Research

 












  1. -A. Laouadi (since Sept. 2025)

  2. -D. Ayobo (since May 2025), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  3. -H. Najiullah (since Jan. 2025), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  4. -M.A. Aboud (since Dec. 2023), co-advised with N. Zangar and M. Berbineau (UGE)

  5. -D. Kule Mukuhi (since Nov. 2023), co-advised with M. Berbineau (UGE)

  6. -F. Al-alyan (since Sept. 2023), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  7. -J. Antoun (since Sept. 2023), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  8. -M. Ait-Yahia (since Jan. 2023), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  9. -B. Bousalem (since Oct. 2021), co-advised with S. Cherrier (UGE)

  10. -R. Bekkouche (since Oct. 2020), co-advised with M. Omar (UGE)


  1. -M. Narouwa (Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025), now Post-doc at UGE, France.

  2. -M.R. Eressa (Sept. 2020 - Jan. 2024), now Post-doc at UGE, France.

  3. -M. Nait Belaid (Dec. 2019 - May 2023), now IoT Senior Architect at Accenture, France.

  4. -H. Hafaiedh (Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2022), now lecturer in ENSI-Tunisia.

  5. -H. Bouzidi (July 2017 - Nov. 2021), now Cloud-Native Engineer at Nokia Paris-Saclay, France.

  6. -S. Matoussi (June 2016 - Jan. 2021), now R&D Engineer at Gandi, France.

  7. -N. Salhab (Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2020), now R&D Project Director at SNCF Networks, France.

  8. -A. Bezzina (Oct. 12 - Dec. 18), now R&D Engineer at Siemens EDA, France.

  9. -Shuai Yu (Oct. 14 - May 18), now Associate Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.

  10. -Y. Lyazidi (Oct. 14 - Nov. 17), now Senior Researcher at Ericsson, UK.

  11. -A. Ben Cheikh (Oct. 12 - Dec. 16), now Network Support Engineer at Bouygues Telecom, France.

  12. -Z. Khalfallah (Oct. 11 - Dec. 15), now Engineer/Trainer at SAS, France.

  13. -A. Amokrane (Oct. 11 - Dec. 14), now Director at KPMG - Cybersecurity, France.

  14. -A. Hatoum (Oct. 09 - Mar. 13), now R&D Project Leader at UCOPIA, France.

  15. -Z. Movahedi (Oct. 08 - Nov. 11), now Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology, Iran.

  16. -H. Saleet (Jan. 07 - Feb. 10), now Associate Professor at Applied Science University, Jordan.

 

  My research interests are focused primarily on :

  1. -5G/5G+/6G Networks, Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN): Resource prediction and Management, Network Slicing and Prototyping, Energy-efficiency, Cybersecurity, ML-based attacks detection and mitigation, Quantum ML.

  2. -Machine Learning for communications and networks, Quantum AI.

  3. -Network Digital Twin / Smart Cities : Energy Consumption Forecasting, Smart Grids.

  4. -Mobile Edge Computing (MEC): Mobile Cloud Offloading, Resource allocation, Green Cloud.

  5. -Small-Cell/Femtocell Networks: Radio Resource Management, Mobility Modeling, Interference Management, QoS support.

  6. -Software Defined Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks: Routing, Clustering, Controller placement, Energy-efficiency.

  7. -Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: Routing, Localization, Mobility Modeling.

 

Research Interests

Ph.D. Students

  1. -M. Tamimi (Univ. Pau et des Pays de l’Addour-France, 2026, Intern for 6 months at UGE)

  2. -K. Alweera (2026, visiting Ph.D. student for 4 months at ÉTS)

  3. -H. Omar (ESI-Algeria, 2026, Intern for 4 months at ÉTS)

  4. -M. A. Ajengui (Ecole Polytechnique-Tunisia, 2026, Intern for 4 months at ÉTS)

  5. -M. Zouari (Sup’Com-Tunisia, 2026, Intern for 4 months at ÉTS)

  6. -T. Naguez (ENSI-Tunisia, 2026, Intern for 4 months at ÉTS)

  7. -F. Cirillo (Univ. Salerno-Italy, 2025, visiting Ph.D. student for 6 months at ÉTS)

  8. -S. Nguyen (INP-Bordeaux, 2025, Intern for 3 months at ÉTS)

  9. -A. Balde (Univ. Paris-Nord, 2025, Intern for 3 months at ÉTS)

  10. -J. Saidi (ESPRIT-Tunisia, 2024, Intern for 6 months at ÉTS)

  11. -A. Ait-Hamid (UGE, 2024, Intern for 3 months at ÉTS)

  12. -Y. Ranganathan (Polytech Sorbonne, 2024, Intern for 3 months at ÉTS)

  13. -N. Choubik (INP-Bordeaux, 2024, Intern for 3 months at ÉTS)

  14. -Y. Razzaki (Univ. Nantes, 2024, Intern for 3 months at ÉTS)

  15. -S.B. Bakhouche (ESI-Alger, 2024, M.Sc. student for 6 months at UGE)

  16. -L. Selkti (Polytech Sorbonne, 2023, Intern for 2 months at UGE)

  17. -B. Fagot (Univ. Bretagne Sud, 2023, Intern for 2 months at ÉTS)

  18. -T. Herard (Univ. Bretagne Sud, 2023, Intern for 2 months at ÉTS)

  19. -A. Sakka (Sup’Com - Tunisia, 2023, Intern for 6 months at ÉTS)

  20. -A. Boudjelida (University of Jijel - Algeria, 2023-2024, visiting Ph.D. student for 8 months at ÉTS)

  21. -B. Bousalem (Mohammed V University - Rabat, 2021, M.Sc. student for 5 months at UGE)

  22. -J. Tshibangu (Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon, 2020, M.Sc. student for 6 months at UGE)

  23. -Z. Ameziani (UPEM, 2019, M.Sc. student for 4 months at UGE)

  24. -Z. Qavamy (IUST Iran, 2019, visiting Ph.D. student for 8 months at UGE)

  25. -A. Zanni (Univ. Bologna - Italy, 2017, visiting M.Sc. student for 6 months at UPMC)

  26. -J. L. Domingues Neto (UFMG, 2016, visiting M.Sc. student for 4 months at UPMC)

  27. -M. Idri (ESIEE Paris - NJU, 2015, M.Sc. student for 4 months at UPMC)

  28. -S. Alwan (UBO, 2015, M.Sc. student for 6 months at UPMC)

  29. -N. Mejri (ENSI, 2012 and 2013, visiting Ph.D. student for 3 months at UPMC)

  30. -M. Hkimi (ENSI, 2012, visiting M.Sc. student for 6 months at UPMC)

  31. -R. Ben Messaoud (POSTECH, 2012, visiting M.Sc. student for 4 months at UPMC)

  32. -S. Hoteit (UPMC, 2011, M.Sc. student for 6 months at UPMC)

  33. -A. Karouia (Sup’Com, 2009, M.Sc. student for 6 months at UPMC)

Visiting M.Sc./Ph.D. Students

Ongoing Projects


RIS-ORAN-6G: RIS-assisted O-RAN networks for energy-efficient and adaptive 6G wireless connectivity (Principal Investigator)

NSERC-Mitacs Alliance Grant

With ÉTS-Montréal and LATYS

Budget: 240 K$

Feb. 2026 - Feb. 2029


SCOR-5G: Seamless Cross-Domain Handover for Resilient Communications over 5G Networks (Co-Investigator)

DND - Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program

With ÉTS-Montréal, Univ. Waterloo, Univ. Regina.

Budget: 148 K$

Jan. 2026 - Dec. 2026


POWER-DT: Managing Powerline Distribution Networks: From Conventional Methods to Digital Twin (Co-Investigator)

NSERC-Mitacs Alliance Grant

With ÉTS-Montréal and Hydro-Québec

Budget: 120 K$

Jul. 2025 - Jul. 2027


SHADOWS: Sustainable mobile networks via zero-touch management of radio access network slices (Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator)

NSERC Discovery Grant

With ÉTS-Montréal

Budget: 230 K$

Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2027


Mobility_ITCAUSA: Application of Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning to Cybersecurity in 5G/6G mobile networks (Co-Investigator)

European Union - Erasmus+ KA 171 program

With ÉTS-Montréal, Univ. Salerno-Italy (PI), Arizona State University-USA

Budget: 106 KE (total), 27 KE (ÉTS)

Sept. 2025 - Aug. 2027


SMART-RAIL-5G: AI-based Resource Management of Network Slices in Future Railway Mobile Communication System  (Principal Investigator)

CIFRE Industrial project with UGE and SNCF-Réseau

Budget: 65 KE

Dec. 2023 - Dec. 2026

Past Projects


PRESS: Resource Provisioning and Slice Optimization in SDN/NFV 5G environment (Project Coordinator)

