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Biography:

Nouha Baccour was born in Sfax, Tunisia, in 1981. She has an engineering degree (2005), and a Msc (2006) in computer science at the National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia. Currently, she is a research assistant at computer science department, National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia. Since January 2007, she is a PhD student at the National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia. Her research activity is conducted within ReDCAD research unit, in colaboration with CISTER research unit. She is involved as an external collaborator in the CONET European Network of Excellence, in particular with the research cluster COTS-based architecture for QoS in large-scale distributed embedded systems. She is also involved as an external collaborator in The ART-Wise framework (ART-WISE). Her current research interests are in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). They are focused on the characterization, quality estimation, and modeling of low-power links; mobility management schemas; and hierarchical routing.

Publications:

Referred publications:

[1] Hossein Fotouhi, Mario Alves, Anis Koubaa and Nouha Baccour. On a Reliable Handoff Procedure for Supporting Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks, 9th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks RTN'2010, in conjunction with the 22th Euromicro Intl Conference on Real-Time Systems, Brussels, Belgium, July 7-9, 2010. [PDF]

[2] Nouha Baccour, Maissa Ben Jamaa, Denis do Rosario, Anis Koubaa, Habib Youssef, Mario Alves and Leandro B. Becker. A TestBed for the Evaluation of Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks, The ACS/IEEE Workshop Future Trends on Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (FT-ASN 2010), Tunisia, May 16-19, 2010. [PDF]

[3] 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. (acceptance ratio: 19% ). [PDF]

[4] Nouha Baccour, Maissa Ben Jamaa, Denis do Rosario, Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Leandro B. Becker, Habib Youssef, and Hossein Fotouhi. Demo Abstract: RadiaLE: a framework for benchmarking link quality estimators, The 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2010), Coimbra, Portugal, September 17-19, 2010. [PDF]

[5] 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 ( acceptance ratio for extended papers: 20% ). [PDF]

[6] P. Marron (Editor), Cooperating Objects Roadmap 2009, 1st ed. Logos Verlag, 2009. Contributed to Sections 3.3 and 6.1.3 (on NFPs – Description + SOTA). [Online] Available : http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/roadmap/download/

Other publications:

[1] Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Habib Youssef, and Mario Alves. Poster Abstract: Simulation analysis and validation of a Fuzzy Link Quality Estimator, The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks (SensorNets 2009), Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-22 2009. [PDF]

[2] Maissa Ben Jamaa, Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Denis do Rosarioy, Mario Alves, Leandro Becker, Habib Youssef, and Mohamed Jmaiel. Demo Abstract: A TestBed for the evaluation of Link Quality Estimators in WSNs, The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks (SensorNets 2009), Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-22 2009. (Best Demo Award).[PDF]

[3] Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Maissa Ben Jamaa, Habib. Youssef, Marco Zuniga, and Mario Alves, A comparative simulation study of link quality estimators in wireless sensor networks, Tech. Rep., March 2009. [Online]. [PDF]

[4] Mário Alves, Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Ricardo Severino, Gianluca Dini, Nuno Pereira, Rui Sá, Ida Savino, Paulo Gandra de Sousa. Quality-of-Service in Wireless Sensor Networks: state-of-the-art and future directions, Tech. Rep. - TR-091108 , Nov 2009 [Online]. [PDF]

[5] Nouha Baccour, Heni Kaaniche, Mohamed Chtourou, and Maher Ben Jemaa. Recurrent neural network based time series prediction: Particular design problems, International Conference on Smart Systems and Devices (SSD 2007), Hammamet , Tunisia, March 19-22 2007.[PDF]

[6] Maher Ben Jemaa, Nouha Baccour, and Heni Kaaniche. A comparative Study of two Ad Hoc Network Simulators, Septièmes journées scientifiques des jeunes chercheurs en génie électrique et informatique (GEI 2007), Monastir, Tunisia, March 26-28 2007.[PDF]

Reseach Activity:

Currently, I am driving RadiaLE framework for benchmarking link quality estimators (LQEs) in WSNs. RadiaLE is a test-bed that enables the performance evaluation of existing and future LQEs. It comprises the hardware components of the WSN test-bed (TelosB nodes, USB cables/hubs) and a software tool for setting up and controlling the experiments and also for analyzing the collected data, allowing for LQEs evaluation (more details are given here).

RadiaLE software tool as well as TinyOS/TOSSIM2 implementation of several Link Quality Estimators are now publicly available as open-source at open-lqe web site (http://www.open-lqe.net).

Reports:

- Graduate Project Report (in Frensh) [PDF]

- Master Report (in Frensh) [PDF]

Program Committee participation:

• Reviewer:

1. Third Junior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing (JRWRTC 2009), Paris, France, October 26-27, 2009.
2. La conférence internationale sur les Nouvelles Technologies de la Répartition (NOTERE 2010), Tozeur, Tunisia, 31 -2 June 2010.
   

• Organization:

1. The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks (SensorNets 2009), Monatir, Tunisia, December 17-22 2009.

Teaching:

- Network Simulation and Modelling

- Introduction to communication Networks

- Ingénierie des protocoles

- Structure des données

- Programmation web avancée