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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 as a publication co-chair of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData-2017)

 

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

 

Date


92 results

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...

An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Conference Proceeding
Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015)
An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In G. Anderst-Kotsis, I. Khalil, M. Steinbaur, & L. Chen (Eds.), MoMM 2015 Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, (189-194). https://doi.org/10.1145/2837126.2837149
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are among the effective solutions to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. During the iterative...

Mobility And Energy Extensions For The IEEE 802.15.4 Standard

Conference Proceeding
Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Guibene, W. (2015)
Mobility And Energy Extensions For The IEEE 802.15.4 Standard. In L. Luke Chen, M. Steinbauer, I. Khalil, & G. Anderst-Kotsis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, (318-321). https://doi.org/10.1145/2837126.2837167
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is designed for low-power and low-rate wireless Personal Area Networks. Although energy is a key parameter in shaping the communication and interact...

A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Conference Proceeding
Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015)
A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In I. C. Society (Ed.), 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), (1209-1214). https://doi.org/10.15439/2015F193
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are usually used as a key effective solution to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. Despite m...

An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation

Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., Jamshidi, P., & Pahl, C. (2016)
An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 56, 11-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.09.025
Cloud computing enables a revolutionary paradigm of consuming ICT services. However, due to the inadequately described service information, users often feel confused while try...

Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach

Conference Proceeding
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015)
Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach. In M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, & M. Paprzycki (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, (1267-1272). https://doi.org/10.15439/2015F118
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), energy conservation is one of the main concerns challenging the cutting-edge standards and protocols. Most existing studies focus on the de...

ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things

Conference Proceeding
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Imed, R., & Yassien, M. B. (2015)
ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things. In ICEMIS '15 Proceedings of the The International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015https://doi.org/10.1145/2832987.2833058
Energy is a precious resource in Internet of Things (IoT) especially with battery operated nodes, the overhead that consumes the battery power of the sensor nodes is a fundame...

A load-balancing cluster based protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Presentation / Conference
Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassien, M. B. (2015, September)
A load-balancing cluster based protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN'15), Lodz, Poland

A decentralized group key management protocol for mobile Internet of things (DBGK)

Presentation / Conference
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2015, August)
A decentralized group key management protocol for mobile Internet of things (DBGK). Paper presented at The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15

Architecting the Internet of Things: State of the Art

Book Chapter
Abdmeziem, M. R., Romdhani, I., & Tandjaoui, D. (2016)
Architecting the Internet of Things: State of the Art. In A. Koubaa, & E. Shakshuki (Eds.), Robots and Sensor Clouds; Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, (55-75). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22168-7_3
Internet of things (IoT) constitutes one of the most important technological development in the last decade. It has the potential to deeply affect our life style. However, its...

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