Multiple-input, multiple-output short range optical communications: a broadband solution with virtually unlimited bandwidth. This project will develop new short range communications systems with virtually unlimited bandwidth and combine the speed of optical communications with the convenience of wireless. Applications range from rapid data download to portable devices such as smart phones, to communications within very high speed computers.
What to do about WiFi Congestion? New methods for dense, wireless networks. This project aims to design and analyse new protocols for (wireless) WiFi networks. The demand on current WiFi networks is escalating at a tremendous rate. WiFi uses the unlicensed radio spectrum, so innovation can occur more easily over WiFi than over carrier-owned networks. WiFi also provides data offloading from severely congested cellular wireless networks. Unfortunately, the current WiFi multiple access protocols we ....What to do about WiFi Congestion? New methods for dense, wireless networks. This project aims to design and analyse new protocols for (wireless) WiFi networks. The demand on current WiFi networks is escalating at a tremendous rate. WiFi uses the unlicensed radio spectrum, so innovation can occur more easily over WiFi than over carrier-owned networks. WiFi also provides data offloading from severely congested cellular wireless networks. Unfortunately, the current WiFi multiple access protocols were not designed to handle closely packed WiFi networks and the resulting interference. This project takes a novel approach to develop algorithms that are much more robust to interference, and which use simple, distributed mechanisms to feed channel state information back from the receiver to the transmitter to maximise performance.Read moreRead less
Airborne Base Station Communication Systems: Capacity and Optimization. This project will fundamentally characterise and optimize information gathering, dissemination, and communication capacities of airborne base stations to enable low latency communications in rural and remote areas. New technologies such as precision farming, safe remote equipment operation in mining, and wide area surveillance and security, require low latency communications that are an order of magnitude beyond what is curr ....Airborne Base Station Communication Systems: Capacity and Optimization. This project will fundamentally characterise and optimize information gathering, dissemination, and communication capacities of airborne base stations to enable low latency communications in rural and remote areas. New technologies such as precision farming, safe remote equipment operation in mining, and wide area surveillance and security, require low latency communications that are an order of magnitude beyond what is currently available from satellite links. The expected outcome will be radically new base station deployment and flight path planning, and data transmission technologies. These will unlock new application technologies by enabling secure wide-spread communications coverage, delivering economic benefits to remote Australia.Read moreRead less
Easing the Squeeze: Dynamic and Distributed Resource Allocation with Cognitive Radio. The radio spectrum is a scarce and valuable natural resource which is being squeezed by the rapid growth in wireless communications. Cognitive radios make efficient use of radio spectrum by dynamically reusing frequencies. This requires cognitive radios to sense the local environment and to control the interference caused to existing users of the spectrum. This project will design novel dynamic and distributed ....Easing the Squeeze: Dynamic and Distributed Resource Allocation with Cognitive Radio. The radio spectrum is a scarce and valuable natural resource which is being squeezed by the rapid growth in wireless communications. Cognitive radios make efficient use of radio spectrum by dynamically reusing frequencies. This requires cognitive radios to sense the local environment and to control the interference caused to existing users of the spectrum. This project will design novel dynamic and distributed resource allocation algorithms for cognitive radios in order to significantly improve their performance using techniques from extreme value theory, game theory and mechanism design and large random matrix theory. Read moreRead less
Information-theoretic capacity of outdoor mm-wave wireless communications. This project aims to fundamentally characterise the practical information carrying capacity of future mm-wave wireless communication networks. The mm-wave spectrum offers 10-100 times the bandwidth used by current mobile networks, but comes with many challenges. An information theoretic model will be developed incorporating state of the art mm-wave channel models, and practical engineering implementation constraints. The ....Information-theoretic capacity of outdoor mm-wave wireless communications. This project aims to fundamentally characterise the practical information carrying capacity of future mm-wave wireless communication networks. The mm-wave spectrum offers 10-100 times the bandwidth used by current mobile networks, but comes with many challenges. An information theoretic model will be developed incorporating state of the art mm-wave channel models, and practical engineering implementation constraints. The expected outcome will be new network designs and data transmission technologies that unlock the spectrum by enabling secure outdoor mobile cellular deployments with wide-spread coverage. This will support vastly greater traffic densities and data rates.Read moreRead less
Design of rateless network coded future wireless cellular systems. High speed future communication networks are critical tools for achieving economic sustainability and could have a far-reaching impact on the Australian economy. The proposed program will have the potential to transform future wireless communication systems and bring considerable technical, economic and environmental benefits.
Large-scale highly dynamic wireless networks: architecture and communication strategies design. This project will develop novel techniques for the modelling, design and management of highly dynamic networks, with wireless vehicular networks for autonomous vehicles being a typical but not sole example. Social and economical benefits are expected in the areas of road traffic management and road safety, communication and environment protection.
Optimising throughput and Delay in network coded systems. This project addresses one main disadvantage of network coding: decoding delay. By solving this issue, we will unlock the true potential of network coding: delivery of high data rates in wireless and wireline networks. This will make network coding an attractive choice for live video streaming and mission-critical delay-sensitive applications.
Real-time internet of thing algorithms with performance guarantees. This project aims to provide efficient, distributed resource allocation algorithms that can perform satisfactorily within time limits imposed by real-time systems. Real-time Internet of Things (IoT) devices will play a significant role in future transport technologies, such as autonomous vehicles and smart traffic management, and will place significant demands upon distributed computing systems to provide timely information upda ....Real-time internet of thing algorithms with performance guarantees. This project aims to provide efficient, distributed resource allocation algorithms that can perform satisfactorily within time limits imposed by real-time systems. Real-time Internet of Things (IoT) devices will play a significant role in future transport technologies, such as autonomous vehicles and smart traffic management, and will place significant demands upon distributed computing systems to provide timely information updates. The computing challenge is to provide reliable, accurate and timely information to IoT devices. The outcomes of this project will directly be beneficial to a variety of IoT applications in transportation, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. The valuable engineering insights and novel algorithms will support industry, government, and practitioners for future real-time IoT design and deployments.Read moreRead less
New channel estimation, tracking and equalization algorithms for real-time high-speed underwater acoustic communication systems. High-speed underwater communication is vitally important for Australian offshore oil and gas industries, marine commercial operations, and defence applications. However, due to the challenges posed by the harsh underwater channel, current underwater communication systems have significant limitations on data rate and bit-error-rate for many applications and environments ....New channel estimation, tracking and equalization algorithms for real-time high-speed underwater acoustic communication systems. High-speed underwater communication is vitally important for Australian offshore oil and gas industries, marine commercial operations, and defence applications. However, due to the challenges posed by the harsh underwater channel, current underwater communication systems have significant limitations on data rate and bit-error-rate for many applications and environments. This project aims to develop a real-time signal processing platform for reliable high-speed communication through the extremely bandlimited and reverberant underwater acoustic channel. New channel estimation, tracking and equalisation algorithms developed in this project will significantly enhance the capacity of underwater communication systems.Read moreRead less