May ALLAH bless his soul… make his levels of paradise…...

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May ALLAH bless his soul… make his grave a garden and grant him the highest levels of paradise…

Ameen.

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Content

Welcome Message from the UNet'17 Chairs .......................................................... 3 Welcome Message from the TPC Chairs ................................................................. 5 The International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (About UNet) ................. 6 UNet'17 Statistics .................................................................................................... 7 Steering Committee ................................................................................................. 8 Executive Committee ............................................................................................... 8 Local Organizing Committee ................................................................................. 10 Student Committee ................................................................................................ 10 Technical Program Committee .............................................................................. 11 Keynote Speaker Abstracts ................................................................................... 15 Program at a Glance .............................................................................................. 17 Detailed Program ................................................................................................... 20 Keynote Speakers Biographies .............................................................................. 27 Tutorial Speakers Biographies ............................................................................... 29 Executive Chairs Biographies ................................................................................ 32 TPC Chairs Biographies ......................................................................................... 35 Publication Chairs Biographies .............................................................................. 38

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Welcome Message from the UNet'17 Chairs

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2017 edition of the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, UNet'17. The conference is held in the city of Casablanca, Morocco, from 09 up to May 12th, following up on the success of past editions. Morocco counts with a growing and active community of networking researchers and the choice of Casablanca for UNet'2017 allows its attendants, coming from all parts of the globe, to interact in a fascinating environment.

The growth of pervasive and ubiquitous networking in the past few years is unprecedented. Nowadays, a significant portion of the world's population is connected to the Internet most of the time through smart phones, and the Internet of Things promises to broaden the impact of the Internet to encompass devices ranging from electric appliances and medical devices to unmanned vehicles. The goal of UNet is to be a premier forum to discuss technical challenges and solutions related to such a widespread adoption of networking technologies, including broadband multimedia, machine-to-machine applications, Internet of things, sensor networks and RFID technologies. To this aim, we count with four main technical tracks of papers covering all the aspects of ubiquitous networks.

The UNet’17 program features four special talks addressed by distinguished keynote speakers: Prof. George K. Karagiannidis from University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Prof. Sofie Pollin from KU Leuven/ESAT/TELEMIC (Belgium), Prof. Liuqing Yang from Colorado State University (United States of America), and Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu from Carleton University (Canada). Three tutorials on Backhaul/Fronthaul for 5G heterogeneous networks, on IoT for smart-cities and on most recent efforts in 5G area are also scheduled; They are delivered by Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini from KAUST (Saudi Arabia), Prof. Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir from University of the West Scotland (UK), Prof. Antonio J. Jara from University of Applied Sciences (Western Switzerland), and Prof. Mehdi Bennis from Oulu University (Finland). This year, UNet is co-located with the first edition of IEEE 5G Summit Casablanca lead by Prof. Latif Ladid (Founder and Chair of the IPv6 Forum and the 5G World Alliance, University of Luxembourg), Prof. Essaid Sabir (ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca) and Prof. Mounir Ghogho (UIR Rabat-Morocco; University of Leeds, United Kingtdom) exhibiting the new trends and research efforts, and latest industrial innovations in 5G networks.

With a rich program that reflects the most recent advances in ubiquitous computing, involving a broad range of theoretical tools (e.g., game theory, mechanism design theory, learning theory, etc.) and practical methodologies (e.g., SDR/SDN platforms, Embedded systems, etc.) to study modern technologies (e.g., LTE-A, LTE-B, 5G,

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IoT), we are very pleased to welcome you to this new edition of UNet conference series.

We are very grateful to our technical sponsors, without whom UNet'17 would not be viable. We thank Springer Science+Business Media, IPv6 Forum, 5G World Alliance, IEEE Internet of Things, and IEEE Big Data. Among our Moroccan collaborators, we are especially thankful to the Hassan II University of Casablanca, ENSEM, FSTM and ESTC for hosting and co-organizing this exciting event. We are also very thankful to all our sponsors and patrons (ANRT, CNRST, CN&S, MasterTec, SERDILAB, VOCALCOM, etc.) Enjoy the conference! Sincerely, UNet’17 General Chairs, M. Ghogho, M. Debbah, M. Sadik and A. Badri.

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Welcome Message from the TPC Chairs

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 2017 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet 2017) in Casablanca, Morocco. You will find an interesting technical program of 4 technical Tracks reporting on recent advances in context-awareness, autonomy paradigms, mobile edge networking, virtualization, Ubiquitous Internet of Things and discussing the enablers, the challenges, and the applications of ubiquitous communications and networking in today's and future contexts. UNet'17 also features 4 keynote speeches by world-class experts, three Tutorials covering the new trends and the research and industrial efforts in 5G, Internet of things, Next generation fronthauling/backauling and software-defined networking, and 2 invited papers sessions.

We have received 127 paper submissions from 18 countries. From those, 52 were accepted as main track papers and 6 additional papers were accepted as Invited session papers, after a careful review process to be included in UNet 2017 proceedings. The overall acceptance rate in the UNet 2017 is 40%.

The preparation of this excellent program would not have been possible without the dedication and the hard work of the different Chairs, the Keynote speakers, the Tutorial speakers, and all Technical Program Committee members and reviewers. We grasp the opportunity to acknowledge their valuable work, and sincerely thank them for their help in ensuring that UNet 2017 will be remembered as a high-quality event.

We hope that you will enjoy this edition's technical program, and we look forward to meeting you in Casablanca.

Sincerely,

UNet’17 TPC Chairs, A. Armada, E. Sabir, R. El-Azouzi, M. Benjillali, S. Lasaulce and F. De Pellegrini.

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The International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (About UNet)

UNet is an international scientific event that highlights new trends and findings in hot topics related to ubiquitous computing/networking. Ubiquitous networks sustain development of numerous paradigms/ technologies such as distributed ambient intelligence, context-awareness, cloud computing, wearable devices, and future mobile networking (e.g., B4G and 5G). Various domains are then impacted by such a system, one cite security and monitoring, energy efficiency and environment protection, e-health, precision agriculture, intelligent transportation, home-care (e.g., for elderly and disabled people), etc.. Communication in such a system has to cope with many constraints (e.g., limited capacity resources, energy depletion strong fluctuations of traffic, Real-time paradigm, dynamic network topology, radio link breakage, interferences, etc.) and has to meet the new application requirements. Ubiquitous systems bring many promising paradigms aiming to deliver significantly higher capacity to meet the huge growth of mobile data traffic and to accommodate efficiently dense and ultra-dense systems. A crucial challenge is that ubiquitous networks should be engineered to better support existing and emerging applications including broadband multimedia, machine-to-machine applications, Internet of things, sensor networks and RFID technologies. Many of these systems require stringent quality-of-service (QoS) including better latency, reliability, higher spectral and energy efficiency, but also some quality-of-experience and quality-of-context constraints.

The main purpose of this symposium is to serve as a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss recent developments in pervasive and ubiquitous networks. This conference will provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, debate on identified challenges and share experiences among researchers and professionals. UNet aims also to promote adoption of new methodologies and to provide the participants with advanced and innovative tools able to catch the fundamental dynamics of the underlying complex interactions (e.g., game theory, Mechanism Design theory, Learning theory, SDR platforms, etc.). Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of pervasive computing and future mobile computing (e.g., LTE-A, LTE-B, 5G, IoT) are invited for submission to UNet 2017.

