Research Interests

During the last ten years, I was interested in designing efficient data dissemination techniques and quality of service (QoS) schemes in wireless ad hoc networks while targeting some of their major applications. I focused my works on three important applications of wireless ad hoc networks, the wireless body sensor networks WBANs, the large-scale wireless sensor networks LSWSNs, and the vehicular networks (Vehicular Ad hoc Networks VANETs and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs). In WBAN networks, I was particularly interested in Routing, QoS at MAC level, Cross Layer Architectures and Interference issues. In LSWSNs, I focused my work on Routing, Duty Cycling, QoS, Deployment and energy management issues. In vehicular ad hoc networks, I worked on Geo-localized routing in VANETs and bio-inspired routing in UAVs, on Security and Location Privacy issues in vehicular networks (VANETs and UAVs).

Students Supervision

My research achievements are the result of a number of collaborations worldwide but mainly the result of my research conducted with my PhD and MSc students. I express my sincere appreciation to all of them without whom these results would not have been achieved. Below is a list of my supervised and Co-supervised students. Please refer to my [CV] for more details.

Current PhD. Students

Houaida Ghanmi	Data sharing and storage architecture based on blockchain technology in a cloud computing environment. [Thesis under joint supervision of Sorbonne Paris North and ENSI Tunis].
Mansoor Ashraf	Intelligent Routing in Connected Autonomous Vehicular Networks. [French Ministry of Higher Education and Research grant].

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Past PhD. Students

Fatima Zahra Rabahi	Mobility management in autonomous drone networks. [In collaboration with SSL Lab, University of Ain-Temouchent, Algeria - French/Algerian PROFAS B+ program funds].
Nouman Bashir	Multi-hop routing in UAV networks for highway surveillance. [French Ministry of Higher Education and Research grant].
Nour El Houda Bahloul	Bio-inspired routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks. [In collaboration with LaSTIC Lab, University of Batna 2, Algeria - Algerian PNE program funds].
Ismail Bezzine	Multichannel processing and analysis for QoS and quality driven video surveillance over wireless sensors. [QNRF-NPRP 8-140-2-065 project funds].
Salim Allal	Geocast Routing in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. [French Ministry of Higher Education and Research grant].
Yasir Faheem	Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. [Pakistan Higher Education Commission grant and Paris region THD project funds].

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Past PhD. Collaborations

Shahab Haider	Towards efficient safety schemes in vehicular ad hoc networks. [In collaboration with TeleCoN Lab, GIK Institute, Pakistan].
Leila Benarous	Security and privacy in vehicular networks. [In collaboration with STIC Lab, University of Tlemcen, Algeria].
Meriem Khelifi	Towards an optimal network, rerouting schemes in case of failure. [In collaboration with LRS Lab, University of Annaba, Algeria].
Audace Manirabona	Inter-WBANs cooperation for efficient data dissemination in eHealth environment. [In collaboration with LETI Lab, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Partially funded by MathStic research federation of university Sorbonne Paris Nord].
Hadda Ibn Elhadj	Energy efficient intra-WBANs routing schemes. [In collaboration with LETI Lab, University of Sfax, Tunisia].
Nourchene Bradai	Efficient QoS schemes in IEEE 802.15.6 WBAN networks. [In collaboration with LETI Lab, University of Sfax, Tunisia].

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Past MSc Students

Anis Harfouche	Design and imlpementation of a multimedia WSNs eHealth platform. [QNRF-NPRP 8-140-2-065 project funds].
Nguyen Viet Hai	Formal verification of a distributed routing protocol for large scale WSNs. [Funded by MathStic federation of university Sorbonne Paris Nord].
Salim Allal	Design and imlpementation of a routing protocol for WSNs. [Funded by L2TI Lab, University Sorbonne Paris Nord].
Miloud Otsmani	Data gathering management system for eHealth platform. [Funded by L2TI Lab, University Sorbonne Paris Nord].
Nazim Abdeddaim	Adapting OLSR routing protocol for the context of Vanets. [Funded by L2TI Lab, University Sorbonne Paris Nord].

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Research Projects

I have been involved in several National, European and International research projects where I was the leader of some of them. More details on these projects can be found in my [CV].

