Walid Bechkit
Walid Bechkit
Walid Bechkit
Walid Bechkit



Publications

Selected Journal Papers:

  • Anais Boumendil, Walid Bechkit, Karima Benatchba, On-Device Deep Learning: Survey on Techniques Improving Energy Efficiency of DNNs: Cooperative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Pollution Plume Monitoring Using a Drone Fleet. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2024) .
  • Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano, Lionel Soulhac, UrMapSens: Joint Mapping-Sensing Design of WSNs for Urban Environmental Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal (2024) .
  • Mohamed Sami Assenine, Walid Bechkit, Ichrak Mokhtari, Hervé Rivano, Karima Benatchba: Cooperative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Pollution Plume Monitoring Using a Drone Fleet. IEEE Internet Things Journal 11(5): 7325-7338 (2024) .
  • Sami Abdellatif, Okba Tibermacine, Walid Bechkit, Abdelmalik Bachir: Heterogeneous IoT/LTE ProSe virtual infrastructure for disaster situations. Journal of Network and Computer Applications 213: 103602 (2023) .
  • Mohamed Anis Fekih, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano, Manoël Dahan, Florent Renard, Lucille Alonso, Florent Pineau: Participatory Air Quality and Urban Heat Islands Monitoring System. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70: 1-14 (2021) .
  • Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano: On the Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks for Air Quality Mapping: Optimization Models and Algorithms. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 27(4): 1629-1642 (2019) .
  • Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano: Optimal WSN Deployment Models for Air Pollution Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 16(5): 2723-2735 (2017) .
  • A. Bachir, W. Bechkit, Y. Challal and A. Bouabdallah, Joint Connectivity-Coverage Temperature-Aware Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 26(7): 1923-1936 (2015) .
  • W. Bechkit, Y. Challal, A. Bouabdallah and V. Tarokh. A Highly Scalable Key Pre-distribution scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , volume 12, issue 2, 2013 , pages 948 - 959, ISSN 1536-1276, IEEE.
  • A. Bachir, W. Bechkit, Y. Challal and A. Bouabdallah, Temperature-Aware Density Optimization for Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks, in IEEE communications letters , volume 17, issue 2, 2013, pages 325 - 328, ISSN: 1089-7798, IEEE.
  • W. Bechkit, Y. Challal and A. Bouabdallah, A New Class of Hash-Chain Based Key Pre-distribution Schemes for WSN, Computer Communications journal, volume 36, issue 3, 2013, pages 243-255, ISSN 0140-3664, Elsevier.

Book Chapter:

  • Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. On the Optimization of WSN Deployment for Sensing Physical Phenomena: Applications to Urban Air Pollution Monitoring. A book chapter to appear in the Springer's Edited Textbook entitled 'The Philosophy of Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks' , Springer, 2018 .
  • H. Rivano, I. Augé-Blum, W. Bechkit, K. Boussetta, M. Fiore, R. Stanica and F. Valois, Wireless Access Networks for Smart Cities. A. Vesco; F. Ferrero. Social, Economic, Environmental Sustainability in the Development of Smart Cities , Information Science Reference, 2014

In international conference proceedings (selected publications):

