DoS in wireless network an issue or a fatality

Dr. Ben-Othman received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Computer Science from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie, (Paris 6) France in 1992, and 1994 respectively. He received his PhD degree from the University of Versailles, France, in 1998. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Orsay (Paris 11) and University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), in 1998 and 1999 respectively. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Versailles from 2000 to 2011. He is now full professor at University of Paris 13. Dr. Ben-Othman.s research interests are in the area of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, Broadband Wireless Networks, multi-services bandwidth management in WLAN (IEEE 802.11), WMAN (IEEE 802.16), WWAN (LTE), security in wireless networks in general and wireless sensor and ad hoc networks in particular. His work appears in highly respected international journals and conferences, including, IEEE ICC, Globecom, LCN, VTC, PIMRC, etc. He has supervised and co-supervised several graduate students in these areas.

Managing Dynamic Authorization

Abdelmalek Benzekri is a full professor in Computer Science at Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier since 1999. He is leading the SIERA team (Service intEgration and NetwoRk Administration) at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse. He has conducted more than fifteen PhD theses and written a hundred of scientific papers in the domain of network management, especially in the field of networks, systems and applications security. He has participated in a dozen of european research projects. The main results of the PREDYKOT project (http://www.itea2-predykot.org) will be dealt with in his presentation.

QOS in complex telecommunication systems

She received her PhD. in computer science from the University of Versailles, France in 1997. She was associate professor at University Paris-Dauphine from 1998 to 2009. She is currently full professor at University Paris-Est, Créteil since 2009. Her main research interests are about performance evaluation techniques and applications in wired, mobile and wireless networks and in software technologies as Web services. She is recipient of the best paper awards of IEEE International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT 2011) and IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011). She has served as technical committee for more than 20 international IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops including ICC, GlobeCom, MSWIM, LCN, etc. She is a member of IEEE and ACM. She serves as a TPC Co-Chair of Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom 12); 5th and 6th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks (P2MNET 09 and 10); 1st and 2nd IEEE performance evaluation of communications in distributed systems and Web based service architectures (PEDISWESA 08 and 09) and 11th international Workshop on Wireless local Networks (WLN 11). She served as a publicity chair of 12th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM10) and as awards chair of the 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-10), And She is active member of IEEE Communication software (CommSoft) where she is vice-chair.