Dr. Imed Romdhani

(IEEE Member)

i.romdhani@napier.ac.uk

 

 

Napier University

School of Computing

Merchiston Campus

10, Colinton Road

EH10 5DT

Edinburgh

UK

 

Office: (+44) 0131 455 2726

Fax: (+44) 0131 455 2727

 

 Biography

Imed Romdhani is a Lecturer in Networking in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University since June 2005.  He obtained an engineering diploma in computer sciences from the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI), Tunis, Tunisia in 1998, and a M.Sc. in networking from Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (ULP), France in 2001.  He received his PhD degree from the University of Technology of Compiegne, France in May 2005. While working toward his PhD, he was a research engineer with Motorola Labs Paris from 2001 to 2005.


 

 RESEARCH        

IP Multicast, Mobile IP, Moving Network (NEMO), Mesh Networks, VANETs, and IP Security. 


 

 Publication

 Patents

 

 

 

  1. Imed Romdhani, "Many-to-Many Embedded Multicast Addressing and Access Control Method", Patent Application Number GB0820316.8, Assigned to Edinburgh Napier University, Published on 12 May 2010.

 

  1. Hong-Yon Lach, Imed Romdhani, "A Network Node, A Communication Network and A Method of Operation Therefor", Patent Publication Number WO2006076104, Assigned to Motorola Inc., Dated 20 July 2006.

 

 

  1. Imed Romdhani, Hong-Yon Lach, Christophe Janneteau, "Multicast Routing", Patent Publication Number WO2006088614, Assigned to Motorola Inc.,  Dated 24 August 2006.

 Book Chapters

 

Imed Romdhani, Hong-Yon Lach, Christophe Janneteau, and Alexandru Petrescu, "Multicast in Mobile IP Networks", Chapter 7 of the book "Mobile Internet: Enabling Technologies and Services", Edited by Salkintzis Apostolis, ISBN: 0849316316, CRC Press LLC April 14, 2004.

 

 

Imed Romdhani, Jerome Durand, et all. "IPv6 Multicast", Chapter 11 of the French book "IPv6: Theory and Practice", 4th edition,  Edited under Gisele Cizault name, ISBN : 2-84177-337-X, November 2005.

 

 

Kevin Chalmers, Jon Kerridge, Imed Romdhani, "Performance Evaluation of JCSP Micro Edition: JCSPme", Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, Volume 64, 2006, Communicating Process Architectures 2006 - WoTUG-29, Pages 31 – 40, ISBN 1-58603-671-8, September 16-20, 2006.

 

 

Kevin Chalmers, Imed Romdhani, Jon Kerridge, "Viewing Mobility at  a Higher Level: Mobile Processes and Mobile Channels", Accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce (EMCC), Volume 2, Edited by Dr. David Taniar, Published by Idea Group Reference, ISBN: 1-59904-002-6, January 2007.

 Journals

 

 

D. Tandjaoui, I. Romdhani, and M. Doudou, "H-MAC: A Multi-Channel Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks", International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC), special issue on “Advances in Grid and Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications”, Pages 40-56, Vol.1, No. 4, December 2009.

 

Imed Romdhani, Mounir Kellil, Hong-Yon Lach, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, and Hatem Bettahar, "IP Mobile Multicast: Challenges and Solutions", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Volume 6, No. 1, First Quarter 2004.

 

Mounir Kellil, Imed Romdhani, Hong-Yon Lach, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, and Hatem Bettahar, "Sender and Receiver Access Control to the Multicast Delivery Tree and its Applicability to the Mobile IP Environment: A survey", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 7, No 2, Pages 46-70, Second Quarter 2005.

 Conferences

 

 

Mustafa Bani Khalaf, Ahmed Y. Al-Dubai, Imed Romdhani, Muneer Bani Yassien, " A Hybrid Intelligent Broadcast Protocol for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs)",  Submitted to the 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Paris – France, 7 - 10 February 2011.

 

Liang Zhao, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Imed Romdhani, "Novel QoS-Aware gateway centrailized multi-hop routing for wireless mesh networks", Proceedings of the IEEE-CIT 2010, pp. 336-342. ISBN 978-0-7695-4108-2, 29 June - 01 July, Bradford, UK, 2010.

