Publications
2025
ClusFed: A Clustering-Based Defense for Secure Federated Learning
Hibatallah Kabbaj, Rachid El-Azouzi, Abdellatif Kobbane
IEEE Access, Volume 13, pp. 156949-156966, 18 pp.
PDF File.Strategic Analysis of Just-in-Time Liquidity Provision in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers
B Trotti Llacer, W Tang, R El-Azouzi, G Fanti, D Sadoc Menasche
Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT25), October 7-10, 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA (acceptance rate: 13%).
PDF FileGame Theoretic Liquidity Provisioning in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers
Weizhao Tang, Rachid El-Azouzi, Cheng Han Lee, Ethan Chan, Giulia Fanti
ACM SIGMETRICS, Stony Brook University, New York, USA, 2025 (acceptance rate: 15%)
Best Paper Award Finalist @ SIGMETRICS 2025
PDF FileFedPLT: Scalable, Resource-Efficient, and Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Learning via Partial Layer Training
Ahmad Dabaja, Rachid El-Azouzi
PIMRC’25 Mobile and Wireless Networks
PDF FileStrategic Analysis of Just-in-Time Liquidity Provision in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers
B Trotti Llacer, W Tang, R El-Azouzi, G Fanti, D Sadoc Menasche
Arxiv report (2509.16157), 2025.
PDF FileGroup-based Client Sampling in Multi-Model Federated Learning
Zejun Gong, Haoran Gong, Zhang, Marie Siew, Joe-Wong, Rachid El-Azouzi
The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference
PDF FileTowards Optimal Heterogeneous Client Sampling in Multi-Model Federated Learning
Haoran Zhang, Zejun Gong, Zekai Li, Marie Siew, Joe-Wong Carlee, Rachid El-Azouzi.
Arxiv report (ArXiv:2504.05138), 2025.
PDF FileTwo-Tier Marketplace with Multi-Resource Bidding and Strategic Pricing for Multi-QoS Services
Samira Habli, Rachid El-Azouzi, Essaid Sabir, Mandar Datar, Halima Elbiaze, Mohammed Sadik
MDPI GAMES, 16(2):20 2025
PDF FileW-RPC: a Weighted Reducer Placement and Coflow Scheduling Scheme
oussef Oubaydallah, Khalil Ibrahimi, Rachid El-Azouzi, Hatim Ousilmaati
The 12th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
PDF FileGame Theoretic Liquidity Provisioning in Concentrated Liquidity Market Makers
Weizhao Tang, Rachid El-Azouzi, Cheng Han Lee, Ethan Chan, Giulia Fanti
Arxiv report (ArXiv:2411.10399), 2025.
PDF File
2024
Fair Coflow Scheduling via Controlled Slowdown
F. De Pellegrini, V. K. Gupta, Rachid El-Azouzi, S. Gueye, C. Richier, J. Leguay.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2024.
