Computer Science and Math. Department

INSAT (National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technologies, Tunis, Tunisia), 

Carthage University, Tunisia

Address: Rue Maillourca N°11 Riadh Andalous, Tunis, Tunisia

E-mail: sofiane.ouni@insat.rnu.tn,  sofiane_ouni@yahoo.fr, sofiane.ouni@insat.ucar.tn

Phone : +216 98 997 595

Brief biography:

Sofiane Ouni received his long cycle Engineer's degree (6 year programs), Master degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science  from Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique (ENSI) of Tunisia, Manouba university, at the Cristal Laboratory and in collaboration with REFLECS Research team, CRI Paris - Rocquencourt France, in 2004. He obtained the Habilitation degree to have the ability to supervise researches (HDR: "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches") in 2013. His past  researches and publications focus on medium access protocols of industrial local area networks in Hard Real Time context. Since 1998, he worked as Assistant Professor at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (INSAT), Carthage University, Tunisia. He also worked for 3 years at the King Abdulaziz University (KAU), KSA .He is currently Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at INSAT. The current research interest of Dr. Sofiane Ouni  includes IoT networks and applications, Wireless networks, Ad Hoc, Wireless Sensor Networks,  Rel-Time QoS, IoT and blockchain, Distributed Machine Learning ...  

TEACHING:  Wireless networks, Mobile networks, Computer networks, Distributed applications, Industrial networks, Real time system, Programming languages,  Network administration and monitoring, network virtualisation, IoT communication and protocols,  ... 

Publications 

   Book and Journal publications

1. Tasnim ASSALI, Zayneb TRABELSI AYOUB, Sofiane OUNI, Synergistic Distributed CNN Model for Protein Classification with a Collaborative BSP Synchronization Based on LSTM Prediction, accepted  in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 37, 2025.  https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.70025 (Q2)

2. Wassim Abbessi, Sofiane Ouni, Rabeb Ben Othmen, Wafa Badreddine, Gilles Dequen. Random cluster parallel PBFT global consensus for consistent blockchain distributed ledger. Computing journal, Springer Nature (impact factor:3.6 ) ,  28, 187 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-024-04923-4  (Q1) 

3.  Rabeb Ben Othmen, Sofiane Ouni, Wassim Abbessi , Wafa Badreddine, Gilles Dequen, Cluster Based PBFT Blockchain Consensus Modelling with Jackson Open Queuing Network , revision in Performance Evaluation, Elsevier, 2024.

4. Karim Kamoun, Fatma Hmissi, Sofiane Ouni, et al. , Semantic Distributed MQTT Broker for Optimized Data Flow in IoT Platforms,   Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (IF 2023 : 3.3), Wiley edition, 2024; 35(2):e4945. doi: 10.1002/ett.4945. (Q1) 

5. Abdellahi krama, Mohamed Ali Zormati, Sofiane OUNI,  'On Optimizing Offloading and Reloading for IoT Applications Using Persistent Deep Q-Learning Decision’, submit Int. J. of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2025 (Q3).

6. Mohamed Ali Zormati, Hicham Lakhlef, Sofiane Ouni, Review and analysis of recent advances in intelligent network softwarization for the Internet of Things, Computer Networks (Impact Factor 5.493), Elsevier , vol. 241, 2024, p. 110215, ISSN 1389-1286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110215.  (Q1) 

7. Hmissi, F., Ouni Sofiane . (2024). SDN-DMQTT: SDN-Based Platform for Re-configurable MQTT Distributed Brokers Architecture. In: Zaslavsky, A., Ning, Z., Kalogeraki, V., Georgakopoulos, D., Chrysanthis, P.K. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. MobiQuitous 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63992-0_26

8. Fatma Hmissi,   Sofiane Ouni, A Survey on Application Layer Protocols for IoT Networks, International Journal on Advances in Telecommunications, selected and extended paper of UBICOMM 2021, IARIA, issn 1942-2601, vol. 15, no. 1 & 2, pages: 11 - 22, 2022.

