Novel Multistage and Iterative Receivers for Wireless Communication Systems. The project is set up to develop novel detection techniques with the aim of improving the reliability and capacity in a range of wireless telecommunications services. Potential applications of the project outcomes are in cellular mobile, wireless LANs and mobile computing.
Space-Time Coding and Receiver Structures for High Speed Wireless Communications. The aims of the project are to to devise space-time coding techniques and cost effective receiver structures for applications in future wireless data networks. We expect that new space-time codes would enable an increase in spectral efficiency by two orders of magnitude compared with the existing systems and allow the introduction of advanced multimedia services.
Design of MIMO Spatial Division Multiple Access Techniques for Multi-User Wireless Data Services. The project aims at developing novel wireless techniques to enable a breakthrough in multi-user multimedia services in the ICT industry sector. The Australian research community will benefit from the new theoretical techniques, design and deployment of next-generation wireless systems, while wireless users will benefit from improved quality, high data rates and low cost of services. Other benefits ....Design of MIMO Spatial Division Multiple Access Techniques for Multi-User Wireless Data Services. The project aims at developing novel wireless techniques to enable a breakthrough in multi-user multimedia services in the ICT industry sector. The Australian research community will benefit from the new theoretical techniques, design and deployment of next-generation wireless systems, while wireless users will benefit from improved quality, high data rates and low cost of services. Other benefits include training researchers and industrial innovators, generation of valuable intellectual property and patent outcomes, which may help Australian telecommunication and information industry to become a leader in wireless ICT based technologies, ensure Australian ICT companies to gain commercial advantages, and contribute to national economy.Read moreRead less
Spectrum Agile Radio Communication Techniques for Future Wireless Broadband Networks. The project aims at developing novel cognitive spectrum access, transmission and receiving technologies, which allow unlicensed devices to use the unoccupied spectrum of licensed users in an intelligent way. The project outcomes will break the spectrum-availability bottleneck and significantly improve the spectrum utilisation in Australia. Potential applications of the project outcomes allow co-existence of var ....Spectrum Agile Radio Communication Techniques for Future Wireless Broadband Networks. The project aims at developing novel cognitive spectrum access, transmission and receiving technologies, which allow unlicensed devices to use the unoccupied spectrum of licensed users in an intelligent way. The project outcomes will break the spectrum-availability bottleneck and significantly improve the spectrum utilisation in Australia. Potential applications of the project outcomes allow co-existence of various wireless communication systems working in the same spectrum band, which can lead to new services and open markets for new players. In addition, the Australian research community will benefit from the new theory and techniques while wireless users will benefit from improved high data rates and lower cost of services.Read moreRead less
Design of Cooperative Communication Techniques for the 4th Generation Mobile Networks. The project aims at developing novel wireless techniques that will enable breakthroughs in multi-user multimedia services in the ICT industry sector. The Australian community will benefit from the design and deployment of the next-generation wireless mobile systems we will develop. These new systems will possess greatly improved quality, high data rates and low cost of services. Other benefits generated by thi ....Design of Cooperative Communication Techniques for the 4th Generation Mobile Networks. The project aims at developing novel wireless techniques that will enable breakthroughs in multi-user multimedia services in the ICT industry sector. The Australian community will benefit from the design and deployment of the next-generation wireless mobile systems we will develop. These new systems will possess greatly improved quality, high data rates and low cost of services. Other benefits generated by this research include the training of new innovators, and the generation of valuable intellectual property and patent outcomes. This work will help Australian telecommunication and information industries become leaders in wireless ICT based technologies, and contribute to the national economy.Read moreRead less
Channel Adaptive Space-Time (CAST) Coding and Processing for Wireless Downlink Packet Services. Recently, the capacity of the broadcast channel with multiple antennas is investigated. Various space-time (ST) processing techniques to adapt channel conditions are utilized to increase capacity. Precoding becomes vital to deal with interferers and cooperation problems efficiently. ST codes will be investigated in conjunction with precoding. We aim to investigate channel adaptive ST coding and precod ....Channel Adaptive Space-Time (CAST) Coding and Processing for Wireless Downlink Packet Services. Recently, the capacity of the broadcast channel with multiple antennas is investigated. Various space-time (ST) processing techniques to adapt channel conditions are utilized to increase capacity. Precoding becomes vital to deal with interferers and cooperation problems efficiently. ST codes will be investigated in conjunction with precoding. We aim to investigate channel adaptive ST coding and precoding techniques to achieve the maximum capacity with practical quality of service requirements. Although the capacity is extensively investigated, implementation methods are relatively less investigated. This project is to fill the cap between implementation (ST coding and precoding methods as outcomes) and theory (capacity analysis).Read moreRead less
