{"id":6955,"date":"2025-11-14T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samovar.telecom-sudparis.eu\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:57:31","slug":"avis-de-soutenance-de-monsieur-mehdi-salim-benhelal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samovar.telecom-sudparis.eu\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/avis-de-soutenance-de-monsieur-mehdi-salim-benhelal\/","title":{"rendered":"AVIS DE SOUTENANCE de Monsieur Mehdi Salim BENHELAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div><div><div id=\"zimbraEditorContainer\" style=\"font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"11\"><div> <center><h2>L&rsquo;Ecole doctorale : Ecole Doctorale de l&rsquo;Institut Polytechnique de Pariset le Laboratoire de recherche SAMOVAR &#8211; Services r\u00e9partis, Architectures, Mod\u00e9lisation, Validation, Administration des R\u00e9seaux<\/h2>pr\u00e9sentent<h2>l\u2019AVIS DE SOUTENANCE de Monsieur Mehdi Salim BENHELAL<\/h2>Autoris\u00e9<br> \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter ses travaux en vue de l\u2019obtention du Doctorat de l&rsquo;Institut<br> Polytechnique de Paris, pr\u00e9par\u00e9 \u00e0 T\u00e9l\u00e9com SudParis en : <h2>Informatique<\/h2><h1>\u00ab<br> Architectures intelligentes de nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration pour des v\u00e9hicules <br>autonomes et connect\u00e9s fiables : approches utilisant l\u2019assistance edge <br>et l\u2019apprentissage f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00bb<\/h1>le <span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"><span class=\"Object\" role=\"link\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT210_com_zimbra_date\"><span class=\"Object\" role=\"link\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT213_com_zimbra_date\">LUNDI 24 NOVEMBRE 2025<\/span><\/span><\/span> \u00e0 10h00 \u00e0 Amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre 7 19 Place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau <\/center><u><b>Membres du jury :<\/b><\/u><p style=\"margin: 0px;\"><b>M. Badii\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">JOUABER<\/span><\/b>, Professor, T\u00e9l\u00e9com SudParis, FRANCE &#8211; Directeur de these<b>Mme Salima\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">BENBERNOU<\/span><\/b>, Professor, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9, FRANCE &#8211; Examinateur<b>M. Ken\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">CHEN<\/span><\/b>, Professor, Universit\u00e9 Paris 13, FRANCE &#8211; Examinateur<b>M. Nadjib\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">AIT SAADI<\/span><\/b>, Professor, UVSQ Paris-Saclay \/ Paris-Saclay university , FRANCE &#8211; Rapporteur<b>M. Pascal\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">LORENZ<\/span><\/b>, Professor, Universit\u00e9 de Haute-Alsace, FRANCE &#8211; Rapporteur<b>M. Hassine\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">MOUNGLA<\/span><\/b>, Professor, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9, FRANCE &#8211; Co-encadrant de these<\/p><div class=\"pagebreak\"><\/div><div class=\"pagebreak\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Invit\u00e9s :<\/strong><\/span><\/div><div class=\"pagebreak\"><strong>M. Hossam AFIFI<\/strong>, Professor, T\u00e9l\u00e9com SudParis, FRANCE &#8211;   Co-encadrant de these <\/div><div class=\"pagebreak\"><\/div><\/div><div><center><h2>\u00ab<br> Architectures intelligentes de nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration pour des v\u00e9hicules <br>autonomes et connect\u00e9s fiables : approches utilisant l\u2019assistance edge <br>et l\u2019apprentissage f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00bb<\/h2><h2>pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par Monsieur Mehdi Salim BENHELAL<\/h2><\/center><b>R\u00e9sum\u00e9 :<\/b><p align=\"justify\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;\">L&rsquo;arriv\u00e9e<br> des v\u00e9hicules connect\u00e9s et autonomes (CAVs) est responsable de la <br>r\u00e9volution du transport des personnes et des biens. N\u00e9anmoins, il est <br>n\u00e9cessaire d&rsquo;avoir un syst\u00e8me de pr\u00e9diction de trajectoire pr\u00e9cis et <br>robuste pour atteindre une autonomie qui est fiable, celui-ci constitue <br>une passerelle