 2008

40.     Agbinya JI, Navarrete GP;” Topology Adaptation to Services in Wireless Networks in Motion (NEMO); in Proc. IEEE BroadCom 2008 and IEEE Xplore, November 23-26, 2008

41.     Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye, Agbinya JI; “A Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithm for Next Generation Wireless Networks”, in Proc. IEEE BroadCom 2008 and IEEE Xplore, November 23-26, 2008

42.     Agbinya JI, Rumana Islam R, Kwok C; “Development of Digital Environment IdentiTY (DEITY) System for Online Access”, in Proc. IEEE BroadCom 2008 and IEEE Xplore, November 23-26, 2008

43.     Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye, Agbinya JI; An Optimal Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithm for UMTS - WiMAX”, in Proc. The 2nd IFIP International Symposium on Wireless Communications and Information Technology in Developing Countries, CSIR Conference Centre, CSIR Campus, 6-7 October 2008, Pretoria, South Africa

44.   Nkansah-Gyekye, Agbinya JI; An Optimal Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithm for UMTS - WiMAX”, in Proc SATNAC, 2008

Research projects

Near Field Communications

Internet of Things and Sensor Networks

Inductive Wireless Power Transfer

Food Sensing

Solar Power Digital Hearing Aids