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UNet'17 Statistics Submissions per country (Morocco excluded)

Authors by Region

France, 9

Canada, 3

United Kingdom, 3

Tunisia, 3 Algeria, 3 Jordan, 2 Brazil, 1

Spain, 1 Serbia, 1

United States of America, 3

Belgium, 2

Iraq, 1 Lebanon, 1

Saudi Arabia, 2

Romania, 1 India, 3 United Arab Emirates, 1

91%

3% 2% 2% 2%

Europe, Middle East, Africa

Canada

Latin America

United States of America

Asia/Pacific

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Steering CommitteeMohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST University, Saudi Arabia Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Rachid El-Azouzi, University of Avignon, France Mounir Ghogho, UIR Rabat-Morocco, University of Leeds, United Kingtdom Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, United States of America Francesco De Pellegrini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Essaid Sabir, ENSEM, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco

Executive Committee Honorary Chair

Idriss Mansouri, President of Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Hicham Medromi, Director of ENSEM, Hassan II Univ. of Casablanca, Morocco Mounir Rifi, Director of ESTC, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Mustapha Lkhider, Dean of FSTM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

General Chairs

Mounir Ghogho, UIR, Rabat-Morocco; University of Leeds, United Kingdom Mérouane Debbah, Huawei Technologies, France

Local Chairs

Mohamed Sadik, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Abdelmajid Badri, FSTM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

Technical Program Chairs

Ana García Armada, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Essaid Sabir, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

Track Chairs

Rachid EL-Azouzi, University of Avignon, France Mustapha Benjillali, INPT, Rabat, Morocco Francesco De Pellegrini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Samson Lasaulce, Centrale-Supelec/CNRS, France

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Publication Chairs

Slim Rekhis, SUP'COM, University of Carthage, Tunisia Mohamed El Kamili, SMBA University of Fez, Morocco

Tutorials Chair

Tembiné Hamidou, New York University of Abu Dhabi, UAE, USA Special Session Chairs

Víctor P. Gil Jiménez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Syed Ali Rasa Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK

IEEE 5G Summit Casablanca Chairs

Latif Ladid, Founder-President IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg Essaid Sabir, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

Publicity and Patrons Chairs

Tania Jiménez, University of Avignon, France Halima Elbiaze, UQAM, Montréal, Canada, Maria Martini, Kingston University, London, UK Paschalis Sofotasios, Tampere University of Tech., Finland Yuedong Xu, SIST, Fudan University, China Ismail Berrada, FSDM, SMBA University of Fez, Morocco

Webmaster & Social Media

Sidi Ahmed Ezzahidi, FSR, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco Ayoub Arroub, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

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Local Organizing Committee

Abdennaceur Baghdad, FSTM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Mohamed Baslam, FST, Moulay Slimane University, beni Mellal Hassan El Idrissi, FSTM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Ahmed Errami, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca Abderrahim Fail, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca Mohamed Khaldoun, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca Khalifa Mansouri, ENSET, Hassan II University of Casablanca Mohamed Ouzzif, EST, Hassan II University of Casablanca Aicha Sahel, FSTM, Hassan II University of Casablanca Saida Tallal, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca

Student Committee Sara Arabi, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Wissal Attaoui, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Rachid Aouami, ESTC, Hassan II University of Casablanca rachid, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Afaf Bouhoute, FSDM, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez Khadija Bouraqia, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Laila Bouzeid, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Moussa Coulibaly, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Hajar El Hammouti, INPT, Rabat Ilham El Mourabit, FSTM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia Salwa Elouarouar, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca Hayat Errifi, FSTM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia Soukaina Ihirri, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca Wafae Ouali Alami, ENSEM, II Universty of Casablanca Youssef Moubarik, ENSEM, II Universty of Casablanca Basma Zahi, ENSEM, Hassan II Universty of Casablanca

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Technical Program Committee

Mojtaba Aajami, Yonsei University, Korea Taufik Abrão, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Tansu Alpcan, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antiplois, France Said Andaloussi, Faculty of Science, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Angelos Antonopoulos, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain Yacine Atif, College of Information Technology, UAE Univ., Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Elarbi Badidi, College of Information Technology, UAE Univ., Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Abdelmajid Badri, FSTM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, United States of America Haythem Bany Salameh, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan Stylianos Basagiannis, United Technologies Research Centre, Cork, Ireland Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Yann Ben Maissa, INPT, Rabat, Morocco Jalel Ben Othmane, University of Paris 13, Paris, France Yahya Benkaouz, FSR, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco Mehdi Bennis, Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Ana Bernardos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, New York, United States of America Andrew Blaich, Lookout Security, United States of America Gennaro Boggia, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy Noureddine Boudriga, Sup’COM, Cartage University, Tunis, Tunisia Olivier Brun, Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes, Toulouse, France Bin Cao, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, P.R. China Chung Shue Chen, Bell Labs, Nokia, Nozay, France Yan Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P.R. China Satish Chikkagoudar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Francesco De Pellegrini, Creat-Net/INSPIRE, Trento, Italy Merouane Debbah, Centrale-Supelec/Huawei Technologies, Paris, France Riadh Dhaou, IRIT/ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, Toulous, France Salvatore Distefano, University of Kazan, Messina, Russia Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Faissal El Bouanani, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco Hajar El Hammouti, INPT, Rabat, Morocco Rachid El-Azouzi, University of Avignon, Avignon, France Halima Elbiaze, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Mohamed Elkamili, FSDM, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University of Fez, Morocco Mohammed Erradi ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco Mohammad Essaaidi, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco Xenofon Fafoutis, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

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Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Dieter Fiems, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium Rosa Figueiredo, University of Avignon, Avignon, France Miguel Franklin de Castro, Federal University of Ceará Fortaleza, Brazil Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, London, United Kingdom Weihua Gao, Qualcomm Inc., United States of America Ana Garcia Armada, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Alireza Ghasempour, University of Applied Science and Technology, Iran Mounir Ghogho, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Jitender Grover, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Kurukshetra, India Jayavardhana Gubbi, TCS Research and Innovation, India Alexandre Guitton , Clermont University, Aubiere, France Oussama Habachi, University of Limoges, Limoges, France Majed Haddad, University of Avignon, Avignon, France Mostafa Hefnawi, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada José Luis Hernandez, Ramos University of Murcia,Spain Scott Hissam, Carnegie Mellon, United States of America Khalil Ibrahimi, University of Ibn Tofail, Kénitra, Morocco Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Dimosthenis Ioannidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada Tania Jimenez, University of Avignon, Avignon, France Carlos Kamienski, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil Vasileios Karyotis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece Abdelmajid Khelil, Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Landshut, Germany Donghyun Kim, Kennesaw State University Marietta, United States of America Hyunbum Kim, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United States of America Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, Arizona, United States of America Samson Lasaulce, CNRS - Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Yee Wei Law, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom Jeremie Leguay Huawei, Technologies, France Research Center, Paris, France Xinrong Li, University of North Texas, Denton, United States of America Zihuai Lin, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Marco Listanti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy Francesco Longo, Universita di Messina, Italy Valeria Loscrí, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France Abdallah Makhoul, University of Franche-Comté, Belfort, France Taras Maksymyuk, Korea University, Korea Mohammad Matin, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam Rick McGeer, US Ignite, Orinda, United States of America Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Lynda Mokdad, University of Paris-Est, Paris, France Mort Naraghi-Pour, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States of America Husnu Narman, Clemson University, United States of America Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens SRL, Romania Alexis Olivereau, CEA, LIST, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh Shashikant Patil, SVKMs NMiMS Mumbai India Amalner Maharashtra Pin 425401, India

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Marcin Piotr Pawłowski, Jagiellonian University, Poland Thinagaran Perumal, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia Khalid Rahhali, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco Imane Rahmouni, LIMS, FSDM, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah University, Fez, Morocco Fernando Ramirez-Mireles, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo, Mexico City, Mexico Shahid Raza, SICS Swedish ICT, Kista, Sweden Mounir Rifi, ESTC, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco Joel Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications, Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil Carlos Rolim, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Yassine Rouichek, University of Technology of Belfort Montbelliard, France Giuseppe Ruggeri, University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy Rachid Saadane, Ecole Hassania des Travaux Publiques, Casablanca, Morocco Essaid Sabir, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Sergio Saponara, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Alonso Silva Bell Labs, Nozay, France Dhananjay Singh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea, Korea Houbing Song, West Virginia University, Montgomery, United States of America Susanna Spinsante, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy Razvan Stanica, INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne, France Theodoros Tsiftsis, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan Bruno Tuffin, Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France Félix Villanueva, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, Flint, United States of America Yiran Xu, Utah State University, McLean, United States of America Zakaria YE, University of Avignon, France Huiyue Yi, Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications, Shanghai, P.R. China Jie Zeng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China Haijun Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, P.R. China Adel Al-Hezmi, Fraunhofer Institute Fokus, Germany Gholamreza Alirezaei, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Abdelhamid Belmekki, National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Morocco Nabil Benamar, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco Mustapha Benjillali, National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Morocco Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy Leila Boulahia, University of Technology of Troyes, France Lin X. Cai, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA zhuo chen, Rutgers University, USA Stefano Chessa, Universita' di Pisa, Italy Mohamed El Kamili, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco Ahmed El Maliani Drissi, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco Mourad El Yadari, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco Alexandros Fragkiadakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece Sye Loong Keoh, University of Glasgow, Singapore Mohammed-Amine Koulali, Hassan I University of Oujda, Morocco Franck Le Gall, Easy Global Market, France Zoubir Mammeri, Paul Sabatier University, France Tom Pfeifer, IoT Consult Europe, Germany Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research, Ireland vasanthan Raghavan, Qualcomm, Inc, USA

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Slim Rekhis, SUP'COM, University of Carthage, Tunisia Carlos Rolim, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Mohamed Nabil Saidi, INSEA, Rabat, Morocco Omid Taghizadeh, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Fernando Terroso-Saenz, University of Murcia, Spain Ali Saman Tosun, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Tzu-Chieh Tsai, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA Zbigniew Zielinski, Military University of Technology, Poland

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Keynote Speaker Abstracts Keynote Talk ISpeaker: Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu Title: 5G is Just Around the Corner; So What is Next?

