CNSM 2025 Program

Monday, October 27 9:00 - 10:30

Mini-conference Session 1: Intrusion Detection & Botnets

Towards Context-aware Intrusion Detection in Individual-oriented Information Systems: An Empirical Study on Android Malware
Van-Tien Nguyen (LAAS-CNRS, France); Renzo E Navas and Guillaume Doyen (IMT Atlantique, France)

IoT Botnet Detection with Drift-Aligned Learning and DNS-Based C2 Identification
Jeffrey A Adjei, Nur Zincir-Heywood and M. I. Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada); Biswajit Nandy (Solana Networks, Canada & Carleton University, Canada); Nabil Seddigh (Solana Networks, Canada)

Bot ahead! - Proactive Botnet Defense in ISP Networks using Digital Twins
Christian Dietz and Marcel Antzek (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany); Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)

BTS-Band: An Explainable AI Detection Solution for Base Transceiver Station Resource Depletion Attack in O-RAN
Assrar Maamary (Concordia University, Canada); Hyame Alameddine (Ericsson Research, Canada); Chadi Assi and Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada)

PhD Symposium - Session 1

Toward Dynamic Frequency Planning for Reliable Connectivity in Mobile 6G in-X Subnetworks
Valentin Thomas Haider, Fidan Mehmeti and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Generative Adversarial Models for Vehicular Dynamics Prediction in V2X Networks
Giuseppe Perrone, Claudio E. Casetti and Marco Rapelli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Machine Learning for Performance Optimization in Resource-Constrained Environments
Edoardo Di Caro and Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

AnServApp Workshop

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IWNC Workshop

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RLAN Workshop

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Monday, October 27 11:00 - 12:30

Mini-conference Session 2: Security Ops, Evasion & Threat Infrastructure

Anomaly Detection in Log Data: A Comparative Study
Ondrej Sedlacek, Martin Zadnik and Václav Bartoš (CESNET, Czech Republic)

A first look at the adoption of BGP-based DDoS scrubbing services: A 5-year longitudinal analysis
Shyam Krishna Khadka and Suzan Bayhan (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Ralph G Holz (University of Münster, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Saeedeh Shokoohi and Marinho Barcellos (University of Waikato, New Zealand); Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs and University of Twente, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands)

HideMe: Hiding VMs from Co-Residency Attacks Using Network-Level Traffic Redirection
Bogdan-Nicolae Stănculete and Raffaele Sommese (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Double-Edged Sword: An Empirical Study on the Contribution of Cloud Providers in Malicious Infrastructure
Sousan Tarahomi and Raffaele Sommese (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Jeroen Linssen (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands); Ralph G Holz (University of Münster, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Anna Sperotto (Twente University, The Netherlands)

PhD Symposium - Session 2

Slicing Under Siege: Adversarial-Aware Optimization for Secure Resource Allocation in B5G Networks
Sameer Ali and Helena Rifà-Pous (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)

Management of Safety-Critical AI Services in the Compute Continuum
Lorenzo Colombi and Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

Enforcing Security Policies in the Application Layer and the Data Plane
Federico Rinaudi, Alessio Sacco and Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Audit Compliance and Forensics Frameworks for Complex, Large-Scale ICT Systems
Joao Henriques (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Filipe Caldeira (Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal & University of Coimbra, Portugal); Tiago Cruz and Paulo Simões (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

AnServApp Workshop

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IWNC Workshop

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RLAN Workshop

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Monday, October 27 13:30 - 15:00

Mini-conference Session 3: Cloud/Edge Orchestration & Service Function Chains

MARC-6G: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Context-Aware SFC Deployment and Migration in 6G Networks
Solomon Wassie and Eric Samikwa (Uni Bern, Switzerland); Antonio Di Maio (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)

RL-PARETO: Performance-Aware Routing and Hybrid PPO-DQN Orchestration for Parallelized Service Function Chains
Akshit Kumar (National Institute of Technology Calicut, India); Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli (National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India); C. Siva Ram Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

Reinforcement Learning-based orchestration of XR applications in distributed 6G cloud infrastructures
Javad Sameri (Ghent University & Imec, Belgium); José Santos and Sam Van Damme (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Susanna Schwarzmann (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf, Germany); Qing Wei and Riccardo Trivisonno (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Filip De Turck (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Maria Torres Vega (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Too Remote to Be Local: Latency Inflation in Anycast due to Remote Peering
Remi Hendriks (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Stefano Servillo and Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy); Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs and University of Twente, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente & NLnet Labs, The Netherlands); Savvas Kastanakis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

