Browsing by Author "Bilal, Kashif"

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    • A parallel patient treatment time prediction algorithm and its applications in hospital queuing-recommendation in a big data environment 

      Chen, Jianguo; Li, Kenli; Tang, Zhuo; Bilal, Kashif; Li, Keqin ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      Effective patient queue management to minimize patient wait delays and patient overcrowding is one of the major challenges faced by hospitals. Unnecessary and annoying waits for long periods result in substantial human ...

    • A Parallel Random Forest Algorithm for Big Data in a Spark Cloud Computing Environment 

      Chen, Jianguo; Li, Kenli; Tang, Zhuo; Bilal, Kashif; Yu, Shui; ... more authors ( IEEE Computer Society , 2017 , Article)
      With the emergence of the big data age, the issue of how to obtain valuable knowledge from a dataset efficiently and accurately has attracted increasingly attention from both academia and industry. This paper presents a ...

    • Collaborative joint caching and transcoding in mobile edge networks 

      Bilal, Kashif; Baccour, Emna; Erbad, Aiman; Mohamed, Amr; Guizani, Mohsen ( Academic Press , 2019 , Article)
      Video streaming has become a leading consumer of network resources in the last decade. Despite considerable developments, video content providers still face major challenges, which include minimizing data transfer from ...

    • Crowdsourced multi-view live video streaming using cloud computing 

      Bilal, Kashif; Erbad, Aiman; Hefeeda, Mohamed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Advances and commoditization of media generation devices enable capturing and sharing of any special event by multiple attendees. We propose a novel system to collect individual video streams (views) captured for the same ...

    • Crowdsourced MultiView Live Video Streaming using Cloud Computing 

      Erbad, Aiman; Bilal, Kashif ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Multi-view videos are composed of multiple video streams captured simultaneously using multiple cameras from various angles (different viewpoints) of a scene. Multi-view videos offer more appealing and realistic view of ...

    • Edge computing for interactive media and video streaming 

      Bilal,Kashif; Erbad, Aiman ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Video streaming and computer games are among the most popular and highest bandwidth consuming media in the Internet. Video contents consume around 70% of the total bandwidth usage in the Internet today. Advancements in ...

    • Nutshell - Simulation Toolkit for Modeling Data Center Networks and Cloud Computing 

      Rahman, Ubaid Ur; Bilal, Kashif; Erbad, Aiman; Khalid, Osman; Khan, Samee U. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      Cloud computing provides flexibility, reliability, and scalability to its consumers. Applications that run on Cloud are now more resource hungry than ever, and the need is constantly growing. The number of Cloud applications ...

    • Video transcoding at the edge: cost and feasibility perspective 

      Bukhari, Syed Muhammad Ammar Hassan; Bilal, Kashif; Erbad, Aiman; Mohamed, Amr; Guizani, Mohsen ( Springer Nature , 2023 , Article)
      The developments in smartphones, high data rates, and substantial video data traffic have increased the burden on cellular networks. Consequently, this burden significantly affects the Quality of Experience of the cellular ...