QNRF-NPRP 8-140-2-065 (2016-2019). [Co-Principal Investigator].	This international project focuses on QoS provisioning for real time image and video transmission over a wireless multimedia sensors in an urban environment. The main partners of the project are the university Sorbonne Paris Nord (France), North Umbria university (UK) and the university of Qatar.
Bonus Qualité Recherche BQR - (2009-2010). [Leader].	This project was funded by the university Sorbonne Paris Nord and deals with quality of service (QoS) in wireless eHealth environments. The partners of the project were the L2TI and the LIM&Bio Labs of the university Sorbonne Paris Nord.
Paris Region THD project (2008-2010). [Participant].	THD project was supported by Paris Region and its goal is the establishment of a very high-speed Internet platform in the context of big data. My mission in this project was the Internet technology forecasting.
RIAM SoundDelta project (2007-2009). [Participant].	This project focuses on support of 3D sound on IEEE 802.11 networks. The main partners of the project are the L2TI Lab, REMU, Télécom Paris Tech, and the LIMSI Lab.
ANR/RNRT R2M project (2006-2007). [Participant].	This project was focused on support of rapid/massive mobility and of multi-frequency in OLSR routing protocol for highly mobile environments (VANETs). The main partners of the project were Télécom Paris Tech, IEF Paris Sud, Siemens Transportation Systems, and Luceor.
European IPANEMA project (2000-2003). [Participant].	The goal of this project is the implementation and deployment of layer 2 HIPERLAN routing protocol, which is an European standard, on an IPv6 wireless ad hoc network. The partners of the project are INRIA (France), Matra SI (France), DATAMAT (Italy), and Telebit (Danemark).
RNRT PRIMA project (2000-2003). [Participant].	This project focuses on the implementation and deployment of OLSR routing protocol on a wireless ad hoc network. The main partners of the project are INRIA, COMATIS, HCR, Eurocontrol, and Matra SI.
RNRT ARCADE project (2001-2003). [Participant].	This project deals with the specification of an adaptive control architecture for IP environments. The main partners were INRIA, LIP6, France Télécom R&D, Thomson-CSF Communications, and QoSMIC.

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Research Events Organization

I have organized or been involved in the organization of serveral national and international conferences and scientific events. I have also chaired dozens of sessions in international conferences (IEEE WiMob 2023, IEEE CCNC 2016, IEEE Healthcom 2014, IEEE SaCoNeT 2013, MobileHealth [2013][2012][2011], ... etc). Some of the organized events are listed below.

Local organization Co-chair and Publication chair of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2024, Paris, France [IEEE WiMob 2024].

Workshops Co-Chair at the 11th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC) 2024, Washington D.C, USA [IEEE ISNCC 2024].

Co-Chair of the symposium "Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN)" in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC) 2023, Hawaii, USA [IEEE ICNC 2023].

Co-Chair of the track "Smart Health and Wellbeing" in IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) 2021, Virtual conference [IEEE ISC2 2021].

Organizing Co-Chair of WRE 2018 symposium, GIK Institute, Pakistan [WRE 2018].

Initiator and Co-Chair of ACM MobileHealth, an international workshop on pervasive wireless healthcare. MobileHealth workshop aims at providing a forum for the interaction of multiple areas related to mobile eHealth systems. The workshop is held in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc conference, one of the major conferences in networking, and is in its 8th edition. MobileHealth'2011 [May 16-19, 2011, Paris, France], MobileHealth'2012 [June 11-14, 2012, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA], MobileHealth'2013 [July 29 - August 1, 2013, Bangalore, India], MobileHealth'2014 [August 11-14, 2014, Philadelphia, USA], MobileHealth'2015 [June 22-25, 2015, Hangzhou, China], MobileHealth'2016 [July 5-8, 2016, Paderborn, Germany], MobileHealth'2017 [July 10-14, 2017, Madras, Chennai, India], MobileHealth'2018 [June 25-28, 2018, Los Angeles, USA].

Co-Chair of the track "Wireless Communications and Applications Issues for eHealth" in IEEE CCNC 2017 conference, Las Vegas, USA [IEEE CCNC 2017].

Co-Chair of the track "Wireless Communications and Applications Issues for eHealth" in IEEE CCNC 2016 conference, Las Vegas, USA [IEEE CCNC 2016].

Main organizer in 2013 of the scientific day "Conception et Vérification Formelle de Protocoles Distribués" within the MathStic research federation of the university Sorbonne Paris Nord [MathStic 2013].

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Reviewer and TPC Member of conferences and journals

I regularly review articles for prestigeous international journals and also acted or still act as TPC member of several IFIP, ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops. A non-exhaustive list of the most important journals and conferences where I was or still involved is given below.

IEEE Vehicular Communications Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, Springer Annals of Telecommunications Journal, Hindawi Distributed Sensor Networks Journal. ... etc.

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2024: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), IEEE/IFIP Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wireless and Wired Networks (PEMWN), IEEE Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Smart Water Management (SmartWater), ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet).

2023: IEEE ICC, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-Spring), International Conference on Future Communications and Networks (FCN), IEEE/IFIP PEMWN, IEEE International workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services (e-HPWAS).

2022: International Conference IEEE ICC, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-Fall).

2021: IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2).

2020: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS).

