R. Langar

 
 

  1. -April 2026: New paper in press in Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, on “Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey”.

  2. -March 2026: New paper accepted in IEEE VTC-Spring 2026, on “A Comprehensive Evaluation on Operational Connectivity for Future Railways Communications”.

  3. -March 2026: New project Trust-Fed-QGAN on “Reliable Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly and Attack Detection in Next Generation Mobile Networks” has been accepted, funded by NSERC Alliance International Catalyst Quantum Grant (duration: 12 months).

  4. -March 2026: Two new papers accepted in IEEE GIIS 2026, on “Reconstructing Occluded Power Lines from LiDAR Data: Current State, Methods, and Future Research” and “Quantum Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks”.

  5. -February 2026: New project RIS-ORAN-6G on “RIS-assisted O-RAN networks for energy-efficient and adaptive 6G wireless connectivity” has been accepted, funded by NSERC, Mitacs, and LATYS within the Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate program (duration: 36 months).

  6. -January 2026: New paper accepted in IEEE ICC 2026, on “Efficient Early Network Intrusion Detection based on Sub-Flow Segmentation”.

  7. -December 2025: New Post Doctoral Fellow “Yosra Njah” working on Handover management implementation in OAI-based 5G testbed.

  8. -December 2025: M. Naroua successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at UGE titled “Design and optimization of a multi-level distributed architecture for existing and future railway services”.

  9. -November 2025: New project on “Seamless Cross-Domain Handover for Resilient Communications over 5G Networks” has been accepted, funded by Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND), IDEaS program. Several Internship positions (Master’s and PhD levels) are available (duration: 12 months).

  10. -October 2025: New paper in press in IEEE Access Journal on “Monitoring Powerlines and Vegetation Risks: From Conventional Methods to Digital Twin”.

  11. -September 2025: Congratulations to “Abir Laouadi”, who switched to the PhD program one year after her Master program. She will continue working on energy-efficient resource management in RIS-assisted Open-RAN mobile Networks.

  12. -August 2025: K. Snoussi successfully defended his Master thesis at ÉTS-Montreal titled “Deep Learning for continuous authentication and human activity recognition using multimodal behavioral data”.

  13. -August 2025: New paper in press in IEEE Communications Magazine on “Generative AI-assisted Digital Twin for Power Asset Management”.

  14. -August 2025: Two new papers accepted in 21th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2025) on “Distributed Hierarchical Slack-Reduction in Slicing for Railways FRMCS” and “From Measurement to Materials: Cost-Aware Right-Sizing of Multi-Tier Edge Computing Infrastructures”.

  15. -August 2025: New Demo Paper accepted in 16th International Conference on Network of the Future (IEEE NoF 2025) on “CROSS-FLUX: A Semi-Virtualized 5G-V2X Cross-Border Platform for Scalable Security Testing”. Check the demo video here.

  16. -July 2025: New project for extra-EU mobility on “Application of Quantum Machine Learning in cybersecurity” has been accepted, funded by European Union within the Erasmus+ KA 171 program (duration: 24 months).

  17. -July 2025: New project Power-DT on “Managing Powerline Distribution Networks: From Conventional Methods to Digital Twin” has been accepted, funded by NSERC, Mitacs, and Hydro-Quebec within the Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate program (duration: 24 months).

  18. -July 2025: New paper accepted in IEEE International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF 2025) on “Multicast Routing Optimization using a Novel Discrete Flower Pollination-based Approach”.

  19. -June 2025: New Research interns “Son Nguyen” and “Amolitho Balde” working on Attack detection using LLM and Attack duration prediction using Transformers.

  20. -May 2025: New paper accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2025) on “A Novel Hybrid ML Approach for Powerline Vegetation Encroachment Area Identification”.

  21. -May 2025: New visiting Ph.D. student “Franco Cirillo” from University of Salerno (Italy) working on Federated Quantum GAN model optimization for anomaly detection within the frame of the FRQGAN4AD project.

  22. -May 2025: New Master student “Sonda Fourati” working on XLM for Autonomous Driving Systems.

