We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student with a firm commitment to 
research in wireless communications to start in January 2020. We need an 
inquisitive problem solver who is able to work autonomously and also 
function well in a research team.
The student will work under the supervision of Dr Huiling Zhu and Prof 
Jiangzhou Wang alongside a funded EU Horizon 2020 project: http://5g-drive.eu/.

The successful applicant will be expected to explore suitable radio access 
technologies in the fifth generation (5G) communication networks and propose 
novel solutions to optimise spectrum efficiency in order to ensure 
appropriate high date rate or low latency for enhance mobile broadband (eMBB)
. It will be expected that performance gains will be demonstrated through 
practical tests. To achieve this, the applicant will need to be creative and 
work in close collaboration with other researchers in the project, requiring 
good communication skills and collaborative problem solving. The work in 
this PhD project will complement ongoing research collaborations with other 
project partners.

The successful applicant will be part of the Communications Research Group 
in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, the University of Kent. The 
research group is internationally renowned for research in mobile systems, 
antennas, and photonics. It has excellent laboratory facilities including 
software-based LTE testbed, refurbished anechoic chamber, vector network 
analyser to 80 GHz, RF measurement up to over 300 GHz, and arbitrary 
waveform generation and digital sampling oscilloscopes to 50 GHz. The group 
has extensive involvement in UK and EU research projects. It possesses a 
wide range of expertise from theoretical analysis to specific system 
implementations. The group has strong links with researchers at other 
British and overseas universities as well as with industrial collaborators.

The main roles of the PhD student will include: 
1) understanding the state-of-the-art technologies for providing ultra-high 
data rate and low latency in 5G communications; 
2) proposing novel radio access solutions to optimise the spectral 
efficiency while ensuring appropriate high date rate or low latency for eMBB;
 
3) theoretically analysing the proposed solutions and verifying the solution 
through simulations; 
4) potentially testing the solutions in the practical testbed; 
5) continually reviewing the literature, and producing results leading to 
high quality research papers; and 
6) giving presentations to research groups and project partners as well as 
at conferences, writing technical reports and drafting papers for peer 
reviewed journals.

Criteria
The candidate will ideally have a Masters degree in Electronics or an 
Engineering subject related to wireless communications. Research experience 
in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) or network slicing is desirable 
but not essential. 
Open to all applicants
How to apply
Apply for a PhD at 
https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/262/electronic-engineering and 
specify the research topic “5G-DRIVE”.
Deadline
The deadline for this scholarship has passed


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