VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Fahad Hilal
dblp:362/3841
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0008-8123-4496ORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021Security and privacy · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Transport protocols and congestion control · 44% Network measurement and analytics · 44% Internet architecture and protocols · 13% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network measurement and analytics
active measurement |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Poster: Investigating the Survivability of the Experimental TCP Option · IMC 2025 |
Transport protocols and congestion control
transport protocols |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Poster: Investigating the Survivability of the Experimental TCP Option · IMC 2025 |
Internet architecture and protocols
protocol design |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Poster: Investigating the Survivability of the Experimental TCP Option · IMC 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
yarrpbox · 0.9active measurement · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Unpacking Internet Ossification: A Large-Scale Study of Path-Impairing Middleboxes Across IPv4 and IPv6
Fahad Hilal, Taha Albakour, Oliver Gasser, Kevin Vermeulen |
PAM | 1 |
| 2025 | Poster: Investigating the Survivability of the Experimental TCP OptionabstractIn this work, we extend Yarrpbox to assess the survivability of the TCP experimental option across paths toward the Tranco Top-100k domains. Our findings highlight middlebox interference and motivate broader Internet-wide studies. This study represents an initial step toward understanding the feasibility of extending TCP in today's Internet, while highlighting potential pitfalls that must be considered by future protocol designers. Zahra Yazdani, Fahad Hilal, Cecilia Testart, Alberto Dainotti, Kevin Vermeulen, Tiago Heinrich, Taha Albakour |
IMC | 2 |