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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...