PhD Research Fellow in ICT – Concurrent data transmissions in beyond 5G and massive internet of things networks

About the position

A fixed-term 100% position is available at the University of Agder (UiA), Faculty of Engineering and Science as a PhD Research Fellow in ICT, affiliated to the Department of Information and Communication Technology, for a period of three years. The position is located, at the present, at Campus Grimstad. The starting date is as soon as possible or upon agreement with the Faculty.

The position is associated with the “A Massive MIMO Enabled IoT Platform with Networking Slicing for Beyond 5G IoV/V2X and Maritime Services (SOLID-B5G)” project which is funded through the European Economic Area (EEA) program for research cooperation between Romania and Norway. The main goal of this project is to develop breakthrough beyond state-of-the-art solutions in orchestration, management and control of resources, in the context of network slicing and edge computing based on massive Internet of things (mIoT) enabled radio access network and core network for beyond 5G Internet of vehicles (IoV)/vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and maritime applications. The partners in this project include the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest (UPB)/Romania, UiA/Norway, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)/Spain, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)/Canada, and three industrial partners.