Timetabled Sessions

Monday, October 30 09:00 - 10:30

MC1: AI-Driven Networking

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Géraldine Texier, IMT Atlantique, France

Improved Video QoE in Wireless Networks using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Henrique Moura (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & UFMG, Brazil); Junia Maisa Oliveira, Daniel H. C M. Soares and Daniel Fernandes Macedo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Marcos A. M. Vieira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Probabilistic Cognitive Routing: An Empirical Study with OMNeT++ and P4
Yixing Wang, Yang Xiao, Yuqian Song, Jingli Zhou and Jun Liu, Dr. (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

A Token-Prioritization Strategy for Handling Data Imbalance in Network-Change Ticket Classification
Md. Shamim Towhid, Nasik Sami Khan and Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada); Aladdin Saleh (Rogers Communications Canada Inc., Canada)

Energy Efficient VNF-FG Embedding via Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Omar Houidi (Telecom SudParis, France); Oussama Soualah (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis - Samovar, France); Ines Houidi (RedCAD Lab, Sfax University, National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia); Djamal Zeghlache (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Samovar & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

Learning-Based Formation Control of UAV-fleet
Abdulhakeem Abdulazeez (Universite Paris-Saclay, France); Nicola Roberto Zema (Paris-Saclay University, France); Tara Ali Yahiya (Universite Paris Saclay, France); Steven Martin (Université Paris-Saclay, France)

WS1: AnServApp Workshop Session 1

Keynote

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level)
Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) / Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Creating a Smart Application Marketplace, Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto. Details here.

Monday, October 30 11:00 - 12:30

MC2: Edge Computing and Vehicular Networks

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Remi Badonnel (TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA, France)

Subscription Management for Beyond 5G and 6G Cellular Networks using Blockchain Technology
Nischal Aryal (Orange Innovation, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IMT, Telecom SudParis, France); Fariba Ghaffari (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IRT B-COM, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)

A Fair Approach to the Online Placement of the Network Services over the Edge
Masoud Taghavian (IMT Atlantique & B-Com, France); Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul (University of Rennes, France); Geraldine Texier (IMT Atlantique/IRISA & BCOM, France); Nicolas Huin (IMT Atlantique, France); Philippe Bertin (Orange Innovation & Bcom, France)

Look at my Network: An insight into the ISP Backbone Traffic
Tomáš Beneš and Jaroslav Pešek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)

Federated Scheduling of Fog-native Applications over Multi-Domain Edge-to-Cloud Ecosystem
Mays F AL-Naday (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vasileios Karagiannis (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Tom De Block (Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation IVZW, Belgium); Bruno Volckaert (Ghent University-Imec, Belgium)

Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Identity for Federated Learning in Vehicular Networks
Engin Zeydan (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Luis Blanco (Centre Tecnològic de les Telecommunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Suayb S. Arslan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Quantum Corporation, USA); Yekta Turk (Aselsan, Turkey)

WS2: AnServApp Workshop Session 2

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level)
Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) / Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

LLM-based policy generation for intent-based management of applications
Kristina Dzeparoska and Jieyu Lin (University of Toronto, Canada); Ali Tizghadam (TELUS & University of Toronto, Canada); Alberto Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto, Canada)

5G E2E Network Slicing Predictable Traffic Generator
Brigitte Jaumard (Ericsson GAIA, Canada & Concordia University, Canada); Junior Momo Ziazet (Concordia University, Canada)

MIMC: Anomaly Detection in Network Data via Multiple Instances of Micro-Cluster Detection
Rafael N Copstein (Dalhousie University, Canada); Bradley Niblett and Andrew Johnston (2Keys Corporation - An Interac Company, Canada); Jeff Schwartzentruber, M. I. Heywood and Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Monday, October 30 13:30 - 15:00

MC3: Network and Service Management

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Patrick Maillé (IMT Atlantique, France)

Analyzing Network (Non-)Neutrality for Monopolistic, Competing, or Vertically Integrated Content Providers with a Unified Model
Vedant Joseph Kumar and Patrick Maillé (IMT Atlantique, France); Bruno Tuffin (Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France)

Predicting the Performance of DNNs to Support Efficient Resource Allocation
Sarah Shah and Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary, Canada); Yasaman Amannejad (Mount Royal University, Canada)

pUpdate: Priority-based Scheduling for Continuous and Consistent Network Updates in SDN
Mehdi Nobakht (University of New South Wales, Australia); Arshiya Rezaie Hezaveh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

Synthesizing and Scaling WAN Topologies using Permutation-invariant Graph Generative Models
Max Helm (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)

DEFT: Distributed, Elastic, and Fault-tolerant State Management of Network Functions
Md Mahir Shahriyar (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Gourab Saha (United International University & Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Bishwajit Bhattacharjee (Optimizely, Bangladesh); Rezwana Reaz (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)

WS3: AnServApp Workshop Session 3

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level) Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) / Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Settling issues in IEEE 802.1AS networks in PI based clock servos
Attila Frankó and Gergely Hollósi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

AI Toolbox Concept for the Arrowhead Framework
Daniel Ficzere, Gergely Hollósi, Attila Frankó and Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Tailoring MLOps Techniques for Industry 5.0 Needs
Csaba Hegedus and Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

A Marketplace Solution for Distributed Network Management and Orchestration of Slices
Engin Zeydan (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Luis Blanco (Centre Tecnològic de les Telecommunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz (Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain); Farhad Rezazadeh (UPC & CTTC, Spain); Luca Vettori (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)

Monday, October 30 15:30 - 17:15

MC4: Traffic Analysis and Network Security

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Carol J Fung (Concordia University, Canada)

Enhancing DeCrypto: Finding Cryptocurrency Miners based on Periodic Behavior
Josef Koumar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic & CESNET, Czech Republic); Richard Plný (Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Praze - Fakulta Informacnich Technologii, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)

Network Traffic Classification based on Single Flow Time Series Analysis
Josef Koumar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic & CESNET, Czech Republic); Karel Hynek (CESNET, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET z. s. p. o., Czech Republic)

Deciphering DDoS Attacks through a Global Lens
Jonas Bruner, Bruno Rodrigues and Katharina O. E. Müller (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Salil S Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

BGP Control Plane Overhead in Fat-Trees: An Analytical Approach
Leonardo Alberro and Eduardo Grampín (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Log Analysis and Prediction for Anomaly Detection in Network Switches
Sukhyun Nam (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Eui-Dong Jeong (POSTECH, Korea (South)); Jibum Hong and Jae-Hyoung Yoo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); James Won-Ki Hong (POSTECH, Korea (South))

Empirical analysis of the fine-tuning for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in the ICT system
Yoichi Matsuo (NTT, Japan)

WS4: AnServApp Workshop Session 4

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level) Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) / Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Enterprise Application Outage Prediction Using XGBoost and LSTM
Ali Hassan (Royal Bank of Canada, Canada); Shahram Shah Heydari (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

Vendor Agnostic Network Service Orchestration with Stacked NSO Services
Marc Koerner (Berkeley Lab, USA)

ML-based translation methods for protocols and data formats
Tamás Tóthfalusi (AITIA International Inc., Hungary); Eszter Varga, Zoltan Csiszar and Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Tuesday, October 31 08:45 - 10:30

Welcome + KS1: Keynote Session 1

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Towards Fast, Scalable and Generalized Network Performance Estimation DETAILS
Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada

Collaborative Research and Development in 5G Technology: Insights from Rogers Communications' Partnership with Academia DETAILS
Wilson Tam, Director 5G Innovation at Rogers, Canada

Tuesday, October 31 10:30 - 11:00

PS1: Poster and Demo Session 1

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level)
Chair: Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada)

Path Oracle: Improving Performance of Path-Aware Applications in SCION
Thorben Krueger, Clemens Beck and David Hausheer (OVGU Magdeburg, Germany)

On Integrated Wired and Wireless Time-Sensitive Networking using SDN
Mehdi Nobakht (University of New South Wales, Australia); Frank den Hartog (University of New South Wales & DoVes Research, Australia)

Joint Routing and GCL Scheduling Algorithm Based on Tabu Search in TSN
Ying Wang, Yufan Cheng, Zhihan Zhuang, Junye Zhang and Peng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); ShaoYong Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & State Key Laboratory of Networking & Switching Technology, China); Xuesong Qiu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

SDN Lullaby: VM Consolidation for SDN using Transformer-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Eui-Dong Jeong (POSTECH, Korea (South)); Jae-Hyoung Yoo (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); James Won-Ki Hong (POSTECH, Korea (South))

Tuesday, October 31 11:00 - 12:30

TS1: Management of wireless and cellular networks

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Adaptive Model Aggregation for Decentralized Federated Learning in Vehicular Networks
Mahtab Movahedian Attar (University of Calgary, Canada); Mahdi Dolati (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran); Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada)

Mitigating Signaling Storms in 5G with Blockchain-assisted 5GAKA
Bohan Zhang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Paul Zeinaty (École Polytechnique, France); Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Online Utilization Maximization in Resource Allocation with Minimum Service Guarantees
Dor Harris and David Naori (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Danny Raz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology & Google, Israel)

Tuesday, October 31 13:30 - 15:00

TS2: AI for security management

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)

An Empirical Approach to Evaluate the Resilience of QUIC Protocol against Handshake Flood Attacks
Benjamin Teyssier, Y A Joarder and Carol J Fung (Concordia University, Canada)

An explainable-by-design ensemble learning system to detect unknown network attacks
Céline Minh (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INSA & Custocy, France); Kevin Vermeulen (CNRS, France); Cédric Lefebvre (Custocy, France); Philippe Owezarski (LAAS-CNRS, France); William Ritchie (Custocy, France)

CML-IDS: Enhancing Intrusion Detection in SDN through Collaborative Machine Learning
Pegah Golchin (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Chengbo Zhou (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Pratyush Agnihotri (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Mehrdad Hajizadeh (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany); Ralf Kundel (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)

Tuesday, October 31 15:30 - 17:15

SPS1: Resilience and Security Management

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Guillaume Doyen (IMT Atlantique, France)

Dom2Vec - Detecting DGA Domains through Word Embeddings and AI/ML-driven Lexicographic Analysis
Lucas Torrealba (NIC Chile Research Labs, University of Chile, Chile); Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria); Javier Bustos-Jiménez (Universidad de Chile, Chile); Germán Capdehourat (Universidad de la República & Centro Ceibal, Uruguay); Mislav Findrik (cyan Security Group, Austria)

BGPEval: Automating Large-Scale Testbed Creation
Nils Rodday (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)

Analyzing the Quality of Synthetic Adversarial Cyberattacks
Ulya Sabeel and Shahram Shah Heydari (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Khalil El-Khatib and Khalid Elgazzar (Ontario Tech University, Canada)

ADFAT: Adversarial Flow Arrival Time Generation for Demand-Oblivious Data Center Networks
Sebastian Schmidt (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Johannes Zerwas and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Preliminary Results on Exploring Data Exhaust of Consumer Internet of Things Devices
Alexander Loginov, Jeffrey Adjei, Nur Zincir-Heywood and Srinivas Sampalli (Dalhousie University, Canada); Kevin de Snayer and Terri Dougall (Calian, Canada)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Network Service Recovery in Large-scale Failures
Kazuaki Akashi, Nobukazu Fukuda, Shunsuke Kanai and Kenichi Tayama (NTT Corporation, Japan)

Wednesday, November 1 09:45 - 10:30

KS2: Keynote Session 2

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Mina Arashloo (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Network Management in the Machine Learning Era DETAILS
Minlan Yu, Harvard University, USA

