Teaching

Since October 2007, I have been teaching at UVSQ for at least 192h per year (all teaching is dedicated to Masters level courses). I also regularly intervene in Telecom ParisTech (French top level engineering school) for various professional training courses and ARS (Architecture Réseaux et Sécurité) advanced master. I also teach in M2 ANO of Paris-Saclay University.

For all courses listed next, I directly elaborated the contents (lectures and exercises). All course volumes are annual.

• Network Dimensioning and performance evaluation: Modélisation for Masters students (M1 IRS UVSQ), Réseaux Télécom 1 for second year engineering students (ISTY UVSQ) and at Télécom ParisTech (ARS advanced masters).

  • The program is given below:

  • Exponential Distribution.

  • Poisson Processes.

  • Markov Chains and Processes.

  • Queues

  • Queuing Networks (Jackson, Whittle, Kelly networks).

  • Circuit Traffic

  • Real-time Traffic (Packet-level model, flow-level model, multi-rate model, etc.) Elastic Traffic (Bandwidth sharing, congestion rate, mean throughput, etc.)

  • Network Performance (IP access networks, 2G mobile networks, 3G and 3.5G mobile networks, WiFi access networks)

• Broadband access networks: Architecture des Réseaux Télécom for Masters students (M1 IRS UVSQ), Architecture des réseaux for second year engineering students (ISTY UVSQ) and at Télécom ParisTech (Evolution des réseaux d’accès en Formation

• continue).

  • The program is given below:

    • Wireline Broadband Access:

    • · PSTN with SONET, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) technologies, and the older PDH technology.

    • · Integrated Services for Digital Network (ISDN)

    • · Introduction to Fiber Optic Broadband Access Networks and Technologies (Fiber in the Loop (FITL), PON systems, IEEE Passive Optical Networks, WDMA PON)

    • · Hybrid Fiber Access Technologies (Evolution of DOCSIS (Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification) to Passive Optical Networks)

    • · DSL Technology – Broadband via Telephone Lines

    • Wireless Broadband Access:

    • · Air Interface Fundamentals: Duplexing Techniques, Frequency-Division Duplex, Time-Division Duplex,

    • Physical Layer Concepts (diversity, Channel coding, Interleaving, MIMO), Access Technology Concepts (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDM, MAC Protocols), Cross-Layer Algorithms (Link Adaptation, Channel-Dependent Scheduling, ARQ/HARQ)

    • IEEE 802.16 and WiMAX Systems

    • WiFi: IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN

    • 2G: the GSM (Global System for Mobile) network, the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network and the EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) evolution;

    • 3G: the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network and the HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) evolutions.

    • 4G: LTE and LTE-Advanced.

• QoS in IP Networks: Qualité de service dans les réseaux IP for Masters students (M2 COSY UVSQ ), in Réseaux Télécom 2 for third year engineering students (ISTY UVSQ) and at Télécom ParisTech (ARS advanced masters).

  • The program is given below:

  • QoS requirements and Service Level agreements (Goals of QoS, Statistical multiplexing, attributes of QoS: delay, jitter, loss, etc.)

  • QoS functions, features and Architectures

  • Classification, Marking, Conditioning, Shaping, Policing

  • Scheduling: various algorithms (PQ, FQ, WFQ, WRR, deficit WRR)

  • Differentiated Services Model (DiffServ) (types of DSCP, PHB, DiffServ

  • Networks, applications: IP over ATM, UMTS)

  • Integrated Services (IntServ) Model (Various types of services -Guaranteed Services, Controlled Load Services, Best Effort- and the RSVP protocol)

  • MPLS QoS (MPLS, OSPF-TE, RSVP-TE, explicit routing, DiffServ-TE etc.), MPLS Fast rerouting, IP/MPLS VPN

• Game Theory applied to wireless networks: La théorie des jeux appliquée aux réseaux sans fil for Masters students (M2 COSY UVSQ), in Réseaux Télécom 2 for third year engineering students (ISTY UVSQ).

  • The program is given below:

    • Introduction to non-cooperative game theory

    • Static Games (Static Games in Strategic Form, Iterated Dominance, Nash

    • Equilibrium, Mixed strategies, Efficiency of Nash Equilibria and Equilibrium

    • Selection, Pareto Optimality).

    • Dynamic Games (Extensive Form with Perfect Information, Backward

    • Induction, Extensive Form with Imperfect Information, Subgame-Perfect Equilibria)

    • Repeated Games (Nash Equilibria in Finite-Horizon Games, Infinite-Horizon

    • Games with Discounting, The Folk Theorem)

    • Random Access games and Medium Access Control Design.

    • Power Control games.

    • Radio Access Technology games.

    • Inter-cell interference coordination games.

• Security in IP networks: Sécurité des réseaux for Masters students (M2 IRS UVSQ), third year engineering students (ISTY UVSQ) and at Télécom ParisTech (La sécurité IP en Formation continue).

  • The program is given below:

    • Introduction to security: evolution, terminologies, fundamentals …etc.

    • Attacks on IP networks

    • Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography: encryption/decryption, keys, certificates …

    • Security mechanisms: cryptography, engineering, steganography, etc.

    • Application security: viruses, malware propagation.

    • Security tools: Firewalls, honey pots, IDS, etc.

    • Main security protocols: IPSec, SSL/TLS, SSH, AAA (Radius and Diameter), security in WiFi (WEP, WPA, WPA2) and mobile xG networks.