With video traffic accounting for more than 60% of the global downstream Internet traffic in 2019, video streaming represents a significant portion of inbound traffic to the home environment. Recently, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has standardised three Active Queue Management (AQM) schemes – PIE (RFC8033), CoDel (RFC8289) and FQ-CoDel (RFC8290). These schemes are being progressively deployed at the last-mile Internet Service Providers’ (ISP) end-points and home gateways to counteract bufferbloat and will likely impact consumer video streams. This talk presents the benefits of the emerging AQM schemes in broadband networks and their impact on video streaming traffic and an experimentally validated technique that has been proposed for improving streaming performance in typical consumer home broadband environments. Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Kua   More Information: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/tego_/event/manage/238565 This event is organized by IEEE Victorian ComSoc Chapter

Supply and demand are becoming increasingly variable and uncertain, consumers are increasingly generators as well as consumers of electricity and responsive to price or other market signals. This, alongside the ever-increasing data and information, flows that come with digitalisation, presents an opportunity to explore a fit-for-purpose market framework for the national electricity market (NEM). The biggest opportunity from this energy transition is the development of a two-sided market. Registration: Members and visitors are welcome, RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/moving-to-a-two-sided-energy-market-tickets-117871160815