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2025-12-12T06:43:21Z

Sza191:

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[[Image:Dec-2025-lunch.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Lunch, Dec 2025]]
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2023]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Neha Sharma at MobiCom'23]]
[[Image:Ali-defence.png|thumb|right|500px|Ali Ghorbanpour's M.Sc. Defence, April 2025]]
[[Image:KhaledAliShahrzad graduation.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Khaled, Ali, and Shahrzad: Convocation, October 2025]]
[[Image:Amin-defence.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Amin Arab's Ph.D. Defence, December 2025 ]]
[[Image:Neha-defence.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Neha Sharma's Ph.D. Defence, December 2025]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
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== Current Members ==

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

* Ahmed Abdelsalam, M.Sc.

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Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
Image:AhmedTarekPhoto.jpg | Ahmed Tarek Elsayed
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== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Neha Sharma, Ph.D., Fall 2025, Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices. Next: Researcher at IBM.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, Ph.D. Fall 2025, Robust Multimedia Forensics against AI Attacks.

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. Summer 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at the University of Ottawa.

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc., Spring 2026,iSR: Super-resolution for Immersive Cloud VR Gaming Platforms.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc., Summer 2025, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/39749 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained mobile liquid analyzer].

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc., Summer 2025, Characterizing Latency Impact on Rendering Accuracy in Edge-Supported Cloud Gaming.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc., Summer 2025, RDIAS: Robust and Decentralized Image Authentication System.

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Amr Sharafeldin, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2025)

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate from McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

File:Neha-defence.jpg

2025-12-12T06:42:52Z

Sza191:

Neha Sharma's Ph.D. Defence, December 2025

File:Amin-defence.jpg

2025-12-12T06:41:07Z

Sza191:

Amin Arab's Ph.D. Defence, December 2025

People

2025-12-12T06:38:05Z

Sza191:

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[[Image:Dec-2025-lunch.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Lunch, Dec 2025]]
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2023]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Neha Sharma at MobiCom'23]]
[[Image:Ali-defence.png|thumb|right|500px|Ali Ghorbanpour's M.Sc. Defence, April 2025]]
[[Image:KhaledAliShahrzad graduation.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Khaled, Ali, and Shahrzad: Convocation, October 2025]]
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|}
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
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== Current Members ==

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

* Ahmed Abdelsalam, M.Sc.

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
Image:AhmedTarekPhoto.jpg | Ahmed Tarek Elsayed
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Neha Sharma, Ph.D., Fall 2025, Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices. Next: Researcher at IBM.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, Ph.D. Fall 2025, Robust Multimedia Forensics against AI Attacks.

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. Summer 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at the University of Ottawa.

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc., Spring 2026,iSR: Super-resolution for Immersive Cloud VR Gaming Platforms.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc., Summer 2025, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/39749 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained mobile liquid analyzer].

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc., Summer 2025, Characterizing Latency Impact on Rendering Accuracy in Edge-Supported Cloud Gaming.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc., Summer 2025, RDIAS: Robust and Decentralized Image Authentication System.

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Amr Sharafeldin, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2025)

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate from McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

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Sza191:

Ali Ghorbanpour's M.Sc. Defence, April 2025

News

2025-12-12T06:29:50Z

Sza191:

== 2025 ==
* December 2025: Neha successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Neha!
* December 2025: Amin successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Amin!
* November 2025: Ghazaleh successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Ghazaleh!
* August 2025: Shahrzad successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Shahrzad!
* August 2025: Khaled successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Khaled!
* April 2025: Ali successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Ali!

* February 2025: Dr. Hefeeda was named an [https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/february/distinguished-members-2024 '''ACM Distinguished Member'''] for research contributions to multimedia networking, peer-to-peer systems, and mobile video streaming.

== 2024 ==
* November 2024: Deniz successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Deniz!
* July 2024: Shahzaib successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Shahzaib!
== 2023 ==

* May 2023: Dr. Hefeeda finishes his appointment as the Director of the School of Computing Science.

== 2022 ==

* February 2022: Khaled Diab awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2022 IEEE INFOCOM TPC [[Media:Khaled Diab INFOCOM22 TPC.pdf| [pdf]]].

== 2021 ==

* November 2021: Hamed Rahmani Khezri graduates (MSc). Congratulations!

* October 2021: Parham Yassini graduates (MSc) and joins Huawei. Congratulations!

* '''September 2021: Neha Sharma attended ACM Multimedia Systems 2021 and won Best Social Media Reporter Award.'''[[https://records.sigmm.org/2022/01/10/acm-multimedia-systems-2021-conference-report/ report]]

* July 2021: Puria Azadimoghadam graduates (MSc) and continues as PhD student at UBC. Congratulations!

== 2020 ==

* July 2020: Carlos Lee graduates (MSc) and joins Ericsson. Congratulations!

* April 2020: Amgad Ahmed graduates (MSc). Congratulations!

== 2019 ==

* August 2019: Khaled Diab graduates (PhD) and continues as University Research Associate at SFU. Congratulations!

* August 2019: Mohammad Amin Arab graduates (MSc) and continues as PhD candidate at NSL. Congratulations!

* Summer 2019: Mohamed Hegazy graduates (MSc) and joins Fortinet. Congratulations!

* '''June 2019: Mohamed Hegazy's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2019 won the Best Student Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys19_cave.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''

* June 2019: Omar Arafa graduates (MSc) and joins Fortinet. Congratulations!

== 2018 ==

* December 2018: Omar Eltobgy graduates (MSc) and joins Adobe. Congratulations!

* November 2018: Mohammed Shatnawi graduates (PhD) form NSL and continues his work with Microsoft. Congratulations Dr. Shatnawi!

* '''June 2018: Mohammed Shatnawi's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2018 was the Runner-up for the Best Student Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys18.pdf Dynamic Input Anomaly Detection in Interactive Multimedia Services]''

* May 2018: Dr. Hefeeda is appointed the Director of the School of Computing Science.

== 2017 ==

* September 2017: Dr. Hefeeda is appointed the Associate Director for Research and Industry Relations of the School of Computing Science.

* August 2017: Kiana Calagari graduates (PhD) form NSL. Congratulations Dr. Calagari!

* August 2017: Alaa Eldin Abdelaal graduates (MSc) and joins UBC in September as a PhD student. Congratulations!

* April 2017: Ahmed Hamza graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins InterDigital in September as a Research Engineer. Congratulations Dr. Hamza!

== 2016 ==

* December 2016: Saleh Almowuena graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, as Assistant Professor. Congratulations Dr. Almowuena!

== 2015 ==

* '''March 2015: Saleh's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2015 won the Best Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsy15_sfn.pdf Dynamic Configuration of Single Frequency Networks in Mobile Streaming Systems]''

== 2014 ==

* November 2014: Abdullah Aldhamin graduates (MSc) form NSL and returns back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company. Congratulations!

* October 2014: Ahmed Abdelsadek graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft. Congratulations!

* September 2014: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded the '''[http://tomm.acm.org/TOMM_Best_AE_2014.pdf Best Associate Editor]''' of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) journal.

* '''September 2014: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to full professor. '''

* January 2014: Khaled Diab joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Khaled!

== 2012 ==

* December 2012: Ahmed Bu-Khamsin graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* September 2012: Ahmed Abdelsadek joins NSL as a MSc student. Welcome aboard Ahmed!

* September 2012: Kiana Calagari joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Kiana!

* August 2012: Tamir Hegazy joins NSL as a post-doc fellow. Welcome aboard Tamir!

* August 2012: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Research In Motion (RIM). Congratulations!

* July 2012: Kaushik Choudhary graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

* June 2012: Taher Dameh graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

== 2011 ==

* December 2011: Fei Gao graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* September 2011: Cameron Harvey graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. Congratulations! Abdullah and Masum join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* June 2011: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded one of the prestigious [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/DGAS-SGSA_eng.asp NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)], which are granted to 123 researchers in all Science and Engineering disciplines in Canada (selected from more than 3,400 applicants in 2011).

* June 2011: Hamed Neshat graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Congratulations!

* April 2011: Farid Tabrizi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* April 2011: Mohammad Alkurbi graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

== 2010 ==

* December 2010: Shabnam Mirshokraie graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UBC as a PhD student. Congratulations!

* December 2010: Somsubhra Sharangi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* October 2010: Our [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/professors-professeurs/rpp-pp/spg-sps_eng.asp NSERC Strategic Project Grant] application on Mobile Gaming and 3D Video Systems: Next Generation Services for Wireless Networks is accepted.

* October 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes an Associate Editor of the premier [http://tomccap.acm.org/ ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP)] journal.

* September 2010: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Naghmeh!

* September 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes program co-chair of the [http://www.icme2011.org/ IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011)] conference.

* August 2010: Yuanbin Shen graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* '''July 2010: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to the associate professor rank and granted tenure. '''

* June 2010: Cong Ly graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

== 2009 ==

* December 2009: Yi Liu graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Incognito Software Inc. in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

* December 2009: Greg Kowalski graduates (MSc) from NSL Congratulations!

* December 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the vice chair of the Distributed Multimedia track in the [http://www.ftrg.org/emc2010/index.php Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10) conference].

* '''November 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins the Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab in California as a senior researcher. Congratulations Dr. Hsu -- the first PhD graduate from our group. '''

* November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes a '''Senior Member of the IEEE'''.

* November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the Preservation Editor of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Web Magazine.

* November 2009: Farid and Fei join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* October 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the program chair of [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/nossdav10/ NOSSDAV 2010].

* September 2009: Cameron Harvey and Hamed Sadeghi-Neshat join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* September 2009: Kianoosh Mokhtarian graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Mobidia in Richmond, BC. Congratulations!

* July 2009: Our mobile TV research is also featured in the July issue of the [http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2009-07-jul/jul-01-2009.html#418148 ACM Tech News.]

* June 2009: Our mobile TV research is featured on CTV British Columbia News: [http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090625/bc_mobile_tv_090625/ see article] or [[media:ctv09.pdf | local PDF.]]

* May 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu (NSL PhD student) is featured in [http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/_pvw9C438741/news/story_05290909.shtml SFU News.]

* January 2009: Ahmed Hamza joins NSL as PhD student. Mohammad Alkurbi joins NSL as MSc-Project student. Welcome aboard.

== 2008 ==

* December 2008: Our paper on [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/innovations08.pdf Energy Optimization in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks] wins the '''Best Paper Award''' in the IEEE Innovations 2008 Conference.

* October 2008: Our Mobile TV Testbed wins the [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08DemoAward.pdf Best Technical Demonstration Award] in ACM Multimedia 2008.

* September 2008: Cong Ly, Yuanbin Shen, and Shabnam Mirshokraie join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* ''' March 2008: This Wiki system has been launched.'''

* February 2008: Yi Liu joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Yi!

== 2007 ==

* September 2007: Kianoosh Mokhtarian joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Kianoosh!

* December 2007: Behrooz Noorizadeh Graduates (MSc) from NSL joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. .

* July 2007: Hossein Ahmadi Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UIUC as PhD Student.

* April 2007: Majid Bagheri Graduates (MSc) from NSL and takes on a job in Iran.

== 2006 ==

* '''November 2006: Osama Saleh Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. Congratulations Osama -- the first MSc graduate from our group. '''

News

2025-12-12T06:24:28Z

Sza191:

== 2025 ==
* December 2025: Neha successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Neha!
* December 2025: Amin successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Amin!
* November 2025: Ghazaleh successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Ghazaleh!
* August 2025: Shahrzad successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Shahrzad!
* August 2025: Khaled successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Khaled!
* April 2025: Ali successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Ali!

* February 2025: Dr. Hefeeda was named an [https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/february/distinguished-members-2024 '''ACM Distinguished Member'''] for research contributions to multimedia networking, peer-to-peer systems, and mobile video streaming.

== 2023 ==

* May 2023: Dr. Hefeeda finishes his appointment as the Director of the School of Computing Science.

== 2022 ==

* February 2022: Khaled Diab awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2022 IEEE INFOCOM TPC [[Media:Khaled Diab INFOCOM22 TPC.pdf| [pdf]]].

== 2021 ==

* November 2021: Hamed Rahmani Khezri graduates (MSc). Congratulations!

* October 2021: Parham Yassini graduates (MSc) and joins Huawei. Congratulations!

* '''September 2021: Neha Sharma attended ACM Multimedia Systems 2021 and won Best Social Media Reporter Award.'''[[https://records.sigmm.org/2022/01/10/acm-multimedia-systems-2021-conference-report/ report]]

* July 2021: Puria Azadimoghadam graduates (MSc) and continues as PhD student at UBC. Congratulations!

== 2020 ==

* July 2020: Carlos Lee graduates (MSc) and joins Ericsson. Congratulations!

* April 2020: Amgad Ahmed graduates (MSc). Congratulations!

== 2019 ==

* August 2019: Khaled Diab graduates (PhD) and continues as University Research Associate at SFU. Congratulations!

* August 2019: Mohammad Amin Arab graduates (MSc) and continues as PhD candidate at NSL. Congratulations!

* Summer 2019: Mohamed Hegazy graduates (MSc) and joins Fortinet. Congratulations!

* '''June 2019: Mohamed Hegazy's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2019 won the Best Student Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys19_cave.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''

* June 2019: Omar Arafa graduates (MSc) and joins Fortinet. Congratulations!

== 2018 ==

* December 2018: Omar Eltobgy graduates (MSc) and joins Adobe. Congratulations!

* November 2018: Mohammed Shatnawi graduates (PhD) form NSL and continues his work with Microsoft. Congratulations Dr. Shatnawi!

* '''June 2018: Mohammed Shatnawi's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2018 was the Runner-up for the Best Student Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys18.pdf Dynamic Input Anomaly Detection in Interactive Multimedia Services]''

* May 2018: Dr. Hefeeda is appointed the Director of the School of Computing Science.

== 2017 ==

* September 2017: Dr. Hefeeda is appointed the Associate Director for Research and Industry Relations of the School of Computing Science.

* August 2017: Kiana Calagari graduates (PhD) form NSL. Congratulations Dr. Calagari!

* August 2017: Alaa Eldin Abdelaal graduates (MSc) and joins UBC in September as a PhD student. Congratulations!

* April 2017: Ahmed Hamza graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins InterDigital in September as a Research Engineer. Congratulations Dr. Hamza!

== 2016 ==

* December 2016: Saleh Almowuena graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, as Assistant Professor. Congratulations Dr. Almowuena!

== 2015 ==

* '''March 2015: Saleh's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2015 won the Best Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsy15_sfn.pdf Dynamic Configuration of Single Frequency Networks in Mobile Streaming Systems]''

== 2014 ==

* November 2014: Abdullah Aldhamin graduates (MSc) form NSL and returns back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company. Congratulations!

* October 2014: Ahmed Abdelsadek graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft. Congratulations!

* September 2014: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded the '''[http://tomm.acm.org/TOMM_Best_AE_2014.pdf Best Associate Editor]''' of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) journal.

* '''September 2014: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to full professor. '''

* January 2014: Khaled Diab joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Khaled!

== 2012 ==

* December 2012: Ahmed Bu-Khamsin graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* September 2012: Ahmed Abdelsadek joins NSL as a MSc student. Welcome aboard Ahmed!

* September 2012: Kiana Calagari joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Kiana!

* August 2012: Tamir Hegazy joins NSL as a post-doc fellow. Welcome aboard Tamir!

* August 2012: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Research In Motion (RIM). Congratulations!

* July 2012: Kaushik Choudhary graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

* June 2012: Taher Dameh graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

== 2011 ==

* December 2011: Fei Gao graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* September 2011: Cameron Harvey graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. Congratulations! Abdullah and Masum join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* June 2011: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded one of the prestigious [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/DGAS-SGSA_eng.asp NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)], which are granted to 123 researchers in all Science and Engineering disciplines in Canada (selected from more than 3,400 applicants in 2011).

* June 2011: Hamed Neshat graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Congratulations!

* April 2011: Farid Tabrizi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* April 2011: Mohammad Alkurbi graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

== 2010 ==

* December 2010: Shabnam Mirshokraie graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UBC as a PhD student. Congratulations!

* December 2010: Somsubhra Sharangi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* October 2010: Our [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/professors-professeurs/rpp-pp/spg-sps_eng.asp NSERC Strategic Project Grant] application on Mobile Gaming and 3D Video Systems: Next Generation Services for Wireless Networks is accepted.

* October 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes an Associate Editor of the premier [http://tomccap.acm.org/ ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP)] journal.

* September 2010: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Naghmeh!

* September 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes program co-chair of the [http://www.icme2011.org/ IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011)] conference.

* August 2010: Yuanbin Shen graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* '''July 2010: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to the associate professor rank and granted tenure. '''

* June 2010: Cong Ly graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

== 2009 ==

* December 2009: Yi Liu graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Incognito Software Inc. in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

* December 2009: Greg Kowalski graduates (MSc) from NSL Congratulations!

* December 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the vice chair of the Distributed Multimedia track in the [http://www.ftrg.org/emc2010/index.php Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10) conference].

