IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
8–12 May 2023 // Miami, FL // USA

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Tuesday, May 9th 2023

11:00-12:30 TS 1.1 Wireless (I)

Room 115

Chair: Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada

 
Domain Adaptation for Network Performance Modeling with and without Labeled Data
Authors:
Hannes Larsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden -  Presenter
Farnaz Moradi, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Jalil Taghia, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Xiaoyu Lan, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Andreas Johnsson, Ericsson Research / Uppsala University, Sweden
 
Independent Split Model Inference at Operator Network for Network Performance Estimation
Authors:
Selim Ickin, Ericsson AB, Sweden -  Presenter
Dinand Roeland, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Göran Hall, Ericsson AB, Sweden
 
Efficient Deep-Learning Models for Future Blockage Prediction and Beam Selection for mmWave Systems
Authors:
Satya Kumar Vankayala, Samsung R&D, India
Sai Krishna Santosh Gollapudi, Samsung R&D, India
Bharat Jain, Samsung R&D, India
Seungil Yoon, Samsung Electronics, South Korea
Mihir Khambhati, Samsung R&D, India
Swaraj Kumar, Samsung R&D, India
Sudheer Kumar H U, Samsung R&D, India
Issaac Kommineni, Samsung R&D, India
 
11:00-12:30 TS 1.2 SDN

Room 117

Chair: Danny Raz, Technion, Israel

 
Mobility-aware Latency-constrained Data Placement in SDN-enabled Edge Networks
Authors:
Diego Oliveira Rodrigues, University of Campinas, Brazil
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
João Guilherme Maia de Menezes, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Leandro Villas, University of Campinas, Brazil
 
Serene: Handling the Effects of Stragglers in In-Network Machine Learning Aggregation
Authors
Diego Cardoso Nunes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil -  Presenter
Bruno Coelho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ricardo Parizotto, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alberto Egon Schaeffer-Filho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 
Accelerating PUF-based Authentication Protocols Using Programmable Switch
Authors:
Divya Pathak, IIT Hyderabad, India -  Presenter
Ranjitha K, IIT Hyderabad, India
Krishna Sai Modali, BITS, India
Praveen Tammana, IIT Hyderabad, India
Antony Franklin A, IIT Hyderabad, India
Tejasvi Alladi, BITS, India
 
13:30-15:00 TS 2.1 Resource Management

Room 115

Chair: Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada

 
Generalizable Resource Scaling of 5G Slices using Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Authors:
Muhammad Sulaiman, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mahdieh Ahmadi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mohammad A. Salahuddin, University of Waterloo, Canada
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada -  Presenter
Aladdin Saleh, Rogers Communications Inc., Canada
 
Protected load-balancing problem: Neural-network based approximation for non-convex optimization
Authors:
Youcef Magnouche, Huawei Technologies Ltd., France -  Presenter
Sebastien Martin, Huawei Technologies Ltd., France
Jérémie Leguay, Huawei Technologies Ltd., France
 
Cost-optimal Operation of Latency Constrained Serverless Applications: From Theory to Practice
Authors:
János Czentye, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary -  Presenter
Istvan Pelle, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Balázs Sonkoly, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 
13:30-15:00 TS2 .2 Network Programability

Room 117

Chair: Jérôme François, INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France

 
Low-Overhead Packet Loss Diagnosis for Virtual Private Clouds using P4-Programmable NICs
Authors:
Soroush Aalibagi, University of Calgary, Canada -  Presenter
Mahdi Dolati, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran
Sogand Sadrhaghighi, University of Calgary, Canada
Majid Ghaderi, University of Calgary, Canada
 
Responding to Network Failures at Data-plane Speeds with Network Programmability
Authors:
Jonatas Marques, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Kirill Levchenko, University of Illinois, USA
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil -  Presenter
 
Scaling IoT MUD Enforcement using Programmable Data Planes
Authors:
Harish S A, IIT Hyderabad, India -  Presenter
Suvrima Datta, IIIT Naya Raipur, India
Hemanth Kothapalli, IIT Hyderabad, India
Praveen Tammana, IIT Hyderabad, India
Achmad Basuki, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
Kotaro Kataoka, IIT Hyderabad, India
Selvakumar Manickam, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Venkanna U., IIIT Naya Raipur, India
Yung-Wey Chong, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
 
15:30-17:30 TS 3 Security (I)

Room 115

Chair: Joe Betser, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

 
Early Detection of Cryptojacker Malicious Behaviors on IoT Crowdsensing Devices
Authors:
Alberto Huertas Celdran, University of Zurich, Switzerland -  Presenter
Jan von der Assen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Konstantin Moser,  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Pedro Miguel Sanchez Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain
Gerome Bovet, Armasuisse, Switzerland
Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
 
Multi-stage Location for Root-Cause Metrics in Online Service Systems
Authors:
Yunfeng Zhao, Tsinghua University, China -  Presenter
Wenchi Zhang, Bizseer, China
Zhiliang Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Shize Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Kaixin Sui, Bizseer, China
Enhuan Dong, Tsinghua University, China
Jiahai Yang, Tsinghua University, China
 
FSA-IDS: A Flow-based Self-Active Intrusion Detection System
Authors:
Mehrdad Hajizadeh, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany -  Presenter
Sudip Barua, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Pegah Golchin, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
 
Enhancing Security in Information-Centric Ad Hoc Networks
Authors:
Ioanna Angeliki Kapetanidou, emocritus University of Thrace / ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece -  Presenter
Paulo Mendes, Airbus, Germany
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, emocritus University of Thrace / ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece

Wednesday, May 10th 2023

8:30-10:30 TS 4.1 Security (II)

Room 115

Chair: Philippe Owezarski, CNRS, France

 
Understanding Semantics in Feature Selection for Fault Diagnosis in Network Telemetry Data
Authors:
Thomas Feltin, École polytechnique, France -  Presenter
Juan Antonio Cordero Fuertes, École polytechnique, France
Thomas Heide Clausen, Cisco Systems, Germany
Frank Brockners, École polytechnique, France
 
Probabilistic Distributed Intrusion Detection For Zero-Trust Multi-Access Edge Computing
Authors:
Rahul Sharma, The University of Melbourne, Australia -  Presenter
Chien Aun Chan, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Christoher Leckie, The University of Melbourne, Australia
 
Distributed Device-Specific Anomaly Detection using Deep Feed-Forward Neural Networks
Authors:
Christian Lübben, Technical University of Munich, Germany -  Presenter
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Technical University of Munich, Germany / IMT Atlantique, France
 
HiFiPot: a High-Fidelity Emulation Framework for IoT Honeypots
Authors:
Pierre-Marie Junges, University of Lorraine, France
Jérôme François, INRIA Nancy Grand Est - LORIA, France -  Presenter
Olivier Festor, University of Lorraine, France
 
8:30-10:30 TS 4.2 Traffic Management

Room 117

Chair: Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich UZH, Switzerland

 
Efficient Identification of Cloud Gaming Traffic at the Edge
Authors:
Philippe Graff, Université de Lorraine, France -  Presenter
Xavier Marchal, Université de Lorraine, France
Thibault Cholez, Université de Lorraine, France
Bertrand Mathieu, Orange Innovation, France
Olivier Festor, Université de Lorraine, France
 
Wavelet-Based Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Out-of-distribution Internet Traffic Prediction
Authors:
Sajal Saha, University of Western Ontario, Canada -  Presenter
Anwar Haque, University of Western Ontario, Canada
 
Intelligent Data-Planes with Quantization-Aware Trained ML Models for Traffic Management
Authors:
Kaiyi Zhang, University of Ottawa, Canada -  Presenter
Nancy Samaan, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
 
MARLIN: Soft Actor-Critic based Reinforcement Learning for Congestion Control in Real Networks
Authors:
Raffaele Galliera, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition / The University of West Florida, USA -  Presenter
Alessandro Morelli, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Roberto Fronteddu, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Niranjan Suri, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition / The University of West Florida / US Army Research Laboratory, USA
 
13:30-15:00 TS 5.1 Wireless (II)

Room 115

Chair: Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, Portugal

 
mmCPTP: A Cross-Layer Pull based Transport Protocol for 5G mmWave Networks
Authors:
Prasad Netalkar, Rutgers University, USA -  Presenter
Jiachen Chen, Rutgers University, USA
Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA
 
Bandwidth Provisioning for Network Slices with Per User QoS Guarantees
Authors:
Panagiotis Nikolaidis, University of Maryland, USA -  Presenter
Asim Zoulkarni, University of Maryland, USA
John Baras, University of Maryland, USA
 
JARS: A Joint Allocation of Radio and System Resources for Virtualized Radio Access Networks
Authors:
Keval Malde, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Bhavishya Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Antony Franklin A, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India -  Presenter
 
13:30-15:00 TS 5.2 Virtual Systems

Room 117

Chair: José Santos, Ghent University, Belgium

 
Live Stateful Migration of a Virtual Sub-Network
Authors:
Farid Zandi Shafagh, University of Toronto, Canada -  Presenter
Sepehr Abbasi Zadeh, University of Toronto, Canada
Soheil Abbasloo, University of Toronto, Canada
Parsa Pazhooheshy, University of Toronto, Canada
Yashar Ganjali, University of Toronto, Canada
Zhenhua Hu, Huawei, Canada
 
NES: Towards lifecycle automation for emulation-based experimentation
Authors:
Will Fantom, Lancaster University, UK -  Presenter
Eleanor Davies, Lancaster University, UK
Charalampos Rotsos, Lancaster University, UK
Steve Cassidy, BT Research, UK
Paul Veitch, BT Research, UK
Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, UK
 
