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Laurent SCHUMACHER

Prof. Dr. Ir.

Phone: +32 81 72 49 80
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Duties at FUNDP

Diplomas

MSc Electrical Engineering, FPMs (1993)

PhD Electrical Engineering, UCL (1999)

Lectures

 French is the teaching language. However, most of the course material is available in english.

Running projects

On-going PhD theses

Completed projets

Publications (27)

Journal papers

2006
Effects of Dominant Other-Sector Interference on Dual Rx-Antenna HSDPA Performance, in Wireless Personal Communications
Lars Torsten BERGER, Troels Emil KOLDING, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Preben Elgard MOGENSEN
2005
Closed-Form Expressions for the Correlation Coefficient of Directive Antennas Impinged by a Multimodal Truncated Laplacian PAS, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 4, issue 4, pp. 1351-1359
Laurent SCHUMACHER, Balaji RAGHOTHAMAN

Book chapters

2004
Propagation Characterization and MIMO Channel Modeling for 3G, in Adaptive Antenna Arrays, collection Signals and Communication Technology, pp. 377-393
Laurent SCHUMACHER, Lars T. BERGER, Juan RAMIRO-MORENO, Troels B. SOERENSEN

Conference papers

2008
Measuring the QoE of Streaming Sessions in Radio-Based Access Networks
George TOMA, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2008
Dynamic RF Channel Change In Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Networks, in Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium of the IEEE/CVT Benelux Chapter SCVT 2008
Jean-Francois WAUTHY, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2008
MIMO Channel ESPRIT-based Predictor Using Limited Feedback Load, in the 4th Management Committee Meeting of COST2100 - Wroclaw (Poland), 6-8 February 2008
Joël VANDERPYPEN, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2008
Multistream Proportional Fair Scheduling Applied on Beamforming Technologies, in the 6th Management Committee Meeting of COST2100 - Lille (France), 6-8 Octobre 2008
Joël VANDERPYPEN, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2008
Multistream Proportional Fair Packet Scheduling Optimization in HSDPA , in Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium of the IEEE/CVT Benelux Chapter SCVT 2008
Joël VANDERPYPEN, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2007
UMTS Layers Parametrisation for Real-Time Flows, in the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobile Content Quality of Experience (MOBCONQOE) - Vancouver (Canada), August 2007
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Christophe DE VLEESCHOUWER
2007
Securisation of SIP Presence notifications thanks to the Belgian electronic identity card, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007)
Sébastien GAMBY, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Jean RAMAEKERS
2007
Implementation and Performance of a P2PSIP Distributed Proxy/Registrar, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007)
Jean-Francois WAUTHY, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2007
UMTS Non Real-Time Sessions Channel Switching Emulation, in Proceedings of the 65th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-spring) - Dublin (Ireland), 22-25 April 2007
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2007
Performance of Downlink Shared Channels in UMTS Scenarios Using Markov Fluid Process, in the Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA) - Prague (Czech Republic), June 2007
Marie-Ange REMICHE, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Miguel DE VEGA RODRIGO, Hugues VAN PETEGHEM
2007
Investigation of the Sensitivity of UMTS Traffic Classes to Time-Correlated Errors on an IPv6, Linux-based Rel'99 UTRAN Testbed, in the 2nd Management Committee Meeting of COST2100 - Lisbon (Portugal), 26-28 February 2007
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2007
The challenge of integrating open-source and proprietary applications as part of a European-funded pilot project, in Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Association Information and Management (AIM)
Jacques THéVENOT, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Geoffrey MICHE, Nathalie DAGORN, Tomas PITNER, Luc VANDENABEELE, Hervé RIZZI
2007
MIMO Channel Prediction Using ESPRIT Based Techniques, in Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile Radio Communications PIMRC 2007
Joël VANDERPYPEN, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2006
A Consideration on the Spatial Diversity Effect on Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks under Rayleigh Fading Environments, in Proceedings of 2006 General Conference of IEICE
Nicolas FRANÇOIS, Yukihiro KAMIYA, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2006
Emulation of a Downlink Spreading Factor Allocation Strategy for Rel'99 UMTS, in Proceedings of the 64th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-fall) - Montreal (Canada), 25-28 September 2006
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2006
Description of an IPv6 Linux-Based UTRAN Testbed, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities (TridentCom) - Barcelona (Spain), 01-03 March 2006
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2006
Implementation of an Open-Source UTRAN Testbed, in Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology (SCVT) - Liege (Belgium), 23 November 2006
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2006
A Framework to Enable Enriched Training Experience, in Proceedings of Internative Computer-aided Learning conference (ICL 2006)
Laurent SCHUMACHER, Geoffrey MICHE, Tomas PITNER, Jaroslav RACEK
2005
Effects of Dominant Other-Sector Interference on Multi-Antenna HSDPA Performance, in Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Mobile Communications
Lars BERGER, Troels Emil KOLDING, Preben Elsgard MOGENSEN, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2005
Multiple Assesment of QoS Delivery in Advanced Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of the 12th International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Forum, Brussels (Belgium), 10 December 2004
Olivier DE MEY, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2005
Optimum Number of RLC Retransmissions for Best TCP Performance in UTRAN, in Proceedings of the 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Berlin (Germany), 11-14 September 2005
Olivier DE MEY, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Xavier DUBOIS
2004
4-Class UMTS Traffic Emulation, in Proceedings of the 12th International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Forum - Brussels (Belgium), 10 December 2004
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM, Laurent SCHUMACHER
2004
Geometry Based Other-Sector Interference Modelling for Downlink System Simulations, in Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2004), Abano Terme (Italy), 12-15 September 2004, volume 2, pp. 309-313
Lars Torsten BERGER, Troels Emil KOLDING, Laurent SCHUMACHER, Preben Elsgard MOGENSEN