AnServApp Workshop

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IWNC Workshop

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QoDaNeT Workshop

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DECODE Workshop

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Monday, October 27 15:30 - 17:00

Mini-conference Session 4: VNF & 5G/6G Performance and Scheduling

A Proactive Performance Prediction Framework for Virtual Network Functions in 5G Networks
Milad Rafiee (University of Oslo, Norway); Andres Felipe Ocampo Palacio (Sintef Digital, Norway); Amir Taherkordi (University of Oslo, Norway); Ozgu Alay (University of Oslo, Norway & Karlstad University, Sweden)

5G Configured Grant Scheduling for Integrated Sensing and Communication in Vehicular Networks
Veerendra Kumar Gautam (University of Padova, Italy); Priyanka Nagireddy (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India); C. Siva Ram Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

A Robust Scheduling of Cyclic Traffic for Integrated Wired and Wireless Time-Sensitive Networks
Özgür Ozan Kaynak (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany); Andreas Kassler (Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), Sweden & Karlstad University, Sweden); Andreas Fischer (Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany); Ognjen Dobrijevic (ABB Corporate Research, Sweden); Fabio D'Andreagiovanni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

QR-MO: Q-Routing for Multi-Objective Shortest-Path Computation in 5G-MEC Systems
Annisa Sarah (University of Stavanger, Norway); Rosario G. Garroppo (University of Pisa, Italy); Gianfranco Nencioni (University of Stavanger, Norway)

AnServApp Workshop

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IWNC Workshop

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QoDaNeT Workshop

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DECODE Workshop

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Tuesday, October 28 9:30 - 10:30

Keynote 1

The Memory Layer for Web3
Muriel Médard (Optimum / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Tuesday, October 28 11:00 - 12:30

Full Paper Session 1: Communication Protocols

Noisy Neighbours: Keep the Neighbourhood Quiet
Ebrima Jaw (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Thomas Krenc (IIJ Research Laboratory, Japan); Moritz Müller (SIDN Labs, unknown & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Kimberly Claffy (CAIDA, USA); Lambert J.M. Nieuwenhuis (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs and University of Twente, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands)

OPTIMUMP2P: Fast and Reliable Gossiping in P2P Networks
Nicolas Nicolaou, Onyeka Obi, Aayush Rajasekaran, Alejandro Bergasov, Aleksandr Bezobchuk, Kishori Konwar, Michael Meier, Santiago Paiva, Har Preet Singh, Swarnabha Sinha, Sriram Vishwanath and Muriel Médard (Optimum, USA)

Debunking Reinforcement Learning for Bandwidth Estimation in Real-Time Communications: When a Simple Regressor Suffices
Tailai Song and Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Tuesday, October 28 12:30 - 13:30

Poster and Demo Session 1

Demo: Design and Implementation of Hierarchical Cross-Domain Orchestration Using TeraFlowSDN
Anouar El Hachimi and Aryanaz Attarpour (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Gabriele Nanni (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy); Memedhe Ibrahimi and Sebastian Troia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Andrea Sgambelluri (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy); Emilio Paolini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Massimo Tornatore and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

P4-Based Emulation of LoWPAN and RPL Networks for Aviation Telemetry and Communication
Tiago Souza (UFRN, Brazil); Augusto Venâncio Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte (UFRN), Brazil & IT Aveiro, Portugal); Ramon dos Reis Fontes (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil); Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil); Paulo Mendes (Airbus, Germany)

Zero-Lag Smart Pipes for Smart Factories: AI-Driven Programmable Transport in Open RAN
Flávio G C Rocha, Kleber V Cardoso, Murillo Melo and Jonathas dos Santos (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil); Lorenzo Chiachio, Vlademir Brusse and Fábio Luciano Verdi (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil); Leandro Almeida (Federal Institute of Paraíba, Brazil); Cristiano Bonato Both (Unisinos University, Brazil); Andre Mendes Cavalcante (Ericsson, Brazil & Ericsson Research, Brazil); Maria Marquezini (Ericsson, Brazil); Pedro Henrique Gomes (Ericsson Research, Brazil)

Scalable and Cost-Effective RAN: A Dynamic Resource Management Framework for Optimizing Hardware Utilization
Umar Toseef (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Bartłomiej Kozicki (Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium); Dragan Samardzija (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)

