# Master thesis: Key-Value Cache Management in Mobile Networks

Join our Team About this opportunity: The key-value (KV) cache is a core optimization in transformer-based models. It accelerates token generation by reusing previously computed information instead of repeating the same computations. Much of the existing research assumes fixed hardware and communication conditions. Mobile networks are dynamic: wireless links vary with fading and interference, congestion affects latency, and users move between base stations. During handovers, accumulated session state may need to be transferred or rebuilt. This thesis will investigate KV cache management in mobile networks, considering user mobility, concurrent users, and wireless channel conditions. What you will do: The project will move from literature review to testbed development and systematic evaluation: Review the literature: Examine KV cache management for LLM inference, including load balancing, quantization and compression, prefix caching, and prefix-cache-aware request routing. Build a testbed: Simulate realistic mobile-network conditions, including time-varying wireless links, fading, interference, throughput and latency variation, congestion, user mobility, and handovers between base

- **Id**: 3435508
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ericsson-master-thesis-key-value-cache-management-in-mobile-networks>
- **Role**: Early Careers
- **Role family**: Early Careers
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Countries**: SE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-19T08:14:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T19:06:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 78
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2587
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mobile Networks, Telecom Infrastructure, Network Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 56456
- **Name**: Ericsson
- **Domain**: ericsson.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ericsson>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 114
- **Ghost share**: 0.026
- **Stale share**: 0.509
- **Repost share**: 0.096
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 35
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **Git** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 78

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T02:42:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.348
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 77
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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