Technical reports

2008
System Requirements. Channel Model Prediction: FP6 IST SURFACE D2.2 v2.0
Joël VANDERPYPEN, Laurent SCHUMACHER

Jurys (6)

Ph.D. theses

2009
Modegrave;le, principes et outils pour un informeacute;diaire au service du contrôle teacute;léonomique de l'information des internautes
Jean-Marc DINANT
2009
Uplink Radio Resource Management for QoS Provisioning in Long Term Evolution - with Emphasis on Admission Control and Handover
Mohmmad ANAS
2008
Mobility schemes for future networks based on the IMS
Kim Lynggaard LARSEN
2006
Quality of packet services in UMTS and heterogeneous networks
Oumer Mohammed TEYEB

M.Sc. theses

2009
Co-analyse Schéma-Données-Programmes en rétro-ingénierie des bases de données
Piero FOLISI
2009
Utilisation des vues pour l'évolution des applications de bases de données relationnelles
Cédric AERTS

Supervised theses (21)

PhD theses

2008
Building a tested emulating cellular networks: design, implementation, cross-validation and exploitation of a real-time framework to evaluate QoS and QoE in the UTRAN
Hugues VAN PETEGHEM

MSc theses

2009
Validation of UMTS emulation through PlanettLab
Benjamin EVRARD, Gille GOMAND
2009
Analysis and prototyping of the IETF RELOAD protocol onto a Java application server
Antoine ROLY
2009
Solutions to Fast Multistream Proportional Fair Scheduling in HSDPA Systems
Morel BODIN
2009
Validation du protocole TCP Xeno
Iddi KAJEGUHAKWA
2008
Video-on-Demand over Internet: a survey of existing systems and solutions
Yves DONY
2007
P2PSIP: Towards a Decentralized, SIP-based VoIP System
Jean-Francois WAUTHY
2007
Téléchargement concurrent via interfaces multiples
Thomas SINGLETON
2007
Dynamic configuration of label switched path
Julien BISCONTI
2007
Adaptive antenna arrays in QualNet simulator
Sébastien CORNET, Seweryn DYNEROWICZ
2007
TCP Xeno: TCP Xeno: interaction de GTCP et de TCP Veno
Christos STYLIARAS
2006
Evaluation des performances d'une solution Presence distribuée
Kristoffer DELFORGE
2006
Sécurisation de la notification de présence dans le protocole SIP à l'aide de la carte d'identité électronique
Sébastien GAMBY
2006
A study of the fading effect on multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks and its mitigation
Nicolas FRANÇOIS
2006
Accès à distance: fonctionnement, sécurité et implémentation
Nicolas PONCELET
2005
Emulation de transactions réseaux au moyen de traces
Etienne CAROUY
2005
AODV enhanced by Smart Antennas
Alain SOLHEID
2005
Conception et implémentation de passerelles SMS - MMS - IMS
Denis NOEL
2005
Performance of different TCP versions over UMTS common/dedicated channels
Xavier DUBOIS
2005
Implementation of a presence and instant messaging system using SIP with mobility support
David LE KIM
2004
TCP performance over WCDMA
Olivier HYNDERICK, Sven RAES