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2x PhD vacancy - ILNP
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2x PhD vacancy at:
  The School of Computer Science
  University of St Andrews
  Scotland, UK
  http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

There are two vacancies for PhD students to work on the development of ILNP:

 http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Applicants should be excellent C programmers, with experience of
systems programming, ideally in Linux or FreeBSD. Applicants should be
able to demonstrate excellent knowledge of IP networking. Possible
topics of interest are:

+ Mobility for individual hosts and whole network sites. Scalability
  and performance trade-offs between a purely end-to-end models and
  site-wide models.

+ The scalability of large-scale multi-homing. Impact on the
  default-free zone (DFZ) of the Internet routing infrastructure and 
  state displacement from routing to DNS.

+ Site-security enhancement. Site resilience to traffic-based and
  routing-based denial of service (DoS) attacks. New firewall and site-
  border protection capability, including location privacy and identity 
  privacy.

+ Enabling multi-path transport for site-controlled traffic engineering.
  Use of a high-degree of multi-homing at a site or host to enable path 
  resilience and load-balancing.

+ Localised addressing and site address management. Enabling
  robustness to dynamic re-numbering of sites. Managing site IP-layer 
  connectivity via site-border routers.

+ New approaches to wide-area virtual machine (VM) image mobility and 
  migration.

+ Information-centric / content-centric / data-centric networking. 
  Investigating the applicability and use of an identifier-locator 
  split to an information centric approach, if applied at high layers.

+ New APIs for ILNP-aware transport protocols and applications. 
  Investigating new application capabilities when identity and location 
  are decoupled. The use of dynamic binding between between application 
  sessions and transport flows.

The 2 PhD positions are focussed on different practical development:

* the development of a kernel implementation of ILNP in
  Linux, and is co-sponsored by Time Warner Cable (USA), with a
  particular interest in mobility.

* investigation of the potential for enabling functionality via
  naming, with the use of DNS and ILNP, co-sponsored by Verisign (USA),
  including management and security of network functions.

Applicants should normally have at least a first class Honours
Bachelors degree or equivalent, (e.g. USA GPA 3.7 or better) in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, or a closely-related subject.

Both positions are fully funded (covering fees, and a tax-free stipend
of GBP15K p/a) for up to 42 months, the expected duration of the PhD.

General Information for PhD applicants:
- http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/pg/


How to Apply
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- Forms are at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/pg/apply/forms/

- Submit applications online at - more general information at:

 http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/prospective-pg/apply

- School-specific information at:

 http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/prospective-pg/research-degrees

- For those whose first language is not English, a suitable language
  qualification will be required, e.g. IELTS 7.0 or better, with no
  individual component less than 6.5.

- Include a covering letter which indicates your experience, skills and
  suitability for the PhD project. Include also a CV and any related
  documents as required (e.g. IELTS certificate).

- Only full applications, with all supporting documents, can be 
  considered.

- The application process will include a technical interview (by
  phone/voice-conf if required, which will be arranged after the
  application has been considered).


Contacts for more information
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- Administrative contact: Mrs Paula Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
  (for general information, including information about applications 
  procedure)

- More information about ILNP is available at:
  http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Technical contact: Prof Saleem Bhatti <http://saleem.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/>

There is no closing date for this position - applicants will be 
considered as they apply, and the position will be offered to a
suitable candidate as soon as one is identified, i.e. FCFS.