IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

24th. networking 2025: Limassol, Cyprus

24th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, networking 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, May 26-29

Susana Sargento, Ahmed Saeed, Panayiotis Kolios, Constantine Dovrolis, Vasos Vassiliou

IFIP Open Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ISBN: 978-3-903176-72-0



Contents

SmartWater: Session 1

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Demand Balancing and Tariff Optimization in Blockchain-Based Smart Water Networks

Filippo Ansalone, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Vincenzo Taormina, Domenico Garlisi

 

Enhanced Water Leak Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks and One-Class Support Vector Machine

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

 

Centrality-Aware Machine Learning for Water Network Pressure Prediction

Federico Amato, Antonino Pagano, Gabriele Restuccia, Ilenia Tinnirello

 

Flash Flood Forecasting and the Role of Catchment Response Time: Predictions via Rainfall-Runoff and Deep Learning Models

Thitipoom Chailert, Mark Trigg, Abdulrahman Altahhan, Evangelos Pournaras

 

Dyn-WNTR: Dynamic Network Adaptive Extension for Hydraulic Simulations with WNTR

Pierluigi Locatelli, Tiziana Cattai, Simone Palumbo, Francesca Cuomo

 

SLICES Workshop: Session 1

Sloth: A Kernel-Bypass Scheduler Maximizing Energy Efficiency under Latency Constraints

Clement Delzotti, Pol Maistriaux, Tom Barbette

 

Finding Global Top-K Flows in the Data Plane

Shir Landau Feibish, Eitan Stein, Lior Zeno

 

Finding Global Top-K Flows in the Data Plane

Eitan Stein, Lior Zeno, Shir Landau Feibish

 

Sloth: A kernel-bypass applications scheduler maximizing energy efficiency under latency constraints

Clement Delzotti, Pol Maistriaux, Tom Barbette

 

IOCRCI Workshop: Technical Session I

Monitoring 6G UPFs: A Software-based Network Tomography Framework

Florian Raskob, Wilton Poth, Tobias Meuser, Björn Scheuermann

 

AI-driven Anomaly Detection with ICS Protocols in Smart Grids

Mamdouh Muhammad, Kanwardeep Singh, Reinhard German

 

LAPRAD: LLM-Assisted PRotocol Attack Discovery

Rustem Can Aygun, Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler-Barr, Leonard Kleinrock

 

XR& 6G: Session 1

Performance Evaluation of L4S in XR Scenarios

Philipp Steininger, Rastin Pries, Yash Deshpande, Kaan Aykurt, Chia-Yu Chang, Koen De Schepper, Wolfgang Kellerer

 

Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Planning in Air-Ground Collaborative Edge Computing Power Offloading Network

Meng Gu, Yaxi Liu, Xulong Li, Jiahao Huo, Wei Huangfu

 

GRANT: Genetic-based RAN orchestration Tuning for latency sensitive XR verticals

Luca Mastrandrea, Alessandro Priviero, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Stefania Colonnese

 

SLICES Workshop: Session 2

Enhanced Open-Source NWDAF for Event-Driven Analytics in 5G Networks

Henok Kahsay, Omar Alhussein, Jie Liang, Cheng Li, Ernesto Damiani

 

Dynamic Energy-Efficient User Plane Function Selection in 5G Networks

Shima Afshar Borji, Roberto Bruschi, Chiara Lombardo, Cristina Costa

 

Dissecting 5G New-Radio Latency: Interacting Layers and Latency-Generating Operations

Virgil Hamici-Aubert, Julien Saint-Martin, Renzo Navas, Georgios Papadopoulos, Guillaume Doyen, Xavier Lagrange

 

SLICES Workshop: Session 3

The Slices Cloud Continuum Blueprint: a Resilient Infrastructure to Support Large-scale Cloud Continuum Experiments

Andrea Sabbioni, Armir Bujari, Paolo Bellavista

 

TX4NETs Workshop: Session 1

XAI Based Technique for Detecting and Understanding Position Falsification Attacks in VANET

Mahesh Abburi, Arunita Jaekel

 

Improving User Experience in Hybrid SATCOM with Deep Q-Learning

Matthieu Petrou, Bastien Tauran, Laurent Chasserat, Matthieu Destruhaut, Moujahed Rebhi, David Pradas

 

Faster Latency Constrained Service Placement in Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Orso Forghieri

 

TX4NETs Workshop: Session 2

Explaining Aggregated Network Traffic Predictors

Aleksandra Knapińska, Krzysztof Walkowiak

 

Analyzing the Impact of Encryption on Traffic Classification through Explainable AI

Davide Di Monda, Alfredo Nascita, Raffaele Carillo, Antonio Pescapé

 

Technical Session 1: Security and Privacy I

TPOTI: A Triplet-Network-based Obfuscated Tor Traffic Identification

Menglei Li, Chao Wu, Wentian Zhao, Tian Song

 

A Sybil Attack Traceability Detection Scheme Adapted to Vehicle Pseudonym Change Strategy

Ye Chen, Yingxu Lai

 

