PhD in Telecommunication Engineering

The research group WaveCoRE in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) is dedicated to advancing the fields of electromagnetic theory, wave propagation, microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, and wireless systems./nWithin WaveCoRE, the Networked Systems team covers research on several fields of wireless communications, including non-terrestrial UAV and satellite networks, next-generation radio access networks, sustainable Internet of things, joint communication and sensing, as well as machine learning-based signal processing./nProject: In its first phase, this PhD project aims to design an ultra-efficient, semantic-aware distributed aerial network tailored for aerial nodes’ control, featuring semantic communication to maximize energy/spectrum efficiency, sending control semantics (e.g., stay/change/continue path) instead of positional information. Semantic-ware PHY-MAC cross-layer design will be studied in the context of M2M communication (i.e., UAVs and WBs) for real-time control. In the second phase, seamless integration of sensing, computation, and communication functionalities for context-aware self-organized aerial networks will be investigated./nLocation: Leuven, Belgium.