All Outputs (98)

Trust-Based Defence Model Against MAC Unfairness Attacks for IoT (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Djedjig, N., Tandjaoui, D., Romdhani, I., & Medjek, F. (2017, July). Trust-Based Defence Model Against MAC Unfairness Attacks for IoT. Presented at The Thirteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

The vulnerability of IoT networks makes channel access security a serious problem. The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC (Media Access Control) layer faces the risk of attacks from malicious nodes which attempts to get a dominating position and hold unfair advantage... Read More about Trust-Based Defence Model Against MAC Unfairness Attacks for IoT.

Performance evaluation of RPL metrics in environments with strained transmission ranges. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2016, November). Performance evaluation of RPL metrics in environments with strained transmission ranges. Presented at 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Agadir, Morocco

An examination of existing studies in the area of Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) implementation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) reveals a consistent approach taken of optimal node distribution. This in order to best evalua... Read More about Performance evaluation of RPL metrics in environments with strained transmission ranges..

New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Djedjig, N., Medjek, F., & Tandjaoui, D. (2017, April). New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol. Presented at 2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS)

Establishing trust relationships between routing nodes represents a vital security requirement to establish reliable routing processes that exclude infected or selfish nodes. In this paper, we propose a new security scheme for the Internet of things... Read More about New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol.

Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2016, November). Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health. Presented at 2016 19th Conference of Open Innovations Association (FRUCT), Jyväskylä, Finland

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a technology that revolutionises our understanding of the future digitised healthcare systems. WBAN has unique challenges and features compared to other wireless sensor networks. In addition to battery power consu... Read More about Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health.

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): A Survey on Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and Technologies Coexistence (2017)
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), Article 3. 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, including the medical field, the entertainment and ambient intelligence areas. T... Read More about Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN): A Survey on Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and Technologies Coexistence.

Securing the Internet of Things (2017)
Book
Romdhani, I. (2017). S. Li, & L. Da Xu (Eds.), Securing the Internet of Things. Elsevier

Key Features

Helps researchers and practitioners understand the security architecture in IoT and the state-of-the-art in IoT security countermeasures
Explores how the threats in IoT are different from traditional ad hoc or infrastructural network... Read More about Securing the Internet of Things.

BARBEI: a new adaptive battery aware and reliable beacon enabled technique for IEEE802.15.4 MAC. (2017)
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). 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 ideal linear power consumption, omitting the fact that the diffu-sion prin... Read More about BARBEI: a new adaptive battery aware and reliable beacon enabled technique for IEEE802.15.4 MAC..

A new efficient objective function for routing in Internet of Things paradigm (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., Ghaleb, B., & Gharibi, W. (2016, October). A new efficient objective function for routing in Internet of Things paradigm. Presented at 2016 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN)

Low Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) have a crucial role in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. For the IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (RPL), two objective functions (OF) have been standardized so far, namely (Objective Function zero (OF0), and the... Read More about A new efficient objective function for routing in Internet of Things paradigm.

3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Molla, R., Romdhani, I., & Buchanan, B. (2016, November). 3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application. Paper presented at 13th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2016

The rapid growth of e-commerce has been associated with a number of security concerns, which challenge its continual success. In view of this, an investigative study determining the most secure and convenient solution to protect online clients has be... Read More about 3LS-authenticate: an e-commerce challenge-response mobile application..

Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Essa, A. (2016, November). Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multi Media - MoMM '16, Singapore

Energy efficiency is one of the major issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), due to the limited power and processing capabilities of the Sensor Nodes (SNs). The clustering techniques proved to be the effective solution to improve the energy effic... Read More about Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Cooja Simulator Manual (2016)
Report
Thomson, C., Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A., Qasem, M., Ghaleb, B., & Wadhaj, I. (2016). Cooja Simulator Manual. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University

While Cooja has been proven to be an ideal tool for the simulation of RPL in WSNs, there are challenges involved in its use, particularly in regard to a lack of documentation. The Contiki website provides an image of Instant Contiki which can then be... Read More about Cooja Simulator Manual.

Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications (2016)
Journal Article
Li, S., Romdhani, I., & Buchanan, W. (2016). Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications. ZTE Communications, 14, 32-36. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.S0.006

Text⁃based passwords are heavily used to defense for many web and mobile applications. In this paper, we investigated the patterns and vulnerabilities for both web and mobile applications based on conditions of the Shannon entropy, Guessing entropy a... Read More about Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications.

Distributed and compressed MIKEY mode to secure end-to-end communications in the Internet of things (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdmeziem, R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2016, June). Distributed and compressed MIKEY mode to secure end-to-end communications in the Internet of things. Presented at 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services, San Francisco, USA

Multimedia Internet KEYing protocol (MIKEY) aims at establishing secure credentials between two communicating entities. However, existing MIKEY modes fail to meet the requirements of low-power and low-processing devices. To address this issue, we com... Read More about Distributed and compressed MIKEY mode to secure end-to-end communications in the Internet of things.

A new distributed MIKEY mode to secure e-health applications. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2016, April). A new distributed MIKEY mode to secure e-health applications. Presented at International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (IoTBD 2016)

Securing e-health applications in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) is challenging. Indeed, resources scarcity in such environment hinders the implementation of existing standard based protocols. Among these protocols, MIKEY (Multimedia Interne... Read More about A new distributed MIKEY mode to secure e-health applications..

A Decentralized Batch-Based Group Key Management Protocol for Mobile Internet of Things (DBGK) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2015, October). A Decentralized Batch-Based Group Key Management Protocol for Mobile Internet of Things (DBGK). Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing

It is anticipated that constrained devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) will often operate in groups to achieve collective monitoring or management tasks. For sensitive and mission-critical sensing tasks, securing multicast applications is therefo... Read More about A Decentralized Batch-Based Group Key Management Protocol for Mobile Internet of Things (DBGK).

Level Crossing Rate of Ratio of Product of Two k-u Random Variables and Nakagami-m Random Variable (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Krstie, D., Romdhani, I., Yassein, M. M. B., Minić, S., Petković, G., & Milacic, P. (2015, October). Level Crossing Rate of Ratio of Product of Two k-u Random Variables and Nakagami-m Random Variable. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing

In this paper, ratio of product of two k-μ random variables and Nakagami-m random variable is analyzed. Statistical characteristics of ratio of product of two k-μ random variables and Nakagami-m random variable can be applied in performance analysis... Read More about Level Crossing Rate of Ratio of Product of Two k-u Random Variables and Nakagami-m Random Variable.

Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wadhaj, I., Kristof, I., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2015, October). Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing

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 a routing protocol for low-power and lossy-networks such as (RPL) would per... Read More about Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks.

A Dynamic Power Tuning for the Constrained Application Protocol of Internet of Things (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassien, M. B. (2015, October). A Dynamic Power Tuning for the Constrained Application Protocol of Internet of Things. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing

Constrained application protocol (CoAP) has been designed for M2M and IoT applications. The resource directory (RD) in CoAP requires periodical updates by other nodes. However, a regular update process causes extra signaling overhead and drains the n... Read More about A Dynamic Power Tuning for the Constrained Application Protocol of Internet of Things.

Mobility And Energy Extensions For The IEEE 802.15.4 Standard (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Guibene, W. (2015, December). Mobility And Energy Extensions For The IEEE 802.15.4 Standard. Presented at Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia - MoMM 2015

The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is designed for low-power and low-rate wireless Personal Area Networks. Although energy is a key parameter in shaping the communication and interaction methods of wireless sensor nodes, the specification of the MAC layer do... Read More about Mobility And Energy Extensions For The IEEE 802.15.4 Standard.

An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015, December). An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia - MoMM 2015

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are among the effective solutions to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. During the iterative re-clustering process, extra energy and time are consumed especially at th... Read More about An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.