Honours Scholarships

The Faculty of Information Technology offers a range of scholarships for students who commence full time study in the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) program.

• Sugar Research and Innovation Honours Scholarship
• Sony Foundation Scholarship
• Dean's Honours Merit Scholarship
• Information Security Institute Honours Scholarship
• Gateway Placement in Backbone Wireless Mesh Networks
• Secure Reprogramming of Sensor Networks
• Faculty of Information Technology Honours Scholarships

Sugar Research and Innovation Scholarship

Sugar Research Limited has provided funding to SRI to upgrade TOTools from the obsolete VB6 to Microsoft .NET framework. In addition, the Access database is being replaced with an SQL Server database. This upgrade involves a complete redesign of the software to fit within the object-oriented approach of .NET, as well as providing an opportunity to make improvements to the code and add some new features. To date, an initial beta version has been produced that provides much of the software design and provides the basic functionality of the daily ledger.

The Honours project involves researching options available in the .NET framework for the production of a final beta version that will contain the complete functionality required of the TOTools product.

Further details are available.

Contacts: Dr Geoff Kent at Sugar Research & Innovation or Dr Tony Sahama at Faculty of Information Technology.

Sony Foundation Scholarship

In partnership with Sony, the Faculty of IT is proud to announce the Sony Foundation Scholarships for 2008. The Sony Foundation Scholarships are open to QUT information technology students and are valued at $6,000 over two full-time semesters.

Students enrolling in the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) in Semester 1, 2008 who have achieved a GPA of 5.0 or above in their undergraduate degree are eligible to apply.

Your Honours research project will focus on Games Development and related areas. The successful applicant may have the opportunity to interact with Sony during their Honours degree.

The closing date for applications is Friday 1 February 2008.

Further Details: Student Services, Faculty of Information Technology at 3138 2782 or fit.enquiry@qut.edu.au.

Application form (92KB PDF)

Dean's Honours Merit Scholarship

Students enrolling in the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) who have achieved a GPA of 6.5 or above over their entire Bachelor of Information Technology enrolment are eligible to apply.

The Scholarship is $8,000 over two full-time semesters.

Application must be submitted to Student Services, Level 5, S Block, Gardens Point by 13 June 2008.
Further Details: Student Services, Faculty of Information Technology at 3138 2782 or fit.enquiry@qut.edu.au.

Information Security Institute Honours Scholarship

The Information Security Institute will be offering 2 Honours scholarships for students who commence full time study in an Honours program commencing Semester 1, 2008, and

• Who are undertaking a dissertation is in the area of information security, and
• who have achieved a GPS of 6.25 or above over their entire Bachelor degree

are eligible to apply.

The Scholarships are valued at $12,000 each over two full-time semesters.

Conditions

• Award of scholarships will be determined on the basis of academic merit.
• No student may receive more than one type of Honours scholarships available within the Faculty. This includes School or Research Centres scholarships.

Students interested in applying for any of these scholarships can obtain an application form here. The completed application form must be submitted to Information Security Institute, Level 7, 126 Margaret Street by Friday, 15 February, 2008.

For further information, can be found here

Gateway Placement in Backbone Wireless Mesh Networks

Supervisor: Dr Maolin Tang
Phone: 313 89468
Contact Dr. Maolin Tang

Backbone Wireless Mesh Networks (BWMNs) are wireless networks that consist of mesh routers. By equipping some of the mesh routers with gateway functionality, BWMNs can provide clients access to other networks, such as the Internet.

Gateway placement is an important problem in the design of BWMNs. It determines network points, or gateways, through which a BWMN communicates with other networks. The objective is to minimize the total number of gateways subject to Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints, such as delay constraint, relay load constraint and gateway capacity constraint. From the computational point of view, the gateway placement problem is a complex constrained combinatory optimisation problem.

This project will investigate methodologies and techniques for solving the gateway placement problem. The objective of this project is to develop a practical software tool to determine gateways for a backbone wireless mesh network.

Requisite knowledge and skills:

• competitive programming skills, preferably Matlab
• sound knowledge and skills in data structures and algorithms
• fundamental knowledge about backbone wireless mesh network (not essential!)

Secure Reprogramming of Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks are often deployed in large numbers on remote areas where direct physical access to sensors may be difficult.  Hence, network reprogramming protocols are used to efficiently disseminate software updates to sensors "over-the-air".  However, unless security mechanisms are implemented, over-the-air reprogramming poses a threat to the network by providing attackers with an easy way of injecting rogue updates.     

This project will involve the design and implementation of a secure network reprogramming protocol in resource-impoverished embedded platforms.  The project will be carried out in close collaboration with researchers of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at CSIRO (see http://www.sensornets.csiro.au).  

The main prerequisite for a prospective Honours student is experience in systems level programming in C.  Additionally, it would be desirable if the student had good knowledge of networking protocols, particularly wireless protocols, as well as  knowledge of information security at an introductory level.

There is a possibility of offering a $12,000 scholarship to the successful applicant.

Contact:  Dr. Juan Gonzalez Nieto

Faculty of Information Technology Honours Scholarships

Students enrolling in the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) who have achieved a GPA of 6 or above over their entire Bachelor of Information Technology enrolment are eligible to apply.

The scholarships are valued at $6,000 over two full-time semesters.