Post-doctoral fellow in Vulnerability assessment of PON-type (Passive Optical Network) access networks against potential DAS-based (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) eavesdropping - 12 months contract

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description . Who we are ? . Télécom Paris, part of the IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) and a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, is one of France's top 5 general engineering schools. The mainspring of Télécom Paris is to train, imagine and undertake to design digital models, technologies and solutions for a society and economy that respect people and their environment. We are looking for our next postdoctoral researcher to work on assessing the vulnerability of a PON (Passive Optical Network) telecoms access network to potential eavesdropping via DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensors), to join the Communications and Electronics Department (COMELEC). This study is conducted within the framework of Project « EAT » RAPID (Régime d’Appui Pour l’Innovation Duale), resulting from a partnership between the company Febus Optics and Telecom Paris. The innovative nature of this work lies in defining the network conditions allowing for a cybersecurity audit on already deployed infrastructures. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) via optical fiber is a recent technology with a constantly diversifying range of applications. These include perimeter intrusion detection, seismic measurements, and borehole diagnostics (oil & gas, geothermal), among others. The measurement bandwidth, ranging from sub-Hertz to hundreds of kilohertz, also enables the capture of audio signals, thereby allowing for acou