Abstract: Since the completion of the first 4G LTE standard in the late 2000s, the research community has been conceiving 5G, mainly from two tangled angles, the novel use cases and the enabling technologies. At the time of the writing of this book, the 5G standardization process has already started; the first 5G standards are scheduled to be finalized in the late 2010s. The 5G is expected to evolve throughout the 2020s; and, probably sometime in the latter part of the 2020s, the 6G standardization process will start, with possible deployments in the early 2030s. It is rather early at this point to over-speculate on 6G. Nevertheless, it is possible to highlight a number of important points in light of the experience gained from the first four or five generations. The big promise of 5G is that the use cases in this generation will not be confined to the smart phone environment. Therefore, the success of 5G is closely tied to how quickly and to what extent these novel use cases will have market acceptance. Although the maturity of the 5G technologies for enabling the new use cases is essential, this is not the only factor for the success of 5G; arguably, market-readiness of these use cases will play an even more important role. One of the reasons for the great success of 4G LTE has been that the standard involved a number of technologies which were highly successful in enabling a primary use case, namely, video delivery on smart phones. At the same time, there was a great market/demand for this use case – the right synergy for success. 5G is coming with many powerful enabling technologies, many of which are highlighted in this book. However, anticipating the market adoption timeline of the 5G use cases is more difficult, as this timeline depends on factors beyond engineering. For example, the fully autonomous and connected vehicle paradigm cannot become a reality in a short time frame. A number of new use cases, such as this one, require policy and legislation chances which are inherently long processes. Therefore, during the latter part of the 2020s, when the 6G standardization is likely to occur, the discussions around many of the use cases attributed to 5G will likely to continue in the 6G context as well. 5G marks the start of a new era in wireless. The road towards 5G has been very exciting. The road towards 6G will be even more exciting… Keynote Talk IISpeaker: Prof. Sofie PollinTitle: Massive MIMO: from channel, antennas and SDR towards user fairness Abstract: Massive MIMO is widely seen a s promising kandidate for 5G as it promises high throughput, long range, low cost or power consumption, and perfect fairness among users. We will introduce the key principles behind Massive MIMO, and highlight the main assumptions that underly it's world record performance. Then, implementation aspects will be discussed going from the signal processing algorithms to the antennas. By looking at the

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real measured performance as function of various implementation choices, such as the antenna elements, we will shed some new light on Massive MIMO. Keynote Talk III Speaker: Prof. George K. KaragiannidisTitle: Simultaneous Lightwave Information and Power Transfer (SLIPT) for Indoor IoT Applications Abstract: The era of Internet-of-Things (IoT) opens up the opportunity for a number of promising applications in smart buildings, health monitoring, and predictive maintenance. It is remarkable that most of the data consumption/ generation, which are related to IoT applications, occurs in indoor environments. Motivated by this, optical wireless communication (OWC), such as visible light communications (VLC) or infrared (IR), have been recognized as promising alternative/complimentary technologies to RF, in order to give access to IoT devices in indoor applications. However, due to the strong dependence of the IoT on wireless access, their applications are constrained by the finite battery capacity of the involved devices. In this talk, for first time will be presented a framework for simultaneous optical wireless information and power transfer, which we call Simultaneous Lightwave Information and Power Transfer (SLIPT), and can be used for indoor IoT applications through VLC or IR systems. Keynote Talk IVSpeaker: Prof. Liuqing YangTitle: Vehicular Communications and Networking: The Gateway to Connected Mobility Abstract: Vehicular communications and networking is an area of significant importance in our increasingly connected and mobile world. In the past decade, this area has gained significant attention from both industry and academia for its potential of ensuring road safety, improving transportation efficiency and of enhancing travel quality. Vehicular environments are inherently challenging with doubly selective physical channels, constrained radio spectrum bandwidth resources, and constantly changing network connectivity and topology. As such, research in this area is essential for bringing to reality the many demanding vehicular applications that consist of the gateway towards the ultimate connected mobility. In this talk, I will introduce fundamentals of vehicular channels, and various practical communications and networking techniques that we particularly developed for such channels. Challenges and opportunities in this field will also be discussed to stimulate future research and development.

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Program at a Glance

Tuesday, May 09, 2017

08:00 – 18:00 Registration (in the lobby of Grand Mogador Hotel) 08:30 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee 08:30 - 09:00 Opening Session

09:00 – 10:30

Tutorial 1 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Essaid Sabir

Building Smart City Solutions through an Open and Agile Ecosystem based on FIWARE (1/2)

Antonio J. Jara, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Tutorial 1 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Slim Rekhis

Building Smart City Solutions through an Open and Agile Ecosystem based on FIWARE (2/2)

Antonio J. Jara, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30

Tutorial 2 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Mustapha Benjillali

Backhaul/Fronthaul for HetNets: Requirements, Emerging Technologies and Industrial Practices (1/2)

Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, University of the West Scotland, UK Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, KSA

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30

Tutorial 2 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Mounir Ghogho

Backhaul/Fronthaul for HetNets: Requirements, Emerging Technologies and Industrial Practices (2/2)

Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, University of the West Scotland, UK Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, KSA

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017 08:00 – 18:00 Registration (in the lobby of Grand Mogador Hotel) 08:30 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee

08:30 - 10:00 Opening Reception

UNet’17 & IEEE 5G Summit Casablanca 10:00 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15

Keynote talk 1 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Mounir Ghogho, UIR Rabat, Morocco; University of Leeds, UK

5G is Just Around the Corner; So What is Next?

Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada 12:30– 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:15

Keynote talk 2 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Essaid Sabir, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

Massive MIMO: from channel, antennas and SDR towards user fairness

Prof. Sofie Pollin, KU Leuven, Belgium

15:15 – 16:30 CAAP-1 (Anfa Ballroom)

MENV-1 (Verveine room)

UIoT-1 (Cannelle room)


17:00 – 18:30 UIoT-2 (Anfa Ballroom)

ECA-1 (Verveine room)

ECA-2 (Cannelle room)

Thursday, May 11, 2017 08:00 – 18:00 Registration (in the lobby of Grand Mogador Hotel) 08:30 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee 09:00 – 09:15 Opening Reception

09:15 - 10:30 IEEE 5G Summit 1/4

Session Chair: Latif Ladid, President IPv6 Forum, University of Luxembourg (Anfa Ballroom)


11:00 - 12:30 IEEE 5G Summit 2/4

Session Chair: Mohammed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saoudi Arabia (Anfa Ballroom)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30 IEEE 5G Summit 3/4

Session Chair: Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada (Anfa Ballroom)


16:00 – 17:30 IEEE 5G Summit 4/4

Session Chair: Liquing Yang, University of Colorado, United States of America (Anfa Ballroom)

17:30 – 18:30 Session Chairs: Mustapha Benjillali & Essaid Sabir Round Table

20:00 – 22:00 Gala Diner & Awards Ceremony

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Friday, May 12, 2017 08:00 – 14:00 Registration (in the lobby of Grand Mogador Hotel) 08:30 – 09:00 Welcome Coffee

09:00 - 10:15

Keynote talk 3 (Anfa Ballroom) Chair: Noureddine Boudriga, CN&S, SUP’COM, Tunisia

Simultaneous Lightwave Information and Power Transfer (SLIPT) for Indoor IoT Applications

Prof. George Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15 ECA-3 (Anfa Ballroom)

CAAP-2 (Verveine room)


12:30– 14:00 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 CAAP-3 (Anfa Ballroom)

MENV-2 (Verveine room)

ECA-4 (Cannelle room)


16:30 – 18:00 MENV-3 (Anfa Ballroom)

ECA-5 (Verveine room)


18:00 – 18:15 Closing Session CAAP: Context-Awareness and Autonomy Paradigms (Track 1); MENV: Mobile Edge Networking and Virtualization (Track 2); UIoT: Ubiquitous Internet of Things (Track 3); ECA: Enablers, Challenges and Applications (Track 3).

