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DR KERRY HINTON



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN INFORMATION NETWORKS
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Work: 83443809
Room: 5.17
Level: 05
Building: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Opitcal Communications devices, systems and networks optical communications Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 31-May-1984
Masters of Science in Mathematical Sciences Adelaide University 05-May-1982
Honours Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Adelaide University 03-May-1978
Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science Adelaide University 30-Apr-1980
Bachelors Degree in Science Adelaide University 11-May-1977
PhD in Theoretical Physics University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 31-May-1984
Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences Adelaide University 05-May-1982
Bachelor of Science Adelaide University 30-Apr-1980
Bachelor of Science Adelaide University 11-May-1977
Engineering Adelaide University 03-May-1978

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Next-Generation Optical Broadband Access for Rural and Regional Areas Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2007
A Green Internet Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A note on the stability of single frequency laser diode models
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 1-20 (Paper 175101)
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  • Energy consumption in optical IP networks
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 2391-2403
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  • Evolution of WDM optical IP networks: A cost and energy perspective
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 243-252
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Architectures for Energy-Efficient IPTV Networks
    Year: 2009
    Event name: OFCNFOEC2009: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
    Conference Publication: OFCNFOEC2009: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
    Page numbers: 1-3 (paper OThQ5)
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Packet delay variance and bandwidth allocation algorithms for extended-reach GPON
    Year: 2009
    Event name: The 14th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference
    Conference Publication: 2009 The 14th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference
    Page numbers: 1-2 (paper ThB1)
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • The Future Internet - an Energy Consumption Perspective
    Year: 2009
    Event name: The 14th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference
    Conference Publication: 2009 The 14th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference
    Page numbers: 1-2 (paper FT1)
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Framework for Evaluating the System Penalty From Polarization-Mode Dispersion Using Different Performance Monitoring Techniques


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1790-1797
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  • Multiple-input single-output FIFO optical buffers with controllable fractional delay lines
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 26
    Page numbers: 21849-21864
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  • Optical impairment outage computation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 10529-10534
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  • Switching Energy and Device Size Limits on Digital Photonic Signal Processing Technologies

    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 938 - 945
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Energy Consumption in Access Networks


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2008
    Conference Publication: OFCNFOEC 2008: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
    Page numbers: 1-3 (PAPER OThT6)
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Novel Outage Probability Based RWA Algorithm


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2008
    Conference Publication: OFCNFOEC 2008: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
    Page numbers: 1-3 (PAPER JThA87)
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Energy and the Internet
    Year: 2008
    Event name: OECC/ACOFT 2008 Conference: Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Conference Publication: OECC/ACOFT 2008 Conference: Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Energy consumption in IP networks
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 34th European Conference on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 2008 34th European Conference on Optical Communication
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 73
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Implications of Sleep Mode on Activation and Ranging Protocols in PONs
    Year: 2008
    Event name: The 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society
    Conference Publication: The 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society
    Page numbers: 604-605
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Energy consumption limits in high-speed optical and electronic signal processing
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Electronics Letters
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 906-908
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Comparison of methods for monitoring PMD-induced penalty
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Enabling ASON routing via novel signal quality metrics
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
    Author(s):
  • Energy consumption of the internet
    Year: 2007
    Event name: COIN-ACOFT 2007
    Conference Publication: International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN) with the 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • In search of the elusive all-optical packet buffer
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 Photonics in Switching
    Conference Publication: 2007 Photonics in Switching
    Page numbers: 3-4
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Order of magnitude estimates of size and power for all-optical switches
    Year: 2007
    Event name: COIN-ACOFT 2007
    Conference Publication: International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN) with the 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Outage and capacity based path selection in optical networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ECOC07: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: VDE Verlag GMBH(Berlin)
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  • Paced TCP gives higher utilization with no buffers than with small buffers
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ECOC07: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: VDE Verlag GMBH(Berlin)
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  • Photonic Switching and the Energy Bottleneck
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 Photonics in Switching
    Conference Publication: 2007 Photonics in Switching
    Page numbers: 125-126
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Power and size comparison of optical and electronic signal processing technologies
    Year: 2007
    Event name: COIN-ACOFT 2007
    Conference Publication: International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN) with the 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Quantifying the dependence of degree of polarization on polarization mode dispersion and the optical spectrum
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007: The Future of Optical Communications is Here
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • The photonic bottleneck
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Automatic laser shutdown implications for all optical data networks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 674-680
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Taxonomy of Optical Buffer Architectures
    Year: 2006
    Event name: COIN-NGNCON
    Conference Publication: The Joint International Conferences on Optical Internet and Next Generation Network - COIN-NGNCON
    Page numbers: 232-234
    Publisher: IEEE Communications Society(New York)
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  • Automatically switched optical network path selection using eye closure penalty
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Optical power constraints in future all-optical networks
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 377-381
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Output-Buffered All Optical Packet Switch
    Year: 2006
    Event name: COIN-NGNCON
    Conference Publication: The Joint International Conferences on Optical Internet and Next Generation Network - COIN-NGNCON
    Page numbers: 83-85
    Publisher: IEEE Communications Society(New York)
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  • Species of DPSK & DQPSK
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 25-27
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Taking the physical layer seriously in ASTNs
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 10-12
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Transient control in ASONS
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Optical performance monitoring with tunable narrowband optical filtering.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 8927-8932
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A novel broadband asynchronous histogram technique for optical performance monitoring
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Optical monitoring issues in highly transparent optical networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Tencon 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from IEEE Tencon '05 Conference
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Optical performance monitoring in automatically switchable optical networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Conference Publication: 2005 International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Page numbers: 1-4 (paper no.562)
    Publisher: Mahanakorn University of Technology(Bangkok)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An analysis of the suitability of optical bypass to reduce electronic routing costs
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The sixth international conference on optimization: techniques and applications (ICOTA6 2004)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the sixth international conference on optimization: techniques and applications (ICOTA6 2004)
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: University of Ballarat(Ballarat)
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  • Laser safety issues in next generation all optical networks
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Optical performance monitoring combining optical signal processing and histogram techniques
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Optically Monitored Histogram Transforms
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Spectrally resolved performance monitoring using narrowband filters for optical networks
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OECC/COIN 2004
    Conference Publication: Technical digest: OECC/COIN 2004: 9th optoelectronics & communications conference. 3rd international conference on optical internet.
    Page numbers: 652-653
    Publisher: IEICE Institue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(Tokyo)
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  • Where to with Automatically Switched Optical Networks?: A Telco Perspective
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ATNAC 2004
    Conference Publication: Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: ATNAC 2004(Sydney)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Metrics for dispersion ripple in optical systems
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Optical Fiber Technology
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 50-72
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASONs)- Optical Path Issues
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the Optical Internet/Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology 2003
    Conference Publication: Optical Networking: Technologies, Traffic Engineering and Management
    Page numbers: 99
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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  • Automatically switched optical network path selection using eye closure penalty
    Year: 2003
    Event name: ATNAC 2003
    Conference Publication: Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
    Page numbers: Session WC3
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Histogram Analysis for Optical Monitoring
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the Optical Internet/Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology 2003
    Conference Publication: Optical Networking: Technologies, Traffic Engineering and Management
    Page numbers: 63
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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