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An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Pahl, C. (2015). An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-015-0039-3

Cloud computing offers various computational resources via convenient on-demand service provision. Currently, heterogeneous services and cloud resources are usually utilized and managed through diverse service portals. This significantly limits the e... Read More about An approach to unified cloud service access, manipulation and dynamic orchestration via semantic cloud service operation specification framework.

A Loosely-coupled Semantic Model for Efficient Cloud Service Search and Retrieval. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., & Romdhani, I. (2015, May). A Loosely-coupled Semantic Model for Efficient Cloud Service Search and Retrieval. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

As cloud services propagate along with the rapid development of cloud computing, issues raised in service selection and retrieval processes become increasingly critical. While many approaches are proposed on the specification and discovery of cloud s... Read More about A Loosely-coupled Semantic Model for Efficient Cloud Service Search and Retrieval..

Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Essa, A., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2014, June). Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at International Conference on Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications : INDS 2014, Bejaia, Algeria

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently become an integral part of a wide range of systems such as surveillance, target tracking, security and health management systems. WSNs deploy a large number of sensor nodes that cooperate to... Read More about Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks..

Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Molla, R., Romdhani, I., Buchanan, W. J., & Fadel, E. Y. (2014, June). Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications. Paper presented at International Conference on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications 2014

E-commerce applications provide on-line clients and merchants with a quick and convenient way to exchange goods and services. However, the deployment of these applications is still facing many problems such as security threats; and on-line attacks. T... Read More about Mobile User Authentication System for E-commerce Applications..

Many-to-Many embedded multicast addressing and access control method. (2012)
Patent
Romdhani, I. (2012). Many-to-Many embedded multicast addressing and access control method

A new addressing scheme for multicast IP with an extended scope field to include access rights. A new addressing scheme for multicast communications is disclosed. A new extended scope field is used which embeds a plurality of hierarchical scopes and... Read More about Many-to-Many embedded multicast addressing and access control method..

Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Zhao, H. (2012, July). Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology. Presented at 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops

Cloud Computing introduces a revolutionary paradigm of computing to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), by provisioning various types of computational resources and applications as on-demand services. While presenting cloud services semantically usi... Read More about Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology.

Experimental investigation of link layer adaptation in IEEE 802.11n WLANs (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Adhami, M., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2012). Experimental investigation of link layer adaptation in IEEE 802.11n WLANs. In 11th IEEE International Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/wts.2012.6266144

Due to its low cost wireless communication methodology and improvements in both its physical (PHY) and MAC (Link) layers, the IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology has been adopted widely. However, fairness of current 802.11n rate adaptation (R... Read More about Experimental investigation of link layer adaptation in IEEE 802.11n WLANs.

Student project performance management system for effective final year and dissertation projects supervision. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Tawse, M., & Habibullah, S. (2011, November). Student project performance management system for effective final year and dissertation projects supervision. Paper presented at London International Conference on Education LICE-2011

This paper presents the features of a new integrated and collaborative online supervision system for final year and dissertation projects. The system is currently under development and it aims to ease the supervision process, federate the tasks of al... Read More about Student project performance management system for effective final year and dissertation projects supervision..

Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2010, June). Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks. Presented at 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

Wireless Mesh Networking (WMN) emerges as a new technology to reshape the broadband industry towards a more efficient and cost effective connectivity. The WMN has been the ideal technology for the next generation wireless community networks that offe... Read More about Novel QoS-Aware Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks.

Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., & Kellil, M. (2009). Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses. In International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops, 2009. ICPPW '09 (228-235). https://doi.org/10.1109/icppw.2009.81

IP multicast is an efficient and scalable network layer delivering method for multimedia content to a large number of receivers across the Internet. It saves the network bandwidth and optimizes the processing overhead of the source. However, current... Read More about Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses.

FH-MAC: A Multi-Channel Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks (2009)
Journal Article
Tandjaoui, D., Doudou, M., & Romdhani, I. (2009). FH-MAC: A Multi-Channel Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, 1(4), 40-56. https://doi.org/10.4018/jghpc.2009070804

In this article, the authors propose a new hybrid MAC protocol named H-MAC for wireless mesh networks. This protocol combines CSMA and TDMA schemes according to the contention level. In addition, it exploits channel diversity and provides a medium ac... Read More about FH-MAC: A Multi-Channel Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks.

Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., & Yassin Al-Dubai, A. (2009, July). Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method. Presented at 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia

IP multicast is an efficient method for distributing multimedia content to a large number of receivers while saving the network bandwidth and reducing processing overhead on the source side. However, current IP multicast deployment figure is still fa... Read More about Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method.

A multi-channel hybrid MAC protocol for wireless Mesh networks. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2008). A multi-channel hybrid MAC protocol for wireless Mesh networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Symposium on Computer Networks (ISCN?08), Istanbul, Turkey

A critique of JCSP networking (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., Kerridge, J., & Romdhani, I. (2008, September). A critique of JCSP networking. Presented at 31st Communicating Process Architectures 2008, York, UK

We present a critical investigation of the current implementation of JCSP Networking, examining in detail the structure and behavior of the current architecture. Information is presented detailing the current architecture and how it operates, and wea... Read More about A critique of JCSP networking.

Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Romdhani, I. (2007, August). Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks. Presented at 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA07), Naigara Falls, Canada

This paper addresses the issue of multicast communication in scalable interconnection networks, using path-based scheme. Most existing multicast algorithms either assume a fixed network size, low dimensional networks or only consider the latency at... Read More about Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks.

Mobility in JCSP: new mobile channel and mobile process models. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., Kerridge, J., & Romdhani, I. (2007, December). Mobility in JCSP: new mobile channel and mobile process models. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2007 WoTug-30

The original package developed for network mobility in JCSP, although useful, revealed some limitations in the underlying models permitting code mobility and channel migration. In this paper, we discuss these limitations, as well as describe the new... Read More about Mobility in JCSP: new mobile channel and mobile process models..

On The Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2007, July). On The Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication. Presented at Sixth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'07)

The efficient and high throughput multicast communication in interconnection networks is known as a fundamental but hard problem. In the literature, most of the related works handle multicast communication within limited operating conditions and low... Read More about On The Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication.

Mobile IP conditional binding update. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2007). Mobile IP conditional binding update. In 1st IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communication and Network Management ACNM-2007, 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (64-70)

Mobile IP protocols use a correspondent registration procedure between a Mobile Node (MN) and its Correspondent Nodes (CNs) to maintain a valid and up-to-date binding association between MN’s home address and its current care-ofaddress whenever a han... Read More about Mobile IP conditional binding update..