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 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 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 has successfully served as a PC member of Communication Technologies and Systems Security of 12th International Symposium on Programming and Systems
  • 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)
  • 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

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Best Lecturer/Tutor (Computing)

 

Invited Speaker

  • 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 speaker for ICACTCE’22 conference
  • 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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A New Weight based Rotating Clustering Scheme for WSNs

Conference Proceeding
Essa, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Esriaftri, M. A. (2017)
A New Weight based Rotating Clustering Scheme for WSNs. In 2017 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)https://doi.org/10.1109/ISNCC.2017.8072000
Although energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been investigated widely, it is still a challenging dilemma. Clustering mechanisms are among the most widely ...

Performance Evaluation of RPL Protocol under Mobile Sybil Attacks

Conference Proceeding
Medjek, F., Tandjaoui, D., Romdhani, I., & Djedjig, N. (2017)
Performance Evaluation of RPL Protocol under Mobile Sybil Attacks. In 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESShttps://doi.org/10.1109/trustcom/bigdatase/icess.2017.351
In Sybil attacks, a physical adversary takes multiple fabricated or stolen identities to maliciously manipulate the network. These attacks are very harmful for the Internet of...

Drizzle: Adaptive and fair route maintenance algorithm for Low-power and Lossy Networks in IoT

Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Nasser, Y., & Boukerche, A. (2017)
Drizzle: Adaptive and fair route maintenance algorithm for Low-power and Lossy Networks in IoT. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). , (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/icc.2017.7996819
Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have been a key component in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. Recently, a standardized algorithm, namely Trickle algorithm, is adopte...

Trust-Based Defence Model Against MAC Unfairness Attacks for IoT

Conference Proceeding
Djedjig, N., Tandjaoui, D., Romdhani, I., & Medjek, F. (2017)
Trust-Based Defence Model Against MAC Unfairness Attacks for IoT. In C. Westphall, K. El-Khatib, D. Krstić, & H. Menouar (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
The vulnerability of IoT networks makes channel access security a serious problem. The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC (Media Access Control) layer faces the risk of attacks from malicious ...

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...

New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol

Conference Proceeding
Romdhani, I., Djedjig, N., Medjek, F., & Tandjaoui, D. (2017)
New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol. In 2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS),https://doi.org/10.1109/iacs.2017.7921993
Establishing trust relationships between routing nodes represents a vital security requirement to establish reliable routing processes that exclude infected or selfish nodes. ...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): A Survey on Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and Technologies Coexistence

Journal Article
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Nasser, Y. (2017)
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): A Survey on Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and Technologies Coexistence. ACM computing surveys, 50(1), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3041956
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has been a key element in e-health to monitor bodies. This technology enables new applications under the umbrella of different domains, inclu...

Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health

Conference Proceeding
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2017)
Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health. In 2016 19th Conference of Open Innovations Association (FRUCT)https://doi.org/10.23919/FRUCT.2016.7892202
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a technology that revolutionises our understanding of the future digitised healthcare systems. WBAN has unique challenges and features com...

Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-00

Working Paper
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Ghaleb, B. Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-00

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Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Ghaleb, B. Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-00
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 lifet...

Securing the Internet of Things

Book
Romdhani, I. (2017)
Li, S. & Da Xu, L. (Eds.). Securing the Internet of Things. Elsevier. ISBN 9780128044582
Key Features Helps researchers and practitioners understand the security architecture in IoT and the state-of-the-art in IoT security countermeasures Explores how the threats...

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