Loughborough University is a top-ten rated university in England for research intensity (REF2014) and an outstanding 66% of the work of Loughborough’s academic staff who were eligible to be submitted to the REF was judged as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, compared to a national average figure of 43%. In choosing Loughborough for your research, you’ll work alongside academics who are leaders in their field. You will benefit from comprehensive support and guidance from our Doctoral College, including tailored careers advice, to help you succeed in your research and future career. This project aims to perform fundamental research in telecommunications networks, focusing on developing algorithms to control and analyse smart and large-scale networks such as smart cities, vehicular networks, and Internet-of-Things (IoT). Learning-based algorithms can enable the system to understand the network dynamism; forecast based on the context information, and proactively manages resources to achieve the network-level and user-level performance targets such as Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements, privacy and security constraints, and seamless mobility experience. This project also involves theory building to study the scalability, performance and stability of the learning-based algorithms in large-scale networks with unknowns and imperfections.