Mobile Culture: A Biography of the Mobile Phone. The Mobile Culture project will investigate the mobile phone as cultural object, investigating its history, cultural production, consumption, political economy and regulation. It will contribute new knowledge on the culture of a widely used new media technology, mobile communications. The study will provide fresh insights into central theoretical questions in cultural and media studies, such as the relationship between culture and technology, and ....Mobile Culture: A Biography of the Mobile Phone. The Mobile Culture project will investigate the mobile phone as cultural object, investigating its history, cultural production, consumption, political economy and regulation. It will contribute new knowledge on the culture of a widely used new media technology, mobile communications. The study will provide fresh insights into central theoretical questions in cultural and media studies, such as the relationship between culture and technology, and the use of political economy for cultural analysis. The study will devise innovative methods for new media study. Outcomes include a two-volume book, and workshop proceedings on mobile consumption, use, and policy.Read moreRead less
Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media and Youth Culture in Australia. Mobiles are a common part of life for young Australians, yet there is very little reliable data about how these are used and their social and cultural implications - especially new services such as mobile music, cameras and television. The qualitative and quantitative data from this project will give a detailed, national picture of mobile media use, and will be highly valuable for Australian companies, policymakers, regulator ....Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media and Youth Culture in Australia. Mobiles are a common part of life for young Australians, yet there is very little reliable data about how these are used and their social and cultural implications - especially new services such as mobile music, cameras and television. The qualitative and quantitative data from this project will give a detailed, national picture of mobile media use, and will be highly valuable for Australian companies, policymakers, regulators, non-governmental organizations as well as researchers. It will provide new knowledge to inform planning and innovation, and contribute to a better understanding of the social and cultural implications of mobile technologies.Read moreRead less
Next Generation Ubiquitous Service Spaces. The challenges facing the next generation ubiquitous service computing come from scale and variability in user activities, services, and network connectivity. The project will deliver innovative, useful, and usable concepts and tools to allow provisioning of services in large scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous environments. This research will have significant benefits to Australia. It will strengthen research capabilities and provide an ideal opportunity ....Next Generation Ubiquitous Service Spaces. The challenges facing the next generation ubiquitous service computing come from scale and variability in user activities, services, and network connectivity. The project will deliver innovative, useful, and usable concepts and tools to allow provisioning of services in large scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous environments. This research will have significant benefits to Australia. It will strengthen research capabilities and provide an ideal opportunity to train postgraduate research students in cutting edge technologies. It will enhance smart information use for useful information sharing among individuals, private or public organisations. It will facilitate the development of IT solutions that help citizens be self-supported.Read moreRead less
Security for Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Mobile ad hoc networks, a new emerging wireless networking paradigm, poses challenging problems in security, due to its dynamic nature and lack of centralised infrastructure, for which no adequate solutions exist today. This research addresses theory and design of secure mobile ad hoc networks. It achieves conceptual advances in terms of new security models for distributed location management, mobile authentication and multicasting; it proposes nove ....Security for Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Mobile ad hoc networks, a new emerging wireless networking paradigm, poses challenging problems in security, due to its dynamic nature and lack of centralised infrastructure, for which no adequate solutions exist today. This research addresses theory and design of secure mobile ad hoc networks. It achieves conceptual advances in terms of new security models for distributed location management, mobile authentication and multicasting; it proposes novel dynamic group key management and denial of service protection schemes, develops new security mechanisms for ad hoc routing, provides new insights into formal reasoning of security and demonstrates and evaluates practical secure wireless mobile applications.Read moreRead less
Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Systems for Wireless Communications. Current and future Wireless appliances require increased functionality, frequency of operation, and component integration along with reduced manufacturing costs, size, weight, and power consumption. Micro electro mechanical systems for radio frequency with versatility to integrate both electronic (2-D) and microelectro-mechanical (3-D) devices represent the technology that can offer wide operational bandwidths, on-chip p ....Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Systems for Wireless Communications. Current and future Wireless appliances require increased functionality, frequency of operation, and component integration along with reduced manufacturing costs, size, weight, and power consumption. Micro electro mechanical systems for radio frequency with versatility to integrate both electronic (2-D) and microelectro-mechanical (3-D) devices represent the technology that can offer wide operational bandwidths, on-chip passive components, negligible interconnections, almost ideal switches and resonators, in a planar fabrication process, compatible with existing integrated circuits and monolithic microwave integrated circuits. The outcomes of this project will be of significant benefit to the Australian Telecommunication industry.Read moreRead less
Radio Frequency Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Switch Applications for Reconfigurable Multifunctional Communication Systems. Recent advances in modern ultra wideband radar and wireless communications applications demanded high performance and reconfigurable Radio Frequency subsystems that simplify multiple complex functions using common hardware. These trends impose drastic requirements on passive and active devices. The reported performance of Radio Frequency Micro Electro Mechanical System ....Radio Frequency Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Switch Applications for Reconfigurable Multifunctional Communication Systems. Recent advances in modern ultra wideband radar and wireless communications applications demanded high performance and reconfigurable Radio Frequency subsystems that simplify multiple complex functions using common hardware. These trends impose drastic requirements on passive and active devices. The reported performance of Radio Frequency Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (RF MEMS) switches, with extremely low loss and high isolation, microsopic, have lead to their applications in reconfigurable circuits. The proposal deals with the development of RF MEMS based reconfigurable devices that will enable flexible interconnections between various ports and channels and optimize the usage of bandwidth. The outcomes of this project will be of significant benefit to the Australian Telecommunication industry.Read moreRead less
Engineered optical fibre device structures for next generation telecommunication systems. The next generation of optical telecommunication networks requires novel photonic compnents that are superior to current devices, and cannot be obtained by incremental improvement. This project will identify novel device architectures and implement these in practical devices. This will ensure that Australia remains at the cutting edge of photonics research, one of the most dynamic and exciting ereas in sc ....Engineered optical fibre device structures for next generation telecommunication systems. The next generation of optical telecommunication networks requires novel photonic compnents that are superior to current devices, and cannot be obtained by incremental improvement. This project will identify novel device architectures and implement these in practical devices. This will ensure that Australia remains at the cutting edge of photonics research, one of the most dynamic and exciting ereas in science and engineering and at the basis of a multibillion dollar industry.Read moreRead less
Highly Scalable Video Compression with Finely Embedded Motion Signalling. Highly scalable video compression is critical to the emergence of new applications in video distribution and management. Examples include interactive remote browsing of video and robust video surveillance over shared networks. Previous ARC funding produced fundamental breakthroughs in scalable video compression, resulting in a new paradigm which has been adopted by leading researchers in the field. The present project a ....Highly Scalable Video Compression with Finely Embedded Motion Signalling. Highly scalable video compression is critical to the emergence of new applications in video distribution and management. Examples include interactive remote browsing of video and robust video surveillance over shared networks. Previous ARC funding produced fundamental breakthroughs in scalable video compression, resulting in a new paradigm which has been adopted by leading researchers in the field. The present project addresses the two most important problems which currently limit the potential of this paradigm. Inspired by the applicant's recent discoveries, the outcomes of this project are likely to represent significant scientific breakthroughs and contribute to a new international video coding standard.Read moreRead less
Security Services for Stream-Oriented and Multicast-Based Communication. Multicast communication over lossy networks is becoming the basic for a growing number of aplications. It is therefore critical to provide sound security mechanisms for multicast communication. Yet, existing security protocols for multicast offer only partial solutions. This project is concerned with two major security problems of multicast communications: authentication and secrecy. The goal of this project is to: (1) deve ....Security Services for Stream-Oriented and Multicast-Based Communication. Multicast communication over lossy networks is becoming the basic for a growing number of aplications. It is therefore critical to provide sound security mechanisms for multicast communication. Yet, existing security protocols for multicast offer only partial solutions. This project is concerned with two major security problems of multicast communications: authentication and secrecy. The goal of this project is to: (1) develop a framework for analysis and evaluation of security services for multicast communication; (2) design efficient algorithms and protocols for securing emerging applications that are multicast-based and/or stream-oriented.
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Algorithmics for Extremely Mobile Wireless Networks. Existing wireless network protocols need stringent conditions to be effective. These conditions are rarely met for concrete applications such as Defence, Disaster-Relief, Search-and-Rescue. All these cannot rely on existing infrastructure, and often require high mobility. This is crucial in the case of Australia which cannot rely on complete network coverage of its lands and seas. This project will develop new wireless protocols for applicati ....Algorithmics for Extremely Mobile Wireless Networks. Existing wireless network protocols need stringent conditions to be effective. These conditions are rarely met for concrete applications such as Defence, Disaster-Relief, Search-and-Rescue. All these cannot rely on existing infrastructure, and often require high mobility. This is crucial in the case of Australia which cannot rely on complete network coverage of its lands and seas. This project will develop new wireless protocols for applications requiring extreme mobility. It will increase Australia's control of this, now ubiquitous, technology thus rendering Australia a key player in this field.Read moreRead less