Paper Selection

Technical Sessions

TS 1 - Machine Learning
Network Traffic Characteristics of Machine Learning Frameworks Under the Microscope Johannes Zerwas and Kaan Aykurt (Technische Universität München, Germany); Stefan Schmid (University of Vienna, Austria); Andreas Blenk (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Reinforcement Learning for Automated Energy Efficient Mobile Network Performance Tuning Diarmuid Corcoran (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Per Kreuger (RISE AI, Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Magnus Boman (KTH, Sweden)
DRL-based Slice Placement Under Non-Stationary Conditions José Jurandir Alves Esteves (Orange Labs & Sorbonne Université, France); Amina Boubendir and Fabrice M. Guillemin (Orange Labs, France); Pierre Sens (Université de Paris 6, France)


TS 2 - 5G/Slicing
Placement of 5G RAN slices in Multi-tier O-RAN 5G networks with Flexible Functional Splits Egemen Sarikaya (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Ertan Onur (Middle East Technical University, Turkey & Stony Brook University, USA)
Using 5G QoS Mechanisms to Achieve QoE-Aware Resource Allocation Marcin Bosk (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Marija Gajić (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Susanna Schwarzmann (TU Berlin, Germany); Stanislav Lange (NTNU, Norway); Riccardo Trivisonno and Clarissa Cassales Marquezan (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Thomas Zinner (NTNU, Norway)
Reoptimizing Network Slice Embedding on EON-enabled Transport Networks Sepehr Taeb (University of Waterloo, Canada); Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada); Shihabur R. Chowdhury (Huawei Research Canada, Canada); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jeebak Mitra and Mahdi Hemmati (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada)


TS 3 - Edge
EdgeDQN: Multiple SFC Placement in Edge Computing Environment Suman Pandey (Pohang Univerisity of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Tu Van Nguyen (POSTECH, Korea (South)); Jae-Hyoung Yoo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); James Won-Ki Hong (POSTECH, Korea (South))
Cost-Efficient Dynamic Service Function Chain Embedding in Edge Clouds Weihan Chen, Zhiliang Wang, Han Zhang, Xia Yin and Xingang Shi (Tsinghua University, China)
SDN/NFV based Secure SCMA design in SDR Muge Erel-Ozcevik (Celal Bayar University, Turkey); Ferdi Tekçe (Andasis Company, Turkey)


TS 4 - Orchestration
Inferring Software Composition and Credentials of Embedded Devices from Partial Knowledge Pierre-Marie Junges (University of Lorraine, France); Jérôme François (INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France); Olivier Festor (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France)
Obstacle-Aware and Energy-Efficient Multi-Drone Coordination and Networking for Disaster Response Chengyi Qu, Rounak Singh and Alicia Esquivel Morel (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Francesco Betti Sorbelli (University of Perugia, Italy); Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Automating Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Design of LoRa-based IoT Networks Xiaofan Yu and Weihong Xu (University of California San Diego, USA); Ludmila Cherkasova (ARM Research, USA); Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA)


TS 5 - Network Monitoring
Performance Analysis of Anomaly Detection Methods for Application System on Kubernetes with Auto-scaling and Self-healing Yoichi Matsuo and Daisuke Ikegami (NTT, Japan)
IntStream: An Intent-driven Streaming Network Telemetry Framework Xin Cheng, Zhiliang Wang, Shize Zhang, Xin He and Jiahai Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Network Problem Diagnostics using Typographic Error Correction Martin Holkovic, Michal Bohus and Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)


TS 6 - Security
Analyzing and Assessing Pollution Attacks on Bloom Filters: Some Filters are More Vulnerable than Others Pedro Reviriego (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Shanshan Liu and Fabrizio Lombardi (Northeastern University, USA)
ANYway: Measuring the Amplification DDoS Potential of Domains Olivier van der Toorn (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Johannes Krupp (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany); Mattijs Jonker (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente & NLnet Labs, The Netherlands); Christian Rossow (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany); Anna Sperotto (Twente University, The Netherlands)
Learning Intrusion Prevention Policies through Optimal Stopping Kim Hammar and Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Mini Conference

