@conference { ISI:000381755100026,
	title = {An Energy-Aware Clustering Approach Based on the K-Means Method forWireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {ADVANCES IN UBIQUITOUS NETWORKING},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2016},
	note = {International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet), Casablanca, MOROCCO, SEP 08-10, 2015},
	pages = {325-337},
	abstract = {This paper describes a new approach to build energy aware clusters for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The algorithm behind is based on the k-means method which is well known as a clustering technique and widely used in several fields of engineering and research. K-means clustering tends to find clusters of comparable spatial extent (density clustering). We try to enhance the clustering process by selecting nodes as clusters that are centric and have a high level of energy. This will give the same QoS results as given by the K-means approach with a reduction of energy consumption and a prolongation of the lifetime of the sensor network. For the simulation purposes, we have implemented our approach on the OLSR routing protocol which has been selected by our research team as a test bed routing protocol. We have compared our new approach (OLSR-Kmeans-Energy) with a previous work we developed and where we use a Max-Min heuristic (OLSR-MaxMin-Energy) to enhance QoS parameters and the lifetime of the WSN. Our new approach seems to give better results than the MaxMin approach.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_26},
	author = {El Mezouary, Ridouane and Choukri, Ali and Kobbane, Abdellatif and El Koutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000388603102099,
	title = {Exploiting Multi-homing in Hyper Dense LTE Small-Cells Deployments},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE},
	series = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference},
	year = {2016},
	note = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Doha, QATAR, APR 03-07, 2016},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc},
	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.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-9814-5},
	issn = {1525-3511},
	author = {Walid, Abdellaziz and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Taleb, Tarik and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference { ISI:000310353000012,
	title = {Evaluation of Hybrid Geo-location based on UMTS and OPS Technologies},
	booktitle = {2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)},
	year = {2012},
	note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Tangiers, MOROCCO, MAY 10-12, 2012},
	pages = {63-67},
	publisher = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter},
	organization = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter},
	abstract = {The degree of accuracy and availability of service make a distinction between the two main methods of geolocation that areGPS and UMTS. GPS provides good performances in terms of location in open area, but performances degrade to a significant manner when we go into an enclosed area. While the UMTS offers good results in urban areas, we can note a complementarity between these two techniques. In this paper we present a hybrid algorithm that combines these two techniques and takes best advantage of each of them with two approaches one simple and another advanced.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-1520-3},
	author = {Saadane, Rachid and Belkasmi, Mostafa and El Koutbi, Mohammed and Dadda, Mohamed Rachid},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and Zaz, Y}
}
