Day 1 (3 Oct 2023)
| Time |
Activity |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Opening |
| 9:20 - 10:20 |
Keynote by Dr. Stefan Köhler and Dr. David Hock:
Current and upcoming challenges of automated network management in practice |
| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Coffee |
| 10:50 - 12:30 |
Technical Session: Performance analysis and optimization
Session chair: Daniela Renga |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:45 |
Invited session: What's new in TOMPECS?
Session chair: Thomas Zinner |
| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee |
| 16:15 - 17:30 |
Technical session: Virtualization and wireless
Session chair: Tobias Hossfeld |
| 19:00 |
Welcome Reception |
Technical Session: Performance analysis and optimization (10:50-12:30)
Session chair: Daniela Renga
- Network-Calculus Service Curves of the Interleaved Regulator. Authors: Ludovic Thomas, Jean-Yves Le Boudec (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Optimal Resource Management for Multi-access Edge Computing without using Cross-layer Communication. Authors: Ankita Koley, Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
- Optimizing Peak Age of Information in Mobile Edge Computing. Authors: Jianhang Zhu, Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University)
- Spatial Queues with Nearest Neighbour Shifts. Authors: Vinay Kumar Bindiganavile Ramadas (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
Invited session : What’s new in TOMPECS? (14:00-15:45)
Session chair: Thomas Zinner
- Thomas Tournaire, Hind Castel, and Emmanuel Hyon, “Efficient Computation of Optimal Thresholds in Cloud Auto-scaling Systems”, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, Volume 8, Issue 4, Article No.: 9, December 2023.
- Tareq Si Salem, Giovanni Neglia, Stratis Ioannidis, “No-regret Caching via Online Mirror Descent”, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, Volume 8, Issue 4, Article No.: 11, December 2023.
- Ashok Krishnan K. S., Chandramani Singh, Siva Theja Maguluri, Parimal Parag, “Optimal Pricing in a Single Server System”, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, Volume 8, Issue 4, Article No.: 12, December 2023.
Technical Session: Virtualization and wireless (16:15-17:30)
Session chair: Tobias Hossfeld
- Containing Low Tail-Latencies in Packet Processing Using Lightweight Virtualization. Authors: Florian Wiedner, Max Helm, Alexander Daichendt, Jonas Andre, Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich)
- Grant-free transmissions based on successive interference cancellation in IoT. Authors: Asmad Bin Abdul Razzaque, Andrea Baiocchi (University of Rome Sapienza)
- An Outdoor Experimental Study of Many Antenna Full-Duplex Wireless. Authors: Hadi Hosseini, Ahmed Almutairi (Portland State University); Syed Muhammad Hashir (Southern Methodist University); Ehsan Aryafar (Portland State University); Joseph Camp (Southern Methodist University)
Day 2 (4 Oct 2023)
| Time |
Activity |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote by Prof. Nicola Blefari-Melazzi:
The age of fragmentation (or the end of the Internet as we knew it) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee |
| 10:30 - 12:15 |
Invited session: What's new in COMNET?
Session chair: Marco Ajmone Marsan |
| 12:15 - 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 - 15:00 |
Technical session: Traffic-related topics
Session chair: Emilio Leonardi |
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
PhD Workshop Part1 |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee |
| 16:30 - 18:30 |
PhD Workshop Part 2 |
| 20:00 |
Social Dinner |
Invited session: What’s new in COMNET? (10:30-12:15)
Session chair: Marco Ajmone Marsan
- Daniele Bringhenti, Riccardo Sisto, Fulvio Valenza, “A novel abstraction for security configuration in virtual networks”, Computer Networks, Volume 228, Article 109745, June 2023.
- Sebastian Troia, Marco Savi, Giulia Nava, Ligia Maria Moreira Zorello, Thomas Schneider, and Guido Maier, “Performance characterization and profiling of chained CPU-bound Virtual Network Functions”, Computer Networks, Volume 231, Article 109815, July 2023.
- Afonso Oliveira and Teresa Vazão, “Towards green machine learning for resource allocation in beyond 5G RAN slicing”, Computer Networks, Volume 233, Article 109877, September 2023.
