November 15, 2023
Diala Naboulsi
Professeure
Department
Département de génie logiciel et TI
Degrees
Ph. D. (INSA Lyon), M. Sc. (INSA Lyon), M. Eng. (Lebanese University)
Office
A-4496
Email
Overview
Research units
Research Area
- Software Systems, Multimedia and Cybersecurity
Expertise
- Réseaux mobiles
- Virtualisation des réseaux
- Réseaux sans fil
- Allocation des ressources
- Analyse de trafic
- Gestion de mobilité
Courses and supervision
Supervision
- En codirection avec : François Gagnon
Resiliency in Wireless Backhaul Networks: Analysis, Optimization and Machine Learning Approaches, par Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelmoaty
Automne 2022 - En codirection avec : Razvan Stanica
AI-Driven Resource Management for Network Slicing, par Hnin Pann Phyu
Été 2024 - En codirection avec : Razvan Stanica
Optimization and Learning-Based Approaches for Energy-Efficient, Resilient, and Fair UAV-Assisted MEC Systems, par Mohamed Ibrahim Mahmoud El Emary
Automne 2026 - En codirection avec : Razvan Stanica
Towards Smarter Cellular Networks Management : From Handover Forecasting to Robotic Aerial Base Stations Deployment, par Gwladys Ornella Djuikom Foka
Automne 2026 - En codirection avec : Lokman Sboui
Energy Efficiency Maximization in 6G Networks, par Ei Theingi Ei Theingi
Automne 2026 - En codirection avec : François Gagnon
Identification et regroupement d'émetteurs radio à l'aide de réseaux de neurones, par Philippe Lavoie
Été 2026 - En codirection avec : François Gagnon
Resilient Topology Planning in Future Wireless Networks, par Yu Cherry Aung Yu Cherry Aung
Automne 2026
- En codirection avec : François Gagnon
Regroupement de caractéristiques d’émetteurs radio avec réseaux de neurones à valeurs complexes, par Philippe Lavoie
Hiver 2022 - En codirection avec : François Gagnon
Planification de la topologie de réseaux sans fils en arbre à l'aide d'apprentissage par renforcement profond et de réseaux de neurones en graphes, par Florent Duchesne
Automne 2024
Publications
Publications
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini. 2014 « Assessment of practical energy savings in cellular networks ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Student Workshop (Toronto, ON, Canada, Apr. 27-May 02, 2014)
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore. 2013 « The connectivity of Cologne’s large-scale vehicular network ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Student Workshop (Torino, Italy, Apr. 14-19, 2013)
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore, R. Stanica. 2013 « On the characterization of mobile calling behaviors ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : ACM MobiHoc : 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Bangalore, India, July 29-Aug. 01, 2013)
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore, Razvan Stanica. 2013 « Human mobility flows in the city of Abidjan ». Affiche présentée lors de la conférence : NetMob 2013 : Third International Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (Boston, MA, USA, May 01-03, 2013)
- Ahmed Abdelmoaty, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2026 « Enabling seamless connectivity in consumer electronics: A DRL approach for scalable cell-free mMIMO handover under O-RAN ». IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics vol. 72 , nº 1. p. 269-282
- Gwladys Ornella Djuikom Foka, Sachit Mishra, Razvan Stanica, Diala Naboulsi. 2026 « Hotspot analysis and prediction for mobile networking applications ». Annals of Telecommunications
- Mohamed El-Emary, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2026 « Energy-efficient UAV-assisted MEC with dual-priority scheduling and multi-agent reinforcement learning ». IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- Abderrahime Filali, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2026 « DRL-based RAN slicing with efficient inter-slice isolation in tactical wireless networks ». IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology vol. 7. p. 1263–1278
- Ei Theingi, Lokman Sboui, Diala Naboulsi. 2026 « Adaptive and energy-efficient deployment of robotic airborne base stations: A deep reinforcement learning approach ». IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management vol. 23. p. 3707-3721
- Mohammed Ali, Florent Duchesne, Ghassan Dahman, François Gagnon, Diala Naboulsi. 2025 « New approaches for network topology optimization using deep reinforcement learning and graph neural network ». IEEE Access vol. 13. p. 85447-85460
- Mohamed El-Emary, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2025 « Energy efficient and resilient task offloading in UAV-assisted MEC systems ». IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology vol. 6. p. 2236-2254
- Mohamed El-Emary, Ali Ranjha, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2025 « Toward energy efficiency and fairness in UAV-based task offloading ». IEEE Access vol. 13. p. 115178-115195
- Gwladys Ornella Djuikom Foka, Razvan Stanica, Diala Naboulsi. 2025 « HGC-LSTM: A graph neural network-based model for HO forecasting in mobile networks ». Computer Networks vol. 270
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2025 « ICE-CREAM: multI-agent fully CooperativE deCentRalizEd frAMework for Energy Efficiency in RAN Slicing ». IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management vol. 22 , nº 2. p. 1859-1873
- Ali Ranjha, Diala Naboulsi, Mohamed El Emary, Francois Gagnon. 2025 « Consumer-centric sustainability: Empowering URLLC in multi-UAV-assisted MEC systems for industry 5.0 ». IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics vol. 71 , nº 2. p. 4304-4316
- Ali Ranjha, Diala Naboulsi, Mohamed El Emary, François Gagnon. 2025 « Facilitating URLLC vis-à-vis UAV-Enabled Relaying for MEC Systems in 6-G Networks ». IEEE Transactions on Reliability vol. 74 , nº 4. p. 4529-4543
- Zakaria Abou El Houda, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2024 « A privacy-preserving collaborative jamming attacks detection framework using federated learning ». IEEE Internet of Things Journal vol. 11 , nº 7. p. 12153-12164
