Publications
All Publications
A Framework for Improving Web Affordability and Inclusiveness
Rumaisa Habib, Sarah Tanveer, Aimen Inam, Haseeb Ahmed, Ayesha Ali, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM SIGCOMM 2023, New York, USA, September 2023 [LinkedIn thread, Twitter thread]
Countering Misinformation on Social Media Through Educational Interventions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Journal of Development Economics, 2023
Self-Supervised Dataset Pruning for Efficient Training in Audio Anti-spoofing
Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland, August 2023
A First Look at Public Service Websites from the Affordability Lens
Rumaisa Habib, Aimen Inam, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, and Zafar Ayyub Qazi
The ACM Web Conference 2023, Austin, USA, April-May 2023 (TheWebConf, formerly known as WWW) [LinkedIn thread]
Validated Digital Literacy Measures for Populations with Low Levels of Internet Experiences
Ayesha Ali, Agha Ali Raza, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
The Journal of Engineering in Economic Development (Development Engineering), 2023 [Twitter thread]
Digital Literacy and Vulnerability to Misinformation: Evidence from Facebook Users in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.025) [Twitter thread]
Coal Not Diamonds: How Memory Pressure Falters Mobile Video QoE
Talha Waheed, Zahaib Akhtar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi
ACM CoNEXT 2022, Italy, December 2022 (acceptance rate = 19.2%)
Causal Impact of Android Go on Mobile Web Performance
Muhammad Abdullah, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM IMC 2022, France, October 2022 (acceptance rate = 26.4%)
Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-101) [Twitter thread]
Dataset Pruning for Resource-constrained Spoofed Audio Detection
Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Using Self Attention DNNs to Discover Phonemic Features for Audio Deep Fake Detection
Hira Yasin Dhamyal, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2021, Colombia, December 2021
Rethinking Web for Affordability and Inclusion
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ayesha Ali, Muhammad Abdullah, Rumaisa Habib
ACM HotNets 2021, November 2021 (acceptance rate = 30.7%) [Twitter thread]
Fake Audio Detection in Resource-constrained Settings using Microfeatures
Hira Yasin Dhamyal, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
INTERSPEECH 2021, Czech Republic, Aug-Sept 2021
Deconstructing Google’s Web Light Service
Ammar Tahir, Shaiq Munir Malik, Muhammad Tahir Munir, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
WWW 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2020 (acceptance rate = 19%)
MissIt: Using Missed Calls for Free, Extremely Low Bit-Rate Communication in Developing Regions
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi*, Fahad Dogar*, Ali Raza Tariq, Ghulam Murtaza, Abeer Ahmad, Nathan Stocking
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2020 (acceptance rate = 24%) [*joint first authors]
Mobile Web Browsing Under Memory Pressure
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, T. Benson, Ehsan Latif, Abdul Manan, G. Murtaza, M. Abrar Tariq
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), October 2020
Reducing Tail Latency using Duplication: A Multi-Layered Approach
H. Mohsin Bashir, Abdullah Bin Faisal, Asim Jamshed, P. Vondras, Ali Musa, Ihsan A. Qazi, Fahad Dogar
ACM CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, USA, December 2019 (acceptance rate = 17%)
Understanding the Effect of Digital Literacy on the Spread of Misinformation: Evidence from Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
AEA Annual Meetings, January 2020 (Poster Presentation)
The Economic Impact of Internet Censorship
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
AEA Annual Meetings, January 2020 (Poster Presentation)
Device-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming
Arsalan Ali Jumani, Fizza Zafar, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM SIGCOMM 2019, China, August 2019 (poster)
RecFlow: SDN-based Receiver-driven Flow Scheduling in Datacenters
Aadil Zia Khan and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Cluster Computing 2019
Scylla: Interleaving Multiple IoT Stacks on a Single Radio
Hassan Iqbal, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Olaf Landsiedel, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
ACM CoNEXT 2018, Greece, December 2018 (acceptance rate = 17%)
Workload Adaptive Flow Scheduling
Abdullah Bin Faisal, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Fahad Rafique Dogar
ACM CoNEXT 2018, Greece, December 2018 (acceptance rate = 17%) [A Note of Reflection]
Unraveling Poor Video Streaming Experiences in the Developing World
Arsalan Ali Jumani, Fizza Zafar, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM IMC 2018, Boston, USA, November 2018 (poster)
Untangling Web Browsing on Low-end Mobile Devices
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar A. Qazi, Theophilus Benson, Z. Farooq, A. Haamid, Sohaib Ahmad, Bismah Babar
ACM IMC 2018, Boston, USA, November 2018 (poster)
Incentivizing Censorship Measurements via Circumvention
Aqib Nisar, Aqsa Kashaf, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
ACM SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 2018 (acceptance rate = 18%, Citations: 10+)
Can We Design Ethically Sound Yet Effective Internet Censorship Measurement Platforms?
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
NSDI 2018, Renton, USA, April 2018 (poster)
Efficient Load Balancing Over Asymmetric Datacenter Topologies
Syed M. Irteza, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Talal Anwar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad R. Dogar
Elsevier Computer Communications, May 2018
Online Advertising under Internet Censorship
Hira Javaid, Hafiz Kamran Khalil, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM HotNets 2017, Palo Alto, USA, November 2017 (acceptance rate = 21.8%)
Inside the Walled Garden: Deconstructing Facebook's Free Basics Program
Rijurekha Sen, Sohaib Ahmad, A. Phokeer, Z. Farooq, Ihsan Qazi, David Choffnes, K. Gummadi
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), October 2017 (Best Paper Award) [Citations: 25+]
Bringing Data to Facebook’s Free Basics Debate
Rijurekha Sen, Siddharth Singh, Vedant Nanda, Sohaib Ahmad, S. Sengupta, Amreesh Phokeer, Zaid Farooq, Taslim Khan, P. Kumaraguru, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, David Choffnes, Krishna P. Gummadi
ACM SIGMETRICS 2017, Illinois, USA, June 2017 (poster)
Load Balancing Over Symmetric Virtual Topologies
Syed M. Irteza, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Talal Anwar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad R. Dogar
IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, USA, May 2017 (acceptance rate = 20.9%, Citations: 10+)
DRIBS: Flow Scheduling over Asymmetric Datacenter Topologies
Tooba Ahsen, Fatima Tariq, M. Tirmazi, Ifrah Idrees, Zafar Qazi, Ihsan Qazi, Zartash Uzmi
NSDI 2017, Boston, MA, USA, March 2017 (poster)
Receiver-driven Flow Scheduling for Commodity Datacenters
Aadil Zia Khan and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May 2017
PASE: Synthesizing Existing Transport Strategies for Datacenter Networks
Ali Munir, Ghufran Baig, Syed M. Irteza, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Alex Liu, Fahad R. Dogar
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(1): 320-334, February 2017
SlickFi: A Service Differentiation Scheme for High-Speed WLANs using Dual Radio APs
Kamran Nishat, Farrukh Javed, Saim Salman, Nofel Yaseen, Ans Fida, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM CoNEXT 2016, Irvine, USA, December 2016 (acceptance rate = 18%)
Towards a Redundancy Aware Network Stack
Ali Musa Iftikhar, Fahad Rafique Dogar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM HotNets 2016, Atlanta, USA, November 2016 (acceptance rate = 27.8%, Citations: 12+)
A View from the Other Side: Understanding Mobile Phone Characteristics in the Developing World
Sohaib Ahmad, Abdul Haamid, Zafar A. Qazi, Zhenyu Zhou, Theophilus Benson, Ihsan A. Qazi
ACM IMC 2016, Santa Monica, USA, November 2016 (acceptance rate = 25%, Citations: 40+)
Low-Carb: A Practical Scheme for Improving Energy Efficiency in Cellular Networks
M. Saqib Ilyas, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Bilal Rassool, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
Elsevier Computer Communications, 94: 72-84, 2016
A Case for Marrying Censorship Measurements with Circumvention
Aqib Nisar, Aqsa Kashaf, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM HotNets 2015, Philadelphia, USA, November 2015 (acceptance rate = 18%)
Mitigating Datacenter Incast Congestion Using RTO Randomization
Ubaid Hafeez, Aqsa Kashaf, Q. Bajwa, Aisha Mushtaq, Hassan Zaidi, Ihsan Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego, USA, December 2015
Hasnain Ali Pirzada, M. Raza Mahboob, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM SIGCOMM 2015, London, UK, August 2015 (poster)
Ali Munir, Ghufran Baig, Syed Irteza, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad Dogar, Alex Liu.
ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, USA, August 2014 (First SIGCOMM paper for Pakistan, acceptance rate = 19%, Citations: 164+)
Loss Differentiation: Moving onto High-Speed Wireless LANs
Ruwaifa Anwar, Kamran Nishat, Mohsin Ali, Zahaib Akhtar, Haseeb Niaz, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April-May 2014 (acceptance rate = 19%, Citations: 28+)
Aisha Mushtaq, A. K. Ismail, A. Wasay, Bilal Mahmood, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash A. Uzmi
ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, USA, August 2014 (poster)
On the Coexistence of Transport Protocols in Data Centers
Syed Mohammad Irteza, Adnan Ahmed, Sana Farrukh, Babar N. Memon, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney, Australia, June 2014 (Citations: 13+)
On the Effectiveness of High-Speed WLAN Standards for Long Distance Communication
Kamran Nishat, Ruwaifa Anwar, Ahmed Mehfooz, Bilal Zaidi, Haris Choudhary, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April-May 2014 (poster)
Suong H. Nguyen, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Hai Le Vu.
IEEE LCN 2013, Sydney, Australia, October 2013 (acceptance rate = 26%)
Ali Munir, Ihsan A. Qazi, Zartash Uzmi, Aisha Mushtaq, S. Ismail, Safdar Iqbal, Basma Khan.
IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Italy, April 2013 (acceptance rate = 17%, Citations: 206+)
Zahaib Akhtar, Kamran Nishat, Haseeb Niaz, Ruwaifa Anwar, Mohsin Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Italy, April 2013 (poster)
Shahida Jabeen, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi.
ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013
Ali Munir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, S. Qaisar.
ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013 (Citations: 20+)
Congestion Control with Multi-Packet Feedback
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(6), pp. 1721-1733, December 2012 (Citations: 19+)
Muhammad Kumail Haider, Asad Khalid Ismail, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, Nov 2012 (Citations: 16+)
Improving Performance of Router-Assisted Transport Protocols over Variable Capacity Links
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Taieb Znati, Daniel Mosse.
ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012
On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati.
Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier, 55(1), pp. 45-60, 2011 (Citations: 80+)
Using GENI to Evaluate Congestion Control Protocols for Next Generation Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Rami Melhem.
GENI Experimenters Workshop (GEW), Princeton University, NJ, June 2010
Incremental deployment of new ECN-compatible congestion control
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
PFLDNeT, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009
Congestion Control using Efficient Explicit Feedback
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 (acceptance rate = 19%, Citations: 50+)
Two bits are enough
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008 (poster)
On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati.
IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, USA, April 2008 (acceptance rate = 20%, Citations: 80+)
Journals
Countering Misinformation on Social Media Through Educational Interventions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Journal of Development Economics, 2023
Validated Digital Literacy Measures for Populations with Low Levels of Internet Experiences
Ayesha Ali, Agha Ali Raza, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
The Journal of Engineering in Economic Development (Development Engineering), 2023
Digital Literacy and Vulnerability to Misinformation: Evidence from Facebook Users in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.025)
Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-101)
Mobile Web Browsing Under Memory Pressure
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, T. Benson, Ehsan Latif, Abdul Manan, G. Murtaza, M. Abrar Tariq
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), October 2020
RecFlow: SDN-based Receiver-driven Flow Scheduling in Datacenters
Aadil Zia Khan and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Cluster Computing 2019
Efficient Load Balancing Over Asymmetric Datacenter Topologies
Syed M. Irteza, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Talal Anwar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad R. Dogar
Elsevier Computer Communications, May 2018
Inside the Walled Garden: Deconstructing Facebook's Free Basics Program
Rijurekha Sen, Sohaib Ahmad, A. Phokeer, Z. Farooq, Ihsan Qazi, David Choffnes, K. Gummadi
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), October 2017 (Best Paper Award) [Citations: 25+]
PASE: Synthesizing Existing Transport Strategies for Datacenter Networks
Ali Munir, Ghufran Baig, Syed M. Irteza, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Alex Liu, Fahad R. Dogar
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(1): 320-334, February 2017
Low-Carb: A Practical Scheme for Improving Energy Efficiency in Cellular Networks
M. Saqib Ilyas, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Bilal Rassool, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
Elsevier Computer Communications, 94: 72-84, 2016
Congestion Control with Multi-Packet Feedback
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(6), pp. 1721-1733, December 2012 (Citations: 19+)
On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati.
Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier, 55(1), pp. 45-60, 2011 (Citations: 80+)
Conferences/Workshops
A Framework for Improving Web Affordability and Inclusiveness
Rumaisa Habib, Sarah Tanveer, Aimen Inam, Haseeb Ahmed, Ayesha Ali, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM SIGCOMM 2023, New York, USA, September 2023
Self-Supervised Dataset Pruning for Efficient Training in Audio Anti-spoofing
Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland, August 2023
A First Look at Public Service Websites from the Affordability Lens
Rumaisa Habib, Aimen Inam, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, and Zafar Ayyub Qazi
The ACM Web Conference 2023, Austin, USA, April-May 2023 (TheWebConf, formerly known as WWW)
Coal Not Diamonds: How Memory Pressure Falters Mobile Video QoE
Talha Waheed, Zahaib Akhtar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi
ACM CoNEXT 2022, Italy, December 2022 (acceptance rate = 19.2%)
Causal Impact of Android Go on Mobile Web Performance
Muhammad Abdullah, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM IMC 2022, France, October 2022 (acceptance rate = 26.4%)
Dataset Pruning for Resource-constrained Spoofed Audio Detection
Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Using Self Attention DNNs to Discover Phonemic Features for Audio Deep Fake Detection
Hira Yasin Dhamyal, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2021, Colombia, December 2021
Rethinking Web for Affordability and Inclusion
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ayesha Ali, Muhammad Abdullah, Rumaisa Habib
ACM HotNets 2021, November 2021 (acceptance rate = 30.7%)
Fake Audio Detection in Resource-constrained Settings using Microfeatures
Hira Yasin Dhamyal, Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Agha Ali Raza
INTERSPEECH 2021, Czech Republic, Aug-Sept 2021
Deconstructing Google’s Web Light Service
Ammar Tahir, Shaiq Munir Malik, Muhammad Tahir Munir, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
WWW 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2020 (acceptance rate = 19%)
MissIt: Using Missed Calls for Free, Extremely Low Bit-Rate Communication in Developing Regions
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi*, Fahad Dogar*, Ali Raza Tariq, Ghulam Murtaza, Abeer Ahmad, Nathan Stocking
