Imed Romdhani
Imed Romdhani

Dr Imed Romdhani

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2726

  I.Romdhani@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Imed Romdhani is an Associate Professor in networking at Edinburgh Napier University since June 2005. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Technology of Compiegne (UTC), France in May 2005. He holds also an engineering and a Master degree in networking obtained respectively in 1998 and 2001 from the National School of Computing (ENSI, Tunisia) and Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (ULP, France). He worked extensively with Motorola Research Labs in Paris and authored 4 patents.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Advisory Committee Member of IEEE SIN 2022 Conference
  • Dr Imed Romdhani has been appointed to Huawei Technologies’ new HAINA (Huawei Authorised Information Network Academy) ICT Advisory Board in the UK
  • Dr Imed Romdhani is appointed as member of Africa Universities Fund Advisory Board
  • Imed Romdhani joined the IEEE “Tactile Internet” Standards Group

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Dr Imed Romdhani is appointed as General Co-Chair for European Alliance for Innovation Collaboratecom conference
  • Imed Romdhani is serving on the TPC of the 16th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2017), Sydney, Australia, August 1 - 4, 2017
  • Imed Romdhani will serve on the PC of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data, IoTBD 2016 (http://www.IoTBD.org) in Rome, Italy
  • Imed Romdhani is serving on the Program Committee of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2016), Granada, Spain, 14-16 December 2016
  • Imed Romdhani will serve as a PC member of Track 11 (Networking, Sensor Networks, Mobile Computing) of the 12th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
  • Imed Romdhani is serving as a TPC member of the IEEE Healthcom 2016 (18th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services)
  • Imed Romdhani is designated a publication co-chair of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom-2015) http://cse.stfx.ca/~picom2015/
  • Imed Romdhani is a PC member of the 12th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2015. November 17-20, 2015. Marrakech, Morocco.
  • Imed Romdhani will serve in the PC of the 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2014)
  • Imed Romdhani serves on the PC of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT-2014)
  • Imed Romdhani will serve on the PC of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Shangri-La's Fijian Resort and Spa, Fiji 8-10 December 2016
  • Imed Romdhani is serving as a publication co-chair of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData-2017)
  • Imed Romdhani has successfully served as a PC member of Communication Technologies and Systems Security of 12th International Symposium on Programming and Systems
  • Imed Romdhani is invited to attend IPv6 - Future Enabler Conference in Edinburgh
  • Imed Romdhani will serve on the PC of the 7th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2016) Zhangjiajie, China, November 16-18, 2016
  • Imed Romdhani serves on the programme committee of the 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications
  • Imed Romdhani is serving on the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things and Pervasive Systems (IoT-SP-2016), 22-24 September 2016, Agadir, Morocco
  • Imed Romdhani will serve in the TPC of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15)

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Best Lecturer/Tutor (Computing)

 

Invited Speaker

  • Dr Romdhani was invited speaker for ICACTCE’22 conference
  • Dr Romdhani was invited as a keynote speaker for the International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications, 28-29 January 2022, Fez, Morocco
  • Dr Romdhani was invited as guest keynote speaker for ICI2C’21

 

Media Activity

  • Edinburgh Napier forms partnership with Huawei Technologies
  • Imed Romdhani is coaching and mentoring a group of undergraduate and research students from the school of computing who are taking part in the international Internet of Things Spartans Challenge organised by Libelium. Follow the updates on http://www.iot-spartans.com/
  • Cisco donates an IoT kit to Edinburgh Napier University

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Edinburgh Napier University Joins LoRa Alliance
  • Dr Imed Romdhani joins LoRa Alliance Working Groups
  • Imed Romdhani contributed to the specification of the IETF RFC 6636
  • Imed Romdhani contributed to the specification of the IETF RFC 6224
  • Imed Romdhani contributed to the specification of the IETF RFC 5757

 

Spin-outs and Licences

  • Published Patent

 

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Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications

Book
Maleh, Y., Shojaafar, M., Alazab, M., & Romdhani, I. (Eds.)
(2020). Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group
Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology...

