The red belly blockchain: a scalable blockchain for internet of things. This project aims to offer a blockchain that scales with the number of participants. There have been major investments in blockchain technologies during the last year as blockchains promise to disrupt industries like supply chains. Unfortunately, blockchains cannot solve this problem in their current form, because they cannot scale. They require resources that grow with the number of participants and yet fail at providing in ....The red belly blockchain: a scalable blockchain for internet of things. This project aims to offer a blockchain that scales with the number of participants. There have been major investments in blockchain technologies during the last year as blockchains promise to disrupt industries like supply chains. Unfortunately, blockchains cannot solve this problem in their current form, because they cannot scale. They require resources that grow with the number of participants and yet fail at providing increasing performance. The project will leverage many devices of limited resources to offer higher performance and will impact the distributed computing field by establishing a new connection between energy efficient systems and highly scalable distributed algorithms.Read moreRead less
Resource Allocation for High-Volume Streaming Data in Data Centers. Almost all chip vendors are producing new hardware accelerators by combining several units into a single main-board, and therefore making the execution of parallel and distributed run-time primitives not efficient/scalable. This project aims to develop innovative ways to building incremental and iterative computations over massive data sets in a cluster of heterogeneous systems. This will provide a significant reduction of perfo ....Resource Allocation for High-Volume Streaming Data in Data Centers. Almost all chip vendors are producing new hardware accelerators by combining several units into a single main-board, and therefore making the execution of parallel and distributed run-time primitives not efficient/scalable. This project aims to develop innovative ways to building incremental and iterative computations over massive data sets in a cluster of heterogeneous systems. This will provide a significant reduction of performance bottlenecks when running heavily distributed data-driven applications. Expected outcomes will include resource management algorithms that optimise performance at large scale. The project will benefit many areas, including running stateful iterative stream-based data-analysis applications in data centres. Read moreRead less
Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning for Secure and Decentralised Learning. This project aims to develop novel blockchain-enabled federated learning techniques for secure and decentralised learning. It addresses an important and urgent machine learning problem, that is, the data useful for training machine learning models are often held by different owners who are not willing to share their data due to privacy concerns, resulting in isolated data islands. The project will result in a set of inn ....Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning for Secure and Decentralised Learning. This project aims to develop novel blockchain-enabled federated learning techniques for secure and decentralised learning. It addresses an important and urgent machine learning problem, that is, the data useful for training machine learning models are often held by different owners who are not willing to share their data due to privacy concerns, resulting in isolated data islands. The project will result in a set of innovative algorithms that provide solutions to the key challenges in blockchain-enabled federated learning. The expected outcomes of the project will dramatically advance the frontier of machine learning and blockchain research, and have massive social and economic benefits for Australia and international communities.Read moreRead less
Dynamic resource provisioning for autonomic management of cloud computing environments. In the next 20 years, service-oriented computing will play an important role in shaping the industry and will require cloud infrastructure hosting applications to deliver services at low cost. This project will develop technologies for self-managed cloud computing platforms that reduce usage and operational costs, thus transforming the Australian economy.
