Hicham Lakhlef

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 686 citations indexed

About

Hicham Lakhlef is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hicham Lakhlef has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 686 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hicham Lakhlef's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (14 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (8 papers) and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (8 papers). Hicham Lakhlef is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (14 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (8 papers) and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (8 papers). Hicham Lakhlef collaborates with scholars based in France, Algeria and Italy. Hicham Lakhlef's co-authors include Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Djamel Eddine Kouicem, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Julien Bourgeois, Hakim Mabed, Yacine Challal, Michel Raynal, François Taı̈ani, Jean‐Frédéric Myoupo and Dominique Dhoutaut and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer Networks and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

In The Last Decade

Hicham Lakhlef

34 papers receiving 660 citations

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Internet of things security: A top-down survey

2018 382 citations Djamel Eddine Kouicem, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah et al. Computer Networks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hicham Lakhlef France	9	493	318	164	126	111	40	686
Sang-Gon Lee South Korea	15	486 1.0×	248 0.8×	145 0.9×	153 1.2×	62 0.6×	57	672
Syed S. Rizvi United States	17	357 0.7×	392 1.2×	224 1.4×	100 0.8×	99 0.9×	78	721
M A Rajan India	11	353 0.7×	236 0.7×	137 0.8×	81 0.6×	89 0.8×	25	525
T. Andrew Yang United States	13	423 0.9×	253 0.8×	156 1.0×	138 1.1×	134 1.2×	31	634
Kamal Alieyan Malaysia	8	391 0.8×	110 0.3×	176 1.1×	167 1.3×	138 1.2×	15	548
Ivan Farris Italy	15	902 1.8×	282 0.9×	108 0.7×	320 2.5×	99 0.9×	28	1.0k
Christian Gehrmann Sweden	12	378 0.8×	306 1.0×	244 1.5×	84 0.7×	88 0.8×	57	725
Rashmi Ranjan Rout India	18	610 1.2×	231 0.7×	127 0.8×	291 2.3×	106 1.0×	59	822
Zeeshan Ali Pakistan	10	272 0.6×	236 0.7×	105 0.6×	83 0.7×	57 0.5×	22	538

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2025). FTL-TSLP: A federated transfer learning approach with a two-stage LSTM pipeline for fault-tolerant and privacy-preserving intrusion detection in IoMT networks. Internet of Things. 35. 101832–101832.

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2024). Efficient Time Slot Recovery Protocol for Wireless Networks. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1742–1748.

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2023). An Efficient Hierarchical LSTM-based Framework for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things (IoT) Systems. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–6.

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2023). Enabling Architecture for Distributed Intelligent Network Softwarization for the Internet of Things. arXiv (Cornell University). 608–609. 1 indexed citations

Lounis, Ahmed, et al.. (2022). A Cooperative Caching Scheme in Fog/Sensor Nodes for CCN. 2022 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC). 481–486. 2 indexed citations

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2022). Human Detection in Surveillance Videos Based on Fine-Tuned MobileNetV2 for Effective Human Classification. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions of Electrical Engineering. 46(4). 971–988. 2 indexed citations

D’Andreagiovanni, Fabio, et al.. (2022). Green and robust optimal design of Single Frequency Networks by min-max regret and ACO-based learning. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1–7.

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2022). Energy-Efficient and Context-aware Trajectory Planning for Mobile Data Collection in IoT using Deep Reinforcement Learning. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2021). A survey on recent contention-free MAC protocols for static and mobile wireless decentralized networks in IoT. Computer Networks. 201. 108583–108583.

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Lakhlef, Hicham & Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah. (2021). Efficient and lightweight group rekeying protocol for communicating things. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 91. 107021–107021. 2 indexed citations

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Bouabdallah, Abdelmadjid, et al.. (2021). Recent advances in energy management for Green-IoT: An up-to-date and comprehensive survey. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 198. 103257–103257. 57 indexed citations

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Kouicem, Djamel Eddine, et al.. (2020). A Blockchain-Based Key Management Protocol for Secure Device-to-Device Communication in the Internet of Things. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 21. 1868–1873. 4 indexed citations

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Lakhlef, Hicham, et al.. (2020). Optimal Time Slot Allocation for Communicating Things Using Local Clocks. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1–6.

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Lakhlef, Hicham, Julien Bourgeois, Saad Harous, & Tarek El‐Ghazawi. (2019). Communication and security in communicating things networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 98. 102058–102058. 2 indexed citations

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Kouicem, Djamel Eddine, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, & Hicham Lakhlef. (2018). An Efficient Architecture for Trust Management in IoE Based Systems of Systems. 138–143. 17 indexed citations

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Lakhlef, Hicham, Michel Raynal, & François Taı̈ani. (2018). Vertex Coloring with Communication Constraints in Synchronous Broadcast Networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 30(7). 1672–1686. 10 indexed citations

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Kouicem, Djamel Eddine, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, & Hicham Lakhlef. (2018). Internet of things security: A top-down survey. Computer Networks. 141. 199–221. 382 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lakhlef, Hicham & Julien Bourgeois. (2015). Fast and robust self-organization for micro-electro-mechanical robotic systems. Computer Networks. 93. 141–152. 3 indexed citations

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Lakhlef, Hicham, Hakim Mabed, & Julien Bourgeois. (2014). An energy and memory-efficient distributed self-reconfiguration for modular sensor/robot networks. The Journal of Supercomputing. 69(2). 908–929. 4 indexed citations

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Lakhlef, Hicham, Hakim Mabed, & Julien Bourgeois. (2013). Parallel self-reconfiguration for MEMS microrobots. 283–290. 3 indexed citations

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