Salary/stipend £14,296 plus an additional industrial top-up making a total of £17,000 p.a. when all contracts are in place

Hours Full time

Contract (temp/perm) Contract/temporary

Closing date Open until filled

The project:

This is an exciting opportunity to conduct PhD research in the area of Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) or Fog Computing. The studentship is co-funded by EPSRC and Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, as part of an Industrial CASE award. In addition to the scholarship’s direct funding, Toshiba will provide industrial supervision and will facilitate a three-month research internship.

MEC is expected to attract tremendous attention across academia and industry and has been recognised by the European 5G PPP as a key emerging technology for 5G networks. MEC aims to enable billions of connected mobile devices to execute computationally intensive applications at the network edge.

Research on MEC is still at a very early stage. Possible research directions for this PhD may include:

• Distributed data storage, cache processing and management at the MEC platform
• Application-aware performance optimization
• Radio network-aware content optimization
• Real-time load prediction
• MEC scheduling and resource allocation

You will join CSN, a large research group with long-standing track record on wireless communications, 5G, the IoT and other areas. This will provide you with access to state-of-the-art testing and measurement equipment, world-leading laboratory facilities and unique software capabilities.

You will be expected to support CSN’s activities, including contributing to the supervision of MSc projects, writing research papers and presenting your work at international conferences.

Further Particulars

The quality of research at the University of Bristol places it within the top five universities in the UK based on the Research Excellence Framework and Times Higher Education rankings 2014-15. The PhD candidate will be a part of a friendly and diverse community, with the Bristol Doctoral College (BDC) as the focal central coordinating facility. Alongside specialist training the candidate will receive in PhD-specific topics, the BDC offers approximately 200 courses, interactive workshops and seminars as a part of the University’s personal and professional development programme for PGR students. The BDC organises University-wide events and provides a hub of information, guidance and resources to help researchers to get the most of their time at Bristol.

How to apply:

Please make an online application for this project at http://www.bris.ac.uk/pg-howtoapply. Please select <Electrical and Electronic Engineering> on the Programme Choice page and enter details of the studentship when prompted in the Funding and Research Details sections of the form with the name of the supervisor.

Candidate requirements: 

Students with a 2.1 or first class degree in relevant engineering, computer science, mathematics or similar discipline will be considered. The project requires knowledge in computer networks, mobile communications and/or cloud computing. Some experience in software development is desirable but not strictly required.

Funding:

Scholarship covers full UK/EU (EU applicants who have been resident in the UK for three years prior to application) PhD tuition fees and a tax-free stipend at the current RCUK rate (£14,296 in 2016/17) plusan additional ‘top-up’ by the industrial partner making a total of £17,000 p.a. (when all contracts are in place).

Contacts:

For informal enquiries please email Dr George Oikonomou, g.oikonomou@bristol.ac.uk

For general enquiries, please email gsen-pgrs@bristol.ac.uk