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Nadjia Kara

Nadjia Kara
Professeure
Degrees Dipl. d’ingénieur, Dipl. de magister (Alger), Ph.D. (Polytechnique Montréal)
Office A-4495
Phone 514 396-8816
Presentation

Département de génie logiciel et des TI

Research interests:

  • Infrastructures and built environment

Research areas:

  • Algorithms and traffic engineering
  • Telehealth
  • Multimedia applications and services
  • Ambient intelligence
  • Resource management in next generation networks
  • Service engineering for communication networks
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IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)
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Proceedings of ITU Kaleidoscope : The Fully Networked Human? - Innovations for Future Networks and Services (K-2011)
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Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015
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4th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT)
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2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
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3rd ITU-T Kaleidoscope Academic Conference: Beyond the Internet? Innovations for Future Networks and Services
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2013 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
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Proceedings of the 4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013)
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1st International Conference on Ambient Systems Networks and Technologies (ANT)
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1st International Conference on Ambient Systems Networks and Technologies (ANT)
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International Conference on Advanced Technology and Science, ICAT'14
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12th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems
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The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05)
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2007 International Conference on IP Multimedia Subsystem Architecture and Applications (IMSAA)
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Telehealth '07: The Third IASTED International Conference on Telehealth
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Third IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007)
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2014 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)
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IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR)
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IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
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Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds
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2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
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Future Network Systems and Security : 4th International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security (FNSS 2018)
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2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
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2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
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2019 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
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5th IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT)
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2014 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
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2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
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Courses and support services

Courses

GTI611 Réseaux de communication IP (Fall 2023)
GTI611 Réseaux de communication IP (Summer 2023)
MGL825 Télématique et réseaux (Summer 2023)

Assistance to students

Thèse de doctorat (recherche appliquée)
  • Machine-Learning based Resource prediction in Network Function virtualization platforms, by Bellili,Asma.
    Winter 2024
  • Co-directed by: Talhi, Chamseddine
    Context and Resource Aware Cloud-Based Solution for Efficent and Scalable Multi-Persona Mobile Computing, by Tout,Hanine.
    Winter 2018
  • Prédiction dynamique de la consommation de ressources dans des environnements virtualisés, by Benmakrelouf,Souhila.
    Fall 2020
  • Co-directed by: Kara, Nadjia
    Modélisation, analyse et prédiction de l'efficacité énergétique des centres de données, by Ounifi,Hibat Allah.
    Summer 2021
  • Energy-Efficient and QoS-Aware Serverless Edge Computing, by Bellal,Zouhir.
    Winter 2024
  • Co-directed by: Leivadeas, Aris
    Multi-objective Mechanisms for Dynamic Resource Adaptation in Virtualized Network Environments, by Awad,Mirna.
    Summer 2023
  • Development of Dynamic Resource Management Mechanisms for Virtualized Network Environments, by Lahlou,Laaziz.
    Summer 2021
  • Co-directed by: Gherbi, Abdelouahed
    Dynamic clustering approaches for redundancy management in virtualized environments, by Mzougui,Ines.
    Fall 2023
  • LSTM-Based VNF Resource Usage Forecasting Leveraging SFC Resource Attribute Interdependencies, by St-Onge,Cédric.
    Winter 2023
  • Co-directed by: Ould-Slimane, Hakima
    Dynamic and Context-aware Resource Adaptation for Adaptive Security Services, by Morsli,Reda.
    Winter 2024
  • Co-directed by: Kara, Nadjia
    Optimisation de la sélection des serveurs de périphérique pour les applications sensibles à la latence, by Gandji,Vigninou Horace.
    Fall 2023
  • Joint Energy Performance and Resource Optimization in Servertess Edge Environment, by Muhammad,Said.
    Winter 2024
Projet d'application à 15 crédits
  • Analyse comparative des techniques de mise en grappes (Clustering) dans les environnements virtualisés, by Arrouch,Mohssine.
    Summer 2020
  • Développement d’un modèle CNN pour la prédiction de la consommation de ressources dans les environnements virtuels, by Maakoul,Abdallah.
    Summer 2020
  • Outil de collecte et d'analyse de données pour l'adaptation dynamique des ressources reliées aux VNFs, by Gstalter,Guillaume.
    Summer 2019
  • Gestion des performances dans un réseaux IP MPLS avec support de la qualité de service, by Said,Abdelhadi.
    Fall 2011
  • Gestion d'allocation de resources dans un environnement de virtualisation de réseaux basés sur OpenFlow, by Douiri,Othmane.
    Summer 2013
  • Analyse de l'impact de la sécurité par IPSEC et BGP VPN sur les performances de la voix sur IP, by Zair,Hicham.
    Summer 2014
  • Analyse des performances d'un réseau SDN basé sur Openflow, by Belaidi,Karim.
    Summer 2015
  • Détection de similarité dans les chaînes de fonctions de service dans des environnements virtualisés, by Bounas,Amina.
    Winter 2021
  • L'estimation de la consommation d'énergie est basée sur les métadonnées de l'image d'un conteneur, by Amroun,Karima.
    Fall 2023
  • Co-directed by: Leivadeas, Aris
    Développement d'une approche d'orchestration des chaines de services SFC à travers une infrastructure EDGE/CLOUD, by Youcef Essaidi,Nabil.
    Winter 2021
  • Implémentation et test d'un environnement d'orchestration de ressources pour des applications Serverless, by Atché,Mathéo.
    Fall 2022
  • Algorithmes de décision multicritères pour la sélection de services dans les environnements modernes de communication, by Kamraoui,Mohammed El Amine.
    Summer 2023
  • Co-directed by: Kara, Nadjia
    Gestion automatisée du déploiement et de l’adaptation de ressources pour des microservices dans une infrastructure Kubernetes, by N'Tsouglo,Amétépé Gavalo.
    Summer 2021
  • Analyse des performances d'un réseau Teraflow SDN, by Hassani,Amal.
    Fall 2023
  • Gestion des ressources conteneurisées dans des environnements virtuels, by Bel Bachir Kchairi,Mohamed.
    Summer 2021
  • Algorithmes basés sur l’approche Union-find pour le déploiement de chaînes de fonctions de service dans un environnement infonuagique, by Gbeto-Fia,Arol Maxwell Senami.
    Winter 2021
  • Cryptanalyse d'un crypto-système léger à base chaotique dédié aux réseaux AD-HOC de drones : application de cryptage des cifée et données multimédi en temps réel, by Kaaloul,Nour Eddine.
    Winter 2024
  • Co-directed by: Lagha, Mohand
    Implémentation et test d'un cryptosystème dans un objet IoT, by Rahmani,Tinhinan.
    Summer 2022
Mémoire à 30 crédits
  • Gestion de ressources dans les infrastructures de virtualisation de réseaux, by Triki,Nizar.
    Fall 2012
  • Resources Management Architecture and Algorithms for Virtualized IVR Applications in Cloud Environment, by Soualhia,Mbarka.
    Winter 2013
  • Co-directed by: Glitho, Roch H
    Algorithmes de gestion de ressources dans une infrastructure de virtualisation de services de jeux vidéo, by Hassam,Mikael.
    Fall 2013
  • Co-directed by: Kara, Nadjia
    Mise à l'échelle hybride des microservices conteneurisés, by Ben Cheikh Larbi,Aziz.
    Summer 2021
  • Multi-Objective Aco Resource Consolidation in Cloud Computing Environment, by Malekloo,Mohammadhossein.
    Summer 2015
  • Co-directed by: Mezghani, Neila
    Vers l'identification des profils des joueurs à travers l'analyse des données du jeu basée sur le modèle de régression et le regroupement, by Benmakrelouf,Souhila.
    Summer 2014
  • Co-directed by: El Barachi, May
    Virtualisation d'une plateforme de gestion de contexte, by El Bardai,Abderrahmane.
    Summer 2015
  • Mécanisme de surveillance dynamique du trafic et de ressources dans des systèmes IMS virtualisés et distribués, by Lacroix,Carine.
    Winter 2016
  • Détection et analyse de données aberrantes pour l'adaptation des ressources dans des environnements virtualisés, by Boulares,Manel.
    Fall 2018
  • Conception d'outils de génération de charge de trafic dans des environnements de communication virtualisés, by St-Onge,Cédric.
    Winter 2018
  • Designing Policies Management Tools for Scalable Service Provisioning in Cloud Environments, by Suwi,Hanan.
    Summer 2019
  • Co-directed by: Kara, Nadjia
    Modélisation des chaînes de services hautement disponibles, by Errahmouni,Hind.
    Winter 2021
  • Clustering Algorithms for Dynamic Adaptation of Service Function Chains, by El Mensoum,Imane.
    Fall 2019
  • En attente d'un titre en français, by Al Bataineh,Rola.
    Fall 2023
Projet d'application à 9 crédits
  • Application mobile de stimulation cognitive, by Flores Violeta,Ward.
    Summer 2012
  • MindTrain : Application mobile de stimulation cognitive pour patients atteints de la maladie d'Alzheimer - Module des groupes de discussion, by Maldonado Garcia,Oscar German.
    Summer 2012
Projet d'intervention en entreprise à 15 crédits
  • Co-directed by: Lafrance, Pierre
    Définition et développement d'un algorithme de prédiction du temps d'attente dans une clinique sans rendex-vous, by Waroux,Renan.
    Summer 2013
  • Projet Jami: Tables de routage distribuées, by Shehadeh,Fadi.
    Winter 2023
Stage industriel et rapport technique, 3 cr.
  • La cybersécurité et la gestion de l'obsolescence logicielle, by Bel Bachir Kchairi,Mohamed.
    Summer 2021
Publications
Peer-reviewed article published in a refereed journal (39)

