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Current research interests (not in any particular order)

I'm interested in the design, implementation, real deployment, and experimentation of communications protocols, services, and systems for wired and wireless networks. In particular, I have an interest in:

• Ubiquitous wireless networking
• Communications for Intelligent Transport Systems (V2X communications) 
• WLANs and mobile adhoc networks
• WIMAX (802.16) wireless networks
• Wireless sensor and actuator networks (SANETs)
• Wireless mesh networks (WMNs)
• Delay-Tolerant networks (DTNs)
• Cross-layer design of wireless networks
• QoS support in wireless networks
• Radio resource management of heterogeneous wireless networks
• Wireless emulation and experimentation platforms
• Wireless social/community networks

Some of my previous research works cover the following area:

• Optimization and performance evaluation of wired communications networks
• Design of the next-generation satellite communications systems
• Dynamic routing over satellite links
• Multicast routing in hybrid terrestrial-satellite networks
• Buffer management and scheduling algorithms for multicast traffic
• Multicast over DiffServ architecture

Ph.D Students

Ongoing

• Faouzi Kaabi (started on December 2006, PACA Region and Eurecom funding, UNSA STIC Doctoral School): Cross-Layer Design of Broadband Wireless Mesh Networks.
• Ikbal Msadaa (started on January 2007, Eurecom funding, TELECOM ParisTech Doctoral School): QoS and Mobility Management in WiMAX Networks.
• Daniel Camara (started on February 2007, Eurecom funding, co-supervised with Christian Bonnet, TELECOM ParisTech Doctoral School): Topology Management and QoS Provisioning in Multihop Wireless Broadband Networks.
  

Alumni

• Muhammad Farukh Munir (October 2005 - February 2009, Pakistan Government and EURECOM funding, TELECOM ParisTech Doctoral School): Cross-layer design of wireless protocols for Sensors and Actuators Networks (SANETs).
• Hamid Menouar (February 2005 - February 2008, CIFRE funding, co-supervised with Massimiliano Lenardi from Hitachi Sophia-Antipolis, TELECOM ParisTech Doctoral School): Cross-layer design of wireless protocols for Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). Current position: Researcher at Hitachi, Sophia-Antipolis.
• Jérome Haerri (October 2003 - June 2007, Eurecom funding, co-supervised with C. Bonnet, EPFL Doctoral School): Modeling and Predicting Mobility in Wirelss Adhoc Networks. Current position: Assistant Professor at Karlsruhe University, Germany.

Current research projects (grants)

• IST FP7 Projects:
• iTETRIS: An Integrated Wireless and Traffic Platform for Real-Time Road Traffic Management Solutions: http://www.ict-itetris.eu
• IST FP6 projects
• Chorist: Integrating Communications for enHanced envirOnmental RISk management and citizens safeTy: http://www.chorist.eu
  
• Multinet: Enabler for Next Generation Services Delivery: http://www.ist-multinet.org/
  
• Daidalos: Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services http://www.ist-daidalos.org
• E2R: End-to-End Reconfigurability http://www.e2r.motlabs.com/
  

• National projects
• WiNEM (ANR - RNRT, 2007-2010): Wimax Network Engineering and Multihoming: http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/WiNEM/

• GET (Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications) projects
• OPAX (funding type: actions sur crédits incitatifs): Optimization and Analysis and of WiMAX Networks: http://opax.eurecom.fr/ (will be available on December 2006)
• Spontaneous and Autonomous Networks (funding type: PI-Programme Initiative): http://proget.int-evry.fr/projects/PIReseauxSpontanes/
• Regional Projects:
• PLEXUS: A Heterogeneous Wireless Experimentation Platform, Contrat Plan Etat Région - 2007-2013, with INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (Planète Project).
• PLEXUS's Objectives: The aim of the PLEXUS is to build a heterogeneous distributed wireless platform in Sophia-Antipolis that can be remotely used by researchers to run experiments and collect measurements. 
• My contributions in PLEXUS: I'm the principal investigator of this project and I'm responsible of designing the platform and defining the wireless networks that will be integrated. To provide remotely access and use of the platform, a research work in the area of virtualization techniques and emulation tools is under going. As a first step, the platform will focus on wireless local area networks and wireless mesh networks based on the 802.11(s) standards.

Previous projects (grants)

• National projects
  
• Cosinus (ANR - RNRT, 2006-2008):: Real-time communications in IP wireless networks: http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/rnrt/rnrt/projets/COSINUS.htm
• RNRT Rhodos project (12/2002 - 12/2005 ): http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/rnrt/rnrt/projets/res_02_48.htm
• RNRT DIPCAST project (09/2000 - 09/2003): http://www.dipcast-satellite.com
• RNRT Constellation project (09/1999 - 09/2002): http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/rnrt/rnrt/projets/pconstellation_de_satellites.htm
• IST FP6 projects
  
• Newcom: Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications http://newcom.ismb.it
• Widens: Wireless Deployable Network System http://www.widens.org
• Other collaborations
• Hitachi and INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (Planète team) collaboration on scalability of routing and transport protocols over satellite links (from sept. 2001 to sept. 2002)
• GET (Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications) projects
• November (sur crédits incitatifs): Engineering for Quality of Service in Multiservice Radio Network:http://www.rennes.enst-bretagne.fr/NOVEMBRE/NOVEMBRE.html
  

