[Tccc] 2 PhD positions (Small Cell Networks and Intelligent Transportation Systems) @ EURECOM, France

Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos Thrasyvoulos.Spyropoulosateurecom.fr
Wed Feb 27 12:47:39 EST 2013



 [Our sincere apologies if your receive multiple copies of this message]

We have two PhD positions immediately available at EURECOM, in South 
France, (https://www.eurecom.fr/en) covering the following topics:  

- Vehicular Networking for Intelligent Transportation Systems

- Traffic and Energy Optimizations in Small Cell Networks.

More details about the two positions can be found below.

Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Assistant Professor
Mobile Communications Dept.
Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France
http://www.eurecom.fr/~spyropou/

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PhD Position in Small Cell Networks and Cloud RAN @ EURECOM, France

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Applications are invited by the Mobile Communications department at 
EURECOM, France, for a PhD position in the area of Small Cell Networks 
and Cloud RAN. This position is partially funded by the Intel Mobile 
Communications (IMC) Lab, and offers a competitive salary. The project 
deals with future mobile networks, with dense small-cell and 
heterogeneous cell deployments, connected to the core network over 
heterogeneous backhaul technologies. Such small-cell deployments will 
require a large amount of centralized processing inside the cloud (for 
interference coordination, radio resource control, and even baseband 
processing). So far, access and backhaul are individually designed and 
therefore not optimized. In order to support centralized processing and 
a heterogeneous backhaul, challenges on access and backhaul will be 
simultaneously tackled in this project.

EURECOM is an elite French graduate school and research center 
conducting high quality research in the areas of Mobile Communication, 
Networking and Security, and Multimedia. It is situated in Sophia 
Antipolis (between Nice and Cannes), Europe's leading international 
science park.It is in close proximity with a large number of research 
units of leading multi-national corporations in the telecommunications, 
semiconductor and biotechnology sectors, as well as other outstanding 
research and teaching institutions. A freethinking, multinational 
population and the unique geographic location provide a quality of life 
without equal. More information about the school and department are 
available at https://www.eurecom.fr/en and http://www.eurecom.fr/cm/.

---Topic---

The focus of the position will be on (i) the design, modeling, and 
analysis of efficient power management algorithms for small cells: 
smaller cell size implies larger variance of each cell's utilization; at 
the same time, significant overlap will exist (e.g. between small and 
macro-cells); since power consumption of cells, when ON, is an important 
cost factor for cellular providers, managing the power states of small 
cells as a function of past, present, and future traffic requirements, 
as well as cross-coverage options, is expected to provide major energy 
cost improvements. (ii) joint access and backhaul resource allocation 
and delay analysis and optimization: since much of the processing will 
happen in the cloud, not only is it possible, but also necessary (due to 
the high bandwidth requirements, and heterogeneity of access and 
backhaul networks) to come up with joint medium access (with the medium 
being both wireless and backhaul resources), scheduling, and admission 
control; the selected candidate will explore efficient algorithms for 
these problems as well as analyze their performance using both modeling 
and simulations. In addition to the above research topics, which will be 
the main responsibilities of the student, the selected candidate is 
expected to have some involvement in project work package management, as 
well as occasional assistance in courses. The selected candidate will be 
co-supervised by Prof. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos and Prof. Navid Nikaein.

---Requirements---

We are looking for candidates who are self-motivated and would like to 
conduct high quality research, and publish in top venues. Candidates 
should have a Master's Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, 
Computer Science, or a closely related area, preferably with a focus on 
networking or communications. They are also expected to have very good 
analytical skills (Probability Theory, Optimization) and some background 
in the area of wireless and cellular networking. Good programming skills 
and experience in popular simulation environments is a plus. A good 
level of written and spoken English is mandatory (knowledge of French is 
not required). Finally, the selected candidate will be well organized 
and able to integrate and work well in groups. The position duration is 
normally 3 years, with a maximum duration of 4 years.

---Application material---

The position is available immediately, and the selected candidate will 
be expected to join as soon as possible. The application evaluation and 
selection process will begin immediately, and will continue until the 
position is filled. Interested individuals should submit:

- 1-2 page summary of research interests.
- Detailed CV including publications.
- Names and contact details of at least two referees, who are willing to
provide detailed recommendation letters about the candidate
- Transcript of courses taken at graduate (and optionally undergraduate) 
levels and their grades

Send your application material via e-mail with the subject line ** Small 
Cell Networks PhD ** to thrasyvoulos.spyropou... at eurecom.fr 
<mailto:thrasyvoulos.spyropou... at eurecom.fr>

---Contact---

If you have questions or need more information about the position, we 
encourage you to visit our website or to contact Prof. Spyropoulos 
(http://www.eurecom.fr/~spyropou/) directly.

