Abdellah Touhafi

Abdellah Touhafi is professor at the Engineering Sciences Faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. As member of the Engineering technologies department, he is responsible for the major courses related to electronics design, embedded computing and reconfigurable computing. His research interests are smart and industrial electronics, reconfigurable computing systems, multi-sensorial systems and cloud computing. Those topics are deployed within two emerging applications that are advanced environmental monitoring systems and digital education. He is serving as an editor for the Journal of sensors and is chairing several conferences related to smart cities, cloud computing and industrial electronics. His work has been published in more than 130 scientific publications.

Publications

A Cloud Platform for Sharing Educational Digital Fabrication Resources Over the Internet
A Cloud Platform for Sharing Educational Digital Fabrication Resources Over the Internet
Gianluca Cornetta, Abdellah Touhafi, Gabriel-Miro Muntean. © 2022. 28 pages.
Cloud and IoT technologies have the potential to enable a plethora of new applications that are not strictly limited to remote sensing, data collection, and data analysis. In...
Anomaly Detection in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Environments: Latest Technologies
Anomaly Detection in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Environments: Latest Technologies
Rachid Cherkaoui, Mostapha Zbakh, An Braeken, Abdellah Touhafi. © 2021. 13 pages.
This chapter contains the state of the art of the latest security issues of cloud computing as well as security issues of internet of things (IoT) applications. It discusses the...
Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing Technologies
Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing Technologies
Gianluca Cornetta, Abdellah Touhafi, Gabriel-Miro Muntean. © 2020. 333 pages.
The adoption of cloud and IoT technologies in both the industrial and academic communities has enabled the discovery of numerous applications and ignited countless new research...
IoT to Support Active Learning in Engineering Education: Test Cases and Lessons Learned
IoT to Support Active Learning in Engineering Education: Test Cases and Lessons Learned
Abdellah Touhafi, Gianluca Cornetta. © 2020. 16 pages.
Engineering education requires a rather difficult learning process, which aims at building the student's capacities in theoretical insights in science, project-oriented...
A Cloud Platform for Sharing Educational Digital Fabrication Resources Over the Internet
A Cloud Platform for Sharing Educational Digital Fabrication Resources Over the Internet
Gianluca Cornetta, Abdellah Touhafi, Gabriel-Miro Muntean. © 2020. 28 pages.
Cloud and IoT technologies have the potential to enable a plethora of new applications that are not strictly limited to remote sensing, data collection, and data analysis. In...
Anomaly Detection in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Environments: Latest Technologies
Anomaly Detection in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Environments: Latest Technologies
Rachid Cherkaoui, Mostapha Zbakh, An Braeken, Abdellah Touhafi. © 2018. 15 pages.
This chapter contains the state of the art of the latest security issues of cloud computing as well as security issues of internet of things (IoT) applications. It discusses the...
Secure Techniques for Remote Reconfiguration of Wireless Embedded Systems
Secure Techniques for Remote Reconfiguration of Wireless Embedded Systems
Abdellah Touhafi, An Braeken, Gianluca Cornetta, Nele Mentens, Kris Steenhaut. © 2011. 22 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to give a thorough overview of secure remote reconfiguration technologies for wireless embedded systems, and of the communication standard commonly...