TITR NEWS & EVENTS
December 2004 Newsletter
Telecommunications and Information Technology Research Institute
In this issue:
Staff Changes; Visitors; Grant/Project Successes; Publicity; Graduations; Seminars; Meetings/Conferences
STAFF CHANGES
Management – TITR
Professor Rei Safavi-Naini commenced as Director in August 2004.
http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/people/reihaneh_safavi-naini.shtml
Susan Branch commenced as Executive Officer in October 2004.
http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/people/susan_branch.shtml
Debbie Farrelly continues to run TITR in her efficient and friendly manner as the Administrative Assistant.
http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/people/debbie_farrelly.shtml
Other Staff
Craig Johnston, Software Developer, joined TITR in November 2004.
Professor Weigang Zhang, Visiting Principal Fellow from Nankai University, China joined the Photonic and Electronic Signal Processing Group on 1 November 2004. He will be in TITR until 31 January 2005.
Dr Jeff Horton, Research Fellow, Centre for Information Security, will join TITR in January 2005.
VISITORS TO TITR
Dr Abdulla Al Karam, CEO, Knowledge Village, Dubai visited TITR in October. Rei Safavi-Naini presented an overview of TITR and Farzad Safaei and Paul Boustead presented the work of CENA and DICE project. Knowledge Village was pleased with the presentations.
Professor Jin from the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai visited the Wireless Technologies Laboratory in October 2004. His visit was very successful and has resulted in possible future collaboration at the Faculty level in the area of UWB antenna development.
David Campbell and Alice Manchester, Defence Signals Directorate, Canberra visited the Centre for Information Security in November 2004. Rei Safavi-Naini and Willy Susilo presented Computer Information Security’s work in the area of Firewalls. http://www.dsd.gov.au/about_dsd/index.html
Professor Thierry Bosch, Head of the Electronics Laboratory, INPT-ENSEEOHT, France, visited the Photonic and Electronic Signal Processing Group on 6 December 2004. He is the Chairman of IEEE Technical Committee for Laser and Optical Systems for Measurement. He gave a presentation on “Optical feedback interferometry for sensing application”.
GRANT/PROJECT SUCCESSES
ARC Discovery/Linkage Grant results for 2005 are as follows: J.F. Chicharo, E. Li, J.Xi and X Peng "Multi-resolution phase measuring profilometry for dynamic 3D digital imaging", with a total ARC funding over 3 years of $243,000 K Chin, D. D. Lowe and R. Raad "A spacially-aware RFID-enhanced sensor network", with a total ARC funding over 3 years of $207,888 X Huang J.F. Chicharo "High capacity multiple access interference free block spread OFDMA system for next generation mobile communications", with a total ARC funding over 3 years of $192,000 R. Safavi-Naini P.R. Wild "Timeless digital signature for self-organising group", with a total ARC funding over 3 years of $278,632 W Susilo, Y. Mu and F Zhang "Short signatures: tools for securing digital transaction and their applications", with a total ARC funding over 2 years of $192,000
T.A. Wysocki and B.J. Wysocki "Diversity improvements in ultra-wide band communications", with a total ARC funding over 3 years of $195,000 G.M. Schiemer, F. Naghdy and T.I Hurd "Haptic - rendered bell synthesis for a practice carillion clavier", with a total ARC funding over 3 years of $76,414
URC small grant successes for 2005 are as follows:
Wanqing Li: “Feature mapping and fusion for multimodal biometric cryptosystems”
Jason Lukasiak, Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer: “Faculty of Education Reusable learning objects in learning management systems”
Jiangtao Xi: “Optical Feedback Interferometry and Its Applications to Measurement of Semiconductor Lasers and Other Metrological Quantities: Theoretical Study and Performance Improvement”.
Willy Susilo: “An Efficient Fair Exchange of Digital Signature with An Implementation on Wireless Environment”.
Network Successes:
Tad Wysocki, Australian Communications Research Network (University o f South Australia).
Rei Safavi-Naini and Centre for Information Security, Research Network for Secure Australia (RNSA), University of Melbourne.
PUBLICITY
Dense Immersive Communications Environment (DICE) project developed with support from the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre, Telstra and TITR was publicised in the IT Section of Tuesday’s Australian, Canberra Times, Mercury and the University’s campus news.
http://media.uow.edu.au/news/2004/0901a/
GRADUATIONS
Dr Gareth Brisbane was awarded PhD from the University of Wollongong. His supervisors were Rei Safavi-Naini and Philip Ogunbona.
Mr Ibrahim Raad, a staff member of Wireless Research Group,
was awarded a Masters by Research degree from the University of Wollongong. His supervisors were Tad Wysocki and Peter Vial.
SEMINARS
http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/seminars
TITR’s seminar series
RILE presented a “show and tell” seminar on 23 November 2004.
