Molka Gharbaoui

Bio

M. Gharbaoui is an Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Health Science at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy. She received her Ph.D. degree in Innovative Technologies of Information & Communications Engineering and Robotics in 2012 from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. She has served as Organizing Committee member in several flagship international conferences in networking since 2015 and, recently with relevant roles such as General Chair at ICIN2026. She has collaborated in several National, European and International projects and has co-authored more than 70 papers appeared in international journals and conference proceedings.

Research

Molka Gharbaoui's most recent research has focused on network design, management, and optimization, telecommunication network performance evaluation, especially in the areas of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and network optimization and automation through Intent-Based Networking (IBN). Her studies have often been characterized by significant experimental activity. She is currently also considering other emerging topics such as telemedicine and eHealth.

Publications

Gharbaoui, M.; Martini, B.; Noto, S.; Ruscelli, A. L.; Pagano, P.; Castoldi, P.

Experimenting SDN/NFV Solutions for Flexible Maritime Transport & Logistics (T&L) Services Open new browser tab

(2023)
Noto, Sandro; Gharbaoui, Molka; Falcitelli, Mariano; Martini, Barbara; Castoldi, Piero; Pagano, Paolo

Experimental Evaluation of an IoT-Based Platform for Maritime Transport Services Open new browser tab

(2023)
Caldelli, R.; Castoldi, P.; Gharbaoui, M.; Martini, B.; Matarazzo, M.; Sciarrone, F.

On helping users in writing network slice intents through NLP and User Profiling Open new browser tab

(2023)
Martini, B.; Gharbaoui, M.; Castoldi, P.

Intent-based zero-touch service chaining layer for software-defined edge cloud networks Open new browser tab

(2022)
Gharbaoui, M.; Contoli, C.; Davoli, G.; Borsatti, D.; Cuffaro, G.; Paganelli, F.; Cerroni, W.; Cappanera, P.; Martini, B.

An experimental study on latency-aware and self-adaptive service chaining orchestration in distributed NFV and SDN infrastructures Open new browser tab

(2022)
Gharbaoui, Molka; Martini, Barbara; Castoldi, Piero

Implementation of an Intent Layer for SDN-enabled and QoS-Aware Network Slicing Open new browser tab

(2021)
Chang, C. -Y.; Jimenez, M. A.; Gharbaoui, M.; Sacido, J.; Ubaldi, F.; Papagianni, C.; Zabala, A.; Valcarenghi, L.; Scano, D.; Tomakh, K.; Giorgetti, A.; Boddi, A.; Schepper, K. D.

Slice Isolation for 5G Transport Networks Open new browser tab

(2021)
Gharbaoui, M.; Martini, B.; Cecchetti, G.; Castoldi, P.

Resource Orchestration Strategies With Retrials for Latency-Sensitive Network Slicing Over Distributed Telco Clouds Open new browser tab

(2021)
Chang, C. -Y.; Ruiz, T. G.; Paolucci, F.; Jimenez, M. A.; Sacido, J.; Papagianni, C.; Ubaldi, F.; Scano, D.; Gharbaoui, M.; Giorgetti, A.; Valcarenghi, L.; Tomakh, K.; Boddi, A.; Caparros, A.; Pergolesi, M.; Martini, B.

Performance Isolation for Network Slices in Industry 4.0: The 5Growth Approach Open new browser tab

(2021)
Cunha, Vitor A.; Maroulis, Nikolaos; Papagianni, Chrysa; Sacido, Javier; Jimenez, Manuel; Ubaldi, Fabio; Gharbaoui, Molka; Chang, Chia- Yu; Koursioumpas, Nikolaos; Tomakh, Konstantin; Corujo, Daniel; Barraca, Joao P.; Barmpounakis, Sokratis; Kucherenko, Denys; Giorgetti, Alessio; Boddi, Andrea; Valcarenghi, Luca; Kolodiazhnyi, Oleksii; Zabala, Aitor; Salvat, Josep Xavier; Garcia-Saavedra, Andres

5 Growth: Secure and Reliable Network Slicing for Verticals Open new browser tab

(2021)

Courses

She is currently responsible of the 20-hour course "Virtualized Research Infrastructures" for PhD students in "Emerging Digital Technologies" at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.