MC 1 - Network Design & Analytics
Traffic Engineering with Segment Routing Considering Probabilistic Failures Ying Tian, Zhiliang Wang, Xia Yin, Xingang Shi, Jiahai Yang and Han Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Yingya Guo (Hongkong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Haijun Geng (Shanxi University, China)
A Hierarchical Tree-Based Syslog Clustering Scheme for Network Diagnosis Sizhe Rao, Minghui Wang, Cuixia Tian, Xin'an Yang and Xiangqiao Ao (H3C, China)
Survivable Virtual Network Mapping against Double-Link Failures Based on Virtual Network Capacity Sharing Emanuele Viadana, Omran Ayoub and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)
Auction-based federated learning using software-defined networking for resource efficiency Eunil Seo (Computing Science, Sweden & Umea University, Sweden); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Erik Elmroth (Umeå University and Elastisys, Sweden)
How are your Apps Doing? QoE Inference and Analysis in Mobile Devices Nikolas Wehner, Michael Seufert and Joshua Schüler (University of Würzburg, Germany); Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)


MC 2 - Wireless Networks
3D Deployment and User Association of CoMP-assisted multiple Aerial Base Stations for Wireless Network Capacity Enhancement Yikun Zhao, Fanqin Zhou, Li Wenjing, Yuan Gao, Lei Feng and Peng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Virtual Machine Embedding and Wireless Data Center Topology Management Beyza Butun (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Ertan Onur (Middle East Technical University, Turkey & Stony Brook University, USA)
Intelligent and Energy-efficient Distributed Resource Allocation for 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks Zhengyuan Liu, Peng Yu, Fanqin Zhou, Lei Feng and Li Wenjing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Max-Min Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Millimeter-Wave Radio Cluster İdil Z. Alemdar (Middle East Technical University & Turkcell, Turkey); Ertan Onur (Middle East Technical University, Turkey & Stony Brook University, USA)
Evaluation of Cluster Effect in Mobile Opportunistic Networks Zeynep Vatandas (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Koojana Kuladinithi (Hamburg University of Technology & Institute of Communication Networks, Germany); Ulrich Killat (Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany); Andreas Timm-Giel (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)


MC 3 - 5G
Optimal Network Design: Edge Server Placement and Link Capacity Assignment for Delay-Constrained Services Devyani Gupta (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Joy Kuri (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Network Slicing in 5G Edge Networks with Controlled Slice Redistributions Samaresh Bera (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India); Neelesh B. Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Self Optimizing Network Slicing in 5G for Slice Isolation and High Availability Shwetha Vittal and Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
On Auto-scaling and Load Balancing for User-plane Gateways in a Softwarized 5G Network Van Giang Nguyen, Karl-Johan Grinnemo and Javid Taheri (Karlstad University, Sweden); Johan Forsman (Tietoevry, Sweden); Thang Le Duc (TietoEVRY Product Development Services, Sweden); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Efficient Orchestration of Service Chains in Fog Computing for Immersive Media José Santos (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Belgium); Jeroen van der Hooft (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Maria Torres Vega (Ghent University, Belgium); Tim Wauters (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Bruno Volckaert (Ghent University-imec & IBBT, Belgium); Filip De Turck (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)


