International Co-operation in Trustworthy,
Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) is one of France's leading graduate engineering schools in the field of Communication and Information Technologies. Its disciplines include all the sciences and techniques that fall within the term "Information and Communications”: Computer Science Networks, Communications, Electronics, Signal and Image Processing, as well as the study of economic and social aspects associated with modern technology. The school was founded more than a hundred years ago and is classed among the Grandes Ecoles d'Ingénieurs. Because of its high scientific standard and the extremely competitive admission procedures, ENST can be compared to the highest level engineering schools and universities that one would find abroad. The school produces about 250 state certified engineers each year. The school is publicly funded, with close links with a number of partner institutions: it is part of a federation of schools in telecommunications, called the GET (Groupement des Ecoles de Télécommunications) and a member of ParisTech, a multi-campus networks of nine graduate engineering schools, all located in the Paris area.

Over the last few decades, ENST has gained a recognised position internationally in its technical domains. In addition to working on the development in the basic sciences, research at ENST also aims at broadening its field of study, moving in particular towards system integration, innovative services on the internet and in other media, and the analysis of users communication practices and their social impact. ENST, thus, covers all aspects of Information-Technologies. The Computer Science and Network Laboratory covers the following domains:
• Artificial Intelligence, expert systems, connectionism, learning, natural languages
• Multimedia and hypermedia
• Internet and the web and many of their areas of application (distance learning, health, environment, etc.)
• New Generation Internet, Mobile, ad hoc networks
• Databases, Software engineering, Grids
• Middleware, new architectures (P2P, M2M)
• Security, Configurability, Mobility of ICT systems
• High speed optical networks, local loops, satellites
• Heterogeneous networks, interconnection, interworking and administration
• High-bit-rate networks, cellular telephony, access protocols
• Mobile communications
• Discrete structures, graphs, algorithms, algebraic coding, cryptology
• Queues, performance assessment, distribution approximations, and stochastic analysis.

Role in INCO-TRUST and related experience: ENST will lead WP3, which will utilise the outputs of INCO-TRUST in order to directly influence the design of new research programmes from the global yet strategically important to the EU perspectives. ENST has extensive experience in both the EU Research programmes and those of global developing countries. ENST were involved in Organisation committee and participated to both EU-US Workshops.

Key personnel

Michel Riguidel is Professor at the head of the Computer Science and Network Department of ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications). He was previously at the head of the Advanced Information Technology Department of Thales Communications. His management responsibilities included managing Advanced Research in Software Radio, Mobile Systems, Next Generation Internet, IT Infrastructures and Security. He has more than twenty five years experience in Computing Science and Networking and more than ten years in Information Technology and Network Security with private companies (Total, Schlumberger, Thomson-CSF).
His main research interests are oriented towards Architecture of communication systems, Security of Information System (he designed and realised the first ITSEC E4 Firewall in Europe, he wrote the first Protection Profile for high security guard), to Architecture of Complex Computer-Based Systems (Next Generation Internet, Active and Ad hoc Networks, Grids, Pervasive Computing), to formal languages and communication protocols

Professor Riguidel has been developing from the early days content watermarking technology (images, videos, text and formal structures) and developing concepts in configurability for large-scale software intensive systems and managing national projects (RNRT) and European Projects (ITEA, Esprit, ACTS, IST) on security (watermarking, PKI, formal methods, critical infrastructure protection), mobile systems and networks (Next Generation Internet, Active Networks, protocol engineering, configurable networks). He is expert and member in various committees: ANVAR, DGA (French Defence Department), CSTI (Information Technology Strategic Council under the Prime Minister’s responsibility) and is teaching security and advanced networks at ENST.