entre la perception et la planification d&rsquo;actions. <br>Cependant, un tel contexte soul\u00e8ve de nombreux d\u00e9fis li\u00e9s aux <br>contraintes de communication, \u00e0 la pr\u00e9servation de la vie priv\u00e9e, ainsi <br>qu&rsquo;aux exigences d&rsquo;exactitude et de robustesse. Nous abordons ces <br>probl\u00e9matiques \u00e0 travers trois cadres compl\u00e9mentaires d\u00e9di\u00e9s \u00e0 la <br>pr\u00e9diction de trajectoires dans les CAVs. Tout d&rsquo;abord, nous pr\u00e9sentons <br>une nouvelle architecture de clustering assist\u00e9e par l&rsquo;edge qui utilise <br>des mod\u00e8les d&rsquo;apprentissage profond et des technologies de edge pour <br>am\u00e9liorer les pr\u00e9visions. Les mod\u00e8les de base de tous les CAVs prennent <br>en entr\u00e9e les positions historiques de leur v\u00e9hicule cible pour g\u00e9n\u00e9rer <br>des pr\u00e9dictions, qui sont envoy\u00e9es \u00e0 un serveur edge. Les trajectoires <br>pr\u00e9vues sont ensuite regroup\u00e9es \u00e0 l&rsquo;aide de l&rsquo;algorithme DBSCAN en <br>partitions de trajectoires, o\u00f9 les trajectoires du plus grand cluster <br>sont moyenn\u00e9es et le r\u00e9sultat renvoy\u00e9 \u00e0 tous les CAVs. Nous constatons <br>que notre architecture obtient d&rsquo;excellentes performances sur le <span class=\"Object\" role=\"link\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT211_com_zimbra_date\"><span class=\"Object\" role=\"link\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT214_com_zimbra_date\">jeu<\/span><\/span> <br>de donn\u00e9es nuScenes et r\u00e9siste aux probl\u00e8mes de capacit\u00e9 pr\u00e9dictive <br>compromise d&rsquo;un seul agent. La faisabilit\u00e9 du syst\u00e8me est \u00e9galement <br>analys\u00e9e avec les capacit\u00e9s 5G\/6G existantes. Deuxi\u00e8mement, nous <br>proposons une approche d&rsquo;apprentissage f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9 (FL) pour la pr\u00e9diction de<br> trajectoire. Cette approche int\u00e8gre un r\u00e9seau neuronal siamois (SNN) <br>afin d&rsquo;identifier les similarit\u00e9s contextuelles entre les environnements<br> clients. Les clients pr\u00e9sentant des contextes statiques similaires sont<br> regroup\u00e9s avant l&rsquo;apprentissage f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9, ce qui am\u00e9liore la <br>collaboration et les performances de l&rsquo;architecture. Des exp\u00e9riences sur<br> un <span class=\"Object\" role=\"link\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT212_com_zimbra_date\"><span class=\"Object\" role=\"link\" id=\"OBJ_PREFIX_DWT215_com_zimbra_date\">jeu<\/span><\/span> <br>de donn\u00e9es personnalis\u00e9 utilisant des sc\u00e8nes de highway drone dataset <br>(highD) et intersection drone dataset (inD) \u00e9valu\u00e9es avec l&rsquo;Average <br>Displacement Error (ADE) et la Final Displacement Error (FDE), <br>d\u00e9montrent l&rsquo;efficacit\u00e9 de cette m\u00e9thode pour la pr\u00e9diction de <br>trajectoires en conditions r\u00e9elles tout en pr\u00e9servant la <br>confidentialit\u00e9. Troisi\u00e8mement, nous mettons en avant une nouvelle <br>architecture de FL d\u00e9centralis\u00e9e sur plusieurs niveaux pour la <br>pr\u00e9diction de trajectoire. Cette conception r\u00e9sout les probl\u00e8mes de <br>point de d\u00e9faillance unique (SPOF), de goulots d&rsquo;\u00e9tranglement, de <br>communication et de d\u00e9pendance \u00e0 un serveur central impactant <br>n\u00e9gativement l&rsquo;apprentissage f\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9 centralis\u00e9 (CFL). Nous cr\u00e9ons un <br>framework d\u00e9centralis\u00e9 de deux niveaux et compos\u00e9 de plusieurs n\u0153uds, <br>chaque n\u0153ud repr\u00e9sentant un client unique. Les clients utilisent <br>principalement la communication parent-enfant, ce qui diminue le co\u00fbt de<br> transmission. Nous d\u00e9montrons que notre m\u00e9thode atteint une pr\u00e9cision <br>de pr\u00e9diction comparable \u00e0 celle du CFL tout en r\u00e9duisant les co\u00fbts de <br>communication sur les jeux de donn\u00e9es highD et inD. Nos architectures <br>repr\u00e9sentent un progr\u00e8s consid\u00e9rable en mati\u00e8re de pr\u00e9diction de <br>trajectoire au sein des CAVs. Dans ce travail de th\u00e8se, plusieurs d\u00e9fis <br>sont relev\u00e9s en termes de pr\u00e9cision, de confidentialit\u00e9, de robustesse <br>et de scalabilit\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce aux m\u00e9thodes assist\u00e9es par l&rsquo;edge, de FL <br>contextuel et de d\u00e9centralisation hi\u00e9rarchique. Ce travail constitue une<br> base pour d\u00e9velopper des solutions de pr\u00e9diction de trajectoire plus <br>robustes et mieux adapt\u00e9es aux contextes r\u00e9els de conduite autonome.