Professional Activities

Editorship of Refereed International Journals Associate Editor of Refereed International Journal

• Editorial Board Member, Connection Science, Taylor & Francis Group, London, England, 2020-present.

• Associate Editor, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2018-present.

• Associate Editor, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Inderscience Publishers, 2014-present.

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Embedded Systems, Inderscience Publishers, 2013-2015, 2018-present.

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2020 - 2022. 

Guest Editorship of Refereed International Journal

• Guest Editor (with Sami Souihi and Hai Anh Tran) Electronics (MDPI) Issue on the Advances in Communications Software and Services, 2021

• International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley--Special Issue on Smart Communications for Autonomous Systems in Network Technologies, 2018.

• Special issue of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Vol. 7, No. 3, (2013), Inderscience Publishers.

Refereed International Conferences and Workshops

Current

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS'24)

Past

• Steering Committee,  International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec-2023) 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC: Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (NGNI 2023) 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom ; Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (NGNI 2023) 

• Member, Program Committee,  IEEE High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2023)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC'23 - SAC-02 Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage (CCNS) Track

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE  International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022)- Track on Mobile and Wireless Computing 

• Chair (Publicity), ACM International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT 2022) 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC'22 - SAC-02 CCNS Track

• Symposium Chair, IEEE ICC 2022- Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (NGNI)

• Chair (Technical Program Co-Chair), IEEE High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2021)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom ; Communication Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications (CSSMA 2021) Symposium 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Cyber Security in Networking (CSNet 2020 )

• Chair (Program Chair), IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE EUC 2020) 

• Chair (Publicity), IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE 2020) 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom ; Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (NGNI 2020) 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020) 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International workshop on Next Generation Road Weather and Air Pollution Services (NG-ROWS), Co-located with the 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2020-Spring

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2019) 

• Chair (International Steering Committee) & Chair (Publicity),The 7th International Conference on Smart City and Informatization (iSCI 2019) .

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom ; Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (NGNI 2019) 

• Symposium Chair, IEEE ICC 2019 ONS.

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC: SAC Special Track 2019 

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC : Next-Generation Networking and Internet (NGNI 2019)

• Member, Program Committee, Panel and Workshop, IEEE WCNC 2019

• Chair (International Steering Committee) & co-Chair (TPC), 7th International Conference on Smart CommuniCations in Network Technologies (SaCoNet 2018)

• Chair (Publicity), The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2019)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2018 - NGNI

• Chair (Publicity), The 18th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2018)

• Chair (Publicity), The IEEE SmartWorld 2018.

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT 2018)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 -NGNI (Next-Generation Networking and Internet).

• Member, Program Committee, ACM MobiMWareHN'17 Workshop (International Workshop on Mobility, Interference and MiddleWare Management in HetNets) to be held in conjunction with 18th ACM MobiHoc 2017.

• Chair (Publicity), The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT 2017)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2017 - Selected Areas in Communications--Cloud Communications and Networking (SAS-CCN)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2017 - Selected Areas in Communications--Cloud Communications and Networking (SAS-CCN)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2017 -Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium (AHSN)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC2017: WT04-5thIEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA 2017)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT 2016)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 - Selected Areas in Communications: Cloud Networks

• Member, Program Committee, ACM MobiMWareHN'16 Workshop (International Workshop on Mobility, Interference and MiddleWare Management in HetNets), held in conjunction with 17th ACM MobiHoc 2016.

• Workshop Co-Chair IEEE Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2016)

•  Workshop Chair, 6th International Conference on Smart CommuniCations in Network Technologies (SaCCoNet 2016)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC 2016 - Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (NGN)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2015

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE VTC 2015 - Track connected vehicle

• Chair (Publicity) International Conference on Smart Urban Mobility Services (SUMS 2015)

• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Safety and Security in Internet of Things (SaSeIoT 2015)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'15)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2015)

• Member, Program Committee, ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (2015)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2015)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC - Workshop SCPA (2015) -Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC- Workshop CoCoNet (2015) - Cooperative and Cognitive Mobile Networks

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2015)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom workshop: Telecommunications Standards - From Research to Standards (TCS 2014)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on SpaIoT (IEEE SpaIoT-14), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2014)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing (IEEE UbiSafe-14), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2014)

• Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Wireless Sensors Networks for Mobile Health (WSN4Health 2014), held in conjunction with Fourth International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking (MoWNet 2014)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM e-Health, Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications (SAC'2014)

• Workshop Chair, IEEE Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT 2014)

• TPC Co-Chair, Technical Program, The 12th International Conference on Wired & Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2014)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Internet of Things, (QShine 2014)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices (ETSD 2014) held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2014)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) 16th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (HEALTHCOM 2014)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2014)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2014)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2013)

• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets 2013)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2013)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF 2013)

• Proceeding Chair, IEEE Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT 2013)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing (IEEE UbiSafe-13), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2013)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) The 5th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2013), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (HEALTHCOM 2013)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICC'13 - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA 2013)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2013)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Workshop Theory and Applications for Environmental Issues Using Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop (SeNTApE) in conjunction with IWCMC 2013

• Member, Program Committee, 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 2012)

• Vice-Chair (Publicity) 2nd IEEE Swedish Communication Technologies Workshop (SWE-CTW 2012)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE 17th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-12)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Frontiers in Ubiquitous Computing, Networking and Applications (NeoFusion 2012) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2012)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing (IEEE UbiSafe-12 and UbiSafe-13) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2011 - 2013)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Privacy, Security and Trust in Mobile and Wireless Systems (MobiPST 2012) held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2012)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2012)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Workshop VANETs from Theory to Practice (VTP 2012) held in conjunction with The Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 - Communication Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2011-2012)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2012)

• Co-Chair (TPC) Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium 2012 and TPC 2011

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE ICNC’12 - CSS (International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Communication Software and Services Symposium).

