IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

20. CNSM 2024: Prague, Czech Republic

20th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, October 28 - 31, 2024

Pál Varga, Pavel Čeleda, Tim Wauters, Mauro Tortonesi, Jérôme François, Jaime Galán Jiménez

IFIP Open Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ISBN: 978-3-903176-66-9



Contents

NeSecOr workshop: Introduction and Short Papers

Lateral Movement Identification in Cross-Cloud Deployment

Kokthay Poeng, Laurent Schumacher

 

URL Evaluator: Semi-automatic evaluation of suspicious URLs from honeypots

Michaela Novotná, Václav Bartoš

 

MC1: IoT, Device Identification, and Security

Spotting the Hook: Leveraging Domain Data for Advanced Phishing Detection

Radek Hranicky, Adam Horák, Jan Polišenský, Ondřej Ondryáš, Kamil Jeřábek, Ondrej Rysavy

 

Big Brother is Watching You: Non-Intrusive ZigBee User Profiling

Katharina Müller, Delia Datsomor, Daria Schumm, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller

 

Improving Fault Device Identification Method using Alarm Clustering Approach

Yoichi Matsuo, Yuichi Suto, Yusuke Makino, Kazumichi Sato

 

Analyzing Privacy Implications of Mobile Apps Data Collection across Age Groups

Adamo Mariani, Matteo Liberato, Anna Sperotto, Antonia Affinito

 

Addressing Data Security in IoT: Minimum Sample Size and Denoising Diffusion Models for Improved Malware Detection

Chiara Camerota, Lorenzo Pappone, Tommaso Pecorella, Flavio Esposito

 

N: S1: NDT4IN workshop: Session 1

DTN-Core: Towards a framework for designing and operating digital twin networks

Majd Latah, Mathias Fischer

 

Exploiting The Efficient Data Modeling in Network Digital Twin To Empower Edge-Cloud Continuum

Syed Raza, Roberto Minerva, Noel Crespi, Maira Alvi, Manoj Herath, Hrishikesh Dutta

 

Challenges of Event-based Streaming and Queuing as Data Exchange for Network Digital Twins

Sebastian Rieger, Leon-Niklas Lux, Sven Schickentanz, David Hermann, Thomas Mott, Moritz Freund

 

Addressing the Scalability of Network Digital Twins: A Network Sampling Approach

Mounir Kellil, Siwar Ben Hadj Said, Minh-thuyen Thi, Christophe Janneteau, Alexis Olivereau

 

A:S1: AnServApp workshop: Core Network Autoscaling

Safe RL for Core Network autoscaling

Xinqi Long, Guillaume Fraysse

 

A: S2: AnServApp workshop: AI-Powered Network Applications and AI-Driven Network Configuration

Improving Real-Time Anomaly Detection using Multiple Instances of Micro-Cluster Detection

Rafael Copstein, Nur Zincir-Heywood, M. I. Heywood

 

Task Completion Time Prediction Scaled by Machine Learning Model Uncertainty

Shumpei Kawaguchi, Yuichi Ohsita, Masahisa Kawashima, Hideyuki Shimonishi

 

Automation of Network Configuration Generation using Large Language Models

Supratim Chakraborty, Nithin Chitta, Rajesh Sundaresan

 

Generating Commit Messages for Configuration Files in 5G Network Deployment Using LLMs

Beining Yang, Alassane Samba, Guillaume Fraysse, Sihem Cherrared

 

MC2: Network Performance and Optimization

Per-CCA Queueing

Yara Mulla, Isaac Keslassy

 

Parameterizing 5G New Radio: A Comparative Measurement Study on Throughput and Delay

Simon Raffeck, Sebastian Grøsvik, Stanislav Lange, Tobias Hoßfeld, Thomas Zinner, Stefan Geissler

 

Efficient Distributed Learning Over Lossy Wireless Networks

Emilio Paolini, Andrea Pinto, Luca Valcarenghi, Nicola Andriolli, Luca Maggiani, Flavio Esposito

 

Mitigating Measurement Failures in Throughput Performance Forecasting

Maria Ferreira, Silvio Ribeiro, Francisco Nobre, Maria Linhares, Thelmo de Araujo, Rafael Gomes

 

Minimizing Power Consumption under SINR Constraints for Cell-Free Massive MIMO in O-RAN

