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A new adaptive probabilistic broadcast protocol for vehicular networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A. Y., Khalaf, M. B., Gharibi, W., & Ouenniche, J. (2015, May). A new adaptive probabilistic broadcast protocol for vehicular networks. Presented at 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC Spring 2015

In VANETs, there are many applications that use broadcast communication as a fundamental operational tool, in disseminating information of interest to other road users under the umbrella of both safety and entertainment applications. Recently, the pr... Read More about A new adaptive probabilistic broadcast protocol for vehicular networks.

Stable Infrastructure-based routing for Intelligent transportation systems (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. P. (2015, June). Stable Infrastructure-based routing for Intelligent transportation systems. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Undoubtedly, ITS applications wil... Read More about Stable Infrastructure-based routing for Intelligent transportation systems.

Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Thuemmler, C. (2015). Mobilfunk 5G Die ferngesteuerte Welt

Erst die neue Mobilfunkgeneration 5G soll den Durchbruch für
die Industrie 4.0 bringen. Während die Forschung schon um die
ersten Patente wetteifert, fürchten Kritiker das Ende der
Netzneutralität

New efficient velocity-aware probabilistic route discovery schemes for high mobility Ad hoc networks (2015)
Journal Article
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Min, G. (2015). New efficient velocity-aware probabilistic route discovery schemes for high mobility Ad hoc networks. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 81(1), 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2014.06.014

Most existing route discovery schemes in MANETs are based on probabilistic models by which MANETs usually deploy broadcast mechanisms to discover routes between nodes. This is implemented by flooding the network with routing requests (RREQ) packets w... Read More about New efficient velocity-aware probabilistic route discovery schemes for high mobility Ad hoc networks.

Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2014, April). Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs. Presented at IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey

Intelligent Transportation Systems have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Broadcasting transmission is an essentia... Read More about Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs.

Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2013, November). Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have been attracting tremendous attention in both academia and industry due to emerging applications that pave the way towards safer enjoyable journeys and inclusive digital partnerships. Undoubtedly, these I... Read More about Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks..

An Inter-channel and Intra-channel Dynamic Wavelength/Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Integrated Hybrid PON with Wireless Technologies for Next Generation Broadband Access Networks (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moradpoor, N., Parr, G., Mcclean, S., & Scotney, B. (2013, August). An Inter-channel and Intra-channel Dynamic Wavelength/Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Integrated Hybrid PON with Wireless Technologies for Next Generation Broadband Access Networks. Presented at AFIN 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, Barcelona, Spain

Optical and wireless technology integration schemes merge the high-speed and high-capacity of the optical networks with the low-cost, wide-coverage and mobility features of wireless counterparts for Subscriber Stations (SSs). It is also financially v... Read More about An Inter-channel and Intra-channel Dynamic Wavelength/Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Integrated Hybrid PON with Wireless Technologies for Next Generation Broadband Access Networks.

Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers’ perspective (2013)
Thesis
Irvine, R. J. Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers’ perspective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6125

Organisational information systems development (OISD) projects have long been associated with failure. Not surprisingly, the cost of these failures is enormous. Yet, despite numerous studies, understanding of real-world projects is limited. In partic... Read More about Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers’ perspective.

A new analytical model for multi-hop cognitive radio networks (2012)
Journal Article
Wu, Y., Min, G., & Al-Dubai, A. (2012). A new analytical model for multi-hop cognitive radio networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 11, 1643-1648. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2012.030812.111106

The cognitive radio (CR) is an emerging technique for increasing the utilisation of communication resources by allowing the unlicensed users to employ the under-utilised spectrum. In this paper, a new analytical performance model is developed to eval... Read More about A new analytical model for multi-hop cognitive radio networks.

Coopetitive architecture to support a dynamic and scalable NFC based mobile services architecture. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, October). Coopetitive architecture to support a dynamic and scalable NFC based mobile services architecture

Near Field Communication (NFC) has reinvigorated the multi-application smart card initiative. The NFC trials are relying on an extension of Issuer Centric Smart Card Model (ICOM) referred as Trusted Service Manager (TSM) architecture, which may creat... Read More about Coopetitive architecture to support a dynamic and scalable NFC based mobile services architecture..

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..

Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks: a survey (2012)
Book Chapter
Zhao, L., & Al-Dubai, A. (2012). Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks: a survey. In Recent Advances in Computer Science and Information Engineering (311-316). (127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25769-8_45

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a key emerging technology to construct next generation wireless multi-hop network. It combines the advantages of both mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) and traditional fixed network, attracting significant industrial and ac... Read More about Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks: a survey.

The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yassein, M. B., Nimer, S. F., & Al-Dubai, A. (2010, June). The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks

Broadcasting is an essential operation in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) to transmit the message (data packet) from the sender to all other nodes in the network. Flooding is the simplest mechanism for broadcast operations, where each node retransmit... Read More about The effects of network density of a new counter-based broadcasting scheme in mobile ad hoc networks..

Tradeoffs between latency, complexity and load balancing with multicast algorithms (2010)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2010). Tradeoffs between latency, complexity and load balancing with multicast algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 59, 159-173. https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2009.104

The increasing number of collective communication-based services with a mass interest and the parallel increasing demand for service quality are paving the way toward end-to-end QoS guarantees. Although many multicast algorithms in interconnection ne... Read More about Tradeoffs between latency, complexity and load balancing with multicast algorithms.

The VoIP intrusion detection through a LVQ-based neural network. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zheng, L., & Peng, T. (2009, November). The VoIP intrusion detection through a LVQ-based neural network. Paper presented at The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions

Being a fast-growing Internet application, Voice over Internet Protocol shares the network resources with the regular Internet traffic. However it is susceptible to the existing security holes of the Internet. In this paper, a highly effective VoIP i... Read More about The VoIP intrusion detection through a LVQ-based neural network..

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.

Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks (2009)
Journal Article
Garrigues, C., Migas, N., Buchanan, W., Robles, S., & Borrell, J. (2009). Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks. Journal of Systems and Software, 82(2), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2008.05.018

This paper presents a protocol for the protection of mobile agents against external replay attacks. This kind of attacks are performed by malicious platforms when dispatching an agent multiple times to a remote host, thus making it reexecute part of... Read More about Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks.