Novel Techniques for Uncoordinated Massive Access in the Internet of Things. The IoT (internet of things) is the backbone of intelligent transportation, healthcare, energy and smart home systems. To accommodate the exponentially increasing number of IoT devices, a dramatic paradigm shift towards non-orthogonal uncoordinated (grant-free) massive access is underway, where devices transmit data opportunistically over shared channel resources. This project aims to develop new receivers for such unc ....Novel Techniques for Uncoordinated Massive Access in the Internet of Things. The IoT (internet of things) is the backbone of intelligent transportation, healthcare, energy and smart home systems. To accommodate the exponentially increasing number of IoT devices, a dramatic paradigm shift towards non-orthogonal uncoordinated (grant-free) massive access is underway, where devices transmit data opportunistically over shared channel resources. This project aims to develop new receivers for such uncoordinated massive access, where the receivers will be trained to identify transmitting devices, recover their data, and resolve any collisions. These outcomes are expected to emerge as a game changer in IoT communications, benefiting national and international industry to meet future telecommunications needs for the IoT.Read moreRead less
New modulation techniques for future high-mobility wireless communications. Future wireless networks will support huge amounts of mobile data traffic and numbers of terminals. To provide satisfactory service to emerging mass transportation systems such as self-driving cars, high-speed trains, and drones, it will be critical to incorporate the ability for wireless networks to function in high-mobility environments. The project aims to devise novel modulation techniques to support high-mobility co ....New modulation techniques for future high-mobility wireless communications. Future wireless networks will support huge amounts of mobile data traffic and numbers of terminals. To provide satisfactory service to emerging mass transportation systems such as self-driving cars, high-speed trains, and drones, it will be critical to incorporate the ability for wireless networks to function in high-mobility environments. The project aims to devise novel modulation techniques to support high-mobility communications with superior performance. The theoretical advances will be demonstrated using software-defined radios. These outcomes will provide fundamental scientific basis for deployment of future air interfaces. The project will benefit Australia in gaining a leading position in global telecommunications development.Read moreRead less
Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation for Future Mobile Communications. Future wireless systems need to support high-mobility services, including self-driving autonomous cars, in-vehicle infotainment, and communications onboard aircraft. This project proposes to develop novel orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) communications theories and pragmatic transceiver techniques, aiming to substantially improve data rates, reliability, and robustness of future high-mobility communications. Innov ....Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation for Future Mobile Communications. Future wireless systems need to support high-mobility services, including self-driving autonomous cars, in-vehicle infotainment, and communications onboard aircraft. This project proposes to develop novel orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) communications theories and pragmatic transceiver techniques, aiming to substantially improve data rates, reliability, and robustness of future high-mobility communications. Innovative transceiver techniques, signal processing algorithms for channel estimation and detection, and efficient coding approaches will be devised for OTFS systems. The project outcomes are expected to advance the capabilities of high-mobility communications and provide significant benefits for users and network providers.Read moreRead less
Wireless Cellular Connectivity for Large Scale Critical Applications. Fostered by continuous technology advances, a vision of the Industrial Internet is emerging, in which equipment, machines, and industrial robots are interconnected to each other and to the cloud, allowing remote control of industrial processes and critical infrastructure, to intelligently optimise their behaviour with minimal human intervention. Moving from the state-of-the-art small pilot projects to a global Industrial Inte ....Wireless Cellular Connectivity for Large Scale Critical Applications. Fostered by continuous technology advances, a vision of the Industrial Internet is emerging, in which equipment, machines, and industrial robots are interconnected to each other and to the cloud, allowing remote control of industrial processes and critical infrastructure, to intelligently optimise their behaviour with minimal human intervention. Moving from the state-of-the-art small pilot projects to a global Industrial Internet requires wireless systems with consistent high reliability, low latency and massive connectivity. In this project we will develop new communication-theoretic principles and technologies for wireless networks meeting the demands of critical industrial and infrastructure applications in the Industrial Internet era.Read moreRead less
Channel Coding for Beyond 5G. Significant improvements are required for ICT services if they are to meet the needs of rapid urbanization and industrial transformation while also addressing the current digital divide, which sees half of the world's population currently without sufficient access to the internet. The 6th-generation (6G) of mobile standards will be a key solution to the constantly increasing demands on our communications infrastructure. This project will develop novel communication ....Channel Coding for Beyond 5G. Significant improvements are required for ICT services if they are to meet the needs of rapid urbanization and industrial transformation while also addressing the current digital divide, which sees half of the world's population currently without sufficient access to the internet. The 6th-generation (6G) of mobile standards will be a key solution to the constantly increasing demands on our communications infrastructure. This project will develop novel communication strategies for 6G to service new applications with requirements way beyond what 5G can achieve. The outcomes of the project are expected to significantly improve users' data rate and enhance the reliability and coverage of mobile networks.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100136
