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[]Hazim Shakhatreh
is a Ph.D. student at the ECE department of New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received the B.S. degree and M.S. degree
in wireless communications engineering from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His research interests include wireless communications
and emerging technologies with focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks.

[]Ahmad H. Sawalmeh
is a PhD student at the Engineering College of Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2005. He also received his B.S. degree from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2003. He worked as a lecturer in the Computer Department at the Technical Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2006 – 2016. His research interests include wireless communications, UAVs networks and Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs).

[]Ala Al-Fuqaha (S'00-M'04-SM'09) received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. Currently, he is Professor and director of NEST Research Lab at the Computer Science Department of Western Michigan University. His research interests include Wireless Vehicular Networks (VANETs), cooperation and spectrum access etiquettes in cognitive radio networks, smart services in support of the Internet of Things, management and planning of software defined networks (SDN) and performance analysis and evaluation of high-speed computer and telecommunications networks. In 2014, he was the recipient of the outstanding researcher award at the college of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Western Michigan University. He is currently serving on the editorial board for John Wiley’s Security and Communication Networks Journal, John Wiley’s Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, EAI Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, and International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has served as Technical Program Committee member and reviewer of many international conferences and journals.

[]Zuochao Dou
received his B.S. degree in Electronics in 2009 at Beijing University of Technology. From 2009 to 2011, he studied at University of Southern Denmark, concentrating on embedded control systems for his M.S degree. Then, he received his second M.S. degree at University of Rochester in 2013 majoring in communications and signal processing. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in the area of cloud computing security and network security with the guidance of Dr. Abdallah Khreishah and Dr. Issa Khalil.

[]Eyad Almaita
received the B.Sc. from the Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan in 2000, M.Sc. from Al-Yarmouk University, Jordan in 2006, Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, USA in 2012. He is now serving as associate professor at Mechatronics and power engineering dept. in Tafila Technical University, Jordan. His research interests include energy efficient systems, smart systems, power quality, and artificial intelligence.

[]Issa Khalil
received PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 2007. Immediately thereafter he joined the College of Information Technology (CIT) of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) where he served as an associate professor and department head of the Information Security Department. In 2013, Khalil joined the Cyber Security Group in the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), a member of Qatar Foundation, as a Senior Scientist, and a Principal Scientist since 2016. Khalil’s research interests span the areas of wireless and wireline network security and privacy. He is especially interested in security data analytics, network security, and private data sharing. His novel technique to discover malicious domains following the guilt-by-association social principle attracts the attention of local media and stakeholders, and received the best paper award in CODASPY 2018. Dr. Khalil served as organizer, technical program committee member and reviewer for many international conferences and journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM and delivers invited talks and keynotes in many local and international forums. In June 2011, Khalil was granted the CIT outstanding professor award for outstanding performance in research, teaching, and service.

[]Noor Shamsiah Othman
received the B.Eng. degree in electronic and electrical engineering and the M.Sc. degree in microwave and optoelectronics from the University College London, London, U.K., in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2008. She is currently with Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia, as Senior Lecturer. Her research interest include audio and speech coding, joint source/channel coding, iterative decoding, unmanned aerial vehicle communications and SNR estimator.

[]Abdallah Khreishah is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research interests fall in the areas of visible-light communication, green networking, network coding, wireless networks, and network security. Dr. Khreishah received his BS degree in computer engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2004, and his MS and PhD degrees in electrical & computer engineering from Purdue University in 2006 and 2010. While pursuing his PhD studies, he worked with NEESCOM. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the chair of North Jersey IEEE EMBS chapter.

[] Mohsen Guizani (S'85, M'89, SM'99, F'09) received his B.S. (with distinction) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Syracuse University, New York, in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1990, respectively. He is currently a professor and ECE Department Chair at the University of Idaho. Previously, he served as the associate vice president of Graduate Studies and Research, Qatar University, chair of the Computer Science Department, Western Michigan University, and chair of the Computer Science Department, University of West Florida. He also served in academic positions at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Colorado-Boulder, Syracuse University, and Kuwait University. His research interests include wireless communications and mobile computing, computer networks, mobile cloud computing, security, and smart grid. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of several international technical journals, and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley). He is the author of nine books and more than 400 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He has guest edited a number of special issues in IEEE journals and magazines. He has also served as a member, Chair, and the General Chair of a number of international conferences. He was selected as the Best Teaching Assistant for two consecutive years at Syracuse University. He was Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee and TAOS Technical Committee. He served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker from 2003 to 2005.