Bochra Boughzala, M.Sc.

PhD Candidate

Bio

Bochra Boughzala is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen and a member of the Distributed Systems Group. Her current research involves investigating new methods to accelerate data-analytics workloads using softwarized networks and in-network computing. Before starting her PhD, she was a Software Designer at Kaloom Inc, a Montreal-based startup developing a fully automated software-defined fabric (SDF) for data center networks. Before that she was an Experienced Researcher at Ericsson Research, Canada working in Networking Technologies and IP & Transport Research Areas. She received the Master degree in Computer Science from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal).

• room number: 496
• e-mail: b.boughzala [at] rug.nl
• profile page: B. Boughzala

Teaching

• WBCS057-05 (2023-2024) : Fundamentals of Distributed Systems
• WBCS026-05 (2022-2023) : Research Skills in Computing Science
• WMCS022-05 (2022-2023) : Fundamentals of Distributed Systems
• WBCS031-05 (2022-2023) : Network Centric Systems
• WBCS031-05 (2021-2022) : Network Centric Systems

Research

• In-Network Computing
• Software-Defined Networking
• Complex-Event Processing
• Distributed Systems

Selected Publications

1. Delay-Sensitive In-Network QoS Management for Publish/Subscribe Communications (Boughzala, Bochra and Koldehofe, Boris), In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2026) Miniconference, IEEE, 2026.

   BibTeX

   
   @inproceedings{boughzala2026delay, author = {Boughzala, Bochra and Koldehofe, Boris}, title = {Delay-Sensitive In-Network {QoS} Management for Publish/Subscribe Communications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th {IEEE/IFIP} Network Operations and Management Symposium ({NOMS} 2026) Miniconference}, year = {2026}, address = {Rome, Italy}, month = {May}, publisher = {IEEE}, language = "English", note = {To appear} }

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2. P4mCast: Accelerating and Scaling Fault-Tolerant Atomic Multicast in Multi-Cloud Environment (B. Boughzala, B. Koldehofe and A. Lazovik), In Proceeding of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2025), IEEE, 2025.

   BibTeX

   
   @inproceedings{boughzala2025:icdcs, title = {{P4mCast: Accelerating and Scaling Fault-Tolerant Atomic Multicast in Multi-Cloud Environment}}, author = {B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe and A. Lazovik}, booktitle = {Proceeding of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2025)}, pages = {1--6}, publisher = {IEEE}, year = {2025}, month = {July}, language = "English", doi = {10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00033}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11370/fb229f6c-4e0e-4139-b7c0-a6b21673028e}, }

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3. In-Network Splitter Function Enabling Highly-Parallel Event Stream Processing (B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe), In 4th KuVS Expert Talk on Network Softwarization (KuVS FG NetSoft), TOBIAS-lib, 2025.

   BibTeX

   
   @inproceedings{boughzala2025:KuVS, title = {{In-Network Splitter Function Enabling Highly-Parallel Event Stream Processing}}, author = {B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe}, booktitle = {4th KuVS Expert Talk on Network Softwarization (KuVS FG NetSoft)}, pages = {1--3}, publisher = {TOBIAS-lib}, year = {2025}, month = {April}, language = "English", doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-105107}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-105107}, }

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4. Poster: In-Network Total Order Guarantees Supporting State Machine Replication with P4 Programmable Switches (B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe), In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2024), IEEE, 2024.

   BibTeX

   
   @inproceedings{boughzala2024:icnp, title = {{Poster: In-Network Total Order Guarantees Supporting State Machine Replication with P4 Programmable Switches}}, author = {B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2024)}, pages = {1--3}, publisher = {IEEE}, year = {2024}, month = {October}, language = "English", doi = {10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858540}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11370/acacf8b6-2644-470b-b279-1ccaa97e4e59}, }

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5. In-Network Management of Parallel Data Streams over Programmable Data Planes (B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe), In Proceedings of the 23rd International Federation for Information Processing Networking Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2024), IEEE, 2024.

   BibTeX

   
   @inproceedings{boughzala2024:networking, title = {{In-Network Management of Parallel Data Streams over Programmable Data Planes}}, author = {B. Boughzala and B. Koldehofe}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Federation for Information Processing Networking Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2024)}, pages = {50--58}, publisher = {IEEE}, year = {2024}, month = {June}, language = "English", doi = {10.23919/IFIPNetworking62109.2024.10619812}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/11370/b9c058be-9aa8-46d6-821c-47c42fe58b55}, }

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(For more publications go to Bochra's publication page)