Mohamed Sadik

• Professor
• Head of Department at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique de Casablanca

Federated Learning (FL) has gained attention across various industries for its capability to train machine learning models without centralizing sensitive data. While this approach offers significant benefits such as privacy preservation and decreased communication overhead, it presents several challenges, including deployment complexity and interop...

The adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in industries necessitates advancements in energy efficiency and latency reduction, especially for resource-constrained devices. Services require specific Quality of Service (QoS) levels to function properly, and meeting a threshold QoS can be sufficient for smooth connectivity, reducing the...

The detrimental effects of weeds on crop growth and yield present substantial challenges to the agribusiness sector, necessitating the deployment of robust control strategies. The rapid advancement of Computer vision (CV) techniques has driven the integration of ground-based imaging sensors to enable site-specific weed management. The main challeng...

Federated Learning (FL) has gained attention across various industries for its capability to train machine learning models without centralizing sensitive data. While this approach offers significant benefits such as privacy preservation and decreased communication overhead, it presents several challenges, including deployment complexity and interop...

The heavy electric energy consumption of street-lights has prompted the scientific community to develop various control methods. Among these, zoning control, where light follows road users, has emerged as a promising approach due to its significant energy-saving potential. However, existing research often relies on fixed illumination zones based on...

The IoT paradigm continues to expand as its potential helps businesses to prosper and be more competitive. Its structure is comprised of several units, the sensors being a mainstay. Among fundamental questions raised in the context of IoT design and implementation are: Which sensor to choose from among the existing options? How to configure it for...

This investigation presents a new design and analysis of a fourteen elements massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) compact low specific absorption rate (SAR) antenna system for 5G and beyond terminals. The MIMO antennas are realized for sub-6 GHz LTE-band 46 (5.1-5.8 GHz) long-term evolution 5G wireless communication services. The proposed...

Federated Learning (FL) has gained popularity across various industries due to its ability to train machine learning models without explicit sharing of sensitive data. While this paradigm offers significant advantages such as privacy preservation and reduced communication overhead, it also comes with several challenges such as deployment complexity...

Deep learning takes the lead in developing new ultrasound beamforming techniques, the rapid development of new models in computer vision, image segmentation, and classification has turned ultrasound beamforming into an image processing problem. The CNN and GAN structures achieved noticeable performance compared with the classical methods regarding...

Nowadays, authentication remains a crucial and primordial process in securing Information Technology (IT) systems and infrastructures, while keeping users’ data more secure and privacy-preserving. Indeed, finding a distinctive characteristic(s) for each individual is done through personal identification and verification. Therefore, techniques such...

The ship-generated oily wastes are noxious to the environment and have a high potential for valorisation. In its first annexe, the Marine Pollution Convention prohibits discharging it in the sea and obliges ports to provide adequate reception facilities to ships. This study provides a conceptual literature review of ports’ oily waste management, to...

As urbanization increases, streetlights have become significant consumers of electrical power, making it imperative to develop effective control methods for sustainability. This paper offers a comprehensive review on control methods of smart streetlight systems, setting itself apart by introducing a novel light scheme framework that provides a stru...

One of the most critical steps in forming an ultrasound image is beamforming, which determines the nature and shape of the sound waves produced. It allows for generating either sound waves focused on a specific depth in the area to be explored (focused beam) or plane waves. The control of the piezoelectric elements forming the probe causes the diff...

The rapid growth in urbanization increases the number of street lamps worldwide in rural areas and cities. This places a heavy demand on electric energy, which stems from fossil fuels, thus increasing greenhouse emissions. By using stand-alone photo-voltaic street lamps, gas emissions are lowered. However, the vital aspect of street lamps is the sa...

Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the key enablers for productivity in different domains. However, this technology is still subject to security attacks. This article aims at overcoming the limitations of detecting unknown attacks by “intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPSs)” while addressing the black-box issue (lack of interpretability...

The management of ship-generated oily waste is subject to international regulations due to its high environmental impact and significant valorisation potential. The advancement of research leads port authorities to think of emerging technologies to add value to existing systems. In light of this, the objective of this paper is to devise and simulat...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most in-demand technologies due to its ability to simplify complex tasks through low-cost devices connected to the internet. Indoor positioning is one of the most sought-after indoor technologies, as most indoor services require position information to provide high quality, low-latency services. As a resul...

Streetlights play an essential role in the safety and well-being of road users. By 2025 the expected number of installed streetlights may reach over 350 million worldwide, with a high density of these lamps installed in cities and rural areas. However, due to energy consumption and installation difficulties, light poles are primarily established on...