Asma Bellili, Nadjia Kara. 2023. « A graphical deep learning technique-based VNF dependencies for multi resource requirements prediction in virtualized environments ». Computing. (In press)

Asma Bellili, Nadjia Kara. 2023. « An efficient adaptive meta learning model based VNFs affinity for resource prediction optimization in virtualized networks ». Journal of Network and Systems Management. vol. 31 , nº 2.

Imane El Mansoum, Laaziz Lahlou, Fawaz A. Khasawneh, Nadja Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2023. « VALKYRIE: a suite of topology-aware clustering approaches for cloud-based virtual network services ». Journal of Supercomputing. vol. 79 , nº 3. p. 3298-3328.

Laaziz Lahlou, Chafika Tata, Nadjia Kara, Aris Leivadeas, Abdelouahed Gherbi. 2023. « Edge-cloud online joint placement of Virtual Network Functions and allocation of compute and network resources using meta-heuristics ». Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. vol. 14 , nº 6. p. 7531-7558.

Cédric St-Onge, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2023. « Multivariate outlier filtering for A-NFVLearn: an advanced deep VNF resource usage forecasting technique ». Journal of Supercomputing. vol. 79 , nº 14. p. 16206-16232.

Cédric St-Onge, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2023. « NFVLearn: A multi-resource, long short-term memory-based virtual network function resource usage prediction architecture ». Software-Practice & Experience. vol. 53 , nº 3. p. 555-578.

Mirna Awad, Nadja Kara, Aris Leivadeas. 2022. « Utilization prediction-based VM consolidation approach ». Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. vol. 170 p. 24-38.

Mirna Awad, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2022. « SLO-aware dynamic self-adaptation of resources ». Future Generation Computer Systems. vol. 133 p. 266-280.

Laaziz Lahlou, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2022. « DAVINCI : online and Dynamic Adaptation of eVolvable vIrtual Network services over Cloud Infrastructures ». Future Generation Computer Systems. vol. 127 p. 396-408.

