Project Engineer for 6GTWINROAD

The i2CAT Foundation is looking for a Project Engineer to work on the 6GTWINROAD project with the Mobile Wireless Internet team.

Vehicule-to-Everything (V2X) services are new features in 5G network intended mainly to enhance road safety. However, the nature of V2X traffic is very dynamic and may lead to unbalanced cell loads, where some cells will be highly loaded while others can have many available free resources. In order to use efficiently the resources, network status and behavior can be very useful. Therefore, the availability of real-world dataset of mobile network KPIs helps investigators to understand network behavior and enable them to extract patterns that enables the construction of network digital twins. The latter can be used to design more efficient radio resource management techniques.

The objective of the internship is to develop AI-based mechanism to continue analyzing the operator dataset and exploit it to develop different algorithms that enhance the performance of V2X applications.

The Project Engineer will join the Mobile Wireless Internet (MWI) team working on the development of the AI-based Radio Resource Management (RRM) algorithms.

The selected candidate will be responsible of:

• Generating patterns of periodicity from the KPI dataset available in the project using ML techniques.
• Designing new RRM algorithms for V2X scenarios based on the learned patterns.
• Evaluating the proposed solutions using simulation (e.g., MATLAB, Python, SUMO).

The project will be divided into four steps:

1. Review existing state of the art.
2. Extract patterns from the KPI dataset.
3. Propose new RRM algorithms for V2X scenarios.
4. Evaluate the proposed solutions.

Links:

• T. Ortizet al., "Analysis of Vehicular Scenarios and Mitigation of Cell Overload due to Traffic Congestions," 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, 2022, doi: 10.1109/VTC2022-Spring54318.2022.9860570.
• T. Ortiz et al., "On Alleviating Cell Overload in Vehicular Scenarios," 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall), London, United Kingdom, 2022, doi: 10.1109/VTC2022-Fall57202.2022.10013033.
• T. Ortiz, et al., "On the Application of Q-learning for Mobility Load Balancing in Realistic Vehicular Scenarios," IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'23-Spring), Florence, Italy, 2023, doi: 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10201091.
• Shukla, H. N. Tchouankem, "Correlation Analysis for the Prediction of QoS in V2V Networks," Int'l ACM Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVANet'23), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2023, doi: 10.1145/3616392.3623410
• E. Martínez-Durive, S. Mishra, C. Ziemlicki, S. Rubrichi, Z. Smoreda, M. Fiore, "The NetMob23 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-region Service-level Mobile Data Traffic Cartography," arXiv:2305.06933, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.06933

Who we are:

The i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation center that promotes mission-driven R&D activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications, and services. More than 15 years of international research define our expertise in the fields of 5G, IoT, VR, and Immersive Technologies, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, AI, and Digital Social Innovation. The center partners with companies, public administration, academia, and end-users to leverage this knowledge in order to meet real social and business challenges.

The greatest value of i2CAT is the talent of the people who make up our human team. We enjoy a team of people from more than 13 different nationalities and work every day to create and foster a work environment where we all feel comfortable creating, innovating and growing.

Want to know more? Visit our webpage! www.i2cat.net

What will you enjoy?

• Work from our offices or from home, whichever works best for you. We only ask for one day in person at the office to coordinate with the rest of the team.
• This is a full-time vacancy.
• We have a flexible work schedule respecting your work-life balance.
• Reduced working hours on Fridays and in July and August.
• Fix + variable salary based on objectives.
• You decide wether you preferr to receive your salary in 12 or 14 payments.
• Optional benefits: Configure your salary according to your needs. We offer you the option of restaurant vouchers, public transport vouchers, nursery services, and medical insurance.
• Annual leave of 27 working days.
• We have fruit in the office to promote a healthy lifestyle
• Free coffee and tea.
• If you are interested, you can participate in events of your sector.
• You will work with a laptop. You can choose your operative system, Mac, Linux or Windows.
• Company social and team-building events (virtual & in-person).
• You can develop your own and personal training programme with our support.
• We will work so that you have a career plan to promote your growth and development.

Where will you do it?

At i2CAT we already have an established ‘work-from-home’ policy for some time. You can work from home or from the office, whichever suits you best. We expect that you attend the office one day per week to stay connected with your team and to engage with other colleagues

If you decide to come to the office, we are located in Zona Universitària, next to the Campus Nord of the UPC, within a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. It is a very well-connected area (metro, tram, bus) with bars and restaurants around.

Our offices are designed with an open-office concept where everything is light and transparency. We have a variety of workspaces so that you don't have to be at the same table all day.

i2CAT is an organization committed to equal opportunities. That is why we seek to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented, and therefore explicitly encourage female candidates to apply.

I2CAT is an organization committed to creating an environment where we celebrate diversity, and where we provide the dedicated support that our employees need, regardless of their disability.

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