* '''November 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins the Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab in California as a senior researcher. Congratulations Dr. Hsu -- the first PhD graduate from our group. '''

* November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes a '''Senior Member of the IEEE'''.

* November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the Preservation Editor of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Web Magazine.

* November 2009: Farid and Fei join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* October 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the program chair of [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/nossdav10/ NOSSDAV 2010].

* September 2009: Cameron Harvey and Hamed Sadeghi-Neshat join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* September 2009: Kianoosh Mokhtarian graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Mobidia in Richmond, BC. Congratulations!

* July 2009: Our mobile TV research is also featured in the July issue of the [http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2009-07-jul/jul-01-2009.html#418148 ACM Tech News.]

* June 2009: Our mobile TV research is featured on CTV British Columbia News: [http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090625/bc_mobile_tv_090625/ see article] or [[media:ctv09.pdf | local PDF.]]

* May 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu (NSL PhD student) is featured in [http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/_pvw9C438741/news/story_05290909.shtml SFU News.]

* January 2009: Ahmed Hamza joins NSL as PhD student. Mohammad Alkurbi joins NSL as MSc-Project student. Welcome aboard.

== 2008 ==

* December 2008: Our paper on [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/innovations08.pdf Energy Optimization in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks] wins the '''Best Paper Award''' in the IEEE Innovations 2008 Conference.

* October 2008: Our Mobile TV Testbed wins the [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08DemoAward.pdf Best Technical Demonstration Award] in ACM Multimedia 2008.

* September 2008: Cong Ly, Yuanbin Shen, and Shabnam Mirshokraie join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* ''' March 2008: This Wiki system has been launched.'''

* February 2008: Yi Liu joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Yi!

== 2007 ==

* September 2007: Kianoosh Mokhtarian joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Kianoosh!

* December 2007: Behrooz Noorizadeh Graduates (MSc) from NSL joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. .

* July 2007: Hossein Ahmadi Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UIUC as PhD Student.

* April 2007: Majid Bagheri Graduates (MSc) from NSL and takes on a job in Iran.

== 2006 ==

* '''November 2006: Osama Saleh Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. Congratulations Osama -- the first MSc graduate from our group. '''

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== 2025 ==
* December 2025: Neha successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Neha!
* December 2025: Amin successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Amin!
* November 2025: Ghazaleh successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Ghazaleh!
* August 2025: Shahrzad successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Shahrzad!
* August 2025: Khaled successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Khaled!
* April 2025: Ali successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations, Ali!

* February 2025: Dr. Hefeeda was named an [https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/february/distinguished-members-2024 '''ACM Distinguished Member'''] for research contributions to multimedia networking, peer-to-peer systems, and mobile video streaming.

== 2023 ==

* May 2023: Dr. Hefeeda finishes his appointment as the Director of the School of Computing Science.

== 2022 ==

* February 2022: Khaled Diab awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2022 IEEE INFOCOM TPC [[Media:Khaled Diab INFOCOM22 TPC.pdf| [pdf]]].

== 2021 ==

* November 2021: Hamed Rahmani Khezri graduates (MSc). Congratulations!

* October 2021: Parham Yassini graduates (MSc) and joins Huawei. Congratulations!

* '''September 2021: Neha Sharma attended ACM Multimedia Systems 2021 and won Best Social Media Reporter Award.'''[[https://records.sigmm.org/2022/01/10/acm-multimedia-systems-2021-conference-report/ report]]

* July 2021: Puria Azadimoghadam graduates (MSc) and continues as PhD student at UBC. Congratulations!

== 2020 ==

* July 2020: Carlos Lee graduates (MSc) and joins Ericsson. Congratulations!

* April 2020: Amgad Ahmed graduates (MSc). Congratulations!

== 2019 ==

* August 2019: Khaled Diab graduates (PhD) and continues as University Research Associate at SFU. Congratulations!

* August 2019: Mohammad Amin Arab graduates (MSc) and continues as PhD candidate at NSL. Congratulations!

* Summer 2019: Mohamed Hegazy graduates (MSc) and joins Fortinet. Congratulations!

* '''June 2019: Mohamed Hegazy's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2019 won the Best Student Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys19_cave.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''

* June 2019: Omar Arafa graduates (MSc) and joins Fortinet. Congratulations!

== 2018 ==

* December 2018: Omar Eltobgy graduates (MSc) and joins Adobe. Congratulations!

* November 2018: Mohammed Shatnawi graduates (PhD) form NSL and continues his work with Microsoft. Congratulations Dr. Shatnawi!

* '''June 2018: Mohammed Shatnawi's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2018 was the Runner-up for the Best Student Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys18.pdf Dynamic Input Anomaly Detection in Interactive Multimedia Services]''

* May 2018: Dr. Hefeeda is appointed the Director of the School of Computing Science.

== 2017 ==

* September 2017: Dr. Hefeeda is appointed the Associate Director for Research and Industry Relations of the School of Computing Science.

* August 2017: Kiana Calagari graduates (PhD) form NSL. Congratulations Dr. Calagari!

* August 2017: Alaa Eldin Abdelaal graduates (MSc) and joins UBC in September as a PhD student. Congratulations!

* April 2017: Ahmed Hamza graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins InterDigital in September as a Research Engineer. Congratulations Dr. Hamza!

== 2016 ==

* December 2016: Saleh Almowuena graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, as Assistant Professor. Congratulations Dr. Almowuena!

== 2015 ==

* '''March 2015: Saleh's paper in ACM Multimedia Systems 2015 won the Best Paper Award.''' Paper title: ''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsy15_sfn.pdf Dynamic Configuration of Single Frequency Networks in Mobile Streaming Systems]''

== 2014 ==

* November 2014: Abdullah Aldhamin graduates (MSc) form NSL and returns back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company. Congratulations!

* October 2014: Ahmed Abdelsadek graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft. Congratulations!

* September 2014: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded the '''[http://tomm.acm.org/TOMM_Best_AE_2014.pdf Best Associate Editor]''' of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) journal.

* '''September 2014: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to full professor. '''

* January 2014: Khaled Diab joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Khaled!

== 2012 ==

* December 2012: Ahmed Bu-Khamsin graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* September 2012: Ahmed Abdelsadek joins NSL as a MSc student. Welcome aboard Ahmed!

* September 2012: Kiana Calagari joins NSL as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Kiana!

* August 2012: Tamir Hegazy joins NSL as a post-doc fellow. Welcome aboard Tamir!

* August 2012: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Research In Motion (RIM). Congratulations!

* July 2012: Kaushik Choudhary graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

* June 2012: Taher Dameh graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

== 2011 ==

* December 2011: Fei Gao graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* September 2011: Cameron Harvey graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Amazon.com in Seattle, WA. Congratulations! Abdullah and Masum join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* June 2011: Dr. Hefeeda is awarded one of the prestigious [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/DGAS-SGSA_eng.asp NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS)], which are granted to 123 researchers in all Science and Engineering disciplines in Canada (selected from more than 3,400 applicants in 2011).

* June 2011: Hamed Neshat graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Congratulations!

* April 2011: Farid Tabrizi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* April 2011: Mohammad Alkurbi graduates (MSc-Project) from NSL. Congratulations!

== 2010 ==

* December 2010: Shabnam Mirshokraie graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UBC as a PhD student. Congratulations!

* December 2010: Somsubhra Sharangi graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* October 2010: Our [http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/professors-professeurs/rpp-pp/spg-sps_eng.asp NSERC Strategic Project Grant] application on Mobile Gaming and 3D Video Systems: Next Generation Services for Wireless Networks is accepted.

* October 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes an Associate Editor of the premier [http://tomccap.acm.org/ ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP)] journal.

* September 2010: Naghmeh Khodabakhshi joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Naghmeh!

* September 2010: Dr. Hefeeda becomes program co-chair of the [http://www.icme2011.org/ IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011)] conference.

* August 2010: Yuanbin Shen graduates (MSc) from NSL. Congratulations!

* '''July 2010: Dr. Hefeeda is promoted to the associate professor rank and granted tenure. '''

* June 2010: Cong Ly graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Microsoft in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

== 2009 ==

* December 2009: Yi Liu graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Incognito Software Inc. in Vancouver, BC. Congratulations!

* December 2009: Greg Kowalski graduates (MSc) from NSL Congratulations!

* December 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the vice chair of the Distributed Multimedia track in the [http://www.ftrg.org/emc2010/index.php Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10) conference].

* '''November 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu graduates (PhD) from NSL and joins the Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab in California as a senior researcher. Congratulations Dr. Hsu -- the first PhD graduate from our group. '''

* November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes a '''Senior Member of the IEEE'''.

* November 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the Preservation Editor of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Web Magazine.

* November 2009: Farid and Fei join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* October 2009: Dr. Hefeeda becomes the program chair of [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/nossdav10/ NOSSDAV 2010].

* September 2009: Cameron Harvey and Hamed Sadeghi-Neshat join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* September 2009: Kianoosh Mokhtarian graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Mobidia in Richmond, BC. Congratulations!

* July 2009: Our mobile TV research is also featured in the July issue of the [http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2009-07-jul/jul-01-2009.html#418148 ACM Tech News.]

* June 2009: Our mobile TV research is featured on CTV British Columbia News: [http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090625/bc_mobile_tv_090625/ see article] or [[media:ctv09.pdf | local PDF.]]

* May 2009: Cheng-Hsin Hsu (NSL PhD student) is featured in [http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/_pvw9C438741/news/story_05290909.shtml SFU News.]

* January 2009: Ahmed Hamza joins NSL as PhD student. Mohammad Alkurbi joins NSL as MSc-Project student. Welcome aboard.

== 2008 ==

* December 2008: Our paper on [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/innovations08.pdf Energy Optimization in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks] wins the '''Best Paper Award''' in the IEEE Innovations 2008 Conference.

* October 2008: Our Mobile TV Testbed wins the [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08DemoAward.pdf Best Technical Demonstration Award] in ACM Multimedia 2008.

* September 2008: Cong Ly, Yuanbin Shen, and Shabnam Mirshokraie join NSL as MSc students. Welcome aboard.

* ''' March 2008: This Wiki system has been launched.'''

* February 2008: Yi Liu joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Yi!

== 2007 ==

* September 2007: Kianoosh Mokhtarian joins NSL as MSc student. Welcome aboard Kianoosh!

* December 2007: Behrooz Noorizadeh Graduates (MSc) from NSL joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. .

* July 2007: Hossein Ahmadi Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins UIUC as PhD Student.

* April 2007: Majid Bagheri Graduates (MSc) from NSL and takes on a job in Iran.

== 2006 ==

* '''November 2006: Osama Saleh Graduates (MSc) from NSL and joins Eyeball Networks in Vancouver. Congratulations Osama -- the first MSc graduate from our group. '''

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[[Image:Dec-2025-lunch.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Lunch, Dec 2025]]
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2023]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|500px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Neha Sharma at MobiCom'23]]
[[Image:KhaledAliShahrzad graduation.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Khaled, Ali, and Shahrzad: Convocation, October 2025]]
</slideshow>
|}
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

* Ahmed Abdelsalam, M.Sc.

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Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
Image:AhmedTarekPhoto.jpg | Ahmed Tarek Elsayed
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. Summer 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at the University of Ottawa.

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc., Summer 2025, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/39749 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained mobile liquid analyzer].

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc., Summer 2025, Characterizing Latency Impact on Rendering Accuracy in Edge-Supported Cloud Gaming.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc., Summer 2025, RDIAS: Robust and Decentralized Image Authentication System.

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Amr Sharafeldin, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2025)

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate from McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

People

2025-12-05T08:06:30Z

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[[Image:Dec-2025-lunch.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Lunch, Dec 2025]]
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2023]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|Neha Sharma at MobiCom'23]]
[[Image:KhaledAliShahrzad graduation.jpg|thumb|right|700px|Khaled, Ali, and Shahrzad: Convocation, October 2025]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

* Ahmed Abdelsalam, M.Sc.

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
Image:AhmedTarekPhoto.jpg | Ahmed Tarek Elsayed
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. Summer 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at the University of Ottawa.

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc., Summer 2025, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/39749 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained mobile liquid analyzer].

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc., Summer 2025, Characterizing Latency Impact on Rendering Accuracy in Edge-Supported Cloud Gaming.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc., Summer 2025, RDIAS: Robust and Decentralized Image Authentication System.

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Amr Sharafeldin, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2025)

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate from McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

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2025-12-05T08:02:32Z

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Lunch Gathering, Dec 5, 2025

People

2025-11-09T05:13:04Z

Sza191: /* Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) */

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|<slideshow sequence="random" transition="fade" refresh="6000">
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2022]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|Neha Sharma at MobiCom'23]]
[[Image:KhaledAliShahrzad graduation.jpg|thumb|right|700px|Khaled, Ali, and Shahrzad: Convocation, October 2025]]
</slideshow>
|}
</center>

== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

<gallery widths=225px heights=275px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

* Ahmed Abdelsalam, M.Sc.

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
Image:AhmedTarekPhoto.jpg | Ahmed Tarek Elsayed
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. Summer 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at the University of Ottawa.

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc., Summer 2025, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/39749 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained mobile liquid analyzer].

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc., Summer 2025, Characterizing Latency Impact on Rendering Accuracy in Edge-Supported Cloud Gaming.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc., Summer 2025, RDIAS: Robust and Decentralized Image Authentication System.

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Amr Sharafeldin, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2025)

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate from McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

Hyperspectral Imaging

2025-11-05T00:11:58Z

Sza191:

A hyperspectral camera captures a scene in many frequency bands across the spectrum, providing rich information and facilitating numerous applications in industrial, military, and commercial domains. Example applications of hyperspectral imaging include medical diagnosis (e.g., early detection of skin cancer), food-quality inspection, artwork authentication, forest monitoring, material identification, and remote sensing. The potential of hyperspectral imaging has been established for decades now. However, to date, hyperspectral imaging has only seen success in specialized and large-scale industrial and military applications. This is because of three main challenges: (i) the sheer volume of hyperspectral data which makes it hard to transmit such data in real-time and thus limiting its usefulness for many applications, (ii) the negative impact of the environmental conditions (e.g., rain, fog, and snow) which reduces the utility of the captured hyper-spectral data, and (iii) the high cost of hyperspectral cameras (upwards of $20K USD) which makes the technology out of reach for many commercial and end-user applications. The goal of this project is to address these challenges to enable wide adoption of hyperspectral imaging in many applications.

'''MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices'''

Hyperspectral imaging systems capture information in multiple wavelength bands across the electromagnetic spectrum. These bands provide substantial details based on the optical properties of the materials present in the captured scene. The high cost of hyperspectral cameras and their strict illumination requirements make the technology out of reach for end-user and small-scale commercial applications. We propose MobiSpectral, which turns a low-cost phone into a simple hyperspectral imaging system, without any changes in the hardware. We design deep learning models that take regular RGB images and near-infrared (NIR) signals (which are used for face identification on recent phones) and reconstruct multiple hyperspectral bands in the visible and NIR ranges of the spectrum. Our experimental results show that MobiSpectral produces accurate bands that are comparable to ones captured by actual hyperspectral cameras. The availability of hyperspectral bands that reveal hidden information enables the development of novel mobile applications that are not currently possible. To demonstrate the potential of MobiSpectral, we use it to identify organic solid foods, which is a challenging food fraud problem that is currently partially addressed by laborious, unscalable, and expensive processes. We collect large datasets in real environments under diverse illumination conditions to evaluate MobiSpectral. Our results show that MobiSpectral can identify organic foods, e.g., apples, tomatoes, kiwis, strawberries, and blueberries, with an accuracy of up to 94% from images taken by phones.

[[File:Mobispectral.png|thumb|center|700px|Overview of MobiSpectral]]

'''MobiLyzer: Fine-grained Mobile Liquid Analyzer'''

Most current methods for liquid analysis and fraud detection rely on expensive tools and controlled lab environments, making them inaccessible to lay users. We present MobiLyzer, a mobile system that enables fine-grained liquid analysis on unmodified commodity smartphones in realistic environments such as homes and grocery stores. MobiLyzer conducts spectral analysis of liquids based on how their chemical components reflect different wavelengths. Conducting spectral analysis of liquids on smartphones, however, is challenging due to the limited sensing capabilities of smartphones and the heterogeneity in their camera designs. This is further complicated by the uncontrolled nature of ambient illumination and the diversity in liquid containers. The ambient illumination, for example, introduces distortions in measured spectra, and liquid containers cause specular reflections that degrade accuracy. To address these challenges, MobiLyzer utilizes RGB images captured by regular smartphone cameras. It then introduces intrinsic decomposition ideas to mitigate the effects of illumination and interference from liquid containers. It further leverages the near-infrared (NIR) sensors on smartphones to collect complementary signals in the NIR spectral range, partially mitigating the limited sensing capabilities of smartphones. It finally presents a new machine-learning model that reconstructs the entire spectrum in the visible and NIR ranges using the captured RGB and NIR images, which enables fine-grained spectral analysis of liquids on smartphones without the need for expensive equipment. Unlike prior models, the presented spectral reconstruction model preserves the original RGB colors during reconstruction, which is critical for liquid analysis since many liquids differ only in subtle spectral cues. We demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of MobiLyzer through extensive experiments with multiple liquids, four different smartphones, and seven illumination sources. Our results show, for example, that MobiLyzer can accurately detect adulteration with small ratios, identify quality grades of the same liquid (e.g., refined vs. extra virgin olive oil), differentiate the country of origin of oils (e.g., olive oil from Italy versus USA), and analyze the concentration of materials in liquids (e.g., protein concentration in urine for early detection of kidney diseases).

