Monday, April 20, 2009

Spain - 4 PhD Positions in Wireless and Multimedia Communication in the Internet at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

The NeTS research group is looking for PhD students coming from renowned universities from around the world, with a very good grade record, who have a very high interest in wireless, and multimedia communications in the Internet, and the protocols associated with it. 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.

We are seeking for two profiles:
1. Students coming from electrical engineering, computer science or related fields, interested in research on pervasive wireless communications, specially those based on the IEEE 802.11 principles, including sensor, ad-hoc, infrastructure WLANs and mesh networks, as well as on the future Internet architectures for multimedia communications, specially those based on distributed -P2P- principles.

2. Students interested on economical and regulatory aspects of telecommunications technologies from communications engineering fields and knowledge about communication markets and/or economic/regulatory aspects. Candidates coming from social sciences areas with a ground base on telecommunications technologies will also be considered. In both cases, a motivation to interdisciplinary work oriented to understand relation among technical, economical and regulatory issues is compulsory.
There are 4 PhD competitive positions available for the 2009/2010 year.
Each position includes a 3-year grant, that covers insurance, tuition and salary.

Application period (10 April 2009 - 10 June 2009)

Please send your full CV, together with your student record (as appropriate) and a cover letter stating your interests and goals to NeTS research group: nets.dtic@upf.edu>

PhD Program information: Computer Science and Digital Communication of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF): http://www.upf.edu/dtecn/

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