  23. -March 2025: New paper accepted in IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2025) on “Mobility in 5G Emulators: Implementation and Evaluation”.

  24. -January 2025: Prof. Langar will give a Tutorial on “Toward Secure and Sustainable O-RAN networks” in IEEE GIIS 2025, which will be held in Dubai, 25-27 Feb. 2025.

  25. -January 2025: 3 new papers accepted in IEEE ICC 2025 on cybersecurity in B5G networks: “Predicting Cyberattack Duration in Next Generation Networks: A Novel Transformer-based Approach”, Green mobile base stations: “Cost-Effective Power Management for Green Mobile Base Stations”, and Green Open-RAN: “Energy and QoS-aware Functional Split Selection in 5G and Beyond O-RAN Networks”.

  26. -January 2025: New paper accepted in IEEE GIIS 2025 on “Optimizing Resource Allocation and Scheduling towards FRMCS and GSM-R networks coexistence in Railway Systems”.

  27. -January 2025: New Demo Paper accepted in IEEE GIIS 2025 on “Deep Learning-based DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in 5G-V2X Networks”. Check the demo video here.

  28. -January 2025: New Ph.D. student “Hakim Najiullah” working on Physical Cybersecurity for B5G/6G networks using Quantum AI.

  29. -January 2025: New Master student “Eya Ben Kacem” working on Digital Twin in Power Distribution Networks.

  30. -December 2024: New paper in press in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society on “Secure Distributed Federated Learning for Cyberattacks Detection in B5G Open Radio Access Networks”.

  31. -October 2024: Our paper “A novel Learning-based Human Identification Method from Behavioral Data” receives the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CIoT 2024.

  32. -October 2024: New paper in press in IEEE Access Journal on “Enabling Network Technologies for Flexible Railway Connectivity”.

  33. -September 2024: New project FRQGAN4AD on “Federated and Robust Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection in Future Internet” has been accepted, funded by European Science Foundation (ESF) within the cascade call NGI SARGASSO-2024-OpenCall4 (duration: 9 months).

  34. -September 2024: New Demo Paper accepted in IEEE CIoT 2024 on “xApps for DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in 5G-V2X O-RAN Networks”. Check the demo video here.

  35. -August 2024: Two new papers accepted in IEEE CIoT 2024 on “On the joint placement of Blockchain and users’ virtualized services in Internet of Vehicles” and “A novel Learning-based Human Identification Method from Behavioral Data”.

  36. -July 2024: New Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) - John R. Evans Leaders Fund project on Digital Twin for Efficient Management of Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks has been accepted (duration: 18 months).

  37. -July 2024: Prof. Hamouda, Prof. Langar and Prof. Boutaba will give a Tutorial in IEEE GLOBECOM 2024 on “Virtualization in Future Wireless Networks: Why is it still hard to achieve?”. Save the date on Dec. 12th 2024 for Tutorial 32.

  38. -May 2024: New Master student “Abir Laouadi” working on energy-efficient resource management in Open-RAN mobile Networks.

  39. -April 2024: New ANR/I-SITE project 5G-Fusion on “Federated University Testbed Systems for Innovation in Open-Source 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks” has been accepted (duration: 18 months).

  40. -January 2024: Two new Master students “Mohamed Anis Sakka” and “Damos Ayobo Abongo” working, respectively, on Cybersecurity in Open-RAN and Digital Twin for Management of Power Distribution Networks.

  41. -January 2024: New paper accepted in IEEE ICC 2024 on “Secure Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning for efficient cybersttacks detection in 5G networks”.

  42. -December 2023: New cotutelle Ph.D student between ÉTS-Montréal and UGE “Mohamed Aziz Aboud” working on smart scheduling in joint GSM-R and FRMCS 5G networks.

  43. -November 2023: New Ph.D. student “David Kule Mukuhi” working on AI-based Resource Management of Network Slices in FRMCS.

  44. -October 2023: New industrial project on “AI-based Resource Management of Network Slices in FRMCS” with SNCF-Réseau has been accepted (duration: 36 months).

  45. -September 2023: Two new Ph.D. students “Joseph Antoun” and “Fahdah Al-Alyan” working on Green network slice orchestration in virtual RANs, and Federated-Learning approaches for security and resource management in Open RAN architecture.

  46. -August 2023: New paper accepted in IEEE/IFIP CNSM 2023 on “Reinforcement Learning-based approach for DDoS attacks Mitigation in 5G-V2X Networks”.

  47. -July 2023: Two new papers accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 on “Deep Learning-based approach for Smart Radio Jamming Attacks Detection”, and on “Securing 5G Network Slices with Adaptive Machine Learning Models as-a-Service”.

  48. -May 2023: M.O. Nait Belaid successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at UGE titled “5G-based Grid Protection, Automation, and Control: Investigation, design, and implementation”.

  49. -May 2023: New paper in press in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management on “User-centric Slice Allocation in 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond”.

  50. -January 2023: Our paper on “Defining an MV/LV Protection, Automation, and Control system based on 5G network” receives the Best Paper Award at CIGRE 2022 conference, and has been selected for publication in the CIGRE Science & Engineering Journal (no. 27).

  51. -January 2023: New BPI-France project 5G-RACOM on “5G for Resilient and Green Rail Communications” has been accepted (duration: 36 months). 1 Ph.D. student position is open for application now.

  52. -January 2023: New research assistant “Fahdah Al-alyan” working on ML-based anomaly detection in B5G networks.

  53. -January 2023: New Ph.D. student “Messaoud Ait-Yahia” working on Network slicing security analysis via Blockchain.

  54. -December 2022: New paper in press in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine on “5G Vehicle-to-Everything at the cross-borders: Security challenges and opportunities”.

  55. -December 2022: H. Hafaiedh successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Resource management in the context of coexistance of LTE-U and WiFi in 5Ghz Band”.

  56. -November 2022: New paper accepted in 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023) on “5G-based Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Recovery: Field Experiment”.

  57. -August 2022: New paper accepted in IEEE SmartGridComm 2022 on “Smart Grid Critical Traffic Routing and Link Scheduling in 5G IAB Networks”.

  58. -August 2022: Two new papers accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 on “DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in 5G and Beyond Networks: A Deep Learning-based Approach”, and on “SD-RAN based Approach for Smart Grid Critical Traffic Routing and Scheduling in 5G Mobile Networks”.

  59. -June 2022: Our paper “Deep Learning-based Approach for DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks” receives the Best Demo Paper Award at IEEE NetSoft 2022.

  60. -May 2022: New Demo paper accepted in IEEE NetSoft 2022 on “Deep Learning-based Approach for DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks”.

  61. -May 2022: New DND IDEaS Micro-Net project on “5G Network Slicing Security” has been accepted (duration: 36 months). 1 Ph.D. student and 1 Post-doc positions are open for application now.

  62. -April 2022: New NSERC-DG project on “Sustainable Mobile Networks via zero-touch management of Radio Access Network Slices” has been accepted (duration: 60 months). 2 Ph.D. students and 1 Master student positions are open for application now.

  63. -February 2022: New paper in press in Elsevier Computer Networks Journal on “Dynamic Clustering of Software Defined Network Switches and Controller placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning”.

  64. -January 2022: R. Bekkouche and A. Djoudi, each receives 3 months mobility scholarship to visit, respectively, the NetSTAR Laboratory of Prof. Hamdaoui at Oregon State University, USA and  the Network Lab of Prof. Boutaba at University of Waterloo, Canada starting from May 2022.

  65. -January 2022: New paper accepted in IEEE ICC 2022 on “Ultra-Lightweight and Secure Intrusion Detection System for Massive-IoT Networks”.

  66. -November 2021: H. Bouzidi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Data-driven Dynamic Optimization of Traffic Workload and Network Slicing for 5G Networks and Beyond”.

  67. -October 2021: New Ph.D. student “Badre Bousalem” working on Attack detection and mitigation in 5G-V2X networks using Machine-Learning.

  68. -September 2021: Prof. Langar is in research leave at Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal (ÉTS-Montréal), and has been appointed as a Full Professor in ÉTS-Montréal.

