PhD Positions in future wireless communications technologies, University of Oulu, Finland (2016)

The University of Oulu is an international scientific community, with 16 000 students and approximately 3 000 employees. The strenghts of the University are wide multidisciplinary study/research interests and modern research and study environment and good cooperation with international educational and research institutes. More information http://www.oulu.fi/english/

CWC is one of the leading research units in the field of wireless communications globally. Its mission is to conduct world-class research, create new technologies, train world-class graduates, and transfer technology to real use. CWC currently employs an international staff of 125 including 10 professors, 27 postdoctoral researchers and 64 doctoral students.

We are looking for talented research-oriented people who are interested in the research of the 5thgeneration and beyond wireless communications. We now have positions open in the following research areas: radio access and networking and radio frequency (RF) technologies.

When submitting your application you will be asked to choose your primary research interest: 1) radio access networking OR 2) future RF.

1) For radio access and networking positions the research areas of interest are:

Fundamentals of radio access network design while having:

- higher center frequencies (up to 100GHz) and system bandwidths (up to 2GHz)
- larger number of antennas in different MIMO configurations
- highly diversified service requirements from mobile broadband to reliable machine type communications
- system dominated by small cells in HetNet scenarios
- machine type ultra-reliable communications with low latency requirements

Transceiver algorithms oriented topics, such as:
- transceiver baseband architectures and implementations for 5G
- transceiver algorithms for energy-efficient 5G waveforms

Students for all these positions must have solid understanding of relevant theoretical tools as well as experience of computer simulations. We also regard knowledge of convex optimization, statistical signal processing and estimation,wideband modulation formats, mmWave propagation, channel coding and decoding an advantage.

2) For future RF and wireless communications the research topics are:
Antenna design with knowledge of

- Electromagnetic simulation techniques
- Prototype fabrication
- Antenna measurements

RF electronics design with knowledge of

- RF circuit and electromagnetic simulation techniques possibly including RFIC design
- RF electronic circuit fundamentals and prototyping
- RF transceiver architecture analysis and receiver or transmitter system partitioning
- RF Measurements

For the future RF positions we expect you to have (along with the general requirements listed below) strong fundamental knowledge on RF technologies and proven background either on antennas and electromagnetics, or RF electronics including RF transceiver architectures, front-end components and radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC).

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu