Arslan AhmadCardiff Metropolitan University | cardiffmet · Cardiff School of Technologies
Arslan Ahmad
PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering
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Introduction
My research interest includes:
5G/6G Network and Future Internet applications
Multimedia Communication
Quality of Experience (QoE)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Machine Learning
Image Processing
Additional affiliations
October 2020 - present
April 2019 - July 2020
IS-Wireless
Position
- Engineer
October 2018 - March 2019
Education
September 2015 - February 2019
September 2011 - September 2014
September 2007 - September 2011
Publications
Publications (23)
The multimedia delivery chain consists of multiple stages such as content preparation, content delivery via Over-The-Top delivery network and Internet Service Providers network. Within the multimedia service chain, each stage influences the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the end user. The objective of this work is to provide a comprehensive literat...
The Quality of Experience (QoE) based service management remains key for successful provisioning of multimedia services in next-generation networks such as 5G/6G, which requires proper tools for quality monitoring, prediction and resource management where machine learning (ML) can play a crucial role. In this paper, we provide a tutorial on the dev...
Quality of experience (QoE)-based service management remains key for successful provisioning of multimedia services in next-generation networks such as 5G/6G, which requires proper tools for quality monitoring, prediction, and resource management where machine learning (ML) can play a crucial role. In this article, we provide a tutorial on the deve...
In this paper, we present an open source Software-Defined Networking (SDN) based emulation platform called Timber. We aim to provide the research community with an experimental tool for the design and evaluation of the new Quality of Experience (QoE) management and monitoring procedures for video streaming. To this aim, the main functionalities of...
The most recent evolutionary steps in the development of mobile communication network architectures have introduced the concepts of virtualisation and slicing also into the Radio Access Network (RAN) part of the overall infrastructure. This trend has made RANs more flexible than ever before, facilitating resource sharing concepts which go far beyon...
We provide in this paper a tutorial and a comprehensive survey of QoE management solutions in current and future networks. We start with a high level description of QoE management for multimedia services, which integrates QoE modelling, monitoring, and optimization. This followed by a discussion of HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) solutions as the dom...
The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multi-media applications pose increased challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of Experience (QoE) to their customers due to lack of flexibility, agility and scal-ability in traditional networks. The future networks are shifting towards the cloudification of the netw...
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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review and updated solutions related to 5G network slicing using SDN and NFV. Firstly, we present 5G service quality and business requirements followed by a description of 5G network softwarization and slicing paradigms including essential concepts, history and different use cases. Secondly, we provide a tu...
The increasing consumption of multimedia services and the demand of high-quality services from customers has triggered a fundamental change in how we administer networks in terms of abstraction, separation, and mapping of forwarding, control and management aspects of service. The industry and the academia are embracing 5G as the future network capa...
The Quality of Experience (QoE) management procedures for multimedia services benefit from an effective collaboration between the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and the Over-The-Top (OTT) service providers as the former can allocate the appropriate network resources to the users and the latter has access to key influence factors for having a prope...
Recent studies implemented collaboration between Over-The-Top (OTT) service and Internet Service Provider (ISP) concerning information exchange between the providers. This information is used to accurately predict the delivered Quality of Experience (QoE) and decide the correcting network management actions. In this scenario, we aim to investigate...
Recent studies implemented collaboration between Over-The-Top (OTT) service and Internet Service Provider (ISP) concerning information exchange between the providers. This information is used to accurately predict the delivered Quality of Experience (QoE) and decide the correcting network management actions. In this scenario, we aim to investigate...
Internet traffic is emerging as multimedia traffic nowadays because of the rising popularity of the Over-The-Top services (OTTS) which includes YouTube, Netflix, Facebook etc.. The drastically rising trend in the multimedia consumption over Internet by the end users combined with the competitive market and quality sensitive users require Internet S...
In this paper, we present an open source Software-Defined Networking (SDN) based emulation platform called Timber. It is aimed at providing the research community with a tool for experimenting new Quality of Experience (QoE) management procedures and tools in multimedia service delivery. Timber is developed on the top of Mininet SDN emulator and Ry...
It is a matter of fact that the Quality of Experience (QoE) has become one of the key factors that determine whether a new multimedia service will be successfully accepted by the final users. Accordingly, several QoE models have been developed with the aim of capturing the perception of the user by considering as many influencing factors as possibl...
The ever-increasing network traffic and user expectations at reduced cost make the delivery of high Quality of Experience (QoE) for multimedia services more vital than ever in the eyes of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Real-time quality monitoring, with a focus on the user, has become essential as the first step in cost-effective provisioning o...
This work is based on the investigation of the passive Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring of Over-The-Top (OTT) applications at the user terminal with the perspective of the Internet Service Provider (ISP). The contribution is multi-fold. Firstly, we investigate the advantages and drawbacks of QoE monitoring at the user terminal by highlighting...
