Projects

TEMPO is developing a framework to control and manage distributed systems that deliver content and services. Managing distributed devices to deliver a service is similar to managing distributed resources across large experimental platforms (aka testbeds) to perform experiments. TEMPO's proposed framework is being developed to control, instrumentation and management of large federations of networking testbeds. This framework referred to as OMF (cOntrol Management Framework) provides a complete set of tools and services to perform reproducible networking experiments with increased scientific rigour and data quality. The OMF development is part of a wider global initiative for future Internet technologies.

TEMPO is a full partner of two European FP7 projects (OneLab2 and NADA), and US GENI-NSF project (Orbit).

HPI’s focus is on body-area-networks (BAN) — ultra-low-power personal area networks operating in and around the human body. The HPI wireless activates its developing technologies for dealing with the harsh radio conditions around the human body and providing connectivity with throughput rates up to 10Mb/s with ultra low power.

HPI is contributing to the development of the draft IEEE 802.15.6 body-area-networks standard since the standards inception 2.5 years ago.

The goal of the Mesh Networks project is to develop new adaptive network protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks. In contrast to the largely one-size-fits-all approach to protocol design for current Wireless Mesh Networks., the Mesh Networks project is developing new adaptive cross-layer network protocols which can dynamically adapt key protocol parameters and mechanisms to the specific deployment scenario and network environment. Hence overcome the performance and reliability limitations of current systems. Furthermore, the project is exploring new Formal Methods based techniques for providing powerful new tools for the design and evaluation of protocols with critical assurance about protocol correctness and performance.

In a functional, secure digital economy, people must have control over the privacy of their personal data. This is particularly true for the emerging mobile applications and services. The Trusted Networking project focuses on the fundamental challenges of designing mechanisms for safe guarding the personal information of users collected by the system or applications. The mechanism that are being developed will allow the system and the applications to use the users information to provide the functionality required without compromising their privacy, by developing methods of quantifying trust and privacy and distributing the relevant information.

One of the major challenges of content distribution in mobile environment is the limitations of the network capacity. The SMCD project is developing novel content distribution schemes to address this by exploiting the quasi predictability of the behaviour of mobile users and ‘time-shifting’ content delivery to mobile devices across mobile data networks where the cost of incremental capacity is the highest. This is done by developing methods of determining demand for content using recommendations within social networks as well as mobile device context.

Australia India Strategic Research Fund project (AISRF)

Social media applications such as online social networking, blogging, and video sharing are immensely popular, and have substantive influence on our day-to-day activities. This project is developing technologies for enabling social media sharing services for rural and remote communities with only limited or no access to broadband Internet by utilising a combination of physical media backhaul (e.g. DVDs, USB keys) and GPRS/dial-up connectivity to transfer data to villages. The focus is on delay tolerant routing algorithms, content replication and caching policies, and models for content consumption.

This is a joint project between NICTA and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India with funding from the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, and Research (DIISR), Australia through the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) program.