Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

Tel:+61 414216480 
Email: iqazi@swin.edu.au
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
Qualifications: Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, USA 2010
                            BSc (Hons), Double Major in Computer Science and Mathematics, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan, 2005
Resume: (pdf, ps)


Research Interests: My research interests are in computer networking and distributed systems and span green networking, future internet design, wireless systems and performance modeling.


Work Experience:

• Sept 2010-current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
• June 2009-Sept 2009: Network Research Intern, BBN Techonologies, Cambridge, MA USA (Worked on the GENI project).
• 2007-2010: Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Univerity of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvannia, USA.
• 2005-2007:Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia, USA.
• 2004-2005:Teaching Assistant, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.

Research Projects:

     Current

• Distributed scheduling for congestion control: minimizing flow completion times while being energy efficient  
• Mechanism design for next generation random access wireless protocols  

Publications:

• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. Congestion control with multi-packet feedback (under submission)
  
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Taieb Znati and Daniel Mosse. Enabling Router-Assisted Transport Protocols over 802.11 Wireless Networks (under submission)
  
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati. On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 45-60, 2011.
  
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Rami Melhem. Using GENI to Evaluate Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  GENI Experimenters Workshop (GEW), Princeton University, NJ, June 29-30 2010
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. Incremental deployment of new ECN-compatible congestion control [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  Protocols for Future, Large-Scale and Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT), Tokyo, Japan, May 2009
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. Congestion Control using Efficient Explicit Feedback [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 (acceptance rate=19.7%)
  
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew and Taieb Znati. Two bits are enough [PDF] [POSTER] [BIBTEX].
  ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008
  
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati. On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks [PDF][BIBTEX] NOTE.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008 (acceptance rate=20.3%)
  

Technical Reports/Other Articles:

• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi. Designing Experiments using GENI Cluster B [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  GENI Project Office, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA,, August 2009
  
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Daniel Mosse. Insights into the Design of Congestion Control Protocols for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks [PDF] [BIBTEX].Technical Report TR-09-164, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Pratik Gandhi. Performance Evaluation of Wireless Network Coding under Practical Settings [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  Technical Report TR-07-150, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
• Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati. Sizing of Router Buffers in the presence of Bi-directional Traffic [PDF] [BIBTEX].
  Technical Report TR-07-149, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh