Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols for Wearable Wireless Biomedical Sensor Devices. The communication protocols developed in this project will directly contribute to the realisation of wearable, mobile, and robust devices for continuous medical monitoring. Several Australian industries can benefit economically by using the technology to improve the performance, efficiency, and longevity of their existing systems for chronic disease management, aged care, personal wellness, occupational hea ....Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols for Wearable Wireless Biomedical Sensor Devices. The communication protocols developed in this project will directly contribute to the realisation of wearable, mobile, and robust devices for continuous medical monitoring. Several Australian industries can benefit economically by using the technology to improve the performance, efficiency, and longevity of their existing systems for chronic disease management, aged care, personal wellness, occupational health, and in hospitals/GPs. Non-intrusive monitoring offers quality-of-life to the millions of aged and chronically ill Australians, while low-cost allows it to be widely used in regional and rural communities. Partaking in the innovation of the technology will also give Australia a strong position in the ICT space.Read moreRead less
Sensor and Actor Grid for Assistive Healthcare. Australia's population is ageing, with a significant, projected increase in the number of people aged over 65. This project addresses the core issue of providing an end-to-end assistive healthcare loop to maintain the wellness as well as improving the quality of life of this ageing population. It promises to reduce the enormous cost of public and primary healthcare. Furthermore, with the proposed framework, an end user will be able to enjoy the sup ....Sensor and Actor Grid for Assistive Healthcare. Australia's population is ageing, with a significant, projected increase in the number of people aged over 65. This project addresses the core issue of providing an end-to-end assistive healthcare loop to maintain the wellness as well as improving the quality of life of this ageing population. It promises to reduce the enormous cost of public and primary healthcare. Furthermore, with the proposed framework, an end user will be able to enjoy the support of multiple caregivers (relatives, community-caregivers, etc.) working collaboratively. These factors certainly relate this project to the strengthening of Australia's social and economic fabric priority.Read moreRead less
Access to mobile communications for older people with impairments. This research will determine the potential to use mobile communications to enable older people with impairments to remain active members of the community. it will test the capacity for mobiles to enable:
* older people with impairments to maintain social communication links and summon assistance; and
* caregivers to maintain contact with the older person during the day.
Providing these capabilities has the potential to improve ....Access to mobile communications for older people with impairments. This research will determine the potential to use mobile communications to enable older people with impairments to remain active members of the community. it will test the capacity for mobiles to enable:
* older people with impairments to maintain social communication links and summon assistance; and
* caregivers to maintain contact with the older person during the day.
Providing these capabilities has the potential to improve the wellbeing and confidence of older people with impairments and their caregivers and to reduce negative outcomes due to falls or other medical problems by enabling older people to summon assistance easily.Read moreRead less
EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams in Data Management Systems. Advanced moving object data management systems are becoming a core technology for a large variety of applications such as traffic management and inventory tracking. These applications play a ubiquitous, critical role in our daily lives. In the same way as the first prototype of a relational database paved the way for successive relational database management systems, we envision that EPOS will form the foundation for ....EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams in Data Management Systems. Advanced moving object data management systems are becoming a core technology for a large variety of applications such as traffic management and inventory tracking. These applications play a ubiquitous, critical role in our daily lives. In the same way as the first prototype of a relational database paved the way for successive relational database management systems, we envision that EPOS will form the foundation for a new generation of moving object databases. EPOS is designed to process a large number of concurrently running continuous monitoring queries on a massive set of moving objects with frequent updates. Read moreRead less