Vaishnavi Kasuluru, Luis Blanco, Miguel Vazquez, Cristian Vaca Rubio, Engin Zeydan

 

N: S2: NDT4IN workshop: Session 2

Securing Industrial Systems: A Testbed for Cyber-Defense Evaluation and Data Collection

Raffaele Cuorvo, Nicola d'Ambrosio, Domenico Iorio, Gaetano Perrone, Simon Pietro Romano

 

Real Time Reconstruction of Radio Environment Maps in Indoor Millimeter-Wave Beamforming with Beam Changes

Takumi Bushi, Kenji Ohira, Hideyuki Shimonishi, Toshiro Nakahira, Shoko Shinohara, Yusuke Asai

 

NeSecOr workshop: Network Security Management

Automating Network Perimeter Threat Prevention for Decentralized Network Administration

Nikolas Wintering, Eric Lanfer, Nils Aschenbruck

 

Cyber Situational Awareness in Vehicle Security Operations: Holistic Monitoring and a Data Model

Daniel Grimm, Moritz Zink, Marc Schindewolf, Eric Sax

 

Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Identity in 6G Non-Public Networks: Enhanced Security in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Abdullah Aydeger, Engin Zeydan

 

5GaaS: DLT and Smart Contract-Based Network Slice Management in a Decentralized Marketplace

Kurdman Rasol, Alfonso Egio, Miguel Catalan-Cid, Leonardo Lossi, Hélio Simeão, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui

 

A: S3: AnServApp workshop: Smart Systems and Future Directions in Network Technologies

Uncovering Common AI Challenges Across Industrial Domains in the Transition to Industry 5.0

Ruba ALmahasneh, Gergely Hollósi, Daniel Ficzere, Máté Bancsics, Csaba Lukovszki, Pál Varga

 

Smart City Digital Twins: A Modular and Adaptive Architecture for Real-Time Data-Driven Urban Management

Manoj Herath, Maira Alvi, Roberto Minerva, Hrishikesh Dutta, Noel Crespi, Syed Raza

 

Evaluating the Robustness of ADVENT on the VeReMi-Extension Dataset

Hamideh Baharlouei, Adetokunbo Makanju, Nur Zincir-Heywood

 

Link2Link: A Robust Probabilistic Routing Algorithm via Edge-centric Graph Reinforcement Learning

Jingli Zhou, Yuqian Song, Xinyuan Li, Wenli Zhou, Jun Liu

 

MC3: Data-Driven Methods and Machine Learning in Networking

Functional Linear Regression for the prediction of streaming video QoE

Jean Steve Tamo Tchomgui, Vincent Barriac, Guillaume Fraysse, Julien Jacques, Stephane Chretien

 

IoT Device and State Identification based on Usage Patterns

Jeffrey Adjei, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Biswajit Nandy, Nabil Seddigh

 

CRDT Web Caching: Enabling Distributed Writes and Fast Cache Consistency for REST APIs

Markus Sosnowski, Richard von Seck, Florian Wiedner, Georg Carle

 

OSR: Advancing Multi-Hop Routing for LoRaWAN Mesh Networks in Maritime Scenarios

Elgharbi Salah Eddine, Mauricio Iturralde, Yohan Dupuis, Alain Gaugue

 

Certainly Uncertain: Demystifying ML Uncertainty for Active Learning in Network Monitoring Tasks

Katharina Dietz, Mehrdad Hajizadeh, Nikolas Wehner, Stefan Geissler, Pedro Casas, Michael Seufert, Tobias Hoßfeld

 

I: S1: IWNC workshop: Session 1

Adaptive 360° Video Streaming over a Federated 6G Network: Experimenting In-Network Computing for Enhanced User Experience

Andrea Caruso, Giovanni Schembra, Christian Grasso, Juan Brenes, Pietro Giardina, Giada Landi, Leonardo Lossi, Gabriele Scivoletto

 

An Ontology-Based Model for In-Network Computing Components Description and Discovery

Zarin Tasnim, Mouhamad Dieye, Felipe Estrada-Solano, Roch Glitho, Halima Elbiaze, Wessam Ajib

 

NeSecOr workshop: Machine Learning and Intrusion Detection

Enhancing Adversarial Robustness of Anomaly Detection-Based IDS in OT Environments

Andreas Flatscher, Branka Stojanovic, Ozan Özdenizci

 