Other units will present an overview of current work in the unit,
followed by demonstrations of projects as follows:
Seminar calendar for 2004/2005 as follows:
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Tuesday, 23 November 2004 |
Research Centre for Interactive Learning Environments |
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Friday, 18 February 2005 |
Centre for Visual Information Processing and Content Mgmt |
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Friday, 18 March 2005 |
Photonic and Electronic Signal Processing Group |
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Friday, 15 April 2005 |
Centre for Emerging Networks and Applications |
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Friday, 20 May 2005 |
Digital Media Centre |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
Centre for Information Security |
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
Wireless Technologies Laboratory |
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Friday, 19 August 2005 |
Centre for Audio, Signal Processing and Multimedia Delivery |
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Friday, 16 September 2005 |
Wireless Research Group |
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Friday, 21 October 2005 |
Research Centre for Interactive Learning Environments |
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
Centre for Visual Information Processing and Content Mgmt |
MEETINGS/VISITS off campus
Nicholas Sheppard travelled to Seoul to present a research paper at the International Workshop on Digital Watermarking in October/November. On the same trip, he visited Professor Robert Deng's group in the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University, and Professor Hideki Imai's group at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo. At both SMU and the Uni of Tokyo, he presented an overview of the Secure Multimedia Information Communication Labs, and detailed our recent work in inter-operability of digital rights management systems that was published at the ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management in October.
Tad Wysocki visited the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha campus under the framework of the ARC Linkage International grant "Modelling Virtual Transport Channel for Future Multimedia Heterogeneous Networks". Under the same grant, Prof. Hamid Sharif of the University of Nebraska visited Wollongong in July and August 2004.
Six members of Wireless Technologies Laboratory attended the IEEE 802.15.3 Standards Meeting on 15 November in San Antonio, Texas. All attendees were voting members.
CONFERENCES
ICT Outlook Forum 2004, September 2004 http://www.ictforum.com.au/
Rei Safavi-Naini and Farzad Safaei attended. Darrell Williamson (ICT Council of CRCs) was the Master of Ceremony for the ICT research – enabling frontier Australian industries session.
International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, 21-23 October 2004, Hong Kong http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~cmsp/ISIMP04/home.htm
Attended: Prashan Premaratne
Paper presented: Blur Retrieval via separation of zeros sheets from Noisy Blurred Images
Attended: Jiangtao Xi
Paper presented: De-cumulant Based Approaches for Convolutive Blind Source Separation and
Docorrelation: Sufficnet for Convolutive Blind Source Separation
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), 24 October 2004, Singapore http://www.icip2004.org
Attended: Prashan Premaratne
Paper presented: Image database retrieval using sketched queries
The Fourth ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, 25 October 2004, Washington DC. http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~drm2004/
Attended: Rei Safavi-Naini
Paper presented: Import and Export in Digital Rights Management (co-authored with Takeyuki Uehara and Nicholas Sheppard)
Rei Safavi-Naini also delivered one of the two invited talks of the workshop, entitled “Tracing Traitors: A Selective Survey”
IEEE International Conference on Networks 16-19 November 2004, Singapore
Attended by: Cong Nguyen (PhD student)
Paper presented: A Distributed Server Architecture for Providing Immersive Audio Communication to Massively Multi-player Online Games
Attended by: Ying Peng Que (PhD student)
Paper presented: Online Bandwidth Auctions for Efficient Allocation of Bandwidth
Attended by: Gaurav Srivastava (PhD student)
Papers presented: Topology Control in Heterogeneous Ad-hoc Networks
Attended by: Mehran Dowlatshahi
Paper presented: A Recursive Overlay Multicast Algorithm for Distribution of Audio Streams in Networked Games
IEEE Globecom 2004 conference, 29 November – 3 December, Dallas, Texas, USA
Attended by: Farzad Safaei and Paul Boustead
Paper presented: Networking Issues for Multimedia Entertainment
IWCIA Conference. November/December 2004,The University of Auckland, New Zealand http://www.citr.auckland.ac.nz/~IWCIA04/content/program.pdf
Attended: Abdolah Chalechale
Paper presented: Sketch-based shape retrieval using length and curvature of 2D digital contours
2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2004), December 2004, Bangladore http://www.pal.ece.iisc.ernet.in/~spcom04
Attended: Gaurav Srivastava
Paper presented: Distributed Range Assignment for Reliable Channel Access and Reuse in Ad-hoc networks.
Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)Conference 2004,
5-8 December, The University of Western Australia
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/
Thirteen papers were presented by Research Centre for Interactive Learning Environments (RILE) at this Conference. Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Tony Herrington, Jan Herrington, Brian Ferry, Gwyn Brickell, Bob Corderoy and Gerry LeFoe attended. RILE members were successful in achieving a number of awards as follows:
Gregg Rowland, Rob Wright and the em-lab team won the award for the exemplary application of ICT to Teaching and Learning. Their project was the “Road Risks – Your Choice”, a road safety resource for Year 7 and 8 secondary students.
