Master's in Network and Telecommunication, Intelligent Communication Systems track

MASTER INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

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Objectives

The MSc MobCom aims at providing the theoretical background and the applied know-how for engineers in Mobile Communication Systems. 

The goal is to tackle the problems from a system viewpoint, taking a vertical cut and following a cross-layer design approach. This corresponds to both the most recent trend in research and to the most desired professional profile for engineers in this field. In fact, it is now well-recognized that problems related to physical layer transmission techniques (RF design, signal processing algorithms, channel coding and modulation), and upper layer protocols (link layer control, multiple-access, routing), that were traditionally treated in a separate fashion in wired networks, must be treated jointly in mobile communication networks. 

 

Environment

Sophia-Antipolis is considered as a major European region for telecommunications research and development in southern France. EURECOM, which is a consortium of academic and industrial partners, has established over the years a synergy with the local industrial environment on advanced research topics. 

During their Master of Science, students will benefit form the expertise of renowned industrial partners (Alcatel, Bouygues, SFR, France Télécom R&D, Philips, Thales, ST Microelectronics, Hitachi, Texas Instruments, IBM, BMW, SAP, Sharp, ESA) as well as the use of cutting edge technological platforms within EURECOM's Wireless Communication laboratory.

 Language of instruction : English

Awarded Degree: Master's degree fully recognized by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The degree is co-delivered by EURECOM and the INSTITUT MINES TELECOM (French leading consortium of the best Engineering Schools in France).The degree allows for further Phd Studies.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

To be eligible, Candidates need

• Bachelor's Degree (minimum 3 years of higher education) in a relevant field
• Strong foundation in mathematics
• Certified B2 level in English. Also, French classes will be compulsory during your stay at EURECOM, the obtention of a A2 certification being needed to obtain the degree.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

Students need to validate a certain amount of credits per Teaching Unit each semester. The curriculum offers great flexibility by offering many electrive courses. Please consult the Academic Schedule and the Frequently Asked Questions for more Information about the schedule organisation.

See the video presentation of the Master here

SEMESTER 7 - FALL (30 ECTS)  - September – February

Basics for Telecom			Unit ECTS: 10.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	MALIS	Machine Learning and Intelligent System	Weight: 0.50
T	MobSys	Mobile communication systems	Weight: 0.50
T	SysSec	System and Network Security	Weight: 0.50
Humanities and social sciences 1			Unit ECTS: 4.00 Min sum of Weight:
G	B_INNOV	DARE TO INNOVATE! HOW TO ADOPT THE RIGHT POSTURE AND MOVE FROM IDEA TO MARKET!	Weight: 1.00
G	CSE	The challenges of a sustainable economy	Weight: 0.50
G	ManagIntro	Introduction to management	Weight: 1.00
G	Property	Intellectual property law	Weight: 0.50
G	ResRI	Responsible Research and Innovation	Weight: 0.50
G	TeamLead	Personal Development and Team Leadership	Weight: 1.00
Mobile Networks and Models			Unit ECTS: 10.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	ATWireless	Advanced topics in wireless communications	Weight: 0.50
T	DigiCom	Digital communications	Weight: 0.50
T	MobCom	Mobile communication techniques	Weight: 0.50
T	Netsoft	NetWork Softwerization	Weight: 0.50
T	SSP	Statistical signal processing	Weight: 0.50
Scientific and technical opening1			Unit ECTS: 5.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	ATWireless	Advanced topics in wireless communications	Weight: 1.00
T	AwaRe	Awareness-raising to research	Weight: 0.50
T	BigSec	Security and privacy for Big Data and Cloud	Weight: 0.50
G	CitiCom	Engagement citoyen	Weight: 0.50
T	Clouds	Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing	Weight: 1.00
T	CompArch	Computer architecture	Weight: 1.00
T	DBSys	Database Management System Implementation	Weight: 1.00
T	DigiCom	Digital communications	Weight: 1.00
T	EmSim	Emulation and simulation methodologies	Weight: 0.50
T	ImCod	Image & Video Compression	Weight: 0.50
T	ImProc	Digital Image Processing	Weight: 0.50
T	InfoTheo_2	Advanced Topics In Information Theory	Weight: 0.50
T	MALIS	Machine Learning and Intelligent System	Weight: 1.00
T	MPC	Multiparty Computation and Blockchains	Weight: 0.50
T	MathEng	Essential Mathematical Methods for Engineers	Weight: 0.50
T	MobCom	Mobile communication techniques	Weight: 1.00
T	MobMod	Mobility Modeling	Weight: 0.50
T	MobSys	Mobile communication systems	Weight: 1.00
T	MobiSec	Mobile Systems and Smartphone Security	Weight: 1.00
T	OS	Operating systems	Weight: 1.00
T	Optim	Optimization Theory with Applications	Weight: 0.50
T	QUANTIS	Quantum Information Science	Weight: 0.50
T	SSP	Statistical signal processing	Weight: 1.00
T	SecCom	Secure communications	Weight: 1.00
T	SoftDev	Software development methodologies	Weight: 0.50
T	Stand	Standardization activities	Weight: 0.50
G	StudCom	Engagement étudiant!	Weight: 0.20
G	StudInit	Student Initiative	Weight: 0.50
T	SysSec	System and Network Security	Weight: 1.00
T	UMLEmb	Designing embedded systems with UML	Weight: 0.50
T	WebSem	Semantic Web and Information Extraction Technologies	Weight: 0.50