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2010 - 2012 and TPC 2009), held in conjunction with IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop SaCoNaS (2011) – Smart Communications for Autonomous Systems

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM - Communication Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium (CSSMA 2010 - 2011)

• Member, Program Committee, IARIA The First International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users (MOBILITY 2011)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2008, 2011)

• Chair IEEE international workshop on multimedia communications and networking (MultiCom 2011), held in conjunction with IEEE ScalCom 2011

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE/IFIP Fourth International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'11), Paris, France, February 2011.

• Member, Program Committee, ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access Protocols (MobiWAC 2007 - 2009 and 2011), held in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM).

• Co-Chair (Publicity) 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless & Internet Services (WISe 2010), held in conjunction with 35th IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2010).

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking, and Information Security (WCNIS 2010), Wireless Network Symposium.

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Information TEchnologies & Applications(CUTE2010)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Symposium on Smart Homes (SH-2010), held in conjuction with 5th International Conference on Future Information Technology, (FutureTech 2010).

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Wireless Communications Symposium (WC)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2010)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet2010), held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2010.

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications (ICUT-09)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications (VCNA 2009)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems (NGWS 2009)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009)

• Editorial Board Special Issue on "Advanced Intelligent Multimedia Applications for Next Generation Environments", International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) by Springer (2009)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) International Workshop on Mobility and its Applications, held in conjunction with the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'09)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing Communications (EUC 2008)

• Member, Program Committee, ACM International Workshop on Performance and Analysis of Wireless Networks (PAWN 2008), held in conjunction with The International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems (Mobility 2008) , September 2008

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers and Applications (MIC-CCA 2008)

• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Signals and Coding (MIC-CSC 2008)

Refereed Technical Reviewer for the International Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2024)

• International Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier (2010 - 2015, 2023-2024)

• IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (2023)

• Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier (2010, 2020, 2022)

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics  (2019-2022)

• IEEE Communications Letters (2012 - 2014, 2016, 2019-2021)

• International Journal of Cluster Computering - Springer (2020)

• International Journal of Computer Communications - Elsevier (2012,2017-2020)

• IEEE Access  (2014, 2019-2021)

• International Journal of Communication Systems - Wiley (2009-2019)

• International Journal of Computer Networks - Elsevier (2018)

• IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2018)

• IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communication Transaction (2016-2017)

•  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2015-2016)

• International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Elsevier (2015)

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2015)

• Journal of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)-Netoworks (2015)

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2014)

• IEEE System Journal (2014)

• IEEE Internet Computing (2014)

• IEEE Communication Magazine (2013-2014)

• International Journal of Commmunications and Networks (JCN)- Assoc. with IEEE Communications Soc. ( 2014)

• International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Wiley (2014)

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2013 - 2014)

• IEICE Transactions on Communications (2013 - 2014)

• International Journal Annals of Telecommunications (JAT) - Annales des télécommunications, Springer (2012-2014)

• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2013)

• International Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier (2013)

• International Journal of Computer Networks, Elsevier (2013)

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2012)

• International Journal of Neurocomputing– Elsevier (2012)

• International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications – Springer (2012, 2015)

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2012)

• Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (JHSEM) (2012)

• International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network - Hindawi Publishing (2012)

• Special Issue on Ubiquitous Networked Robots (UNR) of Journal Annals of Telecommunications (JAT)- Springer (2012)

• IEEE IT Professional Magazine (2012)

• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience – Wiley (2012)

• Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective - Taylor & Francis (2012)

• Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Wiley (2008 - 2009 and 2012)

• Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory – Elsevier (2012)

• International Journal of Networks - Academy Publisher (2012)

• Journal of Institution of Engineering and Technology Wireless Sensor Systems - IET (2012)

• Journal of Institution of Engineering and Technology Communication - IET (2010 - 2012)

• Journal of Institution of Engineering and Technology Information Security - IET (2010 - 2012)

• International Journal of Next-Generation Computing (2011)

• Journal of Supercomputing (2011)

• Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering (2011)

• Co-Chair (Publicity) KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems: Special Issue on “Machine 2 Machine Communications: Applications, Architectures and Protocols” (2011)

• Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier (2010)

•  Journal of Computers & Security, Elsevier (2010)

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communcations and Networking, Hindawi Publisher (2009 and 2010)

• Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier (2010)

• IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Transaction Press (2009)

• International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Inderscience Publishers, England (2006, 2007 and 2009)

• IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Publications Center (2009)

• International Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Wiley (2009)

• ACM Transaction on Internet Technology, Transaction Press (2009)

• International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Inderscience Publishers (2008)

• Journal of Telecommunication Systems: Special Issue on Cross Layer Design for Cognitive Networks, Springer (2008)

• Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on End-to-end Support over Heterogeneous Wired-Wireless Networks, Elsevier (2007)

• International Journal of Computers and Applications, IASTED Acta Press, Calgary (2006)

Technical Reviewer for Books

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the book: Mobile Computing over Cloud: Technologies, Services, and Applications, publisher IGI Global

• Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks, Springer 2010.

• The Handbook of Technology Management (3 Volume set with over 200 contributed chapters), Editor-in-Chief, H. Bidgoli, John Wiley and Sons, 2008.