Call for a PhD in Network Systems - IPv6
The Network Systems Department is seeking a competent and motivated PhD candidate to work on a collaborative three-year project with the University of California San Diego. The project aims at studying and modeling the status of IPv6 adoption and penetration. The successful candidate will be supervised jointly by researchers from Simula and UCSD, and spend part of the studentship at UCSD.
Project description
IPv6 was introduced fifteen years ago to deal with the long-anticipated depletion of IPv4 addresses, albeit remaining mostly experimental with small penetration. Recently, however, the transition to IPv6 has become a major concern to the network community with the exhaustion of IPv4 address space on the horizon. This pressure from IPv4 address scarcity has pushed regulatory bodies, network operators, software and hardware vendors to support IPv6. But, the status of the Internet-wide deployment of IPv6 is still in its infancy and riddled with uncertainties. This project will focus on monitoring and understanding IPv6 adoption or its lack of. More specifically, we will focus on the following points:
- Collecting and processing topology and routing data for both IPv4 and IPv6 to track the evolution of IPv6 penetration
- Developing models to capture the impact of different socio-economic factors. These models are envisioned to capture IPv6 adoption at the granularity of a single network and at regional levels as well
- A crucial factor in determining whether IPv6 is widely adopted is the end-to-end performance achievable over IPv6. The project will also focus on measuring data-plane performance over IPv6
- Arguably, the first to adopt IPv6 will be mobile broadband (MBB) operators. Hence, we will also work closely with local MBB operators to measure data plane performance over IPv6 in MBB networks
Requirements
- A master degree in computer science or equivalent
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Programming skills specially scripting languages
- Familiarity with statistics is a plus
Being a PhD student at Simula
- Simula offers a great opportunity for doing cutting edge research by being a part of a highly competent team of researchers
- Simula is an equal opportunity multi-cultural employer. Our current researchers and students come from more than 25 countries
- Our students are enrolled in the PhD programme at the University of Oslo
- We offer a competitive salary. For a PhD student the starting annual salary is NOK 395,000 (about EUR49,000 or USD67,000 at current exchange rates)
Application
Interested applicants should provide the following information by the deadline of June 20, 2012 via email to jobs@simula.no:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae or Resume including two references
- Bachelor and Master grades transcripts
- A copy of their master thesis
The subject field of the email must include “JOB 1207 IPv6”. Please also CC Ahmed Elmokashfi. Applications not meeting these requirements may not be considered.
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