[[File:Overview.png|thumb|center|700px|Overview of MobiLyzer]]

== People ==
* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma]
* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
* [https://chercode.github.io/ Shahrzad Mirzaei]
* Mariam Bebawy

== Code and Datasets ==
* [https://github.com/chercode/mobilyzer-imwut25 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained Mobile Liquid Analyzer]
* [https://github.com/mobispectral/mobicom23_mobispectral MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices]
* [https://github.com/pazadimo/HS_In_Diverse_Illuminations Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]
* [https://github.com/nehasharma512/vein-visualization Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images for Vein Visualization]
* [https://github.com/maarab-sfu/BQSETHI Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]

== Publications ==

* S. Mirzaei, M. Bebawy, A. M. Sharafeldin, and M. Hefeeda, [https://doi.org/10.1145/3770678 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained Mobile Liquid Analyzer], Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., vol. 9, no. 4, Art. 201, Dec. 2025

* M. Waseem, N. Sharma, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmc25_RipeTrack.pdf RipeTrack: Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones], IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1—16, Accepted, August 2025.

* N. Sharma, M. Bebawy, Y. Ng, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mobiCom25_GlucoSense.pdf GlucoSense: Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring using Mobile Devices], In Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'25), Hong Kong, China, November 2025.

* N. Sharma, M. Waseem, S. Mirzaei, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mobiCom23_MobiSpectral.pdf MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices], In Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'23), Madrid, Spain, October 2023. (Artifacts Evaluated and Functional)
* P. Moghadam, N. Sharma, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys21_HS_illumination.pdf Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications], In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys’21), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021. (Artifacts Evaluated and Functional)

* N. Sharma, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys20_vein.pdf Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images for Vein Visualization], In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys'20), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020. (Artifacts Evaluated and Functional)

* M. Arab, K. Calagari, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm19_bandSelection.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images], In Proc. of ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM'19), Nice, France. October 2019.

Hyperspectral Imaging

2025-11-05T00:11:19Z

Sza191:

Hyperspectral Imaging

2025-11-05T00:10:18Z

Sza191:

A hyperspectral camera captures a scene in many frequency bands across the spectrum, providing rich information and facilitating numerous applications in industrial, military, and commercial domains. Example applications of hyperspectral imaging include medical diagnosis (e.g., early detection of skin cancer), food-quality inspection, artwork authentication, forest monitoring, material identification, and remote sensing. The potential of hyperspectral imaging has been established for decades now. However, to date, hyperspectral imaging has only seen success in specialized and large-scale industrial and military applications. This is because of three main challenges: (i) the sheer volume of hyperspectral data which makes it hard to transmit such data in real-time and thus limiting its usefulness for many applications, (ii) the negative impact of the environmental conditions (e.g., rain, fog, and snow) which reduces the utility of the captured hyper-spectral data, and (iii) the high cost of hyperspectral cameras (upwards of $20K USD) which makes the technology out of reach for many commercial and end-user applications. The goal of this project is to address these challenges to enable wide adoption of hyperspectral imaging in many applications.

'''MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices'''

Hyperspectral imaging systems capture information in multiple wavelength bands across the electromagnetic spectrum. These bands provide substantial details based on the optical properties of the materials present in the captured scene. The high cost of hyperspectral cameras and their strict illumination requirements make the technology out of reach for end-user and small-scale commercial applications. We propose MobiSpectral, which turns a low-cost phone into a simple hyperspectral imaging system, without any changes in the hardware. We design deep learning models that take regular RGB images and near-infrared (NIR) signals (which are used for face identification on recent phones) and reconstruct multiple hyperspectral bands in the visible and NIR ranges of the spectrum. Our experimental results show that MobiSpectral produces accurate bands that are comparable to ones captured by actual hyperspectral cameras. The availability of hyperspectral bands that reveal hidden information enables the development of novel mobile applications that are not currently possible. To demonstrate the potential of MobiSpectral, we use it to identify organic solid foods, which is a challenging food fraud problem that is currently partially addressed by laborious, unscalable, and expensive processes. We collect large datasets in real environments under diverse illumination conditions to evaluate MobiSpectral. Our results show that MobiSpectral can identify organic foods, e.g., apples, tomatoes, kiwis, strawberries, and blueberries, with an accuracy of up to 94% from images taken by phones.

[[File:Mobispectral.png|thumb|center|700px|Overview of MobiSpectral]]

'''MobiLyzer: Fine-grained Mobile Liquid Analyzer'''

Most current methods for liquid analysis and fraud detection rely on expensive tools and controlled lab environments, making them inaccessible to lay users. We present MobiLyzer, a mobile system that enables fine-grained liquid analysis on unmodified commodity smartphones in realistic environments such as homes and grocery stores. MobiLyzer conducts spectral analysis of liquids based on how their chemical components reflect different wavelengths. Conducting spectral analysis of liquids on smartphones, however, is challenging due to the limited sensing capabilities of smartphones and the heterogeneity in their camera designs. This is further complicated by the uncontrolled nature of ambient illumination and the diversity in liquid containers. The ambient illumination, for example, introduces distortions in measured spectra, and liquid containers cause specular reflections that degrade accuracy. To address these challenges, MobiLyzer utilizes RGB images captured by regular smartphone cameras. It then introduces intrinsic decomposition ideas to mitigate the effects of illumination and interference from liquid containers. It further leverages the near-infrared (NIR) sensors on smartphones to collect complementary signals in the NIR spectral range, partially mitigating the limited sensing capabilities of smartphones. It finally presents a new machine-learning model that reconstructs the entire spectrum in the visible and NIR ranges using the captured RGB and NIR images, which enables fine-grained spectral analysis of liquids on smartphones without the need for expensive equipment. Unlike prior models, the presented spectral reconstruction model preserves the original RGB colors during reconstruction, which is critical for liquid analysis since many liquids differ only in subtle spectral cues. We demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of MobiLyzer through extensive experiments with multiple liquids, four different smartphones, and seven illumination sources. Our results show, for example, that MobiLyzer can accurately detect adulteration with small ratios, identify quality grades of the same liquid (e.g., refined vs. extra virgin olive oil), differentiate the country of origin of oils (e.g., olive oil from Italy versus USA), and analyze the concentration of materials in liquids (e.g., protein concentration in urine for early detection of kidney diseases).

[[File:Overview.pngthumb|center|700px|Overview of MobiLyzer]]

== People ==
* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma]
* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
* [https://chercode.github.io/ Shahrzad Mirzaei]
* Mariam Bebawy

== Code and Datasets ==
* [https://github.com/chercode/mobilyzer-imwut25 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained Mobile Liquid Analyzer]
* [https://github.com/mobispectral/mobicom23_mobispectral MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices]
* [https://github.com/pazadimo/HS_In_Diverse_Illuminations Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]
* [https://github.com/nehasharma512/vein-visualization Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images for Vein Visualization]
* [https://github.com/maarab-sfu/BQSETHI Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]

== Publications ==

* S. Mirzaei, M. Bebawy, A. M. Sharafeldin, and M. Hefeeda, [https://doi.org/10.1145/3770678 MobiLyzer: Fine-grained Mobile Liquid Analyzer], Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., vol. 9, no. 4, Art. 201, Dec. 2025

* M. Waseem, N. Sharma, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmc25_RipeTrack.pdf RipeTrack: Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones], IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1—16, Accepted, August 2025.

* N. Sharma, M. Bebawy, Y. Ng, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mobiCom25_GlucoSense.pdf GlucoSense: Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring using Mobile Devices], In Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'25), Hong Kong, China, November 2025.

* N. Sharma, M. Waseem, S. Mirzaei, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mobiCom23_MobiSpectral.pdf MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices], In Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'23), Madrid, Spain, October 2023. (Artifacts Evaluated and Functional)
* P. Moghadam, N. Sharma, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys21_HS_illumination.pdf Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications], In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys’21), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021. (Artifacts Evaluated and Functional)

* N. Sharma, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys20_vein.pdf Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images for Vein Visualization], In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys'20), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020. (Artifacts Evaluated and Functional)

* M. Arab, K. Calagari, M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm19_bandSelection.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images], In Proc. of ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM'19), Nice, France. October 2019.

File:Overview.png

2025-11-05T00:06:09Z

Sza191:

MobiLyzer Overview

Hyperspectral Imaging

2025-11-04T23:52:54Z

Sza191:

People

2025-09-10T17:23:34Z

Sza191:

<center>
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|<slideshow sequence="random" transition="fade" refresh="6000">
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2022]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL (Neha Sharma) at MobiCom'23]]
</slideshow>
|}
</center>

== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

<gallery widths=225px heights=275px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

* Ahmed Abdelsalam, M.Sc.

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
Image:AhmedTarekPhoto.jpg | Ahmed Tarek Elsayed
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. Summer 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at the University of Ottawa.

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc., Summer 2025, XX to be posted after blind paper review is completed XX.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc., Summer 2025, Characterizing Latency Impact on Rendering Accuracy in Edge-Supported Cloud Gaming.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc., Summer 2025, RDIAS: Robust and Decentralized Image Authentication System.

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Amr Sharafeldin, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2025)

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate from McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate SFU (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

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[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2022]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
[[Image:Mobicom2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL (Neha Sharma) at MobiCom'23]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Ammar Rashed, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Haseeb Ur Rehman, Ph.D. (Co-advised with Prof. Shirmohammadi at University of Ottawa)

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc.

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

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Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Omar Mosaad, M.Sc., Fall 2024, DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc., Fall 2024, Transparent Video Upscaling for Cloud Gaming.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc., Summer 2024, Assessing Fruit Ripeness and Remaining Lifetime using Smartphones.

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Anson Ng, Undergraduate McGill University (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Arya Faghihy, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2024)

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Deniz ugur picture.jpg.jpg|Deniz Ugur
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

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== Contacts ==

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2025-01-06T23:43:02Z

Sza191:

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Cloud Gaming

2023-12-19T03:53:20Z

Sza191:

Cloud gaming is a large, rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar industry. Cloud gaming enables users to play games on thin clients such as tablets, smartphones, and smart TVs without worrying about processing power, memory size, graphics card capabilities. It allows high-quality games to be played virtually on any device and anywhere, without the need for high-end gaming consoles or installing/updating software. This significantly increases the potential number of users and thus the market size. Most major IT companies offer cloud gaming services, such as Sony PlayStation Now, Google Stadia, Nvidia GeForce Now, and Amazon Tempo.

Cloud gaming essentially moves the game logic and rendering from the user’s device to the cloud. As a result, the entire game runs on the cloud and the rendered scenes are then streamed to users in real-time. Rendering and streaming from the cloud, however, substantially increase the required bandwidth to serve gaming clients. Moreover, given the large-scale and heterogeneity of clients, numerous streams need to be created and served from the cloud in real-time, which creates a major challenge for cloud gaming providers. Thus, minimizing the resources needed to render, encode, customize, and deliver gaming streams to millions of users is an important problem. This problem gets more complex when we consider advanced and next-generation games such as ultra-high definition and immersive games, which are getting popular.

In this project, we partner with AMD Canada with the goal of designing next-generation cloud gaming systems that optimize the quality, bitrate, and delay, which will not only improve the quality of experience for both the players and viewers, but will also reduce the cost and minimize resources for service providers.

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== People ==

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~omossad/ Omar Mossad (PhD student)]

* Haseeb Ur Rehman (PhD student, University of Ottawa)

* Ammar Rashed (PhD student, University of Ottawa)

* Deniz Ugur (MSc student)

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad (MSc Stduent)

* Khaled Al Butainy (MSc Stduent)

* Mohamed Hegazy (MSc student, graduated)

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab (University Research Associate)]

* Ihab Amer (AMD Fellow)

* [https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~shervin/ Shervin Shirmohammadi (Co-PI), University of Ottawa]

* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda (PI)]

'''DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming'''

Cloud gaming enables users to play games on virtually any device. This is achieved by offloading the game rendering and encoding to cloud datacenters. As game resolutions and frame rates increase, cloud gaming platforms face a major challenge to stream high-quality games due to the high bandwidth and low latency requirements. We propose a new video encoding pipeline, called DeepGame, for cloud gaming platforms to reduce the bandwidth requirements with limited to no impact on the player quality of experience. DeepGame learns the player’s contextual interest in the game and the temporal correlation of that interest using a spatio-temporal deep neural network. Then, it encodes various areas in the video frames with different quality levels proportional to their contextual importance. DeepGame does not change the source code of the video encoder or the video game, and it does not require any additional hardware or software at the client side. We implemented DeepGame in an open-source cloud gaming platform and evaluated its performance using multiple popular games. We also conducted a subjective study with real players to demonstrate the potential gains achieved by DeepGame and its practicality. Our results show that DeepGame can reduce the bandwidth requirements by up to 36% compared to the baseline encoder, while maintaining the same level of perceived quality for players and running in real time.

[[File:DeepGame.png|thumb|center|700px|DeepGame is a process running between the game process and the video encoder process. The input to DeepGame is the raw game frames generated by the game process, and the output is the encoding parameters (QPs), which are used by the video encoder to produce encoded frames to be transmitted to the client. During a game session, DeepGame understands the game context and optimizes the encoding parameters in real-time. DeepGame consists of three stages: (i) Scene Analysis, (ii) ROI Prediction, and (iii) Encoding Parameters Calculation. These stages operate in parallel while forwarding the outputs from one stage to the next.]]

== Code and Datasets ==

* [https://github.com/omossad/DeepGame DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]

* [https://github.com/mohamedhegazy/CAVE Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]

== Publications ==

* O. Mosaad, K. Diab, I. Amer, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm21_deepGame.pdf DeepGame Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming], In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference (MM'21), Chengdu, China, October 2021.

* M. Hegazy, K. Diab, M. Saeedi, B. Ivanovic, I. Amer, Y. Liu, G. Sines, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys19_cave.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys'19), Amherst, MA, June 2019. '''(received the Best Student Paper Award and the ACM Artifacts Evaluated and Functional badge)'''

Datacenter and ISP Networks

2023-11-08T19:23:20Z

Sza191:

Welcome to our cutting-edge suite of network technologies. We are at the forefront of developing new approaches in task scheduling for datacenters, advancing multicast forwarding techniques, and enhancing the efficiency of both datacenter and ISP network infrastructures.

== People ==
* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab]
* Parham Yassini
* Saeed Zangeneh
* Erfan Mehraban
* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda]

'''Horus: In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters'''

[[File:Horus.png|thumb|Design of Horus |right]]

Introducing Horus, an in-network task scheduler for datacenters that efficiently assigns short-lived tasks across distributed workers. It minimizes state and communication overhead, dynamically adapts to workloads, and does not buffer tasks, enabling high throughput and reduced tail response times. Compared to traditional rack-confined schedulers, Horus' distributed approach leverages parallel scheduling at line rate across switches. Testing shows Horus scales superbly in large datacenters, outperforming current in-network schedulers in both speed and capacity.

'''Stateless Multicast For ISP Networks'''

Current multicast forwarding systems suffer from large state requirements at routers and high communication overhead. In addition, these systems do not support generalized multicast forwarding, where traffic passes through traffic-engineered paths or requires service chaining. We propose a new system that completely eliminates the state at routers and reduces communication overhead.

'''Scalable Multicast for Datacenter Networks'''

[[File:Orca.png|thumb|Design of Orca |right]]

Group communications appear in many recent datacenter applications. These applications, however, do not benefit from multicast due to the absence of efficient systems that support large-scale multicast sessions, minimize state at switches and reduce bandwidth overheads. We propose a new architecture that addresses the challenges of multicast in datacenter networks. The proposed approach carefully divides the state and tasks of the data plane among switches and servers in order to realize efficient multicast services in datacenters, by partially offloading the management of multicast sessions to servers.

'''Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic'''

Multicast service chaining refers to the orchestration of network services for multicast traffic. Paths of a multicast session that span the source, destinations and required services form a complex structure that we refer to as the multicast distribution graph. We propose a new path-based algorithm, called Oktopus, that runs at the control plane of the ISP network to calculate the multicast distribution graph for a given session. Oktopus aims at minimizing the routing cost for each multicast session while satisfying all service chaining requirements. Oktopus consists of two steps. The first one generates a set of segments from the given ISP network topology, and the second step uses these segments to efficiently calculate the multicast distribution graph. Oktopus has a fine-grained control over the selection of links in the distribution graphs that leads to significant improvements.
The code of Oktopus is [https://oktopus-project.org/ open source].