Technical Session: Traffic-related topics (13:45-15:00)
Session chair: Emilio Leonardi
- Automated Identification of BBR Traffic based on Packet Inter-Arrival Times Analysis. Authors: Ziad TLAISS (IMT Atlantique); Alexandre FERRIEUX (Orange Labs Networks); Isabel AMIGO (IMT Atlantique); Isabelle HAMCHAOUI (Orange Labs Networks); Sandrine VATON (IMT Atlantique)
- DARTA: Generation of Autocorrelated Random Numbers using Discrete AutoRegression To Anything. Authors: Stefan Geißler, David Raunecker (University of Wuerzburg); Stanislav Lange (NTNU); Tobias Hossfeld (University of Wuerzburg)
- Estimating Traffic Latent Due to QoS Deterioration: A Time-Series Causal Inference Approach. Authors: Keisuke Ishibashi (International Christian University); Takumi Uchida (ComWorth Co., Ltd.)
Day 3 (5 Oct 2023)
| Time |
Activity |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote by Prof. Silvia Giordano: Social Media, Privacy and Regulation |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee |
| 10:30 - 12:15 |
Invited session: What's new in PEVA?
Session chair: Sara Alouf |
| 12:15 - 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 13:45 - 15:00 |
Technical Session: Learning and its applications
Session chair: Greta Vallero |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Closing remarks |
Invited session: What’s new in PEVA? (10:30-12:15)
Session chair: Sara Alouf
- Nikhil Jha, Luca Vassio, Martino Trevisan, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia, “Practical anonymization for data streams: z-anonymity and relation with k-anonymity”, Performance Evaluation, Volume 159, Article 102329, January 2023.
- Thi Thuy Nga Nguyen, Olivier Brun, and Balakrishna J. Prabhu, “A learning-based scheme for channel allocation to vehicular users in wireless networks”, Performance Evaluation, Volume 159, Article 102331, January 2023.
- B.R. Vinay Kumar, Navin Kashyap, and D. Yogeshwaran, “An analysis of probabilistic forwarding of coded packets on random geometric graphs”, Performance Evaluation, Volume 160, Article 102343, May 2023.
Technical Session: Learning and its applications (13:45-15:00)
Session chair: Greta Vallero
- META MIMETIC: Few-Shot Classification of Mobile-App Encrypted Traffic via Multimodal Meta-Learning. Authors: Giampaolo Bovenzi (University of Napoli Federico II); Davide Di Monda (University of Napoli Federico II and IMT School for Advanced Studies); Antonio Montieri, Valerio Persico, Antonio Pescape (University of Napoli Federico II)
- Beyond Mean: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Queue Utilizations and Flow Latencies Using T-GNNs. Authors: Max Helm, Benedikt Jaeger, Christopher Pfefferle, Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich)
- Data-Heterogeneous Hierarchical Federated Learning with Mobility. Authors: Tan Chen, Jintao Yan (Tsinghua University); Yuxuan Sun (Beijing Jiaotong University); Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University); Deniz Gunduz (Imperial College London); Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)
PHD WORKSHOP
LONG PRESENTATIONS (~20 min)
Title: Enhancing Quality of Service in SD-WAN through Reinforcement Learning-based TCP Congestion Control
Authors: Luca Borgianni, Davide Adami, Stefano Giordano
Title: Towards the Modelling of Network Fate: the Utilization of Packet-level Information
Authors: Tailai Song, Gianluca Perna, Paolo Garza, Michela Meo, Maurizio Matteo Munafò
Title: Analysis of the Multiserver Job Queueing Model
Authors: Diletta Olliaro, Andrea Marin
Title: A Novel Queuing Theory Approach for Modeling Connected Automated Vehicles as Traffic Sources
Authors: Maria Luisa Merani, Mattia Andreani, Andra ́s Horvath, Matteo Sereno
Title: AoI Analysis in 5G NR-V2X Sidelink: Optimal Persistence and Channel Load
Authors: Alexey Rolich, Andrea Baiocchi
Title: Secure and reliable softwarization in the context of 5G and beyond
Authors: Sebastian Gilje Grøsvik, Thomas Zinner
Title: Performance evaluation and capacity analysis of a cellular network with retransmission policy
Authors: Ingemar Kaj, Taisiia Morozova
SHORT PRESENTATIONS (~10 min)
Title: Competition of Influencers: A Model for Maximizing Online Social Impact
Franco Galante, Michele Garetto, Emilio Leonardi
Title: Q-Learning based low spectral efficiency random access
Asmad Bin Abdul Razzaque
SOCIAL EVENT
Welcome Cocktail
- Date: 3 October
- Location: Pastis, Piazza Emanuele Filiberto 9
Social Dinner
