RSEC Lab is proud to announce its strong presence at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026, held in Glasgow, Scotland, with four research papers accepted at this major international conference in communications and networking.
IEEE ICC is one of the flagship international conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, bringing together researchers, academics, and industry professionals from around the world to exchange the latest advances in communications technologies. This year, we contributed in the research addressing key challenges in federated learning privacy, quantum-assisted split learning, intrusion detection in IoT/IIoT networks, domain adaptation for network security, and security orchestration in Open RAN systems.
The accepted papers are:
- Mitigating Gradient Inversion Attacks in Federated Learning over Tabular IoT Data. Imene Bessaa (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada); Lyes Khoukhi (CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France); Zakaria Abou El Houda (INRS, Canada)accepted in IEEE ICC 2026
- QSFL-ID: Quantum-Split Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in IIoT Networks. Aymene Selamnia (University of Caen Normandie & UNICAEN, Ensicaen, France); Hajar Moudoud (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada); Lyes Khoukhi (CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France); Bouziane Brik (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates & University of Bourgogne, France); Zakaria Abou El Houda (INRS, Canada)accepted in IEEE ICC 2026
- SelfAdv-DA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Robust Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks. Ines Guerziz (INRS – University of Quebec, Canada & UMR, Canada); Zakaria Abou El Houda (INRS, Canada); Le Bao Long (University of Québec, Canada)accepted in IEEE ICC 2026
- Game-Theoretic Security Orchestration for Cross-RIC Policy Conflicts in O-RAN. Ali Mehrban (INRS, Canada); Hajar Moudoud (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada); Bouziane Brik (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates & University of Bourgogne, France); Lyes Khoukhi (CNAM Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France); Zakaria Abou El Houda (INRS, Canada) accepted in IEEE ICC 2026
These papers show that in RSEC Lab, we advance the security, privacy, and intelligence of next-generation networks through our ongoing efforts. The research presented at IEEE ICC 2026 contributes to more resilient federated learning systems, more efficient intrusion detection for constrained IoT and IIoT environments, and more coordinated security management across next-generation O-RAN deployments.
Congratulations to all the authors on this achievement and for this strong showing at IEEE ICC 2026 in Glasgow.
