Real-time internet of thing algorithms with performance guarantees. This project aims to provide efficient, distributed resource allocation algorithms that can perform satisfactorily within time limits imposed by real-time systems. Real-time Internet of Things (IoT) devices will play a significant role in future transport technologies, such as autonomous vehicles and smart traffic management, and will place significant demands upon distributed computing systems to provide timely information upda ....Real-time internet of thing algorithms with performance guarantees. This project aims to provide efficient, distributed resource allocation algorithms that can perform satisfactorily within time limits imposed by real-time systems. Real-time Internet of Things (IoT) devices will play a significant role in future transport technologies, such as autonomous vehicles and smart traffic management, and will place significant demands upon distributed computing systems to provide timely information updates. The computing challenge is to provide reliable, accurate and timely information to IoT devices. The outcomes of this project will directly be beneficial to a variety of IoT applications in transportation, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. The valuable engineering insights and novel algorithms will support industry, government, and practitioners for future real-time IoT design and deployments.Read moreRead less
Optical wireless frontier: Design challenges of multi gigabit wireless. This project aims to improve the coverage, mobile access, miniaturisation, bandwidth and networking of optical wireless. As connected machines become the primary consumers of the Internet, technologies for wirelessly connecting devices, processors, storage and display devices at very high speeds become necessary for mission critical services and applications. Gigabit wireless access needs to overcome shortages in the radio-f ....Optical wireless frontier: Design challenges of multi gigabit wireless. This project aims to improve the coverage, mobile access, miniaturisation, bandwidth and networking of optical wireless. As connected machines become the primary consumers of the Internet, technologies for wirelessly connecting devices, processors, storage and display devices at very high speeds become necessary for mission critical services and applications. Gigabit wireless access needs to overcome shortages in the radio-frequency spectrum and provide scalable bandwidth and wider coverage. Optical wireless transmission is a real alternative to current wireless systems because its connection speed of tens of gigabits/second means it can work efficiently with wired optical networking technologies. This project is expected to lead to optical wireless technology.Read moreRead less
Photonics Platform to Transform Mobile Fronthaul Infrastructure. Future wireless systems of mobile networks and defence platforms will need to offer high-speed, low-delay, reliable connectivity and high bandwidth. With the explosive growth of wireless systems, this creates significant challenges in fronthaul - the link connecting antennas with the signal processors and core network. This project aims to design and develop an innovative fronthaul for wireless systems based on a dynamically reconf ....Photonics Platform to Transform Mobile Fronthaul Infrastructure. Future wireless systems of mobile networks and defence platforms will need to offer high-speed, low-delay, reliable connectivity and high bandwidth. With the explosive growth of wireless systems, this creates significant challenges in fronthaul - the link connecting antennas with the signal processors and core network. This project aims to design and develop an innovative fronthaul for wireless systems based on a dynamically reconfigurable, software-defined photonic platform capable of meeting diverse requirements. The outcomes of this project will help build a scalable fronthaul solution to overcome fundamental challenges and realise cost-effective pathways for transforming how future wireless networks and defence platforms are realised.Read moreRead less
Coordinated non-coherent wireless for safe and secure networking. Distributed wireless networks have the potential to serve simultaneous users streaming high-definition video, no dead zones, no interference among users and no reduction in data rate as more users are added. This project will provide a solution to the current limitations of distributed wireless networks aiming at user safety and privacy.
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.
Harnessing hidden diversity gains of cellular networks. This project aims to investigate novel communication schemes that can increase the capacity of mobile networks. The demand for wireless data by the Australian mobile users is expected to exceed the capacity of the Australian mobile networks. The expected outcomes of this project are communication schemes that can double the reliability of wireless links in mobile networks, and thereby significantly improve the capacity of mobile networks in ....Harnessing hidden diversity gains of cellular networks. This project aims to investigate novel communication schemes that can increase the capacity of mobile networks. The demand for wireless data by the Australian mobile users is expected to exceed the capacity of the Australian mobile networks. The expected outcomes of this project are communication schemes that can double the reliability of wireless links in mobile networks, and thereby significantly improve the capacity of mobile networks in Australia and around the world. Significant benefits are expected in all areas of society that rely on wireless communication of data.Read moreRead less
Network coding over finite rings. Wireless networks are increasing exponentially throughout the world, but are still plagued by delay, jitter, and interference. Advanced algebraic tools are the key to designing novel network coding and relaying schemes, which will overcome these issues and increase the network capacity in terms of sustainable data rates.
Taming uncertainty: a stochastic-geometric foundation for complex wireless networks. This project will improve our understanding of complex networks such as the internet, wireless communication networks and social networks. We will do this by properly studying the impact of the network geometry. The outcomes will be new approaches to managing complex networks to improve both efficiency and performance.
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
Few-mode transmission: harnessing the capacity of optical fibres. Optical fibres are widely deployed for carrying internet traffic. This project aims to study breakthrough technologies to dramatically increase the capacity of optical fibres. The project will help maintain Australia at the leading edge of the information age as well as providing exciting opportunities for training research associates and students.