The software integration with new network architectures via SDN (Software Defined Network) axis appears to be a major evolution of networks. While this paradigm was primarily developed for easy network setup, its ability to integrate services has also to be considered. Thus, the mobility service for which solutions have been proposed in conventional architectures by defining standardized protocols should be rethought in terms of SDN service. Mobile devices might use or move in SDN network. In this paper, we have shown that SDN can be implemented without IP mobility protocol for providing mobility like as Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) that is the solution adopted by 3GPP, with some performance gain.

In complex environments, the presence or absence of multipath signals not only depends on the relative motion between the GNSS receiver and navigation satellites, but also on the environment where the receiver is located. Thus it is difficult to use a specific propagation model to accurately capture the dynamics of multipath signal parameters when the GNSS receiver is moving in urban canyons or other severe obstructions. This paper introduces a statistical model for the line-of-sight and multipath signals received by a GNSS receiver. A multi-correlator based GNSS receiver is also exploited with the advantage to fully characterizing the impact of multipath signals on the correlation function by providing samples of the whole correlation function. Finally, a maximum likelihood-based unscented Kalman filter is investigated to estimate the line-of-sight and multipath signal parameters. Numerical simulations clearly validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Hyperspectral unmixing consists in determining the reference spectral signatures composing a hyperspectral image and their relative abundance fractions in each pixel. In practice, the identified signatures may be affected by a significant spectral variability resulting for instance from the temporal evolution of the imaged scene. This phenomenon can be accounted for by using a perturbed linear mixing model. This paper studies an online estimation algorithm for the parameters of this extended linear mixing model. This algorithm is of interest for the practical applications where the size of the hyper-spectral images precludes the use of batch procedures. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated on synthetic data.

Maritime surveillance can be performed with information from cooperative souces that include vessel monitoring systems or using radars or image sensors. A solution to deal with the diversity of surveillance scenarios in the presence of non-cooperative ships is the integration of both kinds of sources. Considering an Automatic Identification System (AIS) and a Low Pulse Repetition Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (LPRF SAR), a research on improved data fusion techniques is desired to reach high performance in maritime surveillance and is the main subject of this research.

Dans cette thèse, nous proposons un mécanisme appelé Initial Spreading qui permet une optimisation remarquable des performances de TCP pour les connexions de petites tailles, représentant plus de 90% des connexions échangées dans l’Internet. Cette solution est d’autant plus intéressante que pour certaines technologies telles qu’un lien satellite, le temps d’aller retour particulièrement long est très pénalisant, et des solutions spécifiques ont du être implantées qui empêchent l’intégration du satellite dans un système de communication plus large. Nous montrons que l’Initial Spreading est non seulement plus performant, mais surtout plus général car pertinent dans toutes les situations. De plus, peu intrusif, il ne compromet aucune des évolutions de TCP passées ou à venir.

The decomposition of an optical beam in a polarized part added to an unpolarized part was studied by G.G. Stokes among numerous other works. Today, the problem is no longer a trigonometric manipulation proper to monochromatic waves, but a problem handling stationary processes with band spectra. In literature, the question seems to be: given some spectral properties and some propagation medium, can we obtain a decomposition? Furthermore, in the case of a positive answer, we have to provide devices for exhibiting solutions. In a linear framework, the problem always has a solution (and even an infinity) whatever the chosen polarization direction. In this paper, we study the links which appear most often between the members of the decomposition.

Given a mixed hyperspectral data set, linear unmixing aims at estimating the reference spectral signatures composing the data – referred to as endmembers – their abundance fractions and their number. In practice, the identified endmembers can vary spectrally within a given image and can thus be construed as variable instances of reference endmembers. Ignoring this variability induces estimation errors that are propagated into the unmixing procedure. To address this issue, endmember variability estimation consists of estimating the reference spectral signatures from which the estimated endmembers have been derived as well as their variability with respect to these references. This paper introduces a new linear mixing model that explicitly accounts for spatial and spectral endmember variabilities. The parameters of this model can be estimated using an optimization algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers. The performance of the proposed unmixing method is evaluated on synthetic and real data. A comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms designed to model and estimate endmember variability allows the interest of the proposed unmixing solution to be appreciated.

While Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) solutions have long been undisputed to solve the inherent satellite problems, the improvement of the regular end-to-end TCP congestion avoidance algorithms and the recent emphasis on the PEPs drawbacks have opened the question of the PEPs sustainability. Nevertheless, with a vast majority of Internet connections shorter than ten segments, TCP PEPs continue to be required to counter the poor efficiency of the end-to-end TCP start-up mechanisms. To reduce the PEPs dependency, designing a new fast start-up TCP mechanism is therefore a major concern. But, while enlarging the Initial Window (IW) up to ten segments is, without any doubt, the fastest solution to deal with a short-lived connection in an uncongested network, numerous researchers are concerned about the impact of the large initial burst on an already congested network. Based on traffic observations and real experiments, Initial Spreading has been designed to remove those concerns whatever the load and type of networks. It offers performance similar to a large IW in uncongested network and outperforms existing end-to-end solutions in congested networks. In this paper, we show that Initial Spreading, taking care of the satellite specificities, is an efficient end-to-end alternative to the TCP PEPs.

In urban canyons, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) multipath interferences affect position estimation based on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). This paper proposes to model the effects of NLOS multipath interferences as mean value jumps contaminating the GNSS pseudo-range measurements. The marginalized likelihood ratio test (MLRT) is then investigated to detect, identify and estimate the corresponding NLOS multipath biases. However, the MLRT test statistics is difficult to compute. In this work, we consider a Monte Carlo integration technique based on bias magnitude sampling. Jensen's inequality allows this Monte Carlo integration to be simplified. The multiple model algorithm is also used to update the prior information for each bias magnitude sample. Some strategies are designed for estimating and correcting the NLOS multipath biases. In order to demonstrate the performance of the MLRT, experiments allowing several localization methods to be compared are performed. Finally, results from a measurement campaign conducted in an urban canyon are presented in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm in a representative environment.