• Wireless Space Communications: Architectures and Protocols
• Wireless network planning, dimensioning and performance analysis
• Design of dense Satellite Constellations, including access scheme, interference management, data routing, network management, end-to-end performance simulations
• Link Budget design and analysis
• Wireless Physical, Link and Network Layers. Medium Access Control (MAC) policies, etc.
• Modulation Techniques and Digital Signal Processing
  
  Additional desirable expertise areas:
• IoT protocols: MQTT, COAP, ..
• IoT communications platforms: LoRa, SigFox, Mioty, ..
• 5G, 5G-NTN and NB-IoT technologies
• Low-level, embedded software development (C/C++) of complex, real-time, applications
• Satellite ground systems design, integration, deployment, and operations
• Digital and Analogue electronic hardware design
• Low-cost, low power, electronics design
• Solar powered circuits and designs.

REF: HS-ST-2023-03