PhD student

in Computation and Communication Systems

Reference number: 2779-12

The Dependable Computation and Communication Systems research group at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden seeks to employ one PhD student to work on Dependable wireless machine-to-machine communications. The re­search activities at DCC focus mainly on various aspects of modern industrial computing; such as system level design and validation of industrial control and automation systems, simulation and verification and dependable com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Dependable Computation and Communication Systems is a broad dis­ci­pline that covers design and development of mission-critical computer-based information, control and communication systems in various industries. Central research areas are related to distributed information and control systems de­sign, such as (but not limited to): industrial automation systems; material hand­ling and transport infrastructures; new energy generation and consumption infrastructure (SmartGrid or Energy Internet) and communication infra­struc­tures of next generations (4G and beyond)

DCC subject description: The research subject focuses on an integrated de­ve­lop­ment of network architectures, resource efficient algorithms, and programming pa­ra­digms for enabling an application-tailored design of dependable communication and computing systems.

Reference Keywords

LTE, machine-to-machine communications, holographic data representation, queueing theory, random environment.

Work assignments

Today we are witnessing a change in the communication paradigm due to emergence of machine-to-machine communications. In order to handle massive data generated by billions of machines and make it ready for performance critical real-time services new ways for information representation should be investigated and the communication and computing infrastructure needs to be properly dimensioned.

This project concerns development of novel communication approaches based on prin­ciples of cognitive information representation and computation as well as system-level modelling of large-scale communication and computing infrastructures in face of new data traffic patterns.

Qualifications

We seek a candidate with a master degree in computer science, computer en­gi­nee­ring, or other advanced degree or fully completed course requirements of at least 240 ECTS, of which at least 60 ECTS are at an advanced level or equivalent knowledge. English language skills are required. Participation and prizes on national or in­ter­na­tio­nal mathematics contests as well as the existing scientific publications in inter­na­tio­nal peer-reviewed proceedings in the area of the research topic is considered as a definite plus.