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THALES Communications is one of the major leading manufacturers of professional and defense systems. The company is present in the different European countries in accordance with its multi-domestic approach. THALES Communications (France) employs 5700 persons and has achieved in 2002 a turnover of €1032 million (€11105 million for THALES S.A.).
THALES Communications is largely concerned with radio networks and has got a strong experience in civil applications through the development of WLAN and HIPERLAN technologies in addition to the development of dedicated waveforms for defense applications. In the previous decade, for civil and professional applications, THALES Communications has invested in spread spectrum wideband technologies (LWMA :Linear Wideband Multiple Access using Chirp technique) and investigated Ultra wideband technologies (IR UWB, DS UWB) for communication and localization systems.
THALES Communications is currently involved in several UWB programs dealing with High Data Rate as well as Low Data rates applications (UCAN, PULSERS). In these programs THALES Communications is responsible of the MAC layer design and implementation. THALES Communications is also involved in the IEEE 802.15.4a standardisation process. In this context, THALES Communications has proposed with I2R a very low cost MBSC (Multi-Band Single Carrier) solution to cope with the applications defined in this normalization group, and particularly the deployment of UWB mobiles inside buildings for which communications and ranging functions are required.
Considering this experience in UWB, TCF will contribute for the success of UROOF project in defining the set of essential applications that can take advantage of the use of the low cost optical-RF converters and in validating these applications through system validation based on a set of operational scenarios. In addition to the typical application such as communications and data transfer between mobile users in large companies, new opportunities will be considered such as diversity effect with multiple antennas, smart antenna processing, positioning through synchronised triangulation with multiple antennas (converters).
Serge
Héthuin
THALES S.A.
7/9 rue des Mathurins
92221 BAGNEUX Cedex
Tel: + 33 146132444
Fax: +33 146132501
Serge Héthuin received an Application Engineer Degree in 1974 with a specialization in Spectrum Analysis. From 1975 to 1978, he was in the Microwave Link Division of Thomson-CSF, on LOS and Tropospheric Microwave links. From 1979 to 1989, he worked in TRT, a PHILIPS subsidiary, in charge of the design and development of radio communication and radio navigation airborne systems such as radar-altimeter based on wide spread spectrum. He joined in 1990 the Thomson-CSF CNI (Communications, Navigation, Identification) Division and in 1996, he became the Head of the ‘Wireless Techniques & Technologies’ (WT&T) Activity, dedicated to the development of WLAN product and first generation of HyperLAN based on the LWMA concept (Linear Wideband Multiple Access), wide spread spectrum technique. From 1998 to 2000, he was CTO of the ‘Satellite Communications Systems’ Unit of Thomson-CSF Communications. Since 2001, he has been in charge of the Professional Communication Systems (SCP) Activity in THALES Communications based on the civil Wireless standards (WPAN, WLAN, WMAN). He is the author or co-author of papers and patents about WLAN, Hyper LAN, UWB techniques, and 3D localization using FM/CW or UWB signals.
Isabelle Bucaille; Arnaud tonnerre.
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