A PhD position in the general area of cloud computing is available at the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, supervised by Dr. John  Herbert and Prof. Cormac Sreenan.  This position is offered as part of the Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI), a multi-institution graduate education initiative funded by the Irish Higher Education Authority and involving UCC’s Mobile & Internet Systems Lab.. This will provide an enhanced student learning experience, including access to a range of purpose-built educational modules in important topics in telecommunications.
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The Mobile & Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) conducts basic and applied research in computer networking for mobile/wireless and multimedia systems. Led by Prof. Sreenan, the laboratory is supported externally by several Irish and international companies, Enterprise Ireland, the EU and Science Foundation Ireland.

Applications are now invited for the following position on a new applied research project (BACOPT-II) that will commence in October 2011. This project builds on the recently completed BACOPT-I project and will again involve very close research collaboration with an established telecoms company who part-fund the project together with Enterprise Ireland. The focus of BACOPT-II is to design novel techniques for optimising data delivery over backhaul links, with an emphasis on bandwidth-demanding video content and wireless access networks.

A PhD position on the research topic “Co-Design of Wireless Sensor Networks” is available at the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland , supervised by Prof. Gergory Provan and Prof Cormac Sreenan.  This position is for 4 years and is part of The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (www.tgi.ie). This will provide an enhanced student learning experience, including access to a range of purpose-built educational modules in important topics in telecommunications.

A PhD position on the research topic “Leveraging cloud computing for scalable management of sensor data” is available at the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland , supervised by Dr. John  Herbert and Prof Cormac Sreenan.  This position is for 4 years and is part of The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (www.tgi.ie). This will provide an enhanced student learning experience, including access to a range of purpose-built educational modules in important topics in telecommunications.

A paper co-authored by Dr. Ahmed Zahran and Prof. Cormac J. Sreenan of the Mobile & Internet Systems Laboratory has been selected as the "Spotlight"article from the June 2010 issue of IEEE journal "Transactions on Mobile Computing". Entitled "Threshold-Based Media Streaming Optimization for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", the paper presents a novel framework for optimizing the delivery of audio/video to mobile devices using heterogeneous networks such as 3G and WiFi.


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A research project which will enable cost-effective mobile internet access for remote communities has been announced between UCC and Altobridge Ltd. The UCC-led project, BACOPT ("Back-haul Optimisation in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks"), which will lower the cost of 3G mobile Internet in remote villages, airplanes, boats and oil platforms, is being led by Professor Cormac Sreenan of UCC’s Computer Science Department.


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A decade of collaboration between University College Cork (UCC) and Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) was celebrated today (Monday, November 30th 2009) by UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy and the President of CIT, Dr Brendan Murphy. A Memorandum of Co-operation was signed in the presence of the Minister for Education and Science, Mr Batt O’Keeffe, at a special ceremony in Cork. The extensive co-operation between both institutions over the past 10 years has spearheaded the drive in Ireland for greater cross-fertilization in the higher education sector.


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Over 140 delegates from Ireland, UK, Continental Europe, Asia, US and Australia gathered in Cork the week of 11th - 13th February for the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN). Organised by Professor Cormac J. Sreenan of UCC's Department of Computer Science, together with Dr Utz Roedig of Lancaster University, EWSN is one of the most competitive and prestigious peer-reviewed conferences on sensor networks.


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An EU-funded project on research into how greater performance control can be achieved in sensor networks for use in everything from patient monitoring to oil refinery control, is being led by Professor Cormac Sreenan of UCC's Computer Science Department. The €4.8 million GINSENG project under the EU's Framework 7 Programme, involves seven other partners - University of Coimbra, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, TU Braunschweig, Lancaster University, University of Cyprus, SAP (Germany) and GALP Energia (Portugal).
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