Abbas Rushdi Kubba was born in Baghdad City, Iraq. He received a BSc degree in computer engineering from the Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department/University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq in 2008, and a master’s degree in computer engineering from the Computer Engineering Department at the same university in 2015. Since 2019, he has worked as a head manager of the Information and Communication Technology Center, Ministry of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq. He is currently a Ph.D. student in science and technology, specializing in information and communication at the Computer Engineering/National School of Electronics and Communications (ENET'COM), Sfax University, Tunisia. He is a member of the Computer Embedded System Laboratory at Ecole National d’Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS). His current research interests include wireless sensor networks (WSNs), OMNet++, and the artificial intelligence approach.

Hafedh Trabelsi joined the Tunisian University in 1995; he is currently a professor of electric power engineering at ENIS. Since 2013, he has served as a full professor at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, and currently serves as chair of the Smart Electric Vehicle group in the Computer Embedded System Laboratory at ENIS. In his research, he focuses on the design of new electric machines using the finite element method and the implementation of an advanced control system for the smart grid. His ongoing research is focusing on smart city and secure systems. He studied in the Ecole National d’Ingénieurs de Sfax ENIS from 1983 to 1989. In 1990, he earned an M.S. degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France; in 1994, he received a PhD from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France; in 2008, he earned a research management ability degree from ENIS, all in electrical engineering.

Faouzi Derbel is a professor of smart diagnostics and online monitoring at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. He received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1995 and a Ph.D. from the University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, in 2001. From 2000 to 2012, he served in different positions in the industrial area, e.g., strategic product manager and systems engineer, responsible for wireless and future technologies within Siemens Building Technologies in Munich (Germany), as well as head of research and development within Siemens Building Technologies in Mühlhausen (Germany) and QUNDIS Advanced Measuring Solutions (Germany). In 2006, he and his team won the ‘‘Product Innovation Award’’ within Siemens AG at the worldwide level, and in 2009, he and his team were awarded the ‘‘Product Success Story Award’’ from Texas Instruments. Prof. Derbel is member of ETSI ERM TG28, dealing with wireless devices within the European Telecommunication and Standardization Institute, as well as the technical group Smart Cities within the ‘‘Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik im DIN und VDE’’. He is editor-in-chief of the ASSD (Advances in Systems, Signals and Devices, Issues on Communication and Signal Processing and Power Systems and Smart Energies, DeGruyter Verlag, Germany) and has received many awards and holds numerous patents.