CNRS - NSERC collaborative project with Univ. Waterloo (Canada)

Budget: 15 KE

Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2020


SCORPION: 5G Network Slicing for Internet of Things (Principal Investigator)

FUI-23

With Nokia Bell-Labs, Vertical M2M, Virtual Open Systems, ULR

Budget: 150 KE

Sept. 2017 - Jul. 2020


DISCO5G: Distributed SDN controllers and Resource Prediction in 5G Networks (Principal Investigator)

CIFRE Industrial project with UGE and Nokia Bell-Labs

Budget: 45 KE

Jul. 2017 - Dec. 2020


PODIUM: Platform for data mobile cloud offloading (Principal Investigator)

FUI-20

With Thales, Luceor, Nexedi, IGO, Aneo, Ceren, Ethertrust

Budget: 267 KE

Fev. 2016 - Jan. 2019


ELASTIC Networks: C-RAN testing platform for mobile networks (Principal Investigator)

FUI-20

With Ercom, Com4Innov, Virtuor, Eurecom

Budget: 247 KE

Dec. 2015 - Jun. 2018


CROMBEC: Secure resource management and offloading mechanisms in mobile cloud (Project Coordinator)

PHC collaborative project with ENSI (Tunisia)

Budget: 30 KE

Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2018


ABCD: Adaptive Behavior and Cloud Distribution (Project Coordinator)

ANR INFRA 2013

With Orange-Labs, Ucopia, TPT, INRIA

Budget: 160 KE

Oct. 2013 - Mar. 2017


MobileCloud: Linking Sino-European Research Institutions in the Mobile Cloud Computing Era (WP Leader)

FP7 IRSES Marie Curie People Call

With Univ. Goettingen, SICS, Politecnico di Milano, Tsinghua Univ., BUPT, NJU, Fudan Univ.

Budget: 149 KE

Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2016


WINDS: Systems for Mobile Cloud Computing (Project Coordinator)

CNRS - FAP collaborative project with Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil)

Budget: 30 KE

Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2016


GOLDFISH: Detection of Watercourse Contamination in Developing Countries using Sensor Networks (WP Leader)

FP7 EU project

With Univ. Lunds, WUT, UAN, UMSA, UNODC, HCMUT, Green Comm., CapSenze, RITEH, IH-SAS

Budget: 260 KE

Nov. 2011 - Apr. 2015


FERRARI: Femtocell Enabled Roaming and Resource Allocation for a more Resilient Interconnection (Project Coordinator)

CNRS - NSERC collaborative project with Univ. Waterloo (Canada)

Budget: 25 KE

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2014


ABOUT: Autonomous moBility and resOurce management in virtUal femTocells (Project Coordinator)

CNRS - PHC collaborative project with ENSI (Tunisia)

Budget: 30 KE

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2014


4WARD: Architecture and Design for the Future Internet (WP Leader)

FP7 EU project

Budget: 340 KE

Jan. 2009 - Jun. 2012

Collaborators

  1. -Pr. Raouf Boutaba from University of Waterloo, Canada.

  2. -Pr. Wael Jaafar, M. Faten Zhani and Pr. Francois Gagnon from ETS-Montreal, Canada.

  3. -Mr. P.Y Petton and R. Fargeon from SNCF-Réseau, Paris, France.

  4. -Dr. Kader Outtagarts from NOKIA Bell-Labs, Paris, France.

  5. -Dr. Vincent Audebert from EDF-Labs Saclay, France.

  6. -Dr. Léo Mendiboure and Pr. Marion Berbineau from University Gustave Eiffel, France.

  7. -Dr. Ilhem Fajjari from Orange-Labs, France.

  8. -Pr. Nadjib Aitsaadi from UVSQ, France.

  9. -Dr. Daniel Macedo from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.

  10. -Pr. Bechir Hamdaoui from Oregon State University, USA.

  11. -Dr. Jin Xiao from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA.

  12. -Dr. Stefano Secci and Pr. Guy Pujolle from UPMC, France.

  13. -Dr. Nizar Bouabdallah from INRIA-Rennes, France.

  14. -Pr. Farouk Kamoun, Pr. Leila Saidane, and Dr. Mouna Ayari from ENSI Tunisia.

  1. -Y. Njah (Dec. 2025 - Dec. 2026)

  2. -V. Fonseca E Silva (Dec. 2020 - Nov. 2025), now Post-doc at UFMG-Brazil.

