POST-DOCTORAL POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Signal Processing Techniques for Transceiver Design in Cooperative Communication Systems

Signal and Information Processing Research Group (GPSI)

Department of Teleinformatics Engineering

Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza- Brazil

In partnership with:

Communications Research Group (CRG)

Department of Electronics

The University of York, UK

This post-doctoral position will be housed at the Wireless Telecom Research Laboratory (GTEL), affiliated with the Department of Teleinformatics Engineering at UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil, and will be funded for 1 to 3 years. The fellowship will be fully supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and will pay a net salary of £31,000 per year (around $50,000); plus £7,400 per year for project expenses. Travel expenses will be paid. Upon acceptance of the post-doctoral fellowship project, funding will be available from August 2012. The fellowship must start between August and November 2012.

Project scope & objectives:

In this project, we are interested in solving the main problems in the physical layer of cooperative communication systems, namely, transceiver design, including precoding, power allocation, channel estimation, source separation and signal detection.The main objectives are:

· To develop new tensor modeling based blind/semi-blind channel and symbol estimation algorithmsforcooperative MIMO wireless communication systems under different cooperation protocols and relaying architectures;

· To propose innovative matrix- and tensor-based distributed signal processing receivers for parameter estimation in multi-hop wireless sensor networks;

· To investigate the use of adaptive multilinear filtering algorithms and apply them to joint equalization and interference cancellation in cooperative wireless communications.

Requirements:

Applicants will have a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, or a closely-relateddiscipline. Experience with physical layer problems in wireless communication systems is essential, preferably inthe context of MIMO communication systems and cooperative communications; strong skills in signal processing and mathematics will be required. Fluency in English required.

How to Apply:

In one PDF file, please submit the materials listed below electronically to André de Almeida andre@gtel.ufc.br and Rodrigo de Lamare rcdl500@ohm.york.ac.uk :

· Curriculum vitae containing publications and relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities;

· 1 page statement on project approach and how your skills will be applied.

Contact information for two references is desirable.

Applications will be received until May 1, 2012. Open until filled.