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Detailed Program Session code: CAAP-1 Chair: Rachid EL-Azouzi #1570354441 Studying Node Cooperation in Reputation Based Packet Forwarding within Mobile Ad hoc Networks (Invited Paper). Sara Berri (LaMOS-University of Bejaia-L2S CentraleSupelec, Algeria); Vineeth S Varma (CRAN; CID, France); Samson E Lasaulce (CNRS - Supelec, France); Mohammed Said Radjef (Univ. of Bejaia, Algeria); Jamal Daafouz (Univ. de Lorraine, France). #1570341486 Routing Game On the Line: The Case Of Multiple Players. Abdelillah Karouit (University of Avignon, France); Majed Haddad (University of Avignon, France); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France); Lmater Moulay Abdellatif (FST, Hassan 1st University, Morocco). #1570341512 A Fully Distributed Satisfactory Power Control for QoS Self-Provisioning in 5G Networks. Hajar El Hammouti (INPT, Morocco); Essaid Sabir (Hassan II University of Casablanca, ENSEM, Morocco); Hamidou Tembine (New York University, USA). #1570331375 A Game Theoretic Approach Against The Greedy Behavior In MAC IEEE 802.11. Mohammed-alamine El Houssaini, Abdessadek Aaroud and Ali El Hore (Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco); Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Paris 13, France).

Session code: CAAP-2 Chair: Samson Lasaulce #1570355667 Leveraging User Intuition to Predict Item Popularity in Social Networks. Nada Sbihi and Ihsane Gryech (Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco); Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds; International University of Rabat, United Kingdom). #1570361011 Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming Systems (Invited Paper). Zakaria YE, Rachid El-Azouzi and Tania Jimenez (University of Avignon, France). #1570338895 Community Detection through Topic Modeling in Social Networks. Imane Tamimi (LIMS, FSDM, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco); El khadir Lamrani (LTIM, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco); Mohamed El Kamili (LIMS, FSDM, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez). #1570341519 A Formal Framework for Adaptation. Anne Marie Amja (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Abdel Obaid (University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada); Hafedh Mili (University Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Zahi Jarir (Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco) Session code: CAAP-3 Chair: Alonso Silva #1570338259 A Comprehensive Study Of Intelligent Transportation System Architectures For Road Congestion Avoidance. Sara El Hamdani (University Moulay Ismail, Morocco); Nabil Benamar (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco).

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#1570341517 Enhancing security in Optimized Link State Routing protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Houda Moudni (University of Sultan Moulay Slimane, Morocco); Mohamed Er-rouidi, Hassan Faouzi and Hicham Mouncif (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco); Benachir El Hadadi (Faculty Polydisciplinary Beni Mellal, Morocco).

#1570341375 A new Data Forwarding Scheme for DTNs based on Coalition Game. Khalil Ibrahimi and Younes Larabi (University of IBN Tofail; Faculty of Sciences, Morocco); Nabil Benamar (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco).

#1570341432 Impact of Link Lifetime on QoS in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. Mesbahi Nabil (Institut Nationale des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT), Morocco); Hamza Dahmouni (INPT; Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal - GERAD, Morocco). Session code: MENV-1 Chair: Slim Rekhis #1570341496 A Multi-Broker Cloud Architecture for the Purpose of Large Scale Sensing Applications Development. Soumaya Bel Hadj Youssef (Higher School of Communications of Tunis (SUP’COM), Tunisia); Slim Rekhis (University of Carthage; Communication Networks and Security Research Lab., Tunisia); Noureddine Boudriga (Communication Networks and Security Research Lab., University of Carthage, Tunisia).

#1570338496 A Simulation Framework for IT Governance in the Context of Corporate Relocation. Rabii El ghorfi (LRIT, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Mohamed El Aroussi (LETI-EHTP; Mohammed V University, Morocco); Mohamed Ouadou (Mohammed V University, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (CNRST-LRIT Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco).

#1570346576 NGN Management with NGOSS Framework-Based IMS Use Case. Raouyane Brahim (Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock; Casablanca, Morocco); Sara Khairi (INPT, Morocco); Imane Haddar (INPT, Morocco); Mostafa Bellafkih (INPT, Morocco).

#1570338590 Migration from Web Services to Cloud Services. Hassina Nacer (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algeria); Kadda Beghdad Bey (Military Polytechnic School Algiers, Algeria); Nabil Djebari (University of Bejaia; LIMED Lab., Algeria). Session code: MENV-2 Chair: Abdellatif Kobbane #1570339000 Improving Attack Graph Scalability For the Cloud Through SDN-Based Decomposition And Parallel Processing. Oussama Mjihil (Hassan First University; ASU, USA); Dijiang Huang (Arizona State University, USA); Haqiq Abdelkrim (Hassan 1 university, Morocco) #1570341514 Performance Analysis of Intrusion Detection Systems in Cloud-Based Systems. Rachid Cherkaoui (Mohammed V Univ.; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Morocco);

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Mostapha Zbakh (Mohammed V Univ. of Rabat, Morocco); An Braeken and Abdellah Touhafi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium). #1570338824 Towards Optimizing the Usability of Homomorphic Encryption in Cloud-Based Medical Image Processing. Mbarek Marwan (Chouaïb Doukkali Univ., Morocco); Ali Kartit (Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco); Hassan Ouahmane (Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco). Session code: MENV-3 Chair: Mohammed El Koutbi #1570339273 A Verifiable Secret Sharing Approach for Secure Multi-Cloud Storage. Kamal Benzekki (Faculty of Sciences, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco); Abdeslam Abdeslam El Fergougui and Abdelbaki El Belrhiti El Alaoui (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco) #1570341495 A Priority Based Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing using a Hybrid MCDM Model. Hicham Ben Alla, Said Ben Alla and Abdellah Ezzati (University Hassan 1, Morocco). #1570332687 A Novel Approach for Security in Cloud-Based Medical Image Storage using Segmentation. Mbarek Marwan (University Chouaïb Doukkali, Morocco); Ali Kartit (University of Chouaib Doukkali, Morocco); Hassan Ouahmane (University of Chouaib Doukkali, Morocco). Session code: UIoT-1 Chair: Mohamed Sadik #1570309498 Toward Reliable Maritime Communication for a Safe Operation of Autonomous Ship. Adelmoula Ail Allal and Khalifa Mansouri (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Youssfi Mohamed (Labo SSDIA, ENSET Mohammedia, Morocco); Mohammed Qbadou (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco).

#1570339109 A Secure Machine-to-Machine Wireless Communication Using DNP3 Protocol for Feeder Automation in Smart-Grid. Lekbich Anass (Laboratory of Electric Systems and Energy, ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca Morocco.); Belfqih Abdelaziz, Cherkaoui Nazha, Boukherouaa Jamal and Elmariami Faissal (ENSEM, Morocco); Omar Sabri (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Dazahra Mohamed Nouh (ENSEM, Morocco).

#1570339188 L-CAHASH: A Novel Lightweight Hash Function Based on Cellular Automata for RFID. Charifa Hanin, Bouchra Echandouri, Fouzia Omary and Souad Elbernoussi (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco).

#1570341490 Group Authentication with Fault Tolerance for Internet of Things. Otmane Elmouaatamid (Mohammed 5 University; ENSIAS, Morocco); Mohammed Lahmer (Ecole Supérieure de Technologie Meknes, Morocco); Mostafa Belkasmi (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco).

