Morteza Kheirkhah

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Research Interests

• Wireless Communications and Systems
• 3GPP Standardization in RAN2/3 and SA2
• 3GPP System Architecture (4G, 5G, 5G-Advanced, and 6G)
• Machine Learning Techniques (RL)
• Transport Protocols (TCP, MPTCP, DCTCP)
• Data Centre Networks (FatTree, VL2)
• Network Simulator 3 (NS3)

Qualifications

• PhD Informatics, University of Sussex, UK. Fully funded by Department of Informatics
• I passed my PhD with minor correction, examined by Prof. Mark Handley
• MSc Data Communications, Networks and Distributed Systems (DCNDS), University College London (UCL), UK
• My MSc thesis, CHALK, supervised by Dr. Damon Wischik
• BSc Computing and Information Systems (CIS), Goldsmiths University of London, UK (First Class Honours)

Experiences

• Principal Engineer in 6G R&D and Standardization, Samsung R&D Institute UK, Staines, England, UK. Dec. 2022 - Present
• Research & Innovation (R&I) Staff Engineer, InterDigital Europe, Ltd. London, England, UK. May 2021 - Dec. 2022
• Research Fellow in Networked Systems. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK. Feb 2018 – May 2021
• Research Fellow. School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, UK. Apr. 2017 - Feb. 2018
• Research Associate. School of Informatics (Network Research Group), University of Edinburgh, UK. Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2017
• Research Programmer. School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK. Dec. 2014 - May 2015
• Associate Tutor. School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK. Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2014

Selected Patents (Full patent portfolio)

• Kheirkhah, M., Olvera-Hernandez, U., Cogalan, T., Ghassemian, M. Architecture Enhancements to Unify Network Data Analytics Services for 3GPP Systems. Provisional Filed on 08.10.2021.
  • International Patent Application No. PCT/US2022/046150, filed on 10 Oct 2022 by InterDigital, Inc.
• Kheirkhah, M., Olvera-Hernandez, U., Wang, G., Wang, Z. System and Methods for Native 3GPP Support of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Operations. Filing date: 27.01.2022. Filing ref: 63/3031772.
  • International Patent Application No. PCT/US2023/011338, filed January 23, 2023 by InterDigital, Inc.
• Kheirkhah, M., Olvera-Hernandez, U., Wang, G., Wang, Z. System and Methods to Support Federated Machine Learning Operations by Optimizing Network Resource Utilization. Filing date: 27.01.22. Filing ref: 63/303693.
  • International Patent Application No. PCT/US2023/011506, filed January 25, 2023 by InterDigital, Inc.
• Kheirkhah, M., Olvera-Hernandez, U., Wang, Z., Brusilovsky, A., Ferdi, S., System and Methods to support optimized information exposure to UE via the control plane or the user plane. 30.04.2022.
  • International Patent Application No. PCT/US2023/16597, filed March 28, 2023 by InterDigital, Inc.
• Kheirkhah, M., Kirallah, C., Sedin, J., Method and Apparatus for selection of a radio bearer type in dual-connectivity deployment that supports AI/ML.
  • Patent App# GB2301932.6; Submitted on 10.02.2023 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. [RAN2/3]
• Kheirkhah, M., Watfa, M., Kirallah, C., Gutierrez Estevez, D., Warren, D., Method and Apparatus for Using Sidelink to Support AI/ML Operations.
  • Patent App# GB2301728.8; Submitted on 07.02.2023 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. [SA2/RAN2/3]
• Kheirkhah, M., Sedin, J., Methods and Apparatus to Improve Packet Delivery in DC Deployments.
  • Patent App# GB2305074.3; Submitted on 2023.04.05 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. [RAN2/3]
• Kheirkhah. M., Kirallah, C., Gutierrez Estevez, D., Methods and Apparatus for AI/ML Data Transfer.
  • Patent App# GB2305221.0; Submitted on 2023.04.06 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. [RAN2/3]
• Kheirkhah. M., Gutierrez Estevez, D., Watfa, M. A New Control Plane Protocol Stack Architecture to Support Service Based Interface for NG-RAN and UE.
  • Patent App# GB2304575.0; Submitted on 2023.03.29 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. [SA2/RAN2]
• Kheirkhah, M., Kirallah, C., Methods and Apparatus to Dynamically Handle AIML Data in the 3GPP Systems.
  • Patent App# GB2306950.3; Submitted on 2023.05.11 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. [RAN2]