A Novel Malicious Intent Detection Approach in Intent-Based Enterprise Networks

Federica De Trizio, Giancarlo Sciddurlo, Dominga Rutigliano, Giuseppe Piro, Gennaro Boggia

 

Agree to Disagree: Exploring Consensus of XAI Methods for ML-based NIDS

Katharina Dietz, Mehrdad Hajizadeh, Johannes Schleicher, Nikolas Wehner, Stefan Geissler, Pedro Casas, Michael Seufert, Tobias Hoßfeld

 

Machine Learning in Intrusion Detection: An Operational Perspective

Martin Husák, Darshan Manoj, Priyanka Kumar

 

A: S4: AnServApp workshop: Short papers and concluding panel

Future Directions on Enhanced Positioning Services with Predictions for Smart Factories

Elham Dehghan Biyar, Ahmet Cihat Baktir, Deniz Cokuslu, Mehmet Yunus Dönmez

 

Green Network Traffic Engineering Using Segment Routing: an Experiment Report

Jacob Van Groningen, Chung-Horng Lung

 

EdgeVerse: Multi-User Virtual Reality via Edge Computing and eBPF

Okwudilichukwu Okafor, Flavio Esposito, Tommaso Pecorella

 

I: S2: IWNC workshop: Session 2

Indoor Radio Dot Placement Optimization using UE Positioning and K-Means Clustering

Johe Bousfield, Chung-Horng Lung, Betty Liu, Aroosh Elahi

 

The intrinsic convenience of federated learning in malware IoT detection

Chiara Camerota, Tommaso Pecorella, Andrew Bagdanov

 

QoE for Interactive Services in 5G Networks: Data-driven Analysis and ML-based Prediction

Stefania Zinno, Giuseppe Caso, Nicola Pasquino, Alessio Botta, Anna Brunstrom, Giorgio Ventre

 

MC4: Software-Defined Networking and Cloud Computing

A Practical Network Digital Twin for IGP Weight Optimization

Mohamed Zalat, Maede Davoudzade, Chris Barber, David Krauss, Babak Esfandiari, Thomas Kunz

 

Applicability of Hardware-Supported Containers in Low-Latency Networking

Alexander Daichendt, Florian Wiedner, Jonas Andre, Georg Carle

 

Lowcaf: A Low-Code Protocol Analysis Framework

Alexander Frank, Michael Steinke, Wolfgang Hommel

 

Budget-Aware Resource Pricing in Cloud and Edge Computing Continuum

Akram Boutouchent, Karim Boutiba, Adlen Ksentini

 

On-the-fly Table Insertions on Programmable Software Data Planes

Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle

 

Coordinated Sampling in SDNs with Dynamic Flow Rates

Soroosh Esmaeilian, Mahdi Dolati, Sogand Sadrhaghighi, Majid Ghaderi

 

FP1: Traffic Monitoring and Data Analysis

ResCue: Inferring Fine-Grained Traffic Matrices via Distributed Deep Residual Networks

Lorenzo Pappone, Cristian Zilli, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito

 

T-MAW: Online Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis using Weighted Stochastic Block Models

Maximilian Stephan, Johannes Zerwas, Wolfgang Kellerer

 

NetGlyph: Representation Learning to generate Network Traffic with Transformers

Gabin Noblet, Cédric Lefebvre, Philippe Owezarski, William Ritchie

 

FP2: Wireless Networks and Mobility Management

Mobility Management for Computation-Intensive Tasks in Cellular Networks with SD-RAN

Anna Prado, Zifan Ding, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer

 

Throughput-Constrained Antenna Sleep Management for Saving Power

Rie Tagyo, Hideaki Kinsho, Akihiro Shiozu, Kazuhisa Yamagishi

 

Signalling Load-aware Conditional Handover in 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks

Bohan Zhang, Mohammad Salahuddin, Peng Hu, Yunli Wang, Noura Limam, Bo Sun, Diogo Barradas, Raouf Boutaba

 

FP3: Network Performance and Optimization Techniques

Multi-Tenant Programmable Switch Virtualization Leveraging Explicit Resource Sharing

Ivan Lamb, Pedro Arthur Pinheiro Rosa Duarte, Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Jose Rodrigo Azambuja, Weverton Cordeiro

 