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Session code: UIoT-2 Chair: Ana Garcia Armada #1570339203 Fully Distributed Indexing over a Distributed Hash Table. Simon Désaulniers (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Adrien Béraud (Savoir-Faire Linux, Canada); Nicolas Reynaud (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Alexandre Blondin Massé (Université du Québec à Montréal; LaCIM, Canada). #1570339270 IoT-Empowered Smart Agriculture: A Real-Time Light-Weight Embedded Segmentation System. Saad Abouzahir (University Hassan II, Morocco); Mohamed Sadik (ENSEM / UH2C, Morocco); Essaid Sabir (Hassan II University of Casablanca; ENSEM, Morocco). #1570338894 Random Access Procedure based on an Adaptive Prioritization Method for Integration of MTC in Mobile Networks. Alejandro Borrajo Romero, Raquel Perez Leal and Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain). #1570352425 Adopting Fuzzy Technique to Save Energy in Smart Home Control System. Sergio Henrique Monte Santo Andrade (Federal University of Pará, Brazil); Edvar Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Rodrigo Dias Alfaia, Anderson de Freitas Souto and Carlos Renato Frances (UFPA, Brazil); Nandamudi L Vijaykumar (National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil). Session code: UIoT-3 Chair: Mohamed El-Kamili #1570339198 Multi-Hop Clustering Solution Based on Beacon Delay for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. Soufiane Ouahou (AMIPS Research Group; Mohammadia School of Engineers / Mohammed V University, Morocco); Slimane Bah (Ecole Mohammadia des Ingenieurs (EMI); Mohammed V University, Morocco); Zohra Bakkoury (Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, Morocco); Abdelhakim Hafid (University of Montreal, Canada) #1570353158 F2CDM: Internet of Things for Healthcare Network Based Fog-to-Cloud and Data-in-Motion using MQTT Protocol. Istabraq M. Al-Joboury (Al-Nahrain University, Iraq); Emad Hasan Al-Hemiary (Al-Nahrain University; College of Information Engineering, Iraq). #1570335781 Compact Dual-band CPW-fed Patch Antenna for 2.45/5.80 GHz RFID Applications. Mohamed Tarbouch and Abdelkebir El Amri (RITM Laboratory, Ecole Supérieure de Technologie, CED Engineering Sciences ENSEM, Morocco); Hanae Terchoune (RITM Laboratory, EST, CED Engineering Sciences ENSEM, Morocco). #1570336482 MRA*: Parallel and Distributed Path in Large-Scale Graph Using Mapreduce-A* Based Approach. Wilfried Yves Hamilton Adoni (Hassan II University Of Casablanca; Science Faculty, Morocco); Tarik Nahhal, Brahim Aghezzaf and Abdeltif Elbyed (Hassan II University Of Casablanca-Science Faculty, Morocco).

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Session code: UIoT-4 Chair: Abdelmajid Badri #1570338856 The Modeling of the Wind System and the Control of Doubly-Fed Induction Generator with the Use of a Fuzzy Logic Controller. Fatima Ezzahra Bounifli (ENSEM, Morocco); Abdelhadi EL Moudden and Abdelhamid Hmidat (ENSEM, Morocco); Widad Driouich (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Angel Scipioni (University of Nancy Lorraine, Morocco). #1570339329 Study of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks Using S-Rhombus, S-Square and S-Circle Deployment. Saleh Bouarafa (Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco); Rachid Saadane (EHTP, Morocco); Moulay Driss Rahmani (Faculty of Science Rabat, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (CNRST; LRIT Mohammed V-Agdal University, Morocco). #1570341516 Toward a new extension of IPv6 addressing to connect non IP objects. Ali El ksimi (Hassan 2, Morocco); Cherkaoui Leghris (University Hassan II of Casablanca, Morocco); Faddoul Khoukhi (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco). #1570346120 A Comparison of Closed-Loop Performance of Multirotor Configurations. Alaa Bensaid (EMI-University Mohammed V, Morocco); Mostafa Moussid (ENSEM, Morocco); Karim Benkirane (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Hicham Medromi (Université Hassan II Aïn Chock Casablanca, Morocco). Session code: ECA-1 Chair: Oussama Habachi #1570346781 Channel Coherence Classification with Frame-Shifting in Massive MIMO Systems (Invited Paper). Ahmad Abboud (Université de Limoges, France); Oussama Habachi (XLIM, France); Ali Jaber (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Jean Pierre Cances and Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France). #1570338663 Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Two-Way Massive MIMO Full-Duplex Relay Systems with Direct Link. Houda Chafnaji (INPT, Rabat, Morocco). #1570354370 Robust Trajectory Planning for Robotic Communications under Fading Channels (Invited Paper). Daniel Bonilla Licea (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Vineeth S Varma (CRAN; CID, France); Samson E Lasaulce (CNRS - Supelec, France); Jamal Daafouz (Université de Lorraine, France); Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds; International University of Rabat, United Kingdom); Desmond McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom). #1570341498 Performance of Enhanced LTE OTDOA Positioning Approach Through Nakagami-m Fading Channel. Ilham El mourabit (Faculty of Science and Techniques Mohammedia - Hassan II, Morocco); Abdelmajid Badri (FSTM UH2C; LEEA&TI, Morocco); Aicha Sahel and Abdennaceur Baghdad (Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Mohammedia, Morocco).

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Session code: ECA-2 Chair: Khalil Ibrahimi #1570341467 Chaotic ZKP based Authentication and Key Distribution Scheme in Environmental Monitoring CPS. Wided Boubakri (Supcom, Tunisia); Walid Abdallah (CN&S Research Lab., Tunisia); Noureddine Boudriga (Communication Networks and Security Research Lab., University of Carthage, Tunisia). #1570341453 Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Network Intrusion Detection Systems. Mohammed Saber (LSE2I, National School of Applied Sciences, Mohammed First University, Morocco); Mohammed Ghaouth Belkasmi (MATSI, Morocco); Sara Chadli (Mohammed First University, Morocco); Mohamed Emharraf (LSE2I, National School of Applied Sciences, Mohammed First University, Morocco). #1570351677 An Efficient Authentication Protocol for 5G Heterogeneous Networks. Younes El hajjaji El Idrissi (Faculté des sciences de rabat, Morocco); Noureddine Zahid (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Mohamed Jedra (Laboratoire Conception et Systèmes, Morocco). #1570341567 An Agreement graph-based-authentication scheme for 5G networks. Maroua Gharam (Communication Networks and Security Research lab, University of Carthage, Tunisia); Noureddine Boudriga (Communication Networks and Security Research Lab., University of Carthage, Tunisia). Session code: ECA-3 Chair: Stefan Panić #1570349002 Green Base Station Placement for Microwave Backhaul Links (Invited Paper). Alonso Silva (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Antonia Maria Masucci (Orange Labs, France). #1570348903 Joint Frame Detection and Channel Estimation for DCO-OFDM LiFi Systems. Yufei Jiang and Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom). #1570338908 SIR-based Performance Analysis of Dual-Branch SC over Correlated \kappa-\mu Fading Channels. Stefan Panić (University of Niš; University of Priština, Serbia); Caslav Stefanovic (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Pristina, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia); Hranislav Milosevic (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Pristina, Serbia). #1570336480 Performance Analysis of Asynchronous and non-Linear FBMC Systems. Brahim Elmaroud (Mohammed V University, Rabat; Faculty of Sciences, Morocco); Moulay Ahmed Faqihi (ENSIAS - University Mohammed V Souissi, Morocco); Driss Aboutajdine (CNRST; LRIT Mohammed V-agdal University, Morocco).

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Session code: ECA-4 Chair: Mohammed Raiss-El-Fenni #1570339059 An Improved Bernoulli Sensing Matrix For Compressive Sensing. Hamid Nouasria (National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Morocco); Mohamed Et-tolba (INPT, Morocco). #1570341499 Contribution to the Study of Beamforming at 2.4GHz of a Smart Antenna for Wireless Applications Alimented by a 4x4 Butler matrix. Mohamed Hanaoui (ENSEM, Hassan II University, Morocco); M Rifi (ESTC-UH2C, Morocco). #1570343272 Adaptive Mapping for Multiple Applications on Parallel Architectures. Ismail Assayad (University of Casablanca, Morocco); Alain Girault (INRIA, France). #1570341391 Verification of SystemC Components using the Method of Deduction. Soumia El Bouanani (Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco); Ismail Assayad (University of Casablanca, Morocco); Mohamed Sadik (ENSEM / UH2C, Morocco).

