EPSRC and British Telecommunications Industrial CASE funded Computer Science PhD Studentship in Dynamic Resource Management and Optimization for SLA Guarantees in Hyperconverged Communication Infrastructures

Primary supervisor: Professor Geyong Min (http://people.exeter.ac.uk/gm321/)
Secondary supervisor: Dr. Nektarios Georgalas (British Telecommunications)

Location: Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, EX4 4QJ

Project Description:

Hyperconverged infrastructures and virtualisation are at Communications Service Providers (CSP) centre of attention for the architecture of future Data Centres, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. Compute, storage and network become commoditised resources that are dynamically provisioned on demand and at scale to meet the Service-Level Agreement (SLAs) of customers. Multi-tenancy and multiple resource controlling authorities increase the complexity of SLA management. This project aims to develop cost-effective analytical performance models coupled with innovative optimization methods to dynamically manage and tune communication resource allocation in order to improve the performance and service of future Internet.

The student will first study the emerging telecommunication technologies: Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) that are regarded as promising and viable solutions for addressing many grand challenges faced by future 5G networks. The student will then investigate state-of-the-art network architecture for Future Internet and develop cost-effective analytical models to evaluate the network performance. Innovative multiple-objective optimization methods will be developed and integrated with the new analytical models to dynamically manage and tune resource allocation in order to achieve SLA guarantees and maximize resource utilization in multi-tenancy communication networks. New solutions will be integrated with BT testbed to investigate their viability.

The student will be jointly supervised by the academic supervisor at University of Exeter and the industrial partner at British Telecommunications.

Contact for informal enquiries: For more information about the project and informal enquiries, please contact the primary supervisor, Professor Geyong Min (http://people.exeter.ac.uk/gm321/)