Towards the Development of Rapid and Low-Cost Pathogen Detection Systems Using Microfluidic Technology and Optical Image Processing

Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Lithgow, J., Muhammad, I., & Romdhani, I. (2020)
Towards the Development of Rapid and Low-Cost Pathogen Detection Systems Using Microfluidic Technology and Optical Image Processing. Applied Sciences, 10(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/app10072527
Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be an ongoing concern. Previous methods for detection of pathogens consist of a high test time and a high sample...

Trust-aware and Cooperative Routing Protocol for IoT Security

Journal Article
Djedjig, N., Tandjaoui, D., Medjek, F., & Romdhani, I. (2020)
Trust-aware and Cooperative Routing Protocol for IoT Security. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 52, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2020.102467
The resource-constrained nature of IoT objects makes the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) vulnerable to several attacks. Although RPL specification prov...

Delegation of Authentication to the Data Plane in Software-Defined Networks

Conference Proceeding
Almaini, A., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Schramm, M. (2020)
Delegation of Authentication to the Data Plane in Software-Defined Networks. In 2019 IEEE International Conferences on Ubiquitous Computing & Communications (IUCC) and Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DSCI) and Smart Computing, Networking and Services (SmartCNS), (58-65). https://doi.org/10.1109/iucc/dsci/smartcns.2019.00038
OpenFlow is considered as the most known protocol for Software Defined Networking (SDN). The main drawback of OpenFlow is the lack of support of new header definitions, which ...

BCFR: Blockchain-based Controller Against False Flow Rule Injection in SDN

Conference Proceeding
Boukria, S., Guerroumi, M., & Romdhani, I. (2020)
BCFR: Blockchain-based Controller Against False Flow Rule Injection in SDN. In 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) (1034-1039). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC47284.2019.8969780
Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology increases the evolution of Internet and network development. SDN, with its logical centralization of controllers and global networ...

Cross-Layer Multipath Multichannel MAC protocol for MANETs

Conference Proceeding
Mirza, N., Taylor, H., Abdelshafy, M., King, P., Romdhani, I., & Alghamdi, A. (2018)
Cross-Layer Multipath Multichannel MAC protocol for MANETs. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2018.8530886
Utilising multiple disjoint paths in multiple channels can improve network performance by enabling a node to reroute data along discovered paths seamlessly when link failure i...

Crowdfunding Can Serve as a Pathway to Higher Education

Book Chapter
Romdhani, I., El Youssi, A., Al Mennai, M., Babah, E., & Yahya, R. (2018)
Crowdfunding Can Serve as a Pathway to Higher Education. In M. Mohieldin, & D. Petkoski (Eds.), Financing Sustainable Development: Ideas for Action 2018, 43-49
The Al-Derb platform provides a way for individual and group funding (crowdfunding) to help young people obtain grants for high-quality online education and training courses o...

Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks

Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Mackenzie, L. (2018)
Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(1), 68-71. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2878151
In RPL routing protocol, the DAO (Destination Advertisement Object) control messages are announced by the child nodes to their parents to build downward routes. A malicious in...

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing: 13th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2017, Edinburgh, UK, December 11–13, 2017, Proceedings

Conference Proceeding
(2018)
Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing: 13th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2017, Edinburgh, UK, December 11–13, 2017, Proceedings. In I. Romdhani, L. Shu, H. Takahiro, Z. Zhou, T. Gordon, & D. Zeng (Eds.), Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, Collabora...

A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT

Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Romdhani, I., Nasser, Y., & Boukerche, A. (2018)
A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT. IEEE Internet of Things, 5(6), 12. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2018.2862364
In this paper, we introduce Drizzle, a new algorithm for maintaining routing information in the Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The aim is to address the limitations of t...

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