 

Imed Romdhani, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Mounir Kellil, "Security and Routing Scoped IP Multicast Addresses",  International Workshop on Design, Optimization and Management of Heterogeneous Networked Systems (DOM-HetNetS'09), Proceedings of The 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’09), Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009.

 

Imed Romdhani, Ahmed Al-Dubai, "Integrated Many-to-Many Multicast Addressing and Access Control Method", Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009.

 

K. Chalmers, J. Kerridge, and I. Romdhani, "Critique of JCSP Networking", Proceedings of the Communicating Process Architectures 2008 (CPA 2008) conference, Edited by in S. Stepney, F. Polack, A. McEwan, P. H. Welch and W. Ifill, IOS Press, York, UK, September 7-10, 2008.

 

D. Tandjaoui, I. Romdhani, A. Al-Dubai, and M. Doudou, "H-MAC: A Multi-Channel Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Symposium on Computer Networks (ISCN’08), ISBN: 978-975-518-295-7, Istanbul, Turkey, June 18-20, 2008.

 

Ahmed Al-Dubai, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Imed Romdhani, "Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication for Multidimensional Mesh Networks", Proceeding of the 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA07), To be published by Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS), Niagara Falls, Canada, August 29-31, 2007.

 

Imed Romdhani, Ahmed Al-Dubai, "Mobile IP Conditional Binding Update", 1st IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communication and Network Management ACNM-2007, Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management Munich, Germany, 21-25 May 2007.

 

Ahmed Al-Dubai, Imed Romdhani, "On the Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication", Accepted to appear in the 6th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC-2007) Hagenberg, Austria, IEEE Computer Society Press, July 5-8, 2007.

 

Djamel Tandjaoui, Nejib Badache, Imed Romdhani, "A New Prioritized Fast Handoff Protocol for Mobile IP", 13th European Wireless Conference, Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications, EW07, IEEE Section France, Paris, April 1-4, 2007

 

Ahmed Al-Dubai, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Imed Romdhani, "On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks", The Second International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4208/2006, Pages 330-339 Munich, Germany, ISSN 0302-9743,  September 13-15, 2006.

 

Ahmed Al-Dubai, Imed Romdhani, "A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms", 5th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering (PARELEC 2006), Bialystok, Poland, 13 - 17 September 2006.

 

Imed Romdhani, Jose Munoz, Hatem Bettahar, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, "Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications", 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06), Pula-Cagliari. Sardinia, Italy, June 26-29, 2006.

 

Imed Romdhani, Jose Munoz, Hatem Bettahar, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, "Adaptive Multicast Membership Management for Mobile Multicast Receivers", 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2006), Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 2006.

 

Imed Romdhani, Jose Munoz, Hatem Bettahar, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, "Mobile Multicast Route Optimisation", IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC'06, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006.

 

Imed Romdhani, Hatem Bettahar, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, "Transparent Handover for Mobile Multicast Sources", 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking ICN'06, Mauritius, April 23-28, 2006.

 

Imed Romdhani, Mounir Kellil, Hong-Yon Lach, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, and Hatem Bettahar, "Mobility-aware Rendezvous Point for Mobile Multicast Sources", Proceedings of the 2nd International Wired/Wireless Internet Communications conference (WWIC 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2957), Pages 62-73, Frankfort (Oder), Germany, February 04 - 06, 2004.

 

Imed Romdhani, Mounir Kellil, Hong-Yon Lach, and Hatem Bettahar, "Problemes des Communications Multipoint en Environnement Mobile IP", Premiere Conference Nationale Mcube - MultiMedia Mobile, Montbeliard Sochaux, Mach 30-31, 2004.

   Reviewer and PC

 

 

Member of the PC of the International Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation in Computer and Telecommunication Networks (PMECT07) in conjunction with ICCCN2007.

Reviewer for Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, since 2006

Reviewer for the Journal of Communication Software and Systems (JCOMSS), since 2006

Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, 2006

Reviewer for IEEE ICC 2006

Reviewer for the International Conference on Security and Network Architectures (SAR 2005)