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Fuzzy-Based Distributed Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (2019)
Journal Article
Hawbani, A., Torbosh, E., Wang, X., Sincak, P., Zhao, L., & Al-Dubai, A. (2021). Fuzzy-Based Distributed Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 29(3), 612-626. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2957254

This paper modeled the multihop data-routing in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks(VANET) as Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in four steps. First, the criteria which have an impact on the performance of the network layer are captured and transformed... Read More about Fuzzy-Based Distributed Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication.

Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs (2019)
Journal Article
Alsarhan, A., Kilani, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Zomaya, A. Y., & Hussain, A. (2020). Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(2), 1568-1581. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2019.2956228

Different studies have recently emphasized the importance of deploying clustering schemes in Vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET) to overcome challenging problems related to scalability, frequent topology changes, scarcity of spectrum resources, maintain... Read More about Novel Fuzzy and Game Theory Based Clustering and Decision Making for VANETs.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019, August). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, Tianjin, China

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) the use of Mobile Sink Nodes (MSNs) has been proposed in order to negate the ”hotspot” issue. This where nodes closest to the sink node shall run out of energy fastest, affecting network lifetime. However, in using... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network (2019)
Journal Article
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network. Sensors, 19(22), Article 4930. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19224930

The hotspot issue in wireless sensor networks, with nodes nearest the sink node losing energy fastest and degrading network lifetime, is a well referenced problem. Mobile sink nodes have been proposed as a solution to this. This does not completely r... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network.

A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Liu, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Tan, Z., Min, G., & Xu, L. (2019, August). A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking. Presented at The 21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China

With the rapid development of mobile applications, networking technologies have been constantly evolved to offer a more convenient way of sharing information and online-communication anytime and anywhere. Vehicular networks have the potential to beco... Read More about A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking.

A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, N., Gao, F., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Tan, Z. (2019, August). A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs. Presented at The 21 IEEE High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China

The number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications has increased over the past few years. Among all scenarios, UAV group consisting multi-UAVs is normally used to provide extensible communications. As a networking solution, Flying Ad Hoc Netw... Read More about A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs.

A reliable route repairing scheme for internet of vehicles (2019)
Journal Article
Banikhalaf, M., Manasrah, A. M., AlEroud, A. F., Hamadneh, N., Qawasmeh, A., & Al-Dubai, A. Y. (2019). A reliable route repairing scheme for internet of vehicles. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 61(3), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2019.102847

Recently, Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) has been recognised as a key solution for vehicular communications. Connected vehicles and infrastructure' roadside units have been shaping the underlying architecture of IoVs technology, where the conventional r... Read More about A reliable route repairing scheme for internet of vehicles.

A Lightweight and Efficient Digital Image Encryption Using Hybrid Chaotic Systems for Wireless Network Applications (2019)
Journal Article
Almalkawi, I. T., Halloush, R., Alsarhan, A., Al-Dubai, A., & Al-karaki, J. N. (2019). A Lightweight and Efficient Digital Image Encryption Using Hybrid Chaotic Systems for Wireless Network Applications. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102384

Due to limited processing capabilities and other constraints of most wireless networks, many existing security algorithms do not consider the network efficiency. This is because most of these security solutions exhibit intolerable overhead and consid... Read More about A Lightweight and Efficient Digital Image Encryption Using Hybrid Chaotic Systems for Wireless Network Applications.

FRCA: A Novel Flexible Routing Computing Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, P., Wang, X., Hawbani, A., Busaileh, O., Zhao, L., & Al-Dubai, A. (2020). FRCA: A Novel Flexible Routing Computing Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 19(11), 2623-2639. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2019.2928805

In wireless sensor networks, routing protocols with immutable network policies lacking the flexibility are generally incapable of maintaining desired performance due to the complicated and changeable environment situations and application requirement... Read More about FRCA: A Novel Flexible Routing Computing Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks.

A novel adaptive routing and switching scheme for software-defined vehicular Networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhoa, L., Zhao, W., Gong, C., Al-Dubai, A., & Min, G. (2019, May). A novel adaptive routing and switching scheme for software-defined vehicular Networks. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications, Shanghai, China

Software-Defined Vehicular Networks (SDVNs) technology has been attracting significant attention as it can make Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) more efficient and intelligent. SDVN provides a flexible architecture which can decouple the network mana... Read More about A novel adaptive routing and switching scheme for software-defined vehicular Networks.

A temporal-information-based adaptive routing algorithm for software defined vehicular networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Li, Z., Li, J., Al-Dubai, A., Min, G., & Zomaya, A. Y. (2019, May). A temporal-information-based adaptive routing algorithm for software defined vehicular networks. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, Shanghai, China

In Software Defined Vehicular Networks (SDVNs), most existing studies of routing consider the vehicular network as a static graph and compute the flow table based on static information. However, a static graph could only contain partial network data.... Read More about A temporal-information-based adaptive routing algorithm for software defined vehicular networks.

A Multi-UAV Clustering Strategy for Reducing Insecure Communication Range (2019)
Journal Article
Wu, J., Zou, L., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Min, G. (2019). A Multi-UAV Clustering Strategy for Reducing Insecure Communication Range. Computer Networks, 158, 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.04.028

Multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight formations can be deployed to monitor large areas. Individual UAVs communicate and exchange information while formation flying. but, such communication presents a security risk. The area between the UAV group... Read More about A Multi-UAV Clustering Strategy for Reducing Insecure Communication Range.

A new security approach for the spectrum access in vehicular networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsarhan, A., Al-Dubai, A., Kilani, Y., & Alkhalidy, M. (2019, February). A new security approach for the spectrum access in vehicular networks. Presented at ICDS 2019 : The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments, Athens, Greece

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been instrumental in intelligent transportation systems that enhances road safety and road management significantly. This technology enables communication among vehicles where drivers can share road information... Read More about A new security approach for the spectrum access in vehicular networks.

A New Load-Balancing Aware Objective Function for RPL's IoT Networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Gharib, W., Mackenzi, L., & Bani Khala, M. (2018, June). A New Load-Balancing Aware Objective Function for RPL's IoT Networks. Presented at 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), Exeter

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.

An adaptive warning message scheme for emergency vehicles using vehicular ad hoc communication (2018)
Journal Article
Banikhalaf, M., Hammad, R., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Ghaleb, B. (2018). An adaptive warning message scheme for emergency vehicles using vehicular ad hoc communication. International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET), 7(4), 3182-3189. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.19+416

Nowadays, traffic management has been a challenging task due to the growing number of vehicles. More specifically, operation management of Emergency Vehicles (EVs) such as ambulances, police force and fire fighting vehicles require extensive industri... Read More about An adaptive warning message scheme for emergency vehicles using vehicular ad hoc communication.

MOSAIC: Simultaneous Localization and Environment Mapping using mmWave without a-priori Knowledge (2018)
Journal Article
Yassin, A., Nasser, Y., Al-Dubai, A., & Awad, M. (2018). MOSAIC: Simultaneous Localization and Environment Mapping using mmWave without a-priori Knowledge. IEEE Access, 6, 68932-68947. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2879436

Simultaneous Localization and environment mapping (SLAM) is the core to robotic mapping and navigation as it constructs simultaneously the unknown environment and localizes the agent within. However, in millimeter wave (mmWave) research, SLAM is stil... Read More about MOSAIC: Simultaneous Localization and Environment Mapping using mmWave without a-priori Knowledge.

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.