Biography:

Abderrahim Benslimane IEEE Senior Member Tel.: (33)4 90 84 35 61

Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon Fax: (33)4 90 84 35 76
Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse Email: abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr
339 chemin des Meinajaries BP 1228
84911 Avignon cedex 9
http://lia.univ-avignon.fr/personnel/fiches-personnelles/benslimane/index.html

Abderrahim Benslimane is Full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Avignon
(France) since September 2001. He has been as Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Belfort-
Montbéliard since September 1994. He obtained the title to supervise researches (HDR 2000) from the
University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. He received the PhD degree (1993), DEA (MS 1989) from the Franche-
Comte University of Besançon, and BS (1987) from the University of Nancy, all in Computer Science.
His research and teaching interests are in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. Particularly, he works on
multicast routing, inter-vehicular communications, Quality of service, energy conservation, localization,
intrusion detection and MAC layer performance evaluation. He was also interested in specification and
verification of communication protocols, group communication algorithms and multimedia synchronization. He
has several refereed international publications (book, journals and conferences) in all those domains.
He has served as technical program chair and co-chair, member of a number of international conferences. He has
been reviewer of a great number of journals, of national research projects sponsored by the ANR/Telecom.
He is the header of Computer Networks and Multimedia Applications team (RAM) of the Computer Laboratory
of Avignon.
He was responsible of the speciality RTM (Networks, Telecoms and Multimedia), Professional and Research, of
the Master (MsC) Computer Engineering and Mathematic, Techniques and Sciences of the University of
Avignon 2001-2006.
He is involved in many national and international projects. He is member of many editorial boards of
international journals. He chairs many IEEE international conferences. He participates to the steering and the
program committee of many IEEE international conferences. He is IEEE senior member, member of the CA of
the IEEE French section, of the Technical Committee IEEE ComSoc Communications and Information Security
(CISTC), Vice-President of the France IEEE student activities and of the SPECIF/France. He was member of the
“Conseil National des Universités” 2003-2007 (27ème section).
He has international collaborations, for supervising MsC and PhD students with the Ecole Polytechnique of
Montreal, Montreal University and Concordia University.
He was from September 2005 to September 2006 in sabbatical year for research at the Mobile Computing and
Networking Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Ecole Polytecnique de Montréal.
He has many international collaborations, for supervising MsC and PhD students with the Ecole Polytechnique
of Montreal, Montreal University and Concordia University.
He supervised many Ph.D thesis in localization in sensor networks, security in ad hoc networks, QoS in WiMAX
and cross layer energy conservation in ad hoc networks and many MsC research supervision (and co
supervision) of students in Univ. Avignon, Univ. Montreal, Univ. Concordia, Ecole Polytecnique of Montreal.

Editorial experience:

Member of the Editorial Board:

1- Wiley/ Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76507157/home
2- Wiley/ International Journal of Communication Systems
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/home.html
3- Wiley/ Security and Communication Networks Journal
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114299116/home
4- Elsevier/ Ad hoc Networks Journal
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/672380/description#description
5- Elsevier/ Network and Computer Applications Journal
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622893/description#description
Editorial Chairing:

- General Chair of WiMob 2009: Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Networking and Communications, IEEE WiMob 2009, Marrakech, Morocco, 12-14 October 2009, IEEE
Computer Society.
http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2009

- Co-chair of IEEE Globecom 2009 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium, November
30-December 4 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2009/

- General Chair of WiMob 2008: Fourth IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Networking and Communications, October 12-14, 2008, Centre des congres, Avignon, France
Statistics: acceptation rate 25%, participant number 140, two keynotes, three parallel sessions, four workshops
and one tutorial.
www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008

- Co-chair of IEEE Globecom 2008 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium, November
30-December 4 2008, New Orleans USA
Statistics: 201 submitted papers, 59 accepted with presentation and 10 posters, « Communications and
Information Security Technical Committee of ComSoc » TC.
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008/

Guest editor:

- Wiley’s Security and Communication Networks Journal

Special Issue on Security in Mobile Networks

- Elsevier Computer Communications Journal

Special Issue on Cognitive Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Systems

- MONET Mobile Networks and Applications Journal

Special issue "SM 85-Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications"

Invited Speaker:

- Invited expert for “2009 Sendai International Workshop on New Information Technologies and Related Health
and Welfare Topics”, February 4, 2009.
Talk: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Security related issues

- Invited expert for WBC « Western Balkan countries »: SEE-ERA.NET’s International Conference on
Evaluation and Benchmarking, October 8/9, 2008 Ohrid, FYR of Macedonia
Chair: Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF),
Co-chair: Ministry of Education and Science of the FYR of Macedonia (MON-MK)
Talk: ELEMENTS ON A FRENCH RESEARCH POLICY: Background, Structures, Projects, Clusters

- A. Benslimane, “VANETII: Vehicular Ad hoc Networks Internet Integration”, Journée THEMATIQUE REVE
- Réseaux Véhiculaires , Lundi 20 Octobre 2008, ENSIIE Evry.

