Professor in Children’s Nursing

Post Summary 

Novel optical access and metro networks are essential to support fast growing capacity requirement, driven by future applications and services for 6G and beyond. Networks are also evolving to support a large variety of signals across larger access and metro network areas. For these novel scenarios, flexibility becomes an essential feature, driven by the development of flexible components and open networks. These however require the development of intelligent control planes to autonomously manage network requests, maintaining high availability and optimal resource utilization. 

One Post Doctoral researcher position is available for work in the area of Optical Spectrum as a Service. The scope is to use intelligent AI driven algorithms to enable shared fibre services, where a network operator might lease fibre spectrum to third parties. The work will involve the development of models and control plane actions to detect impairments generated by any of the parties and act on the offending signals to minimise its effect on the other services. The work will be developed around open optical systems and software defined networks control planes and will include both access and metro networks. 

The applicants should have a solid theoretical background on machine learning and optical networks and experience in testbed-oriented research. The work will be carried out in the new OpenIreland research infrastructure, a large-scale testbed for experimentation in optical, wireless and cloud technologies. 

The position will be based in the CONNECT research centre at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, funded primarily by Science Foundation Ireland and ESB Ireland, but can involve other national, European projects. The researcher will also be part of the School of Computer Science and Statistics in TCD. The position will be under the direction of Prof. Marco Ruffini and Prof. Dan Kilper. 

The post will be hosted at the CONNECT (

https://connectcentre.ie/

) is Ireland's largest telecommunications research centre. The Centre carries out industry-informed research focusing on wireless and optical networks of the future with a strong emphasis on the technologies that will underpin these networks. We pride ourselves in carrying out research that is of the highest quality and that has international impact. We also pride ourselves in being an inclusive, diverse, creative, and friendly place to work.

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