Zibouda Aliouat obtained her engineer diploma in 1984 and MSc in 1993 from Constantine University. She received her PhD from Setif 1 University of Algeria. She was an assistant professor at Constantine University from 1985 to 1994. Currently she is professor in Computer Engineering Department at Setif 1 University of Algeria. Her research interests are in the areas of computer networks and communication modeling and simulation, wireless sensor networks (WSN), fault tolerance of embedded systems and security and privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of vehicles (IoV), Nanonetworks communication. Specifically, it focused on clustering routing protocols in wireless communication and MAC layer.