Research activities

PhD Students

I have / had the pleasure to co-advise or externally advise the following PhD students:

• L. Miller, University of Strasbourg, on secure work-flow access control
  • Funding: Cisco
  • Defense expected in 2021
  • Co-supervised with Dr. Pascal Mérindol and Prof. Cristel Pelsser
• M. A. Falek, University of Strasbourg, on optimization algorithms for personalized planning of dynamic and multimodal itineraries
  • Funding: CIFRE with T&S Group
  • Defense expected in 2019
  • Co-supervised with Dr. Fabrice Theoleyre and Prof. Cristel Pelsser
• Rodrigo Teles Hermeto, University of Strasbourg, on virtualizing Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with SDN for the 5G
  • funding: Idex Unistra
  • Defense expected in 2019
  • Co-supervised with Dr. Fabrice Theoleyre
• G. Z. Papadopoulos, University of Strasbourg, on improving Medium Access for Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks
  • funding: Idex Unistra
  • Defended in 2015
  • Co-supervised with Prof. Thomas Noël
• J. Beaudaux, University of Strasbourg, on self-configuration of WSNs for remote healthcare
  • funding: Région Alsace
  • Defended in 2013
  • Co-supervised with Prof. Thomas Noël
• Romain Kuntz, University of Strasbourg, on medium access control facing the dynamics of wireless sensor networks
  • funding: Industrial contract
  • Defended in 2010
  • Co-supervised with Prof. Thomas Noël and Dr. Julien Montavont

Research projects

• 2018-2021: nano-NET (ANR JCJC), Nano Autonomous Systems for a totally Decentralized Internet.
• 2016-2017: SemSeN - Semantic Sensor Networks for Smart Factories (API ICube).
• 2015: Diag@IoT (Idex project, University of Strasbourg).
• 2014-15: UBIQUITY (API ICube), Auto-configurable Wireless Sensor Network for urban climatology investigation.
• 2012-14: IRIS (ANR INFRA), All IP Networks for the FutuRe Internet of Smart Objects.
• 2012-14: EXPRESS (PHC, programme STAR), EXPerimental REsearch in Sensor Systems.
• 2011-19: FIT (Investissements d’avenir, Equipex), Future Internet of Things.
• 2010-11: EXPRIMA (BQR Unistra), Experimentations for wireless mesh networks.
• 2009-12: DAHLIA (DGCIS/ANSP), Experimental platform of home automation for telehomecare and remote monitoring for elderly.
• 2008-11: SensLAB (ANR TLCOM), Very large scale open wireless sensor network testbed.

Technical program committees

• 2019:
  • CoRes’19 (TPC co-chair)
  • ICCAIS’19
  • IEEE Globecom’19
  • IEEE ICNC’19
• 2018:
  • IEEE GlobalSIP’18
  • IEEE GIIS’18
  • IEEE Globecom’18
  • IARIA INNOV’18
  • IEEE COMNETSAT’18
  • IEEE ICNC’18
  • IARIA EMERGING’18
  • ADHOC-NOW’18
  • ICST Adhocnets’18
• 2017:
  • IEEE ICNC’17
  • IEEE GlobalSIP’17
  • IEEE GIIS’17
• 2016:
  • WPMC’16
  • IEEE GIIS’16
  • ICST Adhocnets’16
  • IEEE ICT 2016, Special session, Industrial IoT: Constraints, Guarantees, and Resilience (session co-organizer)
  • IEEE ICT’16
  • IPAC’16
• 2015:
  • ICST Adhocnets’15 (TPC co-chair)
  • IEEE GIIS’15
• 2014:
  • ICST Adhocnets’14 (TPC co-chair)
  • IEEE GIIS’14
• 2013:
  • AlgoTel’13 (national conference)
  • ICST Adhocnets’13
  • IEEE BEIAC’13
  • IEEE GIIS’13
  • IEEE ISCI’13
• 2012:
  • ICST Adhocnets’12
  • IEEE ISBEIA’12
  • IEEE ISWTA’12
• 2011:
  • ICST Adhocnets’11