Design of Resilient Mobile Core Network Architecture Inspired by Soft Guarantee Behavior
Masayuki Kurata, Ryu Watanabe and Masaki Suzuki (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)

Feature Skew Control for In-Network Federated Learning
Yasmine Chaouche (Cnam de Paris, France); Patient Ntumba Wa Ntumba (Cnam, France); Pedro B. Velloso (CNAM, France); Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)

A Protocol-Based Framework for AIaaS Lifecycle Management in 6G via NWDAF
Junia Maisa Oliveira (University of Bologna, Italy); Daniel Fernandes Macedo and Jose Nogueira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Tuesday, October 28 13:30 - 15:00

Full Paper Session 2: Learning

Assessing the Sustainability and Trustworthiness of Federated Learning Models
Chao Feng (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Alberto Huertas Celdrán (University of Zürich UZH, Switzerland & University of Murcia, Spain); Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez (University of Murcia, Spain); Lynn Zumtaugwald (University of Zurich UZH, Switzerland); Gérôme Bovet (Armasuisse, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

Irreconcilable Differences? Investigating Consensus of Post-hoc XAI for ML-NIDS via Decomposition
Katharina Dietz (University of Würzburg, Germany); Johannes Schleicher (University of Augsburg, Germany); Stefan Geissler (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Michael Seufert (University of Augsburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Choose Before You Label: Efficient Node Selection in Constrained Federated Learning
Francesco Malandrino (CNR-IEIIT, Italy); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy); Jayadev Naram and Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Tuesday, October 28 15:30 - 17:30

Full Paper Session 3: Network Monitoring

TSGFM - Graph Neural Networks for Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting in Network Monitoring
Hamid Latif Martínez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Juan Vanerio (University of Vienna & AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria); José Suárez-Varela (Telefónica Research, Spain); Albert Cabellos-Aparicio and Pere Barlet Ros (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

XFAST: Efficient Feature Selection for High-Performance Network Traffic Analysis using eBPF/XDP and Genetic Algorithms
Gustavo Henrique E Einsfeldt (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil)

Age-based CoDel and his friends. Improving the Linux scheduler with 2-level AQM disciplines
Giovanni Moschini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy); Andrea Marin (Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy); Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice, Italy)

90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield
Raffaele Sommese (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Anna Sperotto (Twente University, The Netherlands); Antonio Prado (Independent Consultant, Italy); Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Antonia Affinito (University Twente, The Netherlands)

Wednesday, October 29 9:00 - 11:00

Full Paper Session 4: IoT and the Edge

Intelligent Autoscaling with Attention-based Reinforcement Learning for SLA-Aware Resource Management in Edge-Cloud Environments
Faraz Shaikh, Gianluca Reali and Mauro Femminella (University of Perugia, Italy)

Interactivity Assessment of Streamed Games over Heterogeneous Access Networks using Bayesian Networks
Henrique Souza Rossi (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden); Karan Mitra (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden); Niclas Ögren (InfoVista, Sweden); Christer Åhlund (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden); Per Johansson (Infovista Sweden AB, Sweden)

Traffic-aware Time of Day Breakpoints for Traffic Light Optimization at Scale with Probe Data
Ori Rottenstreich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Eliav Buchnik, Shai Ferster, Tom Kalvari, Avishai Zagoury, Jack Haddad and Avinatan Hassidim (Google, Israel)

Learning Semantic Congestion Control for Cyber Physical Systems
Polina Kutsevol (Technische Universität München, Germany); Yash Deshpande (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Wednesday, October 29 11:30 - 12:30

Keynote 2

On the Road Towards a Greener Internet - Challenges and Opportunities in Environmentally Sustainable Networking
Alexander Clemm

Wednesday, October 29 12:30 - 13:30

Poster and Demo Session 2

DroidScour: an Android Application for IoT Device Data Collection
Brenda S Schussler (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil & Concordia University, Canada); Abdul Fareed Jamali (Concordia University, Canada); Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Carol J Fung (Concordia University, Canada)

HawkV6: Application-Specific Traffic Steering with Intent-Based Networking and SRv6
Severin Dellsperger and Daniel Patrick Politze (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)

OPTIMUMP2P Demo: Fast and Reliable Gossiping in P2P Networks
Kishori Konwar, Aayush Rajasekaran and Har Preet Singh (Optimum, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Santiago Paiva and Alejandro Bergasov (Optimum, USA); Nicolas Nicolaou (Algolysis Ltd & Optimum, Cyprus)

