CNSM 2026 Program

Detailed schedule for the main conference, mini-conferences, and poster sessions.

All times are for the Central European Summer Time (CEST) timezone.

Program at a glance: You can download the overview of the program in PDF format here.

Social Events

The Welcome Reception will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 27th from 20:00 to 22:30 in the historical Old-Campus.

The City Tour is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 28th from 18:15 to 19:15.

The Conference Dinner will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 28th starting at 20:00.

Monday, October 26

Mini-Conference Session 1: Agentic AI and Autonomous Network Management

09:00–10:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • DeepFaith: Evidence-Grounded LLMs for Faithful Incident Reporting in Multi-Stage APT Defense
    Trung V. Phan (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany); Tri Gia Nguyen (FPT University, Vietnam); Thomas Bauschert (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
  • NetOpsAgent: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Autonomous Cloud Infrastructure Incident Management
    Kinjal Vaishnav (None, USA)
  • Agentic Intelligence to Provision Edge Compute for Personalised Live Media
    Edward Austin (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rajiv Ramdhany (BBC R&D, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Daniel King and Nicholas Race (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • An Agentic AI Framework for Cloud-Native 5G Core Orchestration
    Larbi Said Chikh (National Higher School of Artificial Intelligence, Algeria); Abdelkader Mekrache (Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway); Abdelhakim Cheriet (The National School of Artificial Intelligence, Algeria); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)

Mini-Conference Session 2: Cybersecurity and Adaptive Intrusion Defense

09:00–10:30   |   Grados   |   Chair: TBD

  • Offline Reinforcement Learning for Anomaly Mitigation in Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum
    Aurélie Kpoze (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology - INRIA (France), France); Abdelkader Lahmadi (University of Lorraine, France); Dana Marinca (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
  • Enabling Adaptive Hybrid Decision-Making for Zero-Touch Orchestration of 6G Compute Continuum
    Raúl Cuervo Bello (IMEC & University of Antwerpen, Belgium); David Goez (University of Antwerp - Imec, IDLab, Belgium); Miguel Camelo Botero (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Johann Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium); Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac (University of Antwerp-IMEC, Belgium)
  • Agent Conflict and Coordination in Network Management: Sources, Mechanisms, and Open Problems
    Christopher Janz (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada); Lauri Lovén (University of Oulu, Finland); Fernando Camacho (Huawei Technologies Co, Ireland); Per Kangru (Viavi Solutions Inc., United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • Monarca: Scalable Probabilistic Verification via Duplicate-Aware Failure Pruning
    Saideh Ahangary, Herbert Bos and Klaus v. Gleissenthall (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Asia Slowinska (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Mini-Conference Session 3: Quantum and Advanced Network Architectures

11:00–12:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • From Reachability to Efficiency: Enhancing Reward Shaping and Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Satellite Routing
    Federica Filippini (University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy); Matteo Maggioni and Marco Savi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
  • MILP-Based Multi-Commodity Routing in Tactical Multi-Bearer Heterogeneous Networks
    Yuri Grigoryev and Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University, USA)
  • Introducing Quantum Mesh Networks: Models, Topologies, Performance
    Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice, Italy); Andrea Marin (Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy); Peppino Fazio (University Ca' Foscari of Venice - DSMN, Italy)
  • Network Topologies for QKD Networks
    Ori Rottenstreich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Ran Hasson Ruso (NVIDIA, Israel); Eliahu Cohen (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Mini-Conference Session 4: Federated Learning and Intelligent RAN Management

11:00–12:30   |   Grados   |   Chair: TBD

  • HybridFLow: SDN-Orchestrated Client Partitioning for Hybrid Federated Learning
    Osama Abu Hamdan (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Rabin Pandey (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Hao Che (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Engin Arslan (Meta, USA); Md Arifuzzaman (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
  • GeNTAC-FL: Generative Network Traffic Augmentation via Conditional GANs for Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments
    Mohammed Amir Messioud (LS2N, France); Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Kandaraj Piamrat (Nantes University & INRIA, LS2N, IMT Atlantique, France)
  • LPFL: Lightweight Personalized Federated Forecasting for Softwarized RAN Traffic
    Ayse Vildan Nurdag (Bahcesehir University, Turkey); Talha Çelik (Turkcell Technology, Turkey); Ece Gelal Soyak (Bahcesehir University, Turkey)
  • Proactive Weather-Aware 5G RAN Configuration Management Framework
    Debora Salgado (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland); Vaibhav Gala (Ericsson, Ireland); Anne-Marie C. Bosneag (Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ireland); Sidath Handurukande, Sheila Fallon and Enda Fallon (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland)