This paper focuses on passive Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring at user end devices as a necessary activity of the ISP (Internet Service Provider) for an effective quality-based service delivery. The contribution of the work is threefold. Firstly, we highlight the opportunities and challenges for the QoE monitoring of the Over-The-Top (OTT) ap...
In this work, we propose a QoE-aware collaboration approach between Over-The-Top providers (OTT) and Internet Service Providers (ISP) based on the maximization of the profit by considering the user churn of Most Profitable Customers (MPCs), which are classified in terms of the Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
The contribution of this work is multifol...
The provisioning of the quality to end users is a major objective for the successful deployment of multimedia services over the Internet. It is more and more evident from past research and service deployments that such an objective often requires a collaboration among the different parties that are involved in the delivery of the service. This pape...
The objective of this work is the investigation of a possible collaboration between Over-The-Top (OTTs) service providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which is centered around the Quality of Experience (QoE). Initially, we define a reference architecture with the required modules and interfaces for the interaction between the two provider...
Diabetic retinopathy is one of the disabling microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus that causes the loss of central vision or in cases complete vision loss if not recognized and cured at the earlier stage. This work reviews the latest techniques in digital image processing and pattern classification employed for the detection of diabetic...
Questions
Questions (9)
Dear All,
I am trying to add an interface in the mininet topology through Ryu controller however being a beginner, I am not sure how can I do it.
Description of what I want to do: Consider this linear topology
h1----s1----s2----h2
In this topology, I would like to make a connection of h2 to s1 so that the traffic from h1 to h2 doesn't go through s2.
What I have found till now is I can use, class OVSBridge(object) which can be found here https://github.com/osrg/ryu/blob/master/ryu/lib/ovs/bridge.py#L92
However, I don't know which function in this class are more appropriate to do this. A precise example will be highly appreciated. Thank you all
Regards
Arslan
Dear All,
I am wondering if there are some mathematical models to correlate amount of network traffic to operational network parameters such as throughput, delay and packet loss for a given link capacity. Consider that traffic is TCP based traffic.
Further details with reference to multimedia applications, I am considering two applications VoIP and HTTP Adaptive video streaming.
Any useful suggestion in this regard is highly appreciated.
Regards
Arslan
I am trying to find the optimal sampling rate of the passive probe for QoE monitoring of a video streaming application where I am considering the network load as an objective function which should be minimized. I wonder if there are some concrete work in literature related to it. Any useful information will be highly appreciated. Thanks
I am searching for some literature where "User's churn" has been modelled with respect to Quality of Experience (QoE) in telecommunication. I tried to search it but the articles I have found have not correlated user's churn with QoE and some of them are artificial intelligence based algorithms where I found no publicly available database for it. I look forward for suggestions from community.
I have been searching for some research article to find the benefits of both OTTs and ISPs to collaborate for QoE but I couldn't find some good article which has addressed it clearly. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
Arslan
I am searching for open source/ publicly available software/program for mapping QoS to QoE for network management i-e a program/software based on machine learning algorithm that can calculate QoE e.g Mean Opinion Score (MOS) based on QoS parameters. Any help regarding this will be highly appreciated :)
I would like to know which classifier is best suited for real time applications both in term of performance and computation. The answer with references will be appreciated.
Lets Suppose we have a good computing facility, the application is utilizing hybrid computing (Parallel computing on CPU + GPU Compting) and feature vector is robust and has high dimension. In addition to that, delay of nanoseconds is acceptable then which classifier will be the best for classification task?
I want to acquire RSSI information from a wifi device in my laptop to MATLAB.
Projects
Project (1)
The QoE-Net project is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initial Training Network with the aim of conducting a high-quality collaborative research among six European countries and South Korea in the domain of Quality of Experience (QoE) in multimedia services.
The multimedia traffic has almost captured 80% of Internet traffic nowadays with the recent development in smartphones, tablet PCs, HD video playback devices and high usage of Over The Top servicers (OTTs) like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook etc. However, this requires the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to put in more resources in order to address the issue of churn of users while ISPs are not in loop of revenue generation between OTTs and users. Moreover, due to increased competition among OTTs, the costumer’s satisfaction is keen interest for OTTs nowadays. Hence, the provision of QoE to end users will not only allow ISPs to get into the revenue loop but also will enable OTTs to address the user needs in the best way. Therefore, QoE is an emerging multidisciplinary field that is getting more attention from researchers in academia, ISPs and OTTs. Being a multidisciplinary field, QoE is more user centric and subjective rather than Quality of Service (QoS), and requires expertise from experts in multiple fields. Nevertheless, to acquire this goal a close scientific and technical collaboration between the experts in industry, academia and standardization institutes is needed. Therefore, the QoE-Net network is composed of seven academic institutions, three industrial partners and one standardization institution. The main focus of this project is to address the provision of QoE to end user for multimedia services like video streaming, IPTV, social networking, mobile gaming etc. with R&D, innovation and technology. The QoE-Net project not only has potential to give a boom to European telecommunication industry but also has a worldwide impact.
For more information visit:http://www.qoenet-itn.eu/
