I am an Expert Engineer in the DIANA (fka Planète) project team at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. I joined INRIA in February 2012.

Research Interests

I am attracted by practical problems in the area of communication networks.

Current Projects

• SFA Wrapper
• MySlice

Education

• 2003 - 2009, Computer System Engineer Degree with Honours,
  Ecole Superieure d'Informatique (ESI), Algiers - Algeria.
  Graduation Project: Study and development in C on Linux of a data replication system for PostgreSQL.

Work Experience

February, 2012 - Present	INRIA Research Institute, France
	Expert Engenieer at team DIANA
	- Development of SFA Wrapper, an Open-Source implementation of the Slice-Based Federation Architecture (SFA), the emerging standard in the field of Network Testbed Federation. SFA Wrapper allows researchers to reserve and provision heterogeneous network resources and run cross-testbed experiments. - Development of a Django-based version of MySLICE, an all-in-one web-based networking research tool, allowing researchers to reserve and provision cross-testbed resources, run their experiments and collect measurements.
March, 2011 - January, 2012	EVISTEL, Algeria
	Project & Support Engineer
	- Telecom VAS (Value Added Services) Testing, deployment & commissioning and support for 2.5 & 3G GSM network operators, like SMS Centers, USSD centers and services, MMS, and IP real time charging and Roaming services.
November, 2009 - January, 2011	Techni-Communication, Algeria
	Project Manager
	- Design and Development of RFID based solutions. - Mobile application development on MS Windows Mobile/CE.
May, 2008 - October, 2008	UDCAST, France
	Intern
	- Development in C on FreeBSD and integration over a satellite IP network optimizer designed by UDCAST named UDgateway, an IP-PBX based on ASTERISK and using SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) as signaling protocol in order to offer a ToIP (Telephony over IP) service in a satellite context.