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The University of Agder invites applications for up to two full-time, fixed-term appointments as PhD Research Fellows in Information and Communication Technology for a period of three years. These positions are currently located in Grimstad, Norway. The starting date is as soon as possible or to be negotiated with the faculty.

The Department of ICT has several active research groups in Information and Communication Technology including 12 Professors, 25 Associate Professors, 10 Assistant Professors and about 15 Research Fellows on the PhD Programme in ICT. The Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) pursues a variety of research interests, focusing especially on Wireless Communications and Embedded Systems, Data Analytics, Crisis management, e-Learning and e-Health. The department has successfully led a number of large research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, the EU research programmes FP7 and H2020, as well as national and international industries.

The research in the Department of ICT is carried out by different research Divisions, which are further divided into research Labs. The herein announced position(s) will be part of a recently established Lab, namely, the Intelligent Signal Processing & Wireless Networks (WISENET) Lab ( http://wisenet.uia.no ), led by Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano. Currently, the WISENET Lab is in an expansion phase, having at present five PhD students and three postdoctoral researchers working on different cutting-edge research projects. The WISENET Lab is committed to achieving international research excellence, please see the notes about prospective PhD students at WISENET before applying.

The open PhD positions are offered in the area of self-organized wireless networks enabled by direct device-to-device (D2D) simultaneous links employing novel dynamic spectrum access (DSA) features, aiming at progressing substantially over the state-of-the-art both in terms of theoretical aspects (fundamental performance analysis) and algorithm designs. The activities are mainly driven by a multi-disciplinary advanced research project on next generation wireless communications enabled by self-organized spectrum cartography (WISECART). WISECART is funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) under the research funding framework "FRIPRO Toppforsk'', which is the most competitive and highly reputed funding program from the RCN for fundamental research across all disciplines.

Research topics for the positions

The ever-increasing demand for ultra-high data rates and energy efficient radio access networks (RAN) as well as the needs to adapt to different types of user-driven applications, imposes enormous challenges to build such wireless networks. In this context, D2D communication is being investigated in the wireless communication research community as a paradigm to boost both spectrum utilization and energy efficiency. D2D communication exploits devices' proximity, which enables locally exchanging data and control information, directly among the communicating neighbor devices, by-passing the base station. As a consequence, a higher spectrum reuse can be potentially achieved by enabling mu

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