IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

23. networking 2024: Thessaloniki, Greece

23rd International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, networking 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 3-6, 2024

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Periklis Chatzimisios, Luis Munoz, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Manabu Tsukada

IFIP Open Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ISBN: 978-3-903176-63-8



Contents

K: Keynotes

Are Today's 5G Networks Ready to Support 5G "Killer Apps"?

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

 

AoI-Aware Query Services in Digital-Twin Empowered Edge Computing

Weifa Liang

 

Unlocking IoT Potential: Empowering LoraWAN for Secure, Distributed Smart Water Management

Francesca Cuomo

 

The Next Wave of IoT -- Extreme IoT

R. R. Venkatesha Prasad

 

S1: Network automation and management

Intelligent Routing as a Service (iRaaS) A Flexible Routing Framework for Knowledge-Defined Networks

Saptarshi Ghosh, Konstantinos Antonakoglou, Ioannis Mavromatis, Konstantinos Katsaros

 

Baiji: Domain Planning for CDNs under the 95th Percentile Billing Model

Juan Vanerio, Huiran Liu, Qi Zhang, Stefan Schmid

 

Increasing Network Resilience Through Dynamic Routing with Disjoint Paths

Konrad Altenhofen, Julian Zobel, Björn Scheuermann

 

Industry Use Case Viability Study with Performance Models for Satellite Computing Networks

Fabian Poignée, Frank Loh, Florian Zeiger, Markus Sauer, Tobias Hoßfeld

 

Gaming on the Edge: Performance Issues of Distributed Online Gaming

Diletta Olliaro, Paolo Castagno, Vincenzo Mancuso, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Matteo Sereno

 

S2: Network Traffic Analysis

In-Network Management of Parallel Data Streams over Programmable Data Planes

Bochra Boughzala, Boris Koldehofe

 

Characterizing Power Usage in Zero Reserved Power Data Centers to Enable Planned Maintenance

Hassan Khan, Muhammad Shahzad

 

Glancing at Extended Reality: an empirical model of 3D Animated XR Data Traffic

Tiziana Cattai, Luca Mastrandrea, Alessandro Priviero, Gaetano Scarano, Stefania Colonnese

 

dAQM: Derivative-based Active Queue Management

Saad Saleh, Sunny Shu, Boris Koldehofe

 

PB-FS: Postcard-Based Fast Start

Dan Aaronson, Reuven Cohen

 

S3: Anomaly and Malware Detection

Autonomous Systems Risk Level in the Route Server infrastructure of an Internet Exchange Point

Stefano Servillo, Pietro Spadaccino, Francesca Cuomo, Flavio Luciani

 

AB-TCAD: An Access Behavior-Based Two-stage Compromised Account Detection Framework

Kunling He, Fenghua Li, Jessie Hui Wang, Han Zhang, Yiren Zhao

 

MalFusion: Simple string manipulations confuse malware detection

Sri Shaila G, Michalis Faloutsos

 

Anomaly Detection in In-Network Fast ReRoute Systems

Divya Pathak, Sree Chinta, Dilip Reddy, Praveen Tammana, Harish SA

 

Chain-Sawing: A Longitudinal Analysis of Certificate Chains

Marcus Döberl, York Freiherr von Wangenheim, Carl Magnus Bruhner, David Hasselquist, Martin Arlitt, Niklas Carlsson

 

S4: 5G/6G and Beyond

Enhancing Real-Time Streaming Quality through a Multipath Redundant Communication Framework

Koki Ito, Jin Nakazato, Romain Fontugne, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki

 

X-OAR: Orchestration of Access Resources for extended reality educational applications

Alessandro Priviero, Luca Mastrandrea, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Stefania Colonnese

 

Enhanced Mobility Management with SD-RAN in 5G Networks

Anna Prado, Merve Ciki, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer

 

Is Multi-Link Operation of 802.11be TCP friendly? Analysis and Solution

Jagrati Kulshrestha, Srimant Mohanty, Pasquale Imputato, Stefano Avallone, Mukulika Maity

 

Packet Ordering Functions in Low-power Wireless Deterministic Networks

Juan Cruz Piñero, Alberto Blanc, Jose Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Georgios Papadopoulos

 

