Imed Romdhani
Imed Romdhani

Dr Imed Romdhani

Associate Professor

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 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 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 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 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 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2016), Granada, Spain, 14-16 December 2016

 

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

 

Date


92 results

BARBEI: a new adaptive battery aware and reliable beacon enabled technique for IEEE802.15.4 MAC.

Book Chapter
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2017)
BARBEI: a new adaptive battery aware and reliable beacon enabled technique for IEEE802.15.4 MAC. In M. Grzenda, J. Furtak, J. Legierski, & A. I. Awad (Eds.), Advances in Networking Systems Architectures, Security, and Applications, (317-335). CHAM: Springer
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard supports both physical and Media Access Con-trol (MAC) layers of low rate Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs). However, this stand-ard considers only the...

A new efficient objective function for routing in Internet of Things paradigm

Conference Proceeding
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Ghaleb, B., & Gharibi, W. (2016)
A new efficient objective function for routing in Internet of Things paradigm. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN). https://doi.org/10.1109/cscn.2016.7785168
Low Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have a crucial role in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. For the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL), two objective functions (OF) ha...

3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application.

Presentation / Conference
Molla, R., Romdhani, I., & Buchanan, B. (2016, November)
3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application. Paper presented at 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2016, Agadir, Morocco
The rapid growth of e-commerce has been associated with a number of security concerns, which challenge its continual success. In view of this, an investigative study determini...

Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks

Conference Proceeding
Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Essa, A. (2016)
Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks. In B. Abdulrazak, E. Pardede, M. Steinbauer, I. Khalil, & G. Anderst-Kotsis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multi Media MoMM'16, (327-331). https://doi.org/10.1145/3007120.3007170
Energy efficiency is one of the major issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), due to the limited power and processing capabilities of the Sensor Nodes (SNs). The clustering...

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....

Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications

Journal Article
Li, S., Romdhani, I., & Buchanan, W. (2016)
Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications. ZTE Communications, 14, 32-36. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.S0.006
Text⁃based passwords are heavily used to defense for many web and mobile applications. In this paper, we investigated the patterns and vulnerabilities for both web and mobile ...

A new distributed MIKEY mode to secure e-health applications.

Conference Proceeding
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2016)
A new distributed MIKEY mode to secure e-health applications. In V. Chang, V. Méndez Muñoz, R. Walters, G. Wills, & M. Ramachandran (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data, (88-95). https://doi.org/10.5220/0005945300880095
Securing e-health applications in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) is challenging. Indeed, resources scarcity in such environment hinders the implementation of existing...

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 ...

A Dynamic Power Tuning for the Constrained Application Protocol of Internet of Things

Conference Proceeding
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassien, M. B. (2015)
A Dynamic Power Tuning for the Constrained Application Protocol of Internet of Things. In I. C. Society, & I. C. Society (Eds.), 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, (1118-1122). https://doi.org/10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.167
Constrained application protocol (CoAP) has been designed for M2M and IoT applications. The resource directory (RD) in CoAP requires periodical updates by other nodes. However...

A Decentralized Batch-Based Group Key Management Protocol for Mobile Internet of Things (DBGK)

Conference Proceeding
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2015)
A Decentralized Batch-Based Group Key Management Protocol for Mobile Internet of Things (DBGK). In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM), (1109-1117). https://doi.org/10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.166
It is anticipated that constrained devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) will often operate in groups to achieve collective monitoring or management tasks. For sensitive and...

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