1.1. Presentation of the LTCI 1.

General information

tion and networking tasks with researches that range from the physical layer of information and
communication technology (electromagnetism, optical components) to performance evaluation of
large-scale communication systems, including works on mixed (analog and digital) signals or safety
against physical attacks or digital systems. The department hosts six teams of the LTCI:

– Circuits and Communication Systems (C2S), headed by Patricia Desgreys

– Digital Communications (ComNum), headed by Philippe Ciblat
– Optical Communications (GTO), headed by Yves Jaouen
– Systems on Chip (LabSoC), headed by Ludovic Aprville
– Radio-Frequencies, Micro and Millimeter Waves (RFM2 ), headed by Jean-Christophe Cousin
– Secure and Safe Hardware (SSH), headed by Jean-Luc Danger

The department remained with a structure of six teams along the 2013-2018 period. While
seven faculties left the department (temporary leave or retirement), six new faculties were hired.
Two new technical staff were engaged for the TTool platform (LabSoC team) and the SSH circuit
design team. Overall, the department reinforced its cyber-security domain with the SSH team
evolving from seven to ten people, while the optical communication team and the digital and mixed
signal team decreased by one position each. These changes are consistent with the socio-economical
evolution along the period. With the end of the UMR LTCI, the digital communication team
suffered from two CNRS leaves, partially compensated by one new Telecom ParisTech position,
and the optical communication team lost one CNRS researcher.
While maintaining a strong position in experimental research (1.3 M¤ in equipment purchased
in five years), a shift was also engaged towards an increase in abstraction, with new faculties
involved in Artificial Intelligence and with strong algorithmic background in the Digital Commu-
nications team and in the Optical Communications team.

Networks and Computer Science department (Gérard Memmi). The Networks and
Computer Science department (INFRES) is headed by Gérard Memmi and focuses, as the name
suggests, on various aspects of computer science (embedded and real time systems, data man-
agement and mining, Human-Computer interaction, cryptography . . .) with a strong emphasis on
networks (performance evaluation, network control and monitoring, design of innovative network
services). The department hosts seven LTCI teams:

– Autonomic and Critical Embedded Systems (ACES), headed by Laurent Pautet

– Cybersecurity for Communication and Networking (CCN), headed by Patrick Bellot
– Data, Intelligence and Graphs (DIG), headed by Albert Bifet
– Design, Interaction, Visualization and Applications (DIVA), headed by Eric Lecolinet
– Discrete Mathematics, Coding and Cryptography (MC2), headed by Hugues Randriambololona
– Quantum Information and Applications (IQA), headed by Isabelle Zaquine
– Network, Mobility and Services (RMS), headed by Philippe Martins

After the departure of the CNRS researchers (six in total), the Computer Science and Networks
department reshaped its organization into smaller and more focused teams; hence the creation of
DIVA in cooperation with researchers from the UMR i3 , hence the split of the security group
into a team focusing on cybersecurity and another team dedicated on the one hand to quantum
information and on the other hand to its applications.
The department is constantly developing a strategy of alliances, first with the other depart-
ments of LTCI, but also within the IMT cluster (IMT-Atlantique, Telecom SudParis, or Mines-
ParisTech) and many actors of Université Paris-Saclay (in order to prepare the move to Saclay).

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