Phone: +61 3 9905 1369, Fax: +61 3 9905 1826
eMail:
greg.egan@eng.monash.edu.au
Professor of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Director of the Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Head of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Department, Advisor to the Information Technology Board of the Cultural Institutions of Victoria
Ph.D, Victoria University of Manchester, England, 1979, M.Sc, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England, 1976, B.Eng (Com.Eng), RMIT, 1975
FIEAust., CPEng., MACM, MIEEE, MBCS
As Director of the Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering I am responsible for all of its research and development activities. My background in parallel computer systems, and in particular data driven computer systems, extending back over 20 years is directly applicable to modern data communication networks. These networks are essentially large distributed computer systems with many of the latency, load balancing and locality problems associated with parallel computer systems.
My recent research has concentrated on scalability issues relating to distributed AV servers and their interaction with wired and wireless telecommunication networks. This research acknowledges the imminent arrival of digital HDTV and an inevitable rapid transition from broadcast to true AV on demand systems. The research is conducted within CTIE and with other telecommunication groups and the motion picture industry
I maintain an interest in general parallel computing issues with an application driven focus
Selected Publications:
'Large-scale Computational Simulation of Cortex-like Systems Using a Cray Research Y/MP Computer', Advances in Computational Life Sciences, Volume 2., Humans to Proteins, MT Michalewicz (Editor), CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Chapter 3, March 1998, pp35-48, ISBN 0 643 06033 2
'Parallel Computation of the Bispectrum', 5th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA'99, Brisbane, Aug 1999
'Digital Media Library Project: Video on demand for schools', International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education, Baden-Baden, Aug 1999
'A Client Caching Scheme for Interactive Video-on-Demand', IEEE International Conference on Networks ICON'99, Sept 28 - Oct 1, 1999, Brisbane, Australia
'Modeling Interactive Behaviour of a Video Based Multimedia System', International Conference on Communications ICC'99, Vancouver, June 6-10, 1999
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