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.
Inter-cell interference modelling and control in future cellular systems. Small cells and frequency reuse are the key concepts in increasing the capacity of wireless cellular networks. However, the deployment of dense cells increases interference and limits the network capacity. This project will deliver novel interference control methods, capable of improving the spectral and energy efficiency in cellular networks.
Overcoming the wireless throughput bottleneck: new heterogeneous architectures and algorithms for high data rate mobile broadband. Mobile communication networks are facing a rapid increase in broadband data with traffic forecast to increase by 18 times over the next five years. This project will create novel techniques for the design of a new wireless multi-layered network architecture that will scale to meet this demand whilst minimising the energy footprint of the network.
Overseeing the internet: new paradigms of network measurement. Like the electricity network, the internet is a core infrastructure, and so must be reliable and efficient. A gap in bandwidth supply is like a blackout in terms of lost business and productivity. This project will provide the measurement breakthroughs to ensure that network behaviour can be accurately and comprehensively monitored.
Fundamental Limits of Wireless Data Transmission over Interference Channels. This project aims to develop interference-resilient wireless data transmission techniques that can significantly improve the reliability and data rate of wireless communications. The expected outcomes of the research include new space-time coding techniques and interference coordination techniques. It is anticipated that the research will support the improvement of high-speed wireless communications and influence the de ....Fundamental Limits of Wireless Data Transmission over Interference Channels. This project aims to develop interference-resilient wireless data transmission techniques that can significantly improve the reliability and data rate of wireless communications. The expected outcomes of the research include new space-time coding techniques and interference coordination techniques. It is anticipated that the research will support the improvement of high-speed wireless communications and influence the development of broadband wireless access solutions.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
Physical layer security techniques for multiuser wireless networks. This project will develop innovative new security techniques for wireless networks. The novel techniques we develop will exploit the natural variability of wireless communication channels in order to deliver much-enhanced data security to a whole range of applications over the mobile internet.
Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output technique for 5G wireless networks. This project aims to develop innovative large-scale antenna array communication techniques to improve the energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency of wireless data networks. The proposed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) designs would exploit extremely large antenna apertures with very sharp radio beams to improve the throughput of the state-of-the-art MIMO by an order of magnitude. The project plans to devis ....Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output technique for 5G wireless networks. This project aims to develop innovative large-scale antenna array communication techniques to improve the energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency of wireless data networks. The proposed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) designs would exploit extremely large antenna apertures with very sharp radio beams to improve the throughput of the state-of-the-art MIMO by an order of magnitude. The project plans to devise novel and pragmatic signal processing and coding approaches for very large antenna arrays for this new type of wireless infrastructure. It is expected that the project outcomes would dramatically increase the data speed for 5G mobile and future WiFi networks and benefit users through pervasive wireless broadband access.Read moreRead less
Containment and Reduction of Rework in Transport Mega Projects. Mega transport projects (>$1 billion) are poorly managed during their construction with significant cost and schedule overruns and benefit shortfalls regularly being experienced. Having to perform rework has been identified as a major factor that contributes to these unintended consequences. As there has been limited research that has empirically examined rework causation, an inability to develop effective rework containment and red ....Containment and Reduction of Rework in Transport Mega Projects. Mega transport projects (>$1 billion) are poorly managed during their construction with significant cost and schedule overruns and benefit shortfalls regularly being experienced. Having to perform rework has been identified as a major factor that contributes to these unintended consequences. As there has been limited research that has empirically examined rework causation, an inability to develop effective rework containment and reduction strategies prevails. This research aims to develop a theoretical model that can be used to develop robust containment and reduction strategies to mitigate the adverse economic, productivity and safety consequences that materialize from performing rework during the construction of mega transport projects.Read moreRead less
Efficient cross-layer coding techniques for wireless networks. This project is proposed to develop novel wireless communication/networking design theory and practical strategies based on the emerging network coding technique. The expected outcomes can be used to substantially increase network throughput and reliability of future wireless services, such as wireless Internet and mobile broadcasting.