Soufiene Djahel is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing and Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (Ireland). He is the founder and head of the Smart and Sustainable Cities (S2C) lab within the Centre for Advanced Computational Science (CfACS). Dr. Djahel holds Ph.D, M.Sc., and Engineer degrees in computer science from Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France, University Abderrahmane-Mira, Algeria, and University Badji-Mokhtar, Algeria, respectively. He published more than 70 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences on wireless networks, network security, intelligent transportation systems, e-healthcare, IoT and connected autonomous vehicles. He supervised to successful completion 4 Ph.D. students and 23 Master students, and currently supervising 4 Ph.D. students. He served as Engineering Research Manager at University College Dublin, Ireland; Postdoctoral Fellow at ENSIEE, France; Associate Lecturer and Researcher at Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France; and Teaching Assistant at IMT Nord Europe, France. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green Internet of Vehicles. Dr. Djahel is regularly invited to undertake different leadership roles in several IEEE sponsored international conferences; and serves as expert reviewer for three European research councils. He is the recipient of the FY2021 JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
To enrich my knowledge, improve my skills and help students to easily acquire new knowledge.
Seek, Learn, Question and Always Think Beyond Narrow Borders.
Visiting Postgraduate students supervision:
Z. Yousif, I. Hussain, S. Djahel, Y. Hadjadj-Aoul (2021). A Novel Energy-efficient Clustering Algorithm for more Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks enabled Smart Cities Applications. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 10(3),
S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2019). An Altruistic Prediction-Based Congestion Control for Strict Beaconing Requirements in Urban VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 49(12), pp.2582-2597.
A. Kabou, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, S. Djahel, S. Yahiaoui, O. Nouali (2019). Lifetime-aware backpressure-A new delay-enhanced backpressure-based routing protocol. IEEE Systems Journal. 13(1), pp.42-52.
B. Moussaoui, S. Djahel, M. Smati, J. Murphy (2017). A Cross Layer Approach for Efficient Multimedia Data Dissemination in VANETs. Vehicular Communications. 9, pp.127-134.
S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2015). A fast, reliable and lightweight distributed dissemination protocol for safety messages in Urban Vehicular Networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 27, pp.26-43.
S. Djahel, R. Doolan, G-M. Muntean, J. Murphy (2015). A Communications-Oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approaches. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 17(1), pp.125-151.
C. Mansfield, J. Hodgkiss, S. Djahel, A. Nag (2022). An Efficient Detour Computation Scheme for Electric Vehicles to Support Smart Cities’ Electrification. Electronics. 11(5), pp.803-803.
Z. Yousif, I. Hussain, S. Djahel, Y. Hadjadj-Aoul (2021). A Novel Energy-efficient Clustering Algorithm for more Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks enabled Smart Cities Applications. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 10(3),
P. Ren, L. Wang, W. Fang, S. Song, S. Djahel (2020). A novel squeeze YOLO-based real-time people counting approach. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation. 16(2), pp.94-94.
S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2019). An Altruistic Prediction-Based Congestion Control for Strict Beaconing Requirements in Urban VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 49(12), pp.2582-2597.
A. Kabou, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, S. Djahel, S. Yahiaoui, O. Nouali (2019). Lifetime-aware backpressure-A new delay-enhanced backpressure-based routing protocol. IEEE Systems Journal. 13(1), pp.42-52.
S. Djahel, C. Sommer, A. Marconi (2018). Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Advances in Smart and Green Transportation for Smart Cities. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 19(7), pp.2152-2155.
B. Moussaoui, S. Djahel, M. Smati, J. Murphy (2017). A Cross Layer Approach for Efficient Multimedia Data Dissemination in VANETs. Vehicular Communications. 9, pp.127-134.
S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2015). A fast, reliable and lightweight distributed dissemination protocol for safety messages in Urban Vehicular Networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 27, pp.26-43.
S. Djahel, R. Doolan, G-M. Muntean, J. Murphy (2015). A Communications-Oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approaches. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 17(1), pp.125-151.
S. Djahel, F. Naït‐Abdesselam, Z. Zhang, A. Khokhar (2008). Defending against packet dropping attack in vehicular ad hoc networks. Security and Communication Networks. 1(3), pp.245-258.
DR. ALEKO, S. Djahel (2019). An IoT Enabled Traffic Light Controllers Synchronization Method for Road Traffic Congestion Mitigation. In: 2019 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). 14/10/2019. pp.709-715.
J. Xu, S. Djahel, Y. Qiao (2015). Scalable Saliency-Aware Distributed Compressive Video Sensing. In: 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM). 14/12/2015. pp.327-330.
