Isam Wadhaj
Isam Wadhaj

Dr Isam Wadhaj

Lecturer

 0131 455 2721

  I.Wadhaj@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Isam (PhD, MSc, BEng, FHEA) is a Lecturer and researcher in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. He holds a BEng degree in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems and MSc in Advanced Networking from Edinburgh Napier University. Isam was awarded his PhD from Edinburgh Napier University in August 2022. His teaching role has involved lecturing across a range of subject areas including Computer Systems and Network Security, Networking, Mobile Computing and Security Systems for IoT at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Isam holds Cisco CCNA, CCNP qualification.
In addition, Isam has been involved in supervising Honours, summer interns and MSc.
He developed a cloud-based virtualization platform for the teaching and training of Security to both on-campus and distance learning students.
Isam focuses on Internet of things, Iot Security, Routing Protocols and Cross Layer Design, Wireless Body Area Networks and E-Health and Wireless Networks research. He has published many quality scholarly articles. His most recent research has been published in several highly-cited IEEE Access, MDPI journals and IEEE international conferences.

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Editorial Activity

  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Security and Privacy for IoT Applications in Smart Environments: the journal of Applied Sciences (MDPI).

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Best paper award International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ICETIS 2021)

 

Reviewing

  • International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ICETIS 2021)
  • IEEE Access

 

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A new enhanced RPL based routing for Internet of Things

Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., & Wadhaj, I. (2017)
A new enhanced RPL based routing for Internet of Things. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications. , (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962723
The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) has been recently standardized for routing in the constrained Internet of Things networks. Unfortunately, the ...

Performance evaluation of RPL metrics in environments with strained transmission ranges.

Conference Proceeding
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017)
Performance evaluation of RPL metrics in environments with strained transmission ranges. In 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). https://doi.org/10.1109/aiccsa.2016.7945687
An examination of existing studies in the area of Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) implementation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) reveals a consisten...

Cooja Simulator Manual

Report
Thomson, C., Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., Qasem, M., Ghaleb, B., & Wadhaj, I. (2016)
Cooja Simulator Manual. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University
While Cooja has been proven to be an ideal tool for the simulation of RPL in WSNs, there are challenges involved in its use, particularly in regard to a lack of documentation....

Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks

Conference Proceeding
Wadhaj, I., Kristof, I., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2015)
Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2015), (1600-1605). https://doi.org/10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.241
Low-Power and Lossy-Network (LLN) are usually composed of static nodes, but the increase demand for mobility in mobile robotic and dynamic environment raises the question how ...

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