As part of a broader organisational restructure, data networking research at Swinburne University of Technology has moved from the Centre for Advanced Internet Architecture (CAIA) to the Internet For Things (I4T) Research Lab.

Although CAIA no longer exists, this website reflects CAIA's activities and outputs between March 2002 and February 2017, and is being maintained as a service to the broader data networking research community.

Funding

CAIA members attract funding from a number of sources -- external (industry and government) and internal (from within the University). The table below lists the funds brought to Swinburne (either in their entirety or transferred from other instutions) and the dates on which the grants were announced.

Date (announced)
Amount (AUD)
Source
Research Leader(s) / Primary Contact
Description
August 2016
~$28K
ISIF Asia grants 2016
B. Al Musawi, P. Branch, G. Armitage
Rapid detection of BGP anomalies
September 2015
~$81K ($61K USD)
Cisco USA (URP grant)
P. Branch, G. Armitage
A partial PhD stipend to support research into BGP Anomaly Detection using VIRL
August 2015
$30K USD
Comcast TechFund
G. Armitage
Independent implementation of modern Active Queue Management in FreeBSD
May 2015
~$96K ($78K USD)
Cisco USA (URP grant)
J. But, G. Armitage
Investigation of Dynamic Network Management in an OpenFlow Enabled Network
April 2015
$21.5K USD
Cisco USA (URP grant)
G. Armitage A Masters (Research) degree stipend to support research into Multipath TCP for FreeBSD
November 2014
~$30K (of $270K total)
ARC LIEF 2015
J. But, G. Armitage (and CIs from 9 other orgs, led by UNSW)
Development of a wide-area Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow research testbed spanning ten organisations
October 2014
$150K
"Cisco Innovation Fund", SUT and Cisco Australia
G. Armitage (CAIA), Julian Thomas (SISR)
"An integrated social and technical evaluation of household broadband service requirements for educational innovation and the Internet of Things". [A joint $300K project with Swinburne's Institute for Social Research, starting in 2015.]
August 2014
$39K
FSET 2014 Research Infrastructure Investment Scheme
G. ArmitageHigh Performance Data Networking Test Bed for TCP and Content Delivery Research
April 2014
$40K
FreeBSD Foundation
G. ArmitageSupport for a Masters(research) program on Multipath TCP in FreeBSD
August 2013
$172K
Netflix Inc
G. ArmitageSupport for a PhD program in high performance IP-based content delivery
June 2013
$65K
Cisco Systems
G. ArmitageStudy in TCP Congestion Control Performance In A Data Centre
May 2013
$??K
BSDCan 2013
N. Williams
Airfare and accommodation to present a talk at BSDCan 2013 in Ottowa, Canada
Apr 2013
$3K
Faculty of ICT Research Grants Scheme 2013 P. Branch
Characterising the Statistics of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Behaviour
Apr 2013
$3.5K
Faculty of ICT Research Grants Scheme 2013 S. Zander
Improving Network Traffic Classification with Payload-based Features
Nov 2012$5K
Australian French Association for Science and Technology (AFAS)
H. VuSupplementary funds to the Victoria Fellowships scheme for international study missions in France
Nov 2012 $18K
Victorian Government
H. Vu Funds for international study missions under the Victoria Fellowships scheme
Nov 2012
$54K USD
Cisco USA (CCRI grant) G. Armitage Exploring possible mitigation for incast TCP congestion in data centres
Nov 2012 $47K USD
Cisco USA (CCRI grant) G. Armitage Low cost home network monitoring using “3D virtual environments”
Nov 2012 $92K USD
Cisco USA (CCRI grant) H. Vu, G. Armitage Using Multipath TCP to improve `Vehicle to Infrastructure' communications
Nov 2012
$300K
ARC Discovery Grant L. Andrew, H. Vu
Congestion control of networks: a unified stochastic framework, DP130100156 (three year project starting 2013, in collaboration with Y. Nazarathy, S. Low, M. Mandjes)
Nov 2012
$75K
ARC Discovery GrantL. Andrew
Resource management algorithms and software systems for green cloud computing, DP130101378 ($315K three-year project starting in 2013, lead institute University of Melbourne, with R. Buyya and A. Wierman)
Aug 2012
$693K
ARC Future FellowshipH. Vu
Four years contribution to salary and infrastructure/equipment costs for Associate Professor Hai Vu to pursue an ARC Future Fellowship research program
Jan 2012
$97K USD
Cisco USA (CCRI grant)G. Armitage Multipath TCP for FreeBSD
Oct 2011
$83K USD
Cisco USA (CCRI grant)G. Armitage Using delay-gradient TCP to reduce the
    impact of 'bufferbloat' and lossy wireless paths
Oct 2011
$??K
ISOC / IRTF
M. Rossi Funding for Mattia Rossi to attend IETF 82
Aug 2011
$19K USD
FreeBSD FoundationG. Armitage, L. Stewart DIFFUSE for FreeBSD
Jun 2011
$??K
ISOC / IRTF ANRP
M. Rossi ANRP funding for Mattia Rossi to attend IETF 81
Apr 2011
$75K USD
Cisco USA (CCRI grant)G. Armitage Detecting and Reducing BGP Update Noise
Oct 2010
~$337K
ARC Linkage GrantG. Armitage, L. Andrew, G. Huston (APNIC Pty Ltd) Tools and models for measuring and predicting growth in internet addressing and routing complexity (three year project starting 2011, ~$211K from the ARC and $126K from APNIC Pty Ltd)
Oct 2010
$40K
APNIC Pty LtdG. Armitage, M. Rossi Collaborative investigation into BGP routing dynamics and the use of existing and previously un-routed Internet address space
Sep 2010
~$20K
FreeBSD FoundationG. Armitage, D. Hayes and L. Stewart Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD
July 2010
$20K
APNIC Pty Ltd,
Nominet UK
G. Armitage Exploring the utility of Stateless TCP for highspeed, high-load DNS under FreeBSD
May 2010
$20K
Faculty of ICT Research Grants Scheme 2010P. Branch and
 
