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Salem Hasnaoui’s research centers on the evolution of Controller Area Networks (CAN) for real-time industrial and distributed systems, with a particular focus on enhancing protocol flexibility and extending CAN into wireless domains. His most influential work proposes a modification to the CAN protocol to support a dynamic priority policy, addressing the limitations of fixed-priority arbitration in time-critical applications like water adduction, electricity distribution, and purification systems. This foundational paper, along with its implementation-focused follow-up, has garnered 17 and 6 citations respectively, establishing Hasnaoui as a contributor to adaptive industrial networking. He further explores wireless industrial networking by adapting the CAN MAC-sublayer for radio-based environments, and investigates the impact of multipath fading on radio sensor integration within Web CAN-based control systems. These efforts, though with lower citation counts, demonstrate his forward-looking approach to merging CAN reliability with wireless flexibility. Hasnaoui’s work is notable for bridging theoretical protocol design with practical controller component implementation, offering tangible solutions for distributed automation and sensor networks. His contributions remain relevant for researchers advancing real-time communication in Industry 4.0 and IoT-enabled industrial control.