@article { ISI:000365532800014,
	title = {A New Efficient and Energy-aware Clustering Algorithm for the OLSR Protocol},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NETWORK SECURITY},
	volume = {15},
	number = {7},
	year = {2015},
	month = {JUL 30},
	pages = {85-91},
	abstract = {Integrating quality of service (QoS) in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a difficult challenge and a very tedious task. It requires to find a compromise between several QoS parameters. The energy criterion is one of the most important of these parameters that will provide a long lifetime for a given MANET. This paper proposes a new clustering algorithm for the OLSR routing protocol which consumes less energy and enhances transmission delay. This algorithm manages nodes density and mobility; and gives major improvements regarding the number of elected clusters Head. We have conducted some comparison with other clustering algorithms to prove the efficiency of our algorithm. Our main objective is to elect a reasonable number of clusters Head that will serve for hierarchical routing using OLSR as a routing protocol. The second objective is to increase the network lifetime by considering the Ad hoc residual energy when taking routing decisions. We have found that our algorithm optimize the end to end delay by adopting a selective forwarding approach based on the hierarchical routing model},
	issn = {1738-7906},
	author = {Loutfi, Ahmed and Elkoutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600148,
	title = {A Cross-layer Architecture for Service Differentiation in Wireless Sensor Networks With Multiple Sinks},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Marrakech, MOROCCO, APR 14-16, 2014},
	pages = {843-848},
	abstract = {In this paper, we are interested in the description of a cross-layer architecture that supports service differentiation for real-time and best-effort traffics in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). We present our mathematical model that combines parameters from network and MAC layers. We aim to estimate and to enhance the throughput of multi-hop WSNs and the stability of the forwarding queues used for real-time and best-effort traffics. We suppose at the first step that we have a wireless sensor network with a single sink then we suppose that we have the same wireless sensor network with two sinks. We study the impact of transmitting real-time and best-effort traffics on the system throughput; and we also study the impact of adding a second sink on the throughput.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {El Mezouary, Ridouane and Loutfi, Ahmed and El koutbi, Mohamed}
}
@article { ISI:000334054800007,
	title = {An energy aware algorithm for OLSR clustering},
	journal = {ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS-ANNALES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS},
	volume = {69},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2014},
	month = {APR},
	pages = {201-207},
	abstract = {One of the important aspects of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is the limitation of the amount of available energy and the network lifetime. The tremendous amount of using mobile nodes in wireless communication medium makes energy efficiency a fundamental requirement for MANETs. In this paper, we propose a novel energy aware clustering algorithm for the optimized link state routing (OLSR) routing protocol. This algorithm takes into account the node density and mobility and gives major improvements regarding the number of elected cluster heads. Our objective is to elect a reasonable number of cluster heads that will serve for hierarchical routing based on OLSR. The proposed algorithm aims to increase the network lifetime by considering the ad hoc residual energy while taking routing decisions. It also optimizes the delay of carried flows by adopting a selective forwarding approach based on a hierarchical routing model.},
	issn = {0003-4347},
	doi = {10.1007/s12243-013-0411-6},
	author = {Loutfi, Ahmed and Elkoutbi, Mohammed and BenOthman, Jalel and Kobbane, Abdellatif}
}
@conference { ISI:000351846000018,
	title = {A new Cross layer Architecture for Service Differentiation in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {2013 IEEE MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (MICC)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {IEEE 11th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, NOV 26-28, 2013},
	pages = {92-97},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {This paper describes a new cross-layer architecture that supports service differentiation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In WSNs, sensor nodes are supposed to communicate using a random access method. We propose a mathematical model that combines parameters form network and MAC layers. We aim to estimate and to enhance the throughput of multi-hop WSNs and the stability of the forwarding queues used for real-time and best-effort traffic. We suppose in this paper that we have one single sink in the WSN and we study the impact of the probability of transmitting (real-time and best-effort traffic), density of sensor and hop count on the end-to-end throughput.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-1532-3},
	author = {Loutfi, Ahmed and Mohamed, Senhadji and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
