Descripció del projecte
The 5th generation of communications (5G) must be able to provide 1000 times higher capacity and a 90% reduction in energy consumption compared to today standards, in order to cope with the impressive increase of mobile data traffic and to reduce the ever increasing carbon emission footprint of mobile communications. To that end, radically-changing architectures and technologies must be employed, leading to a wholesale re-thinking of cellular operational principles and architectures, network topologies, transmission technologies and methods to their analysis, design and optimization. In particular, to deliver ultra-reliable low-latency radio communications, it is important to exploit edge cloud capabilities, to bring the wireless and network resources closer to the end user, while adopting massive parallelization in cloud platforms at the network core, to handle heavy processing functions in a fast and efficient way.
In this context, this project aims to exploit current promising technologies and architectural concepts, such as “Cloud-RAN architectures”, “functional split”, “novel transmission technologies”, “network virtualization and programmability”, “end-to-end slicing” and “edge-cloud capabilities”, in order to deliver novel algorithms and protocols that will ensure high performance end-to-end traffic management and flow control in heterogeneous networks. In particular the specific objectives of this project include:
– Investigation of novel 5G architectural concepts specifying the more suitable options for functional splits, based on the application requirements (e.g., high mobility, ultra-latency, etc.), thus fully exploiting the available edge cloud capabilities
– Design of innovative protocols and algorithms for end-to-end resource slicing and flow control, taking into account wireless resources from the access and fronthaul networks, as well as network and computational resources at the core network.
The candidate must have experience in wireless networking, specifically in network protocols. Applicants should also have a solid background in some of the following fields: wireless networking, network virtualization, cloud computing, etc. Knowledge on simulation environments such as MATLAB and C/C++ is required. Fluency in English (spoken and written), proactive communication skills and problem solving as part of a team are also essential characteristics for this position.
