[Job] RWTH Aachen - HIWI job offer for the Mobile ACcess project

[rene.hummen]

Motivation
The Distributed Systems Group at RWTH Aachen (http://ds.cs.rwth-aachen.de) is actively developing software for large-scale Wi-Fi systems. The goal of the project „Mobile ACcess“ is to provide ubiquitous, cheap, and fast wireless Internet access in the city center of Aachen. The basic concept of the network is to form a municipal Wi-Fi network on the basis of independent and privately or commercially operated access points. In this project, our focus is on communication protocols that provide a common network layer for this Wi-Fi network. We maintain a prototype implementation that connects mobile devices, wireless routers, and servers in the network.

Mobile ACcess is a joint project between seven institutions from industry and academia. Among these institutions are the Fraunhofer Institute FIT, LANCOM Systems, regioIT, and the cities of Aachen and Monschau. Moreover, we maintain a close collaboration with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT in Finland. For more information on the project visit http://www.mobile-access.org.

Job Description
- You will be working with a team of young researchers and research students.
- You will help to develop, test, optimize, and maintain communication software and protocols.
- You will work with a number of Linux-based embedded communication platforms: Maemo 5 (Nokia N900), Android, and wireless Access Points based on OpenWRT.
- You will work in a Linux environment with C as well as Shell scripting.
- Your work will be very practical and you will have the chance to get deep insights in many useful techniques and tools.
- You will help to evolve a long-term project (the project began in 2007).
- You will have the opportunity to learn the practical aspects of your studies in the area of mobile communication systems and distributed systems.
- You will have flexible working hours (9 or 19 hrs per week).

Requirements
- You are self-motivated, ambitious, and reliable.
- You are experienced with Linux and/or BSD network programming.
- You are a skilled programmer with C and scripting background.
- We appreciate if you have some experience in using software development tools like svn, gdb, bzr, automake, etc.
- And most importantly: You are interested in protocol engineering and network design.

About us
- We are a kind and ambitious team of young scientists and students.
- We like coding, network protocols, and good coffee

Please send your applications (just an informal statement about your skills and qualifications, e.g. courses and labs taken) to Tobias Heer at heer@cs.rwth-aachen.de.

See you,
René Hummen