Designing Bandwidth-Efficient High-Speed Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems with Block-by-Block Turbo Processing. Australia has one of the largest exclusive economic zones in the world, and it is vitally important for Australia to understand and benefit from the oceans. This project will give new perspectives in developing underwater acoustic communications that are important for marine industries and scientific research in areas such as the exploration and exploitation of offshore oil an ....Designing Bandwidth-Efficient High-Speed Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems with Block-by-Block Turbo Processing. Australia has one of the largest exclusive economic zones in the world, and it is vitally important for Australia to understand and benefit from the oceans. This project will give new perspectives in developing underwater acoustic communications that are important for marine industries and scientific research in areas such as the exploration and exploitation of offshore oil and gas, and ocean environment and climate monitoring. This project will lift the international profile of Australia in underwater acoustic communications research and, through the training of early career researchers and PhD students, this project will also develop a skills base for Australia in underwater acoustic communications.Read moreRead less
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs - Grant ID: IH130200025
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,181,756.00
Summary
ARC Research Hub for transforming waste directly in cost-effective green manufacturing. ARC Research Hub for transforming waste directly in cost-effective green manufacturing. This Research Hub aims to create a unique opportunity for completely different industries to come together, with a common goal of creating value from mixed plastic and glass waste in manufacturing. Starting with fundamental investigations of the transformation behaviour of waste materials under high temperature conditions, ....ARC Research Hub for transforming waste directly in cost-effective green manufacturing. ARC Research Hub for transforming waste directly in cost-effective green manufacturing. This Research Hub aims to create a unique opportunity for completely different industries to come together, with a common goal of creating value from mixed plastic and glass waste in manufacturing. Starting with fundamental investigations of the transformation behaviour of waste materials under high temperature conditions, the hub will focus on developing scalable solutions for its manufacturing partners towards reducing the consumption of primary resources while simultaneously diverting waste streams from landfill. Additionally, the potential of using such transformations to yield improved products such as wear-resistant grinding media and light-weight building materials will be investigated to enhance Australian manufacturing.Read moreRead less
Semi-contention based multi-user diversity: a new way to increase throughput of wireless communications. Wireless communications, due to its low initial deployment cost, high scalability and flexibility, will play a key role in providing broadband communications to sparsely populated areas of Australia. To this end, the Australian government announced "Connect Australia" aiming for nationwide broadband communication services, in which wireless communications is an important component. This proje ....Semi-contention based multi-user diversity: a new way to increase throughput of wireless communications. Wireless communications, due to its low initial deployment cost, high scalability and flexibility, will play a key role in providing broadband communications to sparsely populated areas of Australia. To this end, the Australian government announced "Connect Australia" aiming for nationwide broadband communication services, in which wireless communications is an important component. This project focuses on improving the throughput of wireless communications, especially for rural areas, through the use of a new technology: semi-contention based multi-user diversity. The outcome of this project will help to connect Australian people and to lift the international profile of Australian engineering science in wireless communications.Read moreRead less
Trusted Environment for Virtual Collaboration. Internet business transactions highlight Trust. This project explores creating trust between business peers to aid business contact. Aims: 1 Define concepts & relationship of Trust between peers 2 Develop Trust protocol & infrastructure managing P2P communication 3 Propose methodology showing trustworthiness values after interaction 4 Develop trust modelling language specifying trust relationships between peers for storing in trust repositories 5 Ap ....Trusted Environment for Virtual Collaboration. Internet business transactions highlight Trust. This project explores creating trust between business peers to aid business contact. Aims: 1 Define concepts & relationship of Trust between peers 2 Develop Trust protocol & infrastructure managing P2P communication 3 Propose methodology showing trustworthiness values after interaction 4 Develop trust modelling language specifying trust relationships between peers for storing in trust repositories 5 Apply trust management protocol creating identity & behaviour trust in decentralized environments 6 Apply trust support system 7 Develop trust modelling language letting partners realize trust interaction outcomes. Multisite Project Management firms used are critical to smart information use.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0567321
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$184,781.00
Summary
