Group Systems and Networking

The systems and networks research group concerns issues, problems, and research questions related to, but not limited, Parallel Systems, Distributed systems, Interconnection network for Systems on Chips (SOC) and networks on chip (NOC), Mobile ad-hoc network, Wireless sensor networks, Parallel algorithms, Distributed computing

For more details on the group members, the running projects, PhD and MSc. theses, and publication, please navigate through the given links.

Members:

  • Prof. Abderezak Touzene (Coordinator)
  • Prof. Khaled Day
  • Dr. Nasser AlZidi
  • Dr. Hida Al-Amri

Topics:

  • Smart Grid systems
  • Network on chip
  • Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Hybrid RPL Based Sensing protocol for Smart City
  • Mobile Cloud Offloading
  • Big Data
  • Parallel Systems,
  • Distributed systems,
  • Interconnection network for Systems on Chips (SOC) and networks on chip (NOC),
  • Mobile ad-hoc network,
  • Wireless sensor networks,
  • Parallel algorithms,
  • Distributed computing

External Projects:

Code

Title

Budget in $

  Team

Starting Date

Status

ORG/SQU/ICT/15/1  

Grid-Based Communication Schemes for Underwater Wireless  Sensor

127,400  

Naser (A- Zidi (PI)

Dr. Basel   Arafeh (Initial PI)

1/1/16

Completed

Internal Projects:

Code

Title

Budget in $

Team

Starting   Date

Status

IG/SCI/COMP/19/01  

Reliable Data Collection    in UnderwaterWireless Sensor Networks

2400

OMR(~5500   US$)

Prof. Khaled Day(PI)

1/1/19

Ongoing

IG/SCI/COMP/18/01

Service Oriented Middleware for Smart Grid Resources Optimization

1800 OMR (~4500 US$)

Prof. Abderezak Touzen (PI)

1/1/18

Terminated

Postgraduate Students:


Publications:

Journal Articles

2020

  • Day, K., Al-Salti, S., Touzene, A. & Alzeidi, N., An Efficient Data Collection Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications, Vol. 12, No.5, September 2020, pp. 1-15, DOI: 10.5121/ijcnc.2020.12501
  • Jadad, H., Touzene, A. & Day, K., Offloading as a Service Middleware for Mobile Cloud Apps, International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 36-55, 2020.
  • Al-Salti, F., Alzeidi, Z., & Day, K, Localization Schemes for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: Survey, International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, 12(3):113-130, 2020, DOI: 10.5121/ijcnc.2020.12307
  • Touzene, A. Al Yahyai, S. & Melgani, F., Smart grid resources allocation using smart genetic heuristic. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), 62(4) , 2020.
  • Al Sawafi, Y., Touzene, A., Day, K., & Alzeidi, N., Mobile Crowd Sensing RPL-Based Routing Protocol for Smart City, International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications, Vol. 12, No.2, March 2020
  • Al Sawafi, Y., Touzene, A., Day, K. & Alzeidi, N., Hybrid RPL-Based Sensing and Routing Protocol for Smart City, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Volume 16, Issue 3, 2020

2019

  •  Al-Salti, F. Alzeidi, N., Day, K. & Touzene, A. (20190 "An efficient and reliable grid-based routing protocol for UWSNs by exploiting minimum hop count." Computer Networks 162 (2019): 106869.
  • Touzene, A., Al Yahyai, S. and Oukil, A., (2019) “ Smart grid resources optimisation using service oriented middleware” International Journal of Computer Application in Technologies (IJCAT), 59(1), pp.53-63.
  • Jadad, H., Touzene, A., Day, K., Alzeidi, N. & Arefeh, B. (2019) “Context-Aware Prediction Model for Offloading Mobile Application Tasks to Mobile Cloud Environments,” International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC), 9(3): 58-74
  • Al Sideiri, A., Alzeidi, N., Al Hammoshi, M., Chauhan, M.S. and AlFarsi, G., (2019) “CUDA implementation of fractal image compression. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, pp.1-13

Conference Publications 


2020

  • Touzene, A., Alkalbani, A., Day, K. & Alzeidi, N., Performance Analysis of a New Energy-Aware RPL Routing Objective Function for Internet of Things, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering, ICECCE 2020, 14-15 April 2020, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 53-58.
  • Al Sawafi, Y., Touzene, A., Day, K. & Alzeidi, N., Context-Aware RPL-Based Mobile Crowd Sensing and Routing Protocol for Smart City Networks, 16th International Conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020), Limassol, Cyprus - June 15 - 19, 2020

2019

  • Al Bahanta, F., Day, K., Al-Maqbali, H., Alzeidi, N., & Touzene, A. (2019) “Performance Evaluation of a Tree-Based Routing Protocol over a 3D Grid for UWSNs”, In 2019 11thInternationalConference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN) (pp. 426-431). IEEE.

Contact:

Prof. Abderrezak Touzen 

touzene@squ.edu.om

Office: (+968) 24 14 22 21