Abderezak Touzene received his BSc. degree in Computer Science from University of Algiers in 1987, M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Orsay Paris-Sud University in 1988, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble (France) in 1992. He is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. His research interests include Smart City, Smart Grid, Mobile and Cloud Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Wireless Sensors and Mobile Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Network on Chip (NoC), Cryptography and Network Security, Interconnection Networks, Performance Evaluation, and Numerical Methods. Prof. Touzene is a member of the editorial board of TELECOM and a member of the IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.