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PIM Backup Designated Router Procedure draft-ietf-pim-bdr-03 (2025)
Other
Mishra, M., Budhiraja, A., Neema, J., Romdhani, I., & Mishra, G. (2025). PIM Backup Designated Router Procedure draft-ietf-pim-bdr-03

On a multi-access network, one of the PIM routers is elected as a Designated Router (DR). On the last hop LAN, the PIM DR is responsible for tracking local multicast listeners and forwarding traffic to these listeners if the group is operating in PIM... Read More about PIM Backup Designated Router Procedure draft-ietf-pim-bdr-03.

Shadow-Analyzer: An Efficient Neural Networks-based Ghost Objects Detection for Autonomous Vehicles (2025)
Journal Article
Almaini, A., Folz, . J., Koßmann, T., Böder, R., Al-Dubai, A., Sadik, M., Schramm, M., Heigl, M., Romdhani, I., & Kerrouche, A. (in press). Shadow-Analyzer: An Efficient Neural Networks-based Ghost Objects Detection for Autonomous Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems,

Several studies have been conducted to investigate the security and reliability of object detection systems in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), which rely on sensors such as cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). These studies demonstrate the low... Read More about Shadow-Analyzer: An Efficient Neural Networks-based Ghost Objects Detection for Autonomous Vehicles.

Provision of online digital courses individual licences to Palestinian students (2025)
Report
The Royal Society of Edinburgh. (2025). Provision of online digital courses individual licences to Palestinian students. Royal Society of Edinburgh

A publication of the RSE's report on Scottish higher education sector’s support for conflict settings.

This report, commissioned by the RSE in its role as a convening body, addresses the timely and pressing question: How can the Scottish higher ed... Read More about Provision of online digital courses individual licences to Palestinian students.

Discipline-Sensitive Predictive Analytics for IPA-Driven Building Maintenance Management: Material Stock Quantity Modeling (2025)
Journal Article
Huang, Z., Liu, X., & Romdhani, I. (online). Discipline-Sensitive Predictive Analytics for IPA-Driven Building Maintenance Management: Material Stock Quantity Modeling. Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems, https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewJDSIS52023947

The study introduces a machine learning model for BMM (Building Maintenance Management), which utilized IPA (Intelligent Process Automation) to predict the material stock required in a period, to manage the cost efficiency. Traditional BMM approaches... Read More about Discipline-Sensitive Predictive Analytics for IPA-Driven Building Maintenance Management: Material Stock Quantity Modeling.

Waiting for a Better Time Is a Waste of Time’: Motivations of Learning Amid the Genocide in Gaza in Light of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (2025)
Book Chapter
Aldahdouh, T., Dader, K., AlDahdouh, A., Awadallah, R., & Romdhani, I. (2025). Waiting for a Better Time Is a Waste of Time’: Motivations of Learning Amid the Genocide in Gaza in Light of Sustainable Development Goal 4. In A. Hassoun (Ed.), War on Gaza: Consequences on Sustainability and Global Security (59-77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88500-6_5

The relentless bombardment and blockade on Gaza have not only drastically restricted the inflow of essential food supplies but have also led to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis with unprecedented casualties. The widespread destruction has crippled... Read More about Waiting for a Better Time Is a Waste of Time’: Motivations of Learning Amid the Genocide in Gaza in Light of Sustainable Development Goal 4.

Scalable Machine Learning Architectures for IPA-Driven Maintenance Task Allocation in Large-Scale Building Portfolios (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huang, Z., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Shih, C.-S. (2024, August). Scalable Machine Learning Architectures for IPA-Driven Maintenance Task Allocation in Large-Scale Building Portfolios. Presented at The 7th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (ICISS 2024), Edinburgh, UK

This research presents a groundbreaking approach to Building Maintenance Management (BMM) by introducing an Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)-Driven Building Maintenance Management (IBMM) model. This innovative model harnesses the synergies betwee... Read More about Scalable Machine Learning Architectures for IPA-Driven Maintenance Task Allocation in Large-Scale Building Portfolios.

How Edx Platform Was Used to Save Education in Gaza During the War (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I. (2025, July). How Edx Platform Was Used to Save Education in Gaza During the War. Presented at Open edX Conference 2025, Paris

Following the ongoing war in Gaza since last October, all universities in Gaza have been destroyed and students have been deprived of their right to continue studying like their peers around the world. An Edinburgh Napier academic is spearheading an... Read More about How Edx Platform Was Used to Save Education in Gaza During the War.

ML-Driven Attack Detection in RPL Networks: Exploring Attacker Position's Significance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Ahmad, J., Aldhaheri, T., & Kulkarni, S. (2024, January). ML-Driven Attack Detection in RPL Networks: Exploring Attacker Position's Significance. Presented at 2024 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) plays a pivotal role in IoT communication, employing a rank-based topology to guide routing decisions. However, RPL is vulnerable to Decreased Rank Attacks, where malicious nodes illegitimat... Read More about ML-Driven Attack Detection in RPL Networks: Exploring Attacker Position's Significance.

