Stillingstittel:
PhD Research Fellowship position to "WSN utilizing Massive MIMO" at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications

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The Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has a vacancy for a 100% position as a PhD Research fellow at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (IET) (http://www.iet.ntnu.no). This fellowship is one out of seven stipends granted by NTNU in support of 'enabling technologies within ICT" and involves collaboration with Telenor with in the "Testing RAN options for 5G" project.

The goal of the project is to design and validate a wireless sensor network (WSN) for simple nodes with a Massive MIMO base station. This requires fundamental research on several linked topics: dynamic radio channel properties for Massive MIMO, sufficiently good channel estimation in the uplink utilizing subspace methods, proper pre-coding of the downlink to minimize complexity in the nodes. It also requires handling of and development for a software defined radio (SDR) based testbed.

 

The PhD position is for up to 4 years with 25% work assignments for NTNU IET and 75% devoted to research.

 

Information about the department

Currently IET employs 19 professors, 10 adjunct professors, 15 associate professors, 65 PhD students and 11 post doctors/scientists.

 

IET has the principal responsibility for education and research in electronics at NTNU. IET research portfolio comprises the areas of photonics, electronic devices and materials, acoustics, radio systems, signal processing, circuit and systems design.

 

Work description

This project will focus on the design, realization and characterization of a Massive MIMO based wireless sensor network (WSN). The work will be implemented on the new Reconfigurable Radio Network Platform (ReRaNP), a SDR based 128 antennas base station (BS) at NTNU. This enables massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) radio experiments for scenarios that previously only could be simulated. Having the possibility to exploit real-world measurements for system validation is necessary to obtain proper parameterization of analytical models in different scenarios and to verify new concepts.

 

The main content of the PhD project is

• Massive MIMO channel measurements using ReRaNP using different antenna configurations in different environments.

• Channel estimation and tracking algorithms for Massive MIMO based on limited data

• Development of WSN enabling Massive MIMO radio access schemes

• Massive MIMO enabled WSN implementation on ReRaNP

   

  Applicants who do not master a Scandinavian language must provide evidence of good written and spoken English language skills. The following tests can be used as documentation: TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE), or Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). Minimum scores are:

• TOEFL: 600 (paper-based test), 92 (Internet-based test)

• IELTS: 6.5, with no section lower than 5.5 (only Academic IELTS test accepted)

• CAE/CPE: grade B or A.

   

  Qualifications

  We seek a highly motivated individual holding a master's degree in electric

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: NTNU 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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