21. cnsm 2025: Bologna, Italy
21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, cnsm 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 27 - 31, 2025
Walter Cerroni, Mauro Tortonesi, Davide Borsatti, Alberto Egon Schaeffer-Filho, Daphné Tuncer, Jérôme François, Martin Husák
IFIP Open Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ISBN: 978-3-903176-75-1
Note - CNSM 2025 main conference session acronyms:
- MCn: Mini Conference Session n
- FPn: Full Papers Session n
- SPn: Short Papers Session n
- PDn: Poster and Demo Session n
Contents
MC1: Intrusion Detection & Botnets
Van-Tien Nguyen, Renzo Navas, Guillaume Doyen
IoT Botnet Detection with Drift-Aligned Learning and DNS-Based C2 Identification
Jeffrey Adjei, Nur Zincir-Heywood, M. I. Heywood, Biswajit Nandy, Nabil Seddigh
Bot ahead! - Proactive Botnet Defense in ISP Networks using Digital Twins
Christian Dietz, Marcel Antzek, Gabi Dreo Rodosek
Assrar Maamary, Hyame Alameddine, Chadi Assi, Mourad Debbabi
PhD S1: PhD Symposium - Session 1
Toward Dynamic Frequency Planning for Reliable Connectivity in Mobile 6G in-X Subnetworks
Valentin Haider, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer
Generative Adversarial Models for Vehicular Dynamics Prediction in V2X Networks
Giuseppe Perrone, Claudio Casetti, Marco Rapelli
Machine Learning for Performance Optimization in Resource-Constrained Environments
Edoardo Di Caro, Mauro Tortonesi
I: S1: IWNC workshop: Towards Smarter and More Efficient Open RAN
HawkVision: Network Coding in O-RAN
Osel Lhamo, Omer hanif Khan, Tung Doan, Elif Tasdemir, Giang Nguyen, Frank Fitzek
Towards Adaptive PRB Optimization in Open RAN via Near-Real-Time RIC Control
Suneet Singh, Dalibor Zeman, Marija Gajić, Stanislav Lange, Thomas Zinner
R: S1: RLAN workshop: Session 1
QoS-Aware Dynamic CU Selection in O-RAN with Graph-Based Reinforcement Learning
Sebastian Racedo, Brigitte Jaumard, Oscar Delgado, Meysam Masoudi
Routing-Aware RL for Mobile Relay Navigation in Disconnected Ad Hoc Networks
Can Karaçelebi, Ertan Onur, Yusuf Sahin
A: S1: AnServApp workshop: Detection of Device Dependencies
Fast and Configurable Detection of Device Dependencies in Network Traffic
Jakub Dusil, Martin Husák, Lukáš Sadlek
A: S2: AnServApp workshop: Graph models and LLMs in network management
Structural Vulnerability of Greedy Routing in Hyperbolic Embedded Networks
Daniel Ficzere, András Majdán, Gergely Hollósi, Pál Varga, Jozsef Biro
Beyond TimeGraph: A Comparative Analysis of Temporal Generators for Evolving Network Graphs
Edoardo Di Caro, Nicolas Belletti, Filippo Poltronieri, Mauro Tortonesi, Cesare Stefanelli
Lucas Torrealba, Pedro Casas, Diego García, Javier Bustos-Jiménez, Ivana Bachmann
MC2: Security Ops, Evasion & Threat Infrastructure
A first look at the adoption of BGP-based DDoS scrubbing services: A 5-year longitudinal analysis
Shyam Khadka, Suzan Bayhan, Ralph Holz, Saeedeh Shokoohi, Marinho Barcellos, Cristian Hesselman
HideMe: Hiding VMs from Co-Residency Attacks Using Network-Level Traffic Redirection
Bogdan-Nicolae Stănculete, Raffaele Sommese
Sousan Tarahomi, Raffaele Sommese, Jeroen Linssen, Ralph Holz, Anna Sperotto
PhD S2: PhD Simposium - Session 2
Slicing Under Siege: Adversarial-Aware Optimization for Secure Resource Allocation in B5G Networks