  3. -M. Awad (Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2025), now lecturer at ÉTS, Canada.

  4. -F. Al-alyan (Jan. 2023 - July 2023), now Ph.D. student at ÉTS, Canada.

  5. -S. Costanzo (Jun. 2016 - Feb. 2019), now R&D Researcher at Orange-Labs, Chatillon, France.

  6. -B. Dab (August 2017 - Oct. 2018), now Senior Solutions Architect at VMware, Paris, France.

  7. -Se-Young Yu (July 2016 - Jun. 2017), now Network Research Engineer at ESnet, USA.

  8. -H. Saleet (Mar. 2010 - Jun. 2011), now Associate Professor at Applied Science University, Jordan.

Post-Docs/Research Eng.

  1. -N. Zangar (UGE, France), 2 weeks in 2024 at ÉTS

  2. -S. Hamouda (Sup’Com, Tunisia), 2 weeks in 2024 at ÉTS

  3. -N. Hamani (ESI-Alger, Algeria), 2 weeks in 2024 at ÉTS

  4. -M. Kessentini (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA), 1 month in 2020 at UGE

  5. -T. Taleb (Aalto University, Finland), 1 month in 2019 at UGE

  6. -R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada), 1 month in 2018 at UGE

  7. -M. Nogeira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil), 1 week in 2018 at UGE

  8. -D. Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA), 1 week in 2017 at UGE

Visiting Professors


FRQGAN4AD: Federated and Robust Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection in Future Internet (Collaborator)

European Science Foundation (ESF) - NGI SARGASSO-2024-OpenCall4

With ÉTS-Montréal, Univ. Salerno - Italy (PI), Southern Denmark Univ. 

Jan. 2025 - Sept. 2025


5G-FUSION: Federated University Testbed Systems for Innovation in Open-Source 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks (Co-Investigator)

ANR/I-Site call

With UGE Bordeaux Campus, Lille Campus, and Marne-la-Vallée Campus.

Budget: 165 KE (55 KE for each campus)

Sept. 2024 - Feb. 2026


5G-RACOM: 5G for Resilient and Green RAil COMnunications (Participant)

BPI-France (Ministère de l’économie, des Finances et de l’Industrie) 

With UGE, Railenium, SNCF, IMT-atlantique and other partners from Germany

Budget: 162 KE

Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025


DT4ITNT-6G: Digital Twin for Efficient Management of Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (Co-Investigator)

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) - John R. Evans Leaders Fund

With ÉTS-Montréal

Budget: 264 K$

Jul. 2024 - Dec. 2025


5G-SliceSec: Secure and Reliable End-to-End Network Slicing for 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks (Co-Investigator)

DND - Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program

With ÉTS-Montréal, Univ. Waterloo, Univ. Regina, BlackBerry, NoviFlow, Rockport Networks, Rogers Communications

Budget: 207 K$

Jul. 2022 - June 2025


5G-INSIGHT: Intelligent Orchestrated Security and Privacy-aware Slicing for 5G and beyond Vehicular Networks  (Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator)

ANR AAPG 2020 - PRCI with Luxembourg 

With UGE, ULR, UBFC, UNILU, LIST

Budget: 284 KE

Apr. 2021 - Dec. 2024


SMART-GRID-5G: 5G Network Slicing to protect new generation of smart grids  (Principal Investigator)

CIFRE Industrial project with UGE and EDF-Lab Saclay

Budget: 60 KE

Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2022


FlashRAN: Flexible Radio Slicing for an Heterogeneous Radio Access Network    (Project Coordinator)

CNRS - Paris Region

Budget: 82 KE

Sept. 2019 - Oct. 2021

  1. -S. Fourati (since May 2025) co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  2. -E. Ben Kacem (since Jan. 2025) co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)


  1. -A. Sakka (Jan. 2024 - Apr. 2026), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  2. -K. Snoussi (Jan. 2024 - Aug. 2025), co-advised with W. Jaafar (ÉTS)

  3. -A. Laouadi (May 2024 - Aug. 2025), now PhD. student at ÉTS

  4. -D. Ayobo (Jan. 2024 - Apr. 2025), now PhD. student at ÉTS

M.Sc. Students


Trust-Fed-QGAN: Reliable Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly and Attack Detection in Next Generation Mobile Networks (Principal Investigator)

NSERC Alliance International Catalyst Quantum Grant

With ÉTS-Montréal and Univ. Salerno-Italy

Budget: 25 K$

Mar. 2026 - Mar. 2027