Ryma Abassi

Ryma Abassi received her engineering degree in Networks & Telecommunications in 2004, and her MSc and PhD degrees from the Higher Communication School, Sup’Com in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director at ISET'Com and member of the “Digital Security” unit at SUP’Com. Dr Ryma Abassi was a Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, MA, USA where she worked on formal methods for security protocols validation. Moreover, she obtained the SSHN grant two times in 2014 and 2017 and is a visiting professor at University of Limoges. Her current researches are focusing on MANET/VANET security, trust management, security protocols validation, IoT security, etc. She has more than 30 publications in impacted journals and classified conferences and is co-supervising four PhD students.

Publications

Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ryma Abassi, Aida Ben Chehida Douss. © 2022. 276 pages.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working. During these unprecedented times, many have...
A Review on Data Privacy and Security in the Time of COVID-19
A Review on Data Privacy and Security in the Time of COVID-19
Aida Ben Chehida Douss, Ons Chikahoui, Ryma Abassi. © 2022. 14 pages.
In December 2019, Wuhan was reported to have had the virus's first human infection. By January 2022, there had been over 351 million cases worldwide and over 5.6 million...
Toward a Security Scheme for an Intelligent Transport System
Toward a Security Scheme for an Intelligent Transport System
Amira Kchaou, Ryma Abassi, Sihem Guemara El Fatmi. © 2021. 13 pages.
Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) allow communication among vehicles using some fixed equipment on roads called roads side units. Vehicular communications are used for sharing...
Towards a Formal Validation of a Hybrid Multi-Agent Routing Protocol for Ad hoc Networks
Towards a Formal Validation of a Hybrid Multi-Agent Routing Protocol for Ad hoc Networks
Mohamed Amine Riahla, Ryma Abassi, Karim Tamine. © 2021. 15 pages.
In the authors' previous papers, a new ant routing protocol for ad-hoc networks inspired from ant colony optimization was presented. They introduced a new approach that...
Artificial Intelligence and Security Challenges in Emerging Networks
Artificial Intelligence and Security Challenges in Emerging Networks
Ryma Abassi. © 2019. 293 pages.
The recent rise of emerging networking technologies such as social networks, content centric networks, Internet of Things networks, etc, have attracted significant attention from...
A Formal Ticket-Based Authentication Scheme for VANETs
A Formal Ticket-Based Authentication Scheme for VANETs
Ons Chikhaoui, Aida Ben Chehida, Ryma Abassi, Sihem Guemara El Fatmi. © 2019. 33 pages.
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) enable vehicles to exchange safety-related messages in order to raise drivers' awareness about surrounding traffic and roads conditions....
Toward a Security Scheme for an Intelligent Transport System
Toward a Security Scheme for an Intelligent Transport System
Amira Kchaou, Ryma Abassi, Sihem Guemara El Fatmi. © 2019. 16 pages.
Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) allow communication among vehicles using some fixed equipment on roads called roads side units. Vehicular communications are used for sharing...
Security Policies a Formal Environment for a Test Cases Generation
Security Policies a Formal Environment for a Test Cases Generation
Ryma Abassi, Sihem Guemara El Fatmi. © 2019. 28 pages.
Specifying a security policy (SP) is a challenging task in the development of secure communication systems since it is the bedrock of any security strategy. Paradoxically, this...
Trust Management in Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork
Trust Management in Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork
Ryma Abassi. © 2018. 16 pages.
A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a self-organized network that can be formed by connecting vehicles equipped with on-board units. Two types of communications are provided in...
An Optimized Reputation-Based Trust Management Scheme for MANET Security
An Optimized Reputation-Based Trust Management Scheme for MANET Security
Aida Ben Chehida Douss, Ryma Abassi, Sihem Guemara El Fatmi. © 2018. 23 pages.
Because mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have neither infrastructure support nor central administration, they imply their nodes in the routing process. Having that this latter is...