Service and Collaborations

Editorial boards

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (since 2025)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (since 2025)

• Associate Editor, Vehicular Communications, Elsevier (since 2020)

• Review Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks (since 2020)

Guest editor of special issues

• 5G Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X): Latest Advances and Prospects, MDPI Applied Sciences (2022)

• Vehicular-to-Everything Communication in IoT, MDPI Information (2022)

• Wireless Power Transfer in UAV-assisted Networks, Wiley Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (2021)

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Assisted Cooperative Air and Ground Communications, MDPI Drones (2021)

• Securing UAV Communication Networks over 5G and Beyond, IET Networks (2021)

• Multiple Access Techniques in Emerging Wireless Systems, MDPI Sensors (2020)

Conference organization

• Publication Chair, IEEE GreenCom 2026

• Local Organizing Committee, MSWiM 2026

• Local Organizing Committee, IEEE ISCC 2024

• Track and Session Chair, IARIA MOBILITY 2021

• Technical Program Committee member: IEEE GlobeCom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICCCN, among others

Peer review

Regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access, and many Elsevier, Springer and Wiley journals. Top Reviewer Award, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Academic service

Member of PhD recruitment juries at University Gustave Eiffel and Université Paris Cité. External examiner (rapporteur) of PhD theses in France, 2025-2026.

International collaborations

• Prof. M. Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA: UAV-assisted terrestrial networks, AI-based applications, SDN integration.

• Prof. A. Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia: energy efficiency of UAV networks.

• Prof. J. Ben-Othman, CentraleSupélec, France: trajectory optimization, energy harvesting and transfer in UAV networks.

• Prof. A. Lakas, United Arab Emirates University: UAV-assisted routing in vehicular networks.

• Prof. P. Lorenz, Université de Haute-Alsace, France: SDN integration, routing for aerial ad hoc networks.

• Prof. M. Güneş, University of Magdeburg, Germany: SDN integration, routing for aerial ad hoc networks.

• Prof. M. Guizani, MBZUAI, UAE: wireless-powered UAV networks.

• Prof. A. Rachedi, University Gustave Eiffel, France: energy efficiency, digital twins, PhD co-supervision.

Research visits

• Invited researcher, LIA Lab, University of Avignon, France (October 2016 to October 2017)

• Invited researcher, UAE University (November to December 2016)

• Invited researcher, MIPS Lab, Colmar, France (March to April 2019)