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PhD Position in Intelligent Transportation Systems @ EURECOM, France

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Applications are invited by the Mobile Communications department at 
EURECOM, France, for a PhD studentship in the area of Wireless Vehicular 
Networking for Intelligent Transportation Systems. This position is 
partially funded by the EU FP7 project COLOMBO, and offers a competitive 
salary. The project deals with self-organizing traffic management 
algorithms (i.e. smart traffic light systems) for Intelligent 
Transportation Systems (ITS), based on gathered real-time traffic states 
from communicating vehicles and on-board PDAs. These advanced algorithms 
have as objectives to reduce traffic congestion, pollution or noise, and 
increase traffic safety.

EURECOM is an elite French graduate school and research center 
conducting high quality research in the areas of Mobile Communication, 
Networking and Security, and Multimedia. It is situated in Sophia 
Antipolis (between Nice and Cannes), Europe's leading international 
science park. It is in close proximity with a large number of research 
units of leading multi-national corporations in the telecommunications, 
semiconductor and biotechnology sectors, as well as other outstanding 
research and teaching institutions. A freethinking, multinational 
population and the unique geographic location provide a quality of life 
without equal. More information about the school and department are 
available at https://www.eurecom.fr/en and http://www.eurecom.fr/cm/.

---Topic---

The focus of this position is on the collection, fusion and 
dissemination of traffic information using vehicular communication 
protocols, with the goal of providing a close-to-reality traffic state. 
A special case of interest considers low penetration rates, where V2X 
information will be augmented by partial information obtained from PDAs 
and smartphones. The proposed solutions will carefully consider optimal 
strategies for Road-side Units (RSU) infrastructure deployment, 
detection of traffic flows, inter-vehicle store-and-carry or 
store-carry-forward methodologies, environmental effects, and safety 
aspects. As a result, the selected candidate will have a chance to 
develop an expertise in diverse areas like vehicular traffic 
extrapolation, data fusion/gathering, cooperative data dissemination, 
infrastructure deployment, etc. An important component of the project 
and the position is the extensive evaluation of all proposed approaches 
using and extending state-of-the-art ITS simulators. EURECOM is an 
active developer of the ITS simulation platform iTETRIS 
(http://www.ict-itetris.eu/10-10-10-community/), used for both research 
and teaching. iTETRIS is a unique open source simulation platform 
characterized by a modular architecture that allows integrating two 
widely adopted traffic and wireless simulators, namely NS-3 and SUMO, 
while supporting the implementation of cooperative ITS applications. The 
candidate is expected to evaluate his or her research work on the 
iTETRIS platform and contribute to its maintenance and extensions.

---Requirements---

We are looking for candidates who are self-motivated and eager to 
conduct high quality research, publish in top venues, and pursue a 
doctoral degree. Candidates should have a Master's Degree (or 
equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely 
related area, preferably with a focus on networking or communications. 
They are also expected to have good analytical skills and some 
background in the area of wireless networking and wireless access 
technologies (WLAN). Good programming skills in C++ and experience in 
popular simulation environments is a plus. A good level of written and 
spoken English is mandatory (knowledge of French is not required).

---Application material---

Screening of applications will begin immediately, and the search will 
continue until *February 28th 2013*, or until the position is filled, 
whichever comes first. Interested applicants should submit:
- (i) a one page statement of research interests and motivation,
- (ii) a CV
- (iii) contact details for at least TWO referees who are willing to 
provide detailed recommendation letters about the candidate,
- (iv) transcript of courses undertaken and their grades.

Please, email application materials to (ALL) the email addresses below, 
under the reference [Doct_CM_TS_Jan2013]: secretar... at eurecom.fr, 
jerome.hae... at eurecom.fr, thrasyvoulos.spyropou... at eurecom.fr

---Contact---

For further questions about the position and requirements, feel free to 
contact:
Prof. Hrri (http://www.eurecom.fr/en/people/harri-jerome)
Prof. Spyropoulos (http://www.eurecom.fr/~spyropou/)

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