Wednesday, November 1 10:30 - 11:00

PS2: Poster and Demo Session 2

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level)
Chair: Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada)

Leveraging Spatiotemporal Relations for Predicting Potential Link Failures
Bruck Wendwessen Wubete (Carleton University & Ciena, Canada); Babak Esfandiari and Thomas Kunz (Carleton University, Canada)

Deploying Disaster-Resilient Service Function Chains Using Adaptive Multi-Path Routing
Mohamed Abderrahmane Madani (IMT Nord Europe, France); Fen Zhou (Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire, Research Center, France & CERI-LIA, University of Avignon, France); Ahmed Meddahi (IMT Nord Europe, France)

On large-scale IP service disruptions dependencies
Alfred Arouna (Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering & Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway); Ioana Livadariu (SimulaMet, Norway); Azan L Khanyari (Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway & Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway); Ahmed Elmokashfi (SimulaMet, Norway)

Deep Reinforcement Learning based Command Control System for Automating Fault Diagnosis
Hiroshi Yamauchi (SoftBank Corp., Japan); Tatsuaki Kimura (Doshisha University, Japan)

Optimal Functional Splitting, Placement and Routing for Isolation-Aware Network Slicing in NG-RAN
Maria Mushtaq (University of Regina, Canada); Morteza Golkarifard (University of Waterloo, Canada); Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada); Aladdin Saleh (Rogers Communications Canada Inc., Canada)

Disaggregating a 5G Non-Public Network via On-demand Cloud-Native UPF Deployments
Jorge Baranda (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz (Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain); Rasoul Nikbakht (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)

Wednesday, November 1 11:00 - 12:30

TS3: Management of virtualized networks

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Remi Badonnel (TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA, France)

dot2net: A labeled graph approach for template-based configuration of emulation networks
Satoru Kobayashi (Okayama University, Japan); Ryusei Shiiba (Sokendai, Japan); Ryosuke Miura, Shinsuke Miwa and Toshiyuki Miyachi (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

An ETSI-compliant Architecture for the Element Management System: The Key for Holistic NFV Management
Vinícius Fülber Garcia and José Flauzino (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil); Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil); Elias P. Duarte, Jr. (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)

A Lightweight Heuristic for Micro-services Placement and Chaining in Low Latency Services
Hichem Magnouche (Troyes University of Technology, France); Guillaume Doyen (IMT Atlantique, France); Caroline Prodhon (University of Technology of Troyes, France)

Wednesday, November 1 13:30 - 15:00

TS4: Management of data center and cloud networks

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Characterization of Microservice Response Time in Kubernetes: A Mixture Density Network Approach
Lorenzo Manca and Davide Borsatti (University of Bologna, Italy); Filippo Poltronieri and Mattia Zaccarini (University of Ferrara, Italy); Domenico Scotece, Gianluca Davoli and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy); Genady Ya. Grabarnik (St. John's University, USA); Larisa Shwartz (IBM Research, USA); Cesare Stefanelli and Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy); Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy)

Workload Placement with Bounded Slowdown in Disaggregated Datacenters
Amirhossein Sefati (University of Calgary, Canada); Mahdi Dolati (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran); Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada)

Performance Impact of Queue Sorting in Container-based Application Scheduling
José Santos (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Miel Verkerken, Laurens D'hooge and Tim Wauters (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Bruno Volckaert (Ghent University-Imec, Belgium); Filip De Turck (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)

Wednesday, November 1 15:30 - 17:00

SPS2: Network Programmability and Automation

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)

Low Impact Tenant Code Updates on Multi-tenant Programmable Switches
Timo Geier and Sebastian Rieger (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Improving System Configurations using Domain Knowledge Assisted Semi-Supervised Learning
Negar Mohammadi Koushki, Sanjeev Sondur and Krishna Kant (Temple University, USA)

ASSL as an Intent Expression Language for Autonomic Intent-Driven Networking
Solmaz Jaberi (Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University, Canada); J. William Atwood and Joey Paquet (Concordia University, Canada)