Language			Unit ECTS: 1.00
(French, or another language if the student is already fluent in French)

SEMESTER 8  - SPRING (30 ECTS)  - March – June

Humanities and social sciences 2			Unit ECTS: 4.00 Min sum of Weight:
G	Business	Business Simulation	Weight: 1.00
G	Law	General introduction to law : contracts, setting up a business	Weight: 0.50
G	ProjMan	Project management	Weight: 1.00
G	SATT	Sociological Approaches of Telecom Technologies	Weight: 0.50
G	TeamLead	Personal Development and Team Leadership	Weight: 1.00
G	WebStra	Web strategy and organizational Performance	Weight: 0.50
Mathematical & Algorithmic Methods			Unit ECTS: 10.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	AML	Algorithmic Machine Learning	Weight: 0.25
T	ASI	Advanced Statistical Inference	Weight: 0.50
T	CompMeth	Computational Methods for digital communications	Weight: 0.50
T	DeepLearning	Deep Learning	Weight: 0.25
T	MobiCore	Next generation Mobile Core Network	Weight: 0.25
T	SP4COM	Signal Processing for Communications	Weight: 0.50
Networking for Telecom_24			Unit ECTS: 10.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	InfoTheo_1	Information Theory 1	Weight: 0.50
T	MALCOM	Machine Learning for Communication systems	Weight: 0.50
T	MobAdv	Mobile Advanced Networks	Weight: 0.25
T	MobWat	Wireless Access Technologies	Weight: 0.25
T	Radio	Radio engineering	Weight: 0.50
Scientific and technical opening 2			Unit ECTS: 5.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	3DGraph	3-D and virtual imaging (analysis and synthesis)	Weight: 1.00
T	AML	Algorithmic Machine Learning	Weight: 0.50
T	APPIOT	Iot Application Protocols	Weight: 0.50
T	ASI	Advanced Statistical Inference	Weight: 1.00
T	AwaRe	Awareness-raising to research	Weight: 0.50
G	CitiCom	Citizen Commitment	Weight: 0.50
T	CompMeth	Computational Methods for digital communications	Weight: 1.00
T	DeepLearning	Deep Learning	Weight: 0.50
T	DigitalSystems	Digital systems, hardware - software integration	Weight: 1.00
T	Forensics	Cyber-crime and Computer Forensics	Weight: 1.00
T	FormalMet	FormalMethods-Formal specification and verification of systems	Weight: 0.50
T	HWSec	Hardware Security	Weight: 0.50
T	ImSecu	Imaging Security	Weight: 0.50
T	InfoTheo_1	Information Theory 1	Weight: 1.00
T	IntroStat	Introduction to statistics	Weight: 0.50
T	MALCOM	Machine Learning for Communication systems	Weight: 1.00
T	MobAdv	Mobile Advanced Networks	Weight: 0.50
T	MobWat	Wireless Access Technologies	Weight: 0.50
T	MobiCore	Next generation Mobile Core Network	Weight: 0.50
T	PlanTP	Transportation Planning	Weight: 0.50
T	ProtIOT	Iot Communication Protocols	Weight: 0.50
T	Radio	Radio engineering	Weight: 1.00
T	ResProj	Projet de recherche	Weight: 1.00
T	SP4COM	Signal Processing for Communications	Weight: 1.00
T	Speech	Speech and audio processing	Weight: 0.50
G	StudCom	Student Commitment	Weight: 0.20
G	StudInit	Student Initiative	Weight: 0.50
T	TraffEEc	Emission and Traffic Efficiency	Weight: 0.50
T	WebInt	Interaction Design and Development of Modern Web Applications	Weight: 0.50
T	WiSec	Wireless Security	Weight: 0.50

