9th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization
19–23 June 2023 // Madrid, Spain
Boosting Future Networks through Advanced Softwarization

Technical Sessions

Tuesday     Wednesday     Thursday

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

TS1 - Softwarized cloud and edge (Chair: Alexander Clemm)

 

Energy Optimization of Distributed Video Processing System using Genetic Algorithm with Bayesian Attractor Model

Hideyuki Shimonishi; Masayuki Murata; Go Hasegawa; Nattaon Techasarntikul

 

A Multi-Hop-Aware User To Edge-Server Association Game

Youcef Kardjadja; Alan Tsang; Mohamed Ibnkahla; Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

 

X-IO: A High-performance Unified I/O Interface using Lock-free Shared Memory Processing

Shixiong Qi; Han-Sing Tsai; Yu-Sheng Liu; K. K. Ramakrishnan; Jyh-Cheng Chen

 

MANTRA: an Edge-Computing Framework based on Multi-Armed Bandit for Latency- and Energy-aware Job Offloading in Vehicular Networks

Fabio Busacca; Sergio Palazzo; Raoul Raftopoulos; Giovanni Schembra

 

TS2 - NFV and SFC (Chair: Christian E. Rothenberg)

 

RESCue: A State-Disaggregated NFV System with Resilience, Elasticity, and State Consistency

Hao Jiang; Hyunseok Chang; Sarit Mukherjee; Jacobus Van der Merwe

 

Experimental demonstration of NFV deployment with RPi and MAAS

Movsun Kuy; Laurent Schumacher; Sokchenda Sreng

 

Dynamic and Mobility-Aware VNF Placement in 5G-Edge Computing Environments

Juan Lucas Vieira; Anselmo Luiz Éden Battisti; Evandro Luiz Cardoso Macedo; Paulo F. Pires; Debora Muchaluat-Saade; Flávia Coimbra Delicato; Ana Oliveira

 

Energy Efficient VNF Forwarding Graph Embedding via Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning

Omar Houidi; Oussama Soualah; Ines Houidi

 

SS1 - Softwarized edge computing (Chair: Federica Paganelli)

 

Don't Let Me Down! Offloading Robot VFs Up to the Cloud

Khasa Gillani; Jorge Martín-Pérez; Milan Groshev; Antonio de la Oliva; Robert Gazda

 

Edge Service Caching for Service Function Chains

Radhika Sukapuram; Sikha Deka

 

Towards Mobility Management in MEC Simulation

Paulo J. Araujo; Helena Fernández López; João Faria; Alexandre Santos

 

A Bandit Approach to Online Pricing for Heterogeneous Edge Resource Allocation

Jiaming Cheng; Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen; Lele Wang; Duong Tung Nguyen; Vijay Bhargava

 

SS2 - Softwarized cloud computing (Chair: Chrysa Papagianni)

 

Performance costs for IPv6-based mobility management on the top of Kubernetes

Akos Leiter; Pal Boosy; Laszlo Bokor; Milan Kis

 

Precise Turbo Frequency Tuning and Shared Resource Optimisation for Energy-Efficient Cloud Native Workloads

Paul Veitch; Chris MacNamara; John J Browne

 

Comparison of Virtual Machines and Bare Metal for CNFs at Resource-Constrained Network Edge

Paul Veitch; Adam Broadbent; Arsham Farshad

 

Data Labeling for Fault Detection in Cloud: A Test Suite-Based Active Learning Approach

Prateek Bagora; Amin Ebrahimzadeh; Fetahi Wuhib; Roch Glitho

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

TS3 - AI/ML and Networking (Chair: Fábio Verdi)

 

DRL-based Service Migration for MEC Cloud-Native 5G and beyond Networks

Theodoros Tsourdinis; Nikos Makris; Serge Fdida; Thanasis Korakis

 

Transfer Learning-Based QoE Estimation For Different Cloud Gaming Contexts

Marcos Carvalho; Daniel H. C M. Soares; Daniel Fernandes Macedo

 

Predicting XR Services QoE with ML: Insights from In-band Encrypted QoS Features in 360-VR

Md Tariqul Islam; Christian Esteve Rothenberg; Pedro Henrique Gomes

 

Domain Adaptation of Reinforcement Learning Agents based on Network Service Proximity

Kaushik Dey; Satheesh Kumar Perepu; Pallab Dasgupta; Abir Das

 

XAI-Enabled Fine Granular Vertical Resources Autoscaler

Mohamed Mekki; Bouziane Brik; Adlen Ksentini; Christos Verikoukis

 

