Patents Assigned to INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
  • Publication number: 20170195052
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for transmission over optical fiber (130) with mode or core scrambling. The system comprises a spatio-temporal encoder (110) and a plurality of modulators (1251, . . . , 125n) associated, respectively, with separate propagation modes or cores of said fiber, each modulator modulating a laser beam. Said fiber comprises a plurality of slices (1301, . . . , 130L), an amplifier (140l) being provided between any two consecutive slices of the optical fiber. A mode scrambler (150l) is associated with each amplifier in order to perform a permutation of said modes between at least two consecutive slices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Elie AWWAD, Ghaya REKAYA-BEN OTHMAN, Yves JAOUEN
  • Publication number: 20170187445
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder (10) for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, the signal carrying information symbols selected from a given set of values and being associated with a signal vector, the transmission channel being represented by a channel matrix. The decoder comprises : a sub-block division unit (12) configured to divide the received signal vector into a set of sub-vectors in correspondence with a division of a matrix related to said channel matrix ; at least one weighting coefficient calculation unit (14) configured to calculate a sub-block weighting coefficient for each sub-vector, at least one symbol estimation unit (11) for recursively determining estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the data signal from information stored in a stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Mohamed-Achraf KHSIBA, Ghaya REKAYA BEN-OTHMAN, Asma MEJRI
  • Publication number: 20170187433
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder for decoding a signal represented by a vector of information symbols received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said the transmission system being represented by a channel state matrix, said information symbols being selected from a given set of values carrying a set of information bits, wherein said decoder comprises: a division unit (202) configured to divide the channel state matrix into a number of sub-blocks of column vectors, in accordance with a division of said vector of information symbols into a number of sub-vectors; a permutation unit (203) configured to determine a set of permuted channel state matrices by permuting said sub-blocks of column vectors, the permutation unit (203) being further configured to select at least one permuted channel state matrix among said set of permuted channel state matrices according to a selection criterion; a sub-block decoding unit (207) configured to determine a transformed signal from said
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Mohammed-Achraf KHSIBA, Ghaya REKAYA BEN-OTHMAN, Asma MEJRI
  • Publication number: 20170187432
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder for decoding a data signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said transmission channel being represented by an upper triangular matrix, said signal carrying transmitted symbols, each symbol carrying a set of information bits, wherein said decoder comprises: a processing unit (213) configured to determine at least one sub-block decoding parameter given a target quality of service metric; A sub-block decoding unit (214) configured to divide said data signal into a number of sub-vectors based on said at least one sub-block decoding parameter in accordance with a division of said upper triangular matrix into a number of sub-matrices, said sub-block decoding unit (214) being further configured to determine at least one estimate of each sub-vector of transmitted symbols from said sub-vectors, and determine an estimate of the transmitted symbols from said estimates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Asma MEJRI, Mohammed-Achraf KHSIBA, Ghaya REKAYA BEN-OTHMAN
  • Publication number: 20170149932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for managing packets in a network of Information Centric Networking (ICN) nodes (1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e), the method comprising:—at a first node (1), performing steps of: ? Receiving a request (i) for a data packet (C), and if the data packet (C) is stored, responding to the request (i) by forwarding the data packet (C); otherwise ? sending to at least one neighboring node (2a, 2b) of the network a request (i?) for meta-data packets (@), a meta-data packet (@) indicating availability of said data packet (C) at a target node; ? receiving in response at least one meta-data packet (@), so as to identify at least one target node (2c, 2e) wherein said data packet (C) is available; ? forwarding the request (i) for said data packet (C) toward one selected target node (2c);—at a second node (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e), performing steps of: ? Receiving a request (i?) for meta-data packets (@), and if the data packet (C) is stored, responding to the request (i?) by forwarding a meta-da
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Institut Mines-Telecom
    Inventors: Dario Rossi, Giuseppe Rossini
  • Publication number: 20170149533
    Abstract: There is provided a decoder for sequentially decoding a data signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said data signal carrying transmitted symbols, said decoder comprising a symbol estimation unit (301) configured to determine estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the received signal from information stored in a stack, said symbol estimation unit (301) being configured to iteratively fill the stack by expanding child nodes of a selected node of a decoding tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the decoding tree corresponding to a candidate component of a symbol of said data signal and each node being assigned a metric, the stack being filled at each iteration with a set of expanded child nodes and being ordered by increasing values of the metrics assigned to the nodes, the selected node for each iteration corresponding to the node being assigned the lowest metric in the stack, the decoder comprising a metric determination unit (302
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Asma MEJRI, Mohammed-Achraf KHSIBA, Ghaya REKAYA BEN-OTHMAN
  • Publication number: 20170141788
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provides a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal carrying information symbols selected from a given alphabet and being associated with a signal vector, said transmission channel being represented by a channel matrix, wherein said decoder comprises: a sub-block division unit (301) configured to divide the received signal vector into a set of sub-vectors in correspondence with a division of a matrix related to said channel matrix; a candidate set estimation unit (305) for recursively determining candidate estimates of sub-blocks of the transmitted signal corresponding to said sub-vectors, each estimate of a given sub-block being determined from at least one candidate estimate of the previously processed sub-blocks, wherein said candidate set estimation unit is configured to determine a set of candidate estimates for at least one sub-block of the transmitted signal by applying at least one iteration of a decodi
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Mohamed-Achraf KHSIBA, Ghaya REKAYA BEN-OTHMAN, Asma MEJRI
  • Patent number: 9584576
    Abstract: The disclosed method for coding data includes the exchange between the transmitter and the receiver, in the course of the session, of attributes of collaboration messages that are able to be used in said session and of indices associated with these attributes. In various implementations, the attributes and their indices may be used by these pieces of equipment for updating a shared dictionary of indexed attributes. Upon coding, the attributes of the collaboration messages may be substituted with their indices; and upon decoding, the inverse operation may be carried out. The shared dictionaries may be destroyed at the end of the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignees: PROLOGUE, INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: James Iain Marshall, Petru Mihai Mitrea, Bojan Joveski, Ludovico Gardenghi, Jacqueline Françoise Preteux
  • Publication number: 20170054627
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ICN router (1), comprising a first cache layer (L1) and a second cache layer (L2), the first cache layer (L1) comprising a first content memory (11) and the second cache layer (L2) comprising a second content memory (21), the second content memory (21) having a higher capacity but a slower access speed than the first content memory (11), the router (1) being configured so that the first cache layer (L1) is adapted to fetch data from second cache layer (L2) when the router (1) is requested to output said data, characterized in that the first content memory (11) presents a first block size and the second content memory (21) presents a second block size, the second block size being higher that the first block size, the first content memory (11) comprising a swap area (110) through which the first content memory (11) is connected to the second content memory (21), the swap area (110) being adapted for individually serving blocks at the first block size as parts of blocks at the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Dario ROSSI, Giuseppe ROSSINI, Emilio LEONARDI, Michele GARETTO
  • Publication number: 20160359378
    Abstract: A device for converting radio-frequency energy into DC current, receiving at least one radio-frequency signal at input and generating at output a DC current capable of powering at least one load. The device has at least two conversion stages, each including: a radio-frequency filtering module, connected to a first input node of the conversion stage, configured to filter the radio-frequency signal; a voltage shift module, connected between a second input node of the conversion stage, the radio-frequency filtering module and an intermediate node of the conversion stage, configured to shift a voltage present at the first input node to the intermediate node; a voltage rectifier module, connected between the intermediate note, the second input node and an output node of the conversion stage, configured to rectify the voltage of the intermediate node and deliver a rectified voltage on the output node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Institut Mines Telecom
    Inventors: Veronique Kuhn, Fabrice Seguin, Cyril Lahuec, Christian Person
  • Publication number: 20160269270
    Abstract: System for testing a protocol, which is active on an item of equipment, testing system including a monitor to continuously capture traces, corresponding to sequences of messages of protocol under test, a filter of the traces captured using formalized properties of the demands of protocol under test, to separate the traces into data and control parts, a temporary storage, and transfer module to transfer the filtered traces to a tester so as to emit verdicts by verifying whether the traces satisfy the demands of the formalized properties of the protocol under test, in the event of saturation of the tester leading to the emission of a notification of load, the transfer module interrupts the transfer of filtered traces to the tester and stores the traces at least partially in the temporary storage, particularly only their control parts, before resuming the transfer of filtered traces when the tester is again available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM/TELECOM SUDPARIS
    Inventors: Stéphane MAAG, Xiaoping CHE
  • Publication number: 20160162706
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for processing geolocation data, including the implementation, by means for processing data from a server, of the steps of: (a) transmitting a geolocation request to a mobile terminal including geolocation means; (b) receiving geolocation data from the mobile terminal; (c) associating said geolocation data with a unique identifier, itself associated with the mobile terminal, in a database stored in data storage means; (d) receiving a geolocation request transmitted by an application server, the request including said unique identifier associated with the mobile terminal; (e) generating and sending, to the application server, a response to the request depending on the geolocation data associated with the unique identifier in said data base, and on the rules associated with the application server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Institut Mines-Télécom
    Inventors: Antonino Famulari, Thomas Bonald
  • Publication number: 20160104933
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compact multi-level antenna including: a ground plane; a radiating element including n?2 portions extending in n?2 parallel planes in a planar pattern, the planes defining a volume above the ground plane, the radiating element including a first end connected to the ground plane and a second end ending with an open circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: Institut Mines Telecom/Telecom Bretagne
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Coupez
  • Patent number: 9294146