Squatspotting: Towards the Systematic Measurement of Typosquatting Techniques

Wei-Shiang Wung, Calvin Kranig, Eric Pauley, Paul Barford, Mark Crovella, Joel Sommers

 

Securing Software-Defined Tactical Networks: A Cyber Defense System

Sean Kloth, Paulo Henrique Rettore, Philipp Zissner, Bruno Santos, Peter Sevenich

 

Technical Session 2: Web Protocols

Forward Error Correction and Weighted Hierarchical Fair Multiplexing for HTTP/3 over QUIC

Kilian Holzinger, Daniel Petri, Stefan Lachnit, Marcel Kempf, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Stephan Günther, Georg Carle

 

Examining the Heterogeneous Throughput Performance Landscape of QUIC Implementations

Michael König, Sebastian Rust, Martina Zitterbart, Björn Scheuermann

 

VGPrio: Visually Guided HTTP/3 Prioritization

Constantin Sander, Ike Kunze, Dario Veltri, Klaus Wehrle

 

A First Look on Discovery of Designated Resolvers

Steffen Sassalla, Vasilis Ververis, Vaibhav Bajpai

 

Technical Session 3: Security and Privacy II

Secure and Efficient Data Spaces over Named Data Networking

Yannis Thomas, Nikos Fotiou, Iakovos Pittaras, George Xylomenos

 

An Embedded Covert Channel Construction using HLS Protocol

Dingming Liu, Tian Song, Wentian Zhao

 

A Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Wide-Range Drone Communications

Wanting Li, Maode Ma, Lijun Gao

 

Technical Session 4: Measurements and Modelling

Unsteady Underwater - On the Constancy of Submarine Path Properties

Mia Weaver, Paul Barford, Fabian Bustamante, Esteban Carisimo, Lynne Stokes, Weili Wu

 

Argus Lens: Innovating Internet Measurement Infrastructure via Relay Services

Zhiquan Wang, Changqing An, Jilong Wang

 

Preserving Coreness while Reducing Connectivity in Network Graphs

Ahmad Zareie, Rizos Sakellariou

 

Breaking Through the Clouds: Performance Insights into Starlink's Latency and Packet Loss

Robert Richter, Vasilis Ververis, Vaibhav Bajpai

 

Technical Session 5: Intrusion and Anomaly Detection

PASD-5GC: A Process-Based Approach for Anomalous Signaling Detection in 5G Core Network

Cong Li, Yuhan Cao, Xingxing Liao, Zilong Wang, Wei You, Xinsheng Ji

 

Interpretable Outlier and Anomaly Detection for Mobile Networks from Small Tabular Data

Juan Ramirez, Pablo Rojo, Vincenzo Mancuso, Antonio Fernández Anta

 

Self-Supervised Transformer-based Contrastive Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems

Ippokratis Koukoulis, Ilias Syrigos, Thanasis Korakis

 

Technical Session 6: AI and ML for Networking

Bandwidth-Aware Adaptive Gradient Quantization for Cross-Organization Federated Learning

Shu Liu, Hong Shen, Chan-Tong Lam, K. L. Eddie Law

 

FORESIGHT: Joint Time and Space Scheduling for Efficient Distributed ML Training

Farid Zandi Shafagh, Manya Ghobadi, Yashar Ganjali

 

STAGS: A Graph-Sampling Approach for GNN-based Network Anomaly Detection

Saikat Dey, Mark Gardner, Jeff Lang, Wu-chun Feng

 

Constraint-Aware Probabilistic Packet Forwarding Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Guocheng Lin, Yang Xiao, Jun Liu

 

Posters: Poster Session

Distributed Fog Computing for Real-Time Surveillance

Joaquín Olivares Bueno, Héctor Martínez Pérez, Fernando Leon Garcia, Jose M. Palomares

 

Modular ML-Based IDS: Layered Attack Detection via Header & Payload Analysis

Mohammad Saghali, Mahdi Naderibeni, Vikramajeet Khatri, Siwar Kriaa, Serge Papillon, Mehrnoosh Monshizadeh

 

Group-aware Resource and Path Discovery for Collaborative Ultra-Low Latency Applications

Hendrik Mahrt, Martina Zitterbart

 

Effectively Mimicking Datacenter Traffic Patterns Using Transformers

Chen Griner

 

Privacy Preserving Integrated Sensing and Communication Architecture for 6G Networks

Prajnamaya Dass, Yevhen Zolotavkin, Stefan Köpsell

 

D-Band Line-of-Sight MIMO Link Demonstration

Darko Cvetkovski, Christoph Herold, Eckhard Grass

 

Technical Session 7: 5G and Beyond Network management

E-MATRO: An Adaptive and Energy-Efficient Framework for Slicing within the O-RAN Architecture

André Cédric Bessala, Guilherme Iecker Ricardo, Gentian Jakllari

 

Geo-distributed and Dynamic Control Plane Management toward Green Mobile Networks

Masayuki Kurata, Akio Ikami, Masaki Suzuki

 