A demonstration of an autonomous approach for cyberattack mitigation
Francesco Pizzato, Daniele Bringhenti, Riccardo Sisto and Fulvio Valenza (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

What's Behind 'Sorry, I Lagged': Correlating Wi-Fi Metrics with Online Gaming Latency
Nicolas Marrot (Orange Innovation, France & IMT Atlantique, France); Minqi Wang (Orange Labs, France); Susie Brunessaux and Maël Le Dizes (Orange Innovation, France); Loutfi Nuaymi (IMT Atlantique, France)

CESNET TS-Zoo: A Library for Reproducible Analysis of Network Traffic Time Series
Milan Kureš (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Josef Koumar (Czech Technical University in Prague & CESNET, Czech Republic); Karel Hynek (CESNET, Czech Republic)

The Path Towards a Criticality-Sensitive Smart City
Rui Eduardo Lopes (Universidade de Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Duarte Raposo and Rodrigo Martins (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Diogo Mendes (Universidade de Aveiro and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)

Wednesday, October 29 13:30 - 15:00

Full Paper Session 5: Resource Management

Power-Napping Networks: Towards Practically Usable Green Segment Routing for ISP Backbones
Daniel Otten (Osnabrück University, Germany); Alexander Brundiers (Deutsche Telekom, Germany & Osnabrück University, Germany); Leonhard Brüggemann and Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University, Germany)

Adaptive control policies for Core Network autoscaling with Meta-RL
Shantanu Verma (Orange Business Services, India & Orange Labs, France); Abhishek Gupta (Orange Business, India); Jatinder Singh (Orange Business Services & Orange Labs, India); José M. Sánchez Vilchez (Orange Labs, France); Guillaume Fraysse (Orange Research, France)

Resource Allocation for Satellite QKD Networks with Atmospheric Forecast
Sun Gyu Park (University of Waterloo, Canada); Qiaolun Zhang (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Raul Almeida Júnior (Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil); Mehdi Bolourian (University of Waterloo, Canada); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Wednesday, October 29 15:30 - 17:00

Full Paper Session 6: Virtualization and Programmability

Digital Twin and LLM Assisted Online Diagnosis in Microservices Based Enterprise Systems
Sourav Das and Krishna Kant (Temple University, USA)

LCDN: Providing Network Determinism with Low-Cost Switches
Philip Diederich, Yash Deshpande and Laura Becker (Technical University of Munich, Germany); David Raunecker (Universität Würzburg, Germany); Alexej Grigorjew (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

GPG-VNFE: Towards Foundation Models via Graph Pretraining for Generalizable VNF Embedding
Omar Houidi (Telecom SudParis, France); Nour El Houda Yellas (Samovar, Telecom SudParis Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France); Oussama Soualah (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis - Samovar, France); Djamal Zeghlache (Samovar, Telecom SudParis & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

Thursday, October 30 9:00 - 11:00

Full Paper Session 7: Security

Exploiting Congestion Control Parameter Manipulation in QUIC for Security Implications
Y A Joarder and Surajit Sinha (Concordia University, Canada); Guillaume Doyen (IMT Atlantique, France); Carol J Fung (Concordia University, Canada)

TITAN DGA: Enhancing DGA Evasiveness through a Transformer-based Autoencoder and Adversarial Self-Augmentation
Rafael Carneiro Pregardier (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil); Luiz Alberto Cabral Bianchi, Jr (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Vinicius Fulber-Garcia (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland); Luis Alvaro de Lima Silva and Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)

Learning Optimal Defender Strategies for CAGE-2 using a POMDP Model
Duc Huy Le and Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Characterizing Hosting and Security Practices for Public-Facing LDAP Servers
Gustavo Luvizotto Cesar (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Gurur Öndarö and Jonas Kaspereit (Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Fabian Ising (Fraunhofer SIT and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany); Sebastian Schinzel (Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Mattijs Jonker (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Ralph G Holz (University of Münster, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Thursday, October 30 11:30 - 12:30

Keynote 3

From Networks to Redundancies: Building Resilience
Gianluca Mazzini (Lepida S.p.A. / University of Ferrara)

Thursday, October 30 12:30 - 13:30

Poster and Demo Session 3

OCTOPUS: a Scalable, Reliable and Cost-Efficient Solver Orchestrator for Optimization Services
Mattia Oriani, Marco Giorgini, Roberto D'Elia, Federico Naldini, Nicola Di Cicco and Fabio Lombardi (OPTIT, Italy)

