Biography: Walid Ben-Ameur holds an engineering degree, a master's degree and a PhD from Télécom Paris, France, and a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from Université Paris 6, France. He was a permanent researcher at Orange Labs from 1999 to 2001, then joined Télécom SudParis in 2002. He was a visiting professor at the Warsaw University of Technology in 2010. He was director of the CNRS Samovar laboratory from 2015 to 2019. He is currently a full professor at Télécom SudParis. He is an associate editor of the Wiley journal "Networks". He founded the INOC conference in 2003 and co-chairs the ENOG working group of the EURO society. His main research interests are combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming and network optimization. He received the Robert Faure Prize in 2006 and the Glover-Klingman Prize in 2007. 

Biography: Tijani Chahed is a professor at Telecom SudParis, an engineering school of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. He holds a BS and MS degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, and a PhD and Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Versailles and the University of Paris 6, France, respectively. His research interests are on modelling, performance evaluation and resource allocation, notably in wireless networks. 

Biography: Roberto MINERVA holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and Telecommunications from Telecom Sud Paris, France, and a Master Degree in Computer Science from Bari University, Italy. He is Maitre de Conference (Associate Professor) at Institut Mine-Telecom, Telecom Sud Paris, part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. His research topics and contributions fall in softwarization and networks (edge computing, virtualization and SDN), Internet of Things and Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He was the Chairman of the IEEE IoT Initiative, an effort to nurture a technical community and to foster research in IoT. Roberto has been for several years in TIMLab, leading research lines and carry out research on network intelligence and programmability, service architecture, SDN/NFV, 5G, Big Data, architectures for IoT. He is authors of several papers published in international journals, magazine, conferences, and books. 

Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as aerial drones, have a promising future due to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness across a wide range of applications compared to traditional fixed infrastructure networks. However, achieving an efficient, collaborative, end-to-end solution for dynamic UAV networks presents significant challenges. In this talk, I will highlight some popular applications of UAV networks, focusing on maintaining network connectivity to meet real-time demands. I will also introduce some routing solutions aimed at improving routing quality by providing alternative paths when air connections between UAVs are disrupted.

Biography:  Saadi Boudjit is Professor and member of the LITIS Lab at the university of Rouen Normandy. He used to be associate professor at the university Sorbonne Paris Nord and was a research fellow with Telecom ParisTech. He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from INRIA Paris where he also served as an expert engineer for 3 years. Saadi is working on wireless ad hoc architectures and was involved in several national and international research projects (QNRF NPRP8-140-2-065, THD, SoundDelta, R2M, IPANEMA, PRIMA, ... etc). He is the initiator and Co-chair of ACM MobileHealth workshop and involved in the organisation of other similar events (IEEE WiMob, IEEE ISNCC, …). He also acted or still acts as TPC member of several IFIP, ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops (HealthCom, MobileHealth, ICC, Globecom, CAMAD, WCNC, WONS, VTC, DCOSS, ...). His research interests include wireless networks, parallel and distributed computing, protocols and architecture design for mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and eHealth systems.

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Biography:  Doctor Abdellatif KOBBANE is currently Full Professor at the Ecole Nationale Suprieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systemes (ENSIAS), Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco since 2009.

He received his PhD degree in computer science from the Mohammed V-Agdal University (Morocco) and the University of Avignon (France) in September 2008. He received his research MS degree in computer science, Telecommunication and Multimedia from the Mohammed V-Agdal University (Morocco) in 2003. Doctor Kobbane is Adjunct Professor at L2TI laboratory, Paris 13 University, France.

His research interests lie with the field of wireless networking, performance evaluation using advanced technique in game theory and MDP in wireless mobile network : IoT, SDN and NFV, 5G networks, resources management in wireless mobile networks, cognitive radio, Mobile computing, Mobile Social networks, Caching and backhaul problem, Beyond 5G and Future networks...

Dr Kobbane is Senior Member ComSoc IEEE, Ex-Secretary of ExCom IEEE Morocco Section, Vice Chair of IEEE Communication Software Technical Committee and Ex-President and Founder of Association of Research in Mobile Wireless networks and embedded systems (MobiTic) in Morocco.

Dr Kobbane is TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2020and TPC chair of Wireless Networking Symposium of the International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2019) and General Co-Chair WINCOM 2020 and 2015 and Executive Chair of WINCOM 2017. Dr Kobbane is a responsible of Master (MS) of Internet of thing and Mobiles services (IOSM)