Session code: ECA-5 Chair: Ahmed Errami #1570337817 Image Segmentation by Deep Community Detection Approach. Youssef Mourchid (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco); Mohammed El Hassouni (University of Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco); Hocine Cherifi (France). #1570339170 Data Mining Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis. El Mehdi Benyoussef (Hassan II University; Faculty of Science, Morocco); Abdeltif Elbyed (Hassan II University Of Casablanca-Science Faculty, Morocco); Hind El Hadiri (Emile Roux Hospital, Paris-France, France). #1570341501 Image Search Engine based on Color Histogram and Zernike Moment. Nawal Chifa (FSTM, Morocco); Abdelmajid Badri (FSTM UH2C; LEEA&TI, Morocco); Yassine Ruichek (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard - France, France); Aicha Sahel (Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Mohammedia, Morocco). #1570338902 Risk Assessment and Alert Prioritization for Intrusion Detection Systems. El mostapha Chakir and Mohamed Moughit (University Hassan First Settat, Morocco); Youness Idrissi Khamlichi (University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah FES, Morocco).

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Keynote Speakers Biographies

George K. Karagiannidis was born in Pithagorion, Samos Island, Greece. He received the University Diploma (5 years) and PhD degree, both in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Patras, in 1987 and 1999, respectively. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. In June 2004, he joined the faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where he is currently Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. and Director of

Digital Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory. He is also Honorary Professor at South West Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. His research interests are in the broad area of Digital Communications Systems with emphasis on Wireless Communications, Optical Wireless Communications, Wireless Power Transfer and Applications, Molecular Communications, Communications and Robotics and Wireless Security. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 technical papers published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences. He is also author of the Greek edition of a book on “Telecommunications Systems” and co-author of the book “Advanced Optical Wireless Communications Systems”, Cambridge Publications, 2012.

Dr. Karagiannidis has been involved as General Chair, Technical Program Chair and member of Technical Program Committees in several IEEE and non-IEEE conferences. In the past he was Editor in several IEEE journals and from 2012 to 2015 he was the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. From 2012 to 2016 he is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE VTS. Dr. Karagiannidis has been selected as a 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher and he is listed in Thomson Reuters 2015 list of World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.

Sofie Pollin obtained her PhD degree at KU Leuven with honors in 2006. From 2006-2008 she continued her research on wireless communication, energy-efficient networks, cross-layer design, coexistence and cognitive radio at UC Berkeley. In November 2008 she returned to imec to become a principal scientist in the green radio team. Since 2012, she is tenure track assistant professor at the electrical engineering department at KU Leuven. Her research centers around Networked Systems that require networks that are ever more dense, heterogeneous, battery powered and spectrum constrained. Prof. Pollin is BAEF and Marie Curie fellow, and IEEE senior member.

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Dr. Liuqing Yang received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2004. She is presently a Professor with Colorado State University. Her general interests are in signal processing with applications to communications, networking and power systems – subjects on which she has published more than 250 journal and conference papers, 4 book chapters and 2 books. Dr. Yang was the recipient of the Best Dissertation Award in the Physical Sciences & Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2004,

the Best Paper Award at the IEEE ICUWB’06, ICCC’13, ITSC’14, Globecom’14, and ICC’16, the ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award in 2007, and the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2009. She has served as an active reviewer for more than 10 journals, as TPC chair/member for a number of conferences, and as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and PHYCOM: Physical Communication. Dr. Yang is an IEEE Fellow, and has been the co-chair of the Mobile Communication Networks technical committee of the IEEE ITSS since 2006.

Halim Yanikomeroglu (F'17) was born in Giresun, Turkey, in 1968. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1990, and the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (now ECE) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1992 and 1998, respectively.

During 1993-1994, he was with the R&D Group of Marconi Kominikasyon A.S., Ankara, Turkey. Since 1998 he has been with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he is now a Full Professor. His research interests cover many aspects of wireless technologies with a special emphasis on cellular networks. In recent years, his research has been funded by Huawei, Telus, Allen Vanguard, Blackberry, Samsung, Industry Canada, Communications Research Centre of Canada (CRC), and DragonWave. This collaborative research resulted in about 25 patents.

Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society (2015-2018) and a Distinguished Speaker for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 5G wireless technologies. He has been involved in the organization of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) from its inception

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in 1998 in various capacities including serving as a Steering Committee member, Executive Committee member and the Technical Program Chair or Co-Chair of WCNC 2004 (Atlanta), WCNC 2008 (Las Vegas), and WCNC 2014 (Istanbul). He was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2010-Fall) held in Ottawa and is currently serving as the General Co-Chair of the IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Fall) to be held in Toronto. He has served in the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He was the Chair of the IEEE's Technical Committee on Personal Communications (now called Wireless Technical Committee).

Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a recipient of the IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Educator Award in 2014, Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award in 2010, the Carleton University Graduate Students Association Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching in 2010, and the Carleton University Research Achievement Award in 2009. Dr. Yanikomeroglu spent the 2011-2012 academic year at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, as a Visiting Professor. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Tutorial Speakers Biographies

Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini (S'94, M'98, SM'03, F’09) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as

a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009.

Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge list of Highly Cited Researchers and of the Elsevier/Shanghai Ranking list of Most Cited Researchers, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a recipient of the Recognition Award of the IEEE ComSoc Wireless Technical Committee in 2016 and a co-recipient of best paper awards in ten IEEE conferences (including ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, PIMRC, and DySPAN). His current research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

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Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (S’02, M’10, SM’16) is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer UK) in Networks in the School of Engineering and Computing at University of the West Scotland (UWS), Paisley, Scotland where he is a member of Artificial Intelligence, Visual Communications and Network (AVCN) research group. Before joining UWS in Fall 2016, he has worked as a Senior Researcher in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Canada where he served as a project manager for Carleton-Industry collaborative

R&D projects and led the Teams of graduate and undergraduate researchers working on Drones-enabled communications for 5G networks. During his stay at Carleton University, most of his research has been sponsored by local industry partners and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In this role, he has also served as a Consultant for R&D at Communications Theory Lab, KAUST where he was responsible for providing his expertise for the development of FSO based sustainable fronthaul network for 5G communications. Previously, from July 2012 to July 2015, he worked as an Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), Qatar where he was a Co-Lead PI of 1M$ project awarded by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) on heterogeneous networks. Prior to joining, TAMUQ in July 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia where he received a collaborative research award from the KAUST Global Collaborative Research initiative for research project on cognitive radio enabled heterogeneous networks with University of Surrey. From September 2010 to December 2010, he was a Visiting Researcher at Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, UK.

Dr. Shakir's main research interests lie in design and development of heterogeneous networks for urban and rural coverage via unconventional aerial and regular architectures. He is also interested in developing unified integrated user centric frameworks for emerging 5G technologies such as Caching, D2D, MTC, IoT and SDR. Dr. Shakir has diversified experience in evaluation of wireless systems from the perspective of energy efficiency, Carbon footprint, area spectral efficiency and area green efficiency. He has been also directly engaged in the development and standardization of IEEE DySPAN 1900.7 standard project. Dr. Shakir has a track record of more than 75 technical journal and conference publications including many in the world’s most reputable journals in the areas of wireless communications, communication theory and green communications networks. He has also contributed to 7 books. Dr. Shakir is co-editor of two edited books and co-author of an authored book on Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks published by Wiley John & Sons and endorsed by IEEE Press.

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Dr. Shakir has been/is giving tutorials on emerging wireless communication systems at IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, IEEE ICUWB 2015, Montreal, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014/2015, Austin/San Diego, IEEE BlackSeaSom 2015, Constanta, Romania and IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney. He has been/is also serving as a Chair/Co-Chair of several workshops/special sessions such as GRASNET 2017, 5GUA 2017, BackNets 2016, GreenICT 2015 and ReAP 2015 in IEEE flagship conferences, such as ICC, VTC and GlobalSIP. He has been also serving on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and WCNC. He is an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and has served as a lead Guest Editor/Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Access. Dr. Shakir is serving as a Chair of IEEE ComSoc emerging technical committee on backhaul/fronthaul communications and networking. He has been serving as an active member to several IEEE ComSoc technical committees. From January 2012 to January 2016, he served as an elected Secretary to the IEEE DySPAN 1900.7 working group. He is serving as the standard representative of IEEE ComSoc technical committee on Signal processing and communication electronics. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, an active member of IEEE ComSoc and IEEE Standard Association.