Bridging Resource Prediction and System Management: A Case Study in Cloud Systems
Justin Kur (Oakland University, USA); Ji Xue (Google, USA); Jingshu Chen (Oakland University, USA); Jun Huang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Resource Allocation of Multi-user Workloads in Cloud and Edge Data-Centers Using Reinforcement Learning
Julian Jimenez Agudelo (University of Antwerp, Colombia); Paola Soto (IMEC, Belgium & Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia); Danny De De Vleeschauwer (Nokia, Belgium); Chia-Yu Chang (Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium); Yorick De Bock, Steven Latré and Miguel Camelo (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium)

Thursday, November 2 09:00 - 10:30

TS5: Efficiency by design

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada)

CrossBal: Data and Control Plane Cooperation for Efficient and Scalable Network Load Balancing
Bruno L. Coelho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil)

Scalable and Efficient Link Layer Topology Discovery for Autonomic Networks
Paul Seehofer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Roland Bless (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Hendrik Mahrt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Martina Zitterbart (KIT, Germany)

TinyG: Accurate IP Geolocation Using a Tiny Number of Probers
Nan Jiang, Jessie Hui Wang, Jilong Wang and Peiran Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Thursday, November 2 10:30 - 11:00

PS3: Poster and Demo Session 3

Room: Peninsula room (lobby level)
Chair: Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada)

DDoS Attacks Mitigation in 5G-V2X Networks: A Reinforcement Learning-based Approach
Badre Bousalem (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Mohamed Anis Sakka (SupCom, Tunisia); Vinicius F. Silva (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Asma Ben Letaifa (SupCom, Tunisia); Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France)

DTL-IDS: Deep Transfer Learning-based Intrusion Detection System in 5G Networks
Behnam Farzaneh and Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada); Abu Hena Al Muktadir (Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Canada); Md. Shamim Towhid (University of Regina, Canada)

Data Fabrics for Multi-Domain Information Systems
Pooyan Habibi, Morteza Moghaddassian, Shayan Shafaghi and Alberto Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto, Canada)

Path Plausibility Algorithms in GoBGP
Nils Höger (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany); Nils Rodday (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Oliver Borchert (NIST, USA); Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)

Adaptive Entanglement Routing for Quantum Networks with Cutoff
Jiaheng Xiong, Qiaolun Zhang, Alberto Gatto and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)

Thursday, November 2 11:00 - 12:30

KS3: Keynote Session 3

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Noura Limam (University of Waterloo, Canada)

From research to product: Lessons from developing a network verification tool DETAILS
Ratul Mahajan, University of Washington, USA

A conversation with Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO at Telus, Canada DETAILS
Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO at Telus, Canada

Thursday, November 2 13:30 - 15:00

TS6: Multimedia and QoS

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)
Chair: Pál Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

A Critical Study of Few-shot Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification
Elham Akbari, Sheikh A Tahmid, Navid Malekghaini, Mohammad Ali Salahuddin, Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada); Bertrand Mathieu (Orange Innovation, France); Stephanie Moteau (Orange Labs Research, France); Stephane Tuffin (Orange Innovation, France)

Coupling QoS Co-Simulation with Online Adaptive Arrival Forecasting
Yichong Chen (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Manuel Roveri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Shreshth Tuli and Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Deep Learning in NLP for Anomalous HTTP Requests Detection
Tien Anh Manh Nguyen and Van Tong (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Sondes Bannour Souihi (CEA LIST, University of Paris-Saclay, France); Sami Souihi (University Paris Est UPEC, France)

Thursday, November 2 15:30 - 17:00

DEP + Closing Ceremony: Distinguished Experts Panel

Hennepin Room (Lobby Level)

Network and Service Management in the Era of Generative AI and Digital Twins DETAILS
Ibrahim Gedeon, Pal Varga, Mérouane Debbah

Moderators: Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada and James Won-KI Hong, POSTECH, Korea