  69. -August 2021: New paper in press in Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) on “Deep Q-Network and Traffic Prediction based Routing Optimization in Software Defined Networks”.

  70. -April 2021: New paper in press in IEEE Communications Magazine, Mobile Communications and Networks Series on “5G Autonomous Network Slicing Prototype Using Machine Learning Based Forecasting for Radio Resources”.

  71. -April 2021: Prof. Langar will co-organize a Workshop titled “Testbeds4Wireless” on Experimental Wireless Platforms and Testbeds for Computing, Communication and Networking Research in IEEE GLOBECOM 2021. Please consider submitting here.

  72. -January 2021: S. Matoussi successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “User-Centric Slicing with Functional Splits in 5G Cloud-RAN”.

  73. -January 2021: New paper in press in Elsevier Computer Networks Journal on 5G Network Slices Resource Orchestration using Machine-Learning Techniques.

  74. -December 2020: New Research engineer “Vinicius Fonseca E Silva” working on Updating and Maintaining the OAI-based 5G and IoT platforms.

  75. -November 2020: New ANR PRCI project with Luxembourg on “Intelligent Orchestrated Security and Privacy-aware Slicing for 5G and Beyond Vehicular Networks” has been accepted (duration: 42 months). 1 Ph.D. student and 1 post-doc positions are open for application now.

  76. -October 2020: N. Salhab successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Resource Provisioning and Dynamic Optimization of Network Slices in an SDN/NFV context”.

  77. -September 2020: New paper accepted in IEEE LCN 2020 on Deep Learning Based User Slice Allocation in 5G Radio Access Networks.

  78. -September 2020: New papers accepted in GIIS 2020 on Fuzzified Double Game for Qos-Aware LTE-U and Wifi Coexistence in 5Ghz Band, and Semantic network coding for WSAN in IoT Applications.

  79. -July 2020: New Ph.D. student “Roumaissa Bekkouche” working on Security and Resource Management in 5G+ networks using Machine-Learning.

  80. -April 2020: New paper in press in IEEE TNSM journal on Optimization of virtualization cost, processing power and network load of 5G Software-defined Data Centers.

  81. -April 2020: New papers accepted in IFIP Networking 2020 on Power Head-Room predictions in 5G Networks and Beyond using Deep Neural Networks, and Autonomous Anomaly Detector for Cloud-Radio Access Network Key Performance Indicators.

  82. -February 2020: Prof. Langar is invited to give a talk on “Machine Learning based resource orchestration and Optimal functional split for 5G network slices”, in Telecom SudParis for the ANR Lab-Com AIDY-F2N (Artificial Intelligence and Dynamic Modeling tools for Future Flexible Networks) kickoff project, Mar. 25th 2020.

  83. -January 2020: New paper in press in IEEE Journal of Selected Area on Communications (JSAC) on 5G RAN: Functional Split Orchestration Optimization.

  84. -January 2020: New papers accepted in IEEE WCNC 2020 and IEEE ICC 2020 on User Slicing  and Functional Split in 5G, Predictive End-to-End Network Slicing in 5G, and Offloading Network Data Analytics Functions in SD-DC.

  85. -January 2020: University Paris East Marne-la-Vallee becomes University Gustave Eiffel including many schools and institutes: UPEM, IFSTTAR, ESIEE-Paris, EIVP, ENSG and EAVT. Welcome to this new era!

  86. -December 2019: New Ph.D. student “Mohand Nait Belaid” working on 5G network slicing for Smart Grid protection.

  87. -December 2019: New industrial project on “5G Network Slicing to protect new generation of smart grids” with EDF-Lab Saclay has been accepted (duration: 36 months).

  88. -November 2019: Prof. Langar joined the editorial board of IEEE Systems Journal.

  89. -September 2019: Prof. Langar is nominated as co-head of the Smart Cities research group of the Labex Bezout, University of Eastern Paris.

  90. -July 2019: New papers accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 on Machine Learning based Resource Orchestration for 5G Network Slices, and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Network Latency Management in Software Defined Networks.

  91. -July 2019: Prof. Langar and his team get financial support from Paris Region to increase the visibility of their 5G prototype within the FlashRAN project: Flexible Radio Slicing for an Heterogeneous 5G Radio Access Network.

  92. -June 2019: Prof. Langar is invited as researcher in the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

  93. -April 2019: Prof. Langar joined the advisory board of LIGM.

  94. -April 2019: Prof. Langar will serve as symposium co-chair of “Next Generation Networking and Internet” in IEEE GLOBECOM 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 7-11 Dec. 2020, and symposium co-chair of “Cloud Computing and Big Data” in ICNC 2020, Big Island, Hawaii USA, 17-20 Feb. 2020.

  95. -April 2019: New paper accepted in IWCMC 2019 on Canonical Coalition Game for Solving WiFi and LTE Coexistence Issues on the 5 Ghz Band.

  96. -March 2019: New paper in press in IEEE TMC journal on Socially-aware Hybrid Computation Offloading framework for Multi-access Edge Computing.

  97. -March 2019: New I-Site FUTURE project on human modeling and future mobility (Virtual Traveller) has been accepted (duration: 36 months). Kickoff date: 3 Sept. 2019.

  98. -February 2019: New papers accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2019 and IEEE ICC 2019 on Functional splitting in 5G Cloud-RAN, Network slicing orchestration of IoT and eMBB services, and NFV orchestration for 5G cloud infrastructure.

  99. -January 2019: Prof. Langar is nominated as Associate Director of the Doctoral School of UPEM.

  100. -January 2019: N. Salhab receives 3 months mobility scholarship to visit the Network Lab of Prof. Boutaba at University of Waterloo, Canada starting from October 2019.

  101. -January 2019: New paper accepted in IEEE WCNC 2019 on Joint Optimization of Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing.

  102. -November 2018: New papers accepted in IFIP/IEEE IM 2019 on Q-Learning Algorithm for Joint Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Edge Cloud, and Collaborative Computation Offloading for Multi-access Edge Computing.

  103. -October 2018: New paper accepted in IEEE CCNC 2019 on Joint Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing.

  104. -September 2018: Prof. Langar joined the editorial board of IEEE JSAC (Journal of Selected Areas in Communications) - Network Softwarization and Enablers Series.

  105. -September 2018: New papers accepted in GIIS 2018 on Throughput-aware RRHs clustering in Cloud-RAN and Service Organization in IoT: mixing Orchestration and Choreography.

  106. -August 2018: New paper in press in IEEE TVT journal on Computation Offloading with Data Caching Enhancement for Mobile Edge Computing.

  107. -July 2018: New paper accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 on Online-learning for resource prediction in 5G networks.

  108. -July 2018: Prof. Boutaba from University of Waterloo (Canada) will visit Prof. Langar’s team as a visiting professor.

  109. -May 2018: New paper in press in Elsevier Computer Networks journal on Dynamic resource allocation framework in LTE downlink for C-RAN.

  110. -May 2018: Shuai YU successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Multi-user Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Cloud”.

  111. -April 2018: New papers accepted in IWCMC 2018 and CIoT 2018 conferences on Resource Optimization in heterogeneous dense cellular networks and Network Slicing for 5G IoT services.

  112. -March 2018: New paper in press in IEEE TMC journal on User Level Online Offloading Framework for Mobile Edge Computing.

  113. -February 2018: New French-Canadian research project PRESS on Resource Provisioning and Slice Optimization in SDN/NFV 5G environment has been accepted (duration: 36 months).

  114. -February 2018: New papers accepted in IEEE ICC 2018 and IEEE MENACOMM 2018 on Optimization of Network Slicing in 5G Radio Access Networks.

  115. -January 2018: Prof. Langar joined the editorial board of JONS (Journal of Network and Systems Management).

  116. -January 2018: Prof. Langar will serve as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN) for the term Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2019.

  117. -December 2017: Prof. Langar is invited to give a talk on “Dynamic Resource Allocation and Network Functional Splitting in 5G Cloud-RANs” at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, Dec. 7th 2017.

