Paul Ferrand

Paul Ferrand
  • Ph.D.
  • Researcher at Huawei Technologies

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41
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Current institution
Huawei Technologies
Current position
  • Researcher
Additional affiliations
October 2014 - present
Huawei Technologies
Position
  • Researcher
September 2013 - August 2014
National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
Position
  • PostDoc Position
September 2012 - August 2013
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Position
  • A.T.E.R.
Education
September 2009 - June 2013
Université de Lyon
Field of study
  • Electrical Engineering
September 2008 - August 2009
Université de Lyon
Field of study
  • Computer Science
September 2003 - August 2008

Publications

Publications (41)
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Channel charting is a recently proposed framework that applies dimensionality reduction to channel state information (CSI) in wireless systems with the goal of associating a pseudo-position to each mobile user in a low-dimensional space: the channel chart. Channel charting summarizes the entire CSI dataset in a self-supervised manner, which opens u...
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Channel charting is a recently proposed framework that applies dimensionality reduction to channel state information (CSI) in wireless systems with the goal of associating a pseudo-position to each mobile user in a low-dimensional space: the channel chart. Channel charting summarizes the entire CSI dataset in a self-supervised manner, which opens u...
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Channel charting is a data-driven baseband processing technique consisting in applying self-supervised machine learning techniques to channel state information (CSI), with the objective of reducing the dimension of the data and extracting the fundamental parameters governing its distribution. We introduce a novel channel charting approach based on...
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Wireless full-duplex (FD) transceivers have become more commonplace in the recent years, enabled by improvements in hardware as well as in signal processing algorithms dedicated to self-interference (SI) mitigation. A key design target for any FD radio is to limit the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) quantization noise affecting the signal of inte...
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Channel charting is a data-driven baseband processing technique consisting in applying unsupervised machine learning techniques to channel state information (CSI), with the objective of reducing the dimension of the data and extracting the fundamental parameters governing the distribution of CSI samples observed by a given receiver. In this work, w...
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We consider the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in the context of channel state information (CSI)-based localization for Massive MIMO cellular systems. We discuss the practical impairments that are likely to be present in practical CSI estimates, and introduce a principled approach to feature design for CSI-based DNN applications based on the ob...
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We report on experimental results on the use of a learning-based approach to infer the location of a mobile user of a cellular network within a cell, for a 5G-type Massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system. We describe how the sample spatial covariance matrix computed from the CSI can be used as the input to a learning algorithm which a...
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As network deployments become denser, interference arises as a dominant performance degradation factor. To confront with this trend, Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporated features aiming at enabling cooperation among different base stations, a technique termed as Coordinated Multi Point (CoMP). Recent field trial results and theoretical studies of...
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Interference Alignment (IA) is technique that, in a large sense, makes use of the increasing signal dimensions available in the system through MIMO and OFDM technologies in order to globally reduce the interference suffered by users in a network. In this paper, we address the problem of downlink cellular networks, the so-called interfering broadcas...
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The output of oscillators is usually not stable over time. In particular, phase variations---or \emph{phase noise}---corrupts the oscillations. In this letter, we describe a circuit that designed to average the phase noise processes and frequency offsets in frequency-matched oscillators. The basic circuit uses the independence of 2 phase noise proc...
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Interference Alignment (IA) is technique that, in a large sense, makes use of the increasing signal dimensions available in the system through MIMO and OFDM technologies in order to globally reduce the interference suffered by users in a network. In this paper, we address the problem of downlink cellular networks, the so-called interfering broadcas...
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With the advent of 5G, standardization and research are currently defining the next generation of the radio access. Considering the high constraints imposed by the future standards, disruptive technologies such as Massive MIMO and mmWave are being proposed. At the heart of this process are wireless channel models that now need to cover a massive in...
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With the advent of 5G, standardization and research are currently defining the next generation of the radio access. Considering the high constraints imposed by the future standards, disruptive technologies such as Massive MIMO and mmWave are being proposed. At the heart of this process are wireless channel models that now need to cover a massive in...
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Modern cellular networks in traditional frequency bands are notoriously interference-limited especially in urban areas, where base stations are deployed in close proximity to one another. The latest releases of Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporate features for coordinating downlink transmissions as an efficient means of managing interference. Rece...