Houssem Eddine Mohamadi, Nadjia Kara, Mohand Lagha. 2022. « Heuristic-driven strategy for boosting aerial photography with multi-UAV-aided Internet-of-Things platforms ». Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. vol. 112 31 p.

Hibat-Allah Ounifi, Abdelouahed Gherbi, Nadjia Kara. 2022. « Deep machine learning-based power usage effectiveness prediction for sustainable cloud infrastructures ». Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. vol. 52 , nº part A.

Hanan Suwi, Laaziz Lahlou, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2022. « RAFALE: Rethinking the provisioning of virtuAl network services using a Fast and scAlable machine LEarning approach ». The Journal of Supercomputing. vol. 78 , nº 14. p. 15786-15819.

Souad Hadjres, Nadja Kara, May El Barachi, Fatna Belqasmi. 2021. « An SLA-aware cloud coalition formation approach for virtualized networks ». IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. vol. 9 , nº 2. p. 475-491.

Houssem Eddine Mohamadi, Nadjia Kara, Mohand Lagha. 2021. « Efficient algorithms for decision making and coverage deployment of connected multi-low-altitude platforms ». Expert Systems with Applications. vol. 184 25 p.

Cédric St-Onge, Souhila Benmakrelouf, Nadja Kara, Hanine Tout, Claes Edstrom, Rafi Rabipour. 2021. « Generic SDE and GA-based workload modeling for cloud systems ». Journal of Cloud Computing. vol. 10 , nº 1. 16 p.

Hanine Tout, Azzam Mourad, Nadjia Kara, Chamseddine Talhi. 2021. « Multi-persona mobility: Joint cost-effective and resource-aware mobile-edge computation offloading ». IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. vol. 29 , nº 3. p. 1408-1421.

Sarhad Arisdakessian, Omar Abdel Wahab, Azzam Mourad, Hadi Otrok, Nadjia Kara. 2020. « FoGMatch: an intelligent multi-criteria IoT-Fog scheduling approach using game theory ». IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. vol. 28 , nº 4. p. 1779-1789.

Souhila Benmakrelouf, Cédric St-Onge, Nadjia Kara, Hanine Tout, Claes Edstrom, Yves Lemieux. 2020. « Abnormal behavior detection using resource level to service level metrics mapping in virtualized systems ». Future Generation Computer Systems. vol. 102 p. 680-700.

Imane El Mensoum, Omar Abdul Wahab, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom. 2020. « MuSC: A multi-stage service chains embedding approach ». Journal of Network and Computer Applications. vol. 159 18 p.

Souad Hadjres, Fatna Belqasmi, May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara. 2020. « A green, energy, and trust-aware multi-objective cloud coalition formation approach ». Future Generation Computer Systems. vol. 111 p. 52-67.

Cedric St-Onge, Nadja Kara, Omar Abdel Wahab, Claes Edstrom, Yves Lemieux. 2020. « Detection of time series patterns and periodicity of cloud computing workloads ». Future Generation Computer Systems-the International Journal of Escience. vol. 109 p. 249-261.

Souhila Benmakrelouf, Nadjia Kara, Hanine Tout, Rafi Rabipour, Claes Edstrom. 2019. « Resource needs prediction in virtualized systems: generic proactive and self-adaptive solution ». Journal of Network and Computer Applications. vol. 148 16 p.

Lahlou Laaziz, Nadjia Kara, Rafi Rabipour, Claes Edstrom, Yves Lemieux. 2019. « FASTSCALE: A fast and scalable evolutionary algorithm for the joint placement and chaining of virtualized services ». Journal of Network and Computer Applications. vol. 148

Hanine Tout, Nadja Kara, Chamseddine Talhi, Azzam Mourad. 2019. « Proactive machine learning-based solution for advanced manageability of multi-persona mobile computing ». Computers and Electrical Engineering. vol. 80 18 p.

