Publications

2026
GOUADRIA ABDELOUAHAB. GLOBAL EXISTENCE RESULTS FOR GIERER-MEINHARDT SYSTEMS ON TIME EVOLVING DOMAINS. Asia Pacific Journal of Mathematics [Internet]. 2026;13 (17). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Global solutions to a Gierer-Meinhardt model of two substances defined by reaction-diffusion equations are shown in this article. By employing Lyapunov functionals and investigating the regularizing properties inherent to parabolic equations, we rigorously establish the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions under appropriate assumptions. Numerical simulations are used to corroborate the analytical findings. This research differs from previous work because it relies on spatial domains that vary over time, rather than being static.

Hamzaoui M, Haddad L, Zeraieb S, Sallaye M. Evaluation of ICT Deployment in Mountainous Regions: Assessing Telephone Service Efficiency in The Aurès Mountains, Algeria. ASM Science Journal [Internet]. 2026;21 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Information and communication technology clearly affects regional development in several aspects, most notably facilitating access to services. This has led to its widespread adoption, which faces significant geographical and social obstacles that limit it s efficiency. This study aims to assess the state of information and communication technology in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria, with a particular focus on the structure of telephone services in order to illustrate the challenges that hinder regional development. The current situation of telephone communication infrastructure in the area was analysed using geographic information systems, in addition to the construction of a weighted spatial regression model to demonstrate the relationship between the efficiency of telephone services and network coverage variables. The findings revealed that the existi ng infrastructure is constrained by the challenges of terrain and by social factors related to unequal population density and distribution. Based on these aspects, solutions were proposed to improve the effectiveness of telephone services, with an emphasis on addressing the identified gaps to enhance regional development through strategic actions by decision-makers, thereby improving access to services and contri buting to bridging the digital divide in the future.

Hamzaoui M, Haddad L, Zeraieb S, Sallaye M. Evaluation of ICT Deployment in Mountainous Regions: Assessing Telephone Service Efficiency in The Aurès Mountains, Algeria. ASM Science Journal [Internet]. 2026;21 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Information and communication technology clearly affects regional development in several aspects, most notably facilitating access to services. This has led to its widespread adoption, which faces significant geographical and social obstacles that limit it s efficiency. This study aims to assess the state of information and communication technology in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria, with a particular focus on the structure of telephone services in order to illustrate the challenges that hinder regional development. The current situation of telephone communication infrastructure in the area was analysed using geographic information systems, in addition to the construction of a weighted spatial regression model to demonstrate the relationship between the efficiency of telephone services and network coverage variables. The findings revealed that the existi ng infrastructure is constrained by the challenges of terrain and by social factors related to unequal population density and distribution. Based on these aspects, solutions were proposed to improve the effectiveness of telephone services, with an emphasis on addressing the identified gaps to enhance regional development through strategic actions by decision-makers, thereby improving access to services and contri buting to bridging the digital divide in the future.

Hamzaoui M, Haddad L, Zeraieb S, Sallaye M. Evaluation of ICT Deployment in Mountainous Regions: Assessing Telephone Service Efficiency in The Aurès Mountains, Algeria. ASM Science Journal [Internet]. 2026;21 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Information and communication technology clearly affects regional development in several aspects, most notably facilitating access to services. This has led to its widespread adoption, which faces significant geographical and social obstacles that limit it s efficiency. This study aims to assess the state of information and communication technology in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria, with a particular focus on the structure of telephone services in order to illustrate the challenges that hinder regional development. The current situation of telephone communication infrastructure in the area was analysed using geographic information systems, in addition to the construction of a weighted spatial regression model to demonstrate the relationship between the efficiency of telephone services and network coverage variables. The findings revealed that the existi ng infrastructure is constrained by the challenges of terrain and by social factors related to unequal population density and distribution. Based on these aspects, solutions were proposed to improve the effectiveness of telephone services, with an emphasis on addressing the identified gaps to enhance regional development through strategic actions by decision-makers, thereby improving access to services and contri buting to bridging the digital divide in the future.

Hamzaoui M, Haddad L, Zeraieb S, Sallaye M. Evaluation of ICT Deployment in Mountainous Regions: Assessing Telephone Service Efficiency in The Aurès Mountains, Algeria. ASM Science Journal [Internet]. 2026;21 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Information and communication technology clearly affects regional development in several aspects, most notably facilitating access to services. This has led to its widespread adoption, which faces significant geographical and social obstacles that limit it s efficiency. This study aims to assess the state of information and communication technology in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria, with a particular focus on the structure of telephone services in order to illustrate the challenges that hinder regional development. The current situation of telephone communication infrastructure in the area was analysed using geographic information systems, in addition to the construction of a weighted spatial regression model to demonstrate the relationship between the efficiency of telephone services and network coverage variables. The findings revealed that the existi ng infrastructure is constrained by the challenges of terrain and by social factors related to unequal population density and distribution. Based on these aspects, solutions were proposed to improve the effectiveness of telephone services, with an emphasis on addressing the identified gaps to enhance regional development through strategic actions by decision-makers, thereby improving access to services and contri buting to bridging the digital divide in the future.

Seghir Z, Guezouli L, Barka K, Boubiche D-E, Toral-Cruz H, Martínez-Peláez R. A Real-Time Consensus-Free Accident Detection Framework for Internet of Vehicles Using Vision Transformer and EfficientNet. AI (Switzerland) [Internet]. 2026;7 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Objectives: Traffic accidents cause severe social and economic impacts, demanding fast and reliable detection to minimize secondary collisions and improve emergency response. However, existing cloud-dependent detection systems often suffer from high latency and limited scalability, motivating the need for an edge-centric and consensus-free accident detection framework in IoV environments. 

Methods: This study presents a real-time accident detection framework tailored for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments. The proposed system forms an integrated IoV architecture combining on-vehicle inference, RSU-based validation, and asynchronous cloud reporting. The system integrates a lightweight ensemble of Vision Transformer (ViT) and EfficientNet models deployed on vehicle nodes to classify video frames. Accident alerts are generated only when both models agree (vehicle-level ensemble consensus), ensuring high precision. These alerts are transmitted to nearby Road Side Units (RSUs), which validate the events and broadcast safety messages without requiring inter-vehicle or inter-RSU consensus. Structured reports are also forwarded asynchronously to the cloud for long-term model retraining and risk analysis. 

Results: Evaluated on the CarCrash and CADP datasets, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.96 with average decision latency below 60 ms, corresponding to an overall accuracy of 98.65% and demonstrating measurable improvement over single-model baselines. 

Conclusions: By combining on-vehicle inference, edge-based validation, and optional cloud integration, the proposed architecture offers both immediate responsiveness and adaptability, contrasting with traditional cloud-dependent approaches.

Seghir Z, Guezouli L, Barka K, Boubiche D-E, Toral-Cruz H, Martínez-Peláez R. A Real-Time Consensus-Free Accident Detection Framework for Internet of Vehicles Using Vision Transformer and EfficientNet. AI (Switzerland) [Internet]. 2026;7 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Objectives: Traffic accidents cause severe social and economic impacts, demanding fast and reliable detection to minimize secondary collisions and improve emergency response. However, existing cloud-dependent detection systems often suffer from high latency and limited scalability, motivating the need for an edge-centric and consensus-free accident detection framework in IoV environments. 

Methods: This study presents a real-time accident detection framework tailored for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments. The proposed system forms an integrated IoV architecture combining on-vehicle inference, RSU-based validation, and asynchronous cloud reporting. The system integrates a lightweight ensemble of Vision Transformer (ViT) and EfficientNet models deployed on vehicle nodes to classify video frames. Accident alerts are generated only when both models agree (vehicle-level ensemble consensus), ensuring high precision. These alerts are transmitted to nearby Road Side Units (RSUs), which validate the events and broadcast safety messages without requiring inter-vehicle or inter-RSU consensus. Structured reports are also forwarded asynchronously to the cloud for long-term model retraining and risk analysis. 

Results: Evaluated on the CarCrash and CADP datasets, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.96 with average decision latency below 60 ms, corresponding to an overall accuracy of 98.65% and demonstrating measurable improvement over single-model baselines. 

Conclusions: By combining on-vehicle inference, edge-based validation, and optional cloud integration, the proposed architecture offers both immediate responsiveness and adaptability, contrasting with traditional cloud-dependent approaches.