Previous research interests

Supervised graduate and master students

1. Thibaud Alloncle, Engineer Internship, 2009: AMOA Mobility
2.  Vineet KUMAR, Master Internship, 2008: VANET Network and Application Layers’ Development.
3.  Gabriele Lomuscio and Lionel Agai, EURECOM semester project, 2008: An Advanced Driver Information and Assistance System.
4.  Amine Kadiri, EURECOM semester project, 2008: A Middleware for Vehicular Opportunistic Applications.
5. Ichrak Amdouni, Engineer Internship, ENSI, 2008: Scanning and Characterization of Sophia-Antipolis WiFi Hotspots
6. Fatma Hrizi, Engineer Internship, ENSI, 2008: Optimisation de la Communication Sans-fil entre les Véhicules pour les Applications d'Alertes
7. Mohammad Abualghanam, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2007: Studying & identifying end-to-end features and analyzing end-to-end QoS measurements for enhancing the mobile networks' performance.
8. Jérémie Viel, Master Internship, Master of Management and Engineer, Eurecom, 2007: Management of a Telecom Project.
9. Ilham Amimi, Master Internship, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2007: Billing models for 3G Networks.
10. Ilham Amimi, Spring semester project, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2006: A Graphical User Interface for the Mobile Termincal Controller. 
11. Jihad El Hanbali, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2006: Etude d'architecture P2P SIP pour le support de services conversationnels.
12. Mahmoud Alhaj, Spring semester project, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2005: Bandwidth Estimation in WLANs. 
13. Sanae El-hassani, Spring semester project, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2006: Performance evaluation of the wimeter bandwidth estimation technique in 802.11 WLANs. 
14. Thomas Perrin, Spring semester project, Eurecom, 2007: PouponDailyInfo.
15. Amel Satouri, Engineer Internship, ENSI, 2007: Design and Developement of a Monitoring and Configuration Tool for Heterogenous Wireless Networks.
16. Insaf Mhissen, Engineer Internship, ENSI, 2007: Connectivity Analysis and QoS Routing in DTN Vehicular Networks.
17. Anna-Kaisa Pietilainen and Mathias Bjorkqvist, Eurecom, 2006: Performance Evaluation of WiMAX Broadband Wireless Networks.
18. Sanae El-hassani, Eurecom, 2006: Performance evaluation of the wimeter bandwidth estimation technique in 802.11 WLANs.
19. Ilham Amimi, Spring semester project, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2006: A Graphical User Interface for the Mobile Termincal Controller.
20. Jihad El Hanbali, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2006: Etude d'architecture P2P SIP pour le support de services conversationnels.
21. Ikbal Msadaa, Engineer/Master Internship, ENSI, 2006: QoS Support in WiMAX Wireless Broadband Networks.
22. Mahmoud Alhaj, Spring semester project, Master of Sciences - Mobile Communications, Eurecom, 2005: Bandwidth Estimation in WLANs.
23. De Pinto Elena, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2006: Ethernet over WDM.
24. Huber Andrea, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2006: Service-aware overlay nodes.
25. Diego Ferrero, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2005: Micro-mobility support in an IP-based multihop radio access network.
26. Alain Leiggener, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2005: Evaluation of Path Characteristics in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks for Highway Scenarios.
27. Perret Mikhaïl, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2005: Development of multimedia mobile applications.
28. Cédric Felices, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2004: Design and developement of a GPRS GUI controller.
29. Jean-David Suter, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2004: Design and developement of 802.11 MAC layer.
30. Lars Renfer, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2004: Investigations on Mac and Network Layer Interactions in Wireless Ad-hoc networks.
31. Mohamed Bouzidi, Engineer Internship, Eurecom, 2004: End to end Service Modeling Messages Flow.
32. Sahbi Ganoun, Engineer Internship, ENSI, 2005: Comparaison of routing protocols for sensor networks.
33. Gion-Reto Cantieni, Engineer Internship, EPFL, 2003: Experimentations of QoS mechanisms in WLANs.
34. Projet TE (Travaux et Etudes) Licence Informatique, UNSA, 2003: Study and comparaison of peer-to-peer structured systems.
35. Sifelhak Benchaiba, Alioune Badara Seye, Nabil El-Aomari, Nabil Labiad, et Dan Wang, Projcet DESS Télécom, UNSA, 2003: Design and Implementation of a network monitoring application.
36. Laurent Fazio, DEA Internship, ESSI, 2002: Dynamic resource allocation for multicast flows.
37. Ghassane Aniba, Engineer Internship, INPT, 2002: Support of IP multicast in the next-generation of satellite systems.
38. Roland Derhi, Mikaël Le Gleut, Diego Nieuwbourg, Frédérique Pont, Marc Saint-Auret, et Sébastien Sleiman, Projet TER (Travaux d'Etudes et de Recherche), UNSA, 2001: Design and Implementation of a web multicast TV server in the Internet.
39. Wissem Kerkeni, Engineer Internship, ENSI, 2000: Design and Implementation of a Graphical Firewall Tool for Linux.