- Ahmed Abdelmoaty, Diala Naboulsi, Ghassan Dahman, François Gagnon. 2023 « When resiliency matters: An overview of 5G and beyond wireless backhaul network design ». IEEE Communications Magazine vol. 61 , nº 12. p. 206-212
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2023 « Machine learning in network slicing - a survey ». IEEE Access vol. 11. p. 39123-39153
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Razvan Stanica, Diala Naboulsi. 2023 « Multi-slice privacy-aware traffic forecasting at RAN level: A scalable federated-learning approach ». IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management vol. 20 , nº 4. p. 5038-5052
- Ahmed Abdelmoaty, Diala Naboulsi, Ghassan Dahman, Gwenael Poitau, François Gagnon. 2022 « Resilient topology design for wireless backhaul: A deep reinforcement learning approach ». IEEE Wireless Communications Letters vol. 11 , nº 12. p. 2532-2536
- Nattakorn Promwongsa, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Diala Naboulsi, Somayeh Kianpisheh, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, Noel Crespi, Omar Alfandi. 2021 « A comprehensive survey of the tactile internet: State-of-the-art and research directions ». IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials vol. 23 , nº 1. p. 472-523
- Abbas Soltanian, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Halima Elbiaze. 2019 « Resource allocation mechanism for media handling services in cloud multimedia conferencing ». IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications vol. 37 , nº 5. p. 1167-1181
- Carla Mouradian, Diala Naboulsi, Sami Yangui, Roch H. Glitho, Monique J. Morrow, Paul A. Polakos. 2018 « A comprehensive survey on fog computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges ». IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials vol. 20 , nº 1. p. 416-464
- Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Constant Wette Tchouati. 2017 « On the placement of VNF managers in large-scale and distributed NFV systems ». IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management vol. 14 , nº 4. p. 875-889
- Angelo Furno, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica, Marco Fiore. 2017 « Mobile demand profiling for cellular cognitive networking ». IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing vol. 16 , nº 3. p. 772-786
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore. 2017 « Characterizing the instantaneous connectivity of large-scale urban vehicular networks ». IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing vol. 16 , nº 5. p. 1272-1286
- Marco Gramaglia, Oscar Trullols-Cruces, Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore, Maria Calderon. 2016 « Mobility and connectivity in highway vehicular networks: a case study in Madrid ». Computer Communications vol. 78. p. 28-44
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore, Stephane Ribot, Razvan Stanica. 2016 « Large-scale mobile traffic analysis: a survey ». IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials vol. 18 , nº 1. p. 124-161
- Mohammad Abu Lebdeh, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Constant Wette Tchouati. 2021-06-08 « A method for VNF Managers Placement In Large-Scale And Distributed NFV Systems ». Brevet américain US 11,032,135.
- Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Maria Calderon, Oscar Trullols‐Cruces, Diala Naboulsi. 2017 « Highway road traffic modeling for ITS simulation ». In Networking Simulation for Intelligent Transportation Systems: High Mobile Wireless Nodes. p. 165-184. Wiley-ISTE
- Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2025 « Energy-efficient task offloading using reinforcement learning for dependent tasks in cloud-edge-device systems ». 28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN) (Paris, France, Mar. 11-14, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Abderrahime Filali, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2025 « Enhancing RAN slicing isolation and UAV positioning in tactical networks with DRL ». International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) (Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 12-16, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Abderrahime Filali, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2025 « On the application of generative flow network to UAV positioning ». 16th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF) (Montreal, QC, Canada, Sept. 30-Oct. 03, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Philippe Lavoie, Diala Naboulsi, François Gagnon. 2025 « RF fingerprinting of base stations for network operator identification ». IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) (Montreal, QC, Canada, June 08-12, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Sachit Mishra, Diego Madariaga, Cezary Ziemlicki, Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore. 2025 « An urban geography of mobile application usage: Connecting demand dynamics and urban fabrics ». IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (London, UK, May 19-22, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Razvan Stanica, Diala Naboulsi. 2025 « MARIO: Multi-Agent ResIlience framewOrk for network slicing in tactical networks ». IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) (Montreal, QC, Canada, June 08-12, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Razvan Stanica, Diala Naboulsi. 2025 « SNOW: A split reinforcement learning approach for energy efficiency in tactical network slicing ». IEEE 26th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) (Fort Worth, TX, USA, May 27-30, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Philippe Lavoie, Diala Naboulsi, François Gagnon. 2024 « Clustering of radio emitter characteristics with complex-valued CNNs ». IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) (Kingston, ON, Canada, Aug. 06-09, 2024) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Philippe Lavoie, Diala Naboulsi, François Gagnon. 