Postgraduate Program
ANSPAG offers engineers the opportunity of engaging in
postgraduate training and research in the area of Telecommunications.
For application forms, please refer to http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/teaching/postgrad.html
PhD Research
Researchers will be accepted for PhD research if they can demonstrate excellence
in previous postgraduate study, and a keen interest in pursuing their research
interests. For those who are accepted, ANSPAG has a list of current high
quality projects which need to be researched, and can provide unrivalled
access to support and laboratory equipment. If a researcher has a specific
topic of interest to ANSPAG, we can support the research direction.
Upon successful completion of the thesis, researchers will be granted a
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) by Monash University.
Contact anspag@eng.monash.edu.au
for more details. Scholarships may be available.
Masters Program
The Masters Program is offered in three formats, designed to make the program
as accessible as possible, to both full time and part-time students and
also those who are full-time employed.
- Masters by coursework and thesis
- Masters by research
- Individual units
The Masters Degree awarded at the successful conclusion of the Program
is a full Monash University Master of Engineering Science in Telecommunications.
Monash University is Australia's largest University and probably the Asia-Pacific's
best known University.
Master of Engineering Science by Coursework and Minor Thesis
The Master of Engineering Science in Telecommunications by coursework
and minor thesis consists of a major program of taught courses which are
examined, together with the submission of a minor thesis. The minor thesis
is normally based on an investigation type project, and represents approximately
one quarter of the total course. The thesis should demonstrate the candidate's
ability to construct their own thoughts in this area.
The course has been specifically designed to suit those who are already
working, but who wish to continue their studies. The courses all run late
afternoon so as to minimise any impact on working hours.
This course would normally require a minimum of two years part-time study,
and students may not take longer than 4.5 years to complete the degree.
Typically nine subjects will be studied, in addition to the Minor Thesis.
Students may choose from a wide range of Engineering subjects offered by
Monash University, while completing at least five subjects
from the Telecommunications stream.
Pre-requisites: A honours degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
Contact anspag@eng.monash.edu.au
for more details. Scholarships may be available.
Master of Engineering Science by Research
This program is intended to provide the candidate with a basic training
in the methodology of research, to empower them to conduct meaningful research
into telecommunications. Postgraduate coursework units may also be prescribed
to extend the candidate's formal knowledge beyond undergraduate level if
the supervisor deems it necessary. The Master of Engineering Science in
Telecommunications is awarded for a thesis which embodies the results of
his/her findings.
Candidates can conduct their research either full-time or part-time. A full
time research project will normally require around two years, while part-time
research must be complete within four years. The work is carried out under
the direction of a supervisor mutually agreed upon by the student and Monash
University.
Scholarships are available for those with a 1st class honours degree
from an Australian university or have publications in leading international
journals or conferences (e.g IEEE).
Supervisors and their general field of interest.
Pre-requisites:Anyone with an honours degree in Electrical Engineering or a related
discipline.
Contact anspag@eng.monash.edu.au
for more details. HECS exemptions and Scholarships may be available.
Individual Units
Some people may find it hard to commit to full time study, but wish to
upgrade their knowledge in Telecommunications. ANSPAG can now offer the
opportunity to study individual "units" of the Masters by coursework.
You will attend lectures with the Masters by Coursework and Minor Thesis
students.
Participants are given the option of completing assignments and sitting
an exam at the end of each unit and if successful they will be given a letter
stating that they have passed the subject and their mark.
Any units which have been successfully completed can be used as a "credit"
against the same modules, if the student wished to convert to the masters
program at a later date.
Pre-requisites: None.
Contact anspag@eng.monash.edu.au
for more details.
Subjects from the Telecommunications Stream:
Performance of Telecommunications Networks:
Provides an advanced knowledge of the techniques and tools available for
evaluating their performance of telecommunications networks.
Covers: Network configurations; queuing theory; teletraffic theory;
performance modelling of circuit and packet switching; broadband ISDN; fast
packet switching; congestion control; current research issues.