Seghir Z, Guezouli L, Barka K, Boubiche D-E, Toral-Cruz H, Martínez-Peláez R. A Real-Time Consensus-Free Accident Detection Framework for Internet of Vehicles Using Vision Transformer and EfficientNet. AI (Switzerland) [Internet]. 2026;7 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Objectives: Traffic accidents cause severe social and economic impacts, demanding fast and reliable detection to minimize secondary collisions and improve emergency response. However, existing cloud-dependent detection systems often suffer from high latency and limited scalability, motivating the need for an edge-centric and consensus-free accident detection framework in IoV environments. 

Methods: This study presents a real-time accident detection framework tailored for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments. The proposed system forms an integrated IoV architecture combining on-vehicle inference, RSU-based validation, and asynchronous cloud reporting. The system integrates a lightweight ensemble of Vision Transformer (ViT) and EfficientNet models deployed on vehicle nodes to classify video frames. Accident alerts are generated only when both models agree (vehicle-level ensemble consensus), ensuring high precision. These alerts are transmitted to nearby Road Side Units (RSUs), which validate the events and broadcast safety messages without requiring inter-vehicle or inter-RSU consensus. Structured reports are also forwarded asynchronously to the cloud for long-term model retraining and risk analysis. 

Results: Evaluated on the CarCrash and CADP datasets, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.96 with average decision latency below 60 ms, corresponding to an overall accuracy of 98.65% and demonstrating measurable improvement over single-model baselines. 

Conclusions: By combining on-vehicle inference, edge-based validation, and optional cloud integration, the proposed architecture offers both immediate responsiveness and adaptability, contrasting with traditional cloud-dependent approaches.

Seghir Z, Guezouli L, Barka K, Boubiche D-E, Toral-Cruz H, Martínez-Peláez R. A Real-Time Consensus-Free Accident Detection Framework for Internet of Vehicles Using Vision Transformer and EfficientNet. AI (Switzerland) [Internet]. 2026;7 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Objectives: Traffic accidents cause severe social and economic impacts, demanding fast and reliable detection to minimize secondary collisions and improve emergency response. However, existing cloud-dependent detection systems often suffer from high latency and limited scalability, motivating the need for an edge-centric and consensus-free accident detection framework in IoV environments. 

Methods: This study presents a real-time accident detection framework tailored for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments. The proposed system forms an integrated IoV architecture combining on-vehicle inference, RSU-based validation, and asynchronous cloud reporting. The system integrates a lightweight ensemble of Vision Transformer (ViT) and EfficientNet models deployed on vehicle nodes to classify video frames. Accident alerts are generated only when both models agree (vehicle-level ensemble consensus), ensuring high precision. These alerts are transmitted to nearby Road Side Units (RSUs), which validate the events and broadcast safety messages without requiring inter-vehicle or inter-RSU consensus. Structured reports are also forwarded asynchronously to the cloud for long-term model retraining and risk analysis. 

Results: Evaluated on the CarCrash and CADP datasets, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.96 with average decision latency below 60 ms, corresponding to an overall accuracy of 98.65% and demonstrating measurable improvement over single-model baselines. 

Conclusions: By combining on-vehicle inference, edge-based validation, and optional cloud integration, the proposed architecture offers both immediate responsiveness and adaptability, contrasting with traditional cloud-dependent approaches.

Seghir Z, Guezouli L, Barka K, Boubiche D-E, Toral-Cruz H, Martínez-Peláez R. A Real-Time Consensus-Free Accident Detection Framework for Internet of Vehicles Using Vision Transformer and EfficientNet. AI (Switzerland) [Internet]. 2026;7 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Objectives: Traffic accidents cause severe social and economic impacts, demanding fast and reliable detection to minimize secondary collisions and improve emergency response. However, existing cloud-dependent detection systems often suffer from high latency and limited scalability, motivating the need for an edge-centric and consensus-free accident detection framework in IoV environments. 

