Dr. Bacem Mbarek

Title: Assistant Professor, Postgraduate Research and Dissertation Coordinator
Email: bacem.mbarek@gulfcollege.edu.om 
Tel: 96685128
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Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Communication Networks Technologies, Network Security, Blockchain,  Programming languages, Telecommunication Networks, Internet Protocols.

PhD in Communication Systems Year of passing : 2017 

Duration : 2012-2017  Awarding institution : University of Tunis El Manar, National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) 

 

MSc in  Artificial Intelligence Year of passing :2012 Duration : 2010-2012 The awarding institution : University of Kairouan, Higher Institute of computer science and management of Kairouan 

 

Bachelor in computer science. Year of passing :2010 Duration : 2007-2010 The awarding institution : University of Kairouan, Higher Institute of computer science and management of Kairouan

Dr. Bacem Mbarek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at Gulf College, Oman, where he also serves as Postgraduate Research and Dissertation Project Coordinator. Prior to joining Gulf College, he was Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University from 2018 to June 2024. Since 2022, he has also been serving as an External Professor (Flying Lecturer) at the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), where he collaborates closely with the Department of Computer Science and is the main lecturer of the Blockchain course. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Bordeaux from 2014 to 2015 and received his PhD in 2017 from the National School of Engineering of Tunis.

In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Bacem serves as Guest Editor of the MDPI journal Technologies 2025–2026 Special Issue entitled “Application and Management of Blockchain Technologies,” and he is a Session Chair at ICSEDI’26. He has published numerous scientific papers in high-level and high-ranked international conferences and journals and is actively involved in European and international research projects, as well as standardization initiatives. His main research interests include blockchain technologies, network security, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Journal Publications 

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi GE and Tomáš PITNER. An Adaptive Anti-jamming System in HyperLedger-based Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Networks. SPRINGER,2022.ISSN1022-0038.

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomáš Pitner “Proactive trust classification for detection of replication attacks in 6LoWPAN-based IoT”; Internet of Things Journal, volume:16, year: 2021. Selected Publications. 

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomáš Pitner “Trust-based Authentication for Smart Home Systems” Wireless Personal Communications, IF: 1.671, 2020. 

Bacem Mbarek, Nafaa Jabeur, Tomáš Pitner “Empowering Communications in Vehicular Networkswith an Intelligent Blockchain-Based Solution” Sustainability,2020,IF:2.576. 

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomáš Pitner ” An Efficient Mutual Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things”; Internet of Things Journal, volume:9, year: 2020. Selected Publications. 

Bacem Mbarek, Nafaa Jabeur, Tomáš Pitner, YASAR Ansar-Ul-Haque” MBS:  Multilevel Blockchain System for IoT”; Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, year: 2019. IF: 3.006 . 

Meriem Soula, Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb: A Real-Time Trust Management Model Using Digital Twin in IoT Networks. IEEE Access 12: 183326-183343 (2024)

Bacem Mbarek, Nafaâ Jabeur, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar “ECASS: An Encryption  Compression Aggregation Security Scheme for Secure data transmission in ambient assisted living systems”. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 23(5-6): 793-799 (2019) IF: 2.636 . 

Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb, Wafa Ben jaballah, and Mohamed Mosbah: ” A Secure Electric Energy Management in Smart Home”; Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, 2017. IF: 1.319.] 

Bacem Mbarek, Tomáš Pitner: “A Secure and Efficient Blockchain Scheme for the Internet of Bikes”, international journal of Computing and Informatics (CAI). 

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomáš Pitner “Proactive trust classification for detection of replication attacks in 6LoWPAN-based IoT”; Internet of Things Journal, volume:16, year: 2021. Selected Publications. 

 

Conference Publications

 

Bacem Mbarek, “Blockchain-based mechanisms for mitigating false data injection in microgrid systems,” IEEE/ICCA’25 Conference, 2025.

Bacem Mbarek, Meriem Soula, Tomás Pitner, Aref Meddeb: An Effective Replica Node Detection Scheme in Internet of Things Networks. IWCMC 2023:608-613

Václav Oujezský, Bacem Mbarek, Frantisek Kasl, Tomás Pitner: Selected

Software and Tools for Smart Grid Simulation in Research. ICUMT 2023: 102-

106

Meriem Soula, Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb, Tomás Pitner: A Survey of

Intrusion Detection-Based Trust Management Approaches in IoT Networks.

AINA (3) 2023: 504-517

Thomas Lavigne, Bacem Mbarek and Tomáš Pitner : “A Real time

Healthcare Tracking System based on Blockchain Application”; 18th

ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and

Applications AICCSA 2022. Rank C.

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomás Pitner: Precisional Detection Strategy for

6LoWPAN Networks in IoT. SMC 2022: 1006-1011

Bacem Mbarek, Stanislav Chren, Bruno Rossi, Tomás Pitner: An Enhanced

Blockchain-Based Data Management Scheme for Microgrids. AINA

Workshops 2020: 766-775

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomáš Pitner: ” Enhanced Network

Intrusion Detection System Protocol for Internet of Things “; The 35th

ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020). Rank B

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomáš Pitner “Blockchain-based Access

Control for IoT in Smart Home Systems“, Proceedings of the 31st

International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications –

DEXA. Rank B.

Bacem Mbarek, Nafaa Jabeur, Tomáš Pitner,: “Toward Enforcing

Security in Smart Homes Using a Trust-Based Scheme “; The Workshops

of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking

and Applications (WAINA-2020), year: 2020.

Bacem Mbarek, Stanislav Chren, Bruno Rossi, Tomáš Pitner,: ” An

Enhanced Blockchain- Based Data Management Scheme for Microgrids “;

The Workshops of the 34th International Conference on Advanced

Information Networking and Applications (WAINA-2020), year: 2020.

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomás Pitner “Self-adaptive RFID

Authentication for Internet of Things”. 1094-1105. AINA 2019. Rank B

Bacem Mbarek, Barbora Buhnova, Tomás Pitner “SeMLAS: An

Efficient Secure Multi-Level Authentication Scheme for IoT-Based Smart

Home Systems”. 1373-1378, IWCMC 2019. Rank B.

Bacem Mbarek, Nabil Sahli, Nafaâ Jabeur “BFAN: A Bloom Filter-Based

Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks”. 304-309, IWCMC 2018.

Rank B

Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb, Wafa Ben jaballah, and Mohamed

Mosbah: ” An Efficient Broadcast Authentication Scheme in Wireless

Sensor Networks”; ANT 2017.

Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb, Wafa Ben jaballah, and Mohamed

Mosbah: ” A Broadcast Authentication in IoT Environments”, AICCSA

2015. Rank C
2016. Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb : “Energy Efficient Security Protocols for

Wireless Sensor Networks : SPINS vs TinySec”, ISNCC 2016.

Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb, Wafa Ben jaballah, and Mohamed

Mosbah: “A Secure Authentication Mechanism for Resource constrained

Devices”, AICCSA 2015. Rank C

Bacem Mbarek, Aref Meddeb, Wafa Ben jaballah, and Mohamed

Mosbah: “Enhanced LEAP Authentication Delay for Higher Immunity

Against DoS Attack”; CFIP/NOTERE, 2015.

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomás Pitner: Precisional Detection Strategy for

6LoWPAN Networks in IoT. SMC 2022: 1006-1011

Bacem Mbarek, Mouzhi Ge, Tomás Pitner: Trust-Based Detection Strategy

Against Replication Attacks in IoT. AINA (2) 2021: 646-656