Sameer Ali, Helena Rifà-Pous
Enforcing Security Policies in the Application Layer and the Data Plane
Federico Rinaudi, Alessio Sacco, Guido Marchetto
Audit Compliance and Forensics Frameworks for Complex, Large-Scale ICT Systems
Joao Henriques, Filipe Caldeira, Tiago Cruz, Paulo Simões
R: S2: RLAN workshop: Session 2
Towards a Hybrid Hierarchical Digital Twin Architecture for the 6G Compute Continuum
José Santos, Javad Sameri, Sam Van Damme, Susanna Schwarzmann, Qing Wei, Riccardo Trivisonno, Maria Torres Vega, Filip De Turck
Decentralized Intelligence for Centralized Control: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for SD-WAN
Elshan Khanlari, Luca Borgianni, Davide Adami, Stefano Giordano
Verifying Behavior of Reinforcement Learning Agents for Network Slice Admission Control
Jean Pierre Asdikian, Alaa Amro, Louma Mehyeddine, Carlos Natalino, Ihab Sbeity, Guido Maier, Paolo Monti, Sebastian Troia, Omran Ayoub
I: S2: IWNC workshop: Towards Predictive Networking: ML for Future Services
A Lightweight Deep Learning Approach for Latency Prediction in 5G and Beyond
Stefania Zinno, Annalisa Navarro, Sayna Rotbei, Nicola Pasquino, Alessio Botta, Giorgio Ventre
Benedetta Picano, Tommaso Pecorella
Enhancing Data Offloading in Urban Networks via Machine Learning-based Mobility Prediction
Ilaria Mangiacapra, Paulo Carvalho, Antonio Montieri, Antonio Pescapé, Emanuel Lima, Solange Rito Lima
D: S1: Decode workshop: Session 1
Intercompany Business Transaction Platform Architecture: Concept and Design
Attila Frankó, Adam Mate, Pál Varga
A: S3: AnServApp workshop: AI-driven Service Management
Using Network Digital Twin Visualization for Application Traffic Engineering
Felix Stumpf, Leon-Niklas Lux, Sebastian Rieger
An Empirical Study of a PCA-Based Multivariate Framework for Interpretable Log Anomaly Detection
Jiri Setinsky, Martin Zadnik
Investigating Neurosymbolic AI for Intent-based Service Management
Lorenzo Colombi, Sara Cavicchi, Filippo Poltronieri, Mauro Tortonesi, Cesare Stefanelli, Pál Varga
MC3: Cloud/Edge Orchestration & Service Function Chains
Solomon Wassie, Eric Samikwa, Antonio Di Maio, Torsten Braun
Akshit Kumar, Venkatarami Chintapalli, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, C. Siva Ram Murthy
Javad Sameri, José Santos, Sam Van Damme, Susanna Schwarzmann, Qing Wei, Riccardo Trivisonno, Filip De Turck, Maria Torres Vega
Too Remote to Be Local: Latency Inflation in Anycast due to Remote Peering
Remi Hendriks, Stefano Servillo, Francesca Cuomo, Cristian Hesselman, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Savvas Kastanakis
Q: QoDaNet workshop
Botnet Detection Through Periodic Patterns in Command-and-Control Network Traffic
Dominik Oškera, Josef Koumar, Alžběta Pokorná, Kamil Jeřábek, Tomas Cejka
Experiments with reduction of network datasets for DDoS analysis
Veronika Krobotova, Martin Zadnik, Ondrej Sedlacek
Replication: Network-based Lateral Movement Detection Methods Using Machine Learning
Vladimír Bouček, Martin Husák
CESNET Idle OS Traffic: A Dataset of Idle Traffic of Various Operating Systems
Václav Bartoš, Michaela Novotná, Matej Hulák
Enhancing DDoS Detection: A Novel Real-World Dataset for Generalizable Cross-Domain Training
Balázs Nagy, Péter Orosz, Katica Bozsó, Tamas Skopko