Application of High-Speed Telecommunications
Networks:
Provides a basic understanding of the characteristics of high-speed telecommunications
networks and their application to multimedia communications and conferencing.
Covers: Characteristics of new high-speed public telecommunication
networks; FASTPAC broadband data network and broadband ISDN; Network services;
Multimedia developments; image and video compression standards; audio compression
and optical storage; computer supported collabvoration technology; real-time
conferenbcing and multi-user editors; supercomputing; applications of multimedia
communications to industries suchas education, medicine, building and environmental
management; effects on organsiational structure.
Software Engineering for Telecommunications:
This unit will provide an introduction to modern techniques in software
engineering for real-time, distributed systems. There will be an emphasis
on the application of formal description techniques for engineering correct
and reliable software. Examples drawn from telecommunications software will
be used to illustrate the power and usefulness of these methods.
Covers: Models of the software life cycle; real-time programming
and the use of CASE tools; Concurrency; problems of mutual exclusion, process
synchronisation and inter-process communication; Concurrent languages; Distributed
systems; OSI and ODP; Formal specification techniques; SDL, Temporal Logic
and LOTOS; Implementation issues, softare validation and quality assurance;
software reliability engineering.
Mobile Communication Networks and Systems:
Will provide knowledge and understanding of the pruinciples of mobile radio
networks and how they contrast with those for fixed telecommunciations networks
and to develop an awareness of the challenges to be faced in providing high
quality of service.
Covers: Land and satelitte-based mobile radio services, systems and
networks; mobile cellular telephone, paging, telepoint and wireless LAN
systems; characteristics of the mobile radio channel; multipath fading,
shadowing and Doppler effects; switching and other protocols in support
of mobility; frequency reuse and channel allocation; multiaccess methods;
digital modulation for mobile communications; future developments in mobile
telecommuncations and associated new design problems.
ISDN Networks and Applications:
Will provide a basic understanding of the characteristics, protocols
and applications of narrowband and broadband ISDN networks.
Covers: Overview of narrowband ISDN services, protocols and applications.
Basic principles of Broadband ISDN & ATM, Applications of ATM networks:
voice, video & data requirements, ATM service classes, ATM switching, Traffic shaping, Connection Admission Control, Traffic Policing, Traffic Shaping, Usage Parameter Control, Congestion control, Performance gaurantees, Laboratory demonstrations of both
narrowband
and broadband ISDN.
Advanced Network Design:
Network performance modelling and analysis. Delay models (M/M/1,
M/G/1), networks of queues. Multi-access systems (splitting, reservation,
carrier sensing), routing techniques (shortest path, Bellman-Ford, Frank-Wolfe,
adaptive routing, flooding). Flow control (window control, isarithmic, max-min).
Network topology design (backbone, concentrator placement).
Protocol Engineering:
High-level language protocol implementation techniques including
FSM implementation. Timer management. BCC generation. Concurrency issues.
Retransmission queue management. Real-time constraints. Protocol specification
and rapid prototyping systems: introduction and theory; SDL; LOTOS; CHILL;
Estelle. Conformance testing: approaches to, and limitations of, conformance
testing; the need for and requirements of a conformance standard; the CEPT
NET-2 and ISO 8882 standards.
Telecommunications Management:
Australian telecommunication policies. Roles of Austel and the
carriers. Corporate telecommunications strategies. Network project planning,
implementation and operation. Financial planning overview: budgets, DCF
techniques. Network management tools and protocols.
A brief guide to supervisors and their general
field of interest:
These are the supervisors most likely to work with you on your research
project. The fields of interest are designed purely to give an idea of the
subject area and research projects may be in other areas, as long as they
are related to those below:
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Broadband Network Performance | Bill Brown |
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| Internet & ATM Network Applications | Bruce Tonkin |
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| Video Compression/Coding | Khee Pang |
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| Optical Fibres | L.N. Binh |
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| Ionospheric Propagation | John Bennett |
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| Information transmission | Don Keogh |
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| Electromagnetic fields | Greg Cambrell |
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| Distributed computing | Greg Egan |
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