{"id":6834,"date":"2014-07-01T00:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2014-07-02T05:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T05:53:44","slug":"doctoral-fellow-maritime-communications-modelling-of-signal-propagation-for-ship-toship-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=6834","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Fellow: Maritime Communications: Modelling of signal propagation for ship-toship (Germany)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research Area : <\/b><\/span><\/span>Space Transportation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Research Topic: <\/b><\/span><\/span>Maritime Communications: Modelling of signal propagation for ship-toship <\/span><\/span><\/span>and ship-to-shore environments at C-band<\/p>\n

DLR Institute: <\/b><\/span><\/span>Institute of Communications and Navigation; Oberpfaffenhofen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Department Communications Systems<\/p>\n

Position: <\/b><\/span><\/span>Doctoral Fellow<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Job Specification: <\/b><\/span><\/span>In maritime communications new services will be established on longterm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

in order to support various new applications in maritime transportation. For this purpose new communication systems have to be developed. As these communication systems shall be adapted to the signal propagation conditions, these conditions have to be known precisely. However, so far, these propagation mechanisms are not known to the required level of detail.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the fellowship is to accurately describe the propagation mechanisms in maritime environments. DLR will conduct a propagation measurement campaign at the Baltic Sea in spring 2014. In the framework of the fellowship, the data recorded at this campaign shall be evaluated in a first step. The evaluation requires to carefully extract all relevant propagation parameters. For this purpose, the various recordings by DLR\u2019s measurement equipment encompassing e.g. a broadband channel sounder, INS and GPS on-board ships, and cameras for visual inspection, shall be considered. The second step of the work has the objective to develop a channel model which accurately describes the propagation conditions. The channel model can be based on concepts which are already know from literature (like tap-delay line implementations) but can also incorporate new elements; special<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

attention shall be directed versus the accurate modelling of scattering effects on the surface of the sea; these effects strongly depend on the features of waves. The developed model shall be implemented in MATLAB; furthermore it shall be mature enough to serve as input to standardisation at ITU-R.<\/p>\n

During the fellowship the presentation of (intermediate) results is mandatory at international conferences. Furthermore a journal paper in an ISI listed international journal on propagation shall be published in the third year of the fellowship.<\/p>\n

Required Qualification: <\/b><\/span><\/span>M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering \/ Telecommunications with excellent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

grades; profound knowledge of digital signal processing, estimation theory and statistics<\/p>\n

Advantageous Skills: <\/b><\/span><\/span>MATLAB programming skills, very high degree of mathematical ability<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

English competence: <\/b><\/span><\/span>English fluent, German at least workable knowledge with willingness of <\/span><\/span><\/span>improvement<\/p>\n

Earliest Start Date: <\/b><\/span><\/span>March 2014<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Application Deadline: <\/span><\/span>December 2014<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Further Information: <\/b><\/span><\/span>http:\/\/www.dlr.de<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>\/kn<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research Area : Space Transportation Research Topic: Maritime Communications: Modelling of signal propagation for ship-toship and ship-to-shore environments at C-band DLR Institute: Institute of Communications and Navigation; Oberpfaffenhofen Department Communications Systems Position: Doctoral Fellow Job Specification: In maritime communications new services will be established on longterm in order to support various new applications in maritime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}