Outputs (21)

Sir James Macmillan/Hebrides Ensemble LoLa Research between UK and Italy (2015)
Digital Artefact
Ferguson, P. (2015). Sir James Macmillan/Hebrides Ensemble LoLa Research between UK and Italy. [Video]

This video documents the use of Edinburgh Napier University's low-latency research by Sir James Macmillan and the Hebrides Ensemble. The resulting Macmillan Horn Quintet masterclass took place between three sites: Edinburgh, London and Trieste (Ital... Read More about Sir James Macmillan/Hebrides Ensemble LoLa Research between UK and Italy.

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.

E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., & Ekonomou, E. (2015, October). E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks. Presented at IEEE 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications

Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy networks (RPL) is the de-facto standard for routing in resource-constrained low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) which represent the building block for the ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT). RPL along with... Read More about E-Trickle: Enhanced Trickle Algorithm for Low-Power and Lossy Networks.

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.

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.

A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015, September). A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are usually used as a key effective solution to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. Despite many works on clustering in WSNs, this issue is still, however, in its infan... Read More about A New Energy Efficient Cluster based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Towards an augmented authenticator in the Cloud (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitropakis, N., Yfantopoulos, N., Geneiatakis, D., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2014, December). Towards an augmented authenticator in the Cloud. Presented at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Noida, India

Many times in the past, critical infrastructures like e-health and e-government services have become a target of cyber-attacks resulting to manipulation of sensitive information. Meanwhile, there are several approaches applying security and privacy p... Read More about Towards an augmented authenticator in the Cloud.

An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation (2015)
Journal Article
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., Jamshidi, P., & Pahl, C. (2016). An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation. Future Generation Computer Systems, 56, 11-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.09.025

Cloud computing enables a revolutionary paradigm of consuming ICT services. However, due to the inadequately described service information, users often feel confused while trying to find the optimal services. Although some approaches are proposed to... Read More about An agility-oriented and fuzziness-embedded semantic model for collaborative cloud service search, retrieval and recommendation.

Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015, September). Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach. Presented at Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), energy conservation is one of the main concerns challenging the cutting-edge standards and protocols. Most existing studies focus on the design of WSN energy efficient algorithms and standards. The standard IEEE 80... Read More about Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach.

5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector (2015)
Report
Thuemmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Paulin, A., Sadique, A., Schneider, A., Fedell, C., Abraham, D., Trossen, D., Strinati, E. C., Cavallo, F., Feussner, H., Hay, I., Bedo, J., Micocci, S., Nunziata, S., Gallelli, T., & Covaci, S. (2015). 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector. Brussels: EU Commission

Gaston Crommenlaan 1 PO box: 101 9050 Gent Belgium www.5g-ppp.eu 5G and e-Health 1 Socioeconomic drivers of e-Health in Horizon 2020 Although socioeconomically the sector addressed by this white paper is the health sector, the detailed analysis will... Read More about 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector.

ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Imed, R., & Yassien, M. B. (2015, September). ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things. Presented at Proceedings of the The International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015 - ICEMIS '15

Energy is a precious resource in Internet of Things (IoT) especially with battery operated nodes, the overhead that consumes the battery power of the sensor nodes is a fundamental problem. This overhead is mainly caused by the frequent update message... Read More about ATP: Adaptive Tuning Protocol for Service Discovery in Internet of Things.

A decentralized group key management protocol for mobile Internet of things (DBGK) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2015, August). A decentralized group key management protocol for mobile Internet of things (DBGK). Paper presented at The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15)

Architecting the Internet of Things: State of the Art (2015)
Book Chapter
Abdmeziem, M. R., Romdhani, I., & Tandjaoui, D. (2016). Architecting the Internet of Things: State of the Art. In A. Koubaa, & E. Shakshuki (Eds.), Robots and Sensor Clouds; Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (55-75). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22168-7_3

Internet of things (IoT) constitutes one of the most important technological development in the last decade. It has the potential to deeply affect our life style. However, its success relies greatly on a well-defined architecture that will provide sc... Read More about Architecting the Internet of Things: State of the Art.

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.

How do International New Ventures Create Social Capital? A Local and Global Networking Activities Perspective. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Warner, K. S. R., & Jones, M. V. (2015, June). How do International New Ventures Create Social Capital? A Local and Global Networking Activities Perspective. Presented at The Academy of International Business (AIB) Worldwide Annual Meeting

It is widely acknowledged in the international entrepreneurship (IE) literature that social capital is a vital asset for new venture internationalization. Despite a well published body of literature on network based research, it is still unclear as t... Read More about How do International New Ventures Create Social Capital? A Local and Global Networking Activities Perspective..

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..

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.