@conference {Oualhaj2016,
	title = {A college admissions game for content caching in heterogeneous delay tolerant networks},
	booktitle = {2016 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications, ICT 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In recent years, Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have been successfully presented as a possible extension of the Internet architecture in order to provide communication support to existing networks. However, these networks have a major issue which is the coordination among relays. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism source-relay association approach for heterogeneous DTNs that exploits the information about the history and predictability of the relay nodes while also we focus on the source packet dissemination to a destination using tow-hop relaying scheme, considering network resource constraints: the relay buffer, the packet life time, and the energy consumption according to the mobile technologies. We formulate the problem as a college admissions game in which a number of colleges, i.e., data source seek to recruit a number of students, i.e., relays nodes. In this game, the data source and relays nodes rank one another based on preference functions that capture the data sources need to optimize their utilities which are functions of packet success rate and delay. We propose a novel distributed algorithm that leads to a stable matching among data sources and relays nodes. We show that the proposed approach can yields the better performance improvement of the traffic among the source and destination node. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICT.2016.7500348},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979210767\&doi=10.1109\%2fICT.2016.7500348\&partnerID=40\&md5=641b2fc904d804463ca747bb6dedfe63},
	author = {Oualhaj, O.A.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a c and Ben-Othman, J.c and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
@conference {Walid2016,
	title = {Exploiting multi-homing in hyper dense LTE small-cells deployments},
	booktitle = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC},
	volume = {2016-September},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {It is expected that in two-Tier LTE heterogeneous networks, an extensive deployment of small cell networks (SCNs) will take place in the near future, especially in dense urban zones; hence a hyper density of SCNs randomly distributed within macro cell networks (MCNs) will emerge with many overlapping zones of neighboring SCNs. Therefore, the problems of interferences in co-channel deployment will be more complicated and then the overall throughput of downlink will substantially decrease. In order to mitigate the effect of interferences in a hyper density of SCNs scenarios, a solution based on a fully distributed algorithm for sharing time access to SCNs and multi-homing capabilities of macro cellular users is proposed to improve the overall data rate of downlink and at the same time to satisfy QoS throughput requirements of macro and home cellular users. Our tentative scheme will also reduce the signaling overhead due to the absence of coordination among small base stations (SBSs) and macro base station (MBS). Results validate our solution and show the improvement attained in a hyper density of SCNs within MCNs compared to open, closed and shared time access mechanisms based on single network selection. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WCNC.2016.7565055},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84989854253\&doi=10.1109\%2fWCNC.2016.7565055\&partnerID=40\&md5=36cda03e307b208f10f73e923e3e5b77},
	author = {Walid, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and Taleb, T.c and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
@article {Boumkheld2015116,
	title = {Energy consumption scheduling in a smart grid including uding renewable energy},
	journal = {Journal of Information Processing Systems},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {116-124},
	abstract = {Smart grids propose new solutions for electricity consumers as a means to help them use energy in an efficient way. In this paper, we consider the demand-side management issue that exists for a group of consumers (houses) that are equipped with renewable energy (wind turbines) and storage units (battery), and we try to find the optimal scheduling for their home appliances, in order to reduce their electricity bills. Our simulation results prove the effectiveness of our approach, as they show a significant reduction in electricity costs when using renewable energy and battery storage. {\textcopyright} 2015 KIPS.},
	doi = {10.3745/JIPS.03.0022},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84928578762\&doi=10.3745\%2fJIPS.03.0022\&partnerID=40\&md5=502083b45ef8166915475a2b54dfb0c8},
	author = {Boumkheld, N.a b and Ghogho, M.b c and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
@conference {Mourchid2015213,
	title = {Mining user patterns for location prediction in mobile social networks},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	volume = {2015-January},
	number = {January},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {213-218},
	abstract = {Understanding human mobility dynamics is of an essential importance to today mobile applications, including context-aware advertising and city wide sensing applications. Recently, Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have attracted important researchers{\textquoteright} efforts, to investigate spatial, temporal and social aspects of user patterns. LBSNs allow users to {\textquoteright}check-in{\textquoteright} at geographical locations and share this information with friends. In this paper, analysis of check-ins data provided by Foursquare, the online location-based social network, allows us to construct a set of features that capture: spatial, temporal and similarity characteristics of user mobility. We apply this knowledge to location prediction problem, and combine these features in supervised learning for future location prediction. We find that the supervised classifier based on the combination of multiple features offers reasonable accuracy. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2014.7016621},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938084658\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2014.7016621\&partnerID=40\&md5=86ede8ff82b4095f9bf55be3eaa192e2},
	author = {Mourchid, F.a and Habbani, A.a b and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
@conference {Koutbi2015,
	title = {Welcome message from the general chairs},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2015.7381347},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84965066083\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2015.7381347\&partnerID=40\&md5=3b663be9ac57f7c5675e1e314ab6fa14},
	author = {Koutbi, M.E.a and Ben-Othman, J.b and Kobbane, A.c}
}
@conference {Kobbane20132949,
	title = {Packet dropping for real-time applications in wireless networks},
	booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {2949-2953},
	abstract = {In this paper, we consider a multimedia data transmission system over a wireless channel, where packets are queued at the transmitter. Multimedia data transmission over wireless networks often suffers from delay, jitter and packet loss. The main problem to implement a wireless network is the high and variable bit error rate in the radio link (fading, shadowing etc). Among the most important performance measures for real time applications are the packet loss probability. In order to improve the radio link, one often retransmits packets that have not been well received (using the Automatic Retransmission reQuest). This however may lead to queuing phenomena and increased delay due to retransmissions, and to losses of packets due to buffer overflow. In this paper, we allow that the number of retransmission is finite. We model the system state by a three-dimensional Markov chain which represents the evolution the radio link state, the number of packets in the buffer and the number of transmission of a packet in the service. We use an advanced approach based on the theory of singular perturbation in order to compute some performance of interest. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICC.2013.6654990},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84891363277\&doi=10.1109\%2fICC.2013.6654990\&partnerID=40\&md5=51aa5757d77f2d32f9bb86c4d220b891},
	author = {Kobbane, A.a and Ben-Othman, J.b and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