    Abstract: A transmitter for an optical telecommunication system on a weakly multimode fiber is disclosed. One aspect is a transmitter including an encoder transforming each block of symbols to be transmitted into a code matrix, each element of the matrix being relative to a time of use and to a propagation mode of the weakly multimode fiber. The transmitter can include a plurality of modulators respectively associated with the different propagation modes, each modulator modulating a laser beam during a time of use. Each modulator can modulate a laser beam by use of an element of the corresponding matrix, the elements of the matrix of the code being subjected beforehand to an OFDM modulation upstream of said modulators. Each of the modulated beams can be input into the weakly multimode fiber to propagate therein according to a separate mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Institut Mines-Telecom
    Inventors: Sami Mumtaz, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Yves Jaouen
  • Patent number: 9235805
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a decision-support system and method for providing with a score an object represented by a target item from a multidimensional space, said score being representative of the probability that the object satisfies a given binary property. The method and/or decision support-system may be performed in a computer environment comprising processing means connected to memory means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: Institut Mines-Télécom, Ecole Normale Superieure De Cachan
    Inventors: Stephan Clemencon, Nicolas Vayatis
  • Publication number: 20150381969
    Abstract: A system for displaying N multimedia streams, including multiple pairs of viewing spectacles and a displaying medium. The system obtains N multimedia streams, each stream including two multimedia substreams among 2×N multimedia substreams, and has N sources generating the 2×N substreams on the displaying medium. Each source has an encoder for coding two of the 2×N multimedia substreams, each substream being coded with a set of N coding modes each using a specific set of at least two states, having at least 2N possible combinations of states, each substream being coded with one of the possible combinations of states in order to visualize a given stream from the N multimedia stream. At least one pair spectacles includes a decoder for decoding, for each eyepiece, one of the substreams of the given stream and having N decoding modes corresponding to the N coding modes used for coding the substreams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicants: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM, EYES TRIPLE SHUT
    Inventors: Jean-Louis De Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, Emmanuel Daniel, Laurent Dupont, Daniel Stoenescu, Frederic Lucarz
  • Patent number: 9003178
    Abstract: A method of checking and protecting data and identities within a communication or computing process between at least one author and at least one recipient comprises at least: a step of allocation by an anonymization authority of one and the same stamp forming a cryptonymic marking, to one or to several different authors and to their objects; a step of inserting said stamp into the communication or computing protocol associated with the data stream, by means of a stamp system, the protocol containing the identity of said author or of said object of the author or authors, and each author being able moreover to simultaneously have a plurality of different cryptonyms; a step of reading, at at least one recipient, of said protocol by means of a reading system able to detect the presence of said stamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Institut Mines-Telecom
    Inventors: Philippe Laurier, Michel Riguidel
  • Patent number: 8959592
    Abstract: A method of securing and controlling data and identities within a communication process between an author and at least one recipient comprises at least: inserting at least one stamp in the computer or communication protocol associated with the data stream by means of a stamping system, the protocol containing the identity of the author, said stamp being a distinctive sign and a sign of recognition and a means of access to a secured account; the author using said secured account, administered by an anonymization authority, and said stamp being used to identify itself with said authority; the data stream comprising at least one instruction; at least one additional instruction having been registered with the anonymization authority and placed in the secured account; reading, at least one recipient, of said protocol by means of a reading system capable of detecting the presence of said stamp and then in extracting all or part of the additional instruction from the anonymization authority or from the secured accou
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Institut Mines-Telecom
    Inventors: Prénoms Phillippe Laurier, Michel Riguidel
  • Publication number: 20140314410
    Abstract: A transmitter for an optical telecommunication system on a weakly multimode fiber is disclosed. One aspect is a transmitter including an encoder transforming each block of symbols to be transmitted into a code matrix, each element of the matrix being relative to a time of use and to a propagation mode of the weakly multimode fiber. The transmitter can include a plurality of modulators respectively associated with the different propagation modes, each modulator modulating a laser beam during a time of use. Each modulator can modulate a laser beam by use of an element of the corresponding matrix, the elements of the matrix of the code being subjected beforehand to an OFDM modulation upstream of said modulators. Each of the modulated beams can be input into the weakly multimode fiber to propagate therein according to a separate mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Sami Mumtaz, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Yves Jaouen
  • Publication number: 20140219295
    Abstract: The disclosed method for coding data includes the exchange between the transmitter and the receiver, in the course of the session, of attributes of collaboration messages that are able to be used in said session and of indices associated with these attributes. In various implementations, the attributes and their indices may be used by these pieces of equipment for updating a shared dictionary of indexed attributes. Upon coding, the attributes of the collaboration messages may be substituted with their indices; and upon decoding, the inverse operation may be carried out. The shared dictionaries may be destroyed at the end of the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicants: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM, PROLOGUE
    Inventors: James Iain Marshall, Petru Mihai Mitrea, Bojan Joveski, Ludovico Gardenghi, Jacqueline Françoise Preteux