• We are permanently offering research positions for young researchers and PhD students (Expand offer). If you are interested, please email me at aoliva at it.uc3m.es.

NETCOM is a Research Group within the Department of Telematics Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid that carries out work on network architectures, communication protocols, distributed services and network design topics. We are currently focussed on IPv6 and related protocols, mobile networks and services, active and programmable networks and high performance networking.

We are offering a unique opportunity to apply now to join us as a Teaching Assistant, and to receive full funding throughout your Ph.D. at the University Carlos III of Madrid, while gaining valuable professional experience undertaking teaching duties during the academic year that will further enhance your curriculum. We provide an international working environment, in which we support our researchers to focus on their core activities and to develop their careers.

The Ph.D. program starts in September/October 2010. Teaching Assistants will be supervised by an expert tutor from either the NETCOM group within the Department of Telematics Engineering, or from the international research institute IMDEA Networks, with whom it works in close collaboration. Some of our world-renowned and award-winning scientists are Dr. Nick Maxemchuk, Dr. Marco Ajmone Marsan and Dr. Arturo Azcorra.

Applications are invited from graduates who meet the following requirements:
• B.Sc., M.Sc. or equivalent in Telematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field*
• Excellent academic transcripts
• Clearly defined Statement of Purpose for Masters/Ph.D. research thesis
• Excellent level of spoken and written English AND/OR Spanish
• Highly motivated

* The University Carlos III of Madrid's admissions office could require you to complete all or part of their Masters course as a condition of your admittance to the Ph.D. course (subject to your academic qualifications).

If you want to be considered for one of the very limited number of opportunities to receive full funding during the four years of the Ph.D. program and gain relevant working experience as a Teaching Assistant at the same time, you need to act NOW. The final closing date for applications is the 20th of February 2010 at 18:00 CET.
All the information you need plus a downloadable application form is available from the Teaching Assistant information page located within the NETCOM website.
For more information check: http://www.it.uc3m.es/netcom/opportunity.html.
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2009-2010

• Redes de Ordenadores I, Ing. Informatica, 4º, 1ºC
• Comunicaciones de Sistemas Moviles, Master Inter-Universitario en Telematica, 2º, 2ºC (coordinador)
• Laboratorio de Ingenieria de Servicios, Ing. Telecomunicacion, 5º, 2ºC (coordinador, English group)

2008-2009 (Expand)

2007-2008 (Expand)

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2005-2006 (Expand)

2004-2005 (Expand)

Tutorial times

Publications

• IEEE 802.21: Media independence beyond handover (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2011.03.001)
  Antonio de la Oliva, Ignacio Soto, Albert Banchs, Johannes Lessmann, Christian Niephaus, Telemaco Melia
  Accepted to be published Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces
  
• IP Flow Mobility in PMIPv6 Based Networks: Solution Design and Experimental Evaluation
  T.Melia, C.J. Bernardos, A. de la Oliva, F. Giust,Maria Calderon
  Accepted to be published in Presonal Wireless Communications.
  
• TRIM: an Architecture for Transparent IMS-based Mobility (pdf)
  Ivan Vidal, Antonio de la Oliva, Jaime Garcia-Reinoso, Ignacio Soto
  Published in Computer Networks. Special issue on Network Convergence (doi)
  
• Supporting mobility in an IMS-based P2P IPTV service: a Proactive Context Transfer mechanism
  Ivan Vidal, Jaime Garcia-Reinoso, Antonio de la Oliva, Alex Bikfalvi, Ignacio Soto
  Accepted to be published in Computer Communications. Special issue on Next Generation Networks Service Management.
• FloorNet: Deployment and Evaluation of a Multihop Wireless 802.11 Testbed
  P. Serrano, C.J. Bernardos, A. de la Oliva, A. Banchs, I. Soto and M. Zink
  Accepted for publication in Eurasip, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
• Analytical Caharacterization of Failure Recovery in REAP
  A. de la Oliva, I. Soto, A. Garcia Martinez, M. Bagnulo and A. Azcorra
  Accepted for publication in Computer Communications.
• IEEE 802.21 (Media Independent Handover services) Overview
  A. de la Oliva, T. Melia, A. Banchs, I. Soto and A. Vidal
  IEEE Wireless Communication, Volume 15, Issue 4, August 2008.
• Toward IP Converged Heterogeneous Mobility: A Network Controlled Approach
  T. Melia, A. de la Oliva, A. Vidal,I. Soto, D. Corujo and R. Aguiar
  Computer Networks, Volume 51, Issue 17, December 2007.
• Network Controlled Handovers:challenges and possiblities
  T.Melia, A. de la Oliva, I.Soto, P.Serrano and R.Aguiar
  Wireless Personal Communications,Volume 43, Number 3,November 2007.
• Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Route Optimisation Solution for NEMO
  Maria Calderon, Carlos J. Bernardos, Marcelo Bagnulo, Ignacio Soto, Antonio de la Oliva,
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), issue on Mobile Routers and Network Mobility, Volume 24, Number 9, September 2006.
• A case study: IEEE 802.21 enabled mobile terminals for optimised WLAN/3G handovers
  Antonio de la Oliva, Telemaco Melia, Albert Vidal, Carlos J. Bernardos, Ignacio Soto, Albert Banchs
  ACM SIGMOBILE, Mobile Computing and Communications Review (M2CR), Volume 11, Issue 2, April 2007.
• All Publications

PhD. Thesis

• Control Mechanisms for Mobile Terminals in Heterogeneous Access Technology Environments.(pdf)
  This thesis obtained the ALCATEL-LUCENT award to the best contribution in new services for IPTV granted by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion (link).

Research Projects

• CARMEN: CARrier grade MEsh Networks (INFSO-ICT-214994)
• OneLab
• DAIDALOS (2nd phase): Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services (IST-2005-026943)
• POSEIDON: Provisión Óptima de SErvIcios a reDes vehiculares en mOvimieNto (TSI2006-12507-C03)
• DAIDALOS (1st phase): Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services (IST-2002-506997)
• E-NEXT: IST Thematic Network. Network of Excellence in Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (IST-2004-506869)