Telecom Bretagne

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Telecom Bretagne

• A graduate Engineering School and a Research
  Centre in the field of science and information
  technologies

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Western coast of France
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Member of a leading institution Institut
TELECOM

• The main French institution for research in the
  field of information technology
• 600 research-lecturers
• 800 PhD students and post doctoral fellows
• 1 570 scientific publications /year
• The largest French centre for training engineers
  in information technology
• 5 000 students
• 250 innovative start-ups in the IT area since
  2000
• 5 incubator units
• Member of Université européenne de Bretagne

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3 schools of engineering 1 business
school 4 associated schools EURECOM and
Telecom Lille 1, Telecom Saint Étienne and ENSPS
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Telecom Bretagne resources
354 staff on 4 sites
Budget of 38 M 70 State grant (Ministry of
Industry)
Director André Chomette
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5 types of degree course 1160 students

• Master of engineering
• 250 3rd year students
• Post Master Professional Certificate
• 141 students
• MSc
• 60 students
• PhD
• 200 students

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Allocation of the 1160 students by degree
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487 Foreign Students at TELECOM Bretagne in
2008-2009

• 264 Master of Engineering students
• 36 Post Master Professional Certificate
  students
• 59 MSc students
• 128 PhD students
• 49 foreign students/ 53 nationalities
• On French campuses

Nationalities gt 5 élèves
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106 students on 4 off-shore campuses

• Vietnam
• Master of Engineering PFIEV 18 students
• Morocco
• Post Master Professional Certificate 44 students
• Web technologies Systems, Services and Security
  
• Mexico
• Post Master Professional Certificate16 students
• Networks and Information Systems for Industry
• Syria
• Post Master Professional Certificate28 students
• Advanced Engineering in Telecommunications

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5 MSc (dedicated to foreign students)

• Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering
• Computer Science and Mathematics
• Design and Engineering of Convergent
  Communication Networks
• Biomedical Information Engineering
• Information and Communication Technology in
  Transportation Systems (New in 2009)

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The Fondation TELECOM

• Programs structured around four main themes
• Training, research, innovation and foresight
• Funding International Scholarship
• to recruit the best students abroad
• Chairs teaching-research
• Equipment projects
• For research and teaching

Some programmes First, for students with high
potential Futur et Ruptures for prospective
Innovation, for entrepreneurship and
Technology Watch
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Research centre of the highest level

• 350 researchers (full time professors, on
  contract researchers and PhD students)
• 4 Research laboratories
• Foton (CNRS) for optical communications
• Latim(INSERM) for medical information processing
• Labsticc(CNRS)  for communications systems
  development and information processing
• Marsouin for internet applications
• Marconi Prize 2005 (turbocodes)
• SPIE Award 2006 (optics)
• Inserm Prize 2006 (Medical Imagery)
• One representative at the French Académie des
  sciences

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3 structures from fundamental research to
industrial applications
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The internal research organization by department
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Laboratories for scientific cooperation
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Platforms for industrial applications
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Mathematics and Signal Processing
Acoustic transmission between undersea vehicle
and surface ship

• Parametric Modeling
• High Order Statistics
• Wavelet Transform
• Voice and Audio Processing
• Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing (Sismic,
  Tomography)
• Multi user detection
• Multi receiver processing
• More

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Information Theory Coding

• Forward error correction
• Coded modulation
• Turbo codes (block and convolutional)
• Turbo detection
• Joint source channel coding
• space-time coding and MIMO systems
• New applications for Turbo Codes
• Image watermarking, QoS on networks
• Data storage, Optical transmission

MIMO SystemsIncrease channel capacity and
transmission reliability
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Physics Electronics

• Skills interacting in 2 domains
• Algorithms (Digital communications)
• Circuit design (? Circuit Algorithm Interaction)

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Physics optics
Engineering composite polymer liquid crystals
Holo-PDLC based switch. (Polymer dispersed
Liquid crystal)
Anti-ferroelectric Liquid crystal waveplate with
rotatable electric field.
Tunable filter
Photonic Liquid Crystals
Liquid crystals Polymer matrix
Liquid crystal filled 3D polymer structure
Programmable partially reflecting mirror.
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Physics microwaves
MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES INTO

• LOW COST ANTENNA ARRAYS
• MICROWAVES COMPUTATIONS
• MICROWAVE MATERIALS AND DEVICE ENGINEERING

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Physics Microwaves

• Microwaves modeling and simulation
• Development of new numerical procedures
• Electromagnetic simulators
• Material modeling
• On-site validation of complex RF functions
• Foam technology
• Photolithography
• Device assembly
• Wide range of applications GNSS, EMC, ITS, body
  exposure

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Systems on chips and networks on chips

• Develop novel architectures for system
  integration of turbo communication applications
  using recent design approaches
• Digital circuit design
• Application-specific optimizations
  Architecture-Algorithm
• Multiprocessor SoC architectures

High throughput, reconfiguration, performance,
flexibility, scalability
System-level design tools FPGA prototyping System-
on-Chip Network-on-Chip (ELEC-RSM)
TurboConceptFrance TelecomThomsonUEB TUA,
Polito,
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Optical functions
Dynamic functions for the optical network
(Flexibility and transparency requirements)
PC

• Gain equaliser (DGE)
• blocker (DCE)
• Alcatel-Optogone

Polarisation control RNRT-Copoldyn EU-Craft
Hispocon
OXC 84 ports RNRT-Cristo ANVAR-Optogone
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Optical networks
Optical network scaling and characterisation
A. Characterisation of WDM transmission
components and modules
Tool 2 Simulators (VPI TM)
C. Optical network trends strategies

• Introduction of optical transparency.
• Routing nodes architecture.
• Optimal hybrid network mapping.

