Dr. Ubaid Akhlaq
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Information Systems
College of Computer Science and Information Technology
University of Dammam
Building 400 – Room 4202
P.O.Box 1982
Dammam - 31441
Saudi Arabia
Phone:
+966 13 33 35453
E-Mail: uaabbasi@ud.edu.sa
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Research interests
1. Multimedia Streaming in Distributed Systems
2. Cloud for Smart Grid systems
3. Overlay Networks
Selected publications
The following list is a selection from over 10 recent publications.
1. Abbas Bradai, Ubaid Abbasi , Raul Landa and Toufik Ahmed “An efficient playout
smoothing mechanism for layered streaming in P2P networks” published in
Springer, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications journal.
2. Ubaid Abbasi and Toufik Ahmed, “Architecture for Cooperative Prefetching in
P2P Video-on- Demand System”, in Proc. of International Journal of Computer
Networks & Communications (2010) 126-138, CoRR abs/1005.1757.
3. Toufik Ahmed, Ubaid Abbasi and Samir Medjiah "Efficient IPTV Services Delivery
using SVC Adaptation and Cooperative Prefetching", In IEEE ComSoc Multimedia
Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, Special Issue on Mobile IPTV.
Vol 6, No. 1, January 2011. (IEEE MMTC E-Letter).
4. Ubaid Abbasi, Toufik Ahmed, “Smooth Delivery of Layered Video Stream in P2P
Networks”, accepted in IEEE International Conference of Communications (IEEE
ICC 12), Ottawa, 10 – 15, June 2012.
5. Ubaid Abbasi, G. Simo and T. Ahmed, “Differentiated Chunk Scheduling for P2P
Video-on-Demand System”, in Proc. of 8th IEEE International Consumer
Communication & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2011), LasVegas, 9-12
January 2011.
6. Mubashar Mushtaq, Ubaid Abbasi, Toufik Ahmed, “Network-aware Streaming
Services Delivery over ISP-driven P2P Networks”, in Proc. of 8th IEEE
International Consumer Communication & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC
2011), Las Vegas, 9-12 January 2011.
7. Ubaid Abbasi and Toufik Ahmed, “K-overlay: A Kautz Tree Structure for Video
on Demand System", in Proc of 9th IEEE International Symposium on Network
Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2010), 15-17 July, 2010.
8. Ubaid Abbasi and Toufik Ahmed, “SWOR: an architecture for P2P scalable video
streaming using small world overlay” in Proc of the 7th IEEE conference on
Consumer communications and networking conference (IEEE CCNC'10), Las
Vegas, 9-12 January 2010.
9. Ubaid Abbasi, Toufik Ahmed, ” COOCHING: cooperative prefetching strategy for
P2P video-on-demand system”, in proc of Lecture Notes in Computer Science;
Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management, vol. 5842, pp.
195–200. Springer, Berlin (2009).
10. Ubaid Abbasi, Mubashar Mushtaq, and Toufik Ahmed. “Delivering scalable video
coding using P2P small-world based push-pull mechanism”, in Proc of the
Second
international
conference
on
Global
Information
InfrastructureSymposium (IEEE GIIS'09). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 94100.
Courses taught
1. Technical Reports, Communication & Network Fundamentals
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