Research Topics for Students

Parallel Distributed Computing

1. Associative data management for cloud computing.

2. Elastic computing with Graph Neuron (GN) enhancements to Hadoop file system (HDFS).

3. Wireless sensor network grid for structural engineering applications.

4. Swarm/colony model utlising simple ANN and GA codes, for self-organising networks.

5. Computational resource optimisation with self-organising grids.

Intelligent Systems - Graph Neuron (GN) related projects.

1. Developing One-shot Learning Artificial Neural Nets.

2. Developing a grid-enabled Self-organising Map for Climatic Change Modelling.

3. Implementing an associative memory network for adding a sensory perception to physical objects.

4. A closed-loop multi-dimensional GN array for independent action.

Internet Protocols and Applications

1. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) for new forms of monitoring applications.

2. Self-organising WSNs for dynamic and unpredictable environments.

3. Optimising a large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) network.

4. A VoIP Serverless (P2P) application.

5. Architectural design of a P2P network using IPV6.

6. Possible architectural models for incorporating Serverless (P2P) applications as web services.

7. Internet-wide service discovery strategies.

8. P2P network security.

Wireless and Mobile Protocols

1. Devising location-aware network applications for collaborating communities of mobile devices (e.g. Bluetooth networks).

2. Devising efficient service discovery schemes for mobile devices.

Students may also create their own research projects from one or more of the following research areas.

Possible Research Topic Areas

• Development of Serverless applications for real-time Internet communication systems and web services.
• Multicast: developing connection oriented mechanisms for Multicast protocol.
• RFCs: 2090|2117| 2189
• Mobile IP: developing hand over and service discovery techniques in wireless networks.
• http://www.neda.com/mobileIpSurvey/html/mobileIP.html
• http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds7-2/
• Wireless networks. The related topics would be Bluetooth, 802.11, and Packet Radio.
• Data communication optimisation with protocols such as Multicasting, IPV6, VoIP, Mobile IP, and Internet Multimedia protocols.
• Internet traffic modelling and analysis. The related topics would be queuing theory analysis, genetic algorithms, and neural networks.
• Developing large-scale parallel/distributed associative memory networks for super-intelligent systems.
• P2P techniques for data mining - predicting outcomes from historical data.
• BGP routing table problem. The related topics would be routing, route discovery, and traffic integrity operations.
• Development of novel interfaces, for mobile and hand-held devices.

Pre-requisites for undertaking a research topic

Essential: Familiarity with UNIX/Linux programming environments and C/Java programming languages.

Desirable: An understanding of data communications and internetworking principles and protocols.

Contact

Dr A. I. Khan
Room 221, Building 63
Clayton School of Information Techology
Monash University
Vic 3800, Australia
Phone:    +61 (0)3 9905 4556
Fax:        +61 (0)3 9905 5159