MSc/PhD students in Wireless Communications and Multimedia Signalling
Call for MSc / PhD students in the area of wireless communications and
multimedia signalling NeTS Research Group Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Spain NeTS is looking for students coming from renowned universities from
around the world, with a very good grade record, who have a very high
interest in wireless communications, specially those based on the IEEE
802.11 principles, including sensor, adhoc, infrastructure WLANs and
mesh networks.
We are also looking for students passionate about
multimedia communications in the Internet, and the protocols
associated to it. We seek students with a strong background on
communications networks, coming from electrical engineering, computer
science or related fields. Paramount is a desire to learn and push the
limits of current technology, as well as providing new insight into
today’s and tomorrow’s networks and services.
The accepted candidates will participate in several projects in tight
cooperation with other researchers from our group. Positions available
are:
1 PhD / MSc position in “Next Generation Multimedia Signalling for the
multitechnology, multiservice Internet”. The Internet is undergoing a
dramatic evolution through new architectural paradigms, like the NGNs,
P2Pbased signalling and applications, mobile and wireless access
networks and the like. There is a necessity to design a new set of
integrated signalling protocols, which permit to control the
transmission of multimedia traffic over such heterogeneous networks.
IMS is the current best practice in that area, but its many
shortcomings and high complexity suggest to explore new approaches
that go beyond IMS, like P2PSIP based systems. The goal of this PhD,
thus, is to design, evaluate and standardize new signalling protocols
for the Internet of the future. We offer a three year grant to PhD
students with a MSc already finished. Moreover, for students without a
MsC a four year grant is also possible with the requirement to follow
our master program during the first year.
1 PhD / MSc position in “Reconfigurable, adaptive and selforganized
sensor networks”. Sensor networks are formed by small, inexpensive and
resource limited devices that can interact with the environment
(sensing or actuating) and communicate wirelessly with other devices.
The work will consist in the design and implementation of a complete
new protocol stack based on collaborative and crosslayer techniques,
including power control routing algorithms, reconfigurable PHY/MAC
protocols and adaptive self organized multihop clustering algorithms.
1 PhD / MSc position in “Modeling adaptive traffic flows over capacity
varying wireless mesh networks”. Current WLANs suffer from various
impairments which reduce their ability to carry multimedia flows
satisfactorily. One of them is the intrinsic variable capacity due to
the multiple transmission rates used and caused by the distributed
random access to the channel. The proposed thesis will consider the
definition of a mathematical framework to analyze multichannel
wireless mesh networks, based on the IEEE 802.11s/n prestandard, in
order to optimize the QoS and signalling mechanisms (e.g. based on P2P
paradigms) to adapt properly the multimedia traffic sources (such as
VoIP, video streaming).
How to apply
Please send your full CV, together with your student record (as
appropriate) and a cover letter stating your interests and goals to:
Dr. Miquel Oliver: miquel.oliver[a-t]upf.edu
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF),
Edifici Estació França, Passeig de la Circumval∙lació, 8. Postal
code: 08003 Barcelona (Spain).
Tel: 93 542 24 51 Fax: 93 542 25 17
Deadline: 1 May 2008
Scholarship at Spain For Msc / Phd in Wireless Communications and Multimedia Signalling
Phd Scholarship in Spain & Denmark, Beasiswa Terbaru
Spain, 287 Grants for PhD Theses at Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)
The CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research), the largest public research body in Spain, offers 287 grants to undertake PhD theses in the framework of the JAE Programme for predoctoral research training. The Programme focuses on topics in all the areas of science and technology, including Human and Social Sciences. The hosting research groups belong to the CSIC´s Centres and Institutes, located in the main Spanish cities.
The grants are available for University degree holders of all nationalities. Applications from students in the last year of their University studies can be accepted. The grants provide 4 years of funding (2 years scholarship + 2 years contract). Annual stipend is € 14,400 during the 2 first years. In addition, grants cover the cost of University courses and mobility allowances to enable stays at research Institutions other than CSIC. Travel expenses (up to € 1200) for residents outside Europe.
Medical insurance is fully covered by the Spanish National Health Service Earliest and latest possible starting dates: 1st July 2008 and 1st November 2008
Online applications are now open until 1st April 2008
More information and access to the online application can be found in:
http://www.csic.es/postgrado/tesis%20doctorales_jae_en.htm
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[Denmark] PhD Scholarships in Intelligent Supply Chains, Aalborg University
The Center for Industrial Production at Aalborg University (http://www.cip.aau.dk) calls for applications for two vacant PhD scholarships within the area of business process innovation and supply chain management. The PhD scholarships will address the following areas:
New methodologies for IT based Innovations in Supply Chains.
Methods for developing and implementing intelligent supply chain concepts.
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Charles Møller, charles[ at ]production.aau.dk for further details.
Application deadline is April, 30.th 2008.
The successful applicant must participate in an action research program at Danfoss (http://danfoss.com) and work with research issues relevant to the program. The Danish PhD stipends are quite generous. There is no tuition, and the salary will be approximately 3.100 Euro per month. Full description of the position is provided at: http://stillinger.aau.dk/vis.php?nr=4027
