3 PhD Positions, University of Siegen, Germany (2016-2017)

With 18,500 students, 1,900 employees, including 1,200 academic positions, the University of Siegen is an innovative institution emphasizing interdisciplinary orientation. Consisting in a broad spectrum of departments, from liberal arts, social sciences, and economics to natural sciences and engineering, the University of Siegen provides an outstanding teaching and research environment with numerous inter/transdisciplinary research projects.

For October 1, 2016 the Chair for Embedded Systems, Department for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Faculty IV at University of Siegen is accepting applications for three PhD positions (salary category TV-L 13) for a duration of 2 years with the possibility of further extensions.

Job description:

This position will enable a student to complete his/her doctoral degree.

We expect:
- Research in the area of architectures for distributed embedded systems based on deterministic Ethernet networks and real-time operating systems
- State-of-the-art analysis of architectures in different application domains (e.g., automotive, avionics, railway)
- Design and prototype implementation of a software execution environment based on a real-time operating systems for hosting multiple applications on the same hardware
- Establishment of a distributed simulation environment for systems based on deterministic Ethernet networks
- Framework for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) testing
- Documentation and presentation of results including project reports

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