The increasing use of smart phones, tablets, and other portable devices puts an increasing demand on mobile cellular systems. Today's mobile cellular systems are highly centralized and not optimized for high-volume data applications, which are expected to be dominant in LTE (Long Term Evolution) and other 4th generation cellular technologies.
Operators typically use centralized network architectures that lead to very high bandwidth requirements on core network equipment and long communication paths between users and servers, which wastes network resources and increases delay. Shared, distributed mobile network architectures are needed to avoid bottlenecks, better utilize available resources, and minimize delay. The cloud computing model could be applied in such mobile cellular systems to solve this issue by offering decentralized computing, smart storage, on-demand, elastic and pay-as-you-go services to third party operators and users.
One of the research areas of the DACS group (Design and Analysis of Communication Systems) at the University of Twente is wireless and mobile networking in cellular systems. Within the Mobile Cloud Networking project, the DACS group, together with partners from a number of European countries, will develop and prototype the network architecture and supporting technologies for a fully cloud-based mobile communication system, supporting on-demand and elastic provisioning of novel mobile services.
2 PhD positons Mobile Cloud Networking in Cellular Systems
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2012-07-31, 00:00
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Ioana Dinescu