'''Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Adaptive Multimedia Content in Telco-CDNs'''

Telco-CDNs refer to content distribution networks deployed and managed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They are getting popular among major ISPs because they offer new revenue streams and have the potential of providing better performance compared to traditional CDNs. Managing telco-CDNs is, however, a complex problem, because it requires jointly managing the network resources (links and switches) and the caching resources (processing and storage capacities), while supporting the adaptive nature and skewed popularity of multimedia content. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm called CAD (Cooperative Active Distribution). CAD strives to serve as much as possible of the requested multimedia objects within the ISP while carefully engineering the traffic paths through the network. This is achieved by enabling the cooperation among caches within the ISP not only to serve various representations of multimedia objects, but also to create them on demand using the often under-utilized processing capacity of caches.

== Code and Datasets ==

* [https://github.com/horus-scheduler Horus Source Code].

* [https://oktopus-project.org/ Oktopus Source Code].

== Publications ==
* P. Yassini, K. Diab, S. Zanganeh, and M. Hefeeda, Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters, In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'24), Sant Clara, CA, April 2024.

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic], IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'20), Madrid, Spain, October 2020.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering for Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs], In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’19, Paris, France, April 2019.

Datacenter and ISP Networks

2023-11-08T19:21:14Z

Sza191:

Welcome to our cutting-edge suite of network technologies. We are at the forefront of developing new approaches in task scheduling for datacenters, advancing multicast forwarding techniques, and enhancing the efficiency of both datacenter and ISP network infrastructures.

== People ==
* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab]
* Parham Yassini
* Saeed Zangeneh
* Erfan Mehraban
* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda]

'''Horus: In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters'''

[[File:Horus.png|thumb|Design of Horus. |right]]

Introducing Horus, an in-network task scheduler for datacenters that efficiently assigns short-lived tasks across distributed workers. It minimizes state and communication overhead, dynamically adapts to workloads, and does not buffer tasks, enabling high throughput and reduced tail response times. Compared to traditional rack-confined schedulers, Horus' distributed approach leverages parallel scheduling at line rate across switches. Testing shows Horus scales superbly in large datacenters, outperforming current in-network schedulers in both speed and capacity.

'''Stateless Multicast For ISP Networks'''

Current multicast forwarding systems suffer from large state requirements at routers and high communication overhead. In addition, these systems do not support generalized multicast forwarding, where traffic passes through traffic-engineered paths or requires service chaining. We propose a new system that completely eliminates the state at routers and reduces communication overhead.

'''Scalable Multicast for Datacenter Networks'''

Group communications appear in many recent datacenter applications. These applications, however, do not benefit from multicast due to the absence of efficient systems that support large-scale multicast sessions, minimize state at switches and reduce bandwidth overheads. We propose a new architecture that addresses the challenges of multicast in datacenter networks. The proposed approach carefully divides the state and tasks of the data plane among switches and servers in order to realize efficient multicast services in datacenters, by partially offloading the management of multicast sessions to servers.

'''Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic'''

Multicast service chaining refers to the orchestration of network services for multicast traffic. Paths of a multicast session that span the source, destinations and required services form a complex structure that we refer to as the multicast distribution graph. We propose a new path-based algorithm, called Oktopus, that runs at the control plane of the ISP network to calculate the multicast distribution graph for a given session. Oktopus aims at minimizing the routing cost for each multicast session while satisfying all service chaining requirements. Oktopus consists of two steps. The first one generates a set of segments from the given ISP network topology, and the second step uses these segments to efficiently calculate the multicast distribution graph. Oktopus has a fine-grained control over the selection of links in the distribution graphs that leads to significant improvements.
The code of Oktopus is [https://oktopus-project.org/ open source].

'''Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Adaptive Multimedia Content in Telco-CDNs'''

Telco-CDNs refer to content distribution networks deployed and managed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They are getting popular among major ISPs because they offer new revenue streams and have the potential of providing better performance compared to traditional CDNs. Managing telco-CDNs is, however, a complex problem, because it requires jointly managing the network resources (links and switches) and the caching resources (processing and storage capacities), while supporting the adaptive nature and skewed popularity of multimedia content. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm called CAD (Cooperative Active Distribution). CAD strives to serve as much as possible of the requested multimedia objects within the ISP while carefully engineering the traffic paths through the network. This is achieved by enabling the cooperation among caches within the ISP not only to serve various representations of multimedia objects, but also to create them on demand using the often under-utilized processing capacity of caches.

== Code and Datasets ==

* [https://github.com/horus-scheduler Horus Source Code].

* [https://oktopus-project.org/ Oktopus Source Code].

== Publications ==
* P. Yassini, K. Diab, S. Zanganeh, and M. Hefeeda, Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters, In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'24), Sant Clara, CA, April 2024.

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic], IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'20), Madrid, Spain, October 2020.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering for Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs], In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’19, Paris, France, April 2019.

Datacenter and ISP Networks

2023-11-08T19:18:57Z

Sza191:

Welcome to our cutting-edge suite of network technologies. We are at the forefront of developing new approaches in task scheduling for datacenters, advancing multicast forwarding techniques, and enhancing the efficiency of both datacenter and ISP network infrastructures.

== People ==
* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab]
* Parham Yassini
* Saeed Zangeneh
* Erfan Mehraban
* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda]

'''Horus: In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters'''

[[File:Horus.png|thumb|Design of Horus (Datacenter Task Scheduler). |right]]

Introducing Horus, an in-network task scheduler for datacenters that efficiently assigns short-lived tasks across distributed workers. It minimizes state and communication overhead, dynamically adapts to workloads, and does not buffer tasks, enabling high throughput and reduced tail response times. Compared to traditional rack-confined schedulers, Horus' distributed approach leverages parallel scheduling at line rate across switches. Testing shows Horus scales superbly in large datacenters, outperforming current in-network schedulers in both speed and capacity.

'''Stateless Multicast For ISP Networks'''

Current multicast forwarding systems suffer from large state requirements at routers and high communication overhead. In addition, these systems do not support generalized multicast forwarding, where traffic passes through traffic-engineered paths or requires service chaining. We propose a new system that completely eliminates the state at routers and reduces communication overhead.

'''Scalable Multicast for Datacenter Networks'''

Group communications appear in many recent datacenter applications. These applications, however, do not benefit from multicast due to the absence of efficient systems that support large-scale multicast sessions, minimize state at switches and reduce bandwidth overheads. We propose a new architecture that addresses the challenges of multicast in datacenter networks. The proposed approach carefully divides the state and tasks of the data plane among switches and servers in order to realize efficient multicast services in datacenters, by partially offloading the management of multicast sessions to servers.

'''Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic'''

Multicast service chaining refers to the orchestration of network services for multicast traffic. Paths of a multicast session that span the source, destinations and required services form a complex structure that we refer to as the multicast distribution graph. We propose a new path-based algorithm, called Oktopus, that runs at the control plane of the ISP network to calculate the multicast distribution graph for a given session. Oktopus aims at minimizing the routing cost for each multicast session while satisfying all service chaining requirements. Oktopus consists of two steps. The first one generates a set of segments from the given ISP network topology, and the second step uses these segments to efficiently calculate the multicast distribution graph. Oktopus has a fine-grained control over the selection of links in the distribution graphs that leads to significant improvements.
The code of Oktopus is [https://oktopus-project.org/ open source].

'''Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Adaptive Multimedia Content in Telco-CDNs'''

Telco-CDNs refer to content distribution networks deployed and managed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They are getting popular among major ISPs because they offer new revenue streams and have the potential of providing better performance compared to traditional CDNs. Managing telco-CDNs is, however, a complex problem, because it requires jointly managing the network resources (links and switches) and the caching resources (processing and storage capacities), while supporting the adaptive nature and skewed popularity of multimedia content. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm called CAD (Cooperative Active Distribution). CAD strives to serve as much as possible of the requested multimedia objects within the ISP while carefully engineering the traffic paths through the network. This is achieved by enabling the cooperation among caches within the ISP not only to serve various representations of multimedia objects, but also to create them on demand using the often under-utilized processing capacity of caches.

== Code and Datasets ==

* [https://github.com/horus-scheduler Horus Source Code].

* [https://oktopus-project.org/ Oktopus Source Code].

== Publications ==
* P. Yassini, K. Diab, S. Zanganeh, and M. Hefeeda, Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters, In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'24), Sant Clara, CA, April 2024.

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic], IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'20), Madrid, Spain, October 2020.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering for Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs], In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’19, Paris, France, April 2019.

File:Horus.png

2023-11-08T19:17:09Z

Sza191:

Horus design

Datacenter and ISP Networks

2023-11-08T19:05:12Z

Sza191:

XXX Datacenter and ISP Networking
... brief intro

Our current problems include task scheduling, datacenter multicast, ISP multicast, and load balancing.

Recent large-scale Internet applications have introduced a renewed interest in scalable multicast services. Examples of such applications include live Internet broadcast (e.g., Facebook Live), stock market applications, cloud-based enterprise applications, IPTV, webinars and video conferencing, and massive multiplayer games. The scale of these applications is unprecedented. For instance, Facebook Live aims to stream millions of live sessions to millions of concurrent users. Traditional multicast approaches do not scale, because of their substantial state and communication overheads. In addition, most traditional multicast approaches do not enable controlling the network paths chosen for the multicast sessions (usually referred to as traffic engineering), nor do they offer efficient methods to direct multicast traffic through various network functions (e.g., firewalls, IDS, video transcoding), which is known as service chaining.

In this project, we design scalable multicast systems for general ISP networks and datacenter networks.

== People ==
* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab]
* Parham Yassini
* Saeed Zangeneh
* Erfan Mehraban
* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda]

'''Horus: In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters'''

Introducing Horus, an in-network task scheduler for datacenters that efficiently assigns short-lived tasks across distributed workers. It minimizes state and communication overhead, dynamically adapts to workloads, and does not buffer tasks, enabling high throughput and reduced tail response times. Compared to traditional rack-confined schedulers, Horus' distributed approach leverages parallel scheduling at line rate across switches. Testing shows Horus scales superbly in large datacenters, outperforming current in-network schedulers in both speed and capacity.

'''Stateless Multicast For ISP Networks'''

Current multicast forwarding systems suffer from large state requirements at routers and high communication overhead. In addition, these systems do not support generalized multicast forwarding, where traffic passes through traffic-engineered paths or requires service chaining. We propose a new system that completely eliminates the state at routers and reduces communication overhead.

'''Scalable Multicast for Datacenter Networks'''

Group communications appear in many recent datacenter applications. These applications, however, do not benefit from multicast due to the absence of efficient systems that support large-scale multicast sessions, minimize state at switches and reduce bandwidth overheads. We propose a new architecture that addresses the challenges of multicast in datacenter networks. The proposed approach carefully divides the state and tasks of the data plane among switches and servers in order to realize efficient multicast services in datacenters, by partially offloading the management of multicast sessions to servers.

'''Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic'''

Multicast service chaining refers to the orchestration of network services for multicast traffic. Paths of a multicast session that span the source, destinations and required services form a complex structure that we refer to as the multicast distribution graph. We propose a new path-based algorithm, called Oktopus, that runs at the control plane of the ISP network to calculate the multicast distribution graph for a given session. Oktopus aims at minimizing the routing cost for each multicast session while satisfying all service chaining requirements. Oktopus consists of two steps. The first one generates a set of segments from the given ISP network topology, and the second step uses these segments to efficiently calculate the multicast distribution graph. Oktopus has a fine-grained control over the selection of links in the distribution graphs that leads to significant improvements.
The code of Oktopus is [https://oktopus-project.org/ open source].

'''Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Adaptive Multimedia Content in Telco-CDNs'''

Telco-CDNs refer to content distribution networks deployed and managed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They are getting popular among major ISPs because they offer new revenue streams and have the potential of providing better performance compared to traditional CDNs. Managing telco-CDNs is, however, a complex problem, because it requires jointly managing the network resources (links and switches) and the caching resources (processing and storage capacities), while supporting the adaptive nature and skewed popularity of multimedia content. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm called CAD (Cooperative Active Distribution). CAD strives to serve as much as possible of the requested multimedia objects within the ISP while carefully engineering the traffic paths through the network. This is achieved by enabling the cooperation among caches within the ISP not only to serve various representations of multimedia objects, but also to create them on demand using the often under-utilized processing capacity of caches.

== Code and Datasets ==

* [https://github.com/horus-scheduler Hours Source Code].

* [https://oktopus-project.org/ Oktopus Source Code].

== Publications ==

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic], IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'20), Madrid, Spain, October 2020.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering for Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs], In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’19, Paris, France, April 2019.

Scalable Multicast

2023-11-08T00:59:45Z

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#REDIRECT [[Datacenter and ISP Networks]]

Datacenter and ISP Networks

2023-11-08T00:59:45Z

Sza191: Sza191 moved page Scalable Multicast to Datacenter and ISP Networks

XXX Datacenter and ISP Networking
... brief intro

Our current problems include task scheduling, datacenter multicast, ISP multicast, and load balancing.

Recent large-scale Internet applications have introduced a renewed interest in scalable multicast services. Examples of such applications include live Internet broadcast (e.g., Facebook Live), stock market applications, cloud-based enterprise applications, IPTV, webinars and video conferencing, and massive multiplayer games. The scale of these applications is unprecedented. For instance, Facebook Live aims to stream millions of live sessions to millions of concurrent users. Traditional multicast approaches do not scale, because of their substantial state and communication overheads. In addition, most traditional multicast approaches do not enable controlling the network paths chosen for the multicast sessions (usually referred to as traffic engineering), nor do they offer efficient methods to direct multicast traffic through various network functions (e.g., firewalls, IDS, video transcoding), which is known as service chaining.

In this project, we design scalable multicast systems for general ISP networks and datacenter networks.

== People ==
* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab]
* Parham Yassini
* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda]

'''Horus: In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters'''

'''Stateless Multicast For ISP Networks'''

Current multicast forwarding systems suffer from large state requirements at routers and high communication overhead. In addition, these systems do not support generalized multicast forwarding, where traffic passes through traffic-engineered paths or requires service chaining. We propose a new system that completely eliminates the state at routers and reduces communication overhead.

'''Scalable Multicast for Datacenter Networks'''

Group communications appear in many recent datacenter applications. These applications, however, do not benefit from multicast due to the absence of efficient systems that support large-scale multicast sessions, minimize state at switches and reduce bandwidth overheads. We propose a new architecture that addresses the challenges of multicast in datacenter networks. The proposed approach carefully divides the state and tasks of the data plane among switches and servers in order to realize efficient multicast services in datacenters, by partially offloading the management of multicast sessions to servers.

'''Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic'''

Multicast service chaining refers to the orchestration of network services for multicast traffic. Paths of a multicast session that span the source, destinations and required services form a complex structure that we refer to as the multicast distribution graph. We propose a new path-based algorithm, called Oktopus, that runs at the control plane of the ISP network to calculate the multicast distribution graph for a given session. Oktopus aims at minimizing the routing cost for each multicast session while satisfying all service chaining requirements. Oktopus consists of two steps. The first one generates a set of segments from the given ISP network topology, and the second step uses these segments to efficiently calculate the multicast distribution graph. Oktopus has a fine-grained control over the selection of links in the distribution graphs that leads to significant improvements.
The code of Oktopus is [https://oktopus-project.org/ open source].

'''Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Adaptive Multimedia Content in Telco-CDNs'''

Telco-CDNs refer to content distribution networks deployed and managed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They are getting popular among major ISPs because they offer new revenue streams and have the potential of providing better performance compared to traditional CDNs. Managing telco-CDNs is, however, a complex problem, because it requires jointly managing the network resources (links and switches) and the caching resources (processing and storage capacities), while supporting the adaptive nature and skewed popularity of multimedia content. To address this problem, we present a new algorithm called CAD (Cooperative Active Distribution). CAD strives to serve as much as possible of the requested multimedia objects within the ISP while carefully engineering the traffic paths through the network. This is achieved by enabling the cooperation among caches within the ISP not only to serve various representations of multimedia objects, but also to create them on demand using the often under-utilized processing capacity of caches.

== Code and Datasets ==

* [https://github.com/horus-scheduler Hours Source Code].

* [https://oktopus-project.org/ Oktopus Source Code].

== Publications ==

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding], In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Designed and Implementation (NSDI'22), Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic], IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'20), Madrid, Spain, October 2020.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, [https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering for Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs], In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’19, Paris, France, April 2019.

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[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2022]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
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== Collaborators ==

* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~peters/ Joseph G. Peters] (Professor Emeritus)

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab] (University Research Associate)

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~oba2 Ouldooz Baghban Karimi] (Lecturer)

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Image:Peters.jpg|Joseph Peters
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:karimi.jpg|Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
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== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~omossad/ Omar Mossad], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc.

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

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Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
Image:Erfan_mehraban.jpg| Erfan Mehraban
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== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

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Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

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= Conferences =

'''2024'''

*P. Yassini, K. Diab, S. Zanganeh, and M. Hefeeda, '''Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters''', In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation '''(NSDI'24)''', Sant Clara, CA, April 2024.

'''2023'''

* N. Sharma, M. Waseem, S. Mirzaei, and M. Hefeeda, '''MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices''', In Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking '''(MobiCom'23)''', Madrid, Spain, October 2023
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'''2022'''

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks]''', In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation '''(NSDI'22)''', Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding]''', In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation '''(NSDI'22)''', Renton, WA, April 2022.

