Rate My Professor Peter Cole

Peter Cole is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. He has previously served as Dean of the School of Information Technology and as President of the Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology (ACDICT). Cole is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Murdoch University in 2000, with a thesis entitled 'Urban rail perspectives in Perth, Western Australia,' supervised by Jeff Kenworthy. His academic career at Murdoch University dates back to at least the mid-1990s, as evidenced by his early publications and ongoing involvement in research and supervision.

Peter Cole's research specializations include computer networks, TCP congestion control mechanisms, wireless sensor networks, localisation in GPS-denied open areas, smart street furniture for smart cities, game construction for learning, and 3D rigid solid object modelling using View Signature II representations. He has supervised doctoral theses on topics such as analysis and design of active queue management for TCP networks (N. Hamadneh, 2012), security through design as a paradigm for systems development (C. Payne, 1999), real-time localisation system for GPS denied open areas (M. Ali, 2020), functionality-based application confinement (Z. Schreuders, 2012), and intelligent adaptive SPAM filters. Key publications co-authored by Cole include 'Wifi-based localisation datasets for No-GPS open areas using smart bins' (2020), 'The Current and Future Role of Smart Street Furniture in Smart Cities' (IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019), 'Adaptive Low-Power Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Smart Street Furniture-based Crowd and Environmental Measurements' (2019), 'Dynamic weight parameter for the Random Early Detection (RED) in TCP networks' (2012), 'Weighted RED (WTRED) Strategy for TCP Congestion Control' (2011), 'Game construction as a learning tool' (2006), 'A Taxonomy of Occlusion in View Signature II Representations: A Regular Language for the Representation of 3-D Rigid Solid Objects' (1998), and 'Modelling 3-D Rigid Solid Objects Using The View Signature II Representation Scheme' (1995). These works have been presented in conferences and journals, contributing to advancements in network performance and innovative technologies.