<\/p><b>Abstract :<\/b><p align=\"justify\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;\">The<br> advent of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) plays a massive role<br> in people and goods transportation. To attain reliable autonomy, a <br>precise and robust trajectory prediction system serving as a connector <br>between perception and action planning is required. However, many <br>problems related to the constraints of communication, privacy <br>preservation, accuracy, and robustness arise in such a setting. We <br>tackle these issues through three complementary frameworks for <br>trajectory prediction in CAVs ecosystem. First, we present a new <br>edge-assisted clustering architecture that utilizes deep learning models<br> and edge technology to enhance forecasting. The base models of all CAVs<br> take as input the historical locations of their target vehicle to <br>generate predictions, which are sent to an edge server. The forecasted <br>trajectories are then clustered using DBSCAN algorithm into trajectory <br>partitions, where the largest cluster is averaged and sent back to all <br>CAVs. We find that our architecture obtains strong performance on the <br>nuScenes dataset and is resilient to a single agent\u2019s compromised <br>predictive capability. The system feasibility is also analyzed with <br>existing 5G\/6G capabilities. Second, we propose a Federated Learning <br>(FL) approach for trajectory prediction that incorporates a Siamese <br>Neural Network (SNN) to identify contextual similarities between client <br>environments. Clients with similar static contexts are clustered <br>together before the federated training, leading to more efficient <br>collaboration and improved architecture performance. Experiments on a <br>custom dataset using scenes from the highway drone dataset (highD) and <br>intersection drone dataset (inD), evaluated with Average Displacement <br>Error (ADE) and Final Displacement Error (FDE), demonstrate that this <br>method is effective for real-world trajectory prediction while <br>preserving privacy. Third, we introduce a new multi-level decentralized <br>Federated Learning architecture for trajectory prediction. This design <br>solves the problems of single point of failure (SPOF), communication <br>bottlenecks, and reliance on a central server that Centralized Federated<br> Learning (CFL) suffers from. We create our two-level decentralized <br>framework composed of multiple nodes where each node represents a single<br> client. Clients mainly have parent-child communication, which limits <br>the transmission overhead. We show that our method achieves comparable <br>prediction accuracy to CFL while reducing communication costs on the <br>highD and inD datasets. Our frameworks represent a significant <br>advancement in trajectory prediction for the CAV ecosystem. This thesis <br>tackles important challenges by providing solutions that target <br>accuracy, privacy, robustness, and scalability. To this end, we design <br>edge-assisted consensus, context-aware FL, and hierarchical <br>decentralization methods. This work provides a basis for trajectory <br>prediction methods that are not only more reliable but also more closely<br> aligned with real-world applications in autonomous driving.<\/p><div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&rsquo;Ecole doctorale : Ecole Doctorale de l&rsquo;Institut Polytechnique de Pariset le Laboratoire de recherche SAMOVAR &#8211; Services r\u00e9partis, Architectures, Mod\u00e9lisation, Validation, Administration des R\u00e9seaux pr\u00e9sentent l\u2019AVIS DE SOUTENANCE de Monsieur Mehdi Salim BENHELAL Autoris\u00e9 \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter ses travaux en vue de l\u2019obtention du Doctorat de l&rsquo;Institut Polytechnique de Paris, pr\u00e9par\u00e9 \u00e0 T\u00e9l\u00e9com SudParis en : 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