Selected Publications (Google scholar publication listing)

• M.Kheirkhah, J.Reis, F.Yang, D.Griffin, M.Rio. ACCT: An Intelligent Congestion Control Mechanism for Future Internet. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Paper - Slides - Presentation - Landing Page - Research Impact Score: 6.10
• M.Kheirkhah, M.Kassem, G.Fairhurst, MK.Marina. XRC: An Explicit Rate Control for Future Cellular Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022, Seoul, Korea.
  • Paper - Slides - Presentation - Research Impact Score: 8.0
• M.Kassem, M.Kheirkhah, M.Marina, P.Buneman. WhiteHaul: An Efficient Spectrum Aggregation System for Low-Cost and High Capacity Backhaul over White Spaces. In ACM MobiSys 2020 Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  • Paper - Slides - Presentation - Acceptance rate: 19.4%
• M.Kheirkhah, M.Lee. AMP: An Adaptive Multipath TCP for Data Center Networks. In IFIP Networking 2019 Conference, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Paper - Slides - Best Paper Candidate
• M.Kheirkhah, I.Wakeman and G.Parisis. MMPTCP: A Multipath Transport Protocol for Data Centers. In IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Conference, San Francisco, USA.
  • Paper - Slides - Acceptance rate: 18.25% - Best in Session Presentation Award
• M.Kheirkhah, I.Wakeman and G.Parisis. Short vs. Long Flows: A Battle That Both Can Win. In ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Posters and Demos, London, UK.
  • Paper
• M.Kheirkhah, I.Wakeman and G.Parisis. Multipath-TCP in Network Simulator-3. In WNS3 2014, Atlanta, USA.
  • Paper
• M.Kheirkhah, MMPTCP: A Novel Transport Protocol for Data Centre Networks. Doctoral thesis (PhD), 2015, University of Sussex, UK.
  • Thesis

Talks

• A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Cognitive Network Optimiser (CNO) in the 5G-MEDIA Project, ETSIT-UPM, Madrid, Spain. September 2019. Slide
• MARC: A New Rate Control for Cellular Networks, Multi-Service Network workshop (MSN18), UK. July 2018
• A New Congestion Control for Mobile Networks, Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK. Jan 2018
• DCMPTCP: A Low Latency MultiPath TCP, Multi-Service Network workshop (MSN16), UK. July 2016
• How to Exploit Parallel Paths in Modern Data Centres. Network Research Group (NRG), University of Edinburgh, UK. January 2016
• MMPTCP: A Novel Transport Protocol for Data Centre Networks. Presentation in the WorkInProgress Seminars (WIPS), University of Sussex, UK. June 2015
• Implementation of MultiPath TCP in Network Simulator-3, Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN14), UK. July 2014. Slide
• Exploring the World of Data Centres, Presentation in the Work In Progress Seminars (WIPS), University of Sussex, UK. May 2014
• Routing Domains in DataCenterNetworks, Multi-Service Network workshop (MSN11), UK. July 2011. Slide

NS-3 Implementations

• MultiPath TCP (MPTCP). This model is based on Linux kernel implementation of mptcp [GitHub]
• Adaptive MultiPath TCP (AMP) [GitHub]
• Maximum MultiPath TCP (MMPTCP) [GitHub]
• Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP). This includes various ECMP modes: random, per-flow and round-robin [GitHub] [YouTube]
• A Reinforcement Learning Based Cognitive Network Optimiser (CNO) in the 5G-MEDIA Project [GitHub] [YouTube]

Professional Activities

• ACM IMC 2017 (Shadow PC)
• IEEE INFOCOM 2018 (expert reviewer)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (reviewer)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (reviewer)
• IEEE Communications Letters (reviewer)
• IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing (reviewer)
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (reviewer)