2024 « Network operator identification through RF fingerprinting of base stations ». IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) (Kingston, ON, Canada, Aug. 06-09, 2024) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Ei Theingi, Lokman Sboui, Diala Naboulsi. 2024 « Energy-efficient robotic airborne base stations deployment and operation for sustainable 6G networks ». IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) (Denver, CO, USA, June 09-13, 2024) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Gwladys Ornella Djuikom Foka, Razvan Stanica, Diala Naboulsi. 2023 « Handover forecasting in cellular networks: A spatio-temporal graph neural network approach ». 14th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF) (Izmir, Turkey, Oct. 04-06, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Zakaria Abou El Houda, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2023 « Advancing security and efficiency in federated learning service aggregation for wireless networks ». IEEE 34th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (Toronto, ON, Canada, Sept. 05-08, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Mohamed El-Emary, Ali Ranjha, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2023 « Energy-efficient task offloading and trajectory design for UAV-based MEC systems ». 19th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) (Montreal, QC, Canada, June 21-23, 2023) IEEE
- Samuel Genois, Ibrahim Sorkhoh, Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Diala Naboulsi. 2023 « Spatial context-aware service composition for MANET IoT applications ». IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 04-08, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica, Gwenael Poitau. 2023 « Towards energy efficiency in RAN network slicing ». IEEE 48th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) (Daytona Beach, FL, USA, Oct. 02-05, 2023) IEEE Computer Society
- Ali Ranjha, Diala Naboulsi, Mohamed El-Emary. 2023 « Towards facilitating URLLC in UAV-enabled MEC systems for 6G networks ». Ubiquitous Networking : 8th International Symposium, UNet 2022 (Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct. 25-27, 2022) Springer Science and Business Media
- Ahmed Abdelmoaty, Ghassan Dahman, Diala Naboulsi, Gwenael Poitau, François Gagnon. 2022 « On the design of resilient and reliable wireless backhaul networks ». IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring) (Helsinki, Finland, June 19-22, 2022) IEEE
- Zakaria Abou El Houda, Diala Naboulsi, Georges Kaddoum. 2022 « Cost-efficient federated reinforcement learning- based network routing for wireless networks ». IEEE Future Networks World Forum, FNWF (Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct. 10-14, 2022) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- H. P. Phyu, D. Naboulsi, R. Stanica. 2022 « Privacy-aware decentralized multi-slice traffic forecasting ». MobiSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Portland, OR, USA, June 27-July 01, 2022) Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
- Hnin Pann Phyu, Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica. 2022 « Mobile traffic forecasting for network slices: A federated-learning approach ». IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 12-15, 2022) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Sepideh Malektaji, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Alexander Polyantsev, Ali El Essaili, Cyril Iskander, Richard Brunner. 2019 « Video sessions KPIs clustering framework in CDNs ». 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) (Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan. 11-14, 2019) IEEE
- Diala Naboulsi, Assia Mermouri, Razvan Stanica, Herve Rivano, Marco Fiore. 2018 « On user mobility in dynamic cloud radio access networks ». IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr. 15-19, 2018) IEEE
- Vahid Maleki Raee, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho. 2018 « Energy efficient task assignment in virtualized wireless sensor networks ». IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (Natal, Brasil, June 25-28, 2018) IEEE
- Marsa Rayani, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Halima Elbiaze. 2018 « Slicing virtualized EPC-based 5G core network for content delivery ». IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (Natal, Brasil, June 25-28, 2018) IEEE
- Abbas Soltanian, Diala Naboulsi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Roch Glitho, Halima Elbiaze, Constant Wette. 2018 « ADS: adaptive and dynamic scaling mechanism for multimedia conferencing services in the cloud ». 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) (Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan. 12-15, 2018) IEEE
- Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Constant Wette Tchouati. 2017 « NFV orchestrator placement for geo-distributed systems ». 16th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2017) (Cambridge, MA, USA, Oct. 30-Nov. 01, 2017) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh, Sami Yangui, Diala Naboulsi, Roch Glitho, Constant Wette Tchouati. 2016 « A virtual network PaaS for 3GPP 4G and beyond core network services ». 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (Cloudnet) (Pisa, Italy, Oct. 03-05, 2016) IEEE
- Marco Gramaglia, Oscar Trullols-Cruces, Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore, Maria Calderon. 2014 « Vehicular networks on two Madrid highways ». Eleventh Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON) (Singapor, Singapor, June 30-July 03, 2014) IEEE
- Diala Naboulsi, Razvan Stanica, Marco Fiore. 2014 « Classifying call profiles in large-scale mobile traffic datasets ». IEEE INFOCOM 2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Toronto, ON, Canada, Apr. 27-May 02, 2014) IEEE
- Diala Naboulsi, Marco Fiore. 2013 « On the instantaneous topology of a large-scale urban vehicular network: the Cologne case ». 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2013) (Bangalore, India, July 29-Aug. 01, 2013) Association for Computing Machinery
