TeamUp5G Marie-Curie ETN: 15 Early Stage Researcher Fellowships (ESR) - 3 year PhD positions

We are pleased to advertise 15 Early-Stage Researcher PhD positions in “New RAN TEchniques for 5G UltrA-dense Mobile networks” - TeamUp5G, H2020 funded project that begin in January 2019. These are part of Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) of the European Commission (read more on MSCA ITN ETNs). These PhD positions are considered quite prestigious, as they allow the PhD candidates to be exposed to and to interact with, early on, an entire network of Universities and companies that collaborate on the inter-disciplinary topics of the project.

In TeamUp5G we believe that motivation from involvement and engagement is a key to learning. We want to place creative young researchers in front of the real world, enabling them to work on real-life technical issues, working across multiple European countries and organizations, presenting at workshops in front of industrial users/stakeholders, and becoming involved in standardization activities and secondments at academic as well as industrial partners.

About TeamUp5G project

With the continuous increase of data rates and the number of people using mobile communications, wireless connections are evolving towards 5G. To fulfil the user satisfaction and a plethora of challenging requirements, pivotal to the evolution towards 5G are the ultra-dense networks (UDN) with small-cells (SCs). Nowadays, although there is a worldwide market of SCs, the network solutions have inherent technical limitations, e.g., limited available spectrum, the need to coexist within complex environments of multiple heterogeneous technologies and users. Possibly the most important challenge is the demand of increasing data rates per km². Indeed, nowadays SCs are mostly plug-and-play devices that are connected to the core network through an existing DSL line that forms the backhaul. For this reason, femto-cells (FCs), very small cells that are installed today, have very-limited cooperation, as communication between them is imperfect, if feasible at all. The “New RAN TEchniques for 5G UltrA-dense Mobile networks” (TeamUp5G) consortium strongly believes that it is possible to leverage the backhaul, enhancing the overall network performance.

The research objectives of TeamUp5G are focused on solving the following three problems:

-  Interference Management, waveforms and Massive MIMO (mMIMO)

-  Dynamic Spectrum Management and Optimisation

-  Energy Consumption Reduction

We will propose metrics and develop energy-aware algorithms and protocols to enhance Small Cells in ultra-dense deployments, making use of massive antenna solutions (mMIMO), millimeter wave (mmW) bands and visual light communications (VLC), in relevant scenarios, through a combination of analytical work, simulation and prototyping.

The global objective of the TeamUp5G training network program is to set up an inter-national doctoral training network for interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research, and knowledge and training sharing, to team up a new generation of researchers and entrepreneurs ready to address complex engineering problems and innovation that are required to work both at university and the industry. To that aim, TeamUp5G includes:

-  To guide and support ESRs through excellent supervision and with the support of a Personalized Career Development Plan.

-  To provide to ESRs first-hand industry experience by offering training opportunities in relevant industry organizations through secondments.

-  To provide the ESRs with excellent technical training and with training to develop transferrable skills such as entrepreneurship, project management, team work and knowledge transfer skills.

The consortium includes both academic and non-academic sectors and provides inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary training for the researchers in their areas of expertise. Cooperation between academic and industrial partners will be used to experience both environments, to promote the transfer of the obtained research results and to prepare the younger academicians towards innovative and practical solutions.

The positions will be hosted at the following institutions:

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) – 3PhD positions: ESR1, ESR2, ESR3
• Instituto de Telecomunicações – 5PhD positions: ESR4/IT-Lisbon, ESR6/ IT-Aveiro, ESR7/ IT-Covilhã, ESR8/ IT-Aveiro, ESR14/ IT-Lisbon
• Innovative Solutions Slawomir Pietrzyk (ISW) – 1PhD position: ESR5
• Aarhus University (AU) – 1PhD position: ESR9
• Alexander Technological Education Institute‏ of Thessaloniki (ATEITHE) – 2PhD positions: ESR10, ESR11
• Eclexys SAGL (EXYS) – 1PhD position: ESR12
• Projecto Desenvolvimento Manutenção Formação e Consultadoria (PDM) – 1PhD position: ESR13
• Nokia Spain SA (Nokia) – 1PhD position: ESR15

The TeamUp5G consortium also includes both academic and non-academic sectors partners:

• Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas
• Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo SA
• LiPhi Technologies
• TELENOR ASA
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Universidade da Beira Interior
• Universidade de Aveiro
• ISCTE IUL: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
• University of Western Macedonia
• UNIAUDAX: Centro de Investigação e Apoio ao Empreendedorismo e Empresas Familiares

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the scientists in charge of the projects.

ERS POSITIONS AND INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS (IRP):

Details of each project can be found here: http://teamup5g.webs.tsc.uc3m.es/

• ESR1 – New Scheduling Algorithms for Interference Management in Small Cells at millimetre-wave frequencies. DEADLINE FOR THIS POSITION: 31/03/2019
• ESR2 – New Transmitter and Receiver Algorithms for mMIMO with Limited Channel State Information. DEADLINE FOR THIS POSITION: 31/03/2019
• ESR3 – Interference management for visible light communications in radio-frequency hostile environments. DEADLINE FOR THIS POSITION: 31/03/2019
• ESR4 – PHY/MAC Design of Future SCs adopting Multi-packet Reception and Full-Duplex Communications. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 7, 2019
• ESR5 – Cell-less RAN and cooperative schemes for interference management. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019
• ESR6 – Opportunistic Gathering of Sensing Data. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019
• ESR7 – Licensed Shared Access in Heterogeneous Networks with Small Cells. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 7, 2019
• ESR8 – Waveforms and separation algorithms for joint use in radar and communications. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019
• ESR9 – Architectures and Supporting Algorithms for Spectrum and CA for Small Cells and Ultradense Deployments. DEADLINE FOR THIS POSITION: 31/03/2019
• ESR10 – Coexistence of Small Cells and Low Power Wide Area Networks for Supporting IoT Connectivity. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15, 2019
• ESR11 – New Interference-Based Dynamic Channel Access Algorithms for Ultra-Dense Small Cell Deployments. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 15, 2019
• ESR12 – Signal Processing Techniques for Massive MIMO Enabled mm Wave Communication. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019
• ESR13 – Design of Privacy Preservation Mechanisms and Secure Authentication in small cell networks. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019
• ESR14 – Development and production of Drone-Mobile Smallcell Station´s prototypes. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019
• ESR15 – Application of 5G Ultra-Dense Networks for the distributed implementation of immersive media rendering. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 30, 2019