From Nanosecond Timing to Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Detection. Radio pulsars are the collapsed cores of once-massive stars that are renowned for their exceptional rotational stability. Ever since their discovery Australia has played a prominent role in the discovery and monitoring of these enigmatic sources. The timing and discovery of millisecond pulsars is an area where Australia is a world leader. This programme will use a powerful new instrument on the Parkes radio telescope to search for ....From Nanosecond Timing to Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Detection. Radio pulsars are the collapsed cores of once-massive stars that are renowned for their exceptional rotational stability. Ever since their discovery Australia has played a prominent role in the discovery and monitoring of these enigmatic sources. The timing and discovery of millisecond pulsars is an area where Australia is a world leader. This programme will use a powerful new instrument on the Parkes radio telescope to search for the minute influence of gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries on the millisecond pulsars.Read moreRead less
New Pulsar Instrumentation for Gravitation Wave Detection and Understanding the Emission Mechanism. Millisecond pulsar timing currently provides the most sensitive method of detecting long-period gravitational waves which permeate the Universe. Parkes leads the world in the discovery and timing of millisecond pulsars. This has motivated the development of three new advanced instruments including a cyrogenic dual-band receiver, a very wide-band correlator and a baseband recorder with an in-built ....New Pulsar Instrumentation for Gravitation Wave Detection and Understanding the Emission Mechanism. Millisecond pulsar timing currently provides the most sensitive method of detecting long-period gravitational waves which permeate the Universe. Parkes leads the world in the discovery and timing of millisecond pulsars. This has motivated the development of three new advanced instruments including a cyrogenic dual-band receiver, a very wide-band correlator and a baseband recorder with an in-built supercomputer. We aim to exploit these new technologies to systematically study the pulsar population. We will establish a timing array which can detect gravitational waves, enable GLAST to identify over 100 gamma-ray pulsars and study the pulsar emission mechanism at sub-microsecond time resolution.
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Broadband to the bush: Polarization as a new resource in wireless cross-layer design. 'Broadband to the Bush' is a national priority - more than 1.6 million homes, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations in rural, regional, and remote Australia are set to benefit from broadband access to phone networks and the internet. The immediate challenges lie in overcoming poor download speeds and area coverage, as well as expensive access. This research will deliver cost and power-efficient re ....Broadband to the bush: Polarization as a new resource in wireless cross-layer design. 'Broadband to the Bush' is a national priority - more than 1.6 million homes, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations in rural, regional, and remote Australia are set to benefit from broadband access to phone networks and the internet. The immediate challenges lie in overcoming poor download speeds and area coverage, as well as expensive access. This research will deliver cost and power-efficient receiver architectures to provide end-user utility, and will train postgraduate researchers across traditional discipline boundaries in mathematics and engineering. The project represents an important contribution to frontier technologies in information and communications technology for building and transforming Australian industries.Read moreRead less
Adaptive Modulation For OFDM Signals. The sub band Signal To Noise Ratio in an OFDM communications channel varies by as much as 30 dB. In order to optimise the bandwidth efficiency of OFDM signalling it is desirable to adapt the chosen modulation technique such as M-ary QAM to the SNR available in sub bands. In this way high quality channels transmit the highest bit rates, whilst low quality channels accommodate the lowest bit rates. The net result is that the capacity of the communications link ....Adaptive Modulation For OFDM Signals. The sub band Signal To Noise Ratio in an OFDM communications channel varies by as much as 30 dB. In order to optimise the bandwidth efficiency of OFDM signalling it is desirable to adapt the chosen modulation technique such as M-ary QAM to the SNR available in sub bands. In this way high quality channels transmit the highest bit rates, whilst low quality channels accommodate the lowest bit rates. The net result is that the capacity of the communications link does not have to be limited by designing for worst case conditions.Read moreRead less