Farag Sallabi received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2001. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Network Engineering and the Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program of Informatics and Computing with the CIT, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). He was with Sigpro Wireless Company, Ottawa, Canada, from August 2001 to August 2002. He was with UAEU, from September 2002 to June 2012. From July 2012 to July 2015, he was the Director General of the Directorate General of Electronic Services, Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Libya. He has led a project to develop and implement an e-Government program in Libya. He then rejoined the UAEU, in August 2015. He served as the PI and the co-PI on several research projects funded by UAEU. He has published over 70 refereed publications, including journals and conferences. His research interests include quality of service provisioning in wired and wireless networks, routing in wireless sensor networks, performance evaluation of WSN, network management, modeling and simulation, the IoT, and smart healthcare systems.

Heba M. Khater received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Egypt. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE. Her research interests include computer networking, security, fault-management computing, smart healthcare, and cloud computing.

Asadullah Tariq completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from PUCIT and FAST-NUCES, Pakistan, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE. He has authored numerous journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters, with notable contributions to prestigious journals such as IEEE COMST (IF: 35.6), IEEE OJCOMS, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE TCE, IEEE Access, and Applied Sciences. His work has also been presented at top conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, ACM/IEEE SEC, IEEE IWCMC, IEEE FNWF, and EAI SecureComm, among others. He has received several accolades, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE IIT’23 and EAI SecureComm'24, a Student Travel Grant at ACM/IEEE SEC'23, and the Best Presentation Award at BDSIC'23. He is also the author of two published book chapters with Elsevier. Since 2023, he has held an adjunct faculty position at UAE University. His research interests include federated learning, machine learning, wireless communication, edge AI, NDN-ICN, large language models (LLMs), and the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition to his research contributions, Asadullah actively serves as a reviewer for reputed journals, including but not limited to IEEE COMST, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE TAI, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCC, IEEE TITS, JNCA, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Access, Elsevier Information Sciences, and FGCS.

Mohammad Hayajneh received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, majoring in Electronics and Communications from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, in 2004. Before joining the Ph.D. program at the University of New Mexico, he held several positions in academia. He was a Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Telecommunications, Institute of Science for Telecom and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2000 to 2001. From 1998 to 2000, he was an Instructor at the Princess Sumaya University of Technology (PSUT), Amman, Jordan. In September 2004, he joined the College of Information Technology (IT), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, as an Assistant Professor in Computer System Engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of IT, UAEU. His research interests include power control for wireless data networks, 5G cross-layer scheduling, resource allocation and pricing in wireless data networks, MIMO systems, performance analysis, and modeling OFDMA-based wireless networks.

Khaled Shuaib received B.E. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The City College of New York in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Communication Networks from the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, in 1999. Since 2002, he has been with the College of Information Technology (CIT), United Arab Emirates University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. During his career at CIT, he has held various administrative positions, including a Network Engineering/Networking Track Coordinator from 2004 to 2009, an Associate Dean from 2009 to 2010, and an Assistant Dean for Students from 2011 to 2013, and he is currently the Coordinator of three tracks (Information Security, Enterprise Systems, and e-Commerce). He has also been serving as the Director of the Cisco Academy, United Arab Emirates University, since 2004. He has over 65 refereed publications in journals and conferences and two U.S. patents. His research interests are in the areas of communication networks, network security, and smart grids.

Ezedin S. barka received a Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, in 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Department Chair with the College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University. He was a member of the Laboratory for Information Security Technology (LIST), George Mason University. He has published over 50 journals and conference papers. His current research interests include access control, and he has published a number of papers addressing the delegation of rights using RBAC. Other research interests include digital rights management (DRM), large-scale security architectures and models, trust management, security in UAVs, and network wired and wireless and distributed systems security. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC). He serves on the technical program committees for many international IEEE conferences, such as ACSAC, GLOBECOM, ICC, WIMOB, and WCNC. In addition, he was a reviewer of several international journals and conferences.