Research focus areas

Our world-class team of academic and industry professionals take a whole-system approach to collaborative telecommunications research. By leveraging our multidisciplinary expertise, expansive professional networks and access to UTS’s world-class engineering facilities, we deliver practical solutions that drive sector-wide innovation.

Our diverse research programs span three focus areas:

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Using networks: Broadband and mobile networks

  • Forecasting future usage
  • Application demand on telecom networks
  • Understanding user latency
  • Understanding speed clipping and user experience
  • Emergency services provisioning and capacity building
  • Communications and computing for metaverse
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Building networks: Network rollout

  • Fibre deployment (soft robots and intelligent lead-in continuity)
  • Mobile tower degradation measurement
  • AI network inventory management and modelling
  • Resilient and reconfigurable networking in unconventional environments
  • Wireless / 5G–6G security
  • Hardening wireless protocols
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Maintaining networks: Network resilience and management

  • Telecom resilience
  • Using AI in incident management
  • Outages (causes, investigations and recovery)
  • Network modelling and playbooks for failures
  • 000 / 999 / 911 communications and testing
  • Sovereign functions and their role in network outages
  • Packet-level modelling and queuing theory for network failures
  • In-band telemetry
  • Digital AI real-time twins and applications using knowledge graphs
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Network modelling
  • Telecom infrastructure degradation modelling and condition assessment
  • Condition-based maintenance scheduling and maintenance strategy planning
  • AI-empowered business continuity and recovery planning
  • Networks’ supply chain management, identity / access management
  • Blockchain and game theory / network-economics
  • Cloud and AI service auditing
  • GenAI-empowered networking and threat / vulnerability detection
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Technology evolution of networks

  • Technology evolution of networks

  • Long-range mesh Wi-Fi systems

  • mmWave propagation

  • ELO-satellite-supported mobile voice calling

  • Emergency calling and evolution

  • LEO satellite connectivity

  • Digital twin: capacity and incident forecasting, management, impacts of outages on sovereign functions

  • LLM-empowered future 000 / 999 / 911