Anticipatory, Adaptive, and Scalable Mobility Infrastructure for On-board Information Access. The recent advances in wireless technologies are offering new opportunities for ubiquitous information access in on-board mobile computing. Realising an effective on-board mobile computing infrastructure poses significant technical challenges at both application and data transport layers. Our approach features the integration of techniques from satellite communications, anticipatory transport protocols ....Anticipatory, Adaptive, and Scalable Mobility Infrastructure for On-board Information Access. The recent advances in wireless technologies are offering new opportunities for ubiquitous information access in on-board mobile computing. Realising an effective on-board mobile computing infrastructure poses significant technical challenges at both application and data transport layers. Our approach features the integration of techniques from satellite communications, anticipatory transport protocols, and personalised data management systems. The final outcome will be generic techniques and concepts for effective and efficient on-board access to global information sources and services (e.g., weather information, stock quotes, and infotainment). These concepts and techniques will have wider application scope, such as aeronautical, maritime and terrestrial public transport systems.Read moreRead less
Audit Security Models for Multiparty Internet Transactions. The aim of this project is to conduct the study for a secure, low overhead means of auditing secure transactions between two parties over the Internet, especially where some doubt surrounds the trustfulness of the other party.
A study will be conducted in this project by investigating security models for multiparty secure transactions in order to identify a number of likely applications for the technology, to develop a high level arch ....Audit Security Models for Multiparty Internet Transactions. The aim of this project is to conduct the study for a secure, low overhead means of auditing secure transactions between two parties over the Internet, especially where some doubt surrounds the trustfulness of the other party.
A study will be conducted in this project by investigating security models for multiparty secure transactions in order to identify a number of likely applications for the technology, to develop a high level architecture of the solution.Read moreRead less
Driving Large Scale Live Internet Broadcasting of Streaming Video. Recent experience of Internet service providers has seen a booming market demand for live Internet broadcasting services. Live broadcasting of high-profile events, such as the Live Earth concerts in July 2007 by MSN, has drawn a global audience of the order of millions of viewers across the Internet. The technology developed in this project will drastically reduce Internet bandwidth consumption for provisioning such large-scale I ....Driving Large Scale Live Internet Broadcasting of Streaming Video. Recent experience of Internet service providers has seen a booming market demand for live Internet broadcasting services. Live broadcasting of high-profile events, such as the Live Earth concerts in July 2007 by MSN, has drawn a global audience of the order of millions of viewers across the Internet. The technology developed in this project will drastically reduce Internet bandwidth consumption for provisioning such large-scale Internet broadcasting services while meeting user satisfaction with guaranteed Quality of Service. It is crucial for Australia to invest in this frontier technology since Australian service providers rely on expensive Internet infrastructure to communicate with major data hubs in other continents.Read moreRead less
Space-time and time-frequency applications of improper complex processes. This project addresses an issue of fundamental importance to many areas in science and engineering. It is thus expected that the results will be disseminated in high-quality journals and receive widespread attention and recognition. This will advance Australia's research profile in the world.
The project can also be expected to have an immediate impact on the design of next generation communications technologies, thus aid ....Space-time and time-frequency applications of improper complex processes. This project addresses an issue of fundamental importance to many areas in science and engineering. It is thus expected that the results will be disseminated in high-quality journals and receive widespread attention and recognition. This will advance Australia's research profile in the world.
The project can also be expected to have an immediate impact on the design of next generation communications technologies, thus aiding Australian industries in the development of frontier technologies.
Australia will also benefit economically and socially by the specialised engineers and researchers in signal processing and communications that will be trained in the course of this project.Read moreRead less
PROVISION OF ARBITARY COMPLEX SERVICES ON THE MOBILE INTERNET. Within the next few years, mobile and wireless access to the Internet will very likely become the norm. These networks will use widely different networking technologies. Moreover, the services provided, will be accessed by the users using a wide variety of devices, with significantly different capabilities. Thus to provide seamless access, the system must adapt it self to the operating environment. These adaptations need to occur at ....PROVISION OF ARBITARY COMPLEX SERVICES ON THE MOBILE INTERNET. Within the next few years, mobile and wireless access to the Internet will very likely become the norm. These networks will use widely different networking technologies. Moreover, the services provided, will be accessed by the users using a wide variety of devices, with significantly different capabilities. Thus to provide seamless access, the system must adapt it self to the operating environment. These adaptations need to occur at different levels of the system, in isolation. This project is aimed at investigating the implications of adaptation decisions being taken in isolation at different levels on the system stability and performance.Read moreRead less
Generalized Information Fusion and Scheduling for Effective Situational Awareness. Research on the generalized information fusion will lead to better surveillance,monitoring & situational awareness technologies that will significantly enhance our national security and contribute to the strategic directions set by the Nation. It will deliver generic integrated uncertainty reasoning models, algorithms and implementations and will lead to enhanced interoperation capability across multiple collabora ....Generalized Information Fusion and Scheduling for Effective Situational Awareness. Research on the generalized information fusion will lead to better surveillance,monitoring & situational awareness technologies that will significantly enhance our national security and contribute to the strategic directions set by the Nation. It will deliver generic integrated uncertainty reasoning models, algorithms and implementations and will lead to enhanced interoperation capability across multiple collaborating organizations that have surveillance and situational awareness as their prime responsibilities (defence, police and the road transport authority). It will position the nation to use its relatively small defence force to maximum effectiveness in combating terrorism, crime and natural disasters like Tsunami & Earth quakes.
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Multi-resolution phase measuring profilometry for dynamic 3D digital imaging. Fast 3-D sensing is a key technology in many industrial application areas such as manufacturing, medical instrumentation, security systems and multimedia entertainment systems. The proposed project aims to develop a superior solution when compared to existing methods. Successful completion of this project will place Australia at the forefront in terms of this enabling technology as well establishing cutting edge exper ....Multi-resolution phase measuring profilometry for dynamic 3D digital imaging. Fast 3-D sensing is a key technology in many industrial application areas such as manufacturing, medical instrumentation, security systems and multimedia entertainment systems. The proposed project aims to develop a superior solution when compared to existing methods. Successful completion of this project will place Australia at the forefront in terms of this enabling technology as well establishing cutting edge expertise. This will potentially lead to significant commercial opportunities that can easily translate into new employment/manufacturing opportunities.Read moreRead less
ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing. Sensor networks, a collection of diverse sensors interconnected via an ad-hoc communication network, are identified as one of the key technologies that over the next two decades will change the way we live. This research network brings together an interdisciplinary team of outstanding Australian researchers representing all the key disciplines required to successfully deploy sensor networks and links this te ....ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing. Sensor networks, a collection of diverse sensors interconnected via an ad-hoc communication network, are identified as one of the key technologies that over the next two decades will change the way we live. This research network brings together an interdisciplinary team of outstanding Australian researchers representing all the key disciplines required to successfully deploy sensor networks and links this team with the foremost international authorities and leading industry players in the area of sensor networks. This research network will guide collaborative research that will ensure Australia to play a world leading role in sensor network development and implementation.
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Manipulation and Shaping of Light in the Far-Field using Advanced Fresnel Fibres. This project will focus on developing and understanding further the recent invention of the Fresnel fibre, which is designed to overcome diffraction from the end of an optical fibre. More sophisticated designs and combinations will allow arbitrary shaping of the optical field exiting an optical fibre for numerous applications. The physical basis for such phenomena to be realised is the efficient degree of coherent ....Manipulation and Shaping of Light in the Far-Field using Advanced Fresnel Fibres. This project will focus on developing and understanding further the recent invention of the Fresnel fibre, which is designed to overcome diffraction from the end of an optical fibre. More sophisticated designs and combinations will allow arbitrary shaping of the optical field exiting an optical fibre for numerous applications. The physical basis for such phenomena to be realised is the efficient degree of coherent scattering possible in air-material fibre such as air-silica photonic crystal fibres. In conjunction advanced characterisation techniques will be developed.Read moreRead less
Hypersensitisation and Patterned Photosensitivity in Glass. Recent developments involving holographically patterned photosensitivity in glass-based optical waveguides developed by our group can be extended to fabricate complex two-dimensional structures including planar waveguide photonic bandgap devices for applications in telecommunications, sensing and signal processing. These will include novel grating-array based 2-D DFB lasers and filters in rare-earth doped planar waveguides. Novel etchin ....Hypersensitisation and Patterned Photosensitivity in Glass. Recent developments involving holographically patterned photosensitivity in glass-based optical waveguides developed by our group can be extended to fabricate complex two-dimensional structures including planar waveguide photonic bandgap devices for applications in telecommunications, sensing and signal processing. These will include novel grating-array based 2-D DFB lasers and filters in rare-earth doped planar waveguides. Novel etching techniques to be used to enhance index contrast, as well as to characterise such devices, will be developed based on our recent observation of hydrogen-enhanced etching of glass. Such methods could potentially be applicable to not only photonic technologies but also semiconductor lithography of oxides.Read moreRead less