Taipan: a block-chain with democratic consensus and validated contracts. Blockchains keep records by mass collaboration using peer-to-peer and cryptographical algorithms. Programmable blockchain technology can disrupt the finance industry, governance, and legal services by reducing the role for intermediaries such as banks and government authorities. This project aims to propose a new block-chain for “Trust Among Individual ParticipANts” (TAIPAN). The main feature of TAIPAN’s programmable block ....Taipan: a block-chain with democratic consensus and validated contracts. Blockchains keep records by mass collaboration using peer-to-peer and cryptographical algorithms. Programmable blockchain technology can disrupt the finance industry, governance, and legal services by reducing the role for intermediaries such as banks and government authorities. This project aims to propose a new block-chain for “Trust Among Individual ParticipANts” (TAIPAN). The main feature of TAIPAN’s programmable block-chain is the integrity and security of individual ownership records that current block-chains lack. This project will aim to overcome two major threats in current programmable block-chains, double-spending among participants, and security vulnerabilities in smart contracts. TAIPAN will provide a democratic and leaderless consensus algorithm that will avoid double-spending, and a new bug-checking framework for smart contracts that finds anomalies before smart contracts are admitted to the block-chain.Read moreRead less
Algorithms and Software Systems for Management of Software-Defined Clouds. This project seeks to develop technologies for more powerful and lower-cost cloud computing. Cloud computing offers utility-oriented information technology services to users worldwide. Based on pay-as-you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific and business domains. However, applications are unable to harness the full power of the cloud due to partial virtualisation and lack of int ....Algorithms and Software Systems for Management of Software-Defined Clouds. This project seeks to develop technologies for more powerful and lower-cost cloud computing. Cloud computing offers utility-oriented information technology services to users worldwide. Based on pay-as-you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific and business domains. However, applications are unable to harness the full power of the cloud due to partial virtualisation and lack of integrated management of compute and network resources of data centres. This project aims to transform cloud computing by developing architectural principles for software-defined clouds; algorithms and policies for integrated allocation of compute and network resources to meet quality-of-service requirements of applications; and a novel software technology for energy-efficient management of software-defined clouds.Read moreRead less
Software debuggers for next generation heterogeneous supercomputers. Supercomputing underpins a wide range of areas of importance to the Australian economy; mining, agriculture, engineering and medical research to name a few. It is of critical importance that software solutions in these areas behave correctly. This project will develop software tools and techniques to help locate errors in such applications.
Resource management algorithms and software systems for green cloud computing. Service-oriented computing will play an important role in shaping society. It needs cloud infrastructure to host applications for delivering services at the lowest cost. This project will create technologies for energy-efficient cloud computing, reducing its operational cost and environmental impact, thus transforming the Australian economy.
SenShaMart: A Trusted Internet of Things Marketplace for Sensor Sharing. This project aims to devise a novel Internet of Things (IoT) sensor sharing marketplace that permits IoT applications to discover, integrate, and pay for any IoT sensor data that is made available by other parties. The project will devise highly-scalable sensor classification, query processing, and transactions solutions and incorporate them in a pair of novel blockchains that work in tandem to securely manage all the infor ....SenShaMart: A Trusted Internet of Things Marketplace for Sensor Sharing. This project aims to devise a novel Internet of Things (IoT) sensor sharing marketplace that permits IoT applications to discover, integrate, and pay for any IoT sensor data that is made available by other parties. The project will devise highly-scalable sensor classification, query processing, and transactions solutions and incorporate them in a pair of novel blockchains that work in tandem to securely manage all the information and contracts needed by IoT applications to discover, integrate, pay, and use sensors provided by another parties. These IoT advancements will provide significant economic, environmental, and social benefits via making low-cost and immediate sensing available across the world.Read moreRead less
Cost-effective App Service Management in Edge Computing Environment. This project aims to deliver a framework and a suite of approaches for cost-effective app service management in the edge computing (EC) environment facilitated by the 5G mobile network. Edge computing offers great promises for rapidly advancing mobile and IoT apps in many active domains in Australia, e.g., self-driving cars, medical services, etc. Using a variety of optimization techniques and game theory, this project attacks ....Cost-effective App Service Management in Edge Computing Environment. This project aims to deliver a framework and a suite of approaches for cost-effective app service management in the edge computing (EC) environment facilitated by the 5G mobile network. Edge computing offers great promises for rapidly advancing mobile and IoT apps in many active domains in Australia, e.g., self-driving cars, medical services, etc. Using a variety of optimization techniques and game theory, this project attacks the new challenges in the deployment, delivery and adaptation of app services in the EC environment. The outcomes of this project will significantly promote new mobile and IoT apps over Australia's 5G mobile network by allowing app vendors to manage their services cost-effectively with ease in the EC environment.Read moreRead less