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. Melhem-el and . Helou, 15) received the engineering and master degrees in communications and networking from the Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB), Faculty of Engineering at Saint Joseph University of Beirut, respectively and the PhD degree in communication networks from IRISA research institute, University of Rennes 1, 2014. He joined ESIB in September 2013 where he is currently an Assistant Professor (fr: Ma??treMa??tre de conférences). His research interests include wireless communications, cellular technologies, radio resource management, and optimization of heterogeneous networks, 2009.