Open PhD and master thesis positions

I'm looking for two PhD and several master thesis students for an EC-funded research project* within the following areas:

• End-to-End multimedia architectures within content- and context-aware networks
  
• In-network adaptation of Scalable Video Coding (SVC), transcoding, and multicasting
  
• Quality of Service and Quality of Multimedia Experience

Requirements: Basic knowledge in the areas above, ability to work on your own, flexibility, and high motivation to work in a friendly atmosphere
Project duration: 3 years (PhD)
Start: PhD (approx. end of 2009/beginning of 2010), master thesis (early 2010)

For questions or in case you are interested, please contact me at christian(dot)timmerer(at)itec(dot)uni-klu(dot)ac(dot)at (please replace (at) by @ and (dot) by .). Also, please distribute this to people you think they might be interested - THANK YOU!

* the project is in challenge 1 (Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures Strategic) and objective ICT 2009.1.5 Networked media & 3D Internet