9.  Fatma Hmissi, Sofiane Ouni, An MQTT Brokers Distribution Based on Mist Computing for Real-Time IoT Communications, in revision in Wireless Personal Communications (IF 2021= 2.017), springer, 2021. (Q2)

10. Sofiane ouni , Zayneb Trabelosi Ayoub, Farouk Kamoun.  F. Auto-organization approach with adaptive frame periods for IEEE 802.15.4/zigbee forest fire detection system. Wireless Networks (IF 2019: 2.357) 25, 4059–4076 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-01936-x (Q2)

11. Abdullah Bin H Sawad, Bassam A Zafar, Sofiane Ouni. Enhanced OWL-S Semantic Web Services for Traffic Management System Utilizing Internet of Things. International Journal of Computer Applications 180(38):8-16, May 2018.

12. Abdulrahman Jalal, Sofiane Ouni, Karim Kamoun and Bassam A Zafar. On Improving SPARQL Information Retrieval System for Semantic Internet of Things Applications. International Journal of Computer Applications 181(2):30-37, July 2018.

13. Sofiane Ouni, Narjes Boulila, Bassam A. Zafar, Enhanced EDCA with Deterministic Transmission Collision Resolution for Real-Time Communication in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Personal Communications (IF 2017: 1.2), 98(1): 311-335 (2018) (Q2)

14. Bassam A. Zafar , Sofiane Ouni,  ''Efficient Collision Resolution Procedure for IEEE 802.15.4 /Zigbee Wireless Personal Area Networks'', revised selected paper for the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Volume 15 - Number 2 - 2017, pages: 38-44. 

15. Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni, "A Fast Handover Procedure Based on Smart Association Decision for Mobile IEEE 802.15. 4 Wireless Sensor Networks", Wireless Internet - 8th International Conference, WICON 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, November 13-14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering , Springer 2015,Volume 146, 2015, pp 1-7.

16.  Zayneb TRABELSI AYOUB, Sofiane Ouni, "New Re-association Procedures for Reliable Handover in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks", Ad Hoc Networks, 5th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2013, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering ,  Volume 129, 2014, pp 3-14, Springer, 2014.

17. Sofiane Ouni, Jihen BOKRI, Farouk KAMOUN, "Opt-TDMA/DCR: Optimized TDMA Deterministic Collision Resolution Approach for Hard Real-Time Mobile Ad hoc Networks", WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS, Volume 12, issue 11, 2013, Pages 570-583.

18. Sofiane Ouni, Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub  “Predicting communication delay and energy consumption for IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee Wireless Sensor Networks”,  International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications, Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center, Vo.5 No. 1, 2013.

19. Sofiane Ouni, Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub “Cooperative association/reassociation approaches to optimize energy consumption for real-time IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee wireless sensor networks”, Journal :Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 71, Issue 4 (2013), Pages 3157-3183, Springer, 2013.

20. Sofiane Ouni , Grairi Salsabil , Farouk Kamoun, “Data-Aggregation and Pipelining Scheduling Protocols for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Vo. 12 No. 1, Inderscience Publishers,  2013.

21.  Sofiane ouni, Protocoles Temps Réel Critique pour les Réseaux Locaux Industriels: Bus CAN et réseaux Ethernet, Edition Universitaires Européennes, 2011.

22. Sofiane Ouni , Grairi Salsabil , Farouk Kamoun, “Real Time Quality of Service with Delay Guarantee in Sensor Networks”,  International Journal of  Sensor Networks (IF 2011: 1.386) , Vo.9 No. 1, Inderscience Publishers, 2011.

23.  Sofiane OUNI, Jihen BOKRI, Farouk KAMOUN, “DSR based routing algorithm with delay guarantee for Ad Hoc networks”, in Journal of Networks , vol/N° : 4/3, Academy Publisher,  June 2009.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 International Conference publications

24. Eya Abidi,Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni, A 1DCNN Filter to Optimize a Distributed Somatic Variant Calling Based on Spark, IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies,Sharjah, UAE, 16-19 december, 2024.   

