Journal of Information Technology & Software Engineering
Open Access
ISSN: 2165- 7866
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2165- 7866
+44 1300 500008
Imed Romdhani
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Inform Tech Soft Engg
Internet of things is a new challenging networking concept where billion of smart IP enabled devices are able to autoconfigure
themselves and connect autonomously to the Internet. Different standards, operating systems and protocols have
been designed for low-power and low-processing devices. Tiny wireless sensor objects implementing these standards are
designed to operate in very large-scale and low-power demanding industrial applications including smart transport, e-Health,
oil and gas surveillance and environment monitoring. These sensor nodes are sometimes required to cover geographically
widespread indoor and outdoor spaces and to operate as one single group to achieve a collaborative sensing or monitoring
task. Some of these devices such as mobile robots require moving from one sensing field to another. To perform this type of
communication, IP multicast is the appropriate technological method to save network bandwidth and processing resources of
critical wireless sensor devices. However, the majority of proposed standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
and IEEE were not designed with group communication in mind. Therefore, there is an urgent need to revisit these standards to
embed multicast and group communication capabilities at the different communication layers to facilitate multimedia content
delivery over Low-Power and Lossy Networks and to integrate wireless sensors with next generation networks. This research
talk will highlight the latest research and industrial efforts and trends to deploy IP multicast in IPv6 wireless sensor networks
and discuss the advantages and weakness of each approach.
Imed Romdhani is an Associate Professor in Computer Networks at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has completed his PhD from the University of Technology
of Compiegne in France and worked as a network R&D engineer with Motorola Labs in Paris. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
where he reviewed and contributed to write many standards and Internet Drafts. He authored a couple of patents in the networking field and has published more
than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a program committee member of reputed IEEE networking conferences.