- A. Benslimane, « Localizations in sensor networks », présentation des activités du LIA au workshop RECAP
2007, 22-23 Novembre 2007, Montpellier.

- A. Benslimane, « On security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks », First Workshop Franco-Quebecois, Montréal, 12-
13 April 2007.

Recent Publications 2007-2009 in principal topics (the all publications will be find here on my home page
at LIA):
Security in Ad Hoc networks:
Abderrezak Rachedi and Abderrahim Benslimane, "Toward a Cross-layer Monitoring Process for Mobile Ad
Hoc Network", 2009 Security and Communication Network Journal, John Wiley InterScience, 2009.
Abderrezak Rachedi and Abderrahim Benslimane, "Impacts and Solutions of Control Packets Vulnerabilities
with IEEE 802.11 MAC", 2009 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, John Wiley
InterScience, 2009.
L. Guang, C. Assi, and A. Benslimane, Enhancing IEEE 802.11 Random Backoff in Selfish Environments,
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Journal, May 2008, Vol. 57, N° 3, pp. 1806-1822.
L. Guang, C. Assi and A. Benslimane, On MAC Layer Misbehavior in Wireless Networks: Challenges and
Solutions, Special Issue on Security in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks IEEE Wireless
Communications Magazine, Vol. 15, N° 4, August 2008, pp. 6-14.

A. Rachedi and A. Benslimane, Security and Pseudo-Anonymity with a Cluster-based approach for MANET,
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008), 30 November – 4 December 2008,
New Orleans, LA, USA.

A. Rachedi and A. Benslimane, Smart Attacks based on Control Packets Vulnerabilities with IEEE 802.11
MAC, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2008), August 6-8,
2008 Crete Island, Greece.

A. Rachedi and A. Benslimane, Cross-Layer approach to improve the monitoring process for Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks based on IEEE 802.11, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2007), 26-
30 November 2007, Washington, DC, USA.

A. Rachedi, A. Benslimane, L. Guang and C. Assi, A Confident Community to Secure Mobile Ad-Hoc
Networks, 2007
The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), 24-28 June 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
L. Ciarletta and A. Benslimane, Secured Infrastructure for Ambient Virtual Offices, Chapter 15, in book:
Management, Control and Evolution of IP Networks edited buy Guy Pujolle, ISTE publisher UK, 2007.

A. Rachedi and A. Benslimane, Gestion de confiance et résistance aux attaques dans les réseaux Ad hoc
mobiles, 8ème Colloque Francophone de Gestion de Réseaux et de Services, "L adaptation dynamique des
réseaux et des services" (GRES2007). Hammamet, Tunisie du 6 au 9 Novembre 2007.

A. Rachedi and A. Benslimane, Architecture Hiérarchique Distribuée pour sécuriser les réseaux Ad hoc
Mobiles, 2007
8éme Journées Doctorales en Informatique et Réseaux JDIR'2007, 17-19 Janvier 2007 Marne la Vallée.

A. Rachedi and A. Benslimane, A Secure Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, 2006
2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks MSN 2006, Springer's LNCS, December
13-15, Hong Kong, China, pp. 424-435.

L. Guang, C. Assi, and A. Benslimane, Interlayer Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, 2006 2nd International
Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks MSN 2006, Springer's LNCS, December 13-15, Hong
Kong, China, pp. 436-448.

L. Guang, C. Assi, and A. Benslimane, Modeling and Analysis of Predictable Random Backoff in Selfish
Environments,
9-th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile
Systems MSWiM 2006, October 2-6, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain.

Multicast:

Abderrahim Benslimane, Multimedia Multicast on the Internet, 2007

Book edited by ISTE A HERMES Science and LAVOISIER Compagny Publisher, January 2007, 11 chapters,
384 pp., ISBN: 9781905209422.

E. Astier, A. Hafid and A. Benslimane, Energy and Mobility Aware Clustering Technique for Multicast
Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE WCNC 5-8 April 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
A. Benslimane, C. Ferrari, and A. Hafid, A Comparative Analysis of Multicast Protocols for Small MANET
Groups, International Conference ADHOC-NOW, Springer’s LNCS, September 24-26 2007, Morelia, Mexico.

A. Benslimane, C. Ferrari and A. Hafid, EM2NET: an Energy-Saving Explicit Multicast, IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2007), 26-30 November 2007 Washington, DC, USA.
C. Ferrari, A. Hafid, and A. Benslimane, A Hybrid Mesh-Explicit Multicast Protocol for MANETs, 9th IFIP
International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN 2007), 19th - 21st
September 2007, Cork.

