• A Novel OFDM Waveform with Enhanced Physical Layer Security 

      Samara, Lutfi; Alabbasi, Abubakr O.; Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Al-Dhahir, Naofal ( IEEE , 2021 , Article)
      This letter proposes a secure orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform based on two physical-layer secrecy enhancing methods. The first method is time-domain pre-coding that involves interleaving and ...
    • A novel pandemic tracking map: From theory to implementation 

      Gouissem, Ala; Abualsaud, Khalid; Yaacoub, Elias; Khattab, Tamer; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      The wide spread of the novel COVID-19 virus all over the world has caused major economical and social damages combined with the death of more than two million people so far around the globe. Therefore, the design of a model ...
    • Accelerated IoT Anti-Jamming: A Game Theoretic Power Allocation Strategy 

      Gouissem, Ala; Abualsaud, Khalid; Yaacoub, Elias; Khattab, Tamer; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)
      A jamming combating power allocation strategy is proposed to secure the data communication in IoT networks. The proposed strategy aims to minimize the worst case jamming effect on the intended transmission under multi ...
    • An energy saving mechanism based on vacation queuing theory in data center networks 

      Baccour, Emna; Gouissem, Ala; Foufou, Sebti; Hamila, Ridha; Tari, Zahir; ... more authors ( Springer , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      To satisfy the growing need for computing resources, data centers consume a huge amount of power which raises serious concerns regarding the scale of the energy consumption and wastage. One of the important reasons for ...
    • Exploiting Sparsity in Amplify-and-Forward Broadband Multiple Relay Selection 

      Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Al-dhahir, Naofal; Foufou, Sebti ( IEEE , 2019 , Article)
      Cooperative communication has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its ability to increase the spatial diversity order with only single-antenna nodes. However, most of the techniques in the literature ...
    • Game Theory for Anti-Jamming Strategy in Multichannel Slow Fading IoT Networks 

      Gouissem, Ala; Abualsaud, Khalid; Yaacoub, Elias; Khattab, Tamer; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      The open nature of the wireless communication medium renders it vulnerable to jamming attacks by malicious users. To detect their presence and to avoid such attacks, several techniques are present in the literature. Most ...
    • Multiple Relay Selection and Beamforming in Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks 

      Gouissem, Ala; Samara, Lutfi; Hamila, Ridha; Al-Dhahir, Naofal; Foufou, Sebti ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      In this paper, the problems of multiple relay selection and beamforming optimization are considered for a dual-hop amplify-and-forward relaying network under individual and total power constraints. The selection is performed ...
    • A novel pandemic tracking map: From theory to implementation 

      Gouissem, Ala; Abualsaud, Khalid; Yaacoub, Elias; Khattab, Tamer; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      The wide spread of the novel COVID-19 virus all over the world has caused major economical and social damages combined with the death of more than two million people so far around the globe. Therefore, the design of a model ...
    • On Dependability Traffic Load and Energy Consumption Tradeoff in Data Center Networks 

      Chkirbene, Zina; Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Foufou, Sebti ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Mega data centers (DCs) are considered as efficient and promising infrastructures for supporting numerous cloud computing services such as online office, online social networking, Web search and IT infrastructure out-sourcing. ...
    • A Secure Energy Efficient Scheme for Cooperative IoT Networks 

      Gouissem, Ala; Abualsaud, Khalid; Yaacoub, Elias; Khattab, Tamer; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)
      A secure energy efficient approach is proposed to connect Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that operate with limited power resources. This is done by optimizing simultaneously the energy efficiency, the communication rate ...
    • Sparsity-aware Multiple Relay Selection In Large Decode-and-forward Relay Networks 

      Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Al-dhahir, Naofal; Foufou, Sebti ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Cooperative communication is a promising technology that has attracted significant attention recently thanks to its ability to achieve spatial diversity in wireless networks with only single-antenna nodes. The different ...
    • Time-Dependent Bit Error Rate Analysis for Smart Utility Networks in the Presence of WLAN Interferers 

      Gouissem, Ala; Hamila, Ridha; Al-Dhahir, Naofal; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      The smart grid (SG) modernizes the aging power grid by using two-way reliable communications dedicated to adaptive energy management. To achieve this goal, smart utility networks (SUNs) are used to efficiently connect the ...
    • Towards Information Theoretic Interpretation of Practical Ciphers 

      Abdellatif, Basem; Elfouly, Tarek; Abualsaud, Khalid; Gouissem, Ala; Yaacoub, Elias; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      In spite of the wide spread of practical crypto- systems and ciphers nowadays, they still lack a unique metric to measure the secrecy level they provide. Their strength is measured in an ad-hoc way by exposing them to ...