Timetabled Sessions
Monday, October 31
Tutorial 1
Getting ready for 6G Research – Understanding the Evolution of 5G towards 6G and emerging 6G Management Requirements Thomas Magedanz, Marius Corici, Varum Gowtham
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Tutorial 2
Resource Management under Uncertainties, Risks and Information Incompleteness in Next Generation (NextG) Networks Symeon Papavassiliou, Christos Pelekis, Maria Diamanti
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Mini-Conference Session 1: Edge & Fog Computing
Distributed Resource Autoscaling in Kubernetes Edge Clusters Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Ioannis Dimolitsas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Eleftherios Vlahakis (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Dimitrios Dechouniotis (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Nikolaos Athanasopoulos (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
A Geometric Approach to Real-time Quality of Experience Prediction in Volatile Edge Networks Tom Goethals (Ghent University & imec, IDLab, Belgium); Bruno Volckaert (Ghent University-Imec, Belgium); Filip De Turck (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)
Multi-access Edge Computing as a Service Pedro Escaleira (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Aveiro, Portugal); Miguel Mota (IT & UA, Portugal); Diogo Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); João Paulo Barraca and Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Intent-based decentralized orchestration for green energy-aware provisioning of fog-native workflows Mays F AL-Naday (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Tom Goethals (Ghent University & imec, IDLab, Belgium); Bruno Volckaert (Ghent University-Imec, Belgium)
A Novel Network Delay Prediction Model with Mixed Multi-layer Perceptron Architecture for Edge Computing Honglin Fang, Peng Yu, Ying Wang, Li Wenjing and Fanqin Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Run Ma (State Grid Ningxia Electronic Power Co., LTD., China)


Mini-Conference Session 2: Next-Generation Services & Service Enablers
CADLAD: Device-aware Bitrate Ladder Construction for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Minh Nguyen (Institute of Information Technology, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Austria, Austria); Babak Taraghi (Universität Klagenfurt, Austria); Abdelhak Bentaleb and Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)
Remote Robotic Surgery: Joint Placement and Scheduling of VNF-FGs Amina Hentati, Amin Ebrahimzadeh and Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada); Fatna Belqasmi (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Rabeb Mizouni (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Function Placement and Acceleration for In-Network Federated Learning Services Nour El Houda Yellas (Cnam, France); Bernardetta Addis (LORIA & Université de Lorraine, France); Roberto Riggio (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)
Dynamically meeting performance objectives for multiple services on a service mesh Forough Shahab Samani and Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Integrated Network and End-host Policy Management for Network Slicing Alexander Rabitsch (Karlstad University, Sweden); Themistoklis Anagnostopoulos (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Karl-Johan Grinnemo (Karlstad University, Sweden); Joseph McNamara (Athlone Institute of Technology & Ericsson, Ireland); Anne-Marie C. Bosneag (Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ireland); Michail Alexandros Kourtis and George K Xilouris (NCSR Demokritos, Greece); Ozgu Alay (University of Oslo & Simula Metropolitan, Norway); Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden)


Mini-Conference Session 3: Internet Traffic, Modeling & Monitoring
ΔQ: Generative Models: Modeling Time-Variation in Network Quality Bjørn Ivar Teigen (University of Oslo & Domos, Norway); Neil J Davies (Predictable Network Solutions Limited, United Kingdom); Peter Thompson (PNSol, United Kingdom); Kai Olav Ellefsen, Tor Skeie and Jim Tørresen (University of Oslo, Norway)
PerfTrace: A New Multi-metric Network Performance Monitoring Tool Yaozhong Liu, Long Pan, Chenglong Li, Lin He, Yirui Luo, Guanglei Song, Jiahai Yang and Zhiliang Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Monitoring Metrics for Load Balancing over Video Content Distribution Servers Edenilson Jônatas dos Passos and Adriano Fiorese (Santa Catarina State University, Brazil)
Scope-based Flow Monitoring to Improve Traffic Analysis in Programmable Networks Christoph Hardegen (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
The effect of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict from the perspective of Internet eXchanges Cristian Trusin (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Leandro Márcio Bertholdo (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul & UFRGS, Brazil); José Jair Santanna (Northwave Security, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands)