Hanine Tout, Chamseddine Talhi, Nadja Kara, Azzam Mourad. 2019. « Selective mobile cloud offloading to augment multi-persona performance and viability ». IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. vol. 7 , nº 2. p. 314-328.

Omar Abdel Wahab, Nadjia Kara, Claes Edstrom, Yves Lemieux. 2019. « MAPLE: a machine learning approach for efficient placement and adjustment of virtual network functions ». Journal of Network and Computer Applications. vol. 142 p. 37-50.

Mohammad-Hossein Malekloo, Nadjia Kara, Mary El Barachi. 2018. « An energy efficient and SLA compliant approach for resource allocation and consolidation in cloud computing environments ». Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems. vol. 17 p. 9-24.

Amal Abdel-Baki, Shalini Lal, Olivier D. Charron, Emmanuel Stip, Nadjia Kara. 2017. « Understanding access and use of technology among youth with first-episode psychosis to inform the development of technology-enabled therapeutic interventions ». Early Intervention in Psychiatry. vol. 11 , nº 1. p. 72-76.

Hanine Tout, Chamseddine Talhi, Nadjia Kara, Azzam Mourad. 2017. « Smart mobile computation offloading: Centralized selective and multi-objective approach ». Expert Systems with Applications. vol. 80 p. 1-13.

May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara, Sleiman Rabah, Mathieu Forgues. 2015. « An open virtual multi-services networking architecture for the future internet ». Journal of Internet Services and Applications. vol. 6 , nº 1. 22 p.

Sleiman Rabah, May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara, Rachida Dssouli, Joey Paquet. 2015. « A service oriented broker-based approach for dynamic resource discovery in virtual networks ». Journal of Cloud Computing. vol. 4 , nº 3. 30 p.

Nizar Triki, Nadjia Kara, May El Barachi, Souad Hadjres. 2015. « A green energy-aware hybrid virtual network embedding approach ». Computer Networks. vol. 91 p. 712-737.

Fatna Belqasmi, Christian Azar, Roch Glitho, Mbarka Soualhia, Nadja Kara. 2014. « A case study on IVR applications' provisioning as cloud computing services ». IEEE Network. vol. 28 , nº 1. p. 33-41.

Nadjia Kara, Mbarka Soualhia, Fatna Belqasmi, Christian Azar, Roch Glitho. 2014. « Genetic-based algorithms for resource management in virtualized IVR applications ». Journal of Cloud Computing. vol. 3 18 p.

Andrei Dragoi, Nadjia Kara. 2012. « Towards an aggregated biomonitoring trafic model for wireless networks ». International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering. vol. 4 , nº 5. p. 835-839.

May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara. 2012. « Contextual information acquisition and management solutions for IPBased networks: a survey ». Recent Patents on Telecommunication. vol. 1 , nº 2. p. 81-92.

Andrei Dragoi, Nadjia Kara. 2011. « Enabling network convergence through contextual session-mobility with IMS ». The International Journal of Multimedia & its Applications. vol. 3 , nº 2. p. 12-31.

Andrei Dragoi, Nadjia Kara. 2009. « Ubiquitous and personalised contextual biomonitoring ». International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management. vol. 10 , nº 1/2. p. 27-48.

Nadjia Kara. 2009. « Mobility management approaches for mobile IP networks: Performance comparison and use recommendations ». IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. vol. 8 , nº 10. p. 1312-1325.

Conference proceeding (28)

Laaziz Lahlou, Amina Bounas, Houssem Eddine Mohamadi, Nadjia Kara. 2021. « RAFALE : SmaRt and scalable orchestrAtion system for virtuAL network sErvices ». IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) (Paris, France, June 07-10, 2021) IEEE Computer Society.

Laaziz Lahlou, Arol Gbeto Fia, Nadjia Kara, Aris Leivadeas. 2021. « VAPNIC: A VersAtile shortest path-free VNF Placement using a divide-and-coNquer tactIC ». IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) (Madrid, Spain, Dec. 07-11, 2021) IEEE.