PreferPeer: Towards Efficient Location-aware Preference Search in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Databases. Our research is right in the forefront of ICT research, leading the international effort of extending database technologies to support data management and query processing in very large scale highly mobile data. The proposed PreferPeer stands to open up major research directions in mobile point-to-point computing. Advances in this project will bring significant economic and social benefits to Austral ....PreferPeer: Towards Efficient Location-aware Preference Search in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Databases. Our research is right in the forefront of ICT research, leading the international effort of extending database technologies to support data management and query processing in very large scale highly mobile data. The proposed PreferPeer stands to open up major research directions in mobile point-to-point computing. Advances in this project will bring significant economic and social benefits to Australia. The research outcome of this project will directly benefit the following sectors: telecommunications, transportation, supply chain management, logistics, mobile computing, mobile e-commerce and marketing, air traffic control, defence, and so on, where efficient access to large amounts of highly mobile and distributed information is vital.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
Architecture-based Open Network Management Systems for Next Generation Telecommunications. We aim to develop an open, policy-based architecture for the management of next generation telecommunications networks. It is expected that a comprehensive Open Architecture-based Telecommunications Management Network (AuTuMN) framework could be put in place to manage the network based on centralised policies and roles rather than having to handle individual users and elements. Significantly, the scient ....Architecture-based Open Network Management Systems for Next Generation Telecommunications. We aim to develop an open, policy-based architecture for the management of next generation telecommunications networks. It is expected that a comprehensive Open Architecture-based Telecommunications Management Network (AuTuMN) framework could be put in place to manage the network based on centralised policies and roles rather than having to handle individual users and elements. Significantly, the scientific knowledge of open systems and network management systems for next generation networks will be extended.Read moreRead less
A new erasure resilient technique for encoding internet packets. Efficient internet communication tolerates losing some packets sent across the web by sending a bit more information than is required. Any holes in the transmission can be repaired using the redundant data. We propose a new transmission protocol that is much simpler to encode and repairs broken messages faster. This new approach, based on sending data plus summed versions of itself, has generic applicability across all packet switc ....A new erasure resilient technique for encoding internet packets. Efficient internet communication tolerates losing some packets sent across the web by sending a bit more information than is required. Any holes in the transmission can be repaired using the redundant data. We propose a new transmission protocol that is much simpler to encode and repairs broken messages faster. This new approach, based on sending data plus summed versions of itself, has generic applicability across all packet switched information networks.Read moreRead less
An Innovative Framework and Techniques for Trusted Mobile Interaction. Emerging mobile applications such as mobile commerce, location-based services and wireless sensor networks promise to have an enormous impact in business, society, health and defence and be the next technological wave. However for successful real-world deployment, for reasons of privacy, safety and business efficacy users must be able to have trusted interactions. This project will contribute to Australia's ICT innovation and ....An Innovative Framework and Techniques for Trusted Mobile Interaction. Emerging mobile applications such as mobile commerce, location-based services and wireless sensor networks promise to have an enormous impact in business, society, health and defence and be the next technological wave. However for successful real-world deployment, for reasons of privacy, safety and business efficacy users must be able to have trusted interactions. This project will contribute to Australia's ICT innovation and international competitiveness by developing dynamic, generic, scalable and extensible techniques for trusted mobile interaction. Resulting benefits will be world-leading enabling technology facilitating the creation of novel mobile services and products with potential productivity benefits and export opportunities.Read moreRead less
Distributed Estimation and Control under Communication Constraints. Sensor networks will be an important technology for Australia's future. Applications range from monitoring water quality to controlling complex defence systems. This project will lead to a better understanding of the fundamental limits of wireless sensor networks. Above and beyond the creation of new theory and algorithms, the national and community benefits will include: (i) enhancement of Australia's reputation for innovative ....Distributed Estimation and Control under Communication Constraints. Sensor networks will be an important technology for Australia's future. Applications range from monitoring water quality to controlling complex defence systems. This project will lead to a better understanding of the fundamental limits of wireless sensor networks. Above and beyond the creation of new theory and algorithms, the national and community benefits will include: (i) enhancement of Australia's reputation for innovative Engineering research through quality publications and international collaborations; and (ii) improvement of the research and development capability in the information and communications technology sector through high level training of postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows in this important technology.Read moreRead less