S5: Blockchain and Quantum Techniques

FlexBoT: A Scalable Architecture for Multi-Application Supporting BoT Environments with Application Shifting at Runtime

Akin Eker, Theo Tryfonas, George Oikonomou

 

A Quantum of QUIC: Dissecting Cryptography with Post-Quantum Insights

Marcel Kempf, Nikolas Gauder, Benedikt Jaeger, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle

 

Secure Target-Tracking by UAVs in O-RAN Environment

Seyed Ahmad Soleymani, Mohammad Shojafar, Shidrokh Goudarzi, Chuan Foh, Wenwu Wang

 

Optimizing Information Freshness in IoT Systems with Update Rate Constraints: A Token-Based Approach

Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas

 

I Know Who You Scanned Last Summer: Mapping the Landscape of Internet-Wide Scanners

Julian Mayer, Markus Schramm, Lukas Bechtel, Nils Lohmiller, Sabrina Kaniewski, Michael Menth, Tobias Heer

 

S6: Data Center Networking

Opportunistic Packet Forwarding for Proactive Transport in Datacenters

Amir Shani, Sogand Sadrhaghighi, Mahdi Dolati, Majid Ghaderi

 

HyperSFC: State-Intensive Service Function Chaining on Hyper-Converged Edge Infrastructure

Yan Zou, Tian Pan, Lu Lu, Zhiqiang Li, Kehan Yao, Yan Mu, Ying Wan, Tao Huang, Yunjie Liu

 

Utility-driven Optimization of TTL Cache Hierarchies under Network Delays

Karim Elsayed, Fabien Geyer, Amr Rizk

 

AdaFlow: Efficient In-Network Traffic Classification using Programmable Switches

Sankalp Mittal, Kotha Harshith, M. Krishna, Praveen Tammana

 

Improving Performance Bounds for Network min-Systems with Link Correlations

Jianwei An, Kui Wu, Cuiying Feng

 

S7: Performance Measurements

How Mature is 5G Deployment? A Cross-Sectional, Year-Long Study of 5G Uplink Performance

Imran Khan, Moinak Ghoshal, Joana Angjo, Sigrid Dimce, Mushahid Hussain, Paniz Parastar, Yenchia Yu, Claudio Fiandrino, Charalampos Orfanidis, Shivang Aggarwal, Ana Aguiar, Ozgu Alay, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Falko Dressler, Y. Charlie Hu, Steven Ko, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Joerg Widmer

 

Indoor Localization in Current 5G Networks: The Way to Go

Antonin Le Floch, Rahim Kacimi, Pierre Druart, Yoann Lefebvre, André-Luc Beylot

 

Experimenting with Ledbat++: Fairness, Flow Scalability and LBE Compliance

Ioanna Kapetanidou, Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Ioannis Zacharis, Marios Kostopoulos

 

Preprocess your Paths – Speeding up Linear Programming-based Optimization for Segment Routing Traffic Engineering

Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck

 

Optimizing Virtual Payment Channel Establishment in the Face of On-Path Adversaries

Lukas Aumayr, Esra Ceylan, Yannik Kopyciok, Matteo Maffei, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Iosif Salem, Stefan Schmid

 

S8: Machine Learning and Networking

CARTA: Coordinated Arrangement of Receivers for Target Acquisition

Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou

 

xeoverse: A Real-time Simulation Platform for Large LEO Satellite Mega-Constellations

Mohamed Kassem, Nishanth Sastry

 

Quantority: Parameter Prioritization for Incremental Updates of Convolutional Neural Networks in Small Satellite Missions

Olga Kondrateva, Stefan Dietzel, Björn Scheuermann

 

A Site-Specific LoRaWAN Parameters Selection Approach with Multi-loss Propagation Model

Shubham Pandey, Preti Kumari, Hari Gupta, Devashish Rai, S. Rao

 

Mapping Wireless Networks into Digital Reality through Joint Vertical and Horizontal Learning

Zifan Zhang, Mingzhe Chen, Zhaohui Yang, Yuchen Liu

 

S9: Resilient Networks

oFIQUIC: Leveraging QUIC in OSPF for seamless network topology changes

Nicolas Rybowski, Cristel Pelsser, Olivier Bonaventure

 

Practical Heavy-Hitter Detection Algorithms for Programmable Switches

Rani Abboud, Roy Friedman

 