Laaziz Lahlou, Nadjia Kara, Mohssine Arouch, Claes Edstrom. 2020. « Cheetah: A fast unsupervised learning technique to provision next generation network services ». Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds (Delft, Netherlands, Dec. 07-11, 2020) p. 19–24. Association for Computing Machinery.

Hani Nemati, May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara, Fatna Belqasmi. 2019. « A novel game theoretic approach for forming coalitions between IMS cloud providers ». 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (Marrakesh, Morocco, Apr. 15-18, 2019) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

Hibat-Allah Ounifi, Abdelouahed Gherbi, Nadjia Kara, Wubin Li. 2019. « A deep neural network based approach to energy efficiency analysis for cloud data center ». 2019 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (Helsinki, Finland, July 22-25, 2019) p. 1397-1404. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

Houssem E. Mohamadi, Nadjia Kara, Mohand Lagha. 2018. « Formal verification of RGR-SEC, a secured RGR routing for UAANETs using AVISPA, Scyther and Tamarin ». Future Network Systems and Security : 4th International Conference on Future Network Systems and Security (FNSS 2018) (Paris, France, July 09-11, 2018) p. 3-16. Springer Verlag.

Souhila Benmakrelouf, Neila Mezghani, Nadja Kara. 2015. « Towards the identification of players' profiles using game's data analysis based on regression model and clustering ». Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015 (Paris, France, Aug. 25-28, 2015) p. 1403-1410. ACM.

Hanine Tout, Chamseddine Talhi, Nadjia Kara, Azzam Mourad. 2015. « Towards an offloading approach that augments multi-persona performance and viability ». 2015 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) (Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan. 9-12, 2015) p. 455-460. Piscataway, NJ, USA : IEEE.

Mikeal Hassam, Nadjia Kara, Roch Glitho, Fatna Belqasmi. 2014. « Towards a virtualized infrastructure for video game applications in cloud environments ». International Conference on Advanced Technology and Science, ICAT'14 (Antalya, Turkey, Aug. 12-15, 2014) p. 109-114.

Nadjia Kara, M. El Barachi, A. El Bardai, O. Alfandi. 2014. « A New Business Model and Architecture for Context-Aware Applications Provisioning in the Cloud ». 2014 6th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Mar. 30-Apr. 2, 2014) Piscataway, N. J., USA : IEEE.

M. Malekloo, Nadjia Kara. 2014. « Multi-objective ACO virtual machine placement in cloud computing environments ». 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) (Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 8-12, 2014) p. 112-116. Piscataway, N. J., USA : IEEE.

H. Nemati, A. Singhvi, Nadjia Kara, M. El Barachi. 2014. « Adaptive SLA-based elasticity management algorithms for a virtualized IP multimedia subsystem ». 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) (Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 8-12, 2014) p. 7-11. Piscataway, N. J., USA : IEEE.

Flora Taheri, Jerry George, Fatna Belqasmi, Nadjia Kara, Roch Glitho. 2014. « A cloud infrastructure for scalable and elastic multimedia conferencing applications ». 2014 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 17-21, 2014) p. 292-295. IEEE.

May El Barachi, Sleiman Rabah, Nadjia Kara, Rachida Dssouli, Joey Paquet. 2013. « A Multi-Service Multi-role Integrated Information Model for Dynamic Resource Discovery in Virtual Networks ». 2013 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (Shanghai, China, Apr. 7-10, 2013) p. 4777-4782. Piscataway, NJ, USA : IEEE.

Jerry George, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, Nadjia Kara. 2013. « A substrate description framework and an RDF repository for publication and discovery in cloud based conferencing ». Proceedings of the 4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013) (Montreal, QC, Canada, July 10, 2013) p. 41-44. Montreal, QC, Canada : Semantic Software Lab, Concordia University.

May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara, Rachida Dssouli. 2012. « Open virtual playground: Initial architecture and results ». 2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) (Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan. 14-17, 2012) p. 576-581. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Computer Society.