Methods: This study presents a real-time accident detection framework tailored for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments. The proposed system forms an integrated IoV architecture combining on-vehicle inference, RSU-based validation, and asynchronous cloud reporting. The system integrates a lightweight ensemble of Vision Transformer (ViT) and EfficientNet models deployed on vehicle nodes to classify video frames. Accident alerts are generated only when both models agree (vehicle-level ensemble consensus), ensuring high precision. These alerts are transmitted to nearby Road Side Units (RSUs), which validate the events and broadcast safety messages without requiring inter-vehicle or inter-RSU consensus. Structured reports are also forwarded asynchronously to the cloud for long-term model retraining and risk analysis. 

Results: Evaluated on the CarCrash and CADP datasets, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.96 with average decision latency below 60 ms, corresponding to an overall accuracy of 98.65% and demonstrating measurable improvement over single-model baselines. 

Conclusions: By combining on-vehicle inference, edge-based validation, and optional cloud integration, the proposed architecture offers both immediate responsiveness and adaptability, contrasting with traditional cloud-dependent approaches.

Seghir Z, Guezouli L, Barka K, Boubiche D-E, Toral-Cruz H, Martínez-Peláez R. A Real-Time Consensus-Free Accident Detection Framework for Internet of Vehicles Using Vision Transformer and EfficientNet. AI (Switzerland) [Internet]. 2026;7 (1). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Objectives: Traffic accidents cause severe social and economic impacts, demanding fast and reliable detection to minimize secondary collisions and improve emergency response. However, existing cloud-dependent detection systems often suffer from high latency and limited scalability, motivating the need for an edge-centric and consensus-free accident detection framework in IoV environments. 

Methods: This study presents a real-time accident detection framework tailored for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments. The proposed system forms an integrated IoV architecture combining on-vehicle inference, RSU-based validation, and asynchronous cloud reporting. The system integrates a lightweight ensemble of Vision Transformer (ViT) and EfficientNet models deployed on vehicle nodes to classify video frames. Accident alerts are generated only when both models agree (vehicle-level ensemble consensus), ensuring high precision. These alerts are transmitted to nearby Road Side Units (RSUs), which validate the events and broadcast safety messages without requiring inter-vehicle or inter-RSU consensus. Structured reports are also forwarded asynchronously to the cloud for long-term model retraining and risk analysis. 

Results: Evaluated on the CarCrash and CADP datasets, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.96 with average decision latency below 60 ms, corresponding to an overall accuracy of 98.65% and demonstrating measurable improvement over single-model baselines. 

Conclusions: By combining on-vehicle inference, edge-based validation, and optional cloud integration, the proposed architecture offers both immediate responsiveness and adaptability, contrasting with traditional cloud-dependent approaches.

