Anis Koubaa, PhD

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Short Biography

I am currently (Since Sept. 2011) a Consultant in Networking Systems in the IT department of Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University, and a Research Associate at the CISTER Research Unit. I received my Habilitation degree in Computer Science on September 2011.

I was acting as faculty member in the College of Computer Science and Information Systems at Al-Imam University (Riyadh) from September 2006 until August 2011.

I am also leader of COINS Research Group in the CCIS at Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University.
I have received my Ph.D. from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL) and INRIA/LORIA, in 2004.

My primary research interest is the design and implementation of wireless sensor netwoks and multi-robot applications. I have a particular focus on standard technologies, namely IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee and 6LowPAN.

I have driven the research efforts in the context of the ART-WiSe and open-ZB research frameworks that have contributed to the release of an open-source toolset of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol stack. I am also the Chair of the TinyOS ZigBee Working Group, whose purpose is achieving a standard-compliant open-source implementation of ZigBee over TinyOS. In addition, I am involved in the CONET European Network of Excellence, in particular with the research cluster COTS-based architecture for QoS in large-scale distributed embedded systems. I am interested in several other topics in particular, Localization and Tracking, Cooperative Robotics, Security, and Link Quality Estimation.

In 2007, I received the Best Paper Award at Euromicro Conference in Real-Time Sytems (ECRTS07), the most reputed conference in real-time systems in Europe. In March 2010, I won the  Reseach Excellence Prize, in the category Best Research Work, at Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud University.

In 2009 and 2011, my Master students Ricardo Severino and Maissa Ben Jamaa (respectively) won the very prestigious Best CONET/EWSN Master Award, in EWSN 2009 and EWSN 2011 conferences; respectively.

I have been also the leader of several research projects namely Z-Monitor and R-Track Projects.

My h-index is 18 with more than 1100 citations to my publications (as of December 2011).

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Selected and Recent Publicationss

A. Koubaa, M. B. Jemaa and A. Alhaqbani.
An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of RSS to Distance Mapping on Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Third International Conference on Commmunications and Networking (COMNET'2012), Hammamet, Tunisia, 29 Mars, 1 April. 2012.

S. Trigui, A. Koubaa, M. B. Jemaa, I. Chaari and K. Al-Shalfan.
Coordination in a Multi-Robot Surveillance Application using Wireless Sensor Networks
16th IEEE Mediterranian Electrotechnical Conference, Hammamet (Tunisia), 25-28 March, 2012.. 2012.

O. Gaddour, A. Koubaa, S. Chaudhry, M. Tezeghdanti and M. Abid.
Simulation and Performance Evaluation of DAG Construction with RPL
Third International Conference on Commmunications and Networking (COMNET'2012), Hammamet, Tunisia, 29 Mars, 1 April. 2012.

Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Luca Motolla, Marco Zuniga, Habib Youssef, Carlo Boano, Mario Alves,
Radio Link Quality Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey
 to appear in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. 2011. (Impact Factor = 1.96, 2009)

A. Koubaa, S. Chaudhry, O. Gaddour, R. Chaari, N. Al-Elaiwi, H. Al-Souli, H. Boujelben
Z-Monitor: Monitoring and Analyzing IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Sensor Networks
the 6th IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements, in conjunction with 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2011), Bonn (Germany), 4-7 October 2011. IEEE ed. 2011.

Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubâa, Maissa Ben Jamâa, Denis do Rosario, Habib Youssef, Mario Alves and Leandro Becker.
RadiaLE: a Framework for Designing and Assessing Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks,
Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier, 2011. (Impact Factor = 1.293, 2009)

Mohsen Rouached, Shafique Chaudhry, Anis Koubaa
Service-Oriented Architecture Meets LowPANs: a Survey
The International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (JUSPN), Issue 1, Volume 1, 2011.

Omar Cheikhrouhou, Anis Koubaa, Olfa Gaddour, Gianluca Dini, Mohamed Abid
RiSeG: a ring based secure group communication protocol for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks
Springer Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2011. (Impact Factor = 1.554; 2009)
Rank 14 of 76 in subject category Telecommunications.

P. Jurcik, R. Severino, A. Koubaa, M. Alves, E. Tovar
Dimensioning and Worst-case Analysis of Cluster-Tree Sensor Networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, August 2010.

Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubâa, Habib Youssef, Maissa Ben Jamâa, Denis do Rosario, Mario Alves and Leandro Becker
F-LQE: A Fuzzy Link Quality Estimator for Wireless Sensor Networks
The 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2010), Coimbra, Portugal, September 17-19, 2010. (19% of acceptance).

Anis Koubâa, Ricardo Severino, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Improving Quality-of-Service in Wireless Sensor Networks by mitigating hidden-node collisions
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Issue on Real-Time and Embedded Networked Systems, Volume 5, Number 3, August 2009. (Impact Factor = 2.356; 2008)

Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubâa, Maissa Ben Jamâa, Habib Youssef, Marco Zuniga, and Mario Alves A Comparative Simulation Study of Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, September 21-23, 2009. (20% acceptance on Extended papers).

Anis Koubâa, Bjorn Andersson, "A Vision of Cyber-Physical Internet", In Proc. of the Workshop of Real-Time Networks (RTN 2009), Satellite Workshop to (ECRTS 2009), July 2009.

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