Scholarship -- PhD -- Uppsala University, Sweden

Scholarship -- PhD -- Uppsala University, Sweden
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Field: Communication for Internet-of-Things
Deadline: 30 September 2016

The topic for the PhD position is communication infrastructures for smart and digitized products. Many Internet-of-Things and future products will consist of a physical part, a wired/wireless connectivity part complemented with product intelligence parts in the Cloud. The infrastructure part should provide secure, reliable and energy efficient communication between these parts. The PhD student will do research into authentication and access control for digitized products and how the communication system can maintain data consistency between parts. The PhD student will be hosted by the Communication Research Group at Uppsala University, Sweden. The position is 100% paid for a maximum of five years and includes departmental duties at a level of at most 20% (mainly teaching). The candidate should have, or is expected to receive in a near future, a Master of Science. The candidate must have a strong background in computer science or computer engineering. Prior knowledge of Swedish is not required.

For further information please contact Professor Per Gunningberg at per.gunningberg@it.uu.se