Benhaya K, Riadh H, Bendib S-S. Redundancy-aware island genetic algorithm for connected target coverage in wireless sensor networks. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications [Internet]. 2026;207. Publisher's VersionAbstract
We address energy-efficient connected target coverage in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), seeking the smallest active subset of sensors that covers all targets and remains connected to the sink. We propose a Redundancy-Aware Island Genetic Algorithm (RA-IGA). It combines a redundancy-aware mutation with a lightweight deterministic coverage-repair step that aims to activate as few additional sensors as needed to restore feasibility. It also uses a heterogeneous three-island model with periodic elite migration to maintain diversity and improve final quality under the same budget. RA-IGA is benchmarked against the improved genetic algorithm (IGA) and the modified marine predators algorithm (MMPA) across grid and random deployments while varying network size, target count, and field dimensions (up to N = 400 , K = 200, L = 500 ). RA-IGA consistently selects the fewest active sensors, reducing the active set by 5%–24% vs. IGA and 48%–56% vs. MMPA, with tighter dispersion over 20 seeds. A Friedman test with Nemenyi post-hoc confirms p< 0.001 . Because fewer actives generally reduce per-round energy under matched packet and model assumptions, these results suggest longer network lifetime. Ablations indicate that redundancy-aware mutation and repair drive sparsity while preserving feasibility. They also show that the heterogeneous island model helps escape single-population local optima, yielding better final solutions.
Benhaya K, Riadh H, Bendib S-S. Redundancy-aware island genetic algorithm for connected target coverage in wireless sensor networks. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications [Internet]. 2026;207. Publisher's VersionAbstract
We address energy-efficient connected target coverage in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), seeking the smallest active subset of sensors that covers all targets and remains connected to the sink. We propose a Redundancy-Aware Island Genetic Algorithm (RA-IGA). It combines a redundancy-aware mutation with a lightweight deterministic coverage-repair step that aims to activate as few additional sensors as needed to restore feasibility. It also uses a heterogeneous three-island model with periodic elite migration to maintain diversity and improve final quality under the same budget. RA-IGA is benchmarked against the improved genetic algorithm (IGA) and the modified marine predators algorithm (MMPA) across grid and random deployments while varying network size, target count, and field dimensions (up to N = 400 , K = 200, L = 500 ). RA-IGA consistently selects the fewest active sensors, reducing the active set by 5%–24% vs. IGA and 48%–56% vs. MMPA, with tighter dispersion over 20 seeds. A Friedman test with Nemenyi post-hoc confirms p< 0.001 . Because fewer actives generally reduce per-round energy under matched packet and model assumptions, these results suggest longer network lifetime. Ablations indicate that redundancy-aware mutation and repair drive sparsity while preserving feasibility. They also show that the heterogeneous island model helps escape single-population local optima, yielding better final solutions.
Benhaya K, Riadh H, Bendib S-S. Redundancy-aware island genetic algorithm for connected target coverage in wireless sensor networks. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications [Internet]. 2026;207. Publisher's VersionAbstract
We address energy-efficient connected target coverage in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), seeking the smallest active subset of sensors that covers all targets and remains connected to the sink. We propose a Redundancy-Aware Island Genetic Algorithm (RA-IGA). It combines a redundancy-aware mutation with a lightweight deterministic coverage-repair step that aims to activate as few additional sensors as needed to restore feasibility. It also uses a heterogeneous three-island model with periodic elite migration to maintain diversity and improve final quality under the same budget. RA-IGA is benchmarked against the improved genetic algorithm (IGA) and the modified marine predators algorithm (MMPA) across grid and random deployments while varying network size, target count, and field dimensions (up to N = 400 , K = 200, L = 500 ). RA-IGA consistently selects the fewest active sensors, reducing the active set by 5%–24% vs. IGA and 48%–56% vs. MMPA, with tighter dispersion over 20 seeds. A Friedman test with Nemenyi post-hoc confirms p< 0.001 . Because fewer actives generally reduce per-round energy under matched packet and model assumptions, these results suggest longer network lifetime. Ablations indicate that redundancy-aware mutation and repair drive sparsity while preserving feasibility. They also show that the heterogeneous island model helps escape single-population local optima, yielding better final solutions.
Rezki A, Guezouli L, Benyahia A, Boubiche D-E, Mabane M-Z, Chine S, Homero T-C, Martínez-Peláez R, Ramirez-Pacheco JC. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors [Internet]. 2026;26 (10). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of existing content prediction and caching strategies, which often capture either short-term temporal trends or long-range dependencies, but not both. This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with Transformer encoders to jointly model fine-grained temporal dynamics and global correlations in content requests. The resulting popularity predictions are incorporated into a reinforcement learning (RL)-based caching policy, enabling proactive and adaptive cache placement at roadside units (RSUs) within an end-to-end optimization framework. Simulation results across representative IoV scenarios show that the proposed approach consistently improves cache hit ratio, retrieval latency, and prediction accuracy compared with LSTM-only, Transformer-only, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Least Recently Used (LRU) baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate the complementary strengths of the hybrid components, highlighting improved convergence behavior and robustness under varying demand distributions.

Rezki A, Guezouli L, Benyahia A, Boubiche D-E, Mabane M-Z, Chine S, Homero T-C, Martínez-Peláez R, Ramirez-Pacheco JC. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors [Internet]. 2026;26 (10). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of existing content prediction and caching strategies, which often capture either short-term temporal trends or long-range dependencies, but not both. This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with Transformer encoders to jointly model fine-grained temporal dynamics and global correlations in content requests. The resulting popularity predictions are incorporated into a reinforcement learning (RL)-based caching policy, enabling proactive and adaptive cache placement at roadside units (RSUs) within an end-to-end optimization framework. Simulation results across representative IoV scenarios show that the proposed approach consistently improves cache hit ratio, retrieval latency, and prediction accuracy compared with LSTM-only, Transformer-only, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Least Recently Used (LRU) baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate the complementary strengths of the hybrid components, highlighting improved convergence behavior and robustness under varying demand distributions.

