2x PhD vacancy - ILNP --------------------- 2x PhD vacancy at: The School of Computer Science University of St Andrews Scotland, UK http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ There are two vacancies for PhD students to work on the development of ILNP: http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Applicants should be excellent C programmers, with experience of systems programming, ideally in Linux or FreeBSD. Applicants should be able to demonstrate excellent knowledge of IP networking. Possible topics of interest are: + Mobility for individual hosts and whole network sites. Scalability and performance trade-offs between a purely end-to-end models and site-wide models. + The scalability of large-scale multi-homing. Impact on the default-free zone (DFZ) of the Internet routing infrastructure and state displacement from routing to DNS. + Site-security enhancement. Site resilience to traffic-based and routing-based denial of service (DoS) attacks. New firewall and site- border protection capability, including location privacy and identity privacy. + Enabling multi-path transport for site-controlled traffic engineering. Use of a high-degree of multi-homing at a site or host to enable path resilience and load-balancing. + Localised addressing and site address management. Enabling robustness to dynamic re-numbering of sites. Managing site IP-layer connectivity via site-border routers. + New approaches to wide-area virtual machine (VM) image mobility and migration. + Information-centric / content-centric / data-centric networking. Investigating the applicability and use of an identifier-locator split to an information centric approach, if applied at high layers. + New APIs for ILNP-aware transport protocols and applications. Investigating new application capabilities when identity and location are decoupled. The use of dynamic binding between between application sessions and transport flows. The 2 PhD positions are focussed on different practical development: * the development of a kernel implementation of ILNP in Linux, and is co-sponsored by Time Warner Cable (USA), with a particular interest in mobility. * investigation of the potential for enabling functionality via naming, with the use of DNS and ILNP, co-sponsored by Verisign (USA), including management and security of network functions. Applicants should normally have at least a first class Honours Bachelors degree or equivalent, (e.g. USA GPA 3.7 or better) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely-related subject. Both positions are fully funded (covering fees, and a tax-free stipend of GBP15K p/a) for up to 42 months, the expected duration of the PhD. General Information for PhD applicants: - http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/pg/ How to Apply ------------ - Forms are at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/pg/apply/forms/ - Submit applications online at - more general information at: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/prospective-pg/apply - School-specific information at: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/prospective-pg/research-degrees - For those whose first language is not English, a suitable language qualification will be required, e.g. IELTS 7.0 or better, with no individual component less than 6.5. - Include a covering letter which indicates your experience, skills and suitability for the PhD project. Include also a CV and any related documents as required (e.g. IELTS certificate). - Only full applications, with all supporting documents, can be considered. - The application process will include a technical interview (by phone/voice-conf if required, which will be arranged after the application has been considered). Contacts for more information ----------------------------- - Administrative contact: Mrs Paula Anderson (for general information, including information about applications procedure) - More information about ILNP is available at: http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Technical contact: Prof Saleem Bhatti There is no closing date for this position - applicants will be considered as they apply, and the position will be offered to a suitable candidate as soon as one is identified, i.e. FCFS. (This notice posted 20 Dec 2013.)