Gregg Rowland also won an outstanding professional service award from the Professional Teachers Council.
Meg O’Reilly, Sue Bennet, and Mike Kepple were successful in their application for a competitive grant to investigate on-line assignment strategies in three institutions.
Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference, 8-10 December 2004, Sydney. www.titr.uow.edu.au/atnac
The conference was a marked success with three plenary sessions, 18 technical sessions and 6 plenary speakers from Australia and overseas. TITR researchers made significant contributions to the conference with six oral and one poster papers accepted. Farzad Safaei was the general chair, Paul Boustead was co-chair of the first Australian workshop on Network Support for Interactive multimedia and games (NSIM'04) which was co-located with ATNAC, Eryk Dutkiewicz and Xiaojing Huang were co-chairs of the physical layer wireless session and several TITR researchers were involved in the paper review process. The conference sponsors were Telstra, Smart Internet Technology CRC and National ICT Australia (NICTA).
Papers presented: Policy Distribution Using COPS-PR in a Distributed Firewall (Gatus,Safavi-Naini and Susilo) – presented by Rungrat WiangsripanawanDesign of Policy Tables for Implementation of Hybrid Distributed Firewalls (L Lu, Safavi-Naini, W Susilo)
Implications of Virtual Links Interdependency in Virtual Networks Admission (J Brun, F Safaei)
A Simulation Study of the IEEE 802.15.3 MAC (K-W Chin, D Lowe) – presented by K-W Chin.
Comparison of distributed server architectures in providing immersive audio communication to massively multi-player online games (C Nguyen, F Safaei, P Boustead)
Audio Distribution and Rendering in Network Games (M Dowlatshahi, F Safaei)
Tailoring Local Lag for Improved Playability in Wide Distributed Network Games (J Brun, F Safaei)
Provisioning Overlay Distribution Networks for Live Streaming Media (V Nguyen, F Safaei, P Boustead).
Messaging for Remove Australian Desert Communities using Satelite DVB Multicast (T Eyers)
Ninth Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN’04), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 8-10 December 2004.
Papers presented:
Identity-Based Authenticated Broadcast Encryption and Distributed Authenticated Encryption by Yi Mu, Willy Susilo, Yan-Xia Lin, University of Wollongong, Australia and Chun Ruan, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Deniable Partial Proxy Signatures by Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia, Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China and Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia,
The 2004 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices COMMAD 2004) in Brisbane at University of Queensland, 8-10 December 2004 http://www.commad2004.itee.uq.edu.au/
Papers presented:
Estimating the parameters of semiconductor lasers based on weak optical feedback Interferometry (Jiangtao Xi, Yanguang Yu, Joe Chicharo and Thierry Bosch).
Measuring Multiple Parameters in a Self-mixing Optical Feedback System (Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Enbang Li and Joe Chicharo).
Accuracy limitations introduced by digital projection sources in profilometric optical metrology systems (Matthew Baker, Jiangtao Xi, Enbang Li and Joe Chicharo).
A Calibration Approach for Decoupling Colour Cross-talk using Nonlinear Blind Signal Separation Network (Yingsong Hu, Jiangtao Xi, Enbang Li and Joe Chicharo.
The International Society for Optical Engineering 12-15 December 2004 Sydney
http://spie.org/conferences/programs/04/au/conferences
Papers presented:
Experiment evaluation of FBG sensor on strain measurement of prestressed steel strand, Enbang Li, Jiangtao Xi, Joe Chicharo, Tiegen Liu, Xin Li, Junfeng Jiang, Lina Li, Yunxin Wang and Yimo Zhang.
Novel two-dimension FBG sensor based on bilateral cantilever beams for simultaneous measurement of force and temperature, Weigang Zhang, Guiyun Kai, Shuzhong Yuan, Xiaoyi Dong, Enbang Li, Jiangtao Xi and Joe Chicharo
International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and nformation Processing, 14-17 December 2004, Melbourne. www.issnip.org
Attended: David Stirling
Paper presented: Ontology Trend Analysis of Dynamic Signals Paper ID: 135.
The 3rd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP’04), Adelaide, 20-22 December 2004
http://www.dspcs-witsp.com/WITSP_04/program_1.pdf
Paper presented:
Global optimization of uninitialized convolutive blind signal separation problems in the time domain (Iain Russell, Jiangtao Xi & Alfred Mertins).
Asiacrypt 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, 5-9 December 2004
Attended by: Rei Safavi-Naini and Lan Nguyen
Paper presented:
Efficient and Provably Secure Trapdoor-free Group Signature Schemes from Bilinear Pairings.
Asiacrypt is one of the three conferences sponsored by International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Rei safavi-Naini in one of the three Australian representatives on the steering committee of Asiacrypt conferences. She was on program committee of Asiacrypt 2004 and chaired a session.