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2020 (acceptance rate = 24%) [*joint first authors]
Reducing Tail Latency using Duplication: A Multi-Layered Approach
H. Mohsin Bashir, Abdullah Bin Faisal, Asim Jamshed, P. Vondras, Ali Musa, Ihsan A. Qazi, Fahad Dogar
ACM CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, USA, December 2019 (acceptance rate = 17%)
Understanding the Effect of Digital Literacy on the Spread of Misinformation: Evidence from Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
AEA Annual Meetings, January 2020 (Poster Presentation)
The Economic Impact of Internet Censorship
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
AEA Annual Meetings, January 2020 (Poster Presentation)
Device-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming
Arsalan Ali Jumani, Fizza Zafar, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM SIGCOMM 2019, China, August 2019 (poster)
Scylla: Interleaving Multiple IoT Stacks on a Single Radio
Hassan Iqbal, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Olaf Landsiedel, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
ACM CoNEXT 2018, Greece, December 2018 (acceptance rate = 17%)
Workload Adaptive Flow Scheduling
Abdullah Bin Faisal, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Fahad Rafique Dogar
ACM CoNEXT 2018, Greece, December 2018 (acceptance rate = 17%) [A Note of Reflection]
Unraveling Poor Video Streaming Experiences in the Developing World
Arsalan Ali Jumani, Fizza Zafar, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM IMC 2018, Boston, USA, November 2018 (poster)
Untangling Web Browsing on Low-end Mobile Devices
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zafar A. Qazi, Theophilus Benson, Z. Farooq, A. Haamid, Sohaib Ahmad, Bismah Babar
ACM IMC 2018, Boston, USA, November 2018 (poster)
Incentivizing Censorship Measurements via Circumvention
Aqib Nisar, Aqsa Kashaf, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
ACM SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 2018 (acceptance rate = 18%, Citations: 10+)
Can We Design Ethically Sound Yet Effective Internet Censorship Measurement Platforms?
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
NSDI 2018, Renton, USA, April 2018 (poster)
Online Advertising under Internet Censorship
Hira Javaid, Hafiz Kamran Khalil, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM HotNets 2017, Palo Alto, USA, November 2017 (acceptance rate = 21.8%)
Bringing Data to Facebook’s Free Basics Debate
Rijurekha Sen, Siddharth Singh, Vedant Nanda, Sohaib Ahmad, S. Sengupta, Amreesh Phokeer, Zaid Farooq, Taslim Khan, P. Kumaraguru, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, David Choffnes, Krishna P. Gummadi
ACM SIGMETRICS 2017, Illinois, USA, June 2017 (poster)
Load Balancing Over Symmetric Virtual Topologies
Syed M. Irteza, Hafiz Mohsin Bashir, Talal Anwar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad R. Dogar
IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, USA, May 2017 (acceptance rate = 20.9%, Citations: 10+)
DRIBS: Flow Scheduling over Asymmetric Datacenter Topologies
Tooba Ahsen, Fatima Tariq, M. Tirmazi, Ifrah Idrees, Zafar Qazi, Ihsan Qazi, Zartash Uzmi
NSDI 2017, Boston, MA, USA, March 2017 (poster)
Receiver-driven Flow Scheduling for Commodity Datacenters
Aadil Zia Khan and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May 2017
SlickFi: A Service Differentiation Scheme for High-Speed WLANs using Dual Radio APs
Kamran Nishat, Farrukh Javed, Saim Salman, Nofel Yaseen, Ans Fida, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM CoNEXT 2016, Irvine, USA, December 2016 (acceptance rate = 18%)
Towards a Redundancy Aware Network Stack
Ali Musa Iftikhar, Fahad Rafique Dogar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM HotNets 2016, Atlanta, USA, November 2016 (acceptance rate = 27.8%, Citations: 12+)
A View from the Other Side: Understanding Mobile Phone Characteristics in the Developing World
Sohaib Ahmad, Abdul Haamid, Zafar A. Qazi, Zhenyu Zhou, Theophilus Benson, Ihsan A. Qazi
ACM IMC 2016, Santa Monica, USA, November 2016 (acceptance rate = 25%, Citations: 40+)
A Case for Marrying Censorship Measurements with Circumvention
Aqib Nisar, Aqsa Kashaf, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM HotNets 2015, Philadelphia, USA, November 2015 (acceptance rate = 18%)
Mitigating Datacenter Incast Congestion Using RTO Randomization
Ubaid Hafeez, Aqsa Kashaf, Q. Bajwa, Aisha Mushtaq, Hassan Zaidi, Ihsan Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego, USA, December 2015
Hasnain Ali Pirzada, M. Raza Mahboob, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
ACM SIGCOMM 2015, London, UK, August 2015 (poster)
Ali Munir, Ghufran Baig, Syed Irteza, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Fahad Dogar, Alex Liu.
ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, USA, August 2014 (First SIGCOMM paper for Pakistan, acceptance rate = 19%, Citations: 164+)
Loss Differentiation: Moving onto High-Speed Wireless LANs
Ruwaifa Anwar, Kamran Nishat, Mohsin Ali, Zahaib Akhtar, Haseeb Niaz, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April-May 2014 (acceptance rate = 19%, Citations: 28+)
Aisha Mushtaq, A. K. Ismail, A. Wasay, Bilal Mahmood, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash A. Uzmi
ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, USA, August 2014 (poster)
On the Coexistence of Transport Protocols in Data Centers
Syed Mohammad Irteza, Adnan Ahmed, Sana Farrukh, Babar N. Memon, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney, Australia, June 2014 (Citations: 13+)
On the Effectiveness of High-Speed WLAN Standards for Long Distance Communication
Kamran Nishat, Ruwaifa Anwar, Ahmed Mehfooz, Bilal Zaidi, Haris Choudhary, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April-May 2014 (poster)
Suong H. Nguyen, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Hai Le Vu.
IEEE LCN 2013, Sydney, Australia, October 2013 (acceptance rate = 26%)
Ali Munir, Ihsan A. Qazi, Zartash Uzmi, Aisha Mushtaq, S. Ismail, Safdar Iqbal, Basma Khan.
IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Italy, April 2013 (acceptance rate = 17%, Citations: 206+)
Zahaib Akhtar, Kamran Nishat, Haseeb Niaz, Ruwaifa Anwar, Mohsin Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Italy, April 2013 (poster)
Shahida Jabeen, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash Afzal Uzmi.
ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013
Ali Munir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, S. Qaisar.
ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013 (Citations: 20+)
Muhammad Kumail Haider, Asad Khalid Ismail, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi.
ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, Nov 2012 (Citations: 16+)
Improving Performance of Router-Assisted Transport Protocols over Variable Capacity Links
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Taieb Znati, Daniel Mosse.
ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012
Using GENI to Evaluate Congestion Control Protocols for Next Generation Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Rami Melhem.
GENI Experimenters Workshop (GEW), Princeton University, NJ, June 2010
Incremental deployment of new ECN-compatible congestion control
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
PFLDNeT, Tokyo, Japan, May 2009
Congestion Control using Efficient Explicit Feedback
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 (acceptance rate = 19%, Citations: 50+)
Two bits are enough
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lachlan Andrew, Taieb Znati.
ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008 (poster)
On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati.
IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, USA, April 2008 (acceptance rate = 20%, Citations: 80+)
Working Papers/Technical Reports
Towards Representative Subset Selection for Self-Supervised Speech Recognition
Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Agha Ali Raza
arXiv:2203.09829, March 2022
FedPrune: Towards Inclusive Federated Learning
Muhammad Tahir Munir, Muhammad Mustansar Saeed, Mahad Ali, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
arXiv:2110.14205, October 2021
Countering Misinformation on Social Media Through Educational Interventions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan
Ayesha Ali and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
arXiv:2107.02775, July 2021
Designing Experiments using GENI Cluster B
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
GENI Project Office Report, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, August 2009
Insights into the Design of Congestion Control Protocols for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Daniel Mosse
Technical Report TR-09-164, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
Performance Evaluation of Wireless Network Coding under Practical Settings
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Pratik Gandhi
Technical Report TR-07-150, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
Sizing of Router Buffers in the presence of Bi-directional Traffic
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Taieb Znati
Technical Report TR-07-149, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation
An Efficient Framework of Congestion Control for Next-Generation Networks [LINK] [AMAZON] [BIBTEX]
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA, August 2010.