Nowadays, indoor positioning is an attractive topic because it allows putting in the customer's position several services that facilitate indoor life. Otherwise, the indoor positioning systems suffer from multiple path problems that reduce the quality of the systems. In this paper, we try to solve the problem through its decentralization. We propos...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is considered one of the most beneficial waste management methods. It is a process in which microorganisms break down organic matter to produce biogas, which can be used as a source of energy, and digestate, which can be used as a biofertilizer. Several by-products could inhibit the process such as volatile fatty acids, amm...

Deep learning stands out as one of the most performant modalities in the search for reliable methods to classify or segment breast cancer. The classical approach employs an expert to detect the type of tumour and segment the area of interest. Nevertheless, it takes considerable time and resources. Researchers around the world invent new deep learni...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become a highly challenging issue for many countries at different levels of development since the growth of population and urbanisation has resulted in a large increase in MSW generation. It is difficult to forecast the solid waste generated and its characteristics due to the non-linear nature of the MSW s...

Crop diseases are a considerable threat in the agricultural sector as they adversely affect the production and quality of agricultural products, resulting in heavy economic losses for both farmers and the country. Therefore, early identification and diagnosis of crop diseases at each stage of their lifespan is critical to protect and maximize crop...

Performance estimation of multiprocessor system-on-chip at a high level of abstraction is essential to address today’s growing electronic design challenges and the complexity of software applications. As well, minimizing the data transfer time, between the memory and the processing unit, remains a major problem to ensure real-time, especially with...

With the rapid population growth, increasing agricultural productivity is an extreme requirement to meet demands. Early identification of crop diseases is essential to prevent yield loss. Nevertheless, it is a tedious task to manually monitor leaf diseases, as it demands in-depth knowledge of plant pathogens as well as a lot of work, and excessive...

The operational and technological structures of radio access networks have undergone tremendous changes in recent years. A displacement of priority from capacity–coverage optimization (to ensure data freshness) has emerged. Multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) is a solution that addresses the exponential growth of traffic demands, providing...

This dataset is used to illustrate an application of the "klm-based profiling and preventing security attack (klm-PPSA)" system. The klm-PPSA system is developed to profile, detect, and then prevent known and/or unknown security attacks before a user access a cloud. This dataset was created based on "a.patrik" user logical attempts scenarios when a...

In recent years, the development of embedded systems has challenged the electronics industry, driven by strong market demand for ever-evolving application functionalities. However, increasing application functionalities require an additional power budget, which consequently shortens the system's battery lifetime. Estimating an application's power c...

As electric energy consumption becomes a more pressing concern in System-on-a-Chip (SOC) design, accurate and efficient power analysis and estimation at all levels of abstraction throughout the design phase is becoming increasingly important in order to achieve low power without an expensive redesign process. This study examines dynamic power and l...

Emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are driving increasing demand for advanced services in wireless networks, prompting the development of new technologies to address the associated challenges. Energy efficiency of IoT standards is a key feature targeted by research efforts and industrial activities, leading to an extensive and growing n...

Abstract. Indoor location attracts a lot of attention because people spend their maximum time indoors. As well as the loss of GPS signal power through walls, which requires the integration of other approaches to locate passengers indoors. With the technological growth of telecommunications systems such as 5G, and the development of the Internet of...

Indoor tracking is one of the most attractive topics in communication and information technology. Indoor localization mechanisms can help people for navigating in complex environments. Those with complex structures such as airports, shopping malls, hospitals, and others have a massive population (Crowdsourcing) that blocks the visibility (NLOS) bet...

Nowadays, organic waste and especially household waste represents a significant global issue due to population growth. The anaerobic digestion (AD) process is an essential operation contributing powerfully to the valorization of organic waste including food waste in terms of renewable energy generation (biogas) and the rich-nutrient residue that ca...

Internet of Things (IoT) can be seen as the electricity of 21st century. It has been reshaping human life daily during the last decade, with various applications in several critical domains such as agriculture. Smart farming is a real-world application in which Internet of Things (IoT) technologies like agro-weather stations can have a direct impac...

The agricultural sector remains a key contributor to the Moroccan economy, representing about 15% of gross domestic product (GDP). Disease attacks are constant threats to agriculture and cause heavy losses in the country’s economy. Therefore, early detection can mitigate the severity of diseases and protect crops. However, manual disease identifica...

The agricultural field is one of the mainstays of the Moroccan economy, with the growth of the human population, it becomes extremely difficult to meet the food needs of everyone. So, to meet the growing demand, the agricultural sector needs a boost to increase agricultural productivity. However, the agro-industrial part in Morocco is facing seriou...

Indoor positioning attracts a lot of attention because people spend their maximum time indoors. As well as the loss of GPS signal power through walls, which requires the integration of other approaches to locate passengers indoors. With the technological growth of telecommunications systems such as 5G and the development of the Internet of Things t...

