Research at ESIEE Engineering  >  Telecommunications

The scientific skills developed within the Telecommunications Department cover a multidisciplinary approach to electronics (RF, microwave, optical and digital), digital communications, wireless networks, signal processing and information theory.

Its research lecturers report mainly to:

• ESYCOM doctoral research team (EA2552) (Communication System and Microsystems) of the University of Paris-Est, which is shared by ESIEE Engineering, the UPEMLV and the CNAM

• Gaspard-Monge Computer Science Research Laboratory (LIGM), mixed research unit or UMR 8049 (CNRS / UPEMLV / ESIEE Engineering).

Research themes

The technology of digital radio communications and ambient intelligence are a common focus for the research themes explored by the Telecommunications Department:

• Mobile applications with distributed intelligence for mobility systems,
• Digital signal processing and information theory,
• Digital signal processing for digital communication chains,
• Reconfigurable transceiver architectures,
• RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) modelling and metrology,
• Materials, components, optical microsystems and microwave optics,
• MET (Modern Educational Technology) and e-learning.

Prioritised areas of application

The interdisciplinary research projects under development lead to several fields of application: mobility systems in urban environments for people with sensory impairment (visual or auditory), architectures and circuits for cognitive radio, software-defined radio platforms, photodetectors for very high-speed communications, microwave optics, mass optical storage, improvement in the performance of contactless identification systems, and source coding (word and image).

Partnerships

In its research activities, the Telecommunications Department has developed academic and industrial partnerships as well as with research institutes:

• Applied Optics Laboratory (LOA), Telecoms PARITECH, IETR (Rennes), ESIGETEL, Lebanese University, University of Brno (Czech Republic), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Craiova (Romania) and the University of Ulm (Germany).

• ATMEL, AXALTO, LUMIPLAN, NXP, SAGEM, ST-MICROELECTRONICS, THALES COMMUNICATIONS, THALES SYSTEMES AEROPORTES and TEXAS INSTRUMENTS.

• CEA-LETI AND INFLPR (National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania).

Prioritised technical platforms

The Telecommunications Department boasts several technological platforms for instrumentation and software environments: hyperfrequency measurements, digital radio communications, RFID, signal processing applications and wireless networks.

Milestones

Researchers from the Telecommunications Department are involved in several European (RETINA, SWANS, ERRL) or national (COCPIT, INFOMOVILLE, SRAMM) research projects.

On average, the department supervises 10 to 15 thesis students (CIFRE, DGA, MENR, etc.) every year, and participates in several scientific committees at international conferences (Text Speech and Dialog, IEEE EUROCON, IEEE RAWCON, JNM, etc.) and several peer-review panels for international journals (IEEE Trans. On Vehicular Technology, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. On Microwave Theory and Techniques, etc.)

Composition of the department

16 research lecturers, 2 engineers/technicians, 1 secretary and 12 thesis students