Antonio J. Jara is an Adjoint Scientifique at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Founder at HOP Ubiquitous S.L. (www.hopu.eu) and vice-chair of the IEEE Communications Society Internet of Things Technical Committee. He did his PhD (Cum Laude) at the Intelligent Systems and Telematics Research Group of the University of Murcia (UMU) from Spain in 2013. He received two M.S. (Hons. - valedictorian) degrees. Since 2007, he has been working on several projects related to IPv6, Security and WSNs in automation and healthcare. He is especially focused on the design and development of new protocols for security and mobility for Future Internet of things, which was the topic of his

Ph.D. He did the transfer of the results from his PhD around Security in the American Company United Technologies. Nowadays, he continues working on IPv6 technologies for the Internet of Things In areas such as security, heterogeneity integration and the application of IoT in sectors such as industry 4.0, energy, and smart cities. He has also carried out a Master in Business Administration (MBA). He has published over 100 international papers (~2000 citations, h: 24), As well he holds several patents in the IoT domain. Finally, he has participated in several European Projects about Internet of Things (networking, security and intelligence distribution – fog computing) and applied Internet of Things (energy, industry 4.0 and Smart Cities).

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Professor Mehdi Bennis received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering jointly from the EPFL, Switzerland and the Eurecom Institute, France in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a research engineer at IMRA-EUROPE investigating adaptive equalization algorithms for mobile digital TV. In 2004, he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu, Finland as a research scientist. In 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the Alcatel-Lucent chair on flexible radio, SUPELEC. He obtained his Ph.D. in December 2009 on spectrum sharing for future mobile cellular systems. His main research interests are in resource management for future context-aware networks, game theory and machine learning in 5G networks. He

co-authored one book and published more than 100 research papers in international conferences, journals, book chapters and patents. He was the recipient of the prestigious 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, 2016 Best Tutorial Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, and the 2016 European Wireless Best Student Paper Award. Dr. Bennis is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and is currently a Professor at the University of Oulu. Dr. Bennis is a senior Member of the IEEE.

Executive Chairs Biographies Mounir Ghogho has received the M.S. degree in 1993 and the PhD degree in 1997 from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France. He was an EPSRC Research Fellow with the University of Strathclyde (Scotland), from Sept 1997 to Nov 2001. Since Dec 2001, he has been a faculty member with the school of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds (England), where he is currently a Professor. Since 2010, he has also been affiliated with the International University of Rabat, where he is currently a Scientific Advisor to the President, ICT Research Director and local coordinator of the CNRS-associated

international lab DataNet. He was awarded the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in September 2000. He is a recipient of the 2013 IBM Faculty Award. He is currently an associate editor of the Signal Processing Magazine, and a steering committee member of the IEEE Transactions on Signals and Information Processing over Networks. In the past, he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Elsevier Digital Signal Processing journal. He was/is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM, SPTM and SAM Technical Committees. He was the General Chair of the European SIgnal Processing conference Eusipco2013 and the IEEE workshop on Signal Processing for Advanced Wireless Communications SPAWC’2010. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers in the areas of signal processing, machine leaning and wireless communication. He held invited scientist/professor positions at Telecom Paris-Tech (France), NII (Japan), BUPT (China), University Carlos 3rd of Madrid (Spain), ENSICA (Toulouse), Darmstadt Technical University (Germany), and Minnesota University (USA).

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Mérouane Debbah entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) in 1996 where he received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees respectively. He worked for Motorola Labs (Saclay, France) from 1999-2002 and the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (Vienna, Austria) until 2003. From 2003 to 2007, he joined the Mobile Communications department of the Institut Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis, France) as an Assistant Professor. Since 2007, he is a Full Professor at CentraleSupelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). From 2007 to 2014, he was the director of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. Since 2014, he is Vice-President of the Huawei France R&D center and director of the Mathematical and Algorithmic

Sciences Lab. His research interests lie in fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information & communication sciences research. He is an Associate Editor in Chief of the journal Random Matrix: Theory and Applications and was an associate and senior area editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing respectively in 2011-2013 and 2013-2014. Mérouane Debbah is a recipient of the ERC grant MORE (Advanced Mathematical Tools for Complex Network Engineering). He is a IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow and a member of the academic senate of Paris-Saclay. He has managed 8 EU projects and more than 24 national and international projects. He received 17 best paper awards, among which the 2007 IEEE GLOBECOM best paper award, the Wi-Opt 2009 best paper award, the 2010 Newcom++ best paper award, the WUN CogCom Best Paper 2012 and 2013 Award, the 2014 WCNC best paper award, the 2015 ICC best paper award, the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial paper award, the 2016 European Wireless Best Paper Award and the 2017 Eurasip Best Paper Award as well as the Valuetools 2007, Valuetools 2008, CrownCom2009, Valuetools’12 and SAM’14 best student paper awards. He is the recipient of the Mario Boella award in 2005, the IEEE Glavieux Prize Award in 2011 and the Qualcomm Innovation Prize Award in 2012.

Professor Hicham Medromi received his Ph.D. in Automatic, Robotics & Applied Computing, and the Habilitation qualification both from University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). He occupied several positions as assistant Professor and as associate Professor. First, he was with the National School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Meknes for over six years. Next, he served as vice-Director at the National Higher School of Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM), Hassan II University of Casablanca. He is currently the director of ENSEM, Hassan II University of Casablanca. In 2005, Professor Hicham Medromi has founded the Architecture Research Team. His research work lies in general with system's engineering. He

conducted numerous R&D projects and collaborated with several partners from socio-economic world, national and international institutions worldwide. He is (was) involved in a large number of R&D projects (20). Professor Medromi yields +17 patents and published +68 articles in highly indexed journals and +240 international and national conferences during the last six years. He is also the founder the Research Centre for Development and Innovation in Engineering Sciences, inaugurated by His Majesty the King Mohammed VI on October 22, 2014, with a budget exceeding MAD 43 Million. This centre will house +150 researchers and +300 PhD candidates in various lines of research related to engineering

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sciences. Professor Medromi (co-)authored five books related to robotics, remote control and security.

Mohamed Sadik is a Professor and the Chair of the Research and Cooperation Department at the National Higher School of Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM). He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL) (Nancy, France) in December 1992. Professor Sadik received his Master of Sciences and his Bachelor, both in Electronics, automatic and informatics, from University of Brest ( France). In 1993, Prof. Sadik joined the National Higher School of Electricity and mechanics; Hassan II University of Casablanca as an Assistant Professor of signal processing and other courses

related to computer sciences and wireless networking. In 2004, he became an Associate Professor at ENSEM. From 2008 to 2013, he served as a chair of Electrical Engineering Department at the same institution. His earlier research activities lied in the development of biomedical autonomous systems. Recently, he has been interested in embedded system, autonomous/smart systems applied to precision agriculture and environment. He is also working on security issues, in particular for networking and embedded systems. He also participates (participated) in numerous R&D Projects. Dr. Sadik is the head of the Networking, embedded Systems and Telecommunications (NEST) research group. He serves as TCP and reviewer for several international and national conferences including WOTIC 2011, ICT2013, NGNS 2014, etc. Dr. Sadik has been involved in the organization of numerous international conferences (IEEE ITC'13, IEEE NGNS'14, WINCOM'15, etc.). He also co-founded and chaired the international Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking 2015.

Abdelmajid Badri is a holder of a doctorate in Electronics and Image Processing in 1992 at the University of Poitiers–France. In 1996, he obtained the diploma of the authorization to Manage Researches (HDR) to the University of Poitiers–France, on the image processing. Qualified by the CNU-France in 61th section (Informatic Engineering, Automatic and Signal Processing). He is an University Professor (PES-C) at the University Hassan II of Casablanca - Morocco (FSTM) where he teaches the electronics, the signal processing, image processing and telecommunication (Department of Electric Engineering). He is a member of the laboratory EEA&TI (Electonic, Energy, Automatic and Information

Processing) which he managed since 1996. The research works of A. Badri concerns the communication and Information Technology (Electronics Systems, Signal/Image Processing and Telecommunication). He managed several doctoral theses. He is a co-author of several national and international publications. He is responsible for several research projects financed by the ministry or by the industrialists. He was member of several committees of programs of international conferences and president of several international congresses in the same domain. He is a member and co-responsible in several scientific associations in touch with his domain of research. He is an expert CNRST. He was responsible for several academic structures (Director ENSAMC an interim (3 years), Vice Dean FSTM, Head of the Electric Engineering Department).

