Khaled Diab

Researcher, HP Labs

My research interests broadly span networking, systems, and their intersection. My main research objective is to make networked systems run more efficiently! Therefore, my work often addresses a variety of challenges at application and network levels. I have been recently working in various areas such as Multicast Systems, Datacenter Networking, Multimedia Systems, and Cloud Gaming. I previously worked in other areas such as 3D video streaming and GPU virtualization.

I received my PhD from the School of Computing Science at SFU. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a Research Assistant at Qatar Computing Research Institute in the Distributed Systems group. I also worked as a Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics (later acquired by Siemens). I got my BSc degree in Computer Engineering from Cairo University, where my graduation thesis was about designing an efficient GPU-accelerated data mining system.

[ CV | Research Statement ]

News (All)

Mar 8, 2022 I was awarded as a Distinguished Member of the 2022 IEEE INFOCOM TPC! [pdf]
Dec 10, 2021 Yeti and Orca are accepted at NSDI’22!
Oct 26, 2021
Parham Yassini
has defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations!
Jul 4, 2021 DeepGame is accepted at ACM Multimedia’21
Apr 27, 2021 I was invited to serve as a TPC member at IEEE INFOCOM’22

Research Highlights (Details)

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Multicast Forwarding and Routing

My research addresses the scalability and efficiency challenges in multicast systems to (i) support various routing requirements of ISPs such as traffic engineering and service chaining, and (ii) forward packets of large numbers of concurrent multicast sessions. My main contribution is designing systems and algorithms to reduce or even eliminate the required state to be maintained at network switches.

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Data Center Networking

The current focus of my research is to design various networking primitives to efficiently manage the network resources. My work also focuses on the multi-tenancy aspects of cloud datacenters.

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Multimedia Systems

My recent work focused on two aspects of multimedia systems (i) the adaptive streaming of multiview videos, and (ii) the traffic engineering and content placement of multimedia content

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Cloud Gaming

This research focuses on reduce the bandwidth usage of cloud gaming while achieving a high perceived quality. We collaborate with researchers from AMD and University of Ottawa in designing our systems.

Selected Publications (All)

  1. Conference
    Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding
    Diab, Khaled, and Hefeeda, Mohamed
    In Proc. of USENIX NSDI 2022
    Soon!
  2. Conference
    Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks
    Diab, Khaled, Yassini, Parham, and Hefeeda, Mohamed
    In Proc. of USENIX NSDI 2022
    Soon!
  3. Conference
    DeepGame: Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud Gaming
    Mossad, Omar, Diab, Khaled, Amer, Ihab, and Hefeeda, Mohamed
    In Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2021
    PDF
  4. Conference
    Oktopus: Service Chaining for Multicast Traffic
    Diab, Khaled, Lee, Carlos, and Hefeeda, Mohamed
    In Proc. of IEEE ICNP 2020
    PDF Code Website
  5. Conference
    Joint Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering of Adaptive Videos in Telco-CDNs
    Diab, Khaled, and Hefeeda, Mohamed
    In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2019
    PDF
  6. Conference
    Best Student Paper
    Content-aware video encoding for cloud gaming
    Hegazy, Mohamed, Diab, Khaled, Saeedi, Mehdi, Ivanovic, Boris, Amer, Ihab, Liu, Yang, Sines, Gabor, and Hefeeda, Mohamed
    In Proc. of ACM MMSys 2019
    PDF Code

Teaching

  • Spring '22: Systems and Network Security
  • Spring '21: Systems and Network Security
  • Fall '20: Computer Networking II
  • Spring '20: Systems and Network Security
  • Fall '19: Multimedia Systems

Service

Program Committee

  • 2022: IEEE INFOCOM
  • 2021: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM NOSSDAV

External Reviewer

  • Journals: ACM TOMM, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT
  • 2021: ACM Multimedia
  • 2020: ACM Multimedia
  • 2019: ACM Multimedia, ACM Multimedia Systems, ACM Multimedia Asia
  • 2017: ACM Multimedia, ACM NOSSDAV
  • 2015: ACM Multimedia, ACM Multimedia Systems