Adel Soudani

SOUDANI Adel

CURRICULUM VITAE

First Name: Adel
Second Name: SOUDANI
Birth date ...... : 24 / 03 / 1972, Tunisia
Nationality.......................... : TUNISIAN
Profession …………………… : Associate-Professor College of computer science and information systems King Saud University, Riyadh

CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

1. Center University of Tunisia
Science Faculty of Monastir

1 Ms Science: Physics and microelectronics, with “fairly good distinction”, Monastir Faculty of Sciences (June 1996)
1 D.E.A (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies or Diploma of thorough studies): materials and devices for electronics with a “fair distinction”, Monastir Faculty of Sciences (July 1998)
3. University of Henri Poincaré Nancy I, France
February 2003
1 Doctor degree on Electrical Engineering ( UHP Nancy I )

4. French Ministry of youth, of National Education and Research
(Mars 2004)
1 Qualification for the post of researcher-teacher at the section CNU 61 (computer science and signal processing)

5. Habilitation for research and teaching, Prepared at the laboratory of Electronic and Microelectronic of Faculty of Sciences of Monastir. Tunisia. This degree is under preparation, it will be presented soon (planed for December 2012)

Research activities
I have started my research activities in the Laboratory of Electronic and Micro-electronic (EµE) at the Science Faculty of Monastir, Tunisia in 1998. My research activities are in the fields of :
 Design of low power embedded systems (VLSI :FPGA ASIC)
 Communication in embedded system

 Quality of Service in Hotspots environment based on IEEE 802.11 and Traffic Loading distribution
 Video transmission on IEEE 802.11 WLAN
 Quality of Service for Network on Chip (NoC ) and On Chip communication
 Architecture and Hardware Design
 Memory management and congestion control
 Signaling
 Power saving and image transport in Wireless Sensor Network
 Image transport and Quality of service classes
 Hardware co-processor design for image compression ( energy and time optimization )
 Low power image sensor design with specific integrated applications

 Low power image based object identification in WMSN

I am working in collaboration at the international level, closely, with some other research teams such as
A. Research Center of Automatic of Nancy (CRAN de Nancy), France
B. Department of Electronic Technology, Seville University. Spain
C. Laboratory TIMA at the polytechnic institute of Grenoble. France

1. Post-Doc Position and research training
• ( 3 months in 2007-2008)
I have been contracted as post-doc at the research center of automatics at the University of Nancy.
Subject: Embedded Networking and quality of service

• Several research training ( more than 20) in different international Laboratories

2. Research Project initiation and Management

In the context of my research activities I have initiated and managed several research projects chaired between the University of Monastir and others Universities at the International level

 With the University of Seville, Spain

• Projet AECI (A/5859/06) “use of wireless sensor network technology for environment monitoring”. ( 2006-2007)
• Projet AECID (A/9249/07) “image compression and transmission in wireless sensor network ».( 2007-2008)

I was also involved in the ARTICA project
• Project ARTICA (supported by Seville government of Spain) 2009—2011
Use of the WSN technology to collect data from a public green park (Donia park)

 With the University of Henri Poincaré, Nancy I

• Projet CMCU (06/G 1110) « Routing and QoS metrics specification for real time distributed system: Application to Network on Chip and to Wireless Networks » 2006-2008.

 Projet CNRS-DGRST (09/R 11 22) “ Adaptive image transport in wireless sensor networks with energy consumption constraints” 2009-2011.

 With the University of Joseph Fourier Grenoble France

• Project CNRS-DGRST (10/R- 11 22) “ Design of low power CMOS image sensor for wireless sensor networks” 2010-2012.

Projet MIRA ( Grenoble Monatir) « Design of image sensor for embedded system » 2010 - 2011

3. Advising research works for master-degree students

During my research activity I have proposed and advised several Post-graduate students
• Master thesis ( 10)
• PhD thesis (6 ), three were achieved

Educational Activities

Teaching experience

My teaching experience at university is as follow:

• Higher education: Assistant in Electronic, recruited by the High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Sousse, Tunisia (2000-2003)

• Higher education: Assistant professor in Electronics (Electronic and telecommunication) recruited by the High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (2003-2010)

• Higher education: (2010-2012) Associated professor in Electronic and Telecommunication At the Middle East College of Information Technology OMAN (2010-2011)

• Higher education: (Since Sept 2012) Associated professor at College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University. KSA

Administration responsibilities’

• 2004 -2011: Head of research team at the laboratory of Electronic and Microelectronic at the university of Monastir Tunisia.
• 2003-2006 : Member in the scientific council at ISSAT, University of Sousse, Tunisia.
• 2003-2006: General coordinator of Engineering in computing at ISSAT of Sousse university

• 2009-2010: Member in the scientific council at the laboratory of Electronic and Microelectronics at Monastir.

• 2008-2009: Member in the national (Tunisia) expert committee in Electronic and Microelectronics.

Publications

International journals
A. Soudani, R Ouni, S Nasri, T Divoux, R Tourki, “Communication Model Study for Multimedia Integration in MMS Environment”. Electronic Journal on Networks and Distributed Processing. N° 12, P 1-15, Septembre 2001.
A. Soudani, S. Nasri, T. Divoux, “QoS And Network Resources Management For Communication In Distributed Manufacturing Processes ”. Journal of computer in Industry 48 (2002) 253, 267.
R. Ouni, A. Soudani, S. Nasri, K. Torki, M. Abid, R. Tourki, “TCP flow control technique for an interworking interface: hardware implementation”. Computer Standards & Interfaces 23 2001 383–397.
A. Helali, A. Soudani, S. Nasri, T. Divoux, “An approach for end-to-end QoS and network resources Management ”. Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces. 2005.
Abdelhamid HELALI, Adel SOUDANI, Jamila BHAR & Salem NASRI “Study of Network on Chip resources allocation for QoS Management”. Journal of Computer Science 2(10) 770-774, 2006.
Jabri, A. Soudani, N. Krommenacker, T. Divoux and S. Nasri, « QoS Protocol Specification for IEEE 802.11 WLAN ». Information Technology Journal 7 (4) 549-559, 2008.