F. Belqasmi, Nadjia Kara, R. Glitho. 2011. « A novel virtualized presence service for future internet ». IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) (Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011) p. 1-6. Piscataway, NJ, USA : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Fatna Belqasmi, Christian Azar, Mbarka Soualhia, Nadjia Kara, Roch Glitho. 2011. « A virtualized infrastructure for IVR applications as services ». Proceedings of ITU Kaleidoscope : The Fully Networked Human? - Innovations for Future Networks and Services (K-2011) (Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 12-14, 2011) p. 1-7. Los Alamitos, CA, USA : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Andrei Dragoi, Nadjia Kara. 2011. « Towards an aggregated biomonitoring - traffic model for wireless networks ». 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT) (Chengdu, Sichuan, China, July 10-12, 2011)

May El Barachi, Nadjia Kara, Rachida Dssouli. 2010. « Towards a service-oriented network virtualization architecture ». 3rd ITU-T Kaleidoscope Academic Conference: Beyond the Internet? Innovations for Future Networks and Services (Pune, India, Dec. 13-15, 2010) p. 291-298. Piscataway, NJ : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society.

Pierre-Yves Groussard, Hélène Pigot, Sylvain Giroux, Nadjia Kara. 2010. « Participatory design of a smart cognitive assistant ». 1st International Conference on Ambient Systems Networks and Technologies (ANT) (Paris, France, Nov. 8-10, 2010)

Pierre-Yves Groussard, Hélène Pigot, Sylvain Giroux, Nadjia Kara. 2010. « User needs identification for a smart cognitive assistant based on participatory design ». 1st International Conference on Ambient Systems Networks and Technologies (ANT) (Paris, France, Nov. 8-10, 2010)

N. Kara, V. Planat. 2007. « Performance analysis of IP multimedia services over HSDPA mobile networks ». 2007 International Conference on IP Multimedia Subsystem Architecture and Applications (IMSAA) (Bangalore, India, Dec. 6-8, 2007) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Nadja Kara, Andrei Dragoi. 2007. « Realising multiplayers scenarios for remote biomonitoring ». Telehealth '07: The Third IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Montreal, QC, Canada, May 30 - June 1, 2007) p. 17-22. Acta Press.

Nadja Kara, O. Andrei Dragoi. 2007. « Reasoning with contextual data in telehealth applications ». Third IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007) (White Plains, NY, USA, Oct. 8-10, 2007) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

V. Planat, N. Kara. 2006. « SIP transfer over 3G deployed networks: Tests suite and performances analysis ». 5th IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT) (St. Thomas, VI, USA, Nov. 29-Dec. 01, 2006) p. 25-30. Acta Press.

Omneya Issa, Nadja Kara, Marc Courtemanche. 2005. « Forward link performance analysis of a deployed CDMA2000 network ». 12th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (Gammarth, Tunisia, Dec. 11-15, 2005) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

N. Kara, O. Issa, A. Byette. 2005. « Real 3G WCDMA networks performance analysis ». The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary (LCN'05) (Sydney, NSW, Australia, Nov. 17, 2005) p. 586-592. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Poster (3)

Fatna Belqasmi, Christian Azar, Mbarka Soualhia, Nadjia Kara, Roch Glitho. 2011. « A virtualized infrastructure for IVR applications as services ». Poster presented during a conference : Conférence Club Telecom sur le Cloud Computing ( Montréal, Canada, June 15, 2011 )

M. Soualhia, M. Hassam, Nadjia Kara. 2011. « Des infrastructures d'applications multimédias comme des services pour des environnements Infonuagique ». Poster presented during a conference : Portes Ouvertes ÉTS ( Montréal, Canada, 29 janv. 2011 )

N. Triki, Nadjia Kara. 2011. « Multi-domain resource management for virtual Network embedding ». Poster presented during a conference : Conférence Club Telecom sur le Cloud Computing ( Montréal, Canada, 15 juin 2011 )

Awards and honors