We at France Telecom R&D are proposing an Internship (April - September 2007) in the domain of wireless networks. Please find attached the Internship offer.

The deadline to apply with a detailed CV and a motivation letter, is December 30th, 2006.

In case of any further queries, please feel free to contact me.

Best Regards,

Usman Javaid
France Telecom R&D

PS: Due to visa and other logistic issues, the candidates residing in EU will only be considered. Please also note that the university of the candidate has to provide the Internship agreement, which would be signed by the candidate, the university and France Telecom R&D.

Usman Javaid:

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INTERNSHIP OFFER
Title
Analytical study of Media Independent Handover (802.21) scheme for Seamless Mobility
across Heterogeneous Access Networks
Outline:
Following are the objectives of the internship:
- To study Media Independent Handover (MIH) 802.21 layer on top of heterogeneous access
technologies in order to offer fast handover and efficient mobility management
- To analyse and develop MIH's usage scenarios in heterogeneous environments
- To envisage the ad-hoc mode of operation with MIH's support
- To develop the heterogeneous simulation environment in NS-2, which consists of Wi-Fi, Wi-Max,
Bluetooth and UMTS
Profile:
Masters (By Research)
Technical Skills:
The potential candidate should have the following competences:
- Excellent command on NS-2
- Good understanding of the following access technologies: Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Bluetooth, UMTS
- Good understanding of ad-hoc networks and related routing protocols such as OLSR, AODV and DSR
- Very good programming in C++ and sound analytical skills
- Good knowledge about mobility management in heterogeneous networks (optional)
Other Details:
6 months, April – September 2007, Lannion (Bretagne), France
Background:
The proliferation of communication technologies and networks in the last few years has
highlighted the strong need of network convergence. Mobility management and fast handover
are among one of the key challenges which need to be addressed to respond the open
questions of convergence. To this end, IEEE 802.21 working group has join hands to offer a
Media Independent Handover (MIH) scheme which crafts strong cooperation among the
heterogeneous networks rendering a high level of transparency to the higher layers of the
protocol stack. In this internship, the aim is at first to develop the environment in NS-2 where
heterogeneous access networks co-exist. And then to study the MIH layer impact under
different scenarios of mobility management and others.
Contact:
Usman Javaid
Research Engineer,
France Telecom R&D