Project: QoE enabled Scheduling for Scalable and Dependable Video Delivery in Vehicular Networks

Project summary

The evolution of road vehicles towards automated driving is continuing at pace. As vehicle occupants play less of a role in vehicle control, it can be expected that the use of mobile entertainment (video, games, AR/VR) will surge. This presents a significant challenge for future wireless and cellular networks to dependably meet targets for high quality multimedia services, exacerbated further by the inherent dynamics of the network.  The focus of vehicular radio scheduling has mainly been on safety and traffic efficiency services, considering only lower layer information when scheduling and managing radio resources. Few approaches consider the passenger’s Quality of Experience (QoE) to maximise user satisfaction. Given scarce spectrum and high user demand, it is necessary for scheduling algorithms to account for user satisfaction when intelligently managing radio resources in order to optimise performance. This can further benefit from concepts such as Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)  to rapidly and dynamically reconfigure radio resources in response to vehicles mobility. This project investigates how to optimise radio resources to scalably deliver high quality infotainment services to multiple vehicular users while maximising QoE.

The School of Computer Science & Information Technology at UCC is internationally recognised for its research on innovative networking and systems research. It also plays a lead role in the national SFI-funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications. We are now seeking to fill a Senior Post-Doctoral position on a H2020 project called BRAINE.

Post Duration: 18 months

Salary: €47,264 - €50,029 p.a. (IUA Salary Scale)

Project Title: Big data pRocessing and Artificial Intelligence at the Network Edge (BRAINE)

Dr. Darijo Raca, a recent PhD graduate, receives the award of Best Paper of 2020 at a virtual ceremony in the School of Computer Science & Information Technology, UCC on 15th April 2021.

Title of Paper: On Leveraging Machine and Deep Learning for Throughput Prediction in Cellular Networks: Design, Performance, and Challenges.

Supervisors: Professor Cormac Sreenan and Dr Ahmed Zahran

The paper was published in the IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 11-17 in March 2020. 

The award was made after a competitive process overseen by a panel of academic experts.

Darijo Raca’s research was funded by Science Foundation Ireland.

On behalf of us all in the school, we wish Darijo our congratulations.

In February 2021, Minister Simon Harris announced a €193m investment in five world leading SFI Research Centres, including CONNECT - the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications. Professors from the UCC School of Computer Science & Information Technology play a leading role in the Centre, pushing forward the boundaries for cybersecurity, the Internet of Things and autonomous vehicles.

Applications are invited for new PhD Students within the SFI Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies (ADVANCE CRT)

For recruitment process and guidance on the procedures, click on the following link https://www.advance-crt.ie

The call deadline is Friday 5th March 2021 at 5pm.

You are STRONGLY encouraged to contact your preferred supervisors to discuss research project topics before submitting your application.

Prof. Utz Roedig was one of three CONNECT researchers to have received funding in SFI’s Frontiers for the Future programme announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD.

This is a joint invention with AT&T Labs - Research (USA) and arose from the iVID research project that was funded by Science Foundation Ireland. The invention uses machine and deep learning techniques to predict the data throughput of wireless links in mobile phone networks. Having accurate predictions can be used by applications to improve their performance, one example being video streaming apps, which can use this information to decide on what video quality can be sustained without causing playback stalls.

Pisa, Italy – May 2020

The consortium is led by Filippo Cugini, CNIT (Italy) with Technical Manager Dr. Thuy Truong from Dell-EMC (Ireland) and comprises 27 partners from 14 European countries including leading vendors, vertical industries, and research institutes and universities: Italy (CNIT, Wind Tre, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italtel), Poland (IS-Wireless), Denmark (Comcores), The Netherlands (HIRO-MicroDatacenters, Eindhoven University of Technology, Helder-ID, Synano), Israel (Mellanox Technologies), Ireland (EMC Information Systems (DELL), University College Cork), Hungary (PCB Design, Budapest University), Germany (NEC Laboratories Europe, Leibniz Universität Hannover, eccenca GmbH, Infineon AG), France (Secure-IC, Sma-rty), Slovakia (IMC- Industrial Management Consult), Bulgaria (VMware Bulgaria), Switzerland (JJcool), Finland (MarshallAI), and Czech Republic (Czech Technical University Prague, Factorio Solutions). UCC is represented by Professor Cormac Sreenan, Professor Barry O’Sullivan, and Professor Utz Roedig, from the School of Computer Science & Information Technology. The project also represents a collaboration between two SFI Research Centres: CONNECT, the SFI for Future Networks and Communications, and the Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics. The focus of the UCC research will be on scalable and secure edge storage, and the management of ethical aspects.

