Imed Romdhani
Imed Romdhani

Dr Imed Romdhani

Associate Professor

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  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 is appointed as member of Africa Universities Fund Advisory Board
  • Dr Imed Romdhani has been appointed to Huawei Technologies’ new HAINA (Huawei Authorised Information Network Academy) ICT Advisory Board in the UK
  • 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 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 has successfully served as a PC member of Communication Technologies and Systems Security of 12th International Symposium on Programming and Systems
  • 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 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
  • Cisco donates an IoT kit to Edinburgh Napier University
  • 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/

 

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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Reliable and Energy-Efficient Two Levels Unequal Clustering Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks

Presentation / Conference
Ali, A. E., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Eshaftri, M. (2018, June)
Reliable and Energy-Efficient Two Levels Unequal Clustering Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at The 16th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (IEEE SmartCity-2018), Exeter, UK
In Wireless Sensor Networks, clustering sensor nodes into disjoint groups is widely used to achieve load balance and increase network lifetime. In particular, traditional uneq...

Drizzle Algorithm

Report
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Qasem, M. (2018)
Drizzle Algorithm. USA: IETF
Trickle algorithm used in RPL routing protocol suffers from some issues related to power, network convergence time and overhead and load-distribution. To optimize this al...

Lightweighted and energy-aware MIKEY-Ticket for e-health applications in the context of internet of things

Journal Article
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2018)
Lightweighted and energy-aware MIKEY-Ticket for e-health applications in the context of internet of things. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 26(4), 227. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.090462
E-health applications have emerged as a promising approach to provide unobtrusive and customizable support to elderly and frail people based on their situation and circumstanc...

Reliability and Energy Efficiency Enhancement for Emergency-Aware Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

Journal Article
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Nasser, Y. (2018)
Reliability and Energy Efficiency Enhancement for Emergency-Aware Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgcn.2018.2813060
Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) can improve the reliability and efficiency of WBAN. However, traditional static TDMA techni...

Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01

Report
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Ghaleb, B. (2018)
Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01. USA: IETF
This document proposes an extended Objective Function(OF) that balances the number of children nodes of the parent nodes to avoid the overloading problem and ensure node lif...

A new Zigbee-based device for measuring visual reaction time in sport activities

Conference Proceeding
Ali, B. B., Dugas, É., Naceur, A., & Romdhani, I. (2018)
A new Zigbee-based device for measuring visual reaction time in sport activities. In 2017 International Conference on Engineering & MIS (ICEMIS)https://doi.org/10.1109/icemis.2017.8273005
There is a growing demand for smart tools and devices that measure visual reaction time during sports and physical activities in outdoor environments. However, one of the majo...

A Trust-based Intrusion Detection System for Mobile RPL Based Networks

Conference Proceeding
Faiza, M., Tandjaoui, D., Romdhani, I., & Nabil, D. (2018)
A Trust-based Intrusion Detection System for Mobile RPL Based Networks. In Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017)https://doi.org/10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData.2017.113
Successful deployment of Low power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) requires self-organising, self-configuring, security, and mobility support. However, these characteristics can be ...

A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks

Conference Proceeding
Essa, A., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Eshaftri, M. (2017)
A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks. In S. Yang, J. Gao, Y. Zhang, K. Yang, V. C. M. Leung, & J. Hu (Eds.), Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies: First International Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 19-20, 2016 SmartGIFT 2016, 195-203
Since sensor nodes have limited energy resources, prolonging network lifetime and improving scalability are essential elements in energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (WS...

Reliable multipath multi-channel route migration over multi link-failure in wireless ad hoc networks

Conference Proceeding
Mirza, N. S., King, P. J. B., Romdhani, I., Abdelshafy, M. A., & Alghamdi, A. A. (2017)
Reliable multipath multi-channel route migration over multi link-failure in wireless ad hoc networks. In Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)https://doi.org/10.1109/wimob.2017.8115854
The route recovery algorithm is a crucial part of an ad hoc routing protocol. Designing an efficient and fast route recovery mechanism scheme without incurring extra overheads...

Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL (Draft 2)

Report
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Ghaleb, B., Hou, J., & Jadhav, R. A. (2017)
Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL (Draft 2). USA: IETF
This document proposes an extended Objective Function(OF) that balances the number of child nodes of the parent nodes to avoid the overloading problem and ensure node li...

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