TS4 - Dataplane programmability (Chair: Elisa Rojas)

 

P4-LISP: A P4-Based High-Performance Router for the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol

Benjamin Steinert; Marco Häberle; Jan-Oliver Nick; Dino Farinacci; Michael Menth

 

Providing Fine-grained Network Metrics for Monitoring Applications using In-band Telemetry

Henrique B Brum; Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos; Tiago Ferreto

 

State4: State-preserving Reconfiguration of P4-programmable Switches

Chenxing Ji; Fernando A. Kuipers

 

In-situ Proof-of-Transit for Path-Aware Programmable Networks

Everson Scherrer Borges; Vitor Berger Bonella; Abraão Jesus dos Santos; Gabriel Tetzner Menegueti; Cristina Klippel Dominicini; Magnos Martinello

 

SS3 - Network softwarization for 5G/6G (Chair: Luis M. Contreras)

 

Distributed Timeslot Allocation in mMTC Network by Magnitude-Sensitive Bayesian Attractor Model

Tatsuya Otoshi; Masayuki Murata; Hideyuki Shimonishi; Tetsuya Shimokawa

 

Preventing Cross Network Slice Disruptions in a Zero-Trust and Multi-Tenant Future 5G Networks

Shwetha Vittal; Unnati Dixit; Siddhesh Pratim Sovitkar; K Sowjanya; Antony Franklin A

 

Towards Energy Efficient Functional Split and Baseband Function Placement for 5G RAN

Nabhasmita Sen; Antony Franklin A

 

Mobile Network Slicing under Demand Uncertainty: A Stochastic Programming Approach

Anousheh Gholami, Nariman Torkzaban; John S. Baras

 

SS4 - AI/ML and Networking (Chair: Alessio Sacco)

 

Adaptive Services Function Chain orchestration For Digital Health Twin Use Cases: Heuristic-boosted Q-Learning Approach

Jamila Alsayed Kassem; Li Zhong; Arie Taal; Paola Grosso

 

Quantum Neural Networks driven Stochastic Resource Optimization for Metaverse Data Marketplace

Mahzabeen Emu; Salimur Choudhury; Kai Salomaa

 

Adaptive Retraining of AI/ML Model for Beyond 5G Networks: A Predictive Approach

Gudepu Venkateswarlu; Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli; Piero Castoldi; Luca Valcarenghi; Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma; Koteswararao Kondepu

 

Global QoS Policy Optimization in SD-WAN

Tran Anh Quang Pham; Jeremie Leguay; Xu Gong; Huiying Xu

 

 

 

Thursday, June 22, 2023

TS5 - SDN, Performance & Orchestration (Chair: Giovanni Schembra)

 

Link Quality Estimation in Wireless Software Defined Network with a Reliable Control Plane

Farzad Veisi; Julien Montavont; Fabrice Theoleyre

 

Hierarchical Control Plane Framework for Multi-Domain TSN Orchestration

Sushmit Bhattacharjee; Konstantinos Alexandris; Thomas Bauschert

 

Deep Reinforcement Learning Edge Workload Orchestrator for Vehicular Edge Computing

Eliana Neuza Pinheiro Rodrigues Gordino da Silva; Fernando M. Silva

 

DRL-FORCH: A Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Fog Computing Orchestrator

Nicola Di Cicco; Gaetano Francesco Pittalà; Gianluca Davoli; Davide Borsatti; Walter Cerroni; Carla Raffaelli; Massimo Tornatore

 

SS5 - AI/ML for Network Security (Chair: Carlos J. Bernardos)

 

Phish Me If You Can - Lexicographic Analysis and Machine Learning for Phishing Websites Detection with PHISHWEB

Lucas Torrealba; Pedro Casas; Javier Bustos-Jiménez; Germán Capdehourat; Mislav Findrik

 

A Feature Selection Approach Towards the Standardization of Network Security Datasets

Ricardo Flores Moyano; Alejandro Duque; Daniel A Riofrio; Diego Benitez; Noel Perez Noel Pérez; Maria Baldeon Calisto; David Fernández

 

SS6 - Dataplane programmability (Chair: Prosper Chemouil)

 

Toward Highly Reliable Programmable Data Planes: Verification of P4 Code Generation

Csaba Györgyi; Sándor Laki; Stefan Schmid

 

QoEyes: Towards Virtual Reality Streaming QoE Estimation Entirely in the Data Plane

Francisco Germano Vogt; Fabricio E Rodriguez Cesen; Ariel Goes de Castro; Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli; Christian Esteve Rothenberg; Gergely Pongrácz

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