Entry requirements

For M1, a high school diploma plus three years of higher education in science. For M2, a high school diploma plus four years of higher education in science. Recruitment on the basis of application.

Benefits of the program

The course is supported by the ESYCOM Laboratory’s excellent skills in the subjects taught and state-of-the-art lessons are given on its research topics. Speakers from the industry present seminars on rapidly changing fields.

Part of the curriculum is taught in English, thereby preparing students for entry into the industrial or research sector.

Acquired skills

The objective of the course is to provide solid scientific and technical skills, needed to understand the functioning of the infrastructure of telecommunication networks and communication systems.

The course covers 2nd, 4th and 5th-generation mobile network design, architectures and protocols (radio and core), digital communications, networks and routing, local networks and internet services, QoS, virtualisation / SDN, object-oriented computing, propagation and antennas, electromagnetics, and electronics for telecommunications.

It therefore addresses architectures and protocols of all generations of mobile networks, as well as IP protocols and routing for fixed networks. Computer science is used in increasingly complex systems. Students will comfortably master two popular programming languages by the end of the course. Furthermore, students will also acquire the foundations of mathematics for signal processing and digital communications, solid skills in electronic and digital design, and understanding of the fundamental principles of electromagnetic waves, their propagation in the mobile/HF radio environments and related antenna systems. Lastly, students will understand network virtualisation and new technologies.

International

Students can complete their work placement abroad and access support from the university’s International Relations Department. Students also have the possibility to study abroad during M2, within the framework of an agreement that establishes the equivalence between teaching units. Such agreements are established with the programme coordinator and the university’s International Relations Department.

Capacities

25

Course venue

Your future career

In the field of telecommunications, the professional opportunities are broad: design and development engineer (software or software functions and / or embedded software), network and telecom deployment coordinator engineer, project manager in companies or administrations, developer of telecom products or embedded systems, information systems integrator operating networks or service providers (operators, ISP), network coverage and/or mobile terminal validation engineer, radio transmission and architecture engineer, test and integration engineer.

Study objectives

The objective is to train students in the field of telecommunication networks. This includes the activity sectors of suppliers, mobile terminal manufacturers, information and telecommunications system integrators, mobile and fixed network operators, mobile service providers, access providers and Internet service providers. With the explosion of smartphones in the connected devices market, there has been renewed activity in mobile and fixed networks in the past ten years. A revolution is coming, with these two fields converging towards shared infrastructure, both physical and virtual, including technologies around cloud computing. The Master’s involves multidisciplinary and transversal teaching, to satisfy the needs of these new telecom systems. The skills targeted in this degree are structured around three main axes: networks and telecoms, computer science and electronics.

Faced with the multiplicity and convergence of networks, companies need specialists in networking, telecommunications and new technologies to make the right choices.

Major thematics of study

Mobile Telecommunications, Computer Science/Networks, Electronics, English, Business Management, Work placement

Calendar

Classes: October to March

Mandatory work placement: April to September (four to six months during this period)

Options

For M2, students must choose one of the following two groups of three optional units:

- Advanced network performance

- HF transmission

- Propagation channels

or

- Virtualisation/Openstack

- Network security

- Advanced network programming