I: S3: IWNC workshop: Architecting Sustainable Edge-Cloud Networks
Engin Zeydan, Abdullah Aydeger
In-network Split Inference with Named Data Networking under Lossy Edge Connectivity
Marica Amadeo, Claudia Campolo, Antonella Molinaro, Giuseppe Ruggeri
On performance modeling for the management of Cloud-native Network Functions in closed-loops
Toni Dimitrovski, Belma Turkovic, Aditya Ganesh, Timothy Lynar, Hans van den Berg, Geert Heijenk
A: S2: Decode workshop: Session 2
Giray Havur, Tassilo Pellegrini, Gottfried Schenner, Francesco Fusco
Christoph Fabianek, Christoph Klikovits, Markus Tauber, Belal Abu Naim, Michael Boch, Martin Benedikt
Exploring the Design Space and Research Directions for Digital Product Passport Systems
Stefan Kaser, Christian Lesjak, Rainer Matischek, Christian Steger
A: S4: AnServApp workshop: Cloud Networking, Orchestration, and Architectural Security
Bridging Time-Sensitive Networking and Containerization: Challenges and Strategies
Rodrigo Martins, Duarte Raposo, Rui Eduardo Lopes, Pedro Veloso Teixeira, Susana Sargento
A Microservice-Based Framework for Multi-Domain SDN Orchestration through Controller Decomposition
Yasin Saedi, Gianluca Davoli, Domenico Scotece, Carla Raffaelli, Walter Cerroni, Luca Foschini
MC4: VNF & 5G/6G Performance and Scheduling
A Proactive Performance Prediction Framework for Virtual Network Functions in 5G Networks
Milad Rafiee, Andres Ocampo Palacio, Amir Taherkordi, Ozgu Alay
5G Configured Grant Scheduling for Integrated Sensing and Communication in Vehicular Networks
Veerendra Kumar Gautam, Priyanka Nagireddy, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, C. Siva Ram Murthy
A Robust Scheduling of Cyclic Traffic for Integrated Wired and Wireless Time-Sensitive Networks
Özgür Ozan Kaynak, Andreas Kassler, Andreas Fischer, Ognjen Dobrijevic, Fabio D'Andreagiovanni
QR-MO: Q-Routing for Multi-Objective Shortest-Path Computation in 5G-MEC Systems
Annisa Sarah, Rosario Garroppo, Gianfranco Nencioni
I: S4: IWNC workshop: Advanced Techniques for Network Analysis, Detection, and Optimization
Design and Evaluation of CNN-Based versus Statistical, Neural Network NLOS Detection in UWB Systems
Marcel Scheel, Sven Ole Schmidt, Horst Hellbrück
Steady and Transient State Analysis of CUBIC Congestion Control with FQ-CoDel and FQ-PIE
Deepa Kumari, Suvam Mukherjee, Vivek Jain, Mohit Tahiliani
Novel Datasets and Traffic Generation Tools for Intrusion Detection in IoT Communications
Giovanni Stanco, Stefania Zinno, Pietro Violante, Alessio Botta, Giorgio Ventre
FP1: Communication Protocols
Noisy Neighbours: Keep the Neighbourhood Quiet
Ebrima Jaw, Thomas Krenc, Moritz Müller, Kimberly Claffy, Lambert Nieuwenhuis, Cristian Hesselman
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, Muriel Médard
Tailai Song, Michela Meo
PD1: Poster and Demo Session 1
Demo: Design and Implementation of Hierarchical Cross-Domain Orchestration Using TeraFlowSDN
Anouar El Hachimi, Aryanaz Attarpour, Gabriele Nanni, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Sebastian Troia, Andrea Sgambelluri, Emilio Paolini, Massimo Tornatore, Francesco Musumeci
P4-Based Emulation of LoWPAN and RPL Networks for Aviation Telemetry and Communication
