Current

David Bartel (Ph D - University of Adelaide). Commenced 2000. "Underwater Acoustic Communications"

Van Nguyen (Ph. D. - Adelaide University). Commenced 2001. "Iterative Multiuser Detection"

Ching Yoong Chang (Ph. D. - Adelaide University). Commenced 2001. "A Planning tool for integrated cellular/satcom 3G networks" (jointly with R. Coutts since July 2003)

Yousef Doumani, (Ph D, Adelaide University). Commenced 2001. "Lost Packet Recovery in Active Networks" (jointly with M. Liebelt)

Siew-Lee Hew (Ph D - Adelaide University). Commenced 2003. "Wireless Optimisation using economic based criterea"

Jack Sudarev, (Ph D - University of Adelaide), Commenced 2003, "Routing and QoS in Wireless LANs"

Alan Ho, (M. Eng. Sc. - University of Adelaide, Commenced July 2003, "Implementation of Improved TCP Congestion Control"

Limin Yu, (Ph D - University of Adelaide), Commenced July 2003, "Broadband Underwater Communications"

Michael Anderson (Ph. D. - University of South Australia). Commenced 2000. "Robust Power Control in Cellular Communications". (Adviser only).

Completed

Dr Gary Einicke, University of Adelaide. Completed 1996.

Dr Gary Brushe, Australian National University. Completed 1997

Dr Vince Rose, University of South Australia. Completed 2000

Qiang Fu, M. Eng. Sc., University of Adelaide. Completed 2000.

Dr Gareth Parker, University of South Australia. Completed 2001.
 
  Projects - 2001

Radio Resource Management

In a heterogeneous network, the radio (wireless) link is usually the performance bottleneck and is the most costly in terms of implementation (capital investment). Thus appropriate management is required to maximise economic returns subject to performance constraints. This optimisation is even more important in the case of differentiated services and multimedia traffic. This project aims to develop an appropriate taxonomy for the specification and solution of such problems. There is a particular focus on mobile ad hoc networks where nodes may act as both hosts and routers, and multicasting is a natural mode of operation.

End-to-End Congestion Management via Robust Control Techniques

The management of end-to-end quality of service is a fundamental issue in internetworking. Congestion management is an important part of this area, and is currently implemented using one of the TCP variants. TCP Vegas is the first of these variants to be based (somewhat loosly) on control theoretic ideas. The objective of this project is to examine congestion management from a more fundamental control theoretic basis, and to develop better algorithms which are be based on the existing TCP structure.

Adaptive Routing in an IP Network

This project involves the development of parameterised IP routing algorithms based on adaptive dynamic programming ideas. These methods are aimed at improving QoS at the network level by soft path selection based on a set of slowly-varying network parameters. The interplay between centralisation and distribution of parameter estimation methods will be of considerable interest. Application to ad hoc networking will also be considered.

Internet Identification Studies (M. Eng. Sc. project)

This project is concerned with the establishment and validation of dynamical system models for end-to-end internet modelling.