@article { ISI:000392517100026,
	title = {Unified analysis of EGC diversity over Weibull fading channels},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS},
	volume = {30},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	month = {JAN 10},
	abstract = {In this paper, the performance analysis based on PDF approach of an L-branch equal gain combiner (EGC) over independent and not necessarily identical Weibull fading channels is presented. Several closed-form approximate expressions are derived in terms of only one Fox H-function as PDF, cumulative distribution function, and moments of the EGC output Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), outage probability, amount of fading, channel capacity, and the average symbol error rate for various digital modulation schemes. All results are illustrated and verified by simulations using computer algebra systems. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	issn = {1074-5351},
	doi = {10.1002/dac.2925},
	author = {El Bouanani, Faissal and Ben-Azza, Hussain}
}
@conference { ISI:000380509200002,
	title = {A secure multi-hops routing for VANETs},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (WINCOM)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International conference on wireless networks and mobile communications, Marrakech, MOROCCO, OCT 20-23, 2015},
	pages = {6-10},
	abstract = {Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are a promising communication technology. they offers many applications, which will improve traffic management and safety. Nevertheless, those applications have stringent security requirements, as they affect road traffic safety. Security requirement like authentication, privacy and Integrity are crucial to VANETs, as they avoid attacks against vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside communication. In this paper, we investigate the authentication and privacy issues in VANETs. We explore the Attribute Based Signature (ABS) primitive and its variants. We then select among existing ABS literature, an efficient scheme (the best known) that achieve both traceability and user-privacy (anonymity). Finally, we propose a protocol for VANETs that uses traceable ABS in general context of multi-hop routing.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8224-3},
	author = {Mrabet, Khalid and El Bouanani, Faissal and Ben-Azza, Hussain}
}
@conference { ISI:000363271300045,
	title = {New Iterative Decoding Algorithms of 2D Product Block Codes},
	booktitle = {2014 WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (WCCAIS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems (WCCAIS), Hammamet, TUNISIA, JAN 17-19, 2014},
	abstract = {This paper presents four new iterative decoders for two dimensional product block codes (2D-PBC) based on Genetic Algorithms. Each of these iterative decoders runs in parallel on a number of processors connected by a network. They have almost the same complexity as the conventional iterative decoder, but their performances are improved since at each iteration, they trap the better of extrinsic information computed by the elementary decoders running simultaneously on all processors.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3351-8},
	author = {Ahmadi, Abdeslam and El Bouanani, Faissal and Ben-Azza, Hussain}
}
@conference { ISI:000363271300046,
	title = {Novel Results for the Spectral Efficiency and Symbol Error Rate of GSC Receiver over Identical and Uncorrelated Weibull Fading Channels},
	booktitle = {2014 WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (WCCAIS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems (WCCAIS), Hammamet, TUNISIA, JAN 17-19, 2014},
	abstract = {In this work, we introduce a novel probability density function (PDF)-based expression to obtain the maximum average spectral efficiency (MASE) and the average symbol error rate (ASER) of L-branch Generalized Selection Combining (GSC) receiver over independent and identical Wei bull fading channels. Approximating the output SNR by a simple H-distribution, useful expressions of outage probability, MASE and ASER for some M-ary modulation schemes are derived in terms of Meijer G-function. The approximated PDF is validated by computed simulations using Mathematica software.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3351-8},
	author = {El Bouanani, Faissal and Ben-Azza, Hussain and Belkasmi, Mostafa}
}
@article { ISI:000322276600002,
	title = {New results for Shannon capacity over generalized multipath fading channels with MRC diversity},
	journal = {EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING},
	year = {2012},
	abstract = {In this article, we investigate the Shannon capacity for L-branch maximal combining ratio (MRC) over generalized multipath fading channel. We derive closed-form expressions of the maximal spectral efficiency over Rayleigh, Rician, Nakagami-m, and Weibull multipath fading channel under flat fading conditions. The results are expressed in terms of Meijer G-functions, which can be evaluated numerically using mathematical tools such as Mathematica and Maple. We show, in particular, that the more the number L increases, the larger the Shannon capacity is. We deduce that four branches are sufficient in several cases to mitigate the fading effect and the channel model will approaches the one of AWGN.},
	issn = {1687-1499},
	doi = {10.1186/1687-1499-2012-336},
	author = {El Bouanani, Faissal and Ben-Azza, Hussain and Belkasmi, Mostafa}
}
@article {8699111820120101,
	title = {Reduced Complexity Iterative Decoding of 3D-Product Block Codes Based on Genetic Algorithms.},
	journal = {Journal of Electrical \& Computer Engineering},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {1 - 8},
	abstract = {Two iterative decoding algorithms of 3D-product block codes (3D-PBC) based on genetic algorithms (GAs) are presented. The first algorithm uses the Chase-Pyndiah SISO, and the second one uses the list-based SISO decoding algorithm (LBDA) based on order-i reprocessing. We applied these algorithms over AWGN channel to symmetric 3D-PBC constructed from BCH codes. The simulation results show that the first algorithm outperforms the Chase-Pyndiah one and is only 1.38 dB away from the Shannon capacity limit at BER of 10-5 for BCH (31, 21, 5){\textthreesuperior} and 1.4 dB for BCH (16, 11, 4){\textthreesuperior}. The simulations of the LBDA-based GA on the BCH (16, 11, 4){\textthreesuperior} show that its performances outperform the first algorithm and is about 1.33 dB from the Shannon limit. Furthermore, these algorithms can be applied to any arbitrary 3D binary product block codes, without the need of a hard-in hardout decoder. We show also that the two proposed decoders are less complex than both Chase-Pyndiah algorithm for codes with large corr},
	keywords = {Computational complexity, Computer simulation, Genetic algorithms, Iterative decoding, Performance evaluation, Three-dimensional imaging},
	issn = {20900147},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=86991118\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Ahmadi, Abdeslam and Bouanani, Faissal El and Ben-Azza, Hussain and Benghabrit, Youssef}
}