Dynamic, Reconfigurable and Green Network Slice Admission Control and Resource Allocation in the O-RAN Using Model Predictive Control

Nikolaos Fryganiotis, Eleni Stai, Ioannis Dimolitsas, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Symeon Papavassiliou

 

Enabling User Intent-based Network Path Adaptation for Live Volumetric streaming

Peng Qian, Ning Wang, Chuan Foh, Carl Udora, Rahim Tafazolli

 

S10: Network Attack Detection and Mitigation

SSCL-IDS: Enhancing Generalization of Intrusion Detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning

Pegah Golchin, Nima Rafiee, Mehrdad Hajizadeh, Ahmad Khalil, Ralf Kundel, Ralf Steinmetz

 

Supervising Smart Home Device Interactions: A Profile-Based Firewall Approach

François De Keersmaeker, Ramin Sadre, Cristel Pelsser

 

Poisoning Attacks on Federated Learning-based Wireless Traffic Prediction

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Jiayuan Huang, Yuchen Liu

 

Inter-slice Defender: An Anomaly Detection Solution for Distributed Slice Mobility Attacks

Ricardo Ayala Molina, Nathalie Wehbe, Hyame Alameddine, Makan Pourzandi, Chadi Assi

 

RR: Resent Research Results

Cost-Aware Digital Twin Migration in Mobile Edge Computing via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Yuncan Zhang, Weifa Liang

 

Deduplicator: When Computation Reuse Meets Load Balancing at the Network Edge

Md Washik Al Azad, Spyridon Mastorakis

 

Pub/Sub meets MLS: End-to-End Encrypted Group Data Sharing over Publish-Subscribe

Kazuaki Ueda, Chikara Sasaki, Atsushi Tagami

 

Workload Prediction for Efficient Node Management in Mobile Edge Computing

Efthymios Oikonomou, Stefanos Plastras, Dimitrios Tsoumatidis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Angelos Rouskas

 

CoDel-ACT: Realizing CoDel AQM for Programmable Switch ASIC

Vedant Bothra, Aditya Peer, Vijay Singh, Mukulika Maity, Rinku Shah

 

Feasibility of Application Layer Header Parsing in eBPF and P4

Ashwin Kumar, Abhik Bose, Khushboo Tiwari, Arnav Mishra, Abhishek Dixit, Abuhujair Khan, Mythili Vutukuru

 

Do Cloud Games Adapt to Client Settings and Network Conditions?

Minzhao Lyu, Yifan Wang, Vijay Sivaraman

 

A First Look at 160 MHz WiFi 6/6E in Action: Performance and Interference Characterization

Moinak Ghoshal, Shravan Krishna, Francesco Gringoli, Joerg Widmer, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

 

Online Learning of Weakly Coupled MDP Policies for Load Balancing and Auto Scaling

Eshwar R, Lucas Lopes Felipe, Alexandre Reiffers-Masson, Daniel Menasché, Gugan Thoppe

 

Optimal Control for Distributed Wireless SDN

Quang Nguyen, Eytan Modiano

 

Through the Lens of Google CrUX: Dissecting Web Browsing Experience Across Devices and Countries

Jayasree Sengupta, Tanya Shreedhar, Robert Kramer, Vaibhav Bajpai

 

A Generic Blue Agent Training Framework for Autonomous Cyber Operations

Muhammad Omer Farooq, Thomas Kunz

 

Secrets are forever: Characterizing sensitive file leaks on IPFS

Zhengyu Wu, Brian Kondracki, Nick Nikiforakis, Aruna Balasubramanian

 

Charting Censorship Resilience and Global Internet Reachability: A Quantitative Approach

Marina Ivanović, François Wirz, Jordi Subirà Nieto, Adrian Perrig

 

Toward Global Latency Transparency

Cyrill Krähenbühl, Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei, Simon Scherrer, Matthias Frei, Adrian Perrig

 

RM-Gen: Conditional Diffusion Model-Based Radio Map Generation for Wireless Networks

Xuanhao Luo, Zhizhen Li, Zhiyuan Peng, Dongkuan Xu, Yuchen Liu

 

Distributed Predictive QoS in Automotive Environments under Concept Drift

Georgios Drainakis, Panagiotis Pantazopoulos, Konstantinos Katsaros, Vasilis Sourlas, Angelos Amditis, Dimitra Kaklamani

