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Thales advanced studies TAI Lab
FARID BENBADIS
UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE
NOVEMBER 23 RD 2015
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Markets we serve
DUAL MARKETS
Military & Civil
TRUSTED PARTNER FOR A SAFER WORLD
AEROSPACE SPACE GROUND DEFENCE SECURITY
TRANSPORTATION
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Organisation / Global Business Units and Business Lines
Defence Mission Systems
Above Water Systems Under Water Systems Electronic Combat Systems Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
Ground Transportation Systems
Rail Signalling for Main Lines Rail Signalling for Urban Rail
Integrated Communication & Supervision Systems
Revenue Collection Systems
Land & Air Systems
Surface Radar
Air Traffic Management Military Air Operations
Advanced Weapon Systems Missile Electronics
Optronics
Armament & Ammunition Protected Vehicles
Space
Telecom Observation, Exploration, Navigation
Secure Communications
& Information Systems
Radio Communication Products Information Technology Security Network & Infrastructure Systems Protection Systems
Critical Information Systems
Avionics
Commercial Avionics Military Avionics Helicopter Avionics In-Flight Entertainment Electrical Systems Training and Simulation
Microwave & Imaging Sub-Systems
EA
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Innovation in Thales
▌ R&D at Thales totals €2.2bn (18% of revenues)
▌ 25,000 researchers on cutting-edge technologies
▌ 300 inventions per year
▌ Over 15,000 patents
▌ Over 30 cooperation agreements with universities and public
▌ Research laboratories in Europe, the United States and
Asia
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The TAI Lab.
▌ Part of the Advanced Studies department
▌ Horizontal entity across Thales Communications & Security business lines
▌ In charge of devising the common system and software architectures and of evaluating the implementation frameworks
▌ The TAI laboratory feeds Thales with mid-term innovations
Networking
Cloud computing Security
▌ Select, design, implement and evaluate the candidate architectures
For mission-critical networked systems and applications Resilience and availability
Security
Deployment and reconfiguration
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Who we are: 4 main R&D topics
5G & Waveforms Future PMR architectures SDN/NFV
CRAN CRAN
Media server
Storage and analytics
Standard HW Internet
CyberSecurity
Cloud
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Future Professional Mobile Radio architectures
EPC
Waste of resource S1 link
Multicast is not possible
Not available for group calls over LTE (eMBMS only suitable for Video streaming)
Push-To-Talk Call server eNodeB
Video streaming
PMR specific Apps
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5G & Waveforms
Source
Destination
Relay
Lossless or Lossy
Lossy Lossless
or Lossy M1
M1
M2
M=M1+M2
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SDN/NFV network model
controller SDN
SDN = Software-Defined Networking
NFV = Network Function Virtualization
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Importance of prototyping
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The challenge…
▌ Is in bridging the gap between research projects and future products
Collaborative research projects - French ANR
- European projects - …
Products development strategies and targeted markets - Business lines
- Mid term products
Te c hno lo g y tra ns fe r
TRL 3 TRL 5
Phase de Recherche Phase de réduction de risques Phase Ingénierie
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Career opportunities
▌ TAI offers opportunities for careers in Thales
Advanced study researcher - Evolving with research topics - Technological transfer
- Patents, publications and collaborative projects
Specialized system engineer
- Transfered with technology to business lines Other opportunities within the group
- Management, Sales/Offers, Marketing
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2016 internship offers in the TAI lab
5G & Waveforms Future PMR architectures SDN/NFV
CRAN
CRAN
Media server
Storage and analytics
- NFV chaining & orchestration - NFV characterization
- DDoS mitigation in SDN - SDN switching
Internet
CyberSecurity
- GNU Radio MAC - Multipath Routing
- Cloudlets
- FeedSyncApps - HTTP over DTN - Traffic analysis - LTE 4G/5G
- Cloud distribué
Cloud
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How to proceed
▌ 1- Identify THE poposal
▌ 2- Contact directly the technical responsible (not the HR)
▌ 3- Technical interview
▌ 4- Feedback if positive
▌ 5- HR interview
▌ 6 – WELCOME !
Agree on starting date (Feb. 1st) ?
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… And after internship
▌ Opportunities for hiring ?
CIFRE Ph.D
TCS researcher
TCS engineer TS subcontractor
What about your career plans?
▌ Example case
UTT
- Engineer (SIT) / Master (TICOR)
Thales internship (Feb-Oct 2009) - Autonomic Networking
CIFRE PhD. thesis (Nov 2009-Oct 2012) - Flow-based Adaptive Forwarding
- Directors at UTT
Hired as Research Engineer (Nov 2012)
- LTE, SDN, …
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The environment
Sport facilities
Cristal campus, Gennevilliers
Parc des
Chantereines
[email protected]
TAI
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