  • Mohamed Sami Assenine, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano: Informative and Communication-Efficient Multi-Agent Path Planning for Pollution Plume Monitoring. In IEEE WoWMoM 2024 .
  • Mohamed Anis Fekih, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano: Route Selection in Low-cost Participatory Mobile Sensing of Air Quality. In IEEE CCNC 202: 1-8 .
  • Anais Boumendil, Walid Bechkit, Pierre-Edouard Portier, Frédéric Le Mouël, Malcolm Egan: Grow, prune or select data: which technique allows the most energy-efficient neural network training? In IEEE ICTAI 2023: 303-308 .
  • Anais Boumendil, Walid Bechkit, Karima Benatchba: On data selection for the energy efficiency of neural networks: Towards a new solution based on a dynamic selectivity ratio. In IEEE ICTAI 2023: 325-332 .
  • Djawhara Benchaira, Okba Tibermacine, Walid Bechkit, Abdelmalik Bachir: Leveraging Predictability for Global Optimization of IoT Networks. In IEEE ICC 2022: 3586-3591 .
  • Ichrak Mokhtari, Walid Bechkit and Herve Rivano, A generic framework for monitoring pollution plumes in emergencies using UAVs, in proc. of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021) , 1-9, IEEE.
  • Mohamed Anis Fekih, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano: On the Data Analysis of Participatory Air Pollution Monitoring Using Low-cost Sensors. in proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2021), 1-7, IEEE.
  • Mohamed Anis Fekih, Ichrak Mokhtari, Walid Bechkit, Yasmine Belbaki, Hervé Rivano: On the Regression and Assimilation for Air Quality Mapping Using Dense Low-Cost WSN. In proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2020 566-578, Springer.
  • Abdessamed Sassi, Mohammed Brahimi, Walid Bechkit, Abdelmalik Bachir: Location Embedding and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Next Location Prediction. In IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks IEEE LCN 2019 , pp 149-157, IEEE.
  • Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano and Lionel Soulhac. Leveraging the Potential of WSN for an Efficient Correction of Air Pollution Fine-Grained Simulations, in proc. of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018) , pp 1-9, IEEE.
  • Ahmed Boubrima, Azzedine Boukerche, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano., WSN Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Correction of Environmental Modelling, in proc. of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2018) , pp 380-387. IEEE.
  • Amjed Belkhiri, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano, Mouloud Koudil. Context Aware MWSN Optimal Redeployment Strategies for Air Pollution Timely Monitoring, in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2018) , pp 1-7, IEEE.
  • Amjed Belkhiri, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano,Virtual Forces Based UAV Fleet Mobility Models for Air Pollution Monitoring, to appear in the proceedings of the 43 rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2018) , pp 481-484, IEEE.
  • A. Boubrima, W. Bechkit, and H. Rivano. A New WSN Deployment Approach for Air Pollution Monitoring, in proc. of the 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2017) , pages 1-6, Las Vegas, USA, IEEE.
  • A. Boubrima, W. Bechkit, H. Rivano and L. Soulhac. Poster: Toward a Better Monitoring of Air Pollution using Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks. in proc. of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2017, Poster Session) , pages 1-3, Utah, USA, ACM.
  • A. Boubrima, W. Bechkit, and H. Rivano, Error-Bounded Air Quality Mapping Using Wireless Sensor Networks, in proc. of 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2016) , pages 1-9, Dubai, UAE, IEEE.
  • A. Boubrima, W. Bechkit, and H. Rivano, Optimal deployment of dense wsn for error bounded air pollution mapping, in proc. of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2016) , pages 1-3, Washington, DC, USA, IEEE.
  • A. Boubrima, W. Bechkit, H. Rivano, and L. Soulhac, Cost-precision tradeoffs in 3d air pollution mapping using wsn, invited paper in the Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET 2016, Best paper award) , pages 1-12, Casablanca, Morocco, Springer Verlag.
  • A. Boubrima, F. Matigot, W. Bechkit, H. Rivano and A. Ruas, Optimal Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks for Air Pollution Monitoring, in the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2015) , pages 1-7, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, IEEE.
  • W. Bechkit, Y. Challal, A. Bachir and A. Bouabdallah, Temperature MAC Plug-in for Large Scale WSN, in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2015) , pages 1-6, London, UK, IEEE.
  • W. Bechkit, Y. Challal and A. Bouabdallah, A New Scalable Key Pre-distribution Scheme for WSN, In Proc. of 21st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2012), pages 1-7, Munich, Germany.
  • W. Bechkit, M. Koudil, Y. Challal, A. Bouabdallah, B. Souici and K. Benatchba, A New Weighted Shortest Path Tree for Convergecast Traffic Routing in WSN. In Proc. of the 17th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2012) pages 187-192, Cappadocia, Turkey.
  • W. Bechkit, New Key Management Schemes for Resource Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proc. of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2011), pages 1-3, Lucca, Italy.
  • W. Bechkit, A. Bouabdallah, and Y. Challal. Enhancing resilience of probabilistic key pre-distribution schemes for WSN through hash chaining. In Proc. of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2010), pages 642-644, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • W. Bechkit, Y. Challal, A. Bouabdallah, and A. Bencheikh. An efficient and highly resilient key management scheme for wireless sensor networks. In Proc. of the 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2010), pages 216-219, Denver, Colorado, USA.

In international conferences without proceedings:

  • W. Bechkit, A. Bouabdallah, and Y. Challal, A New Unital-based Key Pre-distribution Scheme for WSN. Presented at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Student session), Orlando, Florida, USA.

National conferences and talks:

  • Walid BECHKIT, Ahmed BOUBRIMA, Manoel DAHAN, Mohammed Anis FEKIH et Hervé RIVANO: Réseaux LoRa au service de la surveillance environnementale avec des capteurs à bas coût. Journées thématiques GDR RSD ResCom Low-Power WideArea Networks (LPWAN). Lyon, Juillet 2019
  • Walid Bechkit: 3M’Air Mesures citoyennes Mobiles et Modélisation : qualité de l’air etîlots de chaleur à Lyon. CASPA :colloque national capteurs et sciences participatives. Paris, Avril 2019
  • Walid Bechkit: UrPolSens : Réseaux de capteurs sans fil pour la caractérisation fine de la pollution de l’air. Journée Axelera "Nouvelles technologies de surveillance de la qualité de l’air". Solaize, mar. 2018
  • W. Bechkit, A. Boubrima, H. Rivano, Optimal Deployment of WSN for Pollution Air Monitoring , RESCOM Thematic Days: Communications in smart cities (Rescom 2017) , Sophia Antipolis, France.
  • W. Bechkit, A. Bouabdallah and Y. Challal, A WSN Prototype for Agriculture and environmental monitoring, in the 15th Symposium on Engineering Protocols (CFIP 2011), Saint Maxime, France.
  • W. Bechkit, Y. Challal, A. Bouabdallah, A new key management approach for WSN. RESCOM Thematic Days: WSN and their applications (Rescom 2011), Paris, France.