Ehsan Ahvar received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and telecommunications from the Telecom SudParis in co-accreditation with the Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6). He is currently an Associate Professor with the ESIEA Graduate Engineering School, LDR research Laboratory, France. Prior to joining ESIEA, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Inria-Bretagne Altlantique Research Centre and Inria-Paris Research Center. He has been involved in several projects, both National and International and published more than 30 articles in the domain of cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), middleware, and smart city.