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TPC Chairs Biographies

Ana García Armada received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid in February 1998. She is currently Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she has occupied a variety of management positions (Head of Signal Theory and Communications Department, Vice-dean of Electrical Engineering, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of International Relations, among others). She is leading the Communications Research Group at this university. She has participated (and coordinated most of them) in more than 30 national and 10 international research projects as well as 20 contracts with the industry, all of them related to wireless communications. She is the co-author of eight book chapters on wireless communications

and signal processing. She has published around 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds four patents. She has contributed to international standards organizations such as ITU and ETSI and is member of the expert group of the European 5G PPP. She serves on the editorial boards of Physical Communication, IET Communications and IEEE Communications Letters. She has served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and she has been part of the organizing committee of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2015 and the International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT) 2010. She is an active member of IEEE ComSoc Communication Theory Committee, Newsletter Editor of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Consumer Electronics Committee, and Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee. She has received a Young Researchers Excellence Award and an Award to Best Practices in Teaching, both from University Carlos III of Madrid, Her main interests are multi-carrier and multi-antenna techniques and signal processing applied to wireless communications.

Essaid Sabir received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical engineering Electronics and Automation (2004) from Mohammed V University (Rabat, Morocco) and the M.Sc. in Telecommunications and Wireless Engineering (2007) from National Institute of Post and Telecommunications (Rabat). In 2010, he received the Ph.D. degree in Networking and Computer Sciences jointly from University of Avignon (France) and the Mohammed V University. He was a contractual Assistant Professor at University of Avignon (France), from 2009 to 2012. Essaid serves as a reviewer for several international journals (IEEE, Springer, IET, Elsevier, Wiley, etc.).

Dr. Sabir is an IEEE Senior member and an active member with IEEE COMSOC, IEEE IoT and other IEEE Professional Societies. He served as a Generlal Chair, TPC Chair or

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Publication chair for several conferences and scientific events including IEEE 5G Summit Casablanca, IEEE WF-IoT’16, UNet, IEEE IoTGS’17, IEEE WF-IoT’18, IEEE NGNS'14 and WINCOM'15-16. He has been on the technical program committee of numerous IEEE/ACM conferences, including Globecom, ICC, WCNC, MSWIM, ICT, WIOPT, etc.. He is being (has been) involved in several national and international/European projects. Currently, he is a full-time Associate Professor at the National Higher School of Electricity and mechanics of Casablanca (ENSEM). His current research interests include protocols design for 5G networks, D2D-M2M-IoT, NFV and Infrastructure-less networking for 5G Networks, cognitive radio, stochastic learning, networking games, pricing and network neutrality. Dr. Sabir has co-authored over 20 journal articles with high impact factor, 1 book and several book chapters, and over 60 conference publications. Dr. Sabir is a founder and the vice-treasurer of the Moroccan Association for Mobile Computing and Intelligent Embedded-Systems (MobiTic). As an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry, he has co-founded and co-chaired the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet). He has also co-founded the International Conference On Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, (WINCOM).

Professor Rachid El-Azouzi received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco (2000). He joined INRIA (National Research Institute in Informatics and Control) Sophia Antipolis for post-doctoral and Research Engineer positions. Since 2003, he has been a researcher at the University of Avignon, France. He received the best paper award in the Networking 2006, in MSN 2007 and Globecom 2007 conferences. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal IEEE Transaction on Networking. His research interests are, Networking Games, Biologically Inspired Networks, Design of communication protocols for wireless networks, Wireless MAC protocols design and

evaluation, Intelligent wireless networks and learning algorithms, MANET networks and Delay Tolerant Networking.

Professor Mustapha Benjillali graduated as a mobile communications engineer from INPT, Rabat, Morocco, in 2003. He received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from INRS, Montreal, Canada, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Electrical Engineering Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, KSA. He is now an Associate Professor with the Communication Systems Department at INPT, Rabat, Morocco. His current research interests are in the area of 5G wireless and mobile communications, including flexible and novel access

technologies, green wireless systems, and intelligent wireless IoT solutions for smart cities.

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His focus is on the design and optimization of 5G physical and link layers, closed-form mathematical performance analysis, energy-efficiency, and resource allocation strategies. Prof. Benjillali is an IEEE Senior Member, and an IBM Academic Initiative Member. He is also an active member with many IEEE Societies and Communities, and serves for many leading international journals and major international conferences. Among his awards and distinctions, he is a co-recipient of the 2010 Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). He is the President of the Moroccan Association for Information and Communication Technologies (AMTIC).

Samson Lasaulce is a CNRS Director of Research in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (joint lab between CNRS, CentraleSupélec, and Univ. Paris Sud). He has also been a Professor with the Department of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique. Before joining CNRS he has been working for five years in private R&D companies (Motorola Labs and Orange Labs). Dr. Lasaulce is the recipient of several awards, which includes several best paper awards and the SEE Blondel Medal Award. Dr. Lasaulce has been serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. His current research interests lie in distributed

networks with a focus on game theory, network information theory, learning, distributed optimization, network control for communication and energy networks. He is a co-author of the book "Game Theory and Learning for Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications".

Professor Francesco De Pellegrini (CREATE-NET) received the Laurea degree in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in 2004, both in Telecommunication Engineering, from the university of Padova. He is currently a senior researcher at CN and his role is Deputy Area Head of the iNSPIRE group. He also serves as lecturer at the university of Trento for the course of Wireless Networks (Master Degree course). His technical research interests are location detection, multirate systems, routing, wireless mesh networks, VoIP, Ad Hoc and Delay Tolerant Networks. From the scientific standpoint, his interests range over algorithms on graphs, stochastic control of

networks and game theory. F. De Pellegrini has been a TPC member of IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE WiOpt and a reviewer for several international networking conferences and journals. Francesco served in the Steering Program Committee of ICST Mobiquitous and Robocomm. Francesco was the Vice General-Chair for the first edition of ICST Robocomm and is one of the promoters of COMPLEX 2012. Francesco has been General Co-Chair for the 2012 edition of IEEE NetGCoop, a conference focused on game theory and control for communication networks.

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Publication Chairs Biographies

Dr. Slim Rekhis received the University Habilitation and the Ph.D. degrees in Information and Communication Technologies from the Engineering School of Communications (SUP’Com, Tunisia) in 2013, and 2007, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Communication engineering (SUP’Com, University of Carthage, Tunisia) and member of the Communication Networks and Security (CNAS) research Laboratory at the same University. Dr. Rekhis is conducting his research activities in the area of digital investigation of cyber security incidents, formal modeling, cloud computing, intrusion prevention and detection, wireless sensor networks,

networking and quality of service, and wireless security.

Doctor Mohamed El Kamili is a full-time Associate Professor in Computer Networks at Department of Computer Science, Faculty of science Dhar Mahraz, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University of Fez, Morocco since May 2006. He is a permanent member of the research team "Processes and Complex Systems" of the Computer, Modeling and Systems Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Operations Research in May 2005, the "Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieurs Approfondies (DESA)" in Numerical Analysis, Optimization and Operational research in October 2000 and

the B.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics - Option: Statistics in May 1998, all from Mohammed V University Rabat, Morocco. He have co-authored many journal articles and book chapters, and many conference publications. He acts as a reviewer for professional publications, prestigious international journals and international conferences, as computer communication journal (ComCom), IEEE ICC, IEEE Globcom conference, IEEE IWCMC, IEEE WCNC, Netys conference. His current research interests include Networking Games, Design of communication protocols for wireless networks, Wireless MAC protocols design and evaluation, intelligent wireless networks and learning algorithms, Cognitive radio network, Delay Tolerant Network and Social Networks. Dr. El Kamili is a founder member and the vice-president of the Moroccan Mobile Computing and Intelligent Embedded-Systems Society (Mobitic), http://www.mobitic.org/. He has also co-founded of the International Conference On Wireless Networks And Mobile Communications (WINCOM, http://www.wincom-conf.org) technically supported by IEEE Morocco section and IEEE ComSoc. Dr. El Kamili acts as a local chair of the 4th edition of WINCOM that held in fez Morocco, and as TPC co-chair for UNet 2015, WINCOM 2015 and WINCOM 2017.

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