Rezki A, Guezouli L, Benyahia A, Boubiche D-E, Mabane M-Z, Chine S, Homero T-C, Martínez-Peláez R, Ramirez-Pacheco JC. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors [Internet]. 2026;26 (10). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of existing content prediction and caching strategies, which often capture either short-term temporal trends or long-range dependencies, but not both. This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with Transformer encoders to jointly model fine-grained temporal dynamics and global correlations in content requests. The resulting popularity predictions are incorporated into a reinforcement learning (RL)-based caching policy, enabling proactive and adaptive cache placement at roadside units (RSUs) within an end-to-end optimization framework. Simulation results across representative IoV scenarios show that the proposed approach consistently improves cache hit ratio, retrieval latency, and prediction accuracy compared with LSTM-only, Transformer-only, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Least Recently Used (LRU) baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate the complementary strengths of the hybrid components, highlighting improved convergence behavior and robustness under varying demand distributions.

Rezki A, Guezouli L, Benyahia A, Boubiche D-E, Mabane M-Z, Chine S, Homero T-C, Martínez-Peláez R, Ramirez-Pacheco JC. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors [Internet]. 2026;26 (10). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of existing content prediction and caching strategies, which often capture either short-term temporal trends or long-range dependencies, but not both. This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with Transformer encoders to jointly model fine-grained temporal dynamics and global correlations in content requests. The resulting popularity predictions are incorporated into a reinforcement learning (RL)-based caching policy, enabling proactive and adaptive cache placement at roadside units (RSUs) within an end-to-end optimization framework. Simulation results across representative IoV scenarios show that the proposed approach consistently improves cache hit ratio, retrieval latency, and prediction accuracy compared with LSTM-only, Transformer-only, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Least Recently Used (LRU) baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate the complementary strengths of the hybrid components, highlighting improved convergence behavior and robustness under varying demand distributions.

Rezki A, Guezouli L, Benyahia A, Boubiche D-E, Mabane M-Z, Chine S, Homero T-C, Martínez-Peláez R, Ramirez-Pacheco JC. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors [Internet]. 2026;26 (10). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of existing content prediction and caching strategies, which often capture either short-term temporal trends or long-range dependencies, but not both. This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with Transformer encoders to jointly model fine-grained temporal dynamics and global correlations in content requests. The resulting popularity predictions are incorporated into a reinforcement learning (RL)-based caching policy, enabling proactive and adaptive cache placement at roadside units (RSUs) within an end-to-end optimization framework. Simulation results across representative IoV scenarios show that the proposed approach consistently improves cache hit ratio, retrieval latency, and prediction accuracy compared with LSTM-only, Transformer-only, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Least Recently Used (LRU) baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate the complementary strengths of the hybrid components, highlighting improved convergence behavior and robustness under varying demand distributions.

Rezki A, Guezouli L, Benyahia A, Boubiche D-E, Mabane M-Z, Chine S, Homero T-C, Martínez-Peláez R, Ramirez-Pacheco JC. A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Content Request Prediction in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors [Internet]. 2026;26 (10). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Low-latency content delivery is essential in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to support autonomous driving, cooperative perception, and infotainment services. However, rapidly changing vehicular mobility and demand patterns limit the effectiveness of existing content prediction and caching strategies, which often capture either short-term temporal trends or long-range dependencies, but not both. This paper proposes a hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with Transformer encoders to jointly model fine-grained temporal dynamics and global correlations in content requests. The resulting popularity predictions are incorporated into a reinforcement learning (RL)-based caching policy, enabling proactive and adaptive cache placement at roadside units (RSUs) within an end-to-end optimization framework. Simulation results across representative IoV scenarios show that the proposed approach consistently improves cache hit ratio, retrieval latency, and prediction accuracy compared with LSTM-only, Transformer-only, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Least Recently Used (LRU) baselines. Ablation studies further demonstrate the complementary strengths of the hybrid components, highlighting improved convergence behavior and robustness under varying demand distributions.

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