A. Boudani and A. Benslimane, Towards New Protocols for Small Multicast Groups: Explicit
Routing and Recursive Unicast, 2007
Chapter in Book Multimedia Multicast on the Internet, ISTE publisher UK, January 2007, pp 271-
306.

A. Benslimane, EM2NET: an Explicit Multicast for MANET, 2006

ACM Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conf. IWCMC 2006, July 3-6, Vancouver (British
Columbia), Canada, pp. 431 – 436.

A. Benslimane, Hierarchical Multicast Protocols with Quality of service, 2007

Chapter in Book Multimedia Multicast on the Internet, ISTE publisher UK, 2007, pp. 51-92.

Sensor Networks:

C. Saad, A. Benslimane and J.-C. Konig, AT-DIST: A Distributed Method for Localization with high accuracy
in Sensor Networks, Studia INFORMATICA Universalis Journal - Special Issue on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor
Networks, Vol. 6 N° 1, Hermann Edition, pp. 14-40, 2008.

C. Saad, A. Benslimane, J. Champ, and J.-C. König, Ellipse Routing: A Geographic Routing Protocol for
Mobile Sensor Networks with uncertain positions, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE
GLOBECOM 2008), 30 November – 4 December 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA.

C. Saad, A. Benslimane, and J.-C. König, AT-Angle: A Distributed Method for Localization using Angles in
Sensor Networks, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
(ISCC'08) July 6 - 9, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.

M. Boushaba, A. Hafid, and A. Benslimane, HA-A2L: Angle to Landmark-based High Accuracy localization
method in Sensor Networks, IEEE/ACM Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conf. IWCMC
2007, August 12-16, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp.: 475-480.

M. Boushaba, A. Benslimane and A. Hafid, A2L: Angle to Landmarks Based Method Positioning for Wireless
Sensor Networks,
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), 24-28 June 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

C. Saad, A. Benslimane, J.-C. König, J. Turbert, AT-Free : A Preliminary Method for Localization
Techniques in Sensor Networks, 2007 7th International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems
Notere, June 2007. Marrakech, Morocco.

C. Saad, A. Benslimane and J.-C. Konig, A Distributed Method to Localization for Mobile Sensor Networks,
2007
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - Networking (WNCN 2007), Mars 11-15 Hong
Kong, China.

C. Saad, A. Benslimane, and J.-C. Konig, MuR : A Distributed Preliminary Method For Location Techniques
in Sensor Networks, 2006
2nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications WiMob 2006, June
19-21, Montreal (Quebec), Canada, pp. 61-68.
 Vehicular Ad Hoc networks:

S. Barghi, A. Benslimane and C. Assi, Connecting Vehicular Networks to the Internet :

A Life Time-based Routing Protocol, 10th IEEE WoWMoM 15-19 June 2009, Kos
Greece.
S. Youssef, M. fathi and A. Benslimane, Performance of Beacon safety message dissemination in Vehicular Ad
hoc NETworks (VANETs), Journal of Zhejiang University Science A, Vol. 8(12),
paper available through Springer-Verlag GmbH, pp. 1990-2004, 2007.
A. Benslimane, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Inter-vehicle Geocast, Chapter 24, in book: Management, Control
and Evolution of IP Networks edited buy Guy Pujolle, ISTE publisher UK, 2007.
A. Benslimane, Optimized Dissemination of Alarm messages in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET), 2004
7th IEEE Int. Conf. HSNMC 2004, Toulouse France, LNCS 3079, Springer Publisher, pp.655-666

A. Bachir and A. Benslimane , A Multicast Protocol in Ad-hoc Networks:Geocast Inter-Vehicles, 2003

proceedings de IEEE VTC 2003-spring, Vehicular Technology Conference, Jeju Korea, 22-25 april 2003.

A. Benslimane and A. Bachir, Inter-Vehicle Geocast Protocol Supporting non equipped GPS vehicles, 2003
Proceedings de LNCS 2865 ADHOC-NOW’03 Int. Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks,
Montréal, Canada, October 8-10 2003, Springer Publisher, pp. 281-286.

Qos for Ad Hoc Networks:

A. Benslimane, and A. Rachedi, Relative Fairness and Optimized Throughput for Mobile Ad hoc Networks,
accepted for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.

R. El Azouzi, T. Peyre and A. Benslimane, Optimal design of hybrid FEC/ARQ scheme for real-time
applications in wireless networks, Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling
(WMuNeP/MSWIM 2006), Malaga, Spain, October 2006.

A. Benslimane, R. El Khoury, R. El Azouzi and S. Pierre, Energy power-aware routing in OLSR protocol,
Proceedings of Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications, Amman - Jordan, 17-20 September 2006.

E. Altman, D. Barman, A. Benslimane and R. El Azouzi, Slotted Aloha with priorities and random power,
IFIP NETWORKING 2005, Ontario, Canada, pp. 610-622.