• A survey on communication infrastructure for micro-grids 

      Safdar, Salman; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Cotilla-Sanchez, Eduardo; Guizani, Mohsen (2013 , Conference Paper)
      A micro-grid is a small scale power supply network that is designed to provide electricity to a small community with its own renewable energy sources. Due to distributed generation variability, security and load sharing ...
    • Analyzing cognitive network access efficiency under limited spectrum handoff agility 

      NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Cheng, Xiuzhen; Znati, Taieb; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Article)
      Most existing studies on cognitive-radio networks assume that cognitive users (CUs) can switch to any available channel, regardless of the frequency gap between a target channel and the current channel. However, due to ...
    • BIRD-VNE: Backtrack-avoidance virtual network embedding in polynomial time 

      Abdelwahab, Sherif; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The virtual network embedding (VNE) problem is known to be NP-hard, and as a result, several heuristic approaches have been proposed to solve it. These heuristics find sub-optimal solutions in polynomial time, but have ...
    • Cloud of things for sensing as a service: sensing resource discovery and virtualization 

      Abdelwahab, Sherif; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Znati, Taieb ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      We propose Cloud of Things for Sensing as a Service: a global architecture that scales up cloud computing by exploiting the global sensing resources of the highly dynamic and growing Internet of Things (IoT) to enable ...
    • Cooperative joint power splitting and allocation approach for simultaneous energy delivery and data transfer 

      Ben Ghorbel, Mahdi; Guizani, Mohsen; Khalfi, Bassem; Hamdaoui, Bechir ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose to minimize the total energy consumption cost of a simultaneous data transmission and power delivery from different sources. The receiver is designed to simultaneously process information and ...
    • Design and implementation of credit-based resource allocation protocol for DSA systems 

      Hamdi, Rami; Ghorbel, Mehdi Ben; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen ( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      This paper designs, implements, and evaluates an efficient dynamic spectrum access (DSA) protocol for cognitive radio networks. The proposed protocol relies on the concept of credit value to allocate resources among users ...
    • Design and implementation of distributed dynamic spectrum allocation protocol 

      Hamdi, Rami; Ghorbel, Mehdi Ben; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen ( IEEE Computer Society , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we design, implement, and evaluate a resource allocation protocol for distributed dynamic spectrum access (DSA). This protocol, based on learning techniques, enables users to locate and exploit unused spectrum ...
    • Distributed dynamic spectrum access with adaptive power allocation: Energy efficiency and cross-layer awareness 

      Ben Ghorbel, Mahdi; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Hamdi, Rami; Guizani, Mohsen; NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      This paper proposes energy and cross-layer aware resource allocation techniques that allow dynamic spectrum access users, by means of learning algorithms, to locate and exploit unused spectrum opportunities effectively. ...
    • Distributed fair spectrum assignment for large-scale wireless DSA networks 

      Khalfi, Bassem; Ben Ghorbel, Mahdi; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen ( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      This paper proposes a distributed and fair resource allocation scheme for large-scale wireless dynamic spectrum access networks based on particle filtering theory. We introduce a proportionally fair global objective function ...
    • Distributed Learning-Based Cross-Layer Technique for Energy-Efficient Multicarrier Dynamic Spectrum Access with Adaptive Power Allocation 

      Ben Ghorbel, Mahdi; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Khalfi, Bassem ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      This paper proposes energy and cross-layer aware resource allocation techniques that allow dynamic spectrum access (DSA) users, by means of learning algorithms, to locate and exploit unused spectrum opportunities effectively. ...
    • Dynamic power pricing using distributed resource allocation for large-scale DSA systems 

      Khalfi, Bassem; Ben Ghorbel, Mahdi; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose dynamic power pricing for distributed resource allocation in large-scale Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) systems. The dynamic power pricing is considered to influence the users' spectrum assignment ...
    • Dynamic users assignment and bandwidth allocation for energy efficient hybrid powered communication systems 

      Touzri, Taha; Ghorbel, Mahdi Ben; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Khalfi, Bassem ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we aim to encourage the use of renewable power in communication systems through hybrid powering. The problem consists of optimizing the resource allocation problem using the hybrid powering from renewable ...
    • Efficient datacenter resource utilization through cloud resource overcommitment 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      We propose an efficient resource allocation framework for overcommitted clouds that makes great energy savings by 1) minimizing PM overloads via resource usage prediction, and 2) reducing the number of active PMs via ...
    • Efficient Usage of Renewable Energy in Communication Systems Using Dynamic Spectrum Allocation and Collaborative Hybrid Powering 

      Touzri, Taha; Ghorbel, Mahdi Ben; Hamdaoui,Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Khalfi, Bassem ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      In this paper, we introduce a new green resource allocation problem using hybrid powering of communication systems from renewable and nonrenewable sources. The objective is to efficiently allocate the power delivered from ...
    • EM-MAC: An energy-aware multi-channel MAC protocol for multi-hop wireless networks 

      Sivanantha, Akhil; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Cheng, Xiuzhen; Znati, Taieb (2012 , Conference Paper)
      We propose an energy-aware MAC protocol, referred to as EM-MAC, for multi-hop wireless networks with multi-channel access capabilities. EM-MAC relies on iMAC's efficient channel selection mechanism to resolve the medium ...
    • Enabling smart cloud services through remote sensing: An internet of everything enabler 

      Abdelwahab, Sherif; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Article)
      The recent emergence and success of cloud-based services has empowered remote sensing and made it very possible. Cloud-assisted remote sensing (CARS) enables distributed sensory data collection, global resource and data ...
    • Energy-efficient cloud resource management 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      We propose a resource management framework that reduces energy consumption in cloud data centers. The proposed framework predicts the number of virtual machine requests along with their amounts of CPU and memory resources, ...
    • Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation and Provisioning Framework for Cloud Data Centers 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)
      Energy efficiency has recently become a major issue in large data centers due to financial and environmental concerns. This paper proposes an integrated energy-Aware resource provisioning framework for cloud data centers. ...
    • Exploiting 4G mobile user cooperation for energy conservation: Challenges and opportunities 

      Hamdaoui, Bechir; Alshammari, Tamara; Guizani, Mohsen (2013 , Article)
      Recent years have witnessed tremendous success and popularity of mobile applications and services, resulting in an explosive growth in the number of mobile devices, as well as in the range and types of things these devices ...
    • Exploiting Task Elasticity and Price Heterogeneity for Maximizing Cloud Computing Profits 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( IEEE Computer Society , 2018 , Article)
      This paper exploits cloud task elasticity and price heterogeneity to propose an online resource management framework that maximizes cloud profits while minimizing energy expenses. This is done by reducing the duration ...