Free scholarships 3 PhD students Photonic Home and Access Networks at Netherland

The Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) has the following vacancy
3 PhD students Photonic Home and Access Networks (V36.325)
at Department of Electrical Engineering.

The project
The strong growth of bandwidth demand of residential users requires new solutions for powerful access networks, to deliver high-capacity services to the users home, as well as new solutions for in-home networks to bring these services to a variety of user terminals. Currently, Fiber-to-the-Home networks are being installed, and optical fiber is also intruding into the home in order to relieve the last bandwidth bottleneck to the user. In the new European joint research Integrated Project ALPHA, part of the new ECs 7 Framework Programme, innovative optical fiber techniques and network architectures will be investigated for cost-effective future-proof access and in-home networks. These networks will support a heterogeneous set of wired and wireless technologies, and will need to interface efficiently to neighbouring networks and to user terminals. They will need to be equipped with dynamic mechanisms for optimally utilizing the resources of the optical infrastructure in response to the requirements of the services and the users. The ALPHA project is an international R&D cooperation between a large set of industrial and academic partner groups.
Tasks
In the ALPHA project, the tasks for the PhD students in the ECO group will be to define, analyse, design, realise, and test innovative optical fiber techniques for three application areas:

1. Dynamically reconfigurable optical access networks, in order to adapt the capacity to the users demands. The investigations will encompass optical routing techniques and mechanisms to control these.
2. High-capacity in-home networks, which should cost-effectively deliver high-speed wired data services. In particular multimode large-core plastic optical fiber is interesting for low-cost installation. The investigations will encompass techniques to overcome its restricted bandwidth needs, and interfacing with other networks and user terminals.
3. Radio-over-fiber in-home networks, which need to accommodate a range of wireless communication standards (WLAN, WiMAX, UWB, …) and to extend their reach. The investigations will encompass techniques to carry and flexibly distribute these radio standards over low-cost (plastic) optical fiber infrastructures.

Requirements
Candidates for this challenging project should have a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or in Applied Physics. He/she should have a strong affinity with optical and data communication techniques, and preferably some hands-on experience with optical fiber systems and electronic circuits.

Appointment and Salary
The appointment is for four years. As an employee of the university you will receive a competitive salary as well as excellent secondary benefits (holiday allowance, etc.). The research in this project must be concluded with the attainment of a Ph.D. degree. A salary is offered starting at Euro 1956,00 per month (gross) in the first year and increasing up to Euro 2502,00 per month (gross) in the last year. Moreover 8% bonus share (holiday supplement) is provided annually. Assistance for finding accommodation can be given.

Information
For further information on these vacancies you can contact prof. Ton Koonen ( a.m.j.koonen@tue.nl , tel. +31 40 2474806), dr. Eduward Tangdiongga (e.tangdiongga@tue.nl , tel +31 40 2473219), or ir. H.P.A. van den Boom ( h.p.a.v.d.boom@tue.nl , tel. +31 40 2473444).

For information concerning employment conditions you can contact Ms. F. Verheggen, personnel officer f.verheggen@tue.nl , tel. +31 40 2474796).

Application
If you are interested in one of these Ph.D. positions, please send a detailed curriculum vitae, an explanation of your interest in the proposed research topic, a publication list, your course program and corresponding grades, references and all other information that might be relevant to your application to the address below, mentioning vacancy number V36.325.

Prof. Ton Koonen
ECO group, COBRA Research Institute
Dept. Electrical Engineering (PT 12.29)
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
NL 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

You can apply for this job before 30-04-2008

http://vacatures.tue.nl/web/Vacature.aspx?VacatureNummer=V36.325&Taal=English