Safiqul Islam

Safiqul Islam

Associate Professor

Oslo Metropolitan University and University of Oslo

Biography

Safiqul Islam is an Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University and University of Oslo, Norway. He received his Ph.D. from University of Oslo, advised by Professor Michael Welzl and Professor Stein Gjessing, with two best paper awards. He has published several articles in high-ranked conferences and journals and his Ph.D. work was also in the top 4 at the 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. He actively participated in two EU projects (NEAT and RITE) and was technical lead of an international project (“TCP-in- UDP”) with Huawei, China. He is active in the IETF and IRTF where he co-authored two RFCs. He has also contributed to designing the test-cases and congestion control algorithms in the IETF RMCAT working group.

Interests

  • Congestion Control
  • Transport Protocols
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2017

    University of Oslo

  • MSc in Communication Systems, 2010

    KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

Selected work experiences

 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

Oslo Metropolitan University

Jan 2023 – Present Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor II

University of Oslo

Nov 2021 – Present Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

University of South-Eastern Norway

Oct 2021 – Dec 2022 Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

The Institut supérieur de l’aéronautique et de l’espace and TeSA Laboratory

Mar 2020 – Mar 2020 Toulouse, France
Worked on the usage of ML on network coding with Professor Emmanuel Lochin
 
 
 
 
 

PostDoctoral Research Fellow

University of Oslo

Mar 2018 – Sep 2021 Norway
Identifying and addressing exciting use cases for Machine Learning applied to networking; writing project proposals; taking undergraduate (IN3230 Computer Networks, FALL 2019), master and PhD courses (IN 5150/9150 (seminar on Recent Advancements in Internet Protocols); and supervising master and PhD students.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

University of Oslo

Aug 2017 – Feb 2018
Worked towards developing TCP congestion control coupling for H2020-NEAT EU project. NEAT is a flexible service-oriented Internet transport layer API aiming to facilitate the evolution of Internet’s transport layer in long-term.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

University of Oslo and Huwaei Technologies Ltd

Aug 2015 – Jul 2016
Proposed and implemented single path TCP congestion control coupling using TCP-in-UDP encapsulation at the IETF TCPM and IRTF ICCRG working groups.
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Lecturer

Daffodil International University

Jan 2011 – Sep 2012
Taught bachelor level courses: Computer Networks, Data Communication, Programming Languages; and supervised bachelor projects

Projects

OpenTCP

I was the technical lead of this 1-year industry collaboration with Huawei that started on 1 August 2015.

EU FP7 RITE

I was also a partipant of the EU FP7 RITE project (work package 1). RITE was funded by the European commission under the fp7-ICT programme. RITE proposes to remove the root causes of unnecessary latency over the Internet.

EU-Horizon 2020 - NEAT

I was a Participant of EU-Horizon 2020 - NEAT (work packages 3 and 4). The NEAT project wants to achieve a complete redesign of the way in which Internet applications interact with the network.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Is It Really Necessary to Go Beyond a Fairness Metric for Next-Generation Congestion Control

Jul 26, 2022 12:00 AM Philadelphia, USA
Slides Video

Performance Evaluation of In-network Packet Retransmissions using Markov Chains

Feb 17, 2020 12:00 AM Big Island, Hawaii
PDF Slides

How to Control a TCP Minimally-Invasive Congestion Management for Datacenters

Feb 18, 2019 12:00 AM Honolulu, Hawaii
PDF Slides

Lightweight and Flexible Single-Path Congestion Control Coupling

Apr 26, 2018 12:00 AM Taipei, Taiwan
PDF Slides

Distributed Ledgers and their application to Internet Protocols

Jul 3, 2017 12:00 AM Oslo, Norway
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Teaching

teaching and supervision

Jul 26, 2020

Teaching

I teach the following courses at the Department of Computer Science, Oslo Metropolitan University. All my courses have official course websites which you can navigate by clicking on the course codes, starting with DATA.
Jul 26, 2020

Supervision

Currently, I’m supervising four master theses: Erlend Hapnes: Can we control a TCP path? Christoffer Bjelke, Andreas Limi: Timer-based TCP (TBTCP) Maximilian von Stephanides: Improving Internet Congestion Control with Packet Loss Prediction using Machine Learning Shahed Shuvo: Detecting signs of congestion or underload in traffic traces Past master students I supervised the following master students:

Publications

Michael Welzl, Ozgu Alay, Peyman Teymoori, Safiqul Islam (2022). Reducing Green House Gas Emissions With Congestion Control. IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems.

PDF

Safiqul Islam, Michael Welzl, Tobias Fladby (2022). Real-Life Implementation and Evaluation of Coupled Congestion Control for WebRTC Media and Data Flows. IEEE Access Volume 10.

PDF Code DOI

Safiqul Islam, Kristian Hiorth, Carsten Griwodz, Michael Welzl (2022). Is It Really Necessary to Go Beyond a Fairness Metric for Next-Generation Congestion Control. Proceedings of the 2022 Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW 2022).

PDF DOI

Michael Welzl, Peyman Teymoori, Safiqul Islam, David Hutchison, Stein Gjessing (2022). Future Internet Congestion Control: The Diminishing Feedback Problem. IEEE Communications Magazine..

PDF

Michael Welzl, Stephan Oepen, Cezary Jaskula, Carsten Griwodz, Safiqul Islam (2021). Collaboration in the IETF: An Initial Analysis of Two Decades in Email Discussions. ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR) 51(3) (editorial).

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Standards contributions: RFCs, Internet-drafts

Joe Touch, Michael Welzl, Safiqul Islam (2021). TCP Control Block Interdependence. RFC 9040.

PDF Project DOI

Safiqul Islam, Michael Welzl, Stein Gjessing (2020). Coupled Congestion Control for RTP Media. RFC 8699.

PDF Project DOI

Safiqul Islam, Michael Welzl, Kristian Hiorth, David Hayes, Oystein Dale, Greville Ar- mitage, Stein Gjessing (2017). Single-Path TCP Congestion Control Coupling. Technical Report 459, ISBN number 978-82-7368-405-9, University of Oslo.

Project

Michael Welzl, Safiqul Islam, Joe Touch, Jianjie You (2015). The state of implementation of TCP control block interdependence. draft-welzl-tcpm-tcb-sharing-00, TCPM working group.

PDF Project

Safiqul Islam, Michael Welzl, Stein Gjessing (2014). Coupled Congestion Control for RTP Media. Technical Report 440, ISBN number 978-82-7368-405-9, University of Oslo.

PDF Project

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