 

Collaborative Optimization of the Age of Information under Partial Observability

Anam Tahir, Kai Cui, Bastian Alt, Amr Rizk, Heinz Koeppl

 

Programmable Real-time Scheduling of Disaggregated Network Functions

Tamás Lévai, Balázs Vass, Gábor Rétvári

 

Exploring The Benefits of In-Band Service Routing

Emilia Weyulu, Dirk Trossen

 

T1: Tutorials

From Information Freshness to Semantics of Information and Goal-oriented Communications

Nikolaos Pappas

 

Enabling Online Reinforcement Learning Training for Open RAN

Andrea Lacava, Tommaso Pietrosanti, Michele Polese, Francesca Cuomo, Tommaso Melodia

 

DP: Demos & Posters

SWI-FEED: Smart Water IoT Framework for Evaluation of Energy and Data in Massive Scenarios

Antonino Pagano, Domenico Garlisi, Fabrizio Giuliano, Tiziana Cattai, Francesca Cuomo

 

Weather-Based Link Prediction for LEO-Satellite Networks using the WetLinks Dataset

Eric Lanfer, Dominic Laniewski, Daniel Otten, Nils Aschenbruck

 

Dynamic Connectivity Solutions: UAV Integration with 5G Networks

Jesús Pérez, Luis Diez, Johnny Choque, Luis Muñoz, Pedro Velasco, José Soldado

 

A Data-Driven Solution for Improving Transferability of Traffic Flow Feature Selection

Pegah Golchin, Nima Rafiee, Ralf Kundel

 

Securing 5G: Trusted Execution Environments for Centrally Controlled IPsec Integrity

Grazia Donghia, Flavio Ciravegna, Giacomo Bruno, Mattin Elorza Forcada, Antonio Pastor, Antonio Lioy

 

Latency-Aware Node Selection in Federated Learning

Rustem Dautov, Erik Johannes Husom

 

IOCRI: 2nd International Workshop on Impact of IT/OT Convergence on the Resilience of Critical Infrastructures (IOCRCI) 2024

Private Edge Computing Resource Allocation and Communication Optimization Based on Federated Learning

Ke Xiao, Jiaxin Wang, Zhenwei Yu, Chaofei Li, Feifei Gao

 

Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Load Balancing Algorithm for Multi-domain Software-Defined Networks

Robert Kołakowski, Slawomir Kuklinski, Lechosław Tomaszewski

 

Studying Slot Assignment for Multi-Gateway Time Scheduled Channel Access in LoRaWAN

Noah Mehling, Frank Loh, Simon Raffeck, Tobias Hoßfeld

 

Distributed Consensus through Network Support

David Guzman, Dirk Trossen, Jörg Ott

 

Evaluating Localization Algorithms in IoT Networks Under Jamming Attacks

Michael Savva, Iacovos Ioannou, Vasos Vassiliou

 

Resilience Assessment of Multi-Layered Cyber-Physical Systems

Romain Dagnas, Michel Barbeau, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Reda Yaich

 

SLICES: Thought experiments, data and reproducibility for networking and FutureG research (SLICES) 2024

Core QUIC: Enabling Dynamic, Implementation-Agnostic Protocol Extensions

Quentin De Coninck

 

An optimized Handover management scheme tailored for Heavy Hitters in a disaggregated 5G O-RAN architecture

Franci Gjeçi, Ilario Filippini, Antonio Capone

 

RO-Crate for Testbeds: Automated Packaging of Experimental Results

Eric Hauser, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle

 

slAIces: an LLM Chatbot for Simplifying Experiments with the SLICES-RI

Dimitris Kefalas, Sokratis Christakis, Serge Fdida, Nikos Makris, Ilias Syrigos, Virgilios Passas, Thanasis Korakis

 

Wireless Signal Source Localization by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using AERPAW Digital Twin and Testbed

Baisakhi Chatterjee, Sonali Chaudhari, Zhizhen Li, Yuchen Liu, Rudra Dutta

 

Towards Trustworthy Experimental Replication in SLICES-RI

Panayiotis Andreou, Artem Osmolovskiy, Panayiotis Hadjidemetriou, Serge Fdida

 

OpenAirLink: Reproducible Wireless Channel Emulation using Software Defined Radios

