Abdelkader Outtagarts

• 2009 – 2010 - Entrepreneurial Boot camp program, ESCP Europe / ESCP-EAP, France
• 1997 – 1999 - Master, Software Engineering, Université du Québec - École de Technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada
• 1990 – 1994 - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Heat science and Energy engineering,  Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon, France
• 1989 – 1990 - Master (DEA), Heat Transfer, Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon

2022

• El Hocine Bouzidi, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Rami Langar, Raouf Boutaba, Dynamic Clustering of Software Defined Network Switches and Controller placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning , Computer Networks Journal, Volume 207, 22 April 2022.

2021

• Ghina Dandachi, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, and Abdelkader Outtagarts, On combining Reinforcement Learning and MonteCarlo for Dynamic Virtual Network Embedding, IEEE LCN 202
• El Hocine Bouzidi, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Rami Langar, Raouf Boutaba, Deep Q-Network and Traffic Prediction based Routing Optimization in Software Defined Networks, Elsevier Journal of Network Computer Applications (JNCA) , Volume 192, 15 October 2021
• Anouar Rkhami, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Gerardo Rubino, Abdelkader Outtagarts, MonGNN: A Neuroevolutionary-Based Solution for 5G Network Slices Monitoring, IEEE LCN 2021Nazih Salhab , Rami Langar , Rana Rahim , Sylvain Cherrier and Abdelkader Outtagarts, 5G Autonomous Network Slicing Prototype using Machine Learning based forecasting, IEEE Communication Magazine, p.  73 - 79 , June 2021
• Anouar Rkhami, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Gerardo Rubino, Abdelkader Outtagarts, On the Use of Machine Learning and Network Tomography for Network Slices Monitoring, IEEE HPSR'21  (Best paper award)

2020

• Anouar Rkhami, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Learn to improve: A novel deep reinforcement learning approach for 5G network slices resource allocation problem, IEEE CNCC 2021
• Pham Tran Anh Quang, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Abdelkader Outtagarts, On Using Deep  Reinforcement Learning for VNFForwarding Graphs Placement, IEEE NoF 2020
• El Hocine Bouzidi, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Abdelkrim Hebbar, Rami Langar, Raouf Boutaba, Online based learning for predictive end-to-end network slicing in 5G networks, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020)
• Pham Tran Anh Quang, Yassine Hadjadj-Aouly, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Evolutionary Actor-Multi-Critic Model for VNF-FG Embedding, IEEE CCNC 2020
• Anouar Rkhami, Tran Anh Quang Pham, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Gerardo Robino, On the Use of Graph Neural Networks for Virtual Network Embedding, IEEE 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC): Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks.

2019

• El Hocine Bouzidi, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Rami Langar, Deep Reinforcement Learning Application for Network Latency Management in Software Defined Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2019), 6p.
• Quang Pham tran anh, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Abdelkader Outtagarts, A deep reinforcement learning approach for VNF Forwarding Graph Embedding, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 16 (4), 1318-1331
• Duc-Hung Luong, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Multi-level Resource Scheduling for Network Slicing Toward 5G, 10-th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NoF 1019), 25-31
• Makram Bouzid, Duc-Hung Luong, Dimitre Kostadinov, Yue Jin, Lorenzo Maggi, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Armen Aghasaryan, Cooperative AI-based e2e Network Slice Scaling, INFOCOM 2019, 959-960
• Pham Tran Anh Quang, Yassine Hadjadj-Aouly, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Evolutionary Actor-Multi-Critic Model for VNF-FG Embedding, IEEE CCNC 2020

2018

• El Hocine Bouzidi, Hung Luong, Abdelkader Outtagart, Abdelkrim Hebbar, Rami Langar, Online-based Learning for Predictive Network Latency in Software-defined Network,  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 8-13 Dec 2018, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• Quang Pham tran anh, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Deep Reinforcement Learning based QoS-aware Routing in Knowledge-defined networking, QSHINE 2018, December 3-4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• Duc-Hung Luong,  Huu-Trung Thieu, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Predictive Autoscaling Orchestration for Cloud-native Telecom Microservices, IEEE 5G World Forum 2018, July 2018
• Duc-Hung Luong,  Huu-Trung Thieu, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Cloudification and Autoscaling Orchestration for Container-based Mobile Networks Toward 5G: Experimentation, Challenges and Perspectives, IEEE VTC 2018, June 2018.

2017

• Duc-Hung Luong, Huu Trung Thieu, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Bruno Mongazon-Cazavet, Telecom Microservices Orchestration, Netsoft 2017- IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, Bologna, p. 1-2.

2016

• Duc-Hung Luong, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Abdelkrim Hebbar, Traffic Monitoring in Software Defined Networks Using Opendaylight Controller, International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking, p. 38-48, 2016.

2015

• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Laurent Roullet, Bruno Mongazon-Cazavet, Aravinthan Gopalasingham - When IT meets Telco : RAN as a Service (accepted), 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, p. 422-423, 7-10 december, 2015.

2014

• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Sylvain Squedin, Olivier Martinot - Cloud-based Automatic Video Editing Using Keywords, E-Business ans Telecommunications, Communication in Computing and Information Science, Volume 455, 2014, pp 228-241, Springer-Verlag

2013

• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Aderrazagh Mbodj - Automatic Video Programming using LSA and Audio Transcript, IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London June 4, 2013

2012

• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Aderrazagh Mbodj - A Cloud-based Collaborative and Automatic Video Editor (Irvine, California), IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE Computer Science Society) December 10, 2012.
• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Sylvain Squedin, Olivier Martinot - Keyword-based Automatic Multimedia Authoring in The Cloud (Rome, Italy), SIGMAP 2012, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications July 24, 2012

2009

• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Olivier Martinot - iSSEE: IMS Sensors Search Engine Enabler for Sensors Mashups, IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues November 2009
• Abdelkader Outtagarts - Mobile Agent-based Applications : a Survey, IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security November 2009

1999

• Abdelkader Outtagarts, Michel Kadoch  - Client-Server and mobile agent : performances comparative study in the management of MIBs, First International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications October 6, 1999

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• Research and Technical project management, Bell Labs, France
• Security Engineering Manager and Product Security Prime in IMS products R&D, Alcatel-lucent, France
• Senior Software Engineering Consultant, Interpro consulants and SCII technology, Montreal, Canada
• Assistant professor on security of information systems, IUT, Orsay, France
• Researcher and Assistant professor on network and telecommunications, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada
• Researcher and Assistant professor on energy and thermal sciences, National Institut of Applied Sciences, Lyon, France