Taming Trillions of Events: Automated Security Telemetry Analysis at Scale
Daniel Tovarňák, Matúš Raček, Martin Gregorík, Martin Hamerník and Michal Čech (CSIRT-MU, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Experimental Validation of MLOps for Automated Service Provisioning in Optical Networks
Carlos Hernández-Chulde, Ramon Casellas and Ricardo Martinez (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain)

NFVAgent: A Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agent for Resilient NFV Failure Recovery
Yeunjin Woo (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South) & Samsung, Korea (South)); Honguk Woo (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South))

Rethinking NIDS Rule-Based Pre-Filtering
Henrique B Brum (University of Trento, Italy & Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Luis A D Knob (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Tiago Ferreto (PUC-RS, Brazil); Domenico Siracusa (University of Trento, Italy)

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Wi-Fi Networks using RFFI
Xinyi Li, Samer Lahoud and Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)

xBGPsec: Enhancing BGP Security with Transitive Signatures and External Validation
Nils Höger (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs and University of Twente, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Moritz Müller (SIDN Labs, unknown & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Savvas Kastanakis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Thursday, October 30 13:30 - 15:00

Short Paper Session 1: Short Paper Session 1

Flow-Rule Generation for SDN Using LLMs with Retry-Based Deployment Validation
Anouar El Hachimi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Nicola Di Cicco (OPTIT, Italy); Memedhe Ibrahimi, Francesco Musumeci and Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Taming Bandwidth Bottlenecks in Federated Learning via ECN-based Gradient Compression
Javier Palomares, Jr (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Cataluya, Spain); Chiara Camerota and Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA); Estefania Coronado (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha & Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Cristina Cervelló-Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain)

Toward Deterministic Path Placement in AI Backends: A Practical SRv6-Based Architecture
Clarence Filsfils (Cisco Systems, Inc., Belgium); Pablo Camarillo (Cisco System, Spain); Ahmed Abdelsalam (Cisco Systems, Italy); Arianna Quinci (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Angelo Tulumello (CNIT, Italy & University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Pierpaolo Loreti and Stefano Salsano (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Andrea Mayer (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Lorenzo Bracciale (University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)

GRASS: Green Ranking of Autonomous SystemS
Antonia Affinito (University Twente, The Netherlands); Cristian Hesselman (SIDN Labs and University of Twente, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Savvas Kastanakis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

QoS and Capacity Prediction for 5G Network Slicing
Nathalie Romo Moreno and Felix Dsouza (Deutsche Telekom, Germany); Andreas Kassler (Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), Sweden & Karlstad University, Sweden); Florian Pullem and Bangnan Xu (Deutsche Telekom, Germany); Markus Amend and Changsoon Choi (Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany)

Sensing at the Edge: Location-Aware Caching
Federico Trombetti, Novella Bartolini and Salvatore Pontarelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Short Paper Session 2: Short Paper Session 2

Taming Volatility: Stable and Private QUIC Classification with Federated Learning
Richard Jozsa (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Karel Hynek (CESNET, Czech Republic); Adrian Pekar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Scalable, Semi-supervised Mobile App Fingerprinting using LSH
Fatemeh Marzani and Samer Saleh (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Redefining the Security of the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) with Post-Quantum Cryptography
Isaque Barbosa Martins (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil); Matheus Pereira Lima (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil); Anderson Paiva Cruz (UFRN, Brazil); Roger Immich and Ramon dos Reis Fontes (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil)

Extending Test-driven development to Softwarized Networks and Intent Based Networking
Davide Berardi, Mattia Fontana and Barbara Martini (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy)

Energy-Efficient Placement and Association in Disaggregated O-RAN
Hiba Hojeij (CentraleSupelec, France); Sahar Hoteit (University Paris-SACLAY, France & CentraleSupélec, France); Véronique Vèque (Université Paris-Saclay, France); Alexis Aravanis (CentraleSupelec, France)

Wmediumd for 802.15.4: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Physical Testbeds
Ramon dos Reis Fontes (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil); Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil)

Thursday, October 30 15:30 - 17:00

Distinguished Expert Panel

Sustainable Network Management in the Age of AI: Reducing Power Consumption and Carbon Footprint
Panelists: Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada), Alexander Clemm (Sympotech, USA), Nicola Di Cicco (OPTIT, Italy) and Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Moderator: Guillaume Fraysse (Orange Innovation Networks, France)

