• 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 data center network topologies 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Hamila, Ridha; Foufou, Sebti ( Springer , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Data centers are the infrastructures that support the cloud computing services. So, their topologies have an important role on controlling the performance of these services. Designing an efficient topology with a 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 ...
    • Exploiting Sparsity in Amplify-and-Forward Broadband Multiple Relay Selection 

      Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Al-dhahir, Naofal; Foufou, Sebti ( IEEE , 2019 , Article)
      Cooperative communication has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its ability to increase the spatial diversity order with only single-antenna nodes. However, most of the techniques in the literature ...
    • Hyper-Flatnet: A novel network architecture for data centers 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamdi, Mounir; Hamila, Ridha ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Massive data centers form the core infrastructure support for the ever increasing cloud based services. Hence, the performance of data centers will have important influence on the scalability of these services. In particular, ...
    • Lascada: A novel scalable topology for data center network 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Hadjidj, Rachid; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha ( IEEE , 2020 , Article)
      The growth of cloud-based services is mainly supported by the core networking infrastructures of large-scale data centers, while the scalability of these services is influenced by the performance and dependability ...
    • ScalNet: A novel network architecture for data centers 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Foufou, Sebti; Hamdi, Mounir; Hamila, Ridha ( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of ScalNet, novel network architecture for data centers. ScalNet is a cost-effective, high- performance and scalable interconnect with almost flat architecture. ...
    • Sparsity-aware Multiple Relay Selection In Large Decode-and-forward Relay Networks 

      Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Al-dhahir, Naofal; Foufou, Sebti ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Cooperative communication is a promising technology that has attracted significant attention recently thanks to its ability to achieve spatial diversity in wireless networks with only single-antenna nodes. The different ...
    • Towards bandwidth guaranteed energy efficient data center networking 

      Wang, Ting; Qin, Bo; Su, Zhiyang; Xia, Yu; Hamdi, Mounir; ... more authors ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      The data center network connecting the servers in a data center plays a crucial role in orchestrating the infrastructure to deliver peak performance to users. In order to meet high performance and reliability requirements, ...
    • 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 ...