  118. -December 2017: Prof. Langar will serve as symposium co-chair of “Next Generation Networking and Internet” in IEEE ICC’19, Shanghai, China, May 20 - 24, 2019.

  119. -November 2017: Y. Lyazidi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Dynamic Resource Allocation and Network Optimization in the Cloud Radio Access Network”.

  120. -October 2017: Our first Network Slicing Prototype for a flexible 5G infrastructure will be presented in IEEE CCNC 2018, Las Vegas, USA. Please visit our SDR Lab for more details.

  121. -August 2017: New papers accepted in IEEE PIMRC 2017 and IEEE CNSM 2017 on Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Cloud.

  122. -June 2017: New industrial project on distributed SDN controllers for 5G networks with NOKIA-Bell Labs has been accepted (duration: 36 months).

  123. -May 2017: New paper accepted in IEEE VTC-Fall 2017 on C-RAN BBU Selection based on Resiliency and Price.

  124. -Avril 2017: Prof. Langar is invited to give a talk on “Dynamic Resource Allocation and Network Optimization in Cloud-RANs” at 6th IFIP PEMWN’17 conference to be held in Paris, France, 28-30th Nov. 2017.

  125. -March 2017: New FUI-23 project on 5G network slicing for Internet of Things (SCORPION) has been accepted (duration: 24 months). Kickoff date: 11 September 2017.

  126. -February 2017: Our demo paper on Automated Offloading of Android Applications for Computation/Energy-usage Optimizations has been accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2017.

  127. -January 2017: Y. Lyazidi is invited as student researcher in CTTC, Barcelona, Spain, for 6 months.

  128. -December 2016: A. Ben Cheikh successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Mobility Management in Femtocell Networks”.

  129. -November 2016: ULOOF: User Level Online Offloading Framework is now working on Android OS, supported by FUI PODIUM project. A demonstration has been presented in ONOS Build 2016. For more details, please visit our ULOOF website.

  130. -November 2016: Our paper “OHDP: Optimized Handover with Direction Prediction Scheme Using Linear Regression for Femtocell Networks” receives the Best Paper Award at 5th IFIP PEMWN’16.

  131. -November 2016: Prof. Langar is invited to give a talk on “Self-Organizing Networks: Distributed-RANs vs. Cloud-RANs” at Network of the Future conference (NOF’16) to be held in Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  132. -November 2016: Prof. Langar is invited as researcher in DCC department, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.

  133. -October 2016: New paper in press in ELSEVIER JNCA journal on green routing protocols.

  134. -September 2016: Dr. Langar has been promoted to Full Professor at University of Eastern Paris, Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), and will lead the LRT research team of LIGM.

  135. -August 2016: New papers accepted in IWCMC 2016, ISC2 2016, GLOBECOM 2016, and GIIS 2016.

  136. -June 2016: Dr. Langar is invited as researcher in Lebanese University, Beirut - Lebanon.

  137. -April 2016: New paper in press in IEEE Access Journal on Coalitional Games for joint Co-tier and Cross-tier Cooperative Spectrum Sharing in Dense Heterogeneous Networks.

  138. -March 2016: Dr. Langar is invited to give a talk on “Cloud-RANs networks: challenges and solutions” at the New Generations of Networks (NGN’16) workshop, to be held in Beirut,  Lebanon in June 2016.

  139. -January 2016: Dr. Langar is elected as Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN) for the term Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2017

  140. -December 2015: Two Post-docs and one Ph.D. position available in our team. Please check the corresponding links for more details.

  141. -December 2015: Z. Khalfallah successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Underwater Wireless Sensor Network Deployment”.

  142. -November 2015: New SDR Lab launched, supported by ANR ABCD and FUI ELASTIC Networks projects.

  143. -November 2015: New paper in press in IEEE TNSM journal on Flow-based Management for Energy Efficient Campus Networks.

  144. -August 2015: Dr. Langar is invited as researcher in DCC department, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.

  145. -July 2015: Two new FUI-20 projects on Cloud Radio Access Networks (ELASTIC Networks, duration: 30 months) and on Mobile Cloud Offloading (PODIUM, duration:  36 months).

