OPTIMISME

Projet Completed
ANR & FUI

Project partners

eSoftThingsINSAIMT AtlantiqueOrange, MVGTact FactoryTélécom Paris

Project duration

End of the project in 2020
  • Project objectives

    The first and main objective of OptimiSME will be to develop software tools partly embedded in local infrastructure network components. These tools aim to achieve the optimization of infrastructure components during initial network deployment, as well as managing and optimizing network radio resources, based on network supervision and use learning.

    Project OptmiSME’s second objective is to specify and mockup network infrastructure components, the support for several radios. To reduce the deployment cost of a large radio network, various access points for high- and low-debit service supports will be shared on converging devices. Appropriate choice of technology will limit the cost of network extenders.

    To meet its objectives, OptimiSME has been built around a consortium of companies and labs that represent the entire chain of innovation for the development of products and services. The consortium brings together a number of value chain players: one large group (Orange), one medium-size enterprise (MVG), two small and medium-size enterprises (eSoftThings, Tact Factory), and two academic institutions, INSA and Institut Mines-Télécom (Télécom Bretagne, Télécom Paris). This is a good match, with multidisciplinary themes and partners’ complementary skills making it possible to reuse results among partners.

  • Search axes

    The local network optimization set out by OptimiSME needs to factor in many constraints:

    • Radio debit: The arrival of the fiber means debits at Gigabit scale and beyond. As a result, client expectations have risen on the deployment of high-debit radio connectivity throughout homes and places of work, to benefit from the promise that fiber brings, in every room.
    • Coverage: the concept of debit is less acute when considering smart home services, in which sensors transmit messages of a few octets, generally at a rate of below one minute. Nonetheless, the concept of coverage and guaranteed service is essential when these services relate to security: intrusion detection, smoke detection, etc.
    • Network infrastructure costs: minimal number of devices to be deployed (components support all radio standards) and individual device cost, which provide both radio access to WiFi terminals but also sensors and other smart building devices.
    • Wave exposure and consumption: with the high number of radio standards deployed at the same time in homes and companies, wave exposure accumulates and the consumption of radio interfaces adds up. The aim of the OptimiSME project is to establish simple algorithms that assess wave exposure and the electrical consumption of network equipment, to adapt the network as required.