'''2021'''

* O. Mossad, K. Diab, I. Amer, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm21_deepGame.pdf DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'21)''', Chengdu, China, October 2021. ([https://files.atypon.com/acm/76371c794f1e770909ff6897bda63c45 Video presentation])

* A. Ahmed, S. Kim, M. Elgharib, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys21_videoReflection.pdf User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference '''(MMSys’21)''', Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.

* P. Moghadam, N. Sharma and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys21_HS_illumination.pdf Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'21)''', Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.
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'''2020'''

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'20)''', Madrid, Spain, October 2020. '''(Acceptance: 16.8%)'''

* M. Arab, P. Azadi, M. Hussein, W. AbdAlmageed, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm20_makeup.pdf Revealing True Identity: Detecting Makeup Attacks in Face-based Biometric Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'20)''', Seattle, WA, October 2020.

* N. Sharma and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys20_vein.pdf Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images for Vein Visualization]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'20)''', Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020.
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'''2019'''

* M. Arab, K. Calagari, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm19_bandSelection.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'19)''', Nice, France, October 2019.

* M. Hegazy, K. Diab, M. Saeedi, B. Ivanovic, I. Amer, Y. Liu, G. Sines, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys19_cave.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''', In Proc. of the ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys’19)''', Amherst, MA, June 2019. '''[Best Student Paper Award]'''
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* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering of Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2019''', Paris, France, April 2019. '''(Acceptance: 19.7%)'''

'''2018'''

* M. Shatnawi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys18.pdf Dynamic Input Anomaly Detection in Interactive Multimedia Services]''', In Proc. of the ACM Multimedia Systems ('''MMSys’18'''), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2018. '''(Acceptance: 23%)''' '''[Best Student Paper Award - Honorable Mention]'''
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'''2017'''

* K. Calagari, M. Elgharib, S. Shirmohammadi, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm17_2d-vr.pdf Sports VR Content Generation from Regular Camera Feeds]''', In Proc. of the ACM Multimedia Conference ('''MM’17'''), Mountain View, CA, October 2017. '''(Acceptance: 28%)'''

* A. Hamza, H. Ahmadi, S. Almowuena, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm17_fvv.pdf QoE-fair Adaptive Streaming of Free-viewpoint Videos over LTE Networks]''', In Proc. of the ACM Thematic Workshops (in conjunction with '''ACM MM''' Conference), Mountain View, CA, October 2017.

* H. Ahmadi, O. Eltobgy, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm17_multicastVR.pdf Adaptive Multicast Streaming of Virtual Reality Content to Mobile Users]''', In Proc. of the ACM Thematic Workshops (in conjunction with '''ACM MM''' Conference), Mountain View, CA, October 2017.

* A. Nandoriya, M. Elgharib, C. Kim, M. Hefeeda, and W. Matusik, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iccv17.pdf Video Reflection Removal Through Spatio-Temporal Optimization]''', International Conference on Computer Vision ('''ICCV’17'''), Venice, Italy, October 2017.


* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom17_mash.pdf MASH: A Rate Adaptation Algorithm for Multiview Video Streaming over HTTP]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2017''', Atlanta, GA, May 2017. '''(Acceptance: 21%)'''

'''2016'''

* P. Kellnhofer, P. Didyk, K. Myszkowski, M. Hefeeda, H. Seidel, W. Matusik, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/siggraph16_GazeStereo3D.pdf GazeStereo3D: Seamless Disparity Manipulations]''', In Proc. of '''ACM SIGGRAPH 2016''', Anaheim, CA, July 2016. (ACM Transactions on Graphics, 35(4), July 2016) '''(Acceptance: ~25%)'''

* A. Hamza and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys16_FVV.pdf Adaptive Streaming of Interactive Free Viewpoint Videos to Heterogeneous Clients]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys’16)''' Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria, 12 pages, May 2016. '''(Acceptance: 28%)'''

* L. Gyarmati, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/SportsAnalytics16.pdf Analyzing In-Game Movements of Soccer Players at Scale]''', In Proc. of '''MIT SLOAN Sports Analytics''' Conference, Boston, MA, March 2016.



'''2015'''

* K. Calagari, M. Elgharib, P. Didyk, A. Kaspar, W. Matusik, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm15_2d-3d.pdf Gradient-based 2D-to-3D Conversion for Soccer Videos]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia '''(MM'15)''' Conference, pp. 331--340, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015. '''(Acceptance: 22%)'''

* M. Shatnawi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm15_ProactiveQoS.pdf Enhancing the Quality of Interactive Multimedia Services by Proactive Monitoring and Failure Prediction]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia '''(MM'15)''' Conference, pp. 521--530, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015. '''(Acceptance: 22%)'''

* M. ElGharib, M. Hefeeda, F. Durand, and B. Freeman, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/cvpr15.pdf Video Magnification in Presence of Large Motions]''', In Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition '''(CVPR’15)''', Boston, MA, June 2015. '''(Acceptance: 24%)'''

* M. Yabandeh, T. ElGamal, A. Aboulnaga, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigmod15.pdf sPCA: Scalable Principal Component Analysis for Big Data]''', In Proc. of '''ACM SIGMOD’15''', Melbourne, Australia, May 2015. '''(Acceptance: 18%)'''

* M. Shatnawi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom15.pdf Real-time Failure Prediction in Online Services]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2015''', Hong Kong, April 2015. '''(Acceptance: 19%)'''

* S. Almowuena and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsy15_sfn.pdf Dynamic Configuration of Single Frequency Networks in Mobile Streaming Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'15)''' Conference, p. 153--164, Portland, OR, March 2015. '''[Best Paper Award]''' '''(Acceptance: 29%)'''
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'''2014'''

* K. Calagari, K. Templin, T. Elgamal, K. Diab, P. Didyk, W. Matusik, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm14_anahita.pdf Anahita: A System for 3D Video Streaming with Depth Customization]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia '''(MM’14)''' Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2014. '''(Acceptance: 19%)'''

* K. Templin, P. Didyk, K. Myszkowski, H.-P. Seidel, M. M. Hefeeda, W. Matusik, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/siggraph14.pdf Modeling and Optimizing Eye Vergence to Stereoscopic Cuts]''', In Proc. of '''ACM SIGGRAPH 2014''', Vancouver, Canada, August 2014. (ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(4), pp. 145:1—145:8, July 2014) '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* M. Rahman, A. Hasib, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/networking14.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]''', In Proc. of IFIP Networking '''(Networking’14)''' Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 2014. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* K. Diab, T. ElGamal, K. Calagari, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys14_storageFor3DStreaming.pdf Storage Optimization for 3D Streaming Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys’14)''' Conference, pp. 59—69, Singapore, March 2014. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''


* A. Abdelsadek and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys14_DIMO.pdf DIMO: Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects using MapReduce]''', Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'14)''' Conference, p. 115--126, Singapore, Singapore, March 2014. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''



'''2012'''

* F. Gao, W. Abd-Almageed, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/hpdc12.pdf Distributed approximate spectral clustering for large-scale datasets]''', In Proc. of ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing '''(HPDC'12)''', p. 223--234, Delft, The Netherlands, June 2012.



* N. Khodabakhshi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys12-Naghmeh.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'12)''', p. 131--142, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2012.

* R. C. Harvey and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys12-Cameron.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'12'''), p. 35--46, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2012.

'''2011'''


* H. Neshat and M. Hefeeda, '''SmartAd: A Smart System for Effective Advertising in Online Videos''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo '''(ICME'11)''', Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* F. Tabrizi, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/networking11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices]''', In Proc. of '''IFIP Networking 2011''', Valencia, Spain, May 2011.

'''2010'''

* R. C. Harvey, A. Hamza, C. Ly, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/netGames10.pdf Energy-Efficient Gaming on Mobile Devices using Dead Reckoning-based Power Management]''', In Proc. of the 9th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games '''(NetGames'10)''', 6 pages, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2010. '''(Acceptance: 33%)''' Slides [[media:DRS_NetGames10.pdf | pdf]]

* C. Ly, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm10.pdf Improving Online Gaming Quality using Detour Paths]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'20)''', p. 55--64, Firenze, Italy, October 2010. '''(Acceptance: 14% -- Systems Track)''' Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10.pdf pdf]

* F. Tabrizi, C. Hsu, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/movid10.pdf Optimal Scalable Video Multiplexing in Mobile Broadcast Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD'10), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010, p. 9--14, Firenze, Italy, October 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/movid10.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/movid10.pdf pdf]

* S. Sharangi, R. Krishnamurti and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iwqos10.pdf Streaming Scalable Video Over WiMAX Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service '''(IWQoS'10)''', p. 1--9, Beijing, China, June 2010. '''(Acceptance: 25%)''' Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/iwqos10.pdf pdf]

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_p2pAnalysis.pdf Analysis of Peer-assisted Video-on-Demand Systems with Scalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', 12 pages, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_p2pAnalysis.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_p2pAnalysis.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_segmentScheduling.pdf Quality-Aware Segment Transmission Scheduling in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', p. 169--179, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_segmentScheduling.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_segmentScheduling.pdf pdf]

* Y. Liu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_coopStreaming.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', pp. 99--110, Phoenix, AR, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_coopStreaming.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_coopStreaming.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_viewingTime.pdf Achieving Viewing Time Scalability in Mobile Video Streaming Using Scalable Video Coding]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', pp. 111--122, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_viewingTime.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_viewingTime.pdf pdf]

* S. Mirshokraie and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_svc-nc.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Networking Coding]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', pp. 123--132, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_svc-nc.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_svc-nc.pdf pdf]

'''2009'''

* G. Kowalski and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ism09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia '''(ISM'09)''', pp. 243--250, San Diego, CA, December 2009. '''(Acceptance: 20%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm09.pdf On Statistical Multiplexing of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams in Mobile Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'09)''', pp. 411--420, Beijing, China, October 2009. '''(Acceptance: 18%)'''

* Y. Liu, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm09-short.pdf On the Benefits of Cooperative Video Broadcast over WMANs and WLANs]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'09)''', pp. 901--904, Beijing, China, October 2009. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* A. Berger and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/npsec09.pdf Exploiting SIP for Botnet Communication]''', In Proc. of Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec'09), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'09)''', pp. 31--36, Princeton, NJ, October 2009. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iwqos09b.pdf Efficient Allocation of Seed Servers in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems with Scalable Videos]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service '''(IWQoS'09)''', pp. 1-- 9, Charleston, SC, July 2009.

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nossdav09.pdf End-to-End Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of International workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video '''(NOSSDAV'09)''', pp. 79--84, Williamsburg, VA, June 2009. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pv09b.pdf Multi-Layer Video Broadcasting with Low Channel Switching Delays]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Packet Video Workshop '''(PV'09)''', pp. 1--10, Seattle, WA, May 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09b.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09b.pdf pdf]

* M. Hefeeda and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pv09.pdf Analysis of Authentication Schemes for Nonscalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Packet Video Workshop '''(PV'09)''', pp. 1--10, Seattle, WA, May 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/networking09.pdf Video Broadcasting to Heterogeneous Mobile Devices]''', In Proc. of '''IFIP Networking 2009''', Aachen, Germany, May 2009. Published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5550, pp. 600--613, 2009. '''(Acceptance: 20%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom09.pdf Time Slicing in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks with Arbitrary Channel Bit Rates]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2009''', pp. 2231--2239, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom09.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom09.pdf pdf] '''(Acceptance: 20%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmcn09.pdf Bounding Switching Delay in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference '''(MMCN'09)''', 12 pages, San Jose, CA, January 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmcn09a.pdf Cross-layer Optimization of Video Streaming in Single-Hop Wireless Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference '''(MMCN'09)''', 13 pages, San Jose, CA, January 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09a.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09a.pdf pdf]

'''2008'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/roads08.pdf ISP-Friendly Peer Matching without ISP Collaboration]''', International Workshop on Real Overlays & Distributed Systems (ROADS'08), in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2008, 6 pages, Madrid, Spain, December 2008. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/roads08.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/roads08.pdf pdf] '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/innovations08.pdf Energy Optimization in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'08), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, December 2008. '''[Best Paper Award]'''

* M. Hefeeda and B. Noorizadeh, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/lcn08.pdf Cooperative Caching: The Case for P2P Traffic]''', In Proc. of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'08), pp. 12--19, Montreal, Canada, October 2008.

'''2007'''

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp07.pdf A Probabilistic Coverage Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'07)''', pp. 41--50, Beijing, China, October 2007. '''(Acceptance: 15%)''' Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp07.pdf pdf]

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mass07.pdf Network Connectivity under Probabilistic Communication Models in Wireless Sensor Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems '''(MASS'07)''', pp. 1--9, Pisa, Italy, October 2007. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* M. Hefeeda and M. Bagheri, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mass-ghs07.pdf Wireless Sensor Networks for Early Detection of Forest Fires]''', In Proc. of International Workshop on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems for Global and Homeland Security (MASS-GHS’07), in conjunction with IEEE MASS’07, pp. 1--6, Pisa, Italy, October 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mass-ghs07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mass-ghs07.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iwqos07.pdf Structuring Multi-Layer Scalable Streams to Maximize Client-Perceived Quality]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service '''(IWQoS'07)''', pp. 182--187, Chicago, IL, June 2007.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nossdav07.pdf Optimal Partitioning of Fine-Grained Scalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video '''(NOSSDAV'07)''', pp. 63--68, Urbana-Champion, IL, June 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/nossdav07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/nossdav07.pdf pdf].

* M. Hefeeda and M. Bagheri, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom07.pdf Randomized k-Coverage Algorithms For Dense Sensor Networks]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2007''' Minisymposium, pp. 2376--2380, Anchorage, AK, May 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom07.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmcn07.pdf Optimal Bit Allocation for Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences in Distributed Streaming Environments]''', In Proc. of 14th ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference '''(MMCN'07)''', pp. 1--12, San Jose, CA, Jan 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn07.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

'''2006'''

* O. Saleh and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'06)''', pp. 249--258, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2006. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp06.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp06.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 14%)'''

'''2003'''

* M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, B. Botev, D. Xu, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm03.pdf PROMISE: Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Using CollectCast]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'03)''', pages 45--54, Berkeley, CA, November 2003. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 17%)'''

* A. Habib, M. Hefeeda, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ndss03.pdf Detecting Service Violations and DoS Attacks]''', In Proc. of Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium '''(NDSS'03)''', pages 177--189, San Diego, CA, February 2003. '''(Acceptance: 21%)'''

'''2002'''

* D. Xu, M. Hefeeda, S. Hambrush, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icdcs02.pdf On Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems '''(ICDCS'02)''', pages 363--371, Vienna, Austria, July 2002. '''(Acceptance: 18%)'''

= Journals =

'''2023'''

* H. RahmaniKhzri, S. Kim, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm22_imageReflection.pdf Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', Accepted, June 2022.

'''2020'''

* O. Eltobgy, O. Arafa, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm20_vrcast.pdf Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 22(12):3139--3152, December 2020.

'''2018'''

* K. Calagari, M. Elgharib, P. Didyk, A. Kaspar, W. Matusik and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm18_2d3d.pdf Data Driven 2D-to-3D Video Conversion for Soccer]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 20(3):605--618, March 2018.

* H. Hong, T. El-Ganainy, C. Hsu , K. Harras, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm18_mBridge.pdf Disseminating Multilayer Multimedia Content Over Challenged Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 20(2):345--360, February 2018.

'''2016'''

* S. Almowuena and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm16_sfn.pdf Mobile Video Streaming over Dynamic Single-Frequency Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 12(5s), Article 81, pp. 1--26, November 2016.

* K. Calagari, T. ElGamal, K. Diab, K. Templin, P. Didyk, W. Matusik, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm16_depthPersonalization.pdf Depth Personalization and Streaming of Stereoscopic Sports Videos]''', 12(3), Article 41, pp:41:1—41:23, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), March 2016.

* S. Almowuena, M.M. Rahman, C. Hsu, A. Hassan, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm16_hybridStreaming.pdf Energy-Aware and Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Video Streaming over Mobile Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 18(1), pp. 102--115, January 2016.

'''2015'''

* T. Hegazy and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tpds15_cloudAutomation.pdf Industrial Automation as a Cloud Service]''', IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(10): 2750—2763, October 2015.

* M. Hefeeda, T. ElGamal, K. Calagari, and A. Abdelsadek, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm15_cSpider.pdf Cloud-based Multimedia Content Protection System]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 17(3), pp. 420--433, March 2015.

'''2014'''

* K. Calagari, M. Pakravan, S. Shirmohammadi, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm14_alp.pdf ALP: Adaptive Loss Protection Scheme with Constant Overhead for Interactive Video Applications]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 11(2), Article 25, pp. 1--25, December 2014.

'''2013'''

* F. Tabrizi, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, '''Dynamic Control of Receiver Buffers in Mobile Video Streaming Systems''', ''IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing'', 12(5), pp. 995--1008, May 2013.

* N. Khodabakhshi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap13-3dvcd_spider.pdf Spider: A System for Finding 3D Video Copies]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 9(1), Article 7, pp. 1--20, February 2013.