MC 4 - Security & Privacy
Anomaly Detection of ICS Communication Using Statistical Models Ivana Burgetová (Brno University of Technology & Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Republic); Petr Matoušek and Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Assessing the limits of privacy and data usage for web browsing analytics Daniel Perdices (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain); Jorge E. López de Vergara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) & Naudit High Performance Computing and Networking, Spain); Ivan Gonzalez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
An Ensemble Learning-Based Architecture for Security Detection in IoT Infrastructures Adrien Hemmer (INRIA - University of Lorraine, France); Mohamed Abderrahim (Inria, France); Remi Badonnel (TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA, France); Isabelle Chrisment (LORIA-TELECOM Nancy, Université de Lorraine, France)
Link Latency Attack in Software-Defined Networks Sanaz Soltani and Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Habib Mostafaei (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Zahra Pooranian and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
On Detection of Manipulative Cognitive Functions in Cognitive Autonomous Networks Anubhab Banerjee (Technical University of Munich & Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Stephen S. Mwanje (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Figure of Merit for a Multi-Generation Network Darren A Ramsook (University of The West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago); Daniel Mahatoo (Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago); Patrick Hosein (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)

Posters

Poster 1 - Applications
ChaosTwin: A Chaos Engineering and Digital Twin Approach for the Design of Resilient IT Services Filippo Poltronieri, Mauro Tortonesi and Cesare Stefanelli (University of Ferrara, Italy)
ASRE - Towards Application-specific Resource Ensembles across Edges and Clouds Hong-Linh Truong (Aalto University, Finland)
Improving Quality of HTTP Adaptive Streaming with Server and Network-Assisted DASH Reza Shokri Kalan (Turkey, Turkey)
Caching Video on Demand in Radio Cluster Furkan Murat (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Ertan Onur (Middle East Technical University, Turkey & Stony Brook University, USA)


Poster 2 - Traffic
Known Performance Issues Are Prevalent in Consumer WiFi Routers Bjørn Ivar Teigen (University of Oslo & Domos, Norway); Kai Olav Ellefsen, Tor Skeie and Jim Tørresen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Network Tomography and Partial Least Squares for Traffic Matrix Estimation Francisco J. Cuberos (University of Granada, Spain); Irene Herrera (Universidad de Granada, Spain); Katarzyna Wasielewska and José Camacho (University of Granada, Spain)
Towards Evaluating Quality of Datasets for Network Traffic Domain Dominik Soukup (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Peter Tisovcik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Karel Hynek (CESNET, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)
Energy-aware Coflow Scheduling for Sustainable Workload Management Sadiya Ahmad and Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Estefania Coronado (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain)


Poster 3 - ML & AI
Impact of Retransmission on VoWiFi Cell Capacity Estimation using IEEE 802.11ax WiFi Standard Ayes Chinmay and Hemanta Kumar Pati (IIIT Bhubaneswar, India)
On-demand network bandwidth reservation combining machine learning and linear programming Kouichi Genda (Nihon University, Japan)
Proactive Live Migration for Virtual Network Functions using Machine Learning Seyeon Jeong (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Tu Van Nguyen (POSTECH, Korea (South)); Jae-Hyoung Yoo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); James Won-Ki Hong (POSTECH, Korea (South))
Artificial intelligence and big data driven IS security management solution with applications in higher education organizations Vladislavs Minkevics and Janis Kampars (Riga Technical University, Latvia)
Novel HTTPS classifier driven by packet bursts, flows, and machine learning Zdena Tropkova (FIT CTU, Czech Republic); Karel Hynek (CESNET, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)
IoT-based Access Management Supported by AI and Blockchains Eryk Schiller and Elfat Esati (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)


Poster 4 - Network Management
countBF: A General-purpose High Accuracy and Space Efficient Counting Bloom Filter Sabuzima Nayak (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India); Ripon Patgiri (National Insitute of Technology Silchar, India)
Session-persistent Load Balancing for Clustered Web Servers without Acting as a Reverse-proxy S. Mohammad Hosseini and Amir Hossein Jahangir (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Sina Daraby (Sharif University of Technology & IPM, Iran)
NUFTCP: Towards Smooth Network Updates in Software-Defined Datacenter Networks Abdul Basit Dogar and Yiran Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Investigating Inter-NF Dependencies in Cloud-Native 5G Core Networks Endri Goshi (Technische Universität München, Germany); Michael Jarschel, Rastin Pries and Mu He (Nokia, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Automation of modular and programmable control and data plane SDN networks Eder Ollora Zaballa (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); David Franco and Eduardo Jacob (University of the Basque Country, Spain); Marivi Higuero (University of the Basque Country & Faculty of Engineering at Bilbao, Spain); Michael S. Berger (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
An Intent-Driven Orchestration of Cognitive Autonomous Networks for RAN management Anubhab Banerjee (Technical University of Munich & Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Stephen S. Mwanje (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)