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Modern cellular networks in traditional frequency bands are notoriously interference-limited especially in urban areas, where base stations are deployed in close proximity to one another. The latest releases of Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporate features for coordinating downlink transmissions as an efficient means of managing interference. Rece...
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The packet error rate (PER) is a metric of choice to compute the practical performance of communication systems experiencing block fading, e.g., fading processes whose coherence time is relatively slow when compared to the symbol transmission rate. For these types of channels, we derive a closed-form asymptotic expression which approximates the val...
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LTE-advanced and beyond cells are required to serve an increasing capacity despite their densification and small cells deployment. Tri-sectorial BS with full-reuse (1×3×1) is usually admitted, where each sector behaves as an independent cell, to maximize the user (UE) capacity as well as to simplify the tedious planning phase. As a consequence, the...
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As 4G wireless networks are vastly and rapidly deployed worldwide, 5G with its advanced vision of all connected world and zero distance communications is already at the corner. Along with the super quality of user experience brought by these new networks, the shockingly increasing energy consumption of wireless networks has become a worrying econom...
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The exponentially growing traffic in cellular networks induced standardization groups to focus on spectral efficiency (SE) and providers to densify their networks in crowded areas. The price to pay is a significant reduction of the energy efficiency (EE). As a result, more balanced EE-SE solutions have attracted significant interest lately in the w...
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While many theoretical and simulation works have highlighted the potential gains of cognitive radio, several technical issues still need to be evaluated from an experimental point of view. Deploying complex heterogeneous system scenarios is tedious, time consuming and hardly reproducible. To address this problem, we have developed a new experimenta...
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Cellular networks have been notoriously interference-limited systems in dense urban areas, where base stations are deployed in close proximity to one-another. Recently, a signal processing method called Interference Alignment has emerged, making use of the increasing signal dimensions available in the system through multiple-input multiple output (...
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This thesis aimed at studying the theoretical performance bounds of cooperative techniques in Body Area Networks (BAN). These networks are sensor networks, with a small number of nodes located on and inside the human body. Cooperative techniques are extremely dependent on the channel side information available at the time of transmission. Consideri...
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Relay channels have been extensively studied in the literature since the seminal paper by Cover and El Gamal. Nevertheless, characterizing the capacity of relay channels still presents open issues. While numerous works addressed this problem with constant powers or targeted the sum-rate optimization, computing the capacity in the case of a global p...
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Body Area Networks (BANs) exhibit a unique form of channel variations and traditional propagation models fail to adequately match the behavior of BAN communication links. We present here the results of a measurement campaign whose primary objective was to characterize the complete mesh of a BAN and simultaneous analyze the quality of every radio li...
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In this paper, we study the optimal power allocations in cooperative multiple access channels (CMACs), where we aim at maximizing the rate achievable by both sources simultaneously rather than the sum of achievable rates. Separating our study between the coherent and non-coherent case, we obtain closed-form expressions for the optimal power allocat...
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Body Area Networks (BANs) exhibit a unique form of channel variations and traditional propagation models fail to adequately match the behavior of BAN communication links. We present here the results of a measurement campaign whose primary objective was to characterize the complete mesh of a BAN and simultaneous analyze the quality of every radio li...
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In this paper, we aim at obtaining usable bounds on the performance of the cooperative multiple access channel (CMAC) under a Gaussian model. We first show that the problem can be transformed into a convex optimization problem which makes it easily solvable using numerical tools. We propose, as a line of study, to consider the maximal achievable co...
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In this paper, we aim at characterizing the gain induced by using relay channels in a linear network under both capacity constraint and realistic energy model. We express a general model based on a convex optimization problem. Then, we use numerical tools to obtain results on the outer and inner bounds of the capacity of the full and half duplex re...
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Body Area Networks (BAN) offer amazing perspectives to instrument and support humans in many aspects of their lives. In this paper, we consider on-body BAN nodes transmitting information towards a common sink, in a star topology. While this setup is usual in wireless networks, the high instability of the BAN radio channel and the proximity of the b...
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Body area networks (BAN) offer amazing perspectives to instrument and support humans in many aspects of their life. Among all possible applications, this paper focuses on body monitoring applications having a body equipped with a set of sensors transmitting in real time their measures to a common sink. In this context, at the application level, the...

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