Optimizing Data Center Network Performance: A Comprehensive Analysis of Speed Testing, Caching, and Network Coding in Software Defined Networking

Souryendu Das, Jacob Adamson, Aaron Lee, Vedant Vaideswar, Stavros Kalafatis

 

Synchronization Control-Plane Protocol for Quantum Link Layer

Brandon Ru, Winston Seah, Alvin Valera

 

FP4: Resource Allocation and Optimization in Next-Gen Networks

Optimizing and Managing Wireless Backhaul for Resilient Next-Generation Cellular Networks

Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia, Leonardo Maccari

 

Multi-Objective Scheduling and Resource Allocation of Kubernetes Replicas Across the Compute Continuum

Nicola Di Cicco, Filippo Poltronieri, José Santos, Mattia Zaccarini, Mauro Tortonesi, Cesare Stefanelli, Filip De Turck

 

Centralized vs. Decentralized: A Hybrid Performance Model of the TSN Resource Allocation Protocol

David Raunecker, Stefan Geissler, Alexej Grigorjew, Philip Diederich, Wolfgang Kellerer, Tobias Hoßfeld

 

PoS1: Short paper session 1

High Complexity and Bad Quality? Efficiency Assessment for Video QoE Prediction Approaches

Frank Loh, Gulnaziye Bingol, Reza Farahani, Andrea Pimpinella, Radu Prodan, Luigi Atzori, Tobias Hoßfeld

 

Finding Key Nodes in Complex Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning and Multi Attention Node Connectivity

Kaili Wang, Wu Muqing, Min Zhao

 

Using Knowledge Graphs to Automate Network Compliance of Containerized Services

Aleksandra Simić, David Palma

 

EdgeRL: Reinforcement Learning-driven Deep Learning Model Inference Optimization at Edge

Motahare Mounesan, Xiaojie Zhang, Saptarshi Debroy

 

DL3: Adaptive Load Balancing for Latency-critical Edge Cloud Applications

Prashanth S, Ranjitha K, Ankit Sharma, Arjun Temura, Rinku Shah, Praveen Tammana

 

Causal AI for XRPL/GossipSub network configuration

Flaviene Scheidt de Cristo, Jean-Philippe Eisenbarth, Jorge Meira, Radu State

 

Early Detection of Network Service Degradation: An Intra-Flow Approach

Balint Bicski, Adrian Pekar

 

Admission Control and Embedding of Network Slices with Flexible VNF Order

Quang-Trung Luu, Minh-Thanh Nguyen, Nguyen Tai Hung, Michel Kieffer, Dinh Nguyen, Quang-Lap Luu, Trung-Toan Nguyen

 

MFWDD: Model-based Feature Weight Drift Detection Showcased on TLS and QUIC Traffic

Lukáš Jančička, Dominik Soukup, Josef Koumar, Filip Němec, Tomas Cejka

 

PoS1b: Poster Session

Impact of Time-Varying Traffic Type on the Performance of Multilayer Networks

Aleksandra Knapińska, Piotr Lechowicz, Krzysztof Walkowiak

 

WIF: Efficient Library for Network Traffic Analysis

Richard Plný, Karel Hynek, Pavel Šiška

 

FP5: AI and Machine Learning in Network Management

Reinforcement Learning-Driven Service Placement in 6G Networks across the Compute Continuum

Andres Ocampo Palacio, José Santos

 

ChronosGuard: A Hierarchical Machine Learning Intrusion Detection System for Modern Clouds

Miel Verkerken, José Santos, Laurens D'hooge, Tim Wauters, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck

 

Generative AI for low-level NETCONF configuration in network management based on YANG models

Gergely Hollósi, Daniel Ficzere, Pál Varga

 

DeS1: Demo session 1

ThreatFinderAI: Automated Threat Modeling Applied to LLM System Integration

Jan von der Assen, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Jamo Sharif, Chao Feng, Gérôme Bovet, Burkhard Stiller

 

Network Digital Twin for IGP Weight Optimization Demo

Mohamed Zalat, Maede Davoudzade, Chris Barber, David Krauss, Babak Esfandiari, Thomas Kunz

 

Demonstration of Automation of Network Configuration Generation using Generative AI

Supratim Chakraborty, Nithin Chitta, Rajesh Sundaresan

 

Enabling Quality-on-Demand and Service Differentiation on a Novel Network-as-a-Service Platform Using Slicing Technology for Control and Management of Optical Networks