The MISL/CONNECT Lab extend warmest congratulations to Ahmed Khalid, Darijo Raca and David Tracey on their graduation with their PhDs from University College Cork on 18th June 2020. The conferring cermony was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

AHMED KHALID

Thesis Title: User Experience and Network Resource Optimization for Live Video Streaming

Supervisors: Professor Cormac Sreenan and Dr. Ahmed Zahran 

DARIJO RACA

Thesis Title: Improving Video Streaming Experience Through Network Measurements and Analysis

Supervisors: Professor Cormac Sreenan and Dr. Ahmed Zahran 

DAVID TRACEY

Thesis Title: A Holistic Architecture using Peer to Peer (P2P) Protocols for the Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks

Supervisor: Professor Cormac Sreenan

CONNECT researchers host the IEEE ICC, from 7 to 11 June 2020.  It’s the world’s largest communications conference and is held virtually.

We wish Ahmed Khalid sincere congratulations upon successfully defending his PhD research thesis on 9th December 2019 at University College Cork. The examiners were particularly impressed by the range of Ahmed's contributions across the network stack.

Congratulations and well done to Darijo Raca upon successfully defending his PhD research thesis on 22^nd November 2019 at University College Cork.

Congratulations and well done to David Tracey who successfully defended his PhD on 14th November 2019 at University College Cork.

In 2019, Rafael received the Arturo Rosenblueth Award for his PhD work in the field of Technology and Engineering Sciences. The Rosenblueth Award (CINVESTAV founder) is the maximum distinction given by CINVESTAV to its graduated PhDs across Mexico.

Rafael has been also awarded with the Candidate Level membership to the National System of Researchers (SNI in Spanish) in Mexico.

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the School of Computer Science & IT at UCC is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research. MISL is the UCC home for the SFI-funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications. A new targeted project with our industry partner Dell EMC on the area of resource allocation in cloud and edge platforms will soon commence. In this regard, we are now seeking to fill a Post-Doctoral position, making an appointment up to the level of Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher depending on the career stage of the successful applicant.

The appointed person will be expected to make significant contributions to the direction and progress of the project, working closely with the project investigators Professors Sreenan and Brown, and with the company personnel.

We especially seek applications from candidates with expertise in cloud/edge resource optimisation and workload prediction.

Applicants are invited from those with a Ph.D. qualification and publications in a directly relevant area.

Post Duration: 18 months, may be extended further

Project: Resource Allocation in Cloud and Edge Platforms

Ahmed Khalid, a 4th year PhD student receives the award of Best Student Paper of 2018 at a ceremony in UCC on 14th March 2019.

Hossein Ajorloo's application to the ORCA 2nd Call for Experiment (a project funded by H2020 from European Commission) is successfully selected to be a winner. The budget he proposed (€50,000) has been accepted. This is to support his experiments on millimetre wave wireless systems. Hossein is an EDGE Marie Curie Research Fellow at the CONNECT Centre in University College Cork.

Brian McCarthy, winner of the IBM Open Source Software Competition Award received a Samsung Galaxy Tab award from Martin Hickey, IBM. The presentation took place at the IBM Cork Software Laboratory on 6th December 2018.

This is a world-wide event which highlights the benefits of archiving your publications and increasing the impact of your work by sharing your research in an open access repository.  Cork Open Access Archive (CORA) is UCC’s own repository and in the last six months alone, over 256,600 publications have been downloaded.  When we look at CS specifically, over 56,000 publications have been downloaded since CORA was initiated, with over 10,000 of those in the last six months alone. 

Dr. Jason Quinlan and Prof. Cormac Sreenan will chair their accepted special session @ Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 2019, titled “Real-Time Video at the Edge – managing and provisioning Fog computing services for real-time streaming at the wireless Edge”.   http://www.mmsys2019.org/participation/research-track/ 

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the School of Computer Science & IT at UCC is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research.  MISL is the UCC home for the SFI-funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications. A new targeted project with our indusry partner Dell EMC on the area of mobile edge storage will soon commence. In this regard, we are now seeking to fill the Post-Doctoral position, making an appointment up to the level of Senior Post-Doctoral researcher depending on the career stage of the successful applicant. The appointed person will be expected to make significant contributions to the direction and progress of the project, working closely with the Principal Investigator Professor Sreenan and with the company personnel. We especially seek applications from candidates with expertise in cloud storage platforms, mobile edge computing and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will also have experience of experimental methods, laboratory testbeds and systems programming, and be familiar with the communication needs of connected vehicles.

