SPOTLIGHT: 15 PhD Positions; Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN 1834 views

SPOTLIGHT, a newly launched Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) offers 15 PhD positions in 7 European countries.

About the project:

• The project will work towards a 5G mobile networks architecture that aims to break performance limitations of the currently loosely inter-connected, resource-fragmented and isolated in operation mobile network ecosystem, by transforming the existing multi-layered set of attachment points to a flat coalition of massively distributed transceivers utilizing a common pool of energy, radio, computing and storage resources that are optimally handled by a cloud-empowered network core.

Benefits:

• very attractive employment conditions and competitive salaries
• selected fellow will join top-class research groups and have a unique opportunity to pursue a career in mobile communications
• selected fellow may lead to the successful completion of a PhD degree
• planned mobility among seven EU countries and ten institutions is a plus

Eligibility criteria:

• applicant must be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers
• Applicant can be of any nationality, but must not having stayed or carried out their main activity in the country of the host institution of the position they are applying to for more than 1 year in the past 3 years
• Applicant must not have yet been awarded a PhD degree.

Applications:

• Fill up the application form, indicating preference to one or more of the open positions. Applications must also include:
• Motivation letter
• full Curriculum Vitae
• Grade Transcripts
• 3 Recommendations letter with contact details
• other relevant documents
• applications to be sent at itn.spotlight@gmail.com

LIST OF OPEN POSITIONS

ESR1 – Host institution: Eurecom – Project Title: Novel PHY techniques for fully-uncoordinated uplink transmissions in massively distributed MIMO systems with centralized processing

ESR2 – Host institution: Eurecom – Project Title: Low-complexity antenna design for massively distributed MIMO systems

ESR3 – Host institution: University of York – Project Title: Network coding and waveform design for concurrent downlink data delivery in massively distributed MIMO systems with centralized processing

ESR4 – Host institution: MTN – Project Title: Cognitive terminal-tracking and transmission profile selection schemes with partial information of the network topology

ESR5 – Host institution: Open Univ. of Catalonia – Project Title: Ultra-reliable data compression in massively distributed MIMO systems

ESR6 – Host institution: University of York – Project Title: Massive MIMO with 3D beamforming in the mmWave band

ESR7 – Host institution: Politecnico di Milano – Project Title: Cloudempowered DSP exploiting big data

ESR8 – Host institution: Politecnico di Milano – Project Title: Cloudempowered RRM using big data analysis feedback

ESR9 – Host institution: Iquadrat – Project Title: Mobility management and flow control in massively distributed MIMO

ESR10 – Host institution: NEC – Project Title: Flow-optimal routing of traffic in a plain IP mobile core network data-plane

ESR11 – Host institution: Nessos – Project Title: Coupling and pooling resources in loosely-coupled multi-layered networks

ESR12 – Host institution: Ericsson – Project Title: Resource elasticity in massively distributed and loosely-coupled MIMO systems

ESR13 – Host institution: Open Univ. of Catalonia – Project Title: Optimal strategies for popular content placement in massively distributed MIMO

ESR14 – Host institution: University of Athens – Project Title: Fountainencoding techniques for improved QoE in massively distributed systems

ESR15 – Host institution: University of Athens – Project Title: Popular content delivery using massive machine type communications