Mini-Conference Session 4: IoT, Aerial & Vehicular Networks
FeD-UP: Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning-based UAV Path Planning against Hostile Defense System Alvi Ataur Khalil and Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman (Florida International University, USA)
ReLI: Real-Time Lightweight Byzantine Consensus in Low-Power IoT-Systems Himanshu Goyal, Manish Kausik H and Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
AI-Based mechanism for the Predictive Resource Allocation of V2X related Network Services Asterios Mpatziakas (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Anastasios Sinanis and Iosif Hamlatzis (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Anastasios Drosou (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas - Information Technologies Institute, Greece); Dimitrios Tzovaras (Rochester, Greece)
Wake-up Receiver based routing protocol for indoor Wireless Sensor Networks Maximilian Weber (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Ghofrane Fersi (National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia); Faouzi Derbel (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Maximizing Information Usefulness in Vehicular CP Networks Using Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning Imed Ghnaya (University of Bordeaux/Bordeaux INP, France); Toufik Ahmed and Mohamed Mosbah (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Hasnaa Anis (Unversité Gustave Eiffel, France)


Tuesday, November 1
Keynote 1
Self-adjusting networks: vision, solutions, challenges Stefan Schmid
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Technical Session 1: Intelligent Network & Service Management
HSFL: An Efficient Split Federated Learning Framework via Hierarchical Organization Tengxi Xia and Yongheng Deng (Tsinghua University, China); Sheng Yue (Central South University, China); Junyi He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Ju Ren and Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Accelerating Causal Inference Based RCA Using Prior Knowledge From Functional Connectivity Inference Giles Winchester and George Parisis (University of Sussex, United Kingdom); Robert Harper (Moogsoft Ltd, United Kingdom); Luc Berthouze (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Graph Neural Networks for Capacitated Shortest Path Tour based Service Chaining Takanori Hara and Masahiro Sasabe (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)


Technical Session 2: Data Plane Programmability
eBPF Programming Made Easy with eCLAT Andrea Mayer (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Lorenzo Bracciale (University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy); Paolo Lungaroni (CNIT / University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Pierpaolo Loreti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Stefano Salsano (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Preventing Control Plane Overload in SDN Networks with Programmable Data Planes Cristian Bermudez Serna and Carmen Mas-Machuca (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Howdah: Load Profiling via In-Band Flow Classification and P4 Antonino Angi and Alessio Sacco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Alexander Clemm (Futurewei Technologies, USA)


Short Paper Session 1: Network Traffic & Delay Optimization
Fast Traffic Engineering by Gradient Descent with Learned Differentiable Routing Krzysztof Rusek (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Paul Almasan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Jose Suarez-Varela (Barcelona Neural Networking Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Piotr A Cholda (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Pere Barlet-Ros and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio (Barcelona Neural Networking Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Find Out: How Do Your Data Packets Travel? Thomas Dreibholz (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway); Somnath Mazumdar (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Flow-level Tail Latency Estimation and Verification based on Extreme Value Theory Max Helm and Florian Wiedner (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Network traffic classification based on periodic behavior detection Josef Koumar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic & CESNET, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)
Neural collaborative filtering for network delay matrix completion Sanaa Ghandi, Alexandre Reiffers-Masson and Sandrine Vaton (IMT Atlantique, France); Thierry Chonavel (IMT Atlantic & Université Européenne de Bretagne, France)


Wednesday, November 2
Technical Session 3: Wide Area Networks
A Realistic Open-Data-based Cost Model for Wireless Backhaul Networks in Rural Areas Gabriele Gemmi (University of Venice, Italy & Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice, Italy)
Comparing Traditional and GAN-based Approaches for the Synthesis of Wide Area Network Topologies Katharina Dietz, Michael Seufert and Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)
On the Asymmetry of Internet eXchange Points - Why Should IXPs and CDNs Care? Leandro M Bertholdo (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Sandro Ferreira (IFRS, Brazil); João M. Ceron (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Lisandro Z Granville (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Ralph G Holz (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente & NLnet Labs, The Netherlands)