Language			Unit ECTS: 1.00
(French, or another language if the student is already fluent in French)

SEMESTER 9 (30 ECTS) - FALL - September – February

Advanced Telecom			Unit ECTS: 10.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	Clouds	Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing	Weight: 0.50
T	InfoTheo_2	Advanced Topics In Information Theory	Weight: 0.25
T	MPC	Multiparty Computation and Blockchains	Weight: 0.25
T	MobiSec	Mobile Systems and Smartphone Security	Weight: 0.50
T	QUANTIS	Quantum Information Science	Weight: 0.25
T	UMLEmb	Designing embedded systems with UML	Weight: 0.25
Humanities and social Sciences 3			Unit ECTS: 4.00 Min sum of Weight:
G	B_INNOV	DARE TO INNOVATE! HOW TO ADOPT THE RIGHT POSTURE AND MOVE FROM IDEA TO MARKET!	Weight: 1.00
G	CSE	The challenges of a sustainable economy	Weight: 0.50
G	ManagIntro	Introduction to management	Weight: 1.00
G	Property	Intellectual property law	Weight: 0.50
G	ResRI	Responsible Research and Innovation	Weight: 0.50
G	TeamLead	Personal Development and Team Leadership	Weight: 1.00
Scientific and technical opening 3			Unit ECTS: 5.00 Min sum of Weight:
T	ATWireless	Advanced topics in wireless communications	Weight: 1.00
T	AwaRe	Awareness-raising to research	Weight: 0.50
T	BigSec	Security and privacy for Big Data and Cloud	Weight: 0.25
G	CitiCom	Engagement citoyen	Weight: 0.50
T	Clouds	Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing	Weight: 1.00
T	CompArch	Computer architecture	Weight: 1.00
T	DBSys	Database Management System Implementation	Weight: 1.00
T	DigiCom	Digital communications	Weight: 1.00
T	EmSim	Emulation and simulation methodologies	Weight: 0.50
T	ImCod	Image & Video Compression	Weight: 0.50
T	ImProc	Digital Image Processing	Weight: 0.50
T	InfoTheo_2	Advanced Topics In Information Theory	Weight: 0.50
T	MALIS	Machine Learning and Intelligent System	Weight: 1.00
T	MPC	Multiparty Computation and Blockchains	Weight: 0.50
T	MathEng	Essential Mathematical Methods for Engineers	Weight: 0.50
T	MobCom	Mobile communication techniques	Weight: 1.00
T	MobMod	Mobility Modeling	Weight: 0.50
T	MobSys	Mobile communication systems	Weight: 1.00
T	MobiSec	Mobile Systems and Smartphone Security	Weight: 1.00
T	OS	Operating systems	Weight: 1.00
T	Optim	Optimization Theory with Applications	Weight: 0.50
T	QUANTIS	Quantum Information Science	Weight: 0.50
T	SSP	Statistical signal processing	Weight: 1.00
T	SecCom	Secure communications	Weight: 1.00
T	SoftDev	Software development methodologies	Weight: 0.50
T	Stand	Standardization activities	Weight: 0.50
G	StudCom	Engagement étudiant!	Weight: 0.20
G	StudInit	Student Initiative	Weight: 0.50
T	SysSec	System and Network Security	Weight: 1.00
T	UMLEmb	Designing embedded systems with UML	Weight: 0.50
T	WebSem	Semantic Web and Information Extraction Technologies	Weight: 0.50

Language			Unit ECTS: 1.00
(French, or another language if the student is already fluent in French)

Semester Project			Unit ECTS: 10.00
Supervised Semester Projects are based on real-case studies of industrial relevance. They combine a blend of theoretical and practical work (developing new prototypes and tools, testing new technologies, assessing current systems and solutions…). Students can work individually or in group of 2/3. The expected workload is 200 hours of individual work per semester. A defense is organized at the end. Projects provide students with hands-on skills by allowing them to put concepts into practice. (200h)

SEMESTER 10 (30 ECTS)- SPRING-  March - August

RESEARCH / INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIP (Paid)			Unit ECTS: 30.00
The internship is to be carried out in a company or lab in France or abroad. It allows students to get a hands-on experience and ease their entry into the job market. Students work on a research/development project under the supervision of a professor and an industrial mentor. Students are integrated as part of the staff and receive a monthly allowance, the amount of the allowance depends on the company and position. EURECOM helps students find an internship by providing an updated database of paid internship opportunities offered by companies.