Workshop Program
9:00 AM Registration Open
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Conference and Workshops Welcoming
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote speech: AI and Queueing Theory Combine Forces for the Detection and
Mitigation of Cyberattacks.
Speaker: Prof. Erol Gelenbe, FIEEE FACM FIFIP, Institute of Theoretical & Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, King’s College London & CNRS I3S, Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France).
Session Chair: Saadi Boudjit, University of Rouen Normandy, France.
Abstract: Gateway Servers for the Internet of Things, used in critical application areas such as the Internet of Vehicles and health monitoring, must meet stringent Security and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, offering cyberattack protection with fast response and minimal loss of benign data. Therefore, it is vital to protect these systems with effective traffic shaping, accurate Attack Detection (AD) and Mitigation mechanisms. We will first demonstrate online and federated learning techniques that accurately detect attacks. Measurements of packet floods that convey a cyberattack will be shown to impair the QoS at the Gateways and impede their capability to carry out AD. Using Queueing Theory, we will show that the novel traffic shaping method QDTP will ensure that a Gateway can allow AD to operate promptly during an attack. A new Adaptive Attack Mitigation (AAM) system will be introduced to sample the incoming packet stream, determine whether an attack is ongoing, and dynamically drop batches of packets at the input to reduce the effects of the attack, and minimise the AD overhead and the cost of lost benign packets.
References: Our papers related to this talk appear in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2025), Internet of Things (Elsevier, 2024), Information Fusion (Elsevier, 2025), Computers and Industrial Engineering (Elsevier, 2024), Performance Evaluation (Elsevier, 2024), IEEE Trans. on Security and Information Forensics (2024), and IEEE Network (Online 2024, and 2025), IEEE Access 2022, 2023.
Erol Gelenbe
Speaker’s Bio: Erol Gelenbe, MAE FIEEE FACM FIFIP FRSA FRSS FIET graduated from METU (Ankara), is an expert on System and Network Performance, Cybersecurity and AI. He proved basic mathematical performance results on page fault rates, random access channels, multi-path communications, and optimum database checkpoints, and was involved in the development of commercial performance tools such as QNAP2 and Flexsim. He invented G-Networks with product form solutions, the Random Neural Network, and introduced diffusion approximations for queueing systems with reflecting boundaries. He received a PhD from the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, and the State Doctorate in Mathematical Sciences from the Sorbonne (Paris). A Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, he graduated over 90 PhDs and was awarded the honours of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Commander of Merit of France and Italy, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, and Officer of the Order of Merit of Poland. A Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France, of the Science Academies of Belgium, Poland and Turkey, Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) and the Islamic Academy of Sciences (Amman), he Chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea. He won the ACM SIGMETRICS Lifetime Award, the Mustafa Prize, the Grand Prix France-Télécom of the French Science Academy, the IET Innovation Award (Oliver Lodge Medal), and other prizes.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Session 1: Security and Privacy in UAV and IoT Systems
Session Chair: M. Amine Ouamri, Sorbonne Paris Nord, France.
- Drone Security in Connected Agriculture: Threats, Datasets, and AI-Driven Solutions
Anis Charfi, Samiha Ayed (Université Technologique de Troyes, France), Lamia Chaari (CRNS, Tunisia). - Towards a Secure Modular Drone-Based Hardware Architecture for IoT-Enabled Traffic Safety in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Younes Ifourah (École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, ESI, Algeria), Landry Tchouapi Pouyap (CNAM Paris, France), Saadi Boudjit (University of Rouen Normandy, France), Samia Bouzefrane (CNAM Paris, France), Amar Balla, Ryma Boussaha (École nationale supérieure d'informatique, ESI, Algeria). - A Novel SDN-Driven IDS Framework for the Internet of Vehicles
Amal Hbaieb, Samiha Ayed (Université Technologique de Troyes, France), Lamia Chaari (CRNS, Tunisia).
12:30 AM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Session 2: AI and Optimization in UAV Networks
Session Chair: Lyes Khoukhi, Normandie University, France.
- Multi-Modal Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Interference-Limited RIS-Assisted UAV Wireless Network
Mamadou Aliou Diallo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mohamed Amine Ouamri (Université Sorbone paris nord, France), Muhammad Imran Khalid, Asma Komal, ELhadj Moustapha Diallo (Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications, China), Abuzar Babikir Mohammad Adam (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg). - Quantum Deep Reinforcement Learning for Secure Multi-User UAV RSMA Networks
Mohamed Amine Ouamri (Université Sorbone paris nord, France), Abuzar Babikir Mohammad Adam (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Mohammed A. M. Elhassan (Zhejiang Normal University, China). - A Case for Enabling Delegation of 5G Core Decisions to the RAN
Lucas N Vancina and Geoffrey G Xie (Naval Postgraduate School, USA).
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Session 3: Cryptography, Blockchain, and Quantum-Resilience
Session Chair: Rida Khatoun, Telecom ParisTech, France.
- Digital Signature Quantification in the Bitcoin Blockchain: A Statistical Approach
Hussein Kazem (CNAM Paris, France & ISEP. Sopra Steria I2S, France), Youakim Badr (Pennsylvania State University at Great Valley, USA), Nour El Madhoun (LISITE - Isep, France & Sorbonne Université, France), Pierrick Conord (Sopra Steria I2S, France). - Hybrid Key Exchange & Signature Design for Quantum-safe C-ITS
Brigitte Lonc (IRT SystemX, France), Farah-Emma Braiteh (LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France & Renault Group, France), Francesca Bassi (IRT, France). - Advances in Lightweight Cross-Architecture Procedural Debugging
Jonathan Brossard (CNAM Paris & MOABI, France).
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM Closing the workshop
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM Coffee Break
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM NTMS Welcome Reception