Friday, October 31 9:00 - 10:30

Mini-conference Session 5: Traffic Analysis, Measurement & QoE

Exploratory Performance Evaluation of VM Migration as MQTT Moving Target Defense
Matheus Torquato (University of Coimbra, CISUC, DEI, Portugal & Federal Institute of Alagoas, Campus Arapiraca, Brazil); Tiago Cruz (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Denis Lima Rosário (Federal University of Para, Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Eduardo Cerqueira (Federal University of Para & UCLA & UFPA & UCLA, Brazil)

Investigating Middlebox Deployment and Characteristics in Dutch Autonomous Systems
Bulut Ulukapi (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Anna Sperotto (Twente University, The Netherlands); Ralph G Holz (University of Münster, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Representation of QoS Conditions at Observation Nodes that Satisfy the Required QoE at User End Nodes
Ayumi Araragi (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Akio Watanabe (NTT Corporation, Japan); Hiroki Ikeuchi, Yousuke Takahashi and Taichi Kawano (NTT, Japan); Masahiro Yokota (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan)

AirTagged: A Dataset and Processing Framework for Heterogeneous High-Density IoT Environments
Katharina O. E. Müller and Stefan R. Saxer (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Daria Schumm (University of Zürich, Switzerland); Weijie Niu (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Bruno Rodrigues (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

NeSecOr Workshop

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Friday, October 31 11:00 - 12:30

Mini-conference Session 6: AI/ML for Networked Systems

MVFL: Multivariate Vertical Federated Learning for Time-Series Forecasting
Xicun Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); JunePyo Jung (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Jialiang Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Keun-Woo Lim and Leonardo Linguaglossa (Telecom Paris, France)

Towards Markov Synthetic BLE Packet Generation for IoT Systems
Katharina O. E. Müller, Keisuke Yokota and Weijie Niu (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Daria Schumm and Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

Towards an ML Assisted DASH-based Architecture: Leveraging Predictive Network Analyses with Interpretability
Eduardo R Peretto (UFRGS, Brazil); Manoel Narciso Reis Soares Filho and Débora Cristina Santos Sousa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Bruno Iochins Grisci (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Detection of Misreporting Attacks on Software-Defined Immersive Environments
Sourya Saha (City University of New York, USA); Md Nurul Absur (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA); Shima Yousefi (City University of New York, USA); Saptarshi Debroy (City University of New York, USA & Hunter College, USA)

NeSecOr Workshop

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Friday, October 31 13:30 - 15:00

Mini-conference Session 7: Programmable Networks & In-Network Policies

FASTR: Fast Resilience for Stateful Programmable Data Planes
Chenxing Ji and Fernando A. Kuipers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for In-Network Placement of ACL Rules Under Constraints
Wafik Zahwa (University of Lorraine & Numeryx, France); Abdelkader Lahmadi and Michael Rusinowitch (University of Lorraine, France); Mondher Ayadi (Numeryx, France)

Reinforcement Learning-Driven Edge Management for Reliable Multi-view 3D Reconstruction
Motahare Mounesan (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA); Sourya Saha and Houchao Gan (City University of New York, USA); Md Nurul Absur (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA); Saptarshi Debroy (City University of New York, USA & Hunter College, USA)

Hybrid Temporal Differential Consistency Autoencoder for Efficient and Sustainable Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
Michael Somma (Joanneum Research & TU Graz, Austria)

Friday, October 31 15:30 - 17:00

Mini-conference Session 8: Future Internet & IoT Platforms

IPFS over SCION: Secure and Performant Content Retrieval on Next-Generation Networks
Marten Gartner (University of Magdeburg, Germany); Leon Rinkel (Otto-Von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany); David Hausheer (OVGU Magdeburg, Germany)

Sandboxing Building OS: Enabling Isolated Development Environment for Smart Buildings
Yoshiki Kitatani, Manato Fujimoto and Shingo Ata (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

Shared Responsibility in Multi-Tenant Microcontrollers
Bastien Buil (CNAM & Orange Research, France); Chrystel Gaber and Sylvain Plessis (Orange Research, France); Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA, France); Samia Bouzefrane (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France)

Energy Demand as AI Model Selection Criteria? Assessing Quality and Energy Consumption for AI based KQI Prediction in Video Streaming
Frank Loh (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Carina Baur, Flavian Raithel and David Stüber (University of Würzburg, Germany); Omran Ayoub (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)