📄 Complete list of publications

Peer-Review Conferences

FovRL: Joint Foveation and Quality Control for Immersive VR Streaming Using Reinforcement Learning
Yuk Hang Tsui, Ze Wu, Ahmad Alhilal, Matti Siekkinen, Pan Hui
The ACM on Web Conference, April 2026 — Link
Frame Complexity-Aware Foveated Video Encoding for Real-time High-Quality Streaming
Ze Wu, Ahmad Alhilal, Yuk Hang Tsui, Matti Siekkinen, Pan Hui
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR '26), Daegu, Korea, March 2026 — Link
Enhancing Creativity in Virtuality: How Annotations in Creative Support Tool Innovate Design Ideation in Virtual Reality
Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Zhen Wu, Ahmad Alhilal, Simin Yang, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui
IEEE VR '26, Korea, March 2026 — Link
EyeNexus: Adaptive Gaze-Driven Quality and Bitrate Streaming for Seamless VR Cloud Gaming Experiences
Ze Wu, Ahmad Alhilal, Yuk Hang Tsui, Matti Siekkinen, Pan Hui
The 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2025 — Link
Congestion Control for VR Cloud Gaming: Integration and Comparison in Real VR Gaming Environment
Ahmad Alhilal, Ze Wu, Teemu Kämäräinen, Tristan Braud, Matti Siekkinen
The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025 — Link
Gaze-Adaptive Foveation for Remote Rendered VR
Adhi Widagdo, Teemu Kämäräinen, Ahmad Alhilal, Matti Siekkinen, Cheng-Hsin Hsu
The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025 — Link
Performance Profiling of Federated Learning Across Heterogeneous Mobile Devices
José A Esquivel, Bradley Aldous, Ahmed M Abdelmoniem, Ahmad Alhilal, Linlin You
2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C) — Link
From Prompt to Metaverse: User Perceptions of Personalized Spaces Crafted by Generative AI
Simin Yang, Yuk Hang Tsui, Xian Wang, Ahmad Alhilal, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Xuetong Wang, Pan Hui
The 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'24), 2024 — Link
The Jade Gateway to Exergaming: How Socio-Cultural Factors Shape Exergaming Among East Asian Older Adults
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Juhyung Son, Simin YANG, Derrick M. Wang, Lydia Choong, Ahmad Alhilal, Pengyuan Zhou, Pan Hui, Lennart E. Nacke
CHI Play 2024 — Link
FovOptix: Human Vision-Compatible Video Encoding and Adaptive Streaming in VR Cloud Gaming
Ahmad Alhilal, Ze Wu, Yuk Hang Tsui, Pan Hui
The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys '24) — Link
SimLab: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Chemical Engineering Education through a Metaverse Simulation
Juhyung Son, Ahmad Alhilal (co-first author), Reza Hadi Mogavi, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui
The HCI International Conference (HCII 2024) — Link
AnchorLoc: Large-scale, Real-Time Visual Localization through Anchor Extraction and Detection
Chun Ho Park, Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui
The 22nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2024) — Link
QoE Optimization for VR Streaming: a Continual RL Framework in Digital Twin-empowered MEC
Jiadong Yu, Ahmad Alhilal, Tailin ZHOU, Pan Hui, Danny Tsang
IEEE Global Communications (GLOBECOM) 2023 — Link
Human-Avatar Interaction in Metaverse: Framework for Full-body Interaction
Kit Yung LAM, Liang Wang, Ahmad Alhilal, Lik-Hang Lee, Gareth Tyson, Pan Hui
ACM Multimedia Asia 2022 — Link
Beyond the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction: A Centennial Vision of Interplanetary Virtual Spaces in Turn-based Metaverse
Lik-Hang Lee, Calos Bermejo, Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Simo Hosio, ESMÉE DE HAAS, Pan Hui
The 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI'22) — Link
Nebula: Reliable Low-latency Video Transmission for Mobile Cloud Gaming
Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Bo Han, Pan Hui
The ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW 2022) — Link
TALARIA: In-engine Synchronisation for Seamless Migration of Mobile Edge Gaming Instance
Tristan Braud, Ahmad Alhilal, Pan Hui
The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNext 2021) — Link
CAD3: Edge-facilitated Real-time Collaborative Abnormal Driving Distributed Detection
Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Xiang Su, Luay Al Asadi, Pan Hui
The 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2021) — Link

