Psychological User Profiling in the Telecommunications Industry. Recording user behaviour allows businesses to learn about their customers. This is particularly important in telecommunications, since the core business involves a large number of users who vary considerably from one another. This project combines psychological insights with modern statistical methods to develop a psychologically plausible user profiling framework, accounting for the idiosyncratic usage patterns of customers, and t ....Psychological User Profiling in the Telecommunications Industry. Recording user behaviour allows businesses to learn about their customers. This is particularly important in telecommunications, since the core business involves a large number of users who vary considerably from one another. This project combines psychological insights with modern statistical methods to develop a psychologically plausible user profiling framework, accounting for the idiosyncratic usage patterns of customers, and the way in which they change over time. The profiles will be tied to marketing prospects through interviews and surveys. Applied benefits include the ability to predict, understand and act upon user behaviour. The project also adds substantially to theories of memory, individual differences and decision-making.Read moreRead less
Stochastic Construction of Error Correcting Codes with Application to Digital Communications. Modern society would be unrecognisable without error correcting codes; mobile telephones, storage devices such as DVD's and high speed data communications simply would not exist. Yet most theoretical results on error correcting codes are asymptotic in nature and ignore computational complexity issues, that is, they are not representative of many real life situations. By building on recent breakthrough ....Stochastic Construction of Error Correcting Codes with Application to Digital Communications. Modern society would be unrecognisable without error correcting codes; mobile telephones, storage devices such as DVD's and high speed data communications simply would not exist. Yet most theoretical results on error correcting codes are asymptotic in nature and ignore computational complexity issues, that is, they are not representative of many real life situations. By building on recent breakthroughs in statistics and stochastic optimisation, this project will develop algorithms for designing optimised error correcting codes subject to realistic finite data length and computational complexity constraints. Successful outcomes will lead to enhanced data communications and storage, greatly benefiting industry and consumers alike.
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Development of a new transport layer protocol to provide secure broadband internet connections via satellite to rural and remote areas. Satellite links form an essential part of broadband connectivity to rural and remote areas. Effective use of the internet over satellite links is therefore essential if B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Consumer) E-commerce is to develop in these areas. In many application networks, particularly virtual private networks (VPN), secure transmission ....Development of a new transport layer protocol to provide secure broadband internet connections via satellite to rural and remote areas. Satellite links form an essential part of broadband connectivity to rural and remote areas. Effective use of the internet over satellite links is therefore essential if B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Consumer) E-commerce is to develop in these areas. In many application networks, particularly virtual private networks (VPN), secure transmission is important to avoid fraud and maintain privacy.
Satellite links introduce a long delay (latency) in the transmission path and existing secure internet protocols do not handle this well. This is because in many situations, it is a requirement that the secure connection be implemented not only independently of the
satellite service provider but also in a reliable and efficient way.
This project will develop new practical solutions so that secure and reliable end-to-end connections can be provided over the satellite links.
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Managing Knowledge in Web-Driven Organisational Evolution. Organisations are increasingly concerned with the effective utilisation of Web technologies, and especially the ways in which these technologies can be used to improve their business. Effective management of knowledge about the interplay between the organisation and technical drivers of this technology adoption will enable a much-enhanced process for leveraging emerging information and communication technologies. This project aims to li ....Managing Knowledge in Web-Driven Organisational Evolution. Organisations are increasingly concerned with the effective utilisation of Web technologies, and especially the ways in which these technologies can be used to improve their business. Effective management of knowledge about the interplay between the organisation and technical drivers of this technology adoption will enable a much-enhanced process for leveraging emerging information and communication technologies. This project aims to link related research at UTS and Southampton University to understand how tools might support this knowledge management. Outcomes will include the creation of specific tools (and techniques for using them) within the context of managing organisational uptake of new technologies.Read moreRead less
Secure and Efficient Cryptographic Hashing. This project will enhance information security, which is absolutely crucial for rapidly growing e-commerce, e-government services and for national security (Priority 4 -Safeguarding Australia - Protection against Terrorism and Crime). The project will strengthen international collaboration by reciprocal exchange of researchers and postgraduate students leading to more attractive and productive research environment. At the same time, the project will he ....Secure and Efficient Cryptographic Hashing. This project will enhance information security, which is absolutely crucial for rapidly growing e-commerce, e-government services and for national security (Priority 4 -Safeguarding Australia - Protection against Terrorism and Crime). The project will strengthen international collaboration by reciprocal exchange of researchers and postgraduate students leading to more attractive and productive research environment. At the same time, the project will help to maintain high research profile of Australian researchers, to increase the capacity for consultancy and contract work, and provide a cutting-edge information technology for the Australian telecommunications industry, business and government (Priority 3 - Frontier Technologies). Read moreRead less
Efficient and Fair Traffic Control for a Multi-Service Internet. Australia relies very heavily on its
telecommunications infrastructure due to its
geographic dispersion. For the same reason,
it cannot afford to invest in inefficient infrastructure.
Our novel and practical Internet congestion control scheme will overcome current weaknesses in the Internet, and will enable the Australian telecommunication service industry to provide a better quality of service to the customers (including Aust ....Efficient and Fair Traffic Control for a Multi-Service Internet. Australia relies very heavily on its
telecommunications infrastructure due to its
geographic dispersion. For the same reason,
it cannot afford to invest in inefficient infrastructure.
Our novel and practical Internet congestion control scheme will overcome current weaknesses in the Internet, and will enable the Australian telecommunication service industry to provide a better quality of service to the customers (including Australian industries and rural communities) and at lower cost. This project will put Australia on the international stage as a leading contributor to Internet technology. We will provide training for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in the important area of Internet traffic engineering and control.Read moreRead less
Pattern-Based Video Coding Techniques for Real-Time Low Bit-Rate and Low Complexity Encoding Applications. This project will benefit the National Research Priority on Frontier Technology with applications in video surveillance, smart home design, and patient monitoring. It will enable Australia to lead the world in setting up coding standards and thus impact directly on the manufacturing initiatives of the multimedia communication and entertainment industries. Telecommunication industries will b ....Pattern-Based Video Coding Techniques for Real-Time Low Bit-Rate and Low Complexity Encoding Applications. This project will benefit the National Research Priority on Frontier Technology with applications in video surveillance, smart home design, and patient monitoring. It will enable Australia to lead the world in setting up coding standards and thus impact directly on the manufacturing initiatives of the multimedia communication and entertainment industries. Telecommunication industries will be the immediate beneficiary by enabling quality live video transmissions at low bit rates in a cost-effective manner. This project will improve the ability of large organisations to operate virtually across huge distances in Australia with the aid of reliable multimedia communications using distributed devices of limited power and processing capacity.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