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm13_capacity.pdf Capacity Management of Seed Servers in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems With Scalable Video Streams]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 15(1), pp. 181--194, January 2013.

'''2012'''
* A. Hamza and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm12_multiview.pdf Energy-Efficient Multicasting of Multiview 3D Videos to Mobile Devices]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 8(3s), Article 45, pp. 1--25, September 2012.

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm12_testbed.pdf Design and Evaluation of a Testbed for Mobile TV Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 8(1), Article 3, pp. 1--23, January 2012.

'''2011'''

* C. Ly, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm11_irs.pdf A Detour Routing System to Improve Quality of Online Games]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 13(4), pp. 733--747, August 2011.

* Y. Shen, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm11_p2p.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-Sender Data Transmission in Swarm-Based Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 13(4), pp. 762--775, August 2011.

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tc11.pdf Design and Evaluation of a Proxy Cache for Peer to Peer Traffic]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Computers'', 60(7), pp. 964--977, July 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmc11.pdf Flexible Broadcasting of Scalable Video Streams to Heterogeneous Mobile Devices]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing'', 10(3), pp. 406--418, March 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap11_statmux.pdf Statistical Multiplexing of Variable-Bit-Rate Videos Streamed to Mobile Devices]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 7(2), Article 12, pp. 1--23, February 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap11_simu.pdf Using Simulcast and Scalable Video Coding to Control Channel Switching Delay in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 7(2), Article 8, pp. 1--29, February 2011.

* S. Sharangi, R. Krishnamurti and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom11_wimax.pdf Energy-efficient Multicasting of Scalable Video Streams over WiMAX Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 13(1), pp.102--115, February 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap11_cross.pdf A Framework for Cross-layer Optimization of Video Streaming in Wireless Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 7(1), Article 5, pp. 1--28, January 2011.

'''2010'''

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom10.pdf Authentication of Scalable Video Streams with Low Communication Overhead]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 12(7), pp. 730--742, November 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and B. Noorizadeh, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tpds10_caching.pdf On the Benefits of Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems'', 21(7), pp. 998--1010, July 2010.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ton10_abr.pdf Broadcasting Video Streams Encoded with Arbitrary Bit Rates in Energy-Constrained Mobile TV Networks]''', ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'', 18(3), pp. 681--694, June 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tpds10.pdf Energy-Efficient Protocol for Deterministic and Probabilistic Coverage in Sensor Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems'', 21(5), pp. 579--593, May 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ton10_burst.pdf On Burst Transmission Scheduling in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'', 18(2), pp. 610--623, April 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap10_auth.pdf Authentication Schemes for Multimedia Streams: Quantitative Analysis and Comparison]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 6(1), Article 6, pp. 1--24, February 2010.

'''2009'''

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ahswn09b.pdf An Integrated Protocol for Maintaining Connectivity and Coverage under Probabilistic Models for Wireless Sensor Networks]''', ''Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks'', 7(3-4), pp. 295--323, April 2009.

* M. Hefeeda and M. Bagheri, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ahswn09a.pdf Forest Fire Modeling and Early Detection using Wireless Sensor Networks]''', ''Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks'', 7(3-4), pp.169--224, April 2009.

'''2008'''

* M. Hefeeda and O. Saleh, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ton08.pdf Traffic Modeling and Proportional Partial Caching for Peer-to-Peer Systems]''', ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'', 16(6), pp. 1447--1460, December 2008.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap08_rd.pdf On the Accuracy and Complexity of Rate-Distortion Models for FGS-encoded Video Sequences]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 4(2), Article 15, pp. 1--22, May 2008.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom08b.pdf Partitioning of Multiple Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences Concurrently Streamed to Heterogeneous Clients]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 10(3), pp. 457--469, April 2008.

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap08_fgs.pdf Rate-Distortion Optimized Streaming of Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 4(1), Article 2, pp. 1--28, January 2008.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom08.pdf Optimal Coding of Multi-layer and Multi-version Video Streams]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 10(1), pp. 121--131, January 2008.

'''2005'''

* Y. Tu, J. Sun, M. Hefeeda, Y. Xia, S. Prabhakar, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap05.pdf An Analytical Study of Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 1(4), pp. 354--376, November 2005.

* M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, D. Xu, B. Bhargava, B. Botev, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsj05.pdf CollectCast: A Peer-to-Peer Service for Media Streaming]''', ''ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal'', 11(1), pp. 68--81, November 2005.

'''2004'''

* M. Hefeeda, B. Bhargava, D. Yau, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/comnet04.pdf A Hybrid Architecture for Cost-Effective On-Demand Media Streaming]''', ''Elsevier Computer Networks'', 44(3), pp. 353--382, February 2004.

= Book Chapters =

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and J. Peters, '''Energy and Bandwidth Optimization in Mobile Video Streaming Systems''', Book Chapter in ''Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks'', edited by Ce Zhu and Yuenan Li, pp. 165--210, CRC Press, 2013.

* M. Hefeeda and K. Mokhtarian, '''Authentication of Scalable Multimedia Streams''', Book Chapter in ''Handbook of Security and Networks'', edited by Yang Xiao, Frank H Li, and Hui Chen, pp. 93--125, World Scientific Publishing, 2011. (Invited)

* M. Hefeeda and A. Habib, '''Detecting DoS Attacks and Service Violations in QoS-enabled Networks''', Book Chapter in ''Handbook of Security and Networks'', edited by Yang Xiao, Frank H Li, and Hui Chen, pp. 191--220, World Scientific Publishing, 2011. (Invited)

= Refereed Magazine Articles =

* B. Jules and M. Hefeeda, [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pCDN07.pdf pCDN: Peer-assisted Content Distribution Network], ''CBC/Radio-Canada Technology Review Magazine'', Issue 4, pp. 1--14, July 2007. (Invited, also published in [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pCDN07_french.pdf French]. This magazine is distributed to major broadcasters across the world.)

* C. Schuba, M. Hefeeda, J. Goldschmidt, M. Speer, [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ieeeComp04Final.pdf Scaling Network Services Using Programmable Network Devices], ''IEEE Computer'', pp. 52--60, April 2005.

= Posters and Demos =

* N. Sharma, '''Enabling Wide Adoption of Hyperspectral Imaging''', ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys'21) Doctoral Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.

* K. Diab, M. Hefeeda, '''Cooperative Active Distribution of Videos in Telco-CDNs''', In ACM SIGCOMM'17 Poster Session, Los Angeles, CA, August 2017.

* H. Hong, S. Wang, C. Tan, T. El-Ganainy, K. Harras, C. Hsu, M. Hefeeda, '''Challenged Content Delivery Network: Eliminating the Digital Divide''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia (MM’015) Conference, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015.

* M. Hefeeda, K. Choudhary, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/bcic10.pdf Efficient Multiplexing for Mobile Video Streaming]''', British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC) Connect Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 2010.

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and Y. Liu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08demo_abstract.pdf Testbed and Experiments for Mobile TV (DVB-H) Networks]''', ACM Multimedia'08 Technical Demonstration, Vancouver, Canada, October 2008. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08DemoAward.pdf Best Demo Award]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08PhD.pdf Video Communication Systems with Heterogeneous Clients]''', ACM Multimedia'08 Doctoral Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.

* C. Hsu, N. Chiluka, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08poster_abstract.pdf ISP-Friendly Peer Matching Algorithms]''', ACM SIGCOMM'08 Poster, Seattle, WA, August 2008. [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08poster.pdf Poster: pdf]] [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08poster.ppt Poster: ppt]].

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08demo_abstract.pdf pCache: A Proxy Cache for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]''', ACM SIGCOMM'08 Technical Demonstration, Seattle, WA, August 2008. [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08demo.pdf Poster: pdf]] [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08demo.ppt Poster: ppt]].

* M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, D. Xu, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Poster.pdf CollectCast: A Tomography-Based Network Service for Peer-to-Peer Streaming]''', In ACM SIGCOMM'03 Poster Session, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Abstract.pdf Abstract] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Poster.pdf pdf] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Poster.ppt ppt]. (Acceptance: 29%)

* M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm03-doctoral.pdf A Framework for Cost-Effective Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2003, Doctoral Symposium, pages 642--643, Berkeley, CA, November 2003. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03_doctoral.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03_doctoral.pdf pdf].

= Granted Patents =

* M. Hefeeda and R. Cameron Harvey, '''Detecting Video Copies''', US Patent No: US 9,418,297 B2, granted August 2016.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''System and Method for Multiplexing of Variable Bitrate Video Streams in Mobile Video Systems''', US Patent No: US 9,215,486 B2, granted December 2015.

* W. Abd-Almageed, M. Hefeeda, B. Abdelaziz, '''System and Method for Semantic Video Segmentation''', US Patent No: US 8,756,233 B2, granted June 2014.

* M. Hefeeda and N. Khodabakhshi, '''Copy Detection''', US Patent No: US 8,509,600 B2, granted August 2013.

= Tutorials =

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, [http://www.acmmm10.org/program/deepenings/tutorials/#mobile_video_streaming Mobile Video Streaming in Modern Wireless Networks] at the [http://www.acmmm10.org/ ACM Multimedia 2010 Conference]. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm10Tutorial.pdf Summary], Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10Tutorial.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10Tutorial.pdf pdf]

Publications

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= Conferences =

'''2024'''

*P. Yassini, K. Diab, S. Zanganeh, and M. Hefeeda, '''Horus: Granular In-Network Task Scheduler for Cloud Datacenters''', In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation '''(NSDI'24)''', Sant Clara, CA, April 2024.

'''2023'''

* N. Sharma, M. Waseem, S. Mirzaei, and M. Hefeeda, '''MobiSpectral: Hyperspectral Imaging on Mobile Devices''', In Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking '''(MobiCom'23)''', Madrid, Spain, October 2023
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'''2022'''

* K. Diab, P. Yassini, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_orca.pdf Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks]''', In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation '''(NSDI'22)''', Renton, WA, April 2022.

* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nsdi22_yeti.pdf Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding]''', In Proc. of USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation '''(NSDI'22)''', Renton, WA, April 2022.

'''2021'''

* O. Mossad, K. Diab, I. Amer, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm21_deepGame.pdf DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'21)''', Chengdu, China, October 2021. ([https://files.atypon.com/acm/76371c794f1e770909ff6897bda63c45 Video presentation])

* A. Ahmed, S. Kim, M. Elgharib, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys21_videoReflection.pdf User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference '''(MMSys’21)''', Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.

* P. Moghadam, N. Sharma and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys21_HS_illumination.pdf Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'21)''', Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.
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'''2020'''

* K. Diab, C. Lee, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp20.pdf Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'20)''', Madrid, Spain, October 2020. '''(Acceptance: 16.8%)'''

* M. Arab, P. Azadi, M. Hussein, W. AbdAlmageed, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm20_makeup.pdf Revealing True Identity: Detecting Makeup Attacks in Face-based Biometric Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'20)''', Seattle, WA, October 2020.

* N. Sharma and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys20_vein.pdf Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images for Vein Visualization]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'20)''', Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020.
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'''2019'''

* M. Arab, K. Calagari, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm19_bandSelection.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'19)''', Nice, France, October 2019.

* M. Hegazy, K. Diab, M. Saeedi, B. Ivanovic, I. Amer, Y. Liu, G. Sines, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys19_cave.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]''', In Proc. of the ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys’19)''', Amherst, MA, June 2019. '''[Best Student Paper Award]'''
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* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom19_cad.pdf Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering of Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2019''', Paris, France, April 2019. '''(Acceptance: 19.7%)'''

'''2018'''

* M. Shatnawi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys18.pdf Dynamic Input Anomaly Detection in Interactive Multimedia Services]''', In Proc. of the ACM Multimedia Systems ('''MMSys’18'''), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2018. '''(Acceptance: 23%)''' '''[Best Student Paper Award - Honorable Mention]'''
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'''2017'''

* K. Calagari, M. Elgharib, S. Shirmohammadi, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm17_2d-vr.pdf Sports VR Content Generation from Regular Camera Feeds]''', In Proc. of the ACM Multimedia Conference ('''MM’17'''), Mountain View, CA, October 2017. '''(Acceptance: 28%)'''

* A. Hamza, H. Ahmadi, S. Almowuena, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm17_fvv.pdf QoE-fair Adaptive Streaming of Free-viewpoint Videos over LTE Networks]''', In Proc. of the ACM Thematic Workshops (in conjunction with '''ACM MM''' Conference), Mountain View, CA, October 2017.

* H. Ahmadi, O. Eltobgy, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm17_multicastVR.pdf Adaptive Multicast Streaming of Virtual Reality Content to Mobile Users]''', In Proc. of the ACM Thematic Workshops (in conjunction with '''ACM MM''' Conference), Mountain View, CA, October 2017.

* A. Nandoriya, M. Elgharib, C. Kim, M. Hefeeda, and W. Matusik, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iccv17.pdf Video Reflection Removal Through Spatio-Temporal Optimization]''', International Conference on Computer Vision ('''ICCV’17'''), Venice, Italy, October 2017.


* K. Diab and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom17_mash.pdf MASH: A Rate Adaptation Algorithm for Multiview Video Streaming over HTTP]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2017''', Atlanta, GA, May 2017. '''(Acceptance: 21%)'''

'''2016'''

* P. Kellnhofer, P. Didyk, K. Myszkowski, M. Hefeeda, H. Seidel, W. Matusik, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/siggraph16_GazeStereo3D.pdf GazeStereo3D: Seamless Disparity Manipulations]''', In Proc. of '''ACM SIGGRAPH 2016''', Anaheim, CA, July 2016. (ACM Transactions on Graphics, 35(4), July 2016) '''(Acceptance: ~25%)'''

* A. Hamza and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys16_FVV.pdf Adaptive Streaming of Interactive Free Viewpoint Videos to Heterogeneous Clients]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys’16)''' Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria, 12 pages, May 2016. '''(Acceptance: 28%)'''

* L. Gyarmati, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/SportsAnalytics16.pdf Analyzing In-Game Movements of Soccer Players at Scale]''', In Proc. of '''MIT SLOAN Sports Analytics''' Conference, Boston, MA, March 2016.



'''2015'''

* K. Calagari, M. Elgharib, P. Didyk, A. Kaspar, W. Matusik, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm15_2d-3d.pdf Gradient-based 2D-to-3D Conversion for Soccer Videos]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia '''(MM'15)''' Conference, pp. 331--340, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015. '''(Acceptance: 22%)'''

* M. Shatnawi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm15_ProactiveQoS.pdf Enhancing the Quality of Interactive Multimedia Services by Proactive Monitoring and Failure Prediction]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia '''(MM'15)''' Conference, pp. 521--530, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015. '''(Acceptance: 22%)'''

* M. ElGharib, M. Hefeeda, F. Durand, and B. Freeman, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/cvpr15.pdf Video Magnification in Presence of Large Motions]''', In Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition '''(CVPR’15)''', Boston, MA, June 2015. '''(Acceptance: 24%)'''

* M. Yabandeh, T. ElGamal, A. Aboulnaga, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigmod15.pdf sPCA: Scalable Principal Component Analysis for Big Data]''', In Proc. of '''ACM SIGMOD’15''', Melbourne, Australia, May 2015. '''(Acceptance: 18%)'''

* M. Shatnawi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom15.pdf Real-time Failure Prediction in Online Services]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2015''', Hong Kong, April 2015. '''(Acceptance: 19%)'''

* S. Almowuena and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsy15_sfn.pdf Dynamic Configuration of Single Frequency Networks in Mobile Streaming Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'15)''' Conference, p. 153--164, Portland, OR, March 2015. '''[Best Paper Award]''' '''(Acceptance: 29%)'''

'''2014'''

* K. Calagari, K. Templin, T. Elgamal, K. Diab, P. Didyk, W. Matusik, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm14_anahita.pdf Anahita: A System for 3D Video Streaming with Depth Customization]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia '''(MM’14)''' Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2014. '''(Acceptance: 19%)'''

* K. Templin, P. Didyk, K. Myszkowski, H.-P. Seidel, M. M. Hefeeda, W. Matusik, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/siggraph14.pdf Modeling and Optimizing Eye Vergence to Stereoscopic Cuts]''', In Proc. of '''ACM SIGGRAPH 2014''', Vancouver, Canada, August 2014. (ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(4), pp. 145:1—145:8, July 2014) '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* M. Rahman, A. Hasib, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/networking14.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]''', In Proc. of IFIP Networking '''(Networking’14)''' Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 2014. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* K. Diab, T. ElGamal, K. Calagari, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys14_storageFor3DStreaming.pdf Storage Optimization for 3D Streaming Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys’14)''' Conference, pp. 59—69, Singapore, March 2014. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''


* A. Abdelsadek and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys14_DIMO.pdf DIMO: Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects using MapReduce]''', Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'14)''' Conference, p. 115--126, Singapore, Singapore, March 2014. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''



'''2012'''

* F. Gao, W. Abd-Almageed, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/hpdc12.pdf Distributed approximate spectral clustering for large-scale datasets]''', In Proc. of ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing '''(HPDC'12)''', p. 223--234, Delft, The Netherlands, June 2012.



* N. Khodabakhshi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys12-Naghmeh.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'12)''', p. 131--142, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2012.