Tiago Souza, Augusto Neto, Ramon dos Reis Fontes, Denis Rosário, Eduardo Cerqueira, Paulo Mendes
Zero-Lag Smart Pipes for Smart Factories: AI-Driven Programmable Transport in Open RAN
Flávio Rocha, Kleber Cardoso, Murillo Melo, Jonathas dos Santos, Lorenzo Chiachio, Vlademir Brusse, Fábio Verdi, Leandro Almeida, Cristiano Both, Andre Cavalcante, Maria Marquezini, Pedro Henrique Gomes
Umar Toseef, Bartłomiej Kozicki, Dragan Samardzija
Design of Resilient Mobile Core Network Architecture Inspired by Soft Guarantee Behavior
Masayuki Kurata, Ryu Watanabe, Masaki Suzuki
Feature Skew Control for In-Network Federated Learning
Yasmine Chaouche, Patient Ntumba, Pedro Velloso, Stefano Secci
A Protocol-Based Framework for AIaaS Lifecycle Management in 6G via NWDAF
Junia Oliveira, Daniel Macedo, Jose Nogueira
FP2: Learning
Assessing the Sustainability and Trustworthiness of Federated Learning Models
Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Lynn Zumtaugwald, Gérôme Bovet, Burkhard Stiller
Irreconcilable Differences? Investigating Consensus of Post-hoc XAI for ML-NIDS via Decomposition
Katharina Dietz, Johannes Schleicher, Stefan Geissler, Michael Seufert, Tobias Hoßfeld
Choose Before You Label: Efficient Node Selection in Constrained Federated Learning
Francesco Malandrino, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Jayadev Naram, Giuseppe Durisi
FP3: Network Monitoring
TSGFM - Graph Neural Networks for Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting in Network Monitoring
Hamid Latif Martínez, Juan Vanerio, Pedro Casas, José Suárez-Varela, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Pere Barlet Ros
Gustavo Henrique Einsfeldt, Alberto Schaeffer-Filho
Age-based CoDel and his friends. Improving the Linux scheduler with 2-level AQM disciplines
Giovanni Moschini, Andrea Marin, Leonardo Maccari
90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield
Raffaele Sommese, Anna Sperotto, Antonio Prado, Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos, Antonia Affinito
FP4: IoT and the Edge
Faraz Shaikh, Gianluca Reali, Mauro Femminella
Henrique Rossi, Karan Mitra, Niclas Ögren, Christer Åhlund, Per Johansson
Traffic-aware Time of Day Breakpoints for Traffic Light Optimization at Scale with Probe Data
Ori Rottenstreich, Eliav Buchnik, Shai Ferster, Tom Kalvari, Avishai Zagoury, Jack Haddad, Avinatan Hassidim
Learning Semantic Congestion Control for Cyber Physical Systems
Polina Kutsevol, Yash Deshpande, Wolfgang Kellerer
PD2: Poster and Demo Session 2
DroidScour: an Android Application for IoT Device Data Collection
Brenda Schussler, Abdul Jamali, Weverton Cordeiro, Carol Fung
HawkV6: Application-Specific Traffic Steering with Intent-Based Networking and SRv6
Severin Dellsperger, Daniel Politze
OPTIMUMP2P Demo: Fast and Reliable Gossiping in P2P Networks
Kishori Konwar, Aayush Rajasekaran, Har Preet Singh, Muriel Médard, Santiago Paiva, Alejandro Bergasov, Nicolas Nicolaou
What's Behind 'Sorry, I Lagged': Correlating Wi-Fi Metrics with Online Gaming Latency
Nicolas Marrot, Minqi Wang, Susie Brunessaux, Maël Le Dizes, Loutfi Nuaymi
CESNET TS-Zoo: A Library for Reproducible Analysis of Network Traffic Time Series
Milan Kureš, Josef Koumar, Karel Hynek
The Path Towards a Criticality-Sensitive Smart City
Rui Eduardo Lopes, Duarte Raposo, Rodrigo Martins, Diogo Mendes, Susana Sargento