Real-time Very Long Baseline Interferometry. We will develop a range of software products that are required to implement real-time very long baseline interferometry with the Australia long baseline array. These developments build upon substancial recent infrastructure investments and will place Australia at the forefront of this field. They will enhance our capacity to participate in international collaborations in a range of sciences including astrophysics, spacecraft tracking and geodetic mo ....Real-time Very Long Baseline Interferometry. We will develop a range of software products that are required to implement real-time very long baseline interferometry with the Australia long baseline array. These developments build upon substancial recent infrastructure investments and will place Australia at the forefront of this field. They will enhance our capacity to participate in international collaborations in a range of sciences including astrophysics, spacecraft tracking and geodetic monitoring.Read moreRead less
Frequency stabilisation in the Extremely High Frequency band. All precision communication and measurement systems (i.e. radar and navigation) rely on high quality oscillator technology. Any improvement in oscillator performance has a direct impact on the performance of the system and hence is of potential economic benefit. This project will realise the most stable frequencies ever produced in the underused Extremely High Frequency band, which is also important for space communications and naviga ....Frequency stabilisation in the Extremely High Frequency band. All precision communication and measurement systems (i.e. radar and navigation) rely on high quality oscillator technology. Any improvement in oscillator performance has a direct impact on the performance of the system and hence is of potential economic benefit. This project will realise the most stable frequencies ever produced in the underused Extremely High Frequency band, which is also important for space communications and navigation technology. System enhancement will include, better angular resolution, higher bandwidths, faster transmission rates and narrower beam widths without the susceptibility of absorption apparent from the optical domain.Read moreRead less
Methane Coupling Using Mixed Conducting Catalytic Ceramic Hollow Fibre Membrane Reactor. The Gas product industry is one of the most important economic sectors in Australia, employing 10000 people with market value of $ 100 billion per year from power generation and LNG export. However, there are increasing concerns over issues of the green house gases emission and petroleum dwindling. This project addresses the technology needs in converting natural gas to more useful chemicals via a more effic ....Methane Coupling Using Mixed Conducting Catalytic Ceramic Hollow Fibre Membrane Reactor. The Gas product industry is one of the most important economic sectors in Australia, employing 10000 people with market value of $ 100 billion per year from power generation and LNG export. However, there are increasing concerns over issues of the green house gases emission and petroleum dwindling. This project addresses the technology needs in converting natural gas to more useful chemicals via a more efficient and cleaner means of methane utilization. The project target is to make the natural gas resources in Australia to delivery high value products with considerable economic benefits and increased employment opportunities. Read moreRead less
Optimal management of corrosion and odour problems in sewer systems. Pollutants in wastewater undergo complex changes in sewers, leading to the production and release of odorous and corrosive compounds. Despite major efforts and expenditure by water utilities to mitigate these problems, odorous emissions from sewers are still commonly occurring in urban areas. Furthermore, the value of public assets is significantly diminished due to sewer corrosion, costing hundreds of millions of dollars a yea ....Optimal management of corrosion and odour problems in sewer systems. Pollutants in wastewater undergo complex changes in sewers, leading to the production and release of odorous and corrosive compounds. Despite major efforts and expenditure by water utilities to mitigate these problems, odorous emissions from sewers are still commonly occurring in urban areas. Furthermore, the value of public assets is significantly diminished due to sewer corrosion, costing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in Australia alone. This project is a major joint effort by the Australian water industry and world-leading scientists to generate advanced knowledge and develop effective technologies for optimal odour and corrosion management in sewers, delivering large social, environmental and economic benefits.Read moreRead less
New channel estimation, tracking and equalization algorithms for real-time high-speed underwater acoustic communication systems. High-speed underwater communication is vitally important for Australian offshore oil and gas industries, marine commercial operations, and defence applications. However, due to the challenges posed by the harsh underwater channel, current underwater communication systems have significant limitations on data rate and bit-error-rate for many applications and environments ....New channel estimation, tracking and equalization algorithms for real-time high-speed underwater acoustic communication systems. High-speed underwater communication is vitally important for Australian offshore oil and gas industries, marine commercial operations, and defence applications. However, due to the challenges posed by the harsh underwater channel, current underwater communication systems have significant limitations on data rate and bit-error-rate for many applications and environments. This project aims to develop a real-time signal processing platform for reliable high-speed communication through the extremely bandlimited and reverberant underwater acoustic channel. New channel estimation, tracking and equalisation algorithms developed in this project will significantly enhance the capacity of underwater communication systems.Read moreRead less
Increasing the range and rate of underwater acoustic communication systems using multi-hop relay. Australia has a very long coastline, thus it is vitally important for Australia to efficiently explore and exploit the rich resources in the ocean. This project develops novel communication technologies for long-range and high-rate underwater acoustic communications that are crucial to Australian ocean-related industries and defence applications.