Lessons Learnt from An Online Pilot Study About Strategic Alignment at A Higher Education Institution (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kachale, T., Demeke, W., Chrysoulas, C., & Romdhani, I. (2023, March). Lessons Learnt from An Online Pilot Study About Strategic Alignment at A Higher Education Institution. Presented at 16th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems (IS 2023), Lisbon, Portugal

This article is a report on the lessons learned when conducting an interpretive case study in a developing country. From the literature review, it was apparent that there are few reported lessons from pilot studies about strategic alignment in higher... Read More about Lessons Learnt from An Online Pilot Study About Strategic Alignment at A Higher Education Institution.

Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Hussain, A., Ahmad, J., Romdhani, I., & Jaroucheh, Z. (2023, June). Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks. Presented at 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2023), Pafos, Cyprus

The Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy networks (RPL) has been developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardization body to serve as a part of the 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) standard, a core... Read More about Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks.

Blockchain for Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems (2023)
Book
Maleh, Y., Alazab, M., & Romdhani, I. (Eds.). (2023). Blockchain for Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25506-9

This book offers the latest research results on blockchain technology and its application for cybersecurity in cyber-physical systems. It presents crucial issues in this field and provides a sample of recent advances and insights into the research pr... Read More about Blockchain for Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems.

An exploratory qualitative study of middle managers' lived experiences in contribution to strategic alignment at a public university (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kachale, T., Demeke, W., Chrysoulas, C., & Romdhani, I. (2023, April). An exploratory qualitative study of middle managers' lived experiences in contribution to strategic alignment at a public university. Presented at 11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'23), Pisa, Italy

This study draws attention to less studied areas of middle management role in business strategy formulation, information strategy formulation, and their alignment in developing countries. It was conducted as a case study at a public university in Mal... Read More about An exploratory qualitative study of middle managers' lived experiences in contribution to strategic alignment at a public university.

Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems for Cyber Threat Intelligence (2022)
Book
Maleh, Y., Alazab, M., Tawalbeh, L., & Romdhani, I. (Eds.). (2022). Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems for Cyber Threat Intelligence. River Publishers

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted to cyber-threat protection of computer systems which is one of the most critical cybersecurity tasks for single users and businesses since even a single attack can result in compromise... Read More about Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems for Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities (2022)
Journal Article
Ashour, G., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Alghazzawi, D. (2022). Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities. Mathematics, 10(17), Article 3148. https://doi.org/10.3390/math10173148

In recent years, educational institutions worked hard to automate their work using more trending technologies that prove the success in supporting decision-making processes. Most the decisions in educational institutions rely on rating the academic r... Read More about Ontology-Based Linked Data to Support Decision Making within Universities.

Multicast DIS attack mitigation in RPL-based IoT-LLNs (2021)
Journal Article
Medjek, F., Tandjaoui, D., Djedjig, N., & Romdhani, I. (2021). Multicast DIS attack mitigation in RPL-based IoT-LLNs. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 61, Article 102939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2021.102939

The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was standardised by the IETF ROLL Working Group to address the routing issues in the Internet of Things (IoT) Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). RPL builds and maintains a Destination... Read More about Multicast DIS attack mitigation in RPL-based IoT-LLNs.

Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Future Cybersecurity Applications (2021)
Book
Maleh, Y., Baddi, Y., Alazab, M., Tawalbeh, L., & Romdhani, I. (Eds.). (2021). Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Future Cybersecurity Applications. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74575-2

Presents the state-of-the-art and the latest discoveries in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain techniques and methods for future cybersecurity applications
Proposes new models, practical solutions and technological advances related... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Future Cybersecurity Applications.

Fault-tolerant AI-driven Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things (2021)
Journal Article
Medjek, F., Tandjaoui, D., Djedjig, N., & Romdhani, I. (2021). Fault-tolerant AI-driven Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 34, Article 100436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2021.100436

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a key component of all advanced critical infrastructures. However, with the challenging nature of IoT, new security breaches have been introduced, especially against the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy... Read More about Fault-tolerant AI-driven Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things.

Ontology-based Course Teacher Assignment within Universities (2020)
Journal Article
Ashour, G., Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2020). Ontology-based Course Teacher Assignment within Universities. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.14569/ijacsa.2020.0110787

Educational institutions suffer from the enormous amount of data that keeps growing continuously. These data are usually scattered and unorganised, and it comes from different resources with different formats. Besides, modernization vision within the... Read More about Ontology-based Course Teacher Assignment within Universities.

Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Hajjaji, Y., Boulila, W., Farah, I. R., Romdhani, I., & Hussain, A. (2021). Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review. Computer Science Review, 39, Article 100318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2020.100318

This paper reviews big data and Internet of Things (IoT)-based applications in smart environments. The aim is to identify key areas of application, current trends, data architectures, and ongoing challenges in these fields. To the best of our knowled... Read More about Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review.

Lightweight edge authentication for software defined networks (2020)
Journal Article
Almaini, A., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Schramm, M., & Alsarhan, A. (2021). Lightweight edge authentication for software defined networks. Computing, 103, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-020-00835-4

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 is required by network operators to apply new packet encapsulations. While... Read More about Lightweight edge authentication for software defined networks.