Cloud computing is an innovative process that delivers on-demand services over the internet. Virtualization is considered as the key concept of cloud computing since it handles running multiple virtual resources in a single physical resource. Mapping the virtual machine (VM) to the appropriate physical machine (PM) is called virtual machine placeme...

Cities around the world are expanding dramatically, with urban population growth reaching nearly 2.5 billion people in urban areas and road traffic growth exceeding 1.2 billion cars by 2050. The economic contribution of the transport sector represents 5% of the GDP in Europe and costs an average of US $482.05 billion in the United States. These fig...

Wireless sensor networks have become an emerging technology that is reshaping the industry 4.0. An exponential evolution with an enormous application in diverse areas such as aerospace engineering, healthcare, and smart farming. WSNs have also grown into a very hot area of interest. Therefore, several types of research have been conducted around th...

As season-long weeds competition produces important yield losses, early detection of these plants is essential to sustain productivity. Machine vision as a non-destructive surveying technique requires features that can describe weeds in a real field case. Colours and shapes provide good results in controlled conditions. However, when different crop...

Simulating systems on a chip (SoC) even before starting its productivity makes it possible to validate the correct functioning of the systems, also avoiding the manufacture of defective chips. However, low-level design and system complexity makes verification and simulation more complicated and time consuming. The classification of the different le...

Industrial automation has developed a lot thanks to the concept of IOTs and this is the reason why many industries have been working on new emerging technologies to ensure the concept of connectivity, such as the most popular ones: Low Power Wide-area Networks (LPWANs), designed to solve many problems such as scalability and range encountered by tr...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, UNet 2021, held in May 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited papers and 3 special sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The...

Cities around the world are expanding dramatically, with urban population growth reaching nearly 2.5 billion people in urban areas and road traffic growth exceeding 1.2 billion cars by 2050. The economic contribution of the transport sector represents 5% of the GDP in Europe and costs an average of US $482.05 billion in the United States. These fig...

Nowadays, modern embedded applications are becoming more and more complex and resource demanding. Fortunately, Systems on Chip (SoC) are one of the keys used to follow their requirements that stand in need of high performance while maintaining a low-power profile. On one hand, today, due to the limited power budget imposed by the batteries, power i...

Over the last few years, the evolution of network and user handsets’ technologies, have challenged the telecom industry and the Internet ecosystem. Especially, the unprecedented progress of multimedia streaming services like YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion resulted in an impressive demand growth and a significant need of Quality of Service (QoS) (e....

Over the last few years, the evolution of network and user handsets' technologies, have challenged the telecom industry and the Internet ecosystem. Especially, the unprecedented progress of multimedia streaming services like YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion resulted in an impressive demand growth and a significant need of Quality of Service (QoS) (e....

Next generation of wireless communications consists of heterogeneous networks that operate over different technolo- gies and standards. Co-existence of multiple technologies aims to enhance the network capacity in order to satisfy the increasing number of connected devices. However, in order to meet high performance, it is important to assign the r...

Cognitive radio allows flexible self-organising solution for spectrum scarcity management. It can be used to improve spectrum utilisation while protecting larger range of coexisting users. In this article, we present a new spectrum leasing solution using the matching theory. Based on this Nobel Prize winning framework, a novel distributed scheme, f...

The traditional authentication techniques based on single factors such as passwords and tokens suffer from problems related to their robustness. Moreover, multi-factor authentication based on multimodal biometrics (MFA-MB) technique is used to overcome the drawbacks related to these techniques and also the problems related to the biometrics using s...

Precision Agriculture is a clear standout of applying the most recent advances of intelligent systems. The motivation behind the adoption of such a systems is to reduce costs, increment treatments quality and efficiency, thus, increasing the quantity and the quality of agricultural products. In our study we used a histograms based on color indices...

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as an alternative solution to assist wireless networks, thanks to numerous advantages they offer in comparison to terrestrial fixed base stations. For instance, a UAV can be used to embed a flying base station providing an on-demand nomadic access to network services. A UAV can also be used to...

In order to meet the growing computation requirements of modern embedded applications, systems on chip are becoming one of the most appropriate solutions while maintaining a low power profile. Consequently, early estimations for power and temperature must be done at high level models that offer a better trade-off between accuracy and time. The Tran...

Talking about complex applications is a nowadays topic, that require powerful and reliable tools to meet their performance goal. Thus, the use of multiprocessor systems on chip might be a solution to follow the growing complexity of these applications without degrading their performance; whereas this new generation of systems consumes more energy w...

The continuous complexity of embedded applications, and based on the Roadmap evolution [1]: ITRS, ITRS 2.0 and IRDS, the use of multiprocessor systems on chip has not only resulted in huge temperature dissipation, but also leads to take the power consumption as a critical metric. Along these lines, the power consumption has become an insistent rese...