Poster 5 - Resilience
Optimizing primary and backup SDN controllers' placement resilient to node-targeted attacks Mariusz Mycek, Michal Pióro and Artur Tomaszewski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Proactive Detection for Countermeasures on Port Scanning based Attacks Evgeny Sagatov (Samara National Research University & Internet TV Ltd., Russia); Samara Mayhoub (Samara National Research University, Russia); Andrei M. Sukhov (HSE University, Russia); Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
A novel unified handover Algorithm for LTE-A Sunil Hebbur Srikantamurthy (TU Chemnitz, Germany); Andreas Baumgartner (Chemnitz University of Technology & Chair of Communication Networks, Germany)
EdgeEcho: An Architecture for Echocardiology at the Edge Aman Khalid (St. Louis University, USA); Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Alessio Sacco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Steven Smart (Saint Louis University, USA)


Poster 6 - Algorithms
Evaluating Urban Network Activity Hotspots through Granular Cluster Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Jane Frances Pajo (Telenor Research, Norway); George Kousiouris (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece); Dimosthenis Kyriazis (University of Piraeus, Greece); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy); Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy)
A Greedy Algorithm for Minimum Cut into Bounded Sets Problem Onur Ugurlu (Izmir Bakircay University, Turkey); Vahid Akram (EGE University, Turkey); Deniz Tursel Eliiyi (Izmir Bakircay University, Turkey)
Fault-Tolerant 1-bit Representation for DistributedInference Tasks in Wireless IoT Mostafa Hussien (ETS, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Optimized Transfer Learning: Application for Wireless Channel Selection Mohammad Askarizadeh (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Mostafa Hussien (ETS, Canada); Masoumeh Zare (University of Montreal, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (University of Quebec, Canada)

Demo Sessions

DS 1 - IoT Networking, Network Telemetry and Analytics
LoRaPlan: A Software to Evaluate Gateway Placement in LoRaWAN Frank Loh, Noah Mehling, Florian Metzger and Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany); David R. Hock (Infosim GmbH & Co. KG, Germany)
IEEE 802.11ah (HaLow) Dongle for Simplified IoT Wireless Networking Min-Cheol Kim and Young-Tak Kim (Yeungnam University, Korea (South))
An experimentation environment for SDN-based autonomous vehicles in smart cities Athanasios Papadakis, Tryfon Theodorou, Lefteris Mamatas and Sophia Petridou (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Cloud Native Data Platform for Network Telemetry and Analytics Daniel Tovarňák and Matúš Raček (Masaryk University, Czech Republic); Petr Velan (Masaryk University & CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)


DS 2 - 5G Networking, AI/ML for Networking
A compact 5G Non-Public Network Daniel Ficzere (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Gabor Soos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Magyar Telekom Nyrt, Hungary); Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
A Zero Touch Emulation Framework for Network Slicing Management in a 5G Core Testbed Shwetha Vittal (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Sourav Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Hyderabad), India); Prashanth P S and Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
DRL-based Slice Placement under Realistic Network Load Conditions José Jurandir Alves Esteves (Orange Labs & Sorbonne Université, France); Amina Boubendir and Fabrice M. Guillemin (Orange Labs, France); Pierre Sens (Université de Paris 6, France)
Online Feature Selection for Low-overhead Learning in Networked Systems Xiaoxuan Wang and Forough Shahab Samani (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Andreas Johnsson (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)