• A survey of wireless data center networks 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Hamdi, Mounir ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Data centers are becoming more and more popular for a wide variety of applications. However, the efficiency of data centers are restricted by many issues like cabling and maintenance problems in addition to performance ...
    • A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing for Video Streaming: Opportunities and Challenges 

      Khan, Muhammad Asif; Baccour, Emna; Chkirbene, Zina; Erbad, Aiman; Hamila, Ridha; ... more authors ( IEEE , 2022 , Article)
      5G communication brings substantial improvements in the quality of service provided to various applications by achieving higher throughput and lower latency. However, interactive multimedia applications (e.g., ultra high ...
    • An energy saving mechanism based on vacation queuing theory in data center networks 

      Baccour, Emna; Gouissem, Ala; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Tari, Zahir; ... more authors ( Springer , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      To satisfy the growing need for computing resources, data centers consume a huge amount of power which raises serious concerns regarding the scale of the energy consumption and wastage. One of the important reasons for ...
    • CODE: Computation Offloading in D2D-Edge System for Video Streaming 

      Khan, Muhammad Asif; Baccour, Emna; Erbad, Aiman; Hamila, Ridha; Hamdi, Mounir ( IEEE , 2022 , Article)
      Video traffic over the Internet is increasing rapidly, reaching up to 82% of the total Internet traffic by 2022. This enormous growth of video traffic which also include immersive video content (augmented reality ...
    • Green data center networks: A holistic survey and design guidelines 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Erbad, Aiman ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Data Center Networks (DCNs) are attracting immense interest from the industry, research and academia to keep pace with the increase of Internet services demands. One of the major concerns that draws the attention of ...
    • PTNet: A parameterizable data center network 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents PTNet, a new data center topology that is specifically designed to offer a high and parameterized scalability with just one layer architecture. Furthermore, despite its high scalability, PTNet grants a ...
    • WFlatnet: Introducing wireless in flatnet data center network 

      Baccour, Emna; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Hamdi, Mounir ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      The basic challenge of data centers is how to interconnect a huge number of servers while guaranteeing the performance of the network. Flatnet is a promising data center architecture that has proved its efficiency to connect ...