Peer-Review Journals

Saliency-Guided Foveated Video Encoding for Low-Latency and Immersive Cloud VR
Ze Wu, Ahmad Alhilal, Yuk Hang Tsui, Wen Jye Chai, Matti Siekkinen, Pan Hui
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 2026 — Link
Vetaverse: Technologies, Applications, and Visions toward the Intersection of Metaverse, AI, Vehicles, and Transportation Systems
Peng Yuan Zhou, Jinjing Zhu, Yiting Wang, Yunfan Lu, Zixiang Wei, Haolin Shi, Yuchen Ding, Yu Gao, Qinglong Huang, Yan Shi, Ahmad Alhilal, Lik-Hang Lee, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui, Lin Wang
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Nov 2025 — Link
Attention-based QoE-aware Digital Twin Empowered Edge Computing for Immersive Virtual Reality
Jiadong Yu, Ahmad Alhilal, Tailin Zhou, Pan Hui, Danny Tsang
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, March 2024 — Link
Bi-directional Digital Twin and Edge Computing in the Metaverse
Jiadong Yu, Ahmad Alhilal (co-first author), Pan Hui, Danny Tsang
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, May 2024 — Link
Towards a Traffic Metaverse with Shared Vehicle Perception
Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Lik-Hang Lee, Hang Chen, Pan Hui
IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Oct 2023 — Link
DiOS-An Extended Reality Operating System for the Metaverse
Tristan Braud, Lik-Hang Lee, Ahmad Alhilal, Carlos Bermejo Fernández, Pan Hui
IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, Oct 2022 — Link
Street Smart in 5G: Vehicular Applications, Communication
Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Benjamin Finley, Dongzhe Su, Pan Hui
IEEE ACCESS, Sep 2022 — Link
A Roadmap Towards a Unified Space Communication Architecture
Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui
IEEE ACCESS, July 2021 — Link
The Sky is NOT the Limit Anymore: Future Architecture of the Interplanetary Internet
Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, August 2019 — Link
Evaluation of WSN hierarchical routing protocols according to energy efficiency heterogeneity levels
Ahmad Alhilal, Salah Dowaji
International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS) — Link

Peer-Review Workshops

Lie Detection in Social VR Using Multimodal Data
Clarence Chi S Cheung, Ahmad Alhilal, Kriti Agrawal, Zhizhuo Yin, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Pan Hui
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) 2025 — Link
Resource-Aware Split Federated Learning for Edge Intelligence
Amna Arouj, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Ahmad Alhilal, Linlin You, Chen Wang
The third Workshop on Machine Learning on Edge in Sensor Systems (Sensys-ML 2024) — Link
Players are not Ready 101: A Tutorial on Organising Mixed-mode Events in the Metaverse
Kirill Shatilov, Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Lik-Hang Lee, Pengyuan Zhou, Pan Hui
The First Workshop on Metaverse Systems and Applications (MetaSys '23), 2023 — Link
Network Traffic in the Metaverse: The Case of Social VR
Ahmad Alhilal, Kirill Shatilov (co-first author), Gareth Tyson, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui
The 2nd International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing and Networking (SocialMeta 2023) — Link
ERL: Edge based Reinforcement Learning for optimized urban Traffic light control
Pengyuan Zhou, Tristan Braud, Ahmad Alhilal, Pan Hui, Jussi Kangasharju
IEEE PERCOM SmartEdge'19 Workshop, 2019 — Link
Driving Big Data: A First Look at Driving Behavior Via a Large-scale Private Car Dataset
Tong Li, Ahmad Alhilal, Anlan Zhang, Mohammad A Hoque, Dimitris Chatzopoulos, Zhu Xiao, Yong Li, Pan Hui
IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW), 2019 — Link