Keynote 2
Management Challenges for Delivering 6G-powered Applications and Services Panagiotis Demestichas
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Keynote 3
Automated and secure lifecycle management for IoT Antonio Skarmeta
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Technical Session 4: Wireless Networks & IoT
Time-sensitive Multi-Flow Routing in Highly Utilized MANETs Klement Streit (Universität der Bundeswehr München & Forschungsinstitut Cyber Defence (CODE), Germany); Eike Viehmann (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany); Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)
Forecasting-based Cloud-assisted Dynamic Channel Assignment Mechanism for Mesh WiFi Networks Mehmet Sukru Kuran (Airties Wireless Networks, Turkey); Oguz Kaan Koksal (Sabanci University, Turkey & Airties Wireless Network, Turkey); Melih Kılıç, Ahmet Uğur İlter, Gökçe Ekin Nehas and Sadık Öztürk (Airties Wireless Networks, Turkey)
FlexiCast: A Structure-Adaptive Protocol for Efficient Data-Sharing in IoT Madhav Tummala (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India); Manish Kausik H and Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)


Short Paper Session 2: Next-Generation Networks & Security
QoS-aware SFC Migration Scheduling based on Encoder-Decoder RNN for Cloud-Native Platform Takahiro Hirayama and Masahiro Jibiki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Takaya Miyazawa (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
An Open Platform for Simulating the Physical Layer of 6G Communication Systems with Multiple Intelligent Surfaces Alexandros Papadopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece); Antonios Lalas (Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH), Greece); Konstantinos Votis (Information Technologies Institute, Centre For Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); Dimitris Tyrovolas and George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Sotiris Ioannidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
A Novel Cost-Aware Load Balancing Algorithm for Road Side Units in Internet of Vehicles Shivank Thapa, Swagat Ranjan Sahoo and Moumita Patra (IIT Guwahati, India); Arobinda Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Tunneling through DNS over TLS providers Lukas Melcher (FIT CTU, Czech Republic); Karel Hynek (CESNET, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)
An Online Framework for Adapting Security Policies in Dynamic IT Environments Kim Hammar and Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Decentralized Intent-driven Coordination of Multi-Domain IP-Optical Networks Filippos Christou (University of Stuttgart, Germany)


