Autor: Salim Bitam

Salim BITAM is an Associate Professor, Head (2003-2009) of Computer Science for Management Department of Biskra University, Algeria, he is senior member of LESIA Laboratory (University of Biskra, Algeria), and Associate Member of Li SSi Laboratory (Paris-Est University -UPEC-, France). He received the Ing. Diploma in Computer Science from Mentouri University, Constantine, Algeria, in 1999 and the Magister and Ph D diplomas in Computer Science from University of Biskra, Algeria, in 2002 and 2011, respectively. In December 2002, he has been an assistant professor and since January 2011 he is an associate professor in Computer Science Department in University of Biskra. Dr. Bitam main research interests are vehicular ad-hoc networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, and bio-inspired methods for routing and optimization. Dr. Salim Bitam has served as a reviewer of several journals such as IEEE, Elsevier and Springer and on the program committees of several international conferences. Abdelhamid MELLOUK (IEEE Senior Member) is a full professor at University of Paris-Est (UPEC), Networks & Telecommunications (N&T) Department and Li SSi Laboratory, France. He graduated in computer network engineering from the Computer Science High Eng. School, University of Paris Sud XI Orsay, received his Ph.D. in informatics from the same university, and a Doctorate of Sciences (Habilitation) diploma from UPEC. Founder of the Network Control Research activity with extensive international academic and industrial collaborations, his general area of research is in adaptive real-time control for high-speed new generation dynamic wired/wireless networking in order to maintain acceptable quality of service/experience for added value services. He is an active member of the IEEE Communications Society and held several offices including leadership positions in IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees (Chair of The Technical Committee on Communications Software, Leader Officer of The Technical Committee on Switching and Routing). He has published/coordinated five books and several refereed international publications in journals, conferences, and books, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks in flagship venues. He serves on the Editorial Boards or as Associate Editor for several journals, and he is chairing or has chaired (or co-chaired) some of the top international conferences and symposia (includling IEEE ICC and IEEE Globe Com).