Applicants are invited from those with a Ph.D. qualification and publications in a directly relevant area. Applications from Ph.D. candidates with a firm date for their viva of before the end of September 2018 will also be considered.

Please note this position may be filled at Post-Doctoral or Senior Post-Doctoral level depending on the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate.

Calling all Researchers in IoT!
Pervasive Nation User’s Group (PNUG)

On the 8th June, the Science Foundation Ireland’s CONNECT Centre will be holding a Pervasive Nation User Group workshop get-together at University College Cork. The session will provide an opportunity for you to get a full hands-on experience of the Pervasive Nation platform, connecting devices to the network, integrating your own data management system to Pervasive Nation, as well as getting first hand experience of the latest sensor development platforms that some of the CONNECT researchers have been working on over the past few months.

PhD Studentship in Communication Networks for Cooperative Communications for Vehicular Platoons (University College Cork)

Title: Reliable and Low Latency Inter-Vehicular Communication for Cooperative Platooning

Applications are invited for a four year doctoral studentship in computer science (vehicular communications), to be located at University College Cork as part of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications.

Improving speed of internet downloads.

Prof. Cormac Sreenan, Deputy Director of CONNECT, University College Cork spoke on Smart Networks at CONNECT IN CORK, an information morning for business and industry to highlight ways that CONNECT’s third-level, technology research can potentially benefit companies. 

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the Department of Computer Science at UCC is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research. MISL plays a leading role in the national CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications. Funded by Science Foundation Ireland and over 35 companies, CONNECT brings together a number of major Irish research initiatives to focus on future networks and communications and to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ for research, education and innovation within this domain.

Applicants are invited from those with a Ph.D. qualification and publications in a directly relevant area. Applications from Ph.D. candidates with a firm date for their viva of before the end of September 2017 will also be considered. 

Salary:  €36,488 - €43,394 (IUA Post-Doctoral Salary Scale) €44,643 - €47,255 (IUA Senior Post-Doctoral Salary Scale) 

Post Duration: Up to 31/8/2018, with a possibility of extension thereafter for up to 6 months (extension will be subject to approval by Science Foundation Ireland in 2018)

Project Title: An Internet Infrastructure for Video Streaming Optimisation (iVID)

The paper "SAP: Stall-Aware Pacing for Improved DASH Video Experience in Cellular Networks" by A.H. Zahran, J.J. Quinlan, K. K. Ramakrishnan and C.J. Sreenan was awarded the first prize in the DASH Industry Forum Excellence in DASH Award at the ACM MMSys 2017 conference.

Applications are invited for a Post Doctoral Research position at the Connect centre for future communications / Insight Centre for Data Analytics, in the school of Computer Science and Information Technology, to work on an European collaborative project in the area of cyber-physical security. The post-doctoral researcher will work in the areas of threat modeling, security configuration, and dynamic policy frameworks. The work will include both formal analysis and development, and practical deployment.

Post duration: 18 months

Salary: €36,488-€43,394 p.a. (IUA Salary Scale)

Project: Dynamic Policies for Shared Cyber-Physical Infrastructures under Attack.

Applications are invited for a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher (CONNECT). 

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the School of Computer Science & Information Technology at University College Cork Ireland is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research. MISL is a member of the national CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and industry. Applications are sought for a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher to work on autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles, with a specific emphasis on search-and-locate applications. This position is funded by both CONNECT and Insight, which is a national centre for data analytics research funded by SFI and industry. 

Post duration: up to 18 months initially subject to satisfactory performance, and may be extended thereafter, subject to availability of funding.

Salary: €43,643 - €46,255 (IUA Scale)

Project: Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral/Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher.

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the Department of Computer Science at UCC is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research. MISL plays a leading role in the national CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications. Funded by Science Foundation Ireland and over 35 companies, CONNECT brings together a number of major Irish research initiatives to focus on future networks and communications and to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ for research, education and innovation within this domain.

Applicants are invited from those with a Ph.D. qualification and publications in a directly relevant area. Applications from Ph.D. candidates with a firm date for their viva of before the end of February 2017 will also be considered. 