Issam Jabri, Nicolas Krommenacker, Thierry Divoux & Adel Soudani, “IEEE 802.11 Load Balancing: An Approach for QoS Enhancement”. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, (2008) 15:16–30.

HAMDI Salah, SOUDANI Adel, TOURKI Rached, “Experimental Performances Analysis of Load Balancing Algorithms in IEEE 802.11”, (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 4, No.2, 2009

Hela Boussetta, Marcin Marzencki, Member, IEEE, Skandar Basrour and Adel Soudani, “Efficient Physical Modeling of MEMS Energy Harvesting Devices with VHDL-AMS”, IEEE Sensors Journal 2010.

Med Lassaad KADDACHI (1), Adel SOUDANI (1), Vincent LECUIRE(2), Koldoun TORKI(3), Leila Mekkaoui(2) and Jean-Marie MOUREAUX(2 “Low Power and Packets Losses Tolerant Hardware Image- Compression Solution For WSN”, Computer Standards & Interfaces 34 (2012), pp. 14–23.
Adel SOUDANI, Thierry DIVOUX, Rached TOURKI, “Data traffic load balancing and QoS in IEEE 802.11 Network: Experimental study of the signal strength Effect” journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering. 38 (2012) 1717–1730.

Med Lassaad KADDACHI, Adel SOUDANI , Vincent LECUIRE, Leila Mekkaoui, Koldoun TORKI(3) and Jean-Marie MOUREAUX “Design and performance analysis of a zonal DCT-based image encoder for Wireless Camera Sensor Networks”, Microelectronics Journal 43 (2012), pp. 809–817.
Chefi Ahmed, Adel SOUDANI, Gilles Sicard , “Hardware compression scheme based on low complexity arithmetic encoding for low power image transmission over WSNs” International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ), August 2013 ( in press).
Chefi Ahmed, Adel SOUDANI, Gilles Sicard, “ Contribution to the design of a CMOS image sensor with low-complexity video compression for wireless sensor networks” Journal of Systems Architecture” July 2013 ( in press).

National and International conferences
[SMC2002] A. SOUDANI, S. NASRI & T. DIVOUX, “A QoS Middleware for Multi-Protocol Environment: Specification and Design”. Conférence Internationale SMC Hammamet Tunisie. Octobre 2002.

[SSD 2003] A.helali, A.Soudani, S. Nasri, “End to end QoS management”. Conférence internationale IEEE SSD, Sousse .Mars 2003. Pp 200-206.

[SSD 2005] A.HELALI, A.SOUDANI & S.NASRI., "Switching delay modeling in Network on Chip (NoC)". Proceeding of SSD’2005, The Second IEEE International Conference on Signals, Systems, Decision and Information Technology (SSD 2005), Sousse, Tunisia, March 21-24, 2005.

[ICWMC’06 ] Issam JABRI, Adel SOUDANI, Nicolas KROMMENACKER, Thierry DIVOUX, “A Proposal Approach for Load Distribution and Resources Sharing in IEEE 802.11 Networks”. International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC'06, July 29-31, 2006, Bucharest, Romania, Roumanie (2006).

[PWC’06] Issam JABRI, Nicolas KROMMENACKER, Adel SOUDANI, Thierry DIVOUX, “Load balancing pproach for wireless IEEE 802.11 QoS enhancement”. 11th IFIP International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications "PWC'06" September 20-22, 2006, Albacete, Spain, Espagne (2006)

[ DTIS06 ] Neila Moussa, Adel Soudani, Rached Tourki, “Performances evaluation and enhancement of MPEG4 transmission over IEEE 802.11 WLAN”. DTIS06- Design & Test of Integrated Systems (IEEE Conf - Gammart 4-7 Sept 2006)

[SENDA 008] Med.L. Kaddachi, A. Soudani & R. Tourki, “SIGNALING IN NETWORK-ON-CHIP”. Workshop SENDA, Monastir 24 au 26 Octobre 2008.

[ICSC 08] M.L. Kaddachi, A. Soudani, R. Tourki. “Signaling approach for NOC quality of service requirements”. 2nd International conference on signals, circuits and systems. Tunisia 7-9 November 2008.

[ISECS 2010] Med Lassaad KADDACHI, Adel SOUDANI, Ibtihel NOUIR, Vincent LECUIRE , Kholdoun TORKI. "Efficient hardware solution for low power and adaptive image-compression in WSN," has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, to be held in Athens, Greece, December 12-15, 2010.

[ICM 11] Chefi Ahmed, Adel SOUDANI, Gilles Sicard, “Hardware compression solution based on HWT for low power image transmission in WSN » accepted for publication in International confence of Microelectronics 2011, November Hammamet Tunisia.

[NGNS 11] Med Lassaad KADDACHI, Leila MAKKAOUI, Adel SOUDANI, Vincent LECUIRE, Jean-Marie MOUREAUX “FPGA-based image compression for low-power Wireless Camera Sensor Networks”. International Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services , 18-20 December 2011. Hammamet Tunisia.