Organization committees

• CoRes’19 (TPC co-chair)
• IIoT days 2018 (co-chair)
• IEEE ICT’16, special session on Industrial IoT (co-chair)
• ICST Adhocnets’15 (TPC co-chair)
• ICST Adhocnets’14 (TPC co-chair)
• IEEE Wimob’13 (local co-chair)
• WiSARN’11-Fall (publicity co-chair)
• ICST Adhocnets’11 (web chair)
• CFIP’09
• ING’05 (national summer school)

PhD committees

• 2018
  • Reviewer of “Multiple access techniques for very low rate satellite communication systems”, by Hugo Chelle (Airbus and IRIT - Université de Toulouse, France, under supervision of Prof. A.-L. Beylot).
  • Reviewer of “Optimization and Enhancement of RPL for Hybrid RF/PLC IoT networks”, by François Lemercier (Itron and IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France, under supervision of Prof. N. Montavont and Prof. L. Toutain).
  • Reviewer of “Intelligent sensors for wildlife conservation”, by Solomon Petrus le Roux (Stellenbosch University, South Africa, under supervision of Prof. T. Niesler and R. Wolhuter).
• 2017
  • Examiner of “Adaptive MAC layer for interference limited WSN”, by Viktor Toldov (USTL / Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France, under supervision of Prof. L. Clavier and Dr. N. Mitton).
• 2016
  • Reviewer of “Scheduling strategies to improve quality of service for heterogeneous data over resource constrained wireless mesh networks”, by Sajid Mubashir Sheikh (Stellenbosch University, South Africa, under supervision of Prof. T. Niesler and R. Wolhuter).
• 2015
  • Examiner of “Improving Medium Access for Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks”, by Georgios Papadopoulos (Université de Strasbourg / ICube, France, under supervision of Prof. T. Noël and Dr. A. Gallais).
• 2013
  • Examiner of “Geographic routing for wireless actor and sensor networks”, by Nicolas Gouvy (USTL / Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France, under supervision of Prof. D. Simplot-Ryl and Dr. N. Mitton.
  • Reviewer of “A Cross-layer Communication Framework for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks”, by Zara Hamid (NUST, Pakistan, under supervision of Dr. F. Bashir and Dr. H. Afzal).
  • Examiner of “WSN auto-configuration and adaptation for remote healthcare”, by Julien Beaudaux (Université de Strasbourg / ICube, France, under supervision of Prof. T. Noël and Dr. A. Gallais).

Scientific visits

• 2017-19: visiting researcher (full secondment) in Inria Lille - Nord Europe.
• October 2012: visiting scientist in Inje University, Busan, Korea.
• Feb. apr. 2008: visiting scientist in Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.
• Oct. Nov. 2006: visiting scientist in Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), Tokyo, Japan.
• Dec. 2005: visiting scientist in CITI laboratory (MSCD), Lyon, France.

Invited talks

• April 23 & 24, 2019: International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking (MSPN), Mohammedia, Morocco.
• April 28 & 29, 2018: Innov’School Network of Things (ISNOT), Gammarth, Tunisia.
• November 25 & 26, 2017: GDG devfest IoT workshop, Sfax, Tunisia.
• December 17, 2009: SensorNets, international winter school, 2009, Monastir, Tunisia.
• May 28, 2009: IMAGINE workshop, Piran, Slovenia.
• January 25, 2007: IRAMUS workshop (as D. Simplot-Ryl’s pinch hitter), Val Thorens, France.

External reviewer

Journals

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, AHSWN, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things journal, MDPI Sensors Journal, IEEE JSAC WSN, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Letters, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Computer communications, Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Springer Wireless Networks, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Conferences

ICST Adhocnets, IEEE GIIS, IEEE Globecom/AHSN, IEEE HPCC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE SECON, IEEE WCNC, IEEE WiMob.