[UK] PhD Studentship - University College London
PhD Studentship in Autonomic Communications
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University College London
Application deadline: 30 September 2008
A PhD studentship in Autonomic Communications is available following the award of recent European Union FP7 research grants. We are looking to recruit a high calibre PhD student to work in this emerging area of high importance.
Given new services and applications that impose increasing demands on the underlying network infrastructure, increased user mobility and also the emergence of wireless devices that can form spontaneous large scale “on-demand” networks, it is largely uncontested that the initial Internet design no longer fits the requirements of the emerging network and services environment. Autonomic communications strive to ease the burden of managing complex future networks by designing them so that they are self-configuring, self-organizing, self-stabilizing, self-optimizing, self-healing and self-protecting. Such networks should be able to learn and adapt to their environment (changes in topology, technology, service demands, application context, etc) thus provide much needed flexibility and functional scalability.
The autonomic communications area encompasses relevant models and architectures, tools and techniques and enabling technologies and brings together algorithms for distributed decision making, context-awareness, programmable networks and policy-based systems, among other areas. Autonomic communications concepts apply to both fixed/cellular and infrastructure-less wireless networks (ad hoc, mesh, sensor).
The studentship available will be supported by the EMANICS (European Network of Excellence for the Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services) and Auto-l (Autonomic Internet) projects. EMANICS is a network of excellence bringing together the most prominent European institutions in this area and UCL are leaders of the autonomic management work in the project. Auto-I aspires to find a solution for the future Internet based on autonomic principles, using resource virtualisation and self-management techniques and is aligned with the International Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF). As such, we are looking for candidates with both a good computer engineering background and analytical skills. Experience of research, design/development and evaluation on network management, network virtualisation, Linux, Java, C/C++ or similar would be desirable.
Study information
- Qualification: PhD
- Study duration: 3 years
- Study mode: FT
- Start month: October 2008
Funding information
Value: c. £14,400 stipend pa plus fees at UK/EU rate
Funding applies to: EU applicants (including UK)
Application deadline: 30 September 2008
Contacts and how to apply
Academic contact:
Informal inquiries can be made to Prof. George Pavlou (g.pavlou@ee.ucl.ac.uk).
Administrative contact and how to apply:
Applicants must fulfil the normal academic requirements for acceptance for postgraduate study in the Department and applications should be made using the postgraduate application form, at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/admission/graduate-study/application-admission/ or from PhD Enquiries, +44(0) 20 7679 7307. Candidates should indicate under ‘Programme of Study’ that they are applying for “EMANICS/AUTOI - PAVLOU”. Two complete sets of the application should be sent; one to UCL Admissions and the other addressed to PhD Administrator, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