RAVIN: A Resource-aware VNF Placement Scheme with Performance Guarantees
Authors:
Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Vishal Siva Kumar Giduturi, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, IndiaIndian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India -  Presenter
Antony Franklin A, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
 
15:30-17:30 TS 6 Multimedia/Social

Room 115

Chair: Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

 
LALISA: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization in HTTP-based Adaptive Live Streaming
Authors:
Farzad Tashtarian, Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria -  Presenter
Abdelhak Bentaleb, Concordia University, Canada
Hadi Amirpour, Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria
Babak Taraghi, Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria
Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria
Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 
Uplink-based Live Session Model for Stalling Prediction in Video Streaming
Authors:
Frank Loh, University of Würzburg, Germany -  Presenter
Andrea Pimpinella, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stefan Geißler, University of Würzburg, Germany
Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany
 
A Study on Conspiracy Theory Propagation Networks on Twitter
Authors:
Kshitij Kokkera, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Aileen Chen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Chythra Malapati, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Alex Demchenko, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Carol Fung, Concordia University, Canada -  Presenter
 
EFFECTOR: DASH QoE and QoS Evaluation Framework For EnCrypTed videO tRaffic
Authors:
Raza Ul Mustafa, University of Campinas, Brazil
Md Tariqul Islam, University of Campinas, Brazil
Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil
Pedro Henrique Gomes, Ericsson Research, Brazil

Thursday, May 11th 2023

8:30-10:30 TS 7 Service Management

Room 115

Chair: Amina Boubendir, Airbus Defence and Space, France

 
Efficient Auto-Scaling for Microservice Applications With Complex Inter-Dependencies Through Reinforcement Learning
Authors:
Jose Santos, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium -  Presenter
Tim Wauters, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium
Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium
Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium
 
SampleHST: Efficient On-the-Fly Selection of Distributed Traces
Authors:
Alim Ul Gias, University of Westminster, UK
Yicheng Gao, Imperial College London, UK
Matthew Sheldon, Imperial College London, UK -  Presenter
José A. Perusquía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Owen O'Brien, Huawei Technologies, Ireland
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
 
Cold Start for Cloud Anomaly Detection
Authors:
Yonatan Katz, Google, Israel
Danny Raz, Google, Israel -  Presenter
 
Multi-Agent Advantage Actor-Critic Learning For Message Content Selection in Cooperative Perception Networks
Authors:
Imed Ghnaya, Univ. Bordeaux, France
Mohamed Mosbah, Univ. Bordeaux, France
Hasnaâ Aniss, Gustave Eiffel University, France
Toufik Ahmed, Univ. Bordeaux, France -  Presenter
 
13:30-15:00 TS 8.1 Wireless (III)

Room 115

Chair: Carol Fung, Concordia University, Canada

 
Hypothesis Testing Framework for Error Minimization in Handover Execution
Authors:
Satya Kumar Vankayala, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Sai Krishna Santosh Gollapudi, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Prashant N., Samsung R&D Institute, India
Seungil Yoon, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Purnima Lala Mehta, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Sudheer Kumar H U, Samsung R&D Institute, India
 
Map-Assisted Outdoor Localization of Wall-Mounted MMW Base Stations For Optimal NLoS Coverage
Authors:
Satya Kumar Vankayala, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Purnima Lala Mehta, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Prashant N., Samsung R&D Institute, India
Seungil Yoon, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Kuldeep Sharma, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Swastika Ojha, Samsung R&D Institute, India
Sudheer Kumar H U, Samsung R&D Institute, India
 
Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning Based Vertical Handover Management in Industrial Integrated Cellular and WLAN Networks
Authors:
Xiaoyi Jiang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Yu Zhou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Shiyi Gu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Lei Feng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
 
13:30-15:00 TS 8.2 5G

Room 117

Chair: Amina Boubendir, Airbus Defence and Space, France

 
5GC-Observer: a Non-intrusive Observability Framework for Cloud Native 5G System
Authors:
Abderaouf Khichane, Orange Innovation / Universités Paris-Saclay , France -  Presenter
Ilhem Fajjari, Orange Innovation, France
Nadjib Aitsaadi, Universités Paris-Saclay , France
Mourad Gueroui, Universités Paris-Saclay , France
 
Admission Control for URLLC Traffic with Computation Requirements in 5G and Beyond
Authors:
Fidan Mehmeti, Technical University of Munich, Germany -  Presenter
Valentin Thomas Haider, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Wolfgang Kellerer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
 
Generalizable GNN-based 5G RAN/MEC Slicing and Admission Control in Metropolitan Networks
Authors:
Arash Moayyedi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mahdieh Ahmadi, University of Waterloo, Canada -  Presenter
Mohammad A. Salahuddin, University of Waterloo, Canada
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Aladdin Saleh, Rogers Communications Inc., Canada

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