Salary: Post-Doctoral Researcher Salary: €35,488 - €42,394 (IUA Scale) Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher Salary: €43,643 - €46,255 (IUA Scale)

Post Duration: Up to 31/8/2018, with a possibility of extension thereafter for up to 6 months (extension will be subject to approval by Science Foundation Ireland in 2018)

Project Title: An Internet Infrastructure for Video Streaming Optimisation (iVID)

University College Cork (Ireland) is participating in EDGE, an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Action, offering 24-36 month Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

Researchers currently residing outside of Ireland, with a PhD or at least 4 years of equivalent research experience can apply by submitting a research proposal before the Call 1 deadline on 1st December 2016.

Prof Cormac Sreenan, Deputy Director of Connect, talks about demand-driven innovation and why the rise of the smartphone came as no suprise at all

Read more: http://www.techcentral.ie/QadWy#ixzz4LNUNjf1B

You are invited  to attend the following presentation hosted by Prof. Cormac Sreenan, Computer Science, on Monday, 12th September 2016 in room 2.26, Western Gateway Building, UCC.

A Changing Landscape: Securing The Internet Of Things (IoT) presented by Prof. Sanjay K. Jha, Director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Laboratory (Cyspri) at UNSW.

Please confirm attendance by emailing Mary Noonan at m.noonan@cs.ucc.ie in order to allow planning for space requirements.

The best paper at the 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) in Vienna, Austria was awarded to D. Tracey and C.J. Sreenan for the paper "CacheL: A cache algorithm using leases for node data in the Internet of Things".

J.J Quinlan, D. Raca, A.H. Zahran, A. Khalid, K.K. Ramakrishnan,C.J. Sreenan received the Best Demo award at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2016) in Rome, Italy, June 13-15, 2016 for their peer-reviewed demo entitled "D-LiTE: A platform for evaluating DASH performance over a simulated LTE network (1,283kB)".

As part of the HEA PRTLI-funded Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI), the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, will be will be hosting a 1 day course designed for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers who are working in areas related to networking. It is also open to industry partners of TGI institutions. Registration is required but there is no fee to attend.

For Registration and further details on the course, please see the following link

As part of the HEA PRTLI-funded Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI), the Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, will be will be hosting a 1 ½ day course designed for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers who are working in areas related to network function virtualization, cellular mobile networks, or video streaming and quality of experience. It is also open to industry partners of TGI institutions. Registration is required but there is no fee to attend.

For Registration and further details on the course, please see the following link

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the Department of Computer Science at UCC is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research. The SFI-funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications recognizes the centrality of networks to the economy, to society at large, and to Ireland’s future development. Hence, the centre brings together a number of major Irish research initiatives to focus on future networks and communications and to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ for research, education and innovation within this domain. In due course, a team of researchers will work on CONNECT in UCC, hosted in MISL. The Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher will work primarily on the topic of dense WiFi networks, working closely with the sponsoring industry partner and Prof. Sreenan, the project Principal Investigator. The project will involve a combination of analytical/optimisation methodologies together with testbed-based evaluation. The appointee will be expected to make significant contributions to the direction and progress of the project. Applicants are invited from those with a PhD qualification, prior post-doctoral experience and publications in a directly relevant area.

Please note that this position will be filled at either Post Doc OR Senior Post Doc level depending on experience. (Position filled)

The Security Group in the Department of Computer Science at UCC has been engaged in world-class security research for over twenty years. Working as part of the recently established CONNECT Research Centre, the group develops robust techniques for security in complex systems with applications that range from large-scale enterprise systems to critical infrastructure. CONNECT is Ireland’s national research centre for Future Networks and Communications and is jointly funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and by industry. CONNECT engages with over 35 companies including large multinationals, SMEs and start-ups.

Salary: €33,975 - €37,750 p.a.

Post Duration: up to 27 months

Project: Dynamic Policies for Shared Cyber-Physical Infrastructures under Attack (DYPOSIT)

Aseel Alkhelaiwi and Dr. Dan Grigoras won the Cloud Challenge 2015 at the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2015), held in Limassol, Cyprus (7-10 Dec 2015) for presenting 'The Origin and Trustworthiness of Data in Smart City Applications.'

Saim Ghafoor was awarded the ICT-DM prize for Best Student Paper at the 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM 2015) in Rennes, France, November 2015.