Hesam Rahimi, Lluis Gifre Renom, Ricard Vilalta, Raul Muñoz, Henry Yu, Yanpeng Wang, Ruilin Cai, Christopher Janz

 

Real-Time Demonstration of Low-Latency Video Delivery via Hybrid Unicast-Broadcast Networks

Casper Haems, Jeroen van der Hooft, Hannes Mareen, Peter Steenkiste, Glenn Van Wallendael, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck

 

The Evolution of the CRUSOE Toolset: Enhancing Decision Support in Network Security Management

Martin Husák, Lukáš Sadlek, Martin Hesko, Vít Šebela, Stanislav Špaček

 

P4-MTAGG - a Framework for Multi-Tenant P4 Network Devices

Fabian Brisch, Andreas J. Kassler, Sándor Laki, Péter Hudoba

 

NAPlr: Multi-Gigabit Internet Access Profiling in Web Browser

Péter Orosz, Tamas Marosits, Tamas Skopko

 

Assessing Application-Level Network Neutrality Using Digital Twins

Péter Orosz, Tamas Marosits, Tamas Skopko

 

Integrating Deterministic Networking with 5G

Yash Deshpande, Philip Diederich, Muhamad Luthfi, Laura Becker, José Fontalvo-Hernández, Wolfgang Kellerer

 

FP6: Network Security and Intrusion Detection

Glossy Mirrors: On the Role of Open Resolvers in Reflection and Amplification DDoS Attacks

Ramin Yazdani, Max Resing, Anna Sperotto

 

5GProvGen: 5G Provenance Dataset Generation Framework

Amr Abouelkhair, Kiarash Majdi, Noura Limam, Mohammad Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba

 

ID-INT: Secure Inter-Domain In-Band Telemetry

Lars-Christian Schulz, David Hausheer

 

PoS2: Short paper session 2

QoE Models for Virtual Reality Cloud-based First Person Shooter Game over Mobile Networks

Henrique Rossi, Karan Mitra, Christer Åhlund, Irina Cotanis

 

Resource-Efficient Implementation of Multiple Concurrent Tree-Based Models in P4 Switches using Feature Sharing

Oleg Karandin, Aleix Lahoz, Nicola Di Cicco, Francesco Musumeci, Massimo Tornatore

 

Feature Name Decoration Enhanced Router Performance Prediction by a Large Language Model

Kyota Hattori, Tomohiro Korikawa, Chikako Takasaki

 

Hierarchical Modeling of Cyber Assets in Kill Chain Attack Graphs

Lukáš Sadlek, Martin Husák, Pavel Celeda

 

Quantized In-band Network Telemetry for Low Bandwidth Overhead Monitoring

Chanbin Bae, Kyeongtak Lee, Heewon Kim, Seongyeon Yoon, Junkyu Hong, Sangheon Pack, DongJin Lee

 

Uncovering Secrets of Microbursts in Datacenter Network Traffic

Mohammad Hosseini, Sina Darabi, Mohammad Nakhjiri, Patrick Eugster

 

Is a Name Enough? A First Look into Detecting Clouds Using DNS Pointer Records

Sousan Tarahomi, Raffaele Sommese, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Jeroen Linssen, Ralph Holz, Anna Sperotto

 

Experience Report: Using JA4+ Fingerprints for Malware Detection in Encrypted Traffic

Petr Matoušek, Ondrej Rysavy, Ivana Burgetová

 

In-network real-time flow classification using hierarchical decision trees

Teodor Karkashina, Awais Shah, Dimitrios Pezaros

 

Enhancing Bandwidth Utilization for Video Streaming with Packet Trimming in 6G

Stuart Clayman, Muge Sayit, David Griffin, Miguel Rio

 

FP7: Web and Internet Performance

Impact of DANE on Webpage Load Time

Kota Yagi, Katsuki Isobe, Daishi Kondo, Hideki Tode

 

A First Look at User-Installed Residential Proxies From a Network Operator's Perspective

Etienne Khan, Elisa Chiapponi, Martijn Verkleij, Anna Sperotto, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos

 

Data Pipeline System Designs for In-network Learning

Patient Ntumba, Nour El Houda Yellas, Salah Bin-ruba, Fehmi Abdesslem, Stefano Secci