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As part of the information discovery and dissemination activities, we are developing techniques for addressing the mobile capacity crunch by changing the way content is distributed to mobile users. We are characterising and modelling user generated content consumption, and developing new content distribution approaches. Our method uses a novel combination of peer-to-peer predictive prefetching and is guided by a novel content placement algorithm, which decreases the use of 3G usage and inter-AS traffic.
Some of the initial ideas are described in the following presentations and papers.
SMCD Project presentation
Papers
1. U. Rathnayake, M. Iftikar, M. Ott and A. Seneviratne, Realistic Data Transfer Scheduling with Uncertainty, Elsevier Computer Communications journal (COMCOM), 2010.
2. U. Rathnayake, M. Ott and A. Seneviratne, EMUNE: Architecture for Mobile Data Transfer Scheduling with Network Availability Predictions, to appear in Mobile Networks and Applications
3. S. Mitra, M. Agrawal, A. Yadav, N. Carlsson, D. Eager, and A. Mahanti, Characterizing Web-based Video Sharing Workloads, ACM Transactions on the Web, May 2011.
4. N. Carlsson, D. Eager, and A. Mahanti, Using Torrent Inflation to Efficiently Serve the Long Tail in Peer-assisted Content Delivery Systems, Proc. of IFIP/TC6 Networking '10 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6091, edited by M. Crovella et al., Springer), Chennai, India, May 2010.
As part of the privacy and trust research activities, we are developing methods to quantifying privacy, to minimise privacy loss and to establish trust in dynamic mobile environments. Privacy evaluation is based on a novel method which relies on information theory to quantify the contribution of different components (originating from the user interactions, device characteristics and utilised networks) towards the overall level of privacy loss. The trust establishment relies on a novel decision mechanism which ensures fairness of resource use in a collaborative mobile environment. Specific research activities are described in the following papers.
Papers
1. M. Djatmiko, R. Boreli, A. Seneviratne, and S. Ries, Trust-based Content Distribution for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Conference (MASCOTS 2011) to be held in Singapore, July 2011.
2. T. Chen, R. Boreli, and V. Sivaraman, Taro: Trusted anonymous routing for manets, in Sixth IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trusted Computing and Communications (TrustCom-10). Hong Kong/ China: IEEE/IFIP, December 2010.
As part of the connectivity management activities, NICTA’s work has helped transform the international body-area-network (BAN) research and development communities’ understanding and implementations for BAN, in both the physical (PHY) and MAC layers. An overview of BAN can be found here and some of the specific research activities are described in the following papers.
Papers
1. Best paper award at the First International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL) 2008:
D. Smith, L. Hanlen, D. Miniutti, A. Zhang, D. Rodda, and B. Gilbert, Statistical characterization of the dynamic narrowband body area channel, in ISABEL, D. Farina, Ed., Aalborg, Denmark, October 2008.
2. D. Smith, L. Hanlen, A. Zhang, D. Miniutti, D. Rodda, and B. Gilbert, First and Second-Order Statistical Characterizations of the Dynamic Body-Area Propagation Channel of Various Bandwidths, Annals of Telecommunications, Volume 66, Numbers 3-4, pp. 187-203, December 2010.
Also part of the connectivity management work is exploring the concept of parameterised protocols and protocol adaptation for WMNs, and develop new Formal Methods based techniques to support this which we believe will provide a unique solution for the wide range of unpredictable and dynamic deployment scenarios in which wireless mesh networks will be used. Overview of these activities are described in the following presentations.
Some of the specific research activities are described in the following papers.
Papers
1. Hu, P., Tan, W.L., Wishart, R., Portmann, M., Indulska, J., MeshVision: An Adaptive Wireless Mesh Network Video Surveillance System, Special Issue on Multimedia Intelligent Services and Technologies in ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2010.
2. Tan, W.L., Portmann, M., Hu, P., A Systematic Evaluation of Interference Characteristics in 802.11-based Wireless Networks, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Singapore, March, 2011.
NICTA’s cOntrol Management framework, TEMPO is developing a framework to control and manage distributed systems that deliver content and services. This is currently being used in both the EU and US future Internet/GENI projects and is being used around the world. An overview of this work is presented here.
some of the specific research activities are described in the following papers.
Papers
1. G. Jourjon, T. Rakotoarivelo, and M. Ott, A Portal to Support Rigorous Experimental Methodology in Networking Research, Best Paper Award at TRIDENTCOM 2011, China, April 2011.
2. G. Jourjon, S. Kanhere, J. Yao, Impact of an E-Learning Platform on CSE Lectures, ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Germany, 2011.
3. T. Rakotoarivelo, M. Ott, G. Jourjon, and I. Seskar , OMF: A Control and Management Framework for Networking Testbeds, ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), vol. 43 (4), pp. 54-59, January 2010.
Some more resources are listed below.
NADA Video from TEMPO project
NBN Parkbridge testbed screenshot
Poster from Bridge monitoring project
Badumna in action
Video from SCENT project
Video from SMCD project