  146. -May 2015: New paper in press in IEEE TNSM journal on Green SLAs in Distributed Clouds.

  147. -May 2015: Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Elsevier Vehicular Communications Journal on “Vehicular Cloud Networking” - CFP - consider submitting.

  148. -March 2015: New paper accepted in IFIP Networking 2015 on Underwater Sensor Networks.

  149. -January 2015: New paper accepted in IEEE ICC 2015 on mobility management in Femtocell networks.

  150. -December 2014: A. Amokrane successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Green and Energy Efficiency in Access Networks and Cloud Infrastructure”.

  151. -December 2014: Dr. Langar will serve as symposium co-chair of “Next Generation Networking and Internet” in IEEE ICC’16, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23 - 27, 2016.

  152. -November 2014: Our paper “On Satisfying Green SLAs in Distributed Clouds” receives the Best Paper Award at CNSM 2014.

  153. -November 2014: Our paper “Interference-aware Game-based Channel Assignment Algorithm for MR-MC WMNs” receives the Top 3 Paper Award in Wireless Days (WD) 2014.

  154. -September 2014: New papers accepted in IEEE CNSM 2014, WD 2014, and NOF 2014 on green SLA in distributed clouds, channel allocation in WMNs, and underwater sensor networks.

  155. -May 2014: New paper in press in IEEE TMC journal on resource and power allocation in femtocell networks.

  156. -April 2014: A. Amokrane receives the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center internship for 6 months starting from June 2014.

  157. -April 2014: Dr. Langar is invited as researcher in the School of Information and Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Tsinghua University (THU), China.

  158. -February 2014: New French-Brazilian project on Mobile Cloud Computing (duration: 36 months).

  159. -January 2014: New paper in press in ELSEVIER ComNet journal on energy-aware routing and link scheduling in WMNs.

  160. -Dr. Langar is TPC co-chair of the Wired/Wireless Communications, Networks and Information Infrastructure Track of GIIS 2014 in Montreal, Canada, Sept. 15 - 19, 2014.

  161. -December 2013: Dr. Langar obtained his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in wireless networking from UPMC.

  162. -December 2013: Dr. Langar is elected as Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Information Infrastructure and Networking (TCIIN).

  163. -November 2013: Dr. Langar is invited as researcher in the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

  164. -October 2013: New paper in press in IEEE TVT journal on resource allocation with QoS guarantees in femtocell networks.

  165. -September 2013: New paper accepted in IEEE TCC journal about green cloud computing.

  166. -July 2013: New ANR INFRA13 project on Adaptive Behavior and Cloud Distribution (duration: 42 months).

  167. -June 2013: Dr. Langar is invited as researcher in the Division of IT Convergence Engineering, POSTECH, South Korea.

  168. -June 2013: Dr. Langar to give a tutorial at MED-HOC-NET, Corsica, 26 June 2013.

  169. -March 2013: A. Hatoum successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Resource Management in Femtocell Networks”.

  170. -Dr. Langar is TPC co-chair of the Network of the Future, NoF’12, Tunis, Tunisia.

  171. -Dr. Langar is co-chair of “Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking” Symposium in IEEE ICC’12, Ottawa, Canada, June 10 - 15, 2012.

  172. -November 2012: New paper accepted in IEEE TMC journal on game theoretical approach for resource allocation in WMNs.

  173. -June 2012: A. Hatoum is invited as student researcher in POSTECH, South Korea, for 3 months.

  174. -January 2012: New French-Canadian research project FERRARI on Femtocell Enabled Roaming and Resource Allocation for a more Resilient Interconnection (duration: 36 months).

  175. -January 2012: New CNRS and PHC-Utique project on mobility management in femtocell networks (duration: 36 months).

  176. -September 2011: Dr. Langar received the UPMC research award for 4 years.

  177. -September 2008: Dr. Langar joined UPMC as Associate Professor, and will work with Pr. Guy Pujolle in the PHARE research team of LIP6.

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Rami Langar

Full Professor

Software Engineering and IT department

Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS-Montréal)

University of Quebec, QC, Canada