[IEEE TPDS]Weighted Scheduling of Time-Sensitive Coflows
Olivier Brun, Rachid El-Azouzi, Quang-Trung Luu, Francesco De Pellegrini, Balakrishna J. Prabhu, Cédric Richier
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2024
[IEEE TCC]Semi-Distributed Coflow Scheduling in Datacenters
Rachid El-Azouzi, Francesco De Pellegrini, Afaf Arfaoui, Cédric Richier, Jérémie Leguay, Quang-Trung Luu, Youcef Magnouche, Sébastien Martin
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024
[IEEE TNSM]Constrained Correlated Equilibria
Omar Boufous, Rachid El-Azouzi, Mikaël Touati, Eitan Altman, Mustapha Bouhtou
Allerton Conference, 2024
[Allerton 2024]FedSV: Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning via Shapley Value
Khaoula Otmani, Rachid El-Azouzi, Vincent Labatut
Conference: IEEE ICC 2024
[IEEE ICC 2024]Preferential Revealing of Content Popularity Among Competing Service Providers Induces Network Bias
Samira Habli, Rachid El-Azouzi, Essaid Sabir, Halima Elbiaze
IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) 2024Constrained Correlated Equilibria
Omar Boufous, Rachid El-Azouzi, Mikael Touati, Eitan Altman, Mustapha Bouhtou
60th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and ComputingRobust Federated Learning via Weighted Median Aggregation
Hibatallah Kabbaj, Rachid El-Azouzi, Abdellatif Kobbane
The 2nd International Conference on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA 2024)Optimal Variance-Reduced Client Sampling for Multiple Model Federated Learning
H Zhang, Z Li, Z Gong, M Siew, C Joe-Wong, R El-Azouzi
44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2024)
2023
Communication entity and a method for transmitting a video data stream
D Tsilimantos, ELA Rachid, A Sunny
US Patent 11,627,358, 2023DistFL: An enhanced FL approach for Non Trusted Setting in Water Distribution Networks
H Kabbaj, M El-hanjri, A Kobbane, R El-Azouzi
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023.Telco market dynamics under strategic pricing and multi-attribute qos within cloud facilities
Samira Habli, Mandar Datar, Rachid El-Azouzi, Essaid Sabir
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), 2023Recent Advances in Data Intensive Applications: Survey
Y. Oubaydallah, K. Ibrahimi and R. El-Azouzi
10th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2023
2022
- Joint Traffic Offloading and Aging Control in 5G IoT Networks
N. Modina, R. El Azouzi, F. De Pellegrini, D. S. Menasche and R. Figueiredo
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.
[IEEE ICC 2024]
2020
Beyond Herd Immunity Against Strategic Attackers
Vilc Queupe Rufino, Leandro Pfleger De Aguiar, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Cabral Lima, Ítalo Cunha, Eitan Altman, Rachid El-Azouzi, Francesco De Pellegrini, Alberto Avritzer, Michael Grottke
IEEE Access, Vol. 8, P. 66365-66399, 2020
[IEEE ICC 2024]Blockchain competition between miners: a game theoretic perspective
Eitan Altman, Daniel Menasché, Alexandre Reiffers-Masson, Mandar Datar, Swapnil Dhamal, Corinne Touati, Rachid El-Azouzi
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020Smart Data Pricing for Next-Generation Networks
Mung Chiang, Rachid El-Azouzi, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang, Carlee Joe-Wong, Soumya Sen
Guest Editorial: Smart Data Pricing for Next-Generation Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications; 2020
2019
Enforcing Bitrate-Stability for Adaptive Streaming Traffic in Cellular Networks
Aler Sunny, Rachid El-Azouzi, Afef Arfaoui, Eitan Altman, Poojary Sudheer, Dimitrios Tsilimantos and Stefan Valentin
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2019.,NEWCAST: Joint Resource Management and QoE-driven Optimization for Mobile Video Streaming
Imen Triki, Rachid El-Azouzi and Haddad, Majed
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2019.Blockchain competition between miners: a game theoretic perspective
Altman, Eitan; Menasché, Daniel; Reiffers, Alexandre; Datar, Mandar; Dhamal, Swapnil; Touati, Corinne; El-Azouzi, Rachid
Frontiers in Blockchain,2, 26,2019.A fully distributed learning algorithm for power allocation in heterogeneous networks
El Hammouti, Hajar, Louna Echabbi, Rachid El Azouzi
etworks,Computing,101,9,1287-1303,2019.
2018
Optimal Energy-Delay Tradeoff for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks
Oussam Habachi, Yezekael Hayel, Rachid El-Azouzi*
Telecommunication Systems, 67(4), 763-780, 2018Discrete and Continuous Distributed Delays in Replicator Dynamics
Nesrine Ben-Khalifa, Rachid El-Azouzi, Yezekael Hayel*
Dynamic Games and Applications, Vol. 8, 4, 713-732, 2018