Thursday, November 3
Technical Session 5: Protocol Performance & Security
PTP Security Measures and their Impact on Synchronization Accuracy Filip Rezabek and Max Helm (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Tizian Leonhardt (Technical University Munich, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Assessing e-Government DNS Resilience Raffaele Sommese and Mattijs Jonker (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Jeroen van der Ham (NCSC-NL & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Giovane C. M. Moura (SIDN Labs, The Netherlands)
On the Performance of TCP in Reconfigurable Data Center Networks Kaan Aykurt, Johannes Zerwas, Andreas Blenk and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Keynote 4
From Digital Transformation to Socio-Digital Innovation Dimitra Simeonidou
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Demos
RITUAL: A Platform Quantifying the Trustworthiness of Supervised Machine Learning Alberto Huertas Celdrán (University of Zürich UZH, Switzerland & University of Murcia, Spain); Jan Bauer, Melike Demirci, Joel Leupp and Muriel F. Franco (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez (University of Murcia, Spain); Gérôme Bovet (Armasuisse, Switzerland); Gregorio Martinez Perez (University of Murcia, Spain); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Open-Source Service Management for a Fully Disaggregated Optical Network Simulation Sai Kireet Patri (ADVA & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Shabnam Sultana (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany & Highstreet Technologies GmbH, Germany); Michael Dürre (highstreet-technologies GmbH, Germany); Saquib Amjad (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Aijana Schumann (highstreet-technologies GmbH, Germany); Achim Autenrieth (ADVA, Germany); Jörg-Peter Elbers (ADVA Optical Networking SE, Germany); Thomas Bauschert (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany); Carmen Mas-Machuca (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Function-as-a-Service Orchestration in Fog Computing Environments Gaetano Francesco Pittalà, Gianluca Davoli, Davide Borsatti, Walter Cerroni and Carla Raffaelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
Demo: Blockchain-based Inter-Provider Agreements for 6G Networks Farhana Javed (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
Graph Based Liability Analysis for the Microservice Architecture Onur Kalinagac (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland); Wissem Soussi (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) & University of Zürich (UZH), Switzerland); Gürkan Gür (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland)
Private Cellular Network Deployment: Comparison of OpenAirInterface with Magma Core Nischal Aryal (Orange Telecom, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IMT, Telecom SudParis, France); Fariba Ghaffari (Orange Labs, France); Saeid Rezaei (Orange Innovation & Politecnico di Milano, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)
Technical Session 6: Multimedia & QoS
iRED: Improving the DASH QoS by dropping packets in programmable data planes Leandro Almeida (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, Brazil); Guilherme Matos (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil); Rafael Pasquini (Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU, Brazil); Chrysa Papagianni (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Fábio Luciano Verdi (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
Performability Assessment of containerized multi-tenant IMS through Multidimensional UGF Luigi De Simone (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Mario Di Mauro, Maurizio Longo and Fabio Postiglione (University of Salerno, Italy); Roberto Natella (Federico II University of Naples & Critiware, Italy)
Learning to Caching Under the Partial-feedback Regime Qingsong Liu and Yaoyu Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Distinguished Expert Panel
Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies Panelists: Laurent Ciavaglia, Marco Mellia, Stefan Schmid, Dimitra Simeonidou
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Friday, November 4
Tutorial 3
Recent Advances in Data Engineering for Networking Engin Zeydan, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
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Tutorial 4
The Role of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for the Realization of Beyond 5G Networks Madhusanka Liyanage
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Workshop
HiPNet: 4th High-Precision, Predictable, and Low-Latency Networking Workshop (HiPNet 2022)
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Mini-Conference Session 5: Security, Privacy & Resiliency
Towards a Behavioral and Privacy Analysis of ECS for IPv6 DNS Resolvers Leyao Nie, Lin He, Guanglei Song, Hao Gao, Chenglong Li, Zhiliang Wang and Jiahai Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Black-box Attacks to Log-based Anomaly Detection Shaohan Huang and Yi Liu (Beihang University, China); Carol J Fung (Concordia University, Canada); Hailong Yang (Beihang University & Sino-German Joint Software Institute, China); Zhongzhi Luan (Beihang University, China)
Zero-touch security automation mechanisms for edge NFV: the π-Edge approach Alexandros Valantasis (Intracom, Greece); Vasileios Theodorou and Nikos Psaromanolakis (Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece)
To Embed or Not to Embed SHA in Programmable Network Interface Cards Diego Rossi Mafioletti (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil); Magnos Martinello (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Moises R. N. Ribeiro (Federal Universty of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Marco Ruffini (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Frank Slyne (Connect Research Centre - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
VM Failure Prediction with Log Analysis using BERT-CNN Model Sukhyun Nam and Jae-Hyoung Yoo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); James Won-Ki Hong (POSTECH, Korea (South))


Mini-Conference Session 6: Intelligent Radio & Network Programmability
A Sample Efficient Multi-Agent Approach to Continuous Reinforcement Learning Diarmuid Corcoran (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Per Kreuger (RISE AI, Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Magnus Boman (KTH, Sweden)
Scalable Data Plane Caching for Kubernetes Stefanos Sagkriotis and Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Intent-Driven Path State Monitoring to Enable Centralized State-Aware Flow Steering Christoph Hardegen (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Optimized Neural Sufficient Statistics for CSI Compression in MIMO-FDD Communications Mostafa Hussien (ETS & Samsung AI Center, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Deep Q-Learning Meets Federated Learning for Task Offloading and Fronthaul Routing in Open RAN Anselme Ndikumana (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)


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