25. Abdellahi KRAMA, Sofiane Ouni, Deep learning-based offload and load balancing in IoT Fog, ACS/IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2024), 22-26 October 2024 – Sousse, Tunisia.

26. Eya Abidi,Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni, Enhancing Speed and Quality of Somatic Variant Calling via Big Data Architecture and Deep Learning ModelsACS/IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2024), 22-26 October 2024 – Sousse, Tunisia.

27. Rabeb Ben Othmen, Wassim Abbessi, Sofiane Ouni, Wafa Badreddine, Gilles Dequen, Low latency PBFT parallel consensus for IoT blockchain platform, 27th IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC,21-24, May, 2024.

28.  Tasnim ASSALI, Zayneb TRABELSI AYOUB, Sofiane OUNI, Multivariate LSTM for Execution Time Prediction in HPC for Distributed Deep Learning Training, 27th IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC,21-24, May, 2024. 

29. Mohamed Ali Zormati, Hicham Lakhlef, and Sofiane Ouni. 2024. Routing Optimization Based on Distributed Intelligent Network Softwarization for the Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1757–1764. https://doi.org/10.1145/3605098.3635995

30. Fatma Hmissi, Sofiane Ouni, SDN-DMQTT : SDN-based Platform for Re-configurable MQTT Distributed Brokers Architecture, 20th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, November 14-17, Melbourne, Australia ,2023.

31. Rabeb Ben Othmen, Wassim Abbessi, Sofiane Ouni, Wafa Badreddine, Gilles Dequen , Simulation of Optimized Cluster Based PBFT Blockchain Validation Process, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2023.

32. Tasnim ASSALI, Zayneb TRABELSI AYOUB, Sofiane OUNI, Apply Distributed CNN on Genomics to accelerate Transcription-Factor TAL1 Motif Prediction,  11th International Conference on Computer Technologies and Development, Barcelona, Spain during October 16-18, 2022.

33.  Fatma Hmissi, Sofiane Ouni, TD-MQTT: Transparent Distributed MQTT Brokers for Horizontal IoT Applications, 2022 IEEE 9th International Conference on Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications, Genoa-Italy, May 2022.

34. Fatma Hmissi, Sofiane Ouni, A Review of Application Protocol Enhancements for IoT, The Fifteenth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, UBICOMM 2021, October 03, 2021 to October 07, 2021 - Barcelona, Spain.

35. Bassam A. Zafar, Ouni, Sofiane ''Efficient Beacon Collision Resolution Procedure for IEEE 802.15.4 /Zigbee Wireless Personal Area Networks'', The 8th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2017, March 21 - 24, 2017 ~ Orlando, Florida, USA.

36. Bassam A. Zafar, Sofiane Ouni, Narjes Boulila, Leila Saidane,"Communication delay guarantee for IEEE 802.11p/wave Vehicle networks with RSU control", The IEEE 13th International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control, Mexico City, Mexico, April 28-30, 2016.

37. Sofiane Ouni, On delay and energy optimization for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, 2nd International Conference and Business Expo on Wireless & Telecommunication, April 21-22, Dubai, UAE, 2016. http://wirelesscommunication.conferenceseries.com/2016/scientific-program.php?day=2&sid=2114&date=2016-04-22

38. Jihen Bokri, Sofiane Ouni and Leila Saidane, "Delay Prediction Approach for Cyclic Mobility Models in Ad hoc Networks", The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, UBICOMM 2015, July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France.

39. Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni "A Fast Handover Procedure based on Smart Association Decision for Mobile IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks", The 8th International Wireless Internet Conference - Symposium on Wireless and Vehicular Communication,  Lisbon, Portugal, November 13–14, 2014.