* R. C. Harvey and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys12-Cameron.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'12'''), p. 35--46, Chapel Hill, NC, February 2012.

'''2011'''


* H. Neshat and M. Hefeeda, '''SmartAd: A Smart System for Effective Advertising in Online Videos''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo '''(ICME'11)''', Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* F. Tabrizi, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/networking11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices]''', In Proc. of '''IFIP Networking 2011''', Valencia, Spain, May 2011.

'''2010'''

* R. C. Harvey, A. Hamza, C. Ly, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/netGames10.pdf Energy-Efficient Gaming on Mobile Devices using Dead Reckoning-based Power Management]''', In Proc. of the 9th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games '''(NetGames'10)''', 6 pages, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2010. '''(Acceptance: 33%)''' Slides [[media:DRS_NetGames10.pdf | pdf]]

* C. Ly, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm10.pdf Improving Online Gaming Quality using Detour Paths]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'20)''', p. 55--64, Firenze, Italy, October 2010. '''(Acceptance: 14% -- Systems Track)''' Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10.pdf pdf]

* F. Tabrizi, C. Hsu, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/movid10.pdf Optimal Scalable Video Multiplexing in Mobile Broadcast Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD'10), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010, p. 9--14, Firenze, Italy, October 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/movid10.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/movid10.pdf pdf]

* S. Sharangi, R. Krishnamurti and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iwqos10.pdf Streaming Scalable Video Over WiMAX Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service '''(IWQoS'10)''', p. 1--9, Beijing, China, June 2010. '''(Acceptance: 25%)''' Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/iwqos10.pdf pdf]

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_p2pAnalysis.pdf Analysis of Peer-assisted Video-on-Demand Systems with Scalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', 12 pages, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_p2pAnalysis.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_p2pAnalysis.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_segmentScheduling.pdf Quality-Aware Segment Transmission Scheduling in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', p. 169--179, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_segmentScheduling.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_segmentScheduling.pdf pdf]

* Y. Liu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_coopStreaming.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', pp. 99--110, Phoenix, AR, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_coopStreaming.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_coopStreaming.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_viewingTime.pdf Achieving Viewing Time Scalability in Mobile Video Streaming Using Scalable Video Coding]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', pp. 111--122, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_viewingTime.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_viewingTime.pdf pdf]

* S. Mirshokraie and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsys10_svc-nc.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Networking Coding]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Systems '''(MMSys'10)''', pp. 123--132, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_svc-nc.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmsys10_svc-nc.pdf pdf]

'''2009'''

* G. Kowalski and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ism09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia '''(ISM'09)''', pp. 243--250, San Diego, CA, December 2009. '''(Acceptance: 20%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm09.pdf On Statistical Multiplexing of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams in Mobile Systems]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'09)''', pp. 411--420, Beijing, China, October 2009. '''(Acceptance: 18%)'''

* Y. Liu, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm09-short.pdf On the Benefits of Cooperative Video Broadcast over WMANs and WLANs]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'09)''', pp. 901--904, Beijing, China, October 2009. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* A. Berger and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/npsec09.pdf Exploiting SIP for Botnet Communication]''', In Proc. of Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec'09), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'09)''', pp. 31--36, Princeton, NJ, October 2009. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iwqos09b.pdf Efficient Allocation of Seed Servers in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems with Scalable Videos]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service '''(IWQoS'09)''', pp. 1-- 9, Charleston, SC, July 2009.

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nossdav09.pdf End-to-End Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of International workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video '''(NOSSDAV'09)''', pp. 79--84, Williamsburg, VA, June 2009. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pv09b.pdf Multi-Layer Video Broadcasting with Low Channel Switching Delays]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Packet Video Workshop '''(PV'09)''', pp. 1--10, Seattle, WA, May 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09b.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09b.pdf pdf]

* M. Hefeeda and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pv09.pdf Analysis of Authentication Schemes for Nonscalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Packet Video Workshop '''(PV'09)''', pp. 1--10, Seattle, WA, May 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/pv09.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/networking09.pdf Video Broadcasting to Heterogeneous Mobile Devices]''', In Proc. of '''IFIP Networking 2009''', Aachen, Germany, May 2009. Published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5550, pp. 600--613, 2009. '''(Acceptance: 20%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom09.pdf Time Slicing in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks with Arbitrary Channel Bit Rates]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2009''', pp. 2231--2239, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom09.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom09.pdf pdf] '''(Acceptance: 20%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmcn09.pdf Bounding Switching Delay in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference '''(MMCN'09)''', 12 pages, San Jose, CA, January 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmcn09a.pdf Cross-layer Optimization of Video Streaming in Single-Hop Wireless Networks]''', In Proc. of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference '''(MMCN'09)''', 13 pages, San Jose, CA, January 2009. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09a.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn09a.pdf pdf]

'''2008'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/roads08.pdf ISP-Friendly Peer Matching without ISP Collaboration]''', International Workshop on Real Overlays & Distributed Systems (ROADS'08), in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2008, 6 pages, Madrid, Spain, December 2008. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/roads08.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/roads08.pdf pdf] '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/innovations08.pdf Energy Optimization in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'08), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, December 2008. '''[Best Paper Award]'''

* M. Hefeeda and B. Noorizadeh, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/lcn08.pdf Cooperative Caching: The Case for P2P Traffic]''', In Proc. of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'08), pp. 12--19, Montreal, Canada, October 2008.

'''2007'''

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp07.pdf A Probabilistic Coverage Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'07)''', pp. 41--50, Beijing, China, October 2007. '''(Acceptance: 15%)''' Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp07.pdf pdf]

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mass07.pdf Network Connectivity under Probabilistic Communication Models in Wireless Sensor Networks]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems '''(MASS'07)''', pp. 1--9, Pisa, Italy, October 2007. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* M. Hefeeda and M. Bagheri, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mass-ghs07.pdf Wireless Sensor Networks for Early Detection of Forest Fires]''', In Proc. of International Workshop on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems for Global and Homeland Security (MASS-GHS’07), in conjunction with IEEE MASS’07, pp. 1--6, Pisa, Italy, October 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mass-ghs07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mass-ghs07.pdf pdf]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/iwqos07.pdf Structuring Multi-Layer Scalable Streams to Maximize Client-Perceived Quality]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service '''(IWQoS'07)''', pp. 182--187, Chicago, IL, June 2007.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/nossdav07.pdf Optimal Partitioning of Fine-Grained Scalable Video Streams]''', In Proc. of ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video '''(NOSSDAV'07)''', pp. 63--68, Urbana-Champion, IL, June 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/nossdav07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/nossdav07.pdf pdf].

* M. Hefeeda and M. Bagheri, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/infocom07.pdf Randomized k-Coverage Algorithms For Dense Sensor Networks]''', In Proc. of '''IEEE INFOCOM 2007''' Minisymposium, pp. 2376--2380, Anchorage, AK, May 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/infocom07.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 25%)'''

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmcn07.pdf Optimal Bit Allocation for Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences in Distributed Streaming Environments]''', In Proc. of 14th ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference '''(MMCN'07)''', pp. 1--12, San Jose, CA, Jan 2007. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn07.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mmcn07.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 30%)'''

'''2006'''

* O. Saleh and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icnp06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols '''(ICNP'06)''', pp. 249--258, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2006. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp06.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/icnp06.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 14%)'''

'''2003'''

* M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, B. Botev, D. Xu, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm03.pdf PROMISE: Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Using CollectCast]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference '''(MM'03)''', pages 45--54, Berkeley, CA, November 2003. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03.pdf pdf]. '''(Acceptance: 17%)'''

* A. Habib, M. Hefeeda, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ndss03.pdf Detecting Service Violations and DoS Attacks]''', In Proc. of Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium '''(NDSS'03)''', pages 177--189, San Diego, CA, February 2003. '''(Acceptance: 21%)'''

'''2002'''

* D. Xu, M. Hefeeda, S. Hambrush, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/icdcs02.pdf On Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming]''', In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems '''(ICDCS'02)''', pages 363--371, Vienna, Austria, July 2002. '''(Acceptance: 18%)'''

= Journals =

'''2023'''

* H. RahmaniKhzri, S. Kim, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm22_imageReflection.pdf Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', Accepted, June 2022.

'''2020'''

* O. Eltobgy, O. Arafa, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm20_vrcast.pdf Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 22(12):3139--3152, December 2020.

'''2018'''

* K. Calagari, M. Elgharib, P. Didyk, A. Kaspar, W. Matusik and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm18_2d3d.pdf Data Driven 2D-to-3D Video Conversion for Soccer]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 20(3):605--618, March 2018.

* H. Hong, T. El-Ganainy, C. Hsu , K. Harras, M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm18_mBridge.pdf Disseminating Multilayer Multimedia Content Over Challenged Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 20(2):345--360, February 2018.

'''2016'''

* S. Almowuena and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm16_sfn.pdf Mobile Video Streaming over Dynamic Single-Frequency Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 12(5s), Article 81, pp. 1--26, November 2016.

* K. Calagari, T. ElGamal, K. Diab, K. Templin, P. Didyk, W. Matusik, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm16_depthPersonalization.pdf Depth Personalization and Streaming of Stereoscopic Sports Videos]''', 12(3), Article 41, pp:41:1—41:23, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), March 2016.

* S. Almowuena, M.M. Rahman, C. Hsu, A. Hassan, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm16_hybridStreaming.pdf Energy-Aware and Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Video Streaming over Mobile Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 18(1), pp. 102--115, January 2016.

'''2015'''

* T. Hegazy and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tpds15_cloudAutomation.pdf Industrial Automation as a Cloud Service]''', IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(10): 2750—2763, October 2015.

* M. Hefeeda, T. ElGamal, K. Calagari, and A. Abdelsadek, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm15_cSpider.pdf Cloud-based Multimedia Content Protection System]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 17(3), pp. 420--433, March 2015.

'''2014'''

* K. Calagari, M. Pakravan, S. Shirmohammadi, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm14_alp.pdf ALP: Adaptive Loss Protection Scheme with Constant Overhead for Interactive Video Applications]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 11(2), Article 25, pp. 1--25, December 2014.

'''2013'''

* F. Tabrizi, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, '''Dynamic Control of Receiver Buffers in Mobile Video Streaming Systems''', ''IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing'', 12(5), pp. 995--1008, May 2013.

* N. Khodabakhshi and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap13-3dvcd_spider.pdf Spider: A System for Finding 3D Video Copies]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 9(1), Article 7, pp. 1--20, February 2013.

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm13_capacity.pdf Capacity Management of Seed Servers in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems With Scalable Video Streams]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 15(1), pp. 181--194, January 2013.

'''2012'''
* A. Hamza and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm12_multiview.pdf Energy-Efficient Multicasting of Multiview 3D Videos to Mobile Devices]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 8(3s), Article 45, pp. 1--25, September 2012.

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomm12_testbed.pdf Design and Evaluation of a Testbed for Mobile TV Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 8(1), Article 3, pp. 1--23, January 2012.

'''2011'''

* C. Ly, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm11_irs.pdf A Detour Routing System to Improve Quality of Online Games]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 13(4), pp. 733--747, August 2011.

* Y. Shen, C. Hsu, and M. Hefeeda, '''[https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmm11_p2p.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-Sender Data Transmission in Swarm-Based Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 13(4), pp. 762--775, August 2011.

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tc11.pdf Design and Evaluation of a Proxy Cache for Peer to Peer Traffic]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Computers'', 60(7), pp. 964--977, July 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tmc11.pdf Flexible Broadcasting of Scalable Video Streams to Heterogeneous Mobile Devices]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing'', 10(3), pp. 406--418, March 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap11_statmux.pdf Statistical Multiplexing of Variable-Bit-Rate Videos Streamed to Mobile Devices]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 7(2), Article 12, pp. 1--23, February 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap11_simu.pdf Using Simulcast and Scalable Video Coding to Control Channel Switching Delay in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 7(2), Article 8, pp. 1--29, February 2011.

* S. Sharangi, R. Krishnamurti and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom11_wimax.pdf Energy-efficient Multicasting of Scalable Video Streams over WiMAX Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 13(1), pp.102--115, February 2011.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap11_cross.pdf A Framework for Cross-layer Optimization of Video Streaming in Wireless Networks]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 7(1), Article 5, pp. 1--28, January 2011.

'''2010'''

* K. Mokhtarian and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom10.pdf Authentication of Scalable Video Streams with Low Communication Overhead]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 12(7), pp. 730--742, November 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and B. Noorizadeh, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tpds10_caching.pdf On the Benefits of Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems'', 21(7), pp. 998--1010, July 2010.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ton10_abr.pdf Broadcasting Video Streams Encoded with Arbitrary Bit Rates in Energy-Constrained Mobile TV Networks]''', ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'', 18(3), pp. 681--694, June 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tpds10.pdf Energy-Efficient Protocol for Deterministic and Probabilistic Coverage in Sensor Networks]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems'', 21(5), pp. 579--593, May 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ton10_burst.pdf On Burst Transmission Scheduling in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks]''', ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'', 18(2), pp. 610--623, April 2010.

* M. Hefeeda and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap10_auth.pdf Authentication Schemes for Multimedia Streams: Quantitative Analysis and Comparison]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 6(1), Article 6, pp. 1--24, February 2010.

'''2009'''

* M. Hefeeda and H. Ahmadi, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ahswn09b.pdf An Integrated Protocol for Maintaining Connectivity and Coverage under Probabilistic Models for Wireless Sensor Networks]''', ''Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks'', 7(3-4), pp. 295--323, April 2009.

* M. Hefeeda and M. Bagheri, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ahswn09a.pdf Forest Fire Modeling and Early Detection using Wireless Sensor Networks]''', ''Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks'', 7(3-4), pp.169--224, April 2009.

'''2008'''

* M. Hefeeda and O. Saleh, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ton08.pdf Traffic Modeling and Proportional Partial Caching for Peer-to-Peer Systems]''', ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking'', 16(6), pp. 1447--1460, December 2008.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap08_rd.pdf On the Accuracy and Complexity of Rate-Distortion Models for FGS-encoded Video Sequences]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 4(2), Article 15, pp. 1--22, May 2008.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom08b.pdf Partitioning of Multiple Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences Concurrently Streamed to Heterogeneous Clients]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 10(3), pp. 457--469, April 2008.

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap08_fgs.pdf Rate-Distortion Optimized Streaming of Fine-Grained Scalable Video Sequences]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 4(1), Article 2, pp. 1--28, January 2008.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tom08.pdf Optimal Coding of Multi-layer and Multi-version Video Streams]''', ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'', 10(1), pp. 121--131, January 2008.

'''2005'''

* Y. Tu, J. Sun, M. Hefeeda, Y. Xia, S. Prabhakar, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/tomccap05.pdf An Analytical Study of Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems]''', ''ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)'', 1(4), pp. 354--376, November 2005.

* M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, D. Xu, B. Bhargava, B. Botev, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mmsj05.pdf CollectCast: A Peer-to-Peer Service for Media Streaming]''', ''ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal'', 11(1), pp. 68--81, November 2005.

'''2004'''

* M. Hefeeda, B. Bhargava, D. Yau, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/comnet04.pdf A Hybrid Architecture for Cost-Effective On-Demand Media Streaming]''', ''Elsevier Computer Networks'', 44(3), pp. 353--382, February 2004.

= Book Chapters =

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and J. Peters, '''Energy and Bandwidth Optimization in Mobile Video Streaming Systems''', Book Chapter in ''Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks'', edited by Ce Zhu and Yuenan Li, pp. 165--210, CRC Press, 2013.

* M. Hefeeda and K. Mokhtarian, '''Authentication of Scalable Multimedia Streams''', Book Chapter in ''Handbook of Security and Networks'', edited by Yang Xiao, Frank H Li, and Hui Chen, pp. 93--125, World Scientific Publishing, 2011. (Invited)

* M. Hefeeda and A. Habib, '''Detecting DoS Attacks and Service Violations in QoS-enabled Networks''', Book Chapter in ''Handbook of Security and Networks'', edited by Yang Xiao, Frank H Li, and Hui Chen, pp. 191--220, World Scientific Publishing, 2011. (Invited)

= Refereed Magazine Articles =

* B. Jules and M. Hefeeda, [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pCDN07.pdf pCDN: Peer-assisted Content Distribution Network], ''CBC/Radio-Canada Technology Review Magazine'', Issue 4, pp. 1--14, July 2007. (Invited, also published in [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/pCDN07_french.pdf French]. This magazine is distributed to major broadcasters across the world.)

* C. Schuba, M. Hefeeda, J. Goldschmidt, M. Speer, [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/ieeeComp04Final.pdf Scaling Network Services Using Programmable Network Devices], ''IEEE Computer'', pp. 52--60, April 2005.

= Posters and Demos =

* N. Sharma, '''Enabling Wide Adoption of Hyperspectral Imaging''', ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys'21) Doctoral Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.

* K. Diab, M. Hefeeda, '''Cooperative Active Distribution of Videos in Telco-CDNs''', In ACM SIGCOMM'17 Poster Session, Los Angeles, CA, August 2017.

* H. Hong, S. Wang, C. Tan, T. El-Ganainy, K. Harras, C. Hsu, M. Hefeeda, '''Challenged Content Delivery Network: Eliminating the Digital Divide''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia (MM’015) Conference, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015.

* M. Hefeeda, K. Choudhary, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/bcic10.pdf Efficient Multiplexing for Mobile Video Streaming]''', British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC) Connect Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 2010.

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and Y. Liu, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08demo_abstract.pdf Testbed and Experiments for Mobile TV (DVB-H) Networks]''', ACM Multimedia'08 Technical Demonstration, Vancouver, Canada, October 2008. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08DemoAward.pdf Best Demo Award]

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm08PhD.pdf Video Communication Systems with Heterogeneous Clients]''', ACM Multimedia'08 Doctoral Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.

* C. Hsu, N. Chiluka, and M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08poster_abstract.pdf ISP-Friendly Peer Matching Algorithms]''', ACM SIGCOMM'08 Poster, Seattle, WA, August 2008. [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08poster.pdf Poster: pdf]] [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08poster.ppt Poster: ppt]].

* M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and K. Mokhtarian, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08demo_abstract.pdf pCache: A Proxy Cache for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]''', ACM SIGCOMM'08 Technical Demonstration, Seattle, WA, August 2008. [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08demo.pdf Poster: pdf]] [[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm08demo.ppt Poster: ppt]].

* M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, D. Xu, and B. Bhargava, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Poster.pdf CollectCast: A Tomography-Based Network Service for Peer-to-Peer Streaming]''', In ACM SIGCOMM'03 Poster Session, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Abstract.pdf Abstract] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Poster.pdf pdf] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/sigcomm03Poster.ppt ppt]. (Acceptance: 29%)

* M. Hefeeda, '''[http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm03-doctoral.pdf A Framework for Cost-Effective Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution]''', In Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2003, Doctoral Symposium, pages 642--643, Berkeley, CA, November 2003. Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03_doctoral.ppt ppt] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm03_doctoral.pdf pdf].

= Granted Patents =

* M. Hefeeda and R. Cameron Harvey, '''Detecting Video Copies''', US Patent No: US 9,418,297 B2, granted August 2016.

* C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, '''System and Method for Multiplexing of Variable Bitrate Video Streams in Mobile Video Systems''', US Patent No: US 9,215,486 B2, granted December 2015.

* W. Abd-Almageed, M. Hefeeda, B. Abdelaziz, '''System and Method for Semantic Video Segmentation''', US Patent No: US 8,756,233 B2, granted June 2014.

* M. Hefeeda and N. Khodabakhshi, '''Copy Detection''', US Patent No: US 8,509,600 B2, granted August 2013.

= Tutorials =

* M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, [http://www.acmmm10.org/program/deepenings/tutorials/#mobile_video_streaming Mobile Video Streaming in Modern Wireless Networks] at the [http://www.acmmm10.org/ ACM Multimedia 2010 Conference]. [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Papers/mm10Tutorial.pdf Summary], Slides [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10Tutorial.pptx pptx] [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/Talks/mm10Tutorial.pdf pdf]

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[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
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== Collaborators ==

* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~peters/ Joseph G. Peters] (Professor Emeritus)

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab] (University Research Associate)

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~oba2 Ouldooz Baghban Karimi] (Lecturer)

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Image:Peters.jpg|Joseph Peters
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== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~omossad/ Omar Mossad], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc.

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

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Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
Image:Khaled_alb.jpg| Khaled Al Butainy
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== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

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Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

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== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

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[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
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== Collaborators ==

* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~peters/ Joseph G. Peters] (Professor Emeritus)

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab] (University Research Associate)

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~oba2 Ouldooz Baghban Karimi] (Lecturer)

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Image:Peters.jpg|Joseph Peters
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:karimi.jpg|Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~omossad/ Omar Mossad], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc.

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
Image:Saeed.jpg| Saeed Zangeneh
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

* [[Private:contacts|List of contact persons in academia and industry (Login Required). ]]

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|<slideshow sequence="random" transition="fade" refresh="6000">
[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2022]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
</slideshow>
|}
</center>

== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

<gallery widths=180px heights=220px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
</gallery>

== Collaborators ==

* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~peters/ Joseph G. Peters] (Professor Emeritus)

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab] (University Research Associate)

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~oba2 Ouldooz Baghban Karimi] (Lecturer)

<gallery widths=180px heights=220px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Peters.jpg|Joseph Peters
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:karimi.jpg|Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
</gallery>

== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~omossad/ Omar Mossad], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc.

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center>
Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Mariam Bebawy
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

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Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

== Contacts ==

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[[Image:Nmsl mmsys2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL at MMSys'23]]
[[Image:nsl_outdoor_2016.JPG|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2016]]
[[Image:nsl1.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl2.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl3.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nsl4.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team]]
[[Image:nmsl_jan_2023.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2022]]
[[Image:nmsl_dec_2021.jpg|thumb|right|700px|NMSL Team 2021]]
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== Faculty ==

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mhefeeda/ Mohamed Hefeeda] (Professor, NMSL Director)

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Image:mhefeeda.jpg|Mohamed Hefeeda
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== Collaborators ==

* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~peters/ Joseph G. Peters] (Professor Emeritus)

* [http://www.sfu.ca/~kdiab/ Khaled Diab] (University Research Associate)

* [https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~oba2 Ouldooz Baghban Karimi] (Lecturer)

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Image:Peters.jpg|Joseph Peters
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:karimi.jpg|Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
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== Current Members ==

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~nsa84/ Neha Sharma], Ph.D.

* [https://maarab-sfu.github.io/ Mohammad Amin Arab], Ph.D.

* [https://www.sfu.ca/~omossad/ Omar Mossad], Ph.D.

* Saeed Zangeneh, Ph.D.

* Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem, M.Sc.

* Deniz Ugur, M.Sc.

* Ali Ghorbanpour, M.Sc.

* Shahrzad Mirzaei, M.Sc.

* Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad, M.Sc.

* Khaled Al Butainy, M.Sc.

* Mariam Bebawy, M.Sc.

* Erfan Mehraban, M.Sc.

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Image:Sharma.JPG|Neha Sharma
Image:Arab.jpg|Mohammad Amin Arab
Image:Mossad.jpeg.jpg|Omar Mossad
Image:Shahzaib.jpg|Muhammad Shahzaib Waseem
Image:AliGh.jpg|Ali Ghorbanpour
Image:ShahrzadM.JPG|Shahrzad Mirzaei
Image:GhazalehB.jpg| Ghazaleh Bakhtiariazad
Image:Maryam_bebawy.jpg| Maryam Bebawy
</gallery>

== Former Postdocs ==

* Hamed Ahmadi, August 2017. Next: Software Engineer, Vancouver.

* Mohamed ElGharib (at QCRI), 2015. Next: Scientist at QCRI, Qatar. Current: Researcher at Max Plank Institute, Germany.

* Tamir Hegazy, August 2013. Next: Researcher, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Current: Principal Scientist, Philips, Cambridge, MA.

* Abdul Hasib, January 2013. Next: System Design Engineer, SNC Lavalin, Vancouver.

* Maysam Yabandeh (at QCRI), 2013. Next: Research Engineer, Facebook.

* Mustafa Rafique (at QCRI), 2012. Next Scientist, IBM Research, Ireland. Current: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Hefeeda) ==

'''Ph.D. Students'''

* Khaled Diab, Ph.D., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/diab19.pdf Traffic-Engineered Distribution of Multimedia Content]. Next: University Research Associate, SFU

* Mohammed Shatnawi, Ph.D., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shatnawi18.pdf Improving Reliability of Large Scale Multimedia Services]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle (continues in his previous position).

* Kiana Calagari, Ph.D., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/calagari17.pdf Generating and Streaming Immersive Sports Video Content]. Next: Researcher at Ever AI, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Hamza, Ph.D., Spring 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hamza17.pdf Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery]. Next: Researcher at InterDigital, Montreal.

* Saleh Almowuena, Ph.D., Fall 2016, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/almowuena16.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks] Next: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

* ChengHsin Hsu, Ph.D., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hsu09.pdf Efficient Mobile Multimedia Streaming]. Next: Senior Researcher, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, California, USA. Current: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''

* Hamed Rahmani Khezri, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6705 Unsupervised Single-Image Reflection Removal]. Next: Machine Learning Engineer at Skylab Technologies Inc.

* Parham Yassini, M.Sc., Fall 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6691 Distributed In-Network Task Scheduling for Datacenters]. Next: Software Engineer at Huawei Canada.

* Puria Azadi Moghadam, M.Sc., Summer 2021, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6478 Enabling Hyperspectral Imaging in Diverse Illumination Conditions for Indoor Applications]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Carlos Lee, M.Sc., Summer 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5968 Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Amgad Ahmed, M.Sc., Spring 2020, [https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/5813 User-assisted Video Reflection Removal]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Mohammad Amin Arab, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arab19.pdf Band and Quality Selection for Efficient Transmission of Hyperspectral Images]. Next: Ph.D. student at SFU.

* Mohamed Hegazy, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/hegazy19.pdf Content-aware Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming]. Next: Amazon, Vancouver.

* Omar Arafa, M.Sc., Summer 2019, [https://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/arafa19.pdf Bandwidth Estimation and Rate Adaptation for 360-degree Mobile Video Streaming]. Next: Fortinet, Burnaby.

* Omar Eltobgy, M.Sc., Fall 2018, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/eltobgy18.pdf VRCast: Mobile Streaming of Live 360-Degree Videos]. Next: Adobe, Ottawa.

* Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, M.Sc., Summer 2017, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelaal17.pdf Event-based Control as a Cloud Service]. Next: Ph.D. student at UBC.

* Abdullah Aldhamin, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/aldhamin14.pdf Flash Storage Management Algorithm for Large-Scale Hybrid Storage Systems]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Ahmed Abdelsadek, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/abdelsadek14.pdf Distributed Index for Matching Multimedia Objects]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M.Sc., Spring 2014, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mrahman13.pdf Hybrid Multicast-Unicast Streaming over Mobile Networks]. Next: Telus, Vancouver.

* Ahmed Bu-khamsin, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bu-khamsin12.pdf Socket Direct Protocol over PCI Express Interconnect: Design, Implementation and Evaluation]. Next: back to Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

* Azin Dastpak, M.Sc., Fall 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dastpak12.pdf Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Jiangchuan Liu)

* Naghmeh Khodabakhshi, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/khodabakhshi12.pdf Copy Detection of 3D Videos]. Next: RIM, Ottawa.

* Taher Dameh, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/dameh12.pdf Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI]

* Fei Gao, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/gao11.pdf Distributed Approximate Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Datasets]

* R. Cameron Harvey, M.Sc., Fall 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/harvey11.pdf Spatio-Temporal Video Copy Detection]. Next: Amazon, Seattle.

* Hamed Sadeghi Neshat, M.Sc., Summer 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/neshat11.pdf Effective Online Advertising]. Next: Microsoft, Seattle.

* Farid Molazem Tabrizi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/tabrizi11.pdf Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices] (co-supervised with Prof. Joseph Peters). Next: PhD Student at UBC.

* Shabnam Mirshokraie, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mirshokraie10.pdf Live Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding]. Next: PhD Student at UBC

* Somsubhra Sharangi, M.Sc., Fall 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/sharangi10.pdf Scalable Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks] (co-supervised with Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti). Next: PhD Student at SFU.

* Yuanbin Shen, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/shen10.pdf Efficient Algorithms for Multi-sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based Peer-to-peer Streaming Systems]

* Cong Ly, M.Sc., Summer 2010, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ly10.pdf Latency Reduction in Online Multiplayer Games Using Detour Routing]. Next: Microsoft, Vancouver.

* Yi Liu, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/liu09.pdf Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks]. Next: grad student, Oxford, UK.

* Greg Kowalski, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/kowalski09.pdf Empirical Analysis of Multi-Sender Segment Transmission Algorithms in Peer-to-Peer Streaming]

* Kianoosh Mokhtarian, M.Sc., Fall 2009, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/mokhtarian09.pdf Efficient and Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams]. Next: PhD Student at UoT.

* Behrooz Noorizadeh, M.Sc., Fall 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/noorizadeh07.pdf Cooperative Proxy Caching for Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: Nokia, Vancouver.

* Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/ahmadi07.pdf Probabilistic Coverage and Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks]. Next: Ph.D. Student at UIUC,

* Majid Bagheri, M.Sc., Summer 2007, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/bagheri07.pdf Efficient K-Coverage Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications to Early Detection of Forest Fires]. Next: Ph.D. Student at SFU.

* Osama Saleh, M.Sc., Fall 2006, [http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/theses/saleh06.pdf Modeling and Caching of Peer-to-Peer Traffic]. Next: engineer in the banking sector, London, UK.

'''M.Sc. Students -- Project Option (project = 6 credits)'''

* Kaushik Choudhary, M.Sc., Summer 2012, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12450 Design and Implementation of an Electronic Service Guide for Mobile Video Systems]

* Mohammad Alkurbi, M.Sc., Spring 2011, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11588 Detection of Botnets Mounted on the Session Initiation Protocol]

== Graduated Students (Supervised by Dr. Peters) ==

'''M.Sc. Students -- Thesis Option (thesis = 15 credits)'''


* Mohsen Jamali Langroodi, M.Sc., Fall 2014, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/14556 Decoder-complexity-aware Encoding of Motion Compensation for Multiple Heterogeneous Receivers]
* Mohammad Hosseini, M.Sc., Summer 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/13754 Energy-budget-compliant Adaptive 3D Texture Streaming in Mobile Games]
* Pariya Raoufi, M.Sc., Spring 2013, [https://summit.sfu.ca/item/12939 Real-Time Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks with H.264 Coding]

== Visitors and Interns ==

* Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, June 2019 -- December 2019)

* Suhong Kim, Professional Master's Student (Research Internship, May 2019 -- December 2019)

* Trevor Gale, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May 2019 -- August 2019)

* Qiao Chen, Undergraduate (August 2016 -- January 2017)

* Denny Stohr, Graduate (Research Visitor from TU Darmstadt, Germany, September 2015 -- December 2015)

* Maram Sakr, Graduate (Research Internship, March 2015 -- September 2015)

* Yu-Sian Li, Graduate (Research Visitor from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, July -- September 2012)

* Gordon Leung, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2010)

* Andreas Berger, Graduate (Research Visitor from The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, February -- May 2009)

* Vikas Kumar, Undergraduate (Research Internship, May -- July 2008)

* Nitin Chiluka, Undergraduate (Research Internship, December 2007 -- May 2008)

* Nicolas Gomez, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

* Pouya Alagheband, Undergraduate (NSERC USRA, Summer 2007)

<gallery widths=120px heights=150px mode="packed" align=center caption="Graduated PhD and MSc Students">
Image:parhamY.jpeg|Parham Yassini
Image:Rahmani.jpg|Hamed Rahmani Khezri
Image:Azadi.jpg|Puria Azadi Moghadam
Image:carloslee.png|Carlos Lee
Image:AmgadAhmed.jpg|Amgad Ahmed
Image:kdiab.jpg|Khaled Diab
Image:MohamedHegazy.jpg|Mohamed Hegazy
Image:Arafa.jpg|Omar Arafa
Image:shatnawi.JPG|Mohammed Shatnawi
Image:eltobgy.jpg|Omar Eltobgy
Image:Kiana.jpg|Kiana Calagari
Image:Alaa.jpg|Alaa Eldin Abdelaal
Image:Ahamza.JPG|Ahmed Hamza
Image:saleh.JPG|Saleh Almowuena
Image:Abdullah_small.jpg|Abdullah Aldhamin
Image:sadek_scaled.jpg|Ahmed Abdelsadek
Image:Mohsen_Jamali_scaled.jpg|Mohsen Jamali
Image:Masum.jpg|Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Image:Mohammad_Hosseini_scaled.jpg|Mohammad Hosseini
Image:Pariya_scaled.jpg|Pariya Raoufi
Image:AhmedBuKhamsin.jpg|Ahmed Bu-khamsin
Image:Azin.jpg|Azin Dastpak
Image:Naghmeh.jpg|Naghmeh Khodabakhshi
Image:Kaushik.jpg|Kaushik Choudhary
Image:Taher.jpg|Taher Dameh
Image:Fei.jpg|Fei Gao
Image:Cameron.jpg|R. Cameron Harvey
Image:Hamed.jpg|Hamed SadeghiNeshat
Image:Mohammad.jpg|Mohammad Alkurbi
Image:Farid.jpg|Farid Molazem Tabrizi
Image:Shabnam.jpg|Shabnam Mirshokraie
Image:Som.JPG|Somsubhra Sharangi
Image:Yuanbin.jpg|Yuanbin Shen
Image:Cong.jpg|Cong Ly
Image:Cheng.JPG|ChengHsin Hsu
Image:Liuyi.jpg|Yi Liu
Image:Greg.jpg|center|Greg Kowalski
Image:Kianoosh.jpg|Kianoosh Mokhtarian
Image:Behrooz.jpg|Behrooz Noorizadeh
Image:Ahmadi.jpg|Hossein Ahmadi
Image:Mbagheri.jpg|Majid Bagheri
Image:Saleh.jpg|Osama Saleh

</gallery>

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