OPTOGONE SAGEM
Tool 1 Test bench _at_ 10 Gbit/s
Optical circuits networks. (RNRT/RYTHME)
Optical packet networks. (RNRT/ROMEO)

• PMD processing
• Metro WDM ring design
• Modulation techniques

B. Optical transmission link engineering.
(point-to-point)
ALCATEL SAGEM
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Network Security

• Security models and security-based languages
• Intrusion detection
• Alert correlation and response
• Anormaly detection with PCA (Principal Component
  Analysis)
• Security analysis and validation
• Security property specification and verification
• Security policy refinement
• Member of the GIS SSI (with Supelec and Inria
  Grand Ouest in Rennes)

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Networks Protocols and Architectures

• Mainly focused on Home networking
• Interworking with operator networks (reliability,
  scalability, IMS)
• Protocols and performance of access networks
• Header compression
• Service differentiation

Internet
Access Provider

• IPv6 protocol
• Auto-configuration, multi-homing, security, QoS
• Performance of transport protocols
• Pricing
• Routing and QoS
• Network on chip

Wifi
ETH
Router
Decoder
Optical Fiber
Box
Wifi
ETH
Electrical network
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Traffic Engineering for access/metro
Mobile network GPRS, UMTS
HUB
HUB
Metropolitan Area Network
Wi-Fi
FTTx EPON or GPON Point-to-Point fiber
GbE
MAC protocols Performance Evaluation Dimensioning
WiMax/WIFI
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Network and service engineering

• Dynamic network and service engineering
• Keywords IP traffic engineering, metrology,
  network and service architecture, web services
  security
• Multimedia Telecom Service Architectures
• Keywords Telecom architecture, UMTS,
  multimedia, adaptability

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Service Engineering dynamic policies
Policy composition user/service type SLA
based Policy enforcement for SIP communications
DGE Companyma_at_ages Project
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Radio Resource and Mobility management in
wireless networks

• Radio resource allocation
• Power control, scheduling for 3G-4G systems
  (UMTS, WiMax)
• Medium access control and routing for ad-hoc and
  sensor networks
• Mobility management
• IPv6 mobility With/without network oriented
  control, Secured mobility, Fast handover

• Multiple access-networks (Always Best Connected)
  Multiple interface and decision process,
  Multihoming benefits
• Network mobility (NEMO)

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Applications of radiofrequency technologies
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Information processing for ocean and environment
Studies and research topics linked to Sensors
utilization
Oil slick detection (SAR)

• SAR linked to ocean issues
• (satellite or airborne remote sensing),
• Sonar remote sensing
• (environment characterization and sea bottom
  modelization, classification, identification, ),
• Underwater signal processing
• Labsticc

Sounder multi beams (bottom nature
identification )
Sonar interferometric reconstruction
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Image and Information for Health
Two main research topics based on information and
knowledge

• Dynamic shapes in medical imaging
• extraction and analysis of biomedical shapes for
  structures and functions quantification
• Medical image indexing and similarity studies
• for multimedia data and medical knowledge bases
  structuring (Latim)

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Innovative applications for physically impaired
persons

• Keywords visual impairment, physical
  impairment, elderly persons, home adaptation,
  intelligent home

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Economics, business studies, law and sociology

• Industrial economics firm location and IT,
  economics of the Internet
• Sociology usage of IT in social contexts
• Business studies information systems and
  organizations
• Law telecommunications regulation, privacy
  European studies

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An Internet usage observatory

• An original organization (M_at_rsouin)
• a network of 7 universities and research centres
  in Brittany, supported by the Breton Regional
  Council,
• which yearly surveys the diffusion of IT among
  SMEs and citizens
• which sets up an evaluation methodology for the
  public initiatives (telemedicine, access in
  public buildings to Internet)
• which analyzes the social impact of human,
  machine interaction, e.g. influence of colour,
  music on the perception of Web site and on
  in-line buying, communities of e.g. fishermen,
  craftmen, students and new technologies.

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Actions in favour of a sustainable development

• We are committed to
• Reducing our ecological footprint
• Controlling our expenditure
• Familiarizing our students with issues
• surrounding sustainable development
• Making our premises accessible to people with
  disabilities
• Promoting equality of opportunity for staff and
  students

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Thank you for your attention

• Contact Pr Marie-Catherine Mouchot
• Head of Communications
• Telecom Bretagne
• mc.mouchot_at_telecom-bretagne.eu