40. Salsabil Gherairi,  Sofiane Ouni,  Farouk Kamoun,  "Adaptive TDMA-based clustering for critical event detection in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet), 2014 ,Pages 1-5.

41.  Zayneb TRABELSI AYOUB, Sofiane Ouni, "New Re-association Procedures for Reliable Handover in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks", 5th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2013, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.

42.  Jihen Bokri, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “The Worst Path Estimation for Real Time Communications over Ad hoc Networks”, 11th International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'12),  July 16-19, 2012, USA.

43.  Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Re-association approaches to extend network lifetime for scalable IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee wireless sensor networks” , Fifth IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, May 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey. 

44.  Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Energy consumption analysis to predict lifetime for IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks », Third International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet'2012), Hammamet, Avril 2012.

45. Sonia amroussa, Baccouche Leila, Sofiane Ouni, and Ben Ghezala Henda ,” Protocole de validation atomique anticipée des transactions distribuées temps réel dans les réseaux mobiles sans fil”, The International Conference on Computer Science and Its Applications, CIIA'2011, Saida, Algeria, December 13-15, 2011.

46.  Zayneb Trabelsi Ayoub, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun ,” Association criteria to optimize energy consumption and latency for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee wireless sensor networks”, 4th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, WMNC 2011,Toulouse,France, Octobre 2011.

47. Jihen Bokri, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, "A Novel Reservation Approach for TDMA-based Ad hoc Networks", in 2nd  International Conference on Communications and Networking, ComNet’2010, Tozeur, Nov. 2010.

48. Salsabil Gherairi, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Optimized TDMA Multi-centenaire Scheduling Access Protocols for Sensor Networks”, International Conference on Communications, Computing and Control Applications (CCCA), Hammamet, Tunisia , March 2011.

49. Jihen Bokri, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “End-to-end delay guarantee for TDMA-based Ad hoc networks with RT-DSR protocol ”, in The Third International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2009), Sliema -Malta, October 11-16, 2009.

50.   Jihen Bokri, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, "Prévention de congestion pour le trafic temps réel critique dans le protocole RT-DSR",  14ème Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Prorocoles (CFIP 2009), strasbourg, France, 12-15 October 2009.

51. Salsabil Gherairi, Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Sleep/Wakeup and TDMA Scheduling Access Protocols in Sensor Networks: A Survey”, in The 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'09), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 13-16, 2009.

52. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Real Time Message Guarantees with EDF Based Access Protocols over Industrial Networks”, International Confertence on Computing, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT’04),  August 2004.

53. Sofiane Ouni, Wafa Berrayna., Farouk Kamoun, “Hard Real Time Guarantee over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANS”, the 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004), in Orlando, USA, juillet 2004.

54. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Protocole Asynchrone pour l’ordonnancement des messages temps réel critique sur Ethernet”, International conference SETIT 2003, Tunisie, 2003.

55. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Hard and Soft Scheduling Protocol on Ethernet Networks », IEEE on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,Hammamet, Tunisie, octobre 2002.

56. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “EDF Based Real Time Scheduling Protocol over Ethernet», in 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, USA, June 24-27, 2002.

57. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Hard Real-Time Scheduling Protocol in Ethernet Networks », in the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002), in Orlando, USA, in July 14-18, 2002.

58. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, “Ordonnancement Efficace et Réaliste des messages Temps Réel sous CAN”, 6th Maghrebian Conference on Computer Sciences, Maroc, nov. 2000.

59. Sofiane Ouni, Farouk Kamoun, « Efficient Protocol for Hard Real Time Communication on controller Area Network (CAN) », in 6th international Conference on CAN, Torino, Italie,  2-4, nov. 1999.

Citations (scholar google) :

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Research Projects :

Several research projects are developed with  REFLECS Research team (INRIA), KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology), DSR (Deanship of Scientific Research of King Abdulaziz University), University of Jeddah, etc. They are dealing with the smart cities communication technology, IoT communications, VANET protocols , .... 

Supervised and co-supervised PH.D. and Master theses :

-Hmissi Fatma, Data-centric access platform for the real-time Internet of Things: MQTT protocol, PhD theses at ENSI defended with success on 04 february 2025.

 - ABIDI Eya, Accelerating Genomic Variant Calling via Big Data Architecture and Deep Learning Model,  first registration 2022 at ENSI.

- Abdellahi KRAMA, ‘Offload and load-balancing based deep learning on IoT Fog’, first registration 2022 at FST.

- Rabeb BEN OTHMEN, Integration of Blockchain in Patient Monitoring Applications Using IoT Platforms, Co-supervisor Wassim ABBESSI, first registration 2021 at ENSI and in collaboration with MIS Laboratory, University of Picardy Jules Verne (UPJV), France.

- Tasnim ASSALI, Accelerate Big Genomic Data analysis using Big Data architecture and deep learning algorithms to early predict cancer cell sensitive, Co-supervision, Zayneb TRABELSI AYOUB, first registration 2021 at ENSI.

- Narjes BOULILA, "Communication inter-véhicules garantissant les contraintes temps réel pour les systèmes de prévention de collision", Ph.D. at ENSI, theses at ENSI defended with success on 2018.

- Zieneb Trabelsi ,Déploiement large échelle des réseaux de capteurs sans fil IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee dans le contexte mobile et temps réel, PH. D. theses at ENSI defended with success on 06/11/2014.

- Grairi Salsabil, Garantie des délais des trafics temps réel pour les réseaux de Capteurs sans fil (Wireless Sensor Networks), PH. D. theses at ENSI defended with success on 03/11/2014.

- Jihen Bokri,  garantie des délais des communications temps réel dans les réseaux Ad Hoc sous différents modèles de mobilités, Thèse à l'ENSI, PH. D. theses at ENSI defended with success on 2015.

- Narjes BOULILA, Protocoles d’accès pour les communications temps réel dans les réseaux Ad Hoc de véhicules (VANet), Master theses : Systèmes d’Information Pervasive, FST, soutenu le 25/09/2014.

- Zieneb Trabelsi , Association/Réassociation pour l’optimisation de l’énergie  et du temps de latence dans les réseaux de capteurs IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee,  Master theses: mastère Systèmes Electroniques et Réseaux de Communications (Mastère MSERC), EPT-INSAT, soutenu en 2010.

- Jihen Bokri,  "Routage temps réel critique pour les réseaux Ad Hoc", Master theses: mastère Systèmes Electroniques et Réseaux de Communications (Mastère MSERC), EPT-INSAT,soutenu en 2007.

- Grairi Salsabil, Qualité de service temps réel dans les réseaux de capteur sans fil avec garantie du délai, Master theses: mastère Systèmes Electroniques et Réseaux de Communications (Mastère MSERC), EPT-INSAT, soutenu en 2007.

- Belhadj Meryem, Garantie des communications temps réel critiques dans les réseaux locaux sans fil , Master theses:  mastère Systèmes Electroniques et Réseaux de Communications (Mastère MSERC), EPT-INSAT, soutenu en 2007.

- Abdullah Hatim Bin Sawad, The OWL-S semantic services modeling toward Intelligent Traffic management System integrating the Internet of Things technology, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, KAU, Jeddah, 2017.

- Afnan Saad Al Azbah, Hajj Crowd Management Via RFID Technology : A Case of the Hajj event, Saudi Arabia, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, KAU, Jeddah, 2017.

- Sabah saadalshehri, Developing a framework for healthcare applications using the semantic Internet of Things, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, KAU, Jeddah, 2017.

- Abdulrahman Jalal Ebrahim Erhaim, Ontology-based Content Similarity Measure for IoT Information Retrieval, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, KAU, Jeddah, 2017.

  Supervised more than 100 of engineer projects (INSAT).