Paper Title: Experimental Evaluation of a Software Defined Radio-based Prototype for a Disaster Response Cellular Network by S. Ghafoor,  K.N. Brown, C.J. Sreenan.

You are invited to attend Prof. Chunming Rong's talk on Secure Industrial Big-Data on Thursday, 10th December at 4pm in G09, Western Gateway Building, UCC.

Thuy Truong, Rodolfo Bisol, James Giller, Hugh Whelan, Ken Brown and Cormac Sreenan received the Best Demo award at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) for their peer-reviewed demo entitled "Demonstration of Robotic Repair for Wireless Networks".

Jerome Arokkiam, Xiuchao Wu, Ken Brown and Cormac Sreenan received the Best paper award at the IEEE GLOBECOM International Conference (Access Networks & Systems) for their peer-reviewed paper entitled "Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance over 10Gb/s Passive Optical Networks (XG-PON)".

Applications are invited for fixed-term studentships (annual value of €18K, plus fees) from suitably qualified candidates who wish to undertake a PhD within the Department of Computer Science: Positions Filled

Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Researcher (Video Streaming/SDN). 

The Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) in the Department of Computer Science at UCC is an internationally recognised research centre focused on innovative networking research. iVID is a new 4-year research project funded by Science Foundation Ireland to investigate the use of software defined networking techniques to optimise the delivery of streaming video. A team of 5 researchers will work on the iVID project.   The Post-Doctoral Researcher will be expected to make significant contributions to the direction and progress of the project in addition to working closely with the other team members and Prof. Sreenan, the project Principal Investigator. Applicants are invited from those with a PhD qualification and publications in a directly relevant area. Applications from PhD candidates with a firm date for their viva of before the end of October 2014 will also be considered.

Project: An Internet Infrastructure for Video Streaming Optimisation (iVID)

Post Duration: Up to 48 months, continuation after 24 months subject to performance review

Salary: €33,975 - €38,155 per annum

The Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, will be will be hosting a one-day course as part of the HEA PRTLI-funded Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI).

For Registration and further details on the course

You are invited  to attend the following presentation this Thursday, 24^th July at 6pm in  the Western Gateway Building room WGB G-04.

Real-Time Wireless Control Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems

Presented by Prof. Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis

http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~lu 

Prof. Lu's visit is hosted by Prof. Cormac Sreenan and funded by the HEA PRTLI Telecommunications Graduate Initiative.

You are invited  to attend the following presentation hosted by Prof. Cormac Sreenan, Computer Science, on Thursday July 3rd  from 18.00 - 19.30 in room 1.07, Western Gateway Building, UCC.

Bots, Bubbles, and Bottlenecks: Safeguarding the User’s Internet Experience. Presented by Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech, USA.

An Internet Infrastructure for Video Streaming Optimisation (iVID) vacancy. Closing date for applications 18th July 2014

The research labs in UCC Computer Science are abuzz with the arrival of the latest in embedded computing from Intel.

The Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, will be will be hosting two modules aimed at postgraduate researchers/students as part of the HEA PRTLI-funded Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI).  

For Registration and further details on the courses

Professor Cormac Sreenan, Computer Science, UCC wins SFI award of €1,123,443 with a project investigating streaming video in the future Internet.

See following link for further details

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/34398-two-irish-universities-amon

Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in Wireless Sensor Networks, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork. (One-year contract).

Applications for PhD research studentships are now solicited. The Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C) (http://www.4c.ucc.ie/) and Mobile & Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL) (http://www.cs.ucc.ie/misl) are members of CTVR (http://www.ctvr.ie) – a national telecommunications research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland. The focus of our research is the design and optimisation of next-generation wireless and optical telecommunications networks. The CTVR team at 4C and MISL includes post-doctoral researchers and PhD students, together with three faculty members.

Applications are invited for post-doctoral position in the Mobile & Internet Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork. The position will be co-funded by IRCSET and United Technologies Research Centre (UTRC) , an internationally recognized corporate research organization of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) that conducts research and development across a range of technology areas to drive its mission of “growth through innovation”.

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.

The GINSENG research project, led by Prof. Cormac Sreenan of UCC Computer Science, was exhibited March 6-10 2012 at CeBIT, the world's largest ICT trade fair. GINSENG is funded by the European Commission and involves 8 partners from Ireland, England, Sweden, Cyprus, Germany and Portugal. The project solved the problem of providing performance control for wireless sensor networks, paving the way for commercial applications of this emerging technology for real-time industrial monitoring and control.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).