Job title: Software defined radio engineer for SNOW (Smart Wireless Node) INRIA SOCRATE Team, CITI Lab, INSA-Lyon, France.
Contract duration 12 month - renewable one time Begining ASAP Income Between 2500 and 3000 euros gross / month depending on experience Required diplomas Master degree + 2 years of experience or PhD Context INRIA is a research center in the field of information and communication sciences. 3600 people work in its facilities located in 7 states in France. Grenoble research center has about 600 employees and 30 research teams. The SOCRATE research team works in wireless communication, from the PHY layer (propagation, antennas) to the MAC protocols and dedicated wireless communications. It has also activities in the programming of mobile embedded systems: microcontrollers, DSP and FPGA. The SNOW research project aims at specifying what a “smart node” would be in the scope of the emerging Internet of things. Such a node is typically an intermediate machine between a sensor (used in wireless sensor network to collect data) and smartphones, which is almost a small computer now. Smart nodes should be able to adapt their communication to their environment, thus leveraging the use the software-defined radio. SNOW’s objectives include the handling of a radio node (an SDR node such as the Perseus/Radio420X from Lyrtech, http://www.lyrtech.com), the development on this node of simple wireless protocols (Wifi, Zigbee), the development of a software defined radio application and the deployment of that application in a cognitive radio platform under construction in Lyon. The work will be done in collaboration with the CAIRN team in Lannion (north of France), which has experience in the development of PHY layer and signal processing on FPGA. The engineer will be integrated to the CITI laboratory, in the SOCRATE research team and will have to work in close relation with the FIT (Future Internet of Things) engineer team. Mission The engineer will have first to evaluate and choose a hardware/software platform for the radio node, and then to develop wireless communication protocols on that platform. Along with the engineer in Lannion, he will also specify what a smart node should be, and develop software-defined radio application. In the second year, this work will be integrated in the Cortexlab (Cogntive Radio Testbed Experimentation Lab) testbed. In Lyon, with the handling of remote programming and configuration. Activities The engineer will have a development task in a research team, which will include the following activities: • Embedded software and FPGA programming: conception, coding, tests, documentation, and experimentations. • Technical decision making (node hardware architecture, protocols, development tools, etc.) along with team member and scientific head. • Regular trips to Lannion to support the collaboration with CAIRN team. Skills • Master degree with work experience or PhD in one of the following fields: computer science, signal processing, embedded systems. • Programming languages: C, VHDL, Java. • FPGA programming with ISE or equivalent. • Matlab / simulink. • Linux administration • Radio skills: signal processing, PHY layer protocols, digital modulations,. • Fluent English • Good writing skills • Appreciated skills: French speaking, OFDM modulation, software-defined radio, and implementation of protocols on FPGA. Contacts Contact person: Tanguy Risset [email protected] For administrative issues, please contact Aurélia Mouton [email protected] ---------------------------------------------- Guillaume VILLEMAUD, PhD Associate professor - CITI Laboratory International Exchange Coordinator- Electrical Engineering Department INSA Lyon, bat. Claude Chappe 6 avenue des Arts 69621 Villeurbanne cedex (France) Tel : (33) 4 72 43 60 67 Fax : (33) 4 72 43 62 27 Email : [email protected] _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