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$385,288.00
Summary
The influence of naturalistic context on visual short-term memory. This project aims to understand visual short-term memory in natural visual environments using a combination of behavioural and brain data. Visual short-term memory is thought to be critical to complex cognitive tasks such as learning and problem solving, but how low-level image context and high-level semantic information influence short-term memory is poorly understood. This project will use advanced computational image processin ....The influence of naturalistic context on visual short-term memory. This project aims to understand visual short-term memory in natural visual environments using a combination of behavioural and brain data. Visual short-term memory is thought to be critical to complex cognitive tasks such as learning and problem solving, but how low-level image context and high-level semantic information influence short-term memory is poorly understood. This project will use advanced computational image processing tools, neuro-imaging, and psychophysical experiments to provide a comprehensive analysis of short-term memory in naturalistic images. The expected outcome is a better understanding of the neural bottlenecks that limit short-term memory, and a model that predicts memory constraints in natural visual environments.Read moreRead less
How human vision separately determines object and scene motion. This project aims to enhance understanding of how people process visual scenes containing multiple moving objects of interest. The project intends to measure human visual performance to determine how the brain processes multiple motion signals simultaneously. Expected outcomes include an increased understanding of how we are able to use an evolving visual scene to distinguish between changes due to self-motion and those due to the m ....How human vision separately determines object and scene motion. This project aims to enhance understanding of how people process visual scenes containing multiple moving objects of interest. The project intends to measure human visual performance to determine how the brain processes multiple motion signals simultaneously. Expected outcomes include an increased understanding of how we are able to use an evolving visual scene to distinguish between changes due to self-motion and those due to the motion of multiple moving objects such as crowded city footpaths and busy roads. The results will improve our understanding of failures to see moving objects in challenging viewing conditions (for example, high density traffic), and inform work in the design of autonomous driving and augmented reality display systems.Read moreRead less
Linking human brain structure to function with ultra-high resolution fMRI. This project will examine the structure and function of the sensory cortex of the human brain using ultra-high resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (7 Tesla MRI). The project pushes new boundaries for resolution with ultra-high field MRI (7 Tesla) and, as such, will advance techniques for the acquisition, analysis, and computational modelling of high-resolution fMRI brain imaging, providing detail of the funct ....Linking human brain structure to function with ultra-high resolution fMRI. This project will examine the structure and function of the sensory cortex of the human brain using ultra-high resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (7 Tesla MRI). The project pushes new boundaries for resolution with ultra-high field MRI (7 Tesla) and, as such, will advance techniques for the acquisition, analysis, and computational modelling of high-resolution fMRI brain imaging, providing detail of the functional organisation of the sensory cortex at a level never previously possible in the living human brain. This will provide new understanding of the neural-level networks that underpin attention and touch perception in the human brain.Read moreRead less
Information-theoretic secure communications via caching. This project aims to address the cybersecurity problem of securing telecommunication networks to prevent data leakage. Current widely-adopted data-encryption approaches to secure communications will be broken with large-scale quantum computers, and existing information-theoretic approaches rely on the channel quality of the network. To circumvent these risks, this project proposes a new information security approach using information cache ....Information-theoretic secure communications via caching. This project aims to address the cybersecurity problem of securing telecommunication networks to prevent data leakage. Current widely-adopted data-encryption approaches to secure communications will be broken with large-scale quantum computers, and existing information-theoretic approaches rely on the channel quality of the network. To circumvent these risks, this project proposes a new information security approach using information cached at devices to camouflage data. The project will future-proof secure communication systems against large-scale quantum computers, which threaten current encryption approaches. This should ensure that data transmitted over communication networks can never be revealed to interceptors or hackers, even in public WiFi.Read moreRead less
Readying Wireless Networks for Future Communications Systems: From Ubiquitous Computing to the Internet of Things. This project aims to prepare wireless networks for future communications systems, by improving the data transmission rates of wireless networks, through developing new coding schemes based on the synergy of noisy-channel coding and index coding. This will allow wireless networks, used in conjunction with the fibre-optic National Broadband Network, to support future high-data-rate an ....Readying Wireless Networks for Future Communications Systems: From Ubiquitous Computing to the Internet of Things. This project aims to prepare wireless networks for future communications systems, by improving the data transmission rates of wireless networks, through developing new coding schemes based on the synergy of noisy-channel coding and index coding. This will allow wireless networks, used in conjunction with the fibre-optic National Broadband Network, to support future high-data-rate and ubiquitous communication services. This project aims to produce new theoretical results in the field of communication theory, and efficient practical coding schemes for wireless communications.Read moreRead less