About the Authors

Maha Sliti

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation University of Carthage, Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM), LR11TIC04, Communication Networks and Security Research Lab. & LR11TIC02, Green and Smart Communication Systems Research Lab, Carthage, Tunisia

Salman Ghafoor

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

salman.ghafoor@seecs.edu.pk (SG); M.Ijaz@mmu.ac.uk (MI)

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan

Sarra Ayouni

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Manel Mrabet

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

Lassaad Ben Ammar

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Ijaz

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

salman.ghafoor@seecs.edu.pk (SG); M.Ijaz@mmu.ac.uk (MI)

Affiliation Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.