A demonstration of an autonomous approach for cyberattack mitigation
Francesco Pizzato, Daniele Bringhenti, Riccardo Sisto, Fulvio Valenza
FP5: Resource Management
Power-Napping Networks: Towards Practically Usable Green Segment Routing for ISP Backbones
Daniel Otten, Alexander Brundiers, Leonhard Brüggemann, Nils Aschenbruck
Adaptive control policies for Core Network autoscaling with Meta-RL
Shantanu Verma, Abhishek Gupta, Jatinder Singh, José Sánchez Vilchez, Guillaume Fraysse
Resource Allocation for Satellite QKD Networks with Atmospheric Forecast
Sun Gyu Park, Qiaolun Zhang, Raul Almeida Jr, Mehdi Bolourian, Massimo Tornatore, Raouf Boutaba
FP6: Virtualization and Programmability
Digital Twin and LLM Assisted Online Diagnosis in Microservices Based Enterprise Systems
Sourav Das, Krishna Kant
LCDN: Providing Network Determinism with Low-Cost Switches
Philip Diederich, Yash Deshpande, Laura Becker, David Raunecker, Alexej Grigorjew, Tobias Hoßfeld, Wolfgang Kellerer
GPG-VNFE: Towards Foundation Models via Graph Pretraining for Generalizable VNF Embedding
Omar Houidi, Nour El Houda Yellas, Oussama Soualah, Djamal Zeghlache
FP7: Security
Exploiting Congestion Control Parameter Manipulation in QUIC for Security Implications
Y A Joarder, Surajit Sinha, Guillaume Doyen, Carol Fung
Rafael Carneiro Pregardier, Luiz Cabral Bianchi, Vinicius Fulber-Garcia, Burkhard Stiller, Luis Silva, Carlos Raniery Santos
Characterizing Hosting and Security Practices for Public-Facing LDAP Servers
Gustavo Cesar, Gurur Öndarö, Jonas Kaspereit, Fabian Ising, Sebastian Schinzel, Mattijs Jonker, Ralph Holz
PD3: 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, Fabio Lombardi
Taming Trillions of Events: Automated Security Telemetry Analysis at Scale
Daniel Tovarňák, Matúš Raček, Martin Gregorík, Martin Hamerník, Michal Čech
Experimental Validation of MLOps for Automated Service Provisioning in Optical Networks
Carlos Hernández-Chulde, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martinez
NFVAgent: A Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agent for Resilient NFV Failure Recovery
Yeunjin Woo, Honguk Woo
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Wi-Fi Networks using RFFI
Xinyi Li, Samer Lahoud, Nur Zincir-Heywood
xBGPsec: Enhancing BGP Security with Transitive Signatures and External Validation
Nils Höger, Cristian Hesselman, Moritz Müller, Savvas Kastanakis
SP1: Short Paper Session 1
Flow-Rule Generation for SDN Using LLMs with Retry-Based Deployment Validation
Anouar El Hachimi, Nicola Di Cicco, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Francesco Musumeci, Massimo Tornatore
Taming Bandwidth Bottlenecks in Federated Learning via ECN-based Gradient Compression
Javier Palomares, Chiara Camerota, Flavio Esposito, Estefania Coronado, Cristina Cervelló-Pastor, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui
Toward Deterministic Path Placement in AI Backends: A Practical SRv6-Based Architecture
Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Arianna Quinci, Angelo Tulumello, Pierpaolo Loreti, Stefano Salsano, Andrea Mayer, Lorenzo Bracciale
QoS and Capacity Prediction for 5G Network Slicing
Nathalie Romo Moreno, Felix Dsouza, Andreas Kassler, Florian Pullem, Bangnan Xu, Markus Amend, Changsoon Choi
Sensing at the Edge: Location-Aware Caching
Federico Trombetti, Novella Bartolini, Salvatore Pontarelli
SP2: Short Paper Session 2
Taming Volatility: Stable and Private QUIC Classification with Federated Learning
Richard Jozsa, Karel Hynek, Adrian Pekar
Isaque Martins, Matheus Lima, Anderson Paiva Cruz, Roger Immich, Ramon dos Reis Fontes
Extending Test-driven development to Softwarized Networks and Intent Based Networking
Davide Berardi, Mattia Fontana, Barbara Martini
Energy-Efficient Placement and Association in Disaggregated O-RAN
Hiba Hojeij, Sahar Hoteit, Véronique Vèque, Alexis Aravanis
Wmediumd for 802.15.4: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Physical Testbeds
Ramon dos Reis Fontes, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Eduardo Cerqueira
MC5: Traffic Analysis, Measurement & QoE
Exploratory Performance Evaluation of VM Migration as MQTT Moving Target Defense
Matheus Torquato, Tiago Cruz, Denis Rosário, Michele Nogueira, Eduardo Cerqueira
Investigating Middlebox Deployment and Characteristics in Dutch Autonomous Systems
Bulut Ulukapi, Anna Sperotto, Ralph Holz
Ayumi Araragi, Akio Watanabe, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Yousuke Takahashi, Taichi Kawano, Masahiro Yokota
AirTagged: A Dataset and Processing Framework for Heterogeneous High-Density IoT Environments
Katharina Müller, Stefan Saxer, Daria Schumm, Weijie Niu, Bruno Rodrigues, Burkhard Stiller
N: S1: NeSecOr workshop: session 1
New Approach for Virtual Firewalls Orchestration in Edge-Cloud Continuum Infrastructure
Bartosz Kopeć-Persiński, Andrzej Bęben
MC6: AI/ML for Networked Systems
MVFL: Multivariate Vertical Federated Learning for Time-Series Forecasting
Xicun Yang, JunePyo Jung, Jialiang Lu, Keun-Woo Lim, Leonardo Linguaglossa
Towards Markov Synthetic BLE Packet Generation for IoT Systems
Katharina Müller, Keisuke Yokota, Weijie Niu, Daria Schumm, Burkhard Stiller
Eduardo Peretto, Manoel Narciso Reis Soares Filho, Débora Cristina Santos Sousa, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Bruno Iochins Grisci
Detection of Misreporting Attacks on Software-Defined Immersive Environments
Sourya Saha, Md Nurul Absur, Shima Yousefi, Saptarshi Debroy
N: S2: NeSecOr workshop: session 2
BBArmor: a Dynamic BPF-to-BPF LSM-Based Enforcement Tool
Fabio Piras, Giuseppe Lettieri, Gregorio Procissi
MC7: Programmable Networks & In-Network Policies
Deep Reinforcement Learning for In-Network Placement of ACL Rules Under Constraints
Wafik Zahwa, Abdelkader Lahmadi, Michael Rusinowitch, Mondher Ayadi
Reinforcement Learning-Driven Edge Management for Reliable Multi-view 3D Reconstruction
Motahare Mounesan, Sourya Saha, Houchao Gan, Md Nurul Absur, Saptarshi Debroy
Michael Somma
MC8: Future Internet & IoT Platforms
IPFS over SCION: Secure and Performant Content Retrieval on Next-Generation Networks
Marten Gartner, Leon Rinkel, David Hausheer
Sandboxing Building OS: Enabling Isolated Development Environment for Smart Buildings
Yoshiki Kitatani, Manato Fujimoto, Shingo Ata
Shared Responsibility in Multi-Tenant Microcontrollers
Bastien Buil, Chrystel Gaber, Sylvain Plessis, Emmanuel Baccelli, Samia Bouzefrane
Frank Loh, Carina Baur, Flavian Raithel, David Stüber, Omran Ayoub, Tobias Hoßfeld