J. Xu, S. Djahel, Y. Qiao, Z. Fu (2015). Perceptually-aware distributed compressive video sensing. In: 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP). 13/12/2015.
S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2014). A Short-Term Vehicular Density Prediction Scheme for Enhanced Beaconing Control. In: 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 6/12/2015.
IH. Brahmi, S. Djahel, D. Magoni, J. Murphy (2015). A spatial correlation aware scheme for efficient data aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: 2015 IEEE 40th Local Computer Networks Conference Workshops (LCN Workshops). 26/10/2015. pp.847-854.
B. Moussaoui, S. Djahel, H. Khelifi, S. Merniz (2015). Towards enhanced reactive routing in urban Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. In: 2015 International Conference on Protocol Engineering (ICPE) and International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NTDS). 22/7/2015.
A. Sawand, S. Djahel, Z. Zhang, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2014). Multidisciplinary approaches to achieving efficient and trustworthy eHealth monitoring systems. In: 2014 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). 13/10/2014. pp.187-192.
D. Moad, S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2014). Padovan sequence based Backoff Algorithm for improved wireless medium access in MANETs. In: 2014 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS). 15/9/2014.
S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2013). Short paper: Road-Casting: A new distributed dissemination protocol for safety messages in urban areas. In: 2013 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference. 16/12/2013. pp.234-237.
HI. Brahmi, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2013). Improving emergency messages transmission delay in road monitoring based WSNs. In: 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). Canadian Univ Dubai, Dubai, U ARAB EMIRATES, 23/4/2013.
. Vi Tran Ngoc Nha, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2012). A comparative study of vehicles' routing algorithms for route planning in smart cities. In: 2012 First International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM). 20/11/2012.
S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2010). Thwarting back-off rules violation in tactical wireless ad hoc networks. In: The IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications. 22/6/2010. pp.417-422.
S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam, D. Turgut (2009). An Effective Strategy for Greedy Behavior in Wireless Ad hoc Networks. In: GLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. Honolulu, HI, 30/11/2009. pp.5215-+.
S. Djahel, F. Naït-Abdesselam, F. Ahsan (2009). Highlighting the effects of joint MAC layer misbehavior and virtual link attack in wireless ad hoc networks. In: 2009 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2009. pp.756-763.
S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2009). A Fuzzy Logic Based Scheme to Detect Adaptive Cheaters in Wireless LAN. In: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Dresden, GERMANY, 14/6/2009. pp.4821-4825.
Z. Zhang, F. Naït-Abdesselam, S. Djahel (2008). ARSoS: An adaptive, robust, and sub-optimal strategy for automated deployment of anomaly detection system in MANETs. In: IWCMC 2008 - International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference. pp.606-613.
S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2008). Avoiding virtual link attacks in wireless ad hoc networks. In: 2008 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications. Doha, QATAR, 31/3/2008. pp.355-360.
R. Boudour, S. Djahel (2006). SYMTC: A performing symbolic model checker. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications.
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I am/was in the TPC of:
IEEE/IFIP WD 2011, IEEE WCNC 2012, IEEE IWCMC 2012, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, IFIP WD 2012, IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2012, IEEE/ACM ICCVE 2012, IEEE GIIS 2012, IEEE ICC 2013, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013, IEEE GIIS 2013, IEEE/ACM ICCVE 2013, IEEE WF-IoT 2014, IEEE WCNC 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, IOV 2014, IEEE/IFIP WD 2014, IEEE GIIS 2014, IEEE/ACM ICCVE 2014, ATC-2014, IEEE WCNC 2015, IEEE ICC 2015, FNC 2015, IEEE WF-IoT 2015, IEEE Globecom 2015, GIIS 2015. ICCVE 2015, IEEE ICC 2016, IEEE WCNC 2016, IFIP WDs 2016, FNC 2016, IEEE Globecom 2016, WF-IoT 2016, GIIS 2016, IEEE PIMRC 2016, IEEE ICC 2017, GIIS 2017, IFIP WD’17, GIoTS'17, IEEE Globecom 2017, IEEE PIMRC 2017, IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE Globecom 2019
I am serving as a reviewer for:
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Elsevier Computers & Security, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier Journal of Vehicular Communications, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Sensors, World Wide Web, The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on ITS, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Elsevier Computers & Security, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- Business fellow @ Transport Systems Catapult (Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019)
- Since July 2018: expert reviewer for the Netherlands’ research council for the Engineering and Applied Sciences ( Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) | domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW)
- Since May 2019: Expert reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Div. Mathematics, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
- Since July 2019: Expert reviewer for Czech Science Foundation.
- Founding Associate Editor at Frontiers in Sustainable Cities - the Smart Technologies and Cities section
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Networking Letters