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He served as a senior lecturer at King Khalid University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bisha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has over ten years of research, and teaching experience. Abbasi has received multiple awards, scholarships, and research grants. His research interests include routing in VANETs and MANETs, Mobile Computing, IoT, and Cloud Computing. He is an author of many articles including Traffic Flow Oriented Routing Protocol for VANETs, published in Springer Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking. He is also acting as a reviewer of many well reputed peer reviewed international journals and conferences.Adnan Shahid Khan is currently a senior lecturer at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. He has completed his Postdoctoral, PhD, and Masters in Networks in 2013, 2012, and 2008, respectively, from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and BSc (Hons) Computer Sciences in 2005 from University of Punjab, Lahore Pakistan. His research interest includes Network and Network security in Wireless communication. He has published more than 60 papers in peer reviewed international conferences and journals.Shahzad Ali received his M.Sc. in telematics engineering in 2011 and his Ph.D. in telematics engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid in 2014. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. His research interests include performance analysis of context-aware applications, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, and opportunistic networks. 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