Deep Learning-Driven Two-Stage Distributed Radio Resource Allocation in 6G Cell-Free Communication Systems

Iacovos Ioannou, Christophoros Christophorou, Gussan Mufti, Charalambos Klitis, Vasos Vassiliou, Christos Verikoukis

 

BlocBin: SLA-Compliant and Efficient RAN Slicing in Next-Generation Networks

Juliana Ojo, Guilherme Iecker Ricardo, Gentian Jakllari

 

Technical Session 8: Routing and Traffic Engineering

TROPIC: Traffic-Engineering-Oriented Planning of IP Core Networks

Leon Richardt, Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck

 

On the Resilience of Fast Failover Routing Against Dynamic Link Failures

Wenkai Dai, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Stefan Schmid

 

Non-Shortest Path Routing in Lossy Data Center Networks

Tal Mizrahi, Shahar Belkar, Oren Spector, Reuven Cohen

 

Efficient Datacenter Load Balancing with Microslices

Hafiza Rehman, Sana Mahmood, Syed Mohammad Irteza, Fahad Dogar, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi

 

Technical Session 10: Multicasting and Caching

Min-Cost Multicast Streaming with Network Coding in Edge Computing Networks

Yeqiao Hou, Han Yang, Xianglong Li, Ling Deng, Liang Du, Zongpeng Li, Yining Li

 

Multicast-partitioning in Time-triggered Stream Planning for Time-Sensitive Networks

Heiko Geppert, Frank Dürr, Simon Naß, Kurt Rothermel

 

Selective Aggressive Caching in DNS Resolvers

Hadar Cochavi Gorelik, Gil Einziger

 

Memory-efficient Online Caching Policies with Regret Guarantees

Xufeng Zhang, Sara Alouf, Giovanni Neglia

 

Technical Session 9: Programmable Networks

Detecting Stragglers in Programmable Data Plane

Riz Maulana, Habib Mostafaei, Nirvana Meratnia

 

Detecting Manipulation to Table Rules in the Programmable Data Planes

Ranjitha K, Karuturi Sree, Devansh Garg, Stavan Christian, Dheekshitha Bheemanath, Rinku Shah, Praveen Tammana

 

Hocarest: Host Cardinality Estimation On-Switch using Randomized Algorithm and TCAM

Timon Krack, Martina Zitterbart

 

ReBARC: Recovery-Budget-Aware In-Network Retransmission Control in ICN

Kazuhisa Matsuzono, Hitoshi Asaeda

 

Towards End-to-End Network Intent Management with Large Language Models

Lam Dinh, Sihem Cherrared, Xiaofeng Huang, Fabrice Guillemin

 

Technical Session 11: IoT Protocols and applications

A Holistic 3D Deployment and Connectivity Framework for IoT-Enabled Environments

Andreas Andreou, Constandinos Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Athina Bourdena, Evangelos Markakis

 

LoRa++: Mixed Up-Down CSS Modulation for Enhanced Scalability and Data Rate in LPWANs

Shrutkirthi Godkhindi, Deeksha Rao, R Prasad, T Prabhakar

 

Measurement-Efficient Dynamics Change Detection in On-Off Models for Dynamic Spectrum Access

Simon Lindståhl, Alexandre Proutiere, Andreas Johnsson

 

SAGE: Transmission Power Management for Deadline-aware, Multihop IoT Edge Networks

Shanti Chilukuri, Vinayaka Shashank Varanasi, Kalyana Chakravarthy C

 

Technical Session 12: Congestion Control

Reminis: A Simple and Efficient Congestion Control Scheme for 5G Networks and Beyond

Parsa Pazhooheshy, Soheil Abbasloo, Yashar Ganjali

 

PVD-TD3: A Latency-Oriented Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Multipath Routing in DetNet

Ying Yang, Yang Xiao, Jun Liu

 

Insights into BBRv3's Performance and Behavior by Experimental Evaluation

Roland Bless, Lukas Lihotzki, Martina Zitterbart

 

Demand-Aware Multi-Source IP-Multicast: Minimal Congestion via Link Weight Optimization

Matthias Bentert, Max Franke, Darya Melnyk, Arash Pourdamghani, Stefan Schmid

 

BBR's Sharing Behavior with CUBIC and Reno

Fatih Berkay Sarpkaya, Ashutosh Srivastava, Fraida Fund, Shivendra Panwar

 

Technical Session 13: Fingerprinting and Localization

Predicting Video QoE from Encrypted Traffic: Leveraging Video Fingerprinting and Providing System-Level Insights

Somiya Kapoor, Ethan Witwer, David Hasselquist, Mikael Asplund, Niklas Carlsson

 

Precise Positioning for Healthcare Robotics with Retroreflective Tags in 5G Small Cell Networks

Alireza Famili, Tolga Atalay, Angelos Stavrou

 

Zone-Fingerprinting: Unlocking the Power of Fingerprinting for Indoor Localization in 5G

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

 

Transferability of TCP/IP-based OS fingerprinting models

Matej Hulák, Václav Bartoš, Tomas Cejka