Sonia Zannou received  the B.S  degree in telecom engineering and ICT from the School of Electrical and Electronics of Université Catholique de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (UCAO), Cotonou, Benin in 2019 and M.S degree in digital broadcasting from the PHORAN projet of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin in 2024.

Anne-Carole Honfoga is a Scientific Researcher at the Department of Electromagnetism and Telecommunications, Université de Mons. She worked as a Network and Telecommunications Engineer at the ASSI from 2016 to 2017. From 2017 to 2021, she then acted as a Student-Researcher at the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons-UMONS and conducted research in applied science, telecommunications, and digital broadcasting. She received her PhD in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons-UMONS in 2021. She held the position of Academic Director at the Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Avancées et de Management from December 2022 to September 2023. From 2022 to 2023, she was a Network and Telecommunications part-time teacher in private universities in Benin (UATM, UCAO,...) and at the "Institut de Formation et de Recherche en Informatique" (IFRI), UAC. In 2023, she held the position of Academic Director at ESTAM university. Her research interests include wireless communications, digital video broadcasting systems, Matlab simulation, channel coding, and modulation. In 2024, she held the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Mons, Belgium on he security of the Internet of Things for digital agriculture.

Michel Dossou is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin. He received his Electrical Engineering degree from the Polytechnic Faculty, Royal Military Academy in 2006 and his PhD in Photonics from the University of Lille Nord de France in 2011. He served as a Temporary Teaching and Research Associate (ATER) at the PhLAM-Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), University of Lille Nord de France from 2010 to 2012. He then joined Polytechnic of the University of Abomey-Calavi, and served as Assistant Professor until 2012, and as Associate Professor since 2019. He obtained a certificate in Management from the University of Indore, India, in 2014. His research interests are optical sensor development, internet of things for sustainable development and spectrum sensing.

Véronique Moeyaert (veronique.moeyaert@umons.ac.be) earned her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and her Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (FPMs), Mons, Belgium, in 1993 and 2002. From 2002 to 2005, she was a research and teaching associate at the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (FPMs), Belgium. From 2005 to 2009, she was associate professor at the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (FPMs), Belgium and from 2009 to 2013 at the University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium. Since 2013, she is professor in Telecommunications at the University of Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium. Her main research interests are in the physical layer performance estimation and optimization of optical, electrical and wireless transmission systems, either analog or digital. In particular, she is working on HFC networks, RoF systems, LPWAN IoT systems, VLC communications in the framework of smart cities, and PLC systems for both the power grid and railway signaling.