• Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6-based WBANs under co-channel interference 

  Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)

  In this paper, interference mitigation and coexistence strategies proposed in IEEE 802.15.6 standard are investigated within the context of co-channel interference. A comparative evaluation of the reference scenario (which ...
• Development and testing of a 3G/LTE adaptive data collection system in vehicular networks 

  Drira, Wassim; Ahn, Kyoungho; Rakha, Hesham; Filali, Fethi ( IEEE , 2016 , Article)

  Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a special case of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The distinctive characteristics of VANETs include high-speed vehicular nodes and significant variability in node density. Collecting ...
• A Heuristic Self-Adaptive Medium Access Control for Resource-Constrained WBAN Systems 

  Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Berder, Olivier; Menard, Daniel; Sentieys, Olivier ( IEEE , 2016 , Article)

  This paper presents a heuristic-based approach to self-adapt and reconfigures the wake-up schedule of the nodes in wireless body area networks (WBANs). A latency-energy-optimized traffic-aware dynamic medium access control ...
• Spatial data extension for Cassandra NoSQL database 

  Ben Brahim, Mohamed; Drira, Wassim; Filali, Fethi; Hamdi, Noureddine ( SpringerOpen , 2016 , Article)

  The big data phenomenon is becoming a fact. Continuous increase of digitization and connecting devices to Internet are making current solutions and services smarter, richer and more personalized. The emergence of the NoSQL ...
• ORACE-Net: A novel multi-hop body-to-body routing protocol for public safety networks 

  Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Attia, Rabah; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( Springer New York LLC , 2017 , Article)

  With the growing increase of disasters worldwide, in terms of frequencies, intensities and unpredictability, there is currently a growing need for novel ubiquitous communication systems enabling public safety networks ...
• Front-end intelligence for large-scale application-oriented internet-of-things 

  Bader, Ahmed; Ghazzai, Hakim; Kadri, Abdullah; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim ( IEEE , 2016 , Article)

  The Internet-of-things (IoT) refer to the massive integration of electronic devices, vehicles, buildings, and other objects to collect and exchange data. It is the enabling technology for a plethora of applications touching ...
• Adaptive security mechanisms for safety applications in Internet of Vehicles 

  Javed, Muhammad Awais; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an important constituent of next generation smart cities that enables city wide connectivity of vehicles for traffic management applications. A secure and reliable communications is an important ...
• Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Propagation Model in Urban Environment 

  Mir, Zeeshan Hameed; Filali, Fethi ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications offer support to several applications that can make the modern day travel safer, more efficient and enjoyable. However, reliable and efficient V2V application development requires ...
• Eco-Routing: An ant colony based approach 

  Elbery, Ahmed; Rakha, Hesham; El Nainay, Mustafa Y.; Drira, Wassim; Filali, Fethi ( SciTePress , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Global warming, environmental pollution, and fuel shortage are currently major worldwide challenges. Ecorouting is one of several tools that attempt to address this challenge by minimizing network-wide vehicle fuel consumption ...
• Measuring safety awareness in cooperative ITS applications 

  Javed, Muhammad Awais; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) are key component of the future road traffic management system. To evaluate and analyze the reliability of various applications supported by C-ITS, realistic performance ...
• Channel-aware ECDSA signature verification of basic safety messages with K-means clustering in VANETs 

  Ben Hamida, Elyes; Javed, Muhammad Awais ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Vehicular ad hoc network facilitates cooperative awareness applications by periodically sharing basic safety messages (BSMs) with the neighborhood vehicles. As these applications impact human safety, authenticity of BSMs ...
• A data traffic steering algorithm for IEEE 802.11p/LTE hybrid vehicular networks 

  Dreyer, Nils; Moller,; reas; Mir, Zeeshan Hameed; Filali, Fethi; Kurner, Thomas... more authors ... less authors ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Reliable vehicular communication is considered an important precondition for future intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Recently, a combination of ad-hoc direct communication and infrastructure based cellular networks ...
• Energy sharing framework for microgrid-powered cellular base stations 

  Farooq, Muhammad Junaid; Ghazzai, Hakim; Kadri, Abdullah; ElSawy, Hesham; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Cellular base stations (BSs) are increasingly becoming equipped with renewable energy generators to reduce operational expenditures and carbon footprint of wireless communications. Moreover, advancements in the traditional ...
• A multi-relay selection scheme for time switching energy harvesting two-way relaying systems 

  Ghazzai, Hakim; Alsharoa, Ahmad; Kamal, Ahmed E.; Kadri, Abdullah ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  In this paper, a multiple relay selection scheme for Energy Harvesting (EH)-based two-way relaying is investigated. All the relays are considered as EH nodes that harvest energy from renewable and radio frequency sources, ...
• Grid architecture for lightweight WSN-based area monitoring and alerts dissemination 

  Allali, Sarah; Menouar, Hamid; Benchaiba, Mahfoud ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Wireless Sensor Networks have been used for many applications especially for sites monitoring and surveillance. This contribution proposes a new grid-based architecture to monitor an area of interest that could be of a ...
• Joint throughput and channel aware (TCA) dynamic scheduling algorithm for emerging wearable applications 

  Alam, Muhammad Mahtab; Ben Arbia, Dhafer; Ben Hamida, Elyes ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  This paper addresses a reliability concern of the emerging wearable applications under dynamic and realistic conditions. We propose a new joint throughput and channel aware (TCA) dynamic scheduling algorithm for IEEE ...
• Optimized energy procurement for cellular networks with uncertain renewable energy generation 

  Ben Rached, Nadhir; Ghazzai, Hakim; Kadri, Abdullah; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Renewable energy (RE) is an emerging solution for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cellular networks. One of the challenges of using RE sources is to handle its inherent uncertainty. In this paper, a RE powered ...
• V2X-based traffic flow calculation with support of unique identifier randomization 

  Brahim, Mohamed Ben; Menouar, Hamid ( IEEE , 2017 , Conference Paper)

  Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2X) communication is heading our roads by next few years, and such a technology will open a door for many new applications and services. Many applications and services ...
• An adaptive timer for RPL to handle mobility in wireless sensor networks 

  Gara, Fatma; Ben Saad, Leila; Ben Hamida, Elyes; Tourancheau, Bernard; Ben Ayed, Rahma ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  This paper focuses on the performance of wireless sensor networks characterized by a hybrid topology composed of mobile and static sensor nodes. The Routing Protocol for Low power and lossy networks (RPL), which is ...
• Wireless RF-based energy harvesting for two-way relaying systems 

  Alsharoa, Ahmad; Ghazzai, Hakim; Kamal, Ahmed E.; Kadri, Abdullah ( IEEE , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  In this paper, we investigate the Energy Harvesting (EH)-based two-way relaying system using Amplify-And-Forward (AF) and Decode-And-Forward (DF) strategies. The relay is considered as an EH node that harvests the received ...

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