Networks Research Laboratory 

Welcome to the home page of the Network Research Laboratory (established in 1999) - a research group based in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

The Network Group is looking at supporting communication needs of major socio-economic domains such as transport, defence, and Internet/Telecommunication Services by providing innovative communication services to support a range of applications.  These applications require different level of service from the communication network. 

The aim of this group is to:

• develop new algorithms/mechanisms/protocols, tools and techniques to improve end-user experience (quality of service) for a range of wired and wireless networking technologies.
• fundamental/theoretical work with experimental work and proof of concept prototypes that can be used by end users or service providers.
• develop tools that enable internet and telecommunications service providers to optimally design, deploy and maintain networks and network-enabled pervasive applications.

This group's research work primarily focuses on higher layers of communication protocols in the areas of IP Networking, Resilient Networking and Quality of Service Management in IP networking/Cloud, Wireless Mesh and Sensor networks, Network Mobility, Vehicular communication and Security Protocols. The group is an active participant in the new UNSW Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (RCITI). The group has a strong track publication and grant success track record. The group has received support from industry partners and research labs such as CISRA, CSIRO, DSTO, Ericsson, FAST, Fujitsu, Intel, Lucent, NEC, NICTA and Vodafone in addition to the ARC grant schemes.

Please feel free to browse through these pages to find out who we are, what research we do and courses and research training opportunities we offer.

[Top Row: Left-to-Right]  Jun Yao - Prasant Misra - Chun Tung Chou -  Mahbub Hassan - Salil Kanhere -  Sanjay Jha -  Nadeem Ahmed - Joo Ghee Lim

[Bottom Row: Left-to-Right]  Bipul Sen - Jannatul Fardous - Jayeta Biswas - Brian Huang - Xin Zhao - Yifei Dong - Hailun Tan - Yiran Shen - Jun Guo

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Latest Updates !!!

Arrivals / Departures::

• S M Mazharul Hoque (smmh981@cse), Room 615, APA Award, Supervisor: Sanjay.
• Samaneh Khakbaz (samanehk@cse), Room 501-09, Supervisor: Mahbub.
• Kai (Lukas) Li (kail@cse), Room 501, Supervisors: Sanjay and Salil, Project: ARC.
• Ghulam Murtaza (gmurtaza@cse), Room 501, Supervisors: Sanjay and Salil, Project: ARC.
• Bo Wei <bwei@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>  Room 615 Supervisors: Wen Hu (CSIRO) and Chun Tung.
• Henry Zhong <hhcz728@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Room 501-26., Supervisors: Salil and Chun Tung, Project:  NEC.
• Chao Wang (Masters student at UNSW), Room 615, is working as a research assistant with Salil and Mahbub on a mobile network project.
• Sanika Joshi (jos.sanika@gmail.com), Room 615, is working as a casual research assistant (and is a prospective PhD student).

Thesis completion/submission:

Jun Yao has submitted his PhD thesis (approved by GRS in April). Jun has taken up a position as a Software Engineer at freelancer.com.

Rajib Rana's PhD thesis on "Addressing three wireless sensor network challenges using sparse approximation methods" has been approved by his examiners.

Visiting Students:

Prof. Su Gang, Director of a research centre at Tianjing Institute of Urban Construction, China is currently visiting us for 2 months (May – June 2011).

Website maintained by Prasant Misra