Yash Deshpande, Wolfgang Kellerer, Xianglong Wang

 

Design and Development of an IoT Smart Home and Smart Grid Testbed in a Residential Living Lab

Donatos Stavropoulos, Panagiotis Tzimotoudis, Thanasis Korakis

 

SmartWater: 1st International Workshop on Smart Water Management (SmartWater) 2024

Water Leak Detection and Classification using Multiple Sensors

Daniele Ugo Leonzio, Paolo Bestagini, Marco Marcon, Gian Paolo Quarta, Stefano Tubaro

 

Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption in Simulated LoRa Water Meter Reconfiguration vs. Real-world Readings

Michal Gorawski, Rafał Marjasz, Krzysztof Grochla, Artur Frankiewicz

 

UNet-WD: Deep Learning for Multi-Appliance Water Disaggregation

Redemptor Taloma, Danilo Comminiello, Patrizio Pisani, Francesca Cuomo

 

A Tool to Facilitate the Design of Smart Contracts in Smart Water Distribution Networks

Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Tiziana Cattai, Domenico Garlisi, Antonino Pagano, Themistoklis Sarantakos, Redemptor Taloma, Varvara Vythoulka, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Christos Zaroliagis

 

Tensor: 4th International Workshop on Time-Sensitive and Deterministic Networking (TENSOR) 2024

AI-based Dynamic Schedule Calculation in Time Sensitive Networks using GCN-TD3

Syed Tasnimul Islam, Anas Bin Muslim

 

Towards Domain-Specific Time-Sensitive Information-Centric Networking Architecture

Marcin Bosk, Jörg Ott

 

Provisioning of Time-Sensitive and non-Time-Sensitive Flows: from Control to Data Plane

Luis Velasco, Gianluca Graziadei, Youssef El Kaisi Rahmoun, Javier Villares, Olga Muñoz-Medina, Josep Vidal, Marc Ruiz

 

An east-westbound control architecture for multi-segment deterministic networking

Jakob Miserez, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Wouter Tavernier

 

Architecture and Methodology for Green MEC Services Using Programmable Data Planes in 5G and Beyond Networks

Jorge Brito, Jose Moreno, Luis Contreras, Marta Blanco Caamaño

 

Determinism in Industrial Converged Networks: Evaluating Approaches to Jitter Mitigation in 5G and TSN Integration

José Fontalvo-Hernández, Andreas Zirkler, Thomas Bauschert

 

TX4Nets: 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Networks (TX4Nets) 2024

Traffic Prediction- and Explainable Artificial Intelligence-based Dynamic Routing in Software-Defined Elastic Optical Networks

Róża Goścień

 

XAI for Interpretable Multimodal Architectures with Contextual Input in Mobile Network Traffic Classification

Francesco Cerasuolo, Idio Guarino, Vincenzo Spadari, Giuseppe Aceto, Antonio Pescapé

 

Navigating Explainable Privacy in Federated Learning

Chamara Sandeepa, Thulitha Senevirathna, Bartlomiej Siniarski, Shen Wang, Madhusanka Liyanage

 

XAI-Guided Optimization of a Multilayer Network Regression Model

Katarzyna Duszyńska, Paweł Polski, Michał Włosek, Aleksandra Knapińska, Piotr Lechowicz, Krzysztof Walkowiak

 

Reputation-based Trustworthiness Degree in Interference-variable Vehicular Networks

Claudia Leoni, Anna Maria Vegni, Valeria Loscrí, Abderrahim Benslimane

 

Federated Learning for Network Traffic Prediction

Sadananda Behera, Saroj Panda, Tania Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinas

 

XR&6GNet: Extended Reality (XR) and 6G Networks are Coming Closer: From Technical and Societal Challenges to Novel Solutions and Applications (XR&6GNet)

Quality of Service-Driven Overlapping Cooperative NOMA Scheme

Asmaa Amer, Sahar Hoteit, Jalel Ben Othman

 

Edge Service Caching with Delayed Hits and Request Forwarding to Reduce Latency

Sikha Deka, Radhika Sukapuram

 

Isochrons in Photonic Oscillators: A Paradigm Shift in Positioning

Alireza Famili, Georgia Himona, Yannis Kominis, Angelos Stavrou, Vassilios Kovanis