2016: IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ISC2, IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days, IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Adhoc Networks for Smart Cities (IWVSC).

2015: Inernational Conference IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom).

2014: IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE GIIS, IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE), IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days, IEEE Healthcom.

2013: IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), ACM Mobihoc Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare (MobileHealth), IEEE Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), IEEE ICCVE, IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days, IEEE Healthcom.

2012: IEEE Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications and Networks (WVCN), IFIP International workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, Architectures, Deployments and Trends (NTMS/WSN-ADT), ACM MobileHealth, IEEE GIIS, IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days.

2011: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), ACM MobileHealth, IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days.

2010: IEEE Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), ACM Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), International Conference IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days.

2009: IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), IEEE WONS, ACM IWCMC, International Conference IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days.

2008: International Conference IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days.

2007: ACM International symposium on Mobility management and wireless access (MobiWac).

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Research Talks

In addition to dozens of presentations I made in the conferences where my papers have been accepted, I also gave several research talks under the form of keynote speaker or tutorials in international conferences or in similar research events. I also provided several talks in special days or events organized in USPN local Labs (MathStic Research Days, AERES Evaluations, L2TI Scientific Days) and at the invitation of other foreign Labs in foreign universities (Pakistan, Tunisia, Algeria). Some of these research talks are listed below.

Tutorial at the 2024 edition of the IoT & Emerging Technologies workshop, organized by CRISTAL Lab of ENSI (Tunisia), TSP (Paris), IPP (Paris) and INRIA (Paris). April 2024, Hammamet, Tunisia: "Remote health sensing: network issues, solutions and perspectives". [Link to the event].

Tutorial at INRIA Paris given at the invitation of AIO research team of INRIA. March 2024, INRIA, Paris: "Usage of UAVs in safety-critical scenarios: Routing and topology maintenance concerns". [Link to the event].

Tutorial at the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria, given at the invitation of MOVEP Lab (Modelisation, Verification et Evaluation des Performances des Systemes). December 2023 : "Unmanned Aerial Vehicular Networks : Applications, Issues and Challenges". [Link to the event].

Tutorial at the 2023 edition of IoT & Emerging Technologies workshop, organized by CRISTAL Lab of ENSI (Tunisia), TSP (Paris), IPP (Paris) and INRIA (Paris). October 2023, Djerba, Tunisia: "Vehicular Adhoc Networks: Security and Location Privacy Concerns". [Link to the event].

Talk at the scientific day of the L2TI Lab, December 2022: "Network and MAC Cooperative QoS schemes for intra and inter-WBAN data transmission". [Link to the event].

Tutorial at the 11th IEEE/IFIP international conference on performance evaluation and modeling in wired and wireless networks, PEMWN 2022, November 2022, Roma, Italy: "Data dissemination in UAV networks : use case oriented bio-inspired routing schemes". [Link to the event].

Talk at the scientific day of the L2TI Lab, December 2021: "Location Privacy and Security in Vehicular Networks". [Link to the event].

Talk at the scientific day of the L2TI Lab, November 2019: "Efficient collaborative data dissemination schemes for UAVs for real time surveillance on highways". [Link to the event].

Keynote speaker at WRE 2018 international symposium, GIK Institute, Pakistan, 2018: "Data dissemination in VANETs : from urban vehicles to drones". [Link to the event].

Talk at the LRS (Réseaux et Systèmes) Lab, University of Annaba, Algeria, May 2018: "Routage dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil à large échelle".

Talk at the LRS (Réseaux et Systèmes) Lab, University of Annaba, Algeria, May 2018: "Réseaux san fil IEEE 802.11".

Talk at TeleCON Lab, GIK Institute, Pakistan, 2018: "Wireless Sensor Networks for Video Surveillance : Issues and Challenges". [Link to the event].

Tutorial at the 10th international conference on the Optimization and Information Systems, COSI 2014, June 2014, Bejaia, Algeria: "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) : Applications, Issues and Challenges". [Link to the event].

Talk at the LETI Lab, University of Sfax, Tunisia, April 2014: "Routage avec économie d'énergie dans les Réseaux de Capteurs sans fil".

Talk at the scientific day of the MathStic research federation of the university Sorbonne Paris Nord, November 2013: "SN-MPR: Protocole de Routage Optimisé pour Réseaux de Capteurs Sans Fil à Large Echelle". [Link to the event].

Talk at the AERES evaluation of the L2TI Lab, July 2013: "Routage avec Economie d'Energie dans les Réseaux de Capteurs Sans Fil à Large Echelle (Large Scale WSNs)".

Talk at Pôle ResCom days, LIP6 Lab, University Paris 6, March 2007: "Détection d'adresses dupliquées et autoconfiguration dans OLSR". [Link to the event].

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