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A New Load-Balancing Aware Objective Function for RPL's IoT Networks (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Gharib, W., Mackenzi, L., & Bani Khala, M. (2019). A New Load-Balancing Aware Objective Function for RPL's IoT Networks. In 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS). https://doi.org/10.1109/hpcc/smartcity/dss.2018.00151

The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) has been recently standardized as the de facto solution for routing in the context of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. RPL, along with other standards, has provided a bas... Read More about A New Load-Balancing Aware Objective Function for RPL's IoT Networks.

Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks (2018)
Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Mackenzie, L. (2019). 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 insider node can exploit this feature to send fake DAOs to its parents period... Read More about Addressing the DAO Insider Attack in RPL’s Internet of Things Networks.

A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations (2018)
Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Ekonomou, E., Alsarhan, A., Nasser, Y., Mackenzie, L. M., & Boukerche, A. (2019). A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 21(2), 1607-1635. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2018.2874356

Driven by the special requirements of the Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs), the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL) was standardized by the IETF some six years ago to tackle the routing issue in such networks. Since its introduction, however, num... Read More about A Survey of Limitations and Enhancements of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks: A Focus on Core Operations.

A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT (2018)
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 Journal, 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 the currently standardized routing maintenance (i.e. Trickle algorithm) in s... Read More about A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT.

Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2017, November). Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML. Presented at FTC 2017 - Future Technologies Conference 2017

The paper discuss possible cloud-based Information Rights Management (IRM) model extension with enhanced accountability for both a sticky policy and an attached data. This work compliments research on secure data sharing with Office Open XML (OOX... Read More about Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML..

Sticky policies approach within cloud computing (2017)
Journal Article
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2017). Sticky policies approach within cloud computing. Computers and Security, 70, 366-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2017.07.005

This paper discusses a secure document sharing approach, which addresses confidentiality, integrity and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data sharing. This research is focused on a secure construct that would integrate with other cloud re... Read More about Sticky policies approach within cloud computing.

A new enhanced RPL based routing for Internet of Things (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., & Wadhaj, I. (2017). A new enhanced RPL based routing for Internet of Things. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962723

The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) has been recently standardized for routing in the constrained Internet of Things networks. Unfortunately, the RPL storing mode has been found restricted by storage limitations in the ro... Read More about A new enhanced RPL based routing for Internet of Things.

Trickle-Plus: Elastic Trickle algorithm for Low-power networks and Internet of Things (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Paechter, B., & Qasem, M. (2016). Trickle-Plus: Elastic Trickle algorithm for Low-power networks and Internet of Things. In Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2016 IEEE (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2016.7564654

Constrained Low-power and Lossy networks (LLNs) represent the building block for the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT) that deploy the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy networks (RPL) as a key routing standard. RPL, along with other routin... Read More about Trickle-Plus: Elastic Trickle algorithm for Low-power networks and Internet of Things.

Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2016). Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML. In Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Technically Sponsored SAI Computing Conference 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2016.7556117

This paper proposes a secure document sharing construction, which addresses confidentiality and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data sharing. The goal of this research is to find an efficient way to share data in the cloud across various... Read More about Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML.

E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., & Ekonomou, E. (2015). E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks. 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). https://doi.org/10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.168

Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy networks (RPL) is the de-facto standard for routing in resource-constrained low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) which represent the building block for the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT). RPL along with... Read More about E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks.