Innovative and connected digital services exploiting the capabilities of private 5G networking in a university campus context - 2025_CDR_DEIB_15

Position: Post-doctoral research contract Institute: Polytechnic of Milano
Posted on: 29/01/2026 Deadline: 02/03/2026

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

09/IINF-03 - Telecommunications

Description

The research activity of this contract aims to study, design and test a networking environment to provide innovative high-performance connected services in a university campus context and based on a private 5G network. The person in charge will have to focus on two particular usecases: - Connection of intelligent terminals at trade fair events: o Connecting remote peer-to-peer and booth-to-cloud booths for advanced services (e.g. video streaming, virtual reality) o Using SD-WAN networking technology - 360-degree live-streaming from cameras for sporting and conference events: o 360° cameras to generate high-quality video streams transmitted over private 5G network o Output to YouTube format for VR headsets Experiments will be carried out with sub-6 and millimeter 5G, collaborating with the research groups of the Politecnico di Milano and Vodafone involved in 5G-CRESCA.

Number of positions

1

Funding body

Politecnico di Milano