Dr Carlo Kopp has been designing, developing, constructing, testing and researching digital networks since 1985. He developed a number of proprietary network protocols during his industry career, as well as integrated protocols on the SunOS 4.1/BSD operating system, and proprietary embedded platforms, and performed performance modelling and measurement of packet networks. His PhD topic, submitted in 1999, covered the adaptation of X/Ku-band Active Electronically Steered Array (AESA) radar antennas for high data rate networking, microwave tropospheric propagation problems at shallow slant angles, and wide area networking behaviour in airborne networks.

Since 2000 Kopp has been actively researching networking problems at Monash University, and was cofounder of the Ad Hoc Networking Research team at the Monash University Department of Computer Science. This group has performed basic and applied research covering urban/suburban area ad hoc wireless networking, ad hoc networking protocols, network security, microwave propagation in urban and tropospheric environments, support protocols for GPS, and "smart networks" capable of understanding the local propagation environment.

Recent research publications of note include co-authorship of Chapter 5, covering multimode AESA fighter radars, in the Third Edition of Merrill Skolnik's Radar Handbook, which is the global standard radar engineering reference text, and co-authorship of the Internet Draft entitled The Lightweight Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Support Protocol (LGSP).

Dr Kopp has been a defence analyst since 1980, providing him with a unique perspective on military networking.