J. But
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Practical, Realtime, Gigabit/second Internet Traffic Classification Techniques
Apr 2010
~$104K
Cisco USA (CCRI grant)G. ArmitageExtending Open Source Packet Filtering to support Distributed Statistical Traffic Classification
Oct 2009
$150K
ARC Discovery GrantL. Andrew,  H. VuMechanism design for next generation random access wireless protocols (three year project starting 2010)
Sep 2009
$683K
ARC Future FellowshipL. Andrew
Four years contribution to salary and infrastructure/equipment costs for Associate Professor Lachlan Andrew to pursue an ARC Future Fellowship research program
Dec 2008
~$66K
Agilent Technologies Foundation (USA)G. Armitage
Large Scale synthesis and evaluation of interactions between VoIP, online multiplayer games and traditional TCP-based services in the broadband consumer environment
Oct 2008
~$121K
Cisco USA (CCRI grant)G. ArmitageImplementing and testing delay-based and rate-based transport protocols in FreeBSD
Oct 2008
$50K
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)G. ArmitageExploring the Utilisation of IPv4 Address Space and Size of the NATed IPv4 Internet
Sep 2008
$21K
FreeBSD FoundationL. StewartG. ArmitageEnhancing the FreeBSD TCP Implementation
Dec 2007
$19K
auDA Foundation G. Armitage An Open-source Tool for Passive Detection of Unsolicited Network Scans in Small ISP and Enterprise networks
Nov 2007
~$105K
Cisco USA (CCRI grant) G. Armitage Heuristics to reduce BGP Update Noise
Nov 2007
$12K
Swinburne Researcher Development Grants 2008
P. Branch
Lawful interception of peer-to-peer voice over IP traffic
Oct 2007 $28K
Cisco USA G. Armitage [Supplemental funding for "Public implementation and interoperability testing of next generation TCP stack under FreeBSD"]
May 2007 $78K
Cisco USA (CCRI grant)
J. But
FreeBSD Implementation of an SCTP friendly NAT
Apr 2007 $30K
Cisco USA G. Armitage [Supplemental funding for "Public implementation and interoperability testing of next generation TCP stack under FreeBSD"]
Dec 2006 $19K
Swinburne Researcher Development Grants 2007
H. Vu
Replacing mobile communication with wireless VoIP
Dec 2006
$27K
Swinburne Researcher Development Grants 2007
J. But
Analysis of BitTorrent performance in a content caching context
Sep 2006
$20K
auDA Foundation G. Armitage Open source implementation of a TCP layer algorithm for Email Spam mitigation
Jun 2006 $85K
Cisco USA (URP grant) G. Armitage Anomalous traffic detection and collaborative network configuration using 3D multiplayer game engines
May 2006
$60K
Electronic Communication and Commerce Pty Ltd
G. Armitage [Two year collaborative research agreement]
Nov 2005
$77K (of $90K grant)
ARC Discovery Grant
H. Vu Performance Evaluation Methodologies for the Optical Internet (3 year ARC Discovery Project awarded Dec 2004)
Sep  2005
$32K
Cisco USA
G. Armitage [Supplemental support for postgraduate and staff conference travel]
Jun 2005
$115K
Cisco USA (URP grant)
G. Armitage Public implementation and interoperability testing of next generation TCP stack under FreeBSD
Apr 2005
$222K
Smart Internet Techologies CRC
G. Armitage Automated Network Re-engineering Techniques and Planning Tools to Support Highly Interactive, Latency-Constrained Applications
Dec 2004
$55K
Cisco USA (URP grant) G. Armitage Dynamic Self-learning Traffic Classification based on Flow Characteristics
Jan 2003
$227K
Cisco Australia
G. Armitage/ R. Constantine
[Cash and equipment support for post-grad stipends and BART]
Last Updated: Friday 28-Oct-2016 10:57:17 AEDT | No longer maintained. Pre-2018 was maintained and authorised by Grenville Armitage, garmitage@swin.edu.au