Paris Research Lab


     Paris Research Lab
46 Quai A. Le Gallo
92648 Boulogne Cedex
France

Paris CR Center Manager: Laurent Massoulie
Hans J. Platte.
About:

The Thomson Paris Research Center was established in October 2005. The newest Thomson center focuses its research activities primarily on long-term and exploratory initiatives with collaboration with academic partners. Content delivery and network technologies constitute the principal research topics.

The Paris Research Center will help Thomson identify new communication services and new ways to provide value-added services on the Internet, as well as in next generation communication infrastructures.

The center is also dedicated to developing strong relationships with the worldwide research community. By the end of 2005, staff headcount was 6. In 2006 and 2007, the group grew up to 9 full time employees complemented with up to 15 academic visitors. The stable size for the lab will be around 30 people.


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Research Domain of the Paris research center:








   
Networking
The Paris Research Center takes a top-down approach for finding new ways to safely deliver content to internet users, whether they are wired, wireless, or even nomadic.  The team studies which new communication services that can be deployed because of the wide and swift development of wireless networks, and what communication architecture will best support these services.

The Paris Research Center also contributes in other research areas, such as:
- Content delivery and peer-to-peer
- Anomaly detection and troubleshooting
- Opportunistic communication and Pocket Switched Networks
- Wireless network engineering, interoperability development

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