Mini-Conference Session 5: Network Traffic, Performance, and Anomaly Detection

13:30–15:00   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • On the Impact of Structural Heterogeneity on RTT-Based Anomaly Detection in Mobile Core Signaling
    Attila Frankó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
  • DART: Aiming for Tail-Delay Control in Reconfigurable Networks
    Hossein Mohammadalizadeh (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany); Holger Karl (Hasso Plattner Institute & University of Potsdam, Germany)
  • Multi-Scale Pan Matrix Profile Representation for BGP Anomaly Analysis at One-Second Resolution
    Óscar Cuevas Martinez, Shadi Motaali and Jorge E. López de Vergara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain); Luis de Pedro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
  • LUMA: Learning Coherent Multi-Resolution Traffic Forecasting with Time-Series Foundation Models
    Eilaf MA Babai and Koji Okamura (Kyushu University, Japan)

Mini-Conference Session 6: AI-Driven Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum

13:30–15:00   |   Grados   |   Chair: TBD

  • RuleGuild: Continuous Intrusion Detection Rule Generation and Refinement
    Yacine Anser, Mathias Ekstedt and Pontus Johnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  • Learning Intrusion Response Strategies for OT Systems
    Duc Huy Le and Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  • PROACT: Active Learning for Progressive Adaptation to Novel DDoS Attack Types
    Gokce Gursoy, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Massimo Tornatore and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Evaluating Open-Weight LLMs for Hyperledger Fabric Chaincode Security: Complementarity, Coverage, and Limitations
    Glauco V Scheffel (UDESC, Brazil); Gustavo Camargo (Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Brazil); Gilson Sohn Junior (Santa Catarina State University, Brazil); Luiz Camargo (Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate Program in Applied Computing, Brazil); Charles Christian Miers (Santa Catarina State University, Brazil); Marcos A. Simplicio Jr. (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Mauricio Pillon (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil & UDESC, Brazil)

Mini-Conference Session 7: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Internet Security

15:30–17:00   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • TRAMoS: Reimagining DDoS Mitigation through a Proactive and Programmable Data Plane-based Architecture
    Santiago Ríos (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia); Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Juan Felipe Botero and Sergio Armando Gutierrez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
  • Lumeria: A Storytelling-Oriented Dashboard for Interactive Cyber Threat Intelligence Exploration
    Andy Aidoo (University of Zürich, Switzerland); Larissa Senning (UZH, Switzerland); Francisco Enguix (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Comparing IPv4 and IPv6 Scanning Activities in the Wild: A Cross-Protocol and Cross-Exposure Study
    Liang Zhao (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan); Satoru Kobayashi (Hiroshima City University, Japan); Kensuke Fukuda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  • Transitive Trust in DNS After Two Decades
    Erick Laurence Semindu, Mattijs Jonker and Raffaele Sommese (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Mini-Conference Session 8: Observability, Telemetry, and Root-Cause Analysis

15:30–17:00   |   Grados   |   Chair: TBD

  • EA-RCCS: A Telemetry-Driven Explainable AI Framework for Root-Cause Analysis in SD-WAN Networks
    Amirreza Fazelyhamedani, Muzzamil Aziz and Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany); Ramin Yahyapour (GWDG - University Göttingen, Germany)
  • IPIN: Iterative Probabilistic Inverse for Root Cause Localization in 6G UAV Networks
    Yutian Bai and Xuan Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
  • From Symptoms to Root Causes: Uncovering Failure Propagation Paths from Multimodal Observability Data in Microservices
    Ahmad Atwi (Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, France); Abdelkader Lahmadi (University of Lorraine, France); Sana Rekbi and Jhon-Sebastian rojas-Rodriguez (Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, France)
  • Explainable Root-Cause Diagnosis in Rural Multi-Hop Wireless Backhaul Networks
    Helena Kuchinski Ferreira and Jefferson Koji Sato (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil); Marcelo Eduardo Pellenz (PPGIa - Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil); Edson Emilio Scalabrin (Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil); Voldi Zambenedetti (Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil); Mauricio Biczkowski (COPEL, Brazil)

Tuesday, October 27

CNSM 2026 Opening

09:00–09:30   |   Actos

Keynote 1: Emerging market trends and opportunities in Autonomous Networks

09:30–10:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Speaker: Miguel Santos (Orange, Spain)

Full Paper Session 1: Energy- and Resource-Aware Management

10:45–12:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Elastic and Energy-Efficient Management of Mobile Core Control Plane with In-Process WASM Workers
    Masayuki Kurata (University of Tokyo, Japan & KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Kyoshiro Muramatsu (KDDI Research, Inc, Japan); Umakant Kulkarni, Van Quan Pham and Ahan Kak (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Nakjung Choi (Nokia & Bell Labs, USA); Masaki Suzuki (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)
  • Leveraging DNS for Carbon-Aware Server Selection
    Mehrshad Shakeri (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Anna Sperotto (Twente University, The Netherlands); Geert Heijenk (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Antonia Affinito (University Twente, The Netherlands)
  • On the Quest for Energy Efficient UDP Sockets
    Rui Pedro C. Monteiro (University of Minho & INESC TEC, Portugal); João Marco C. Silva (University of Minho, Portugal & INESC TEC, Portugal)
  • SPARX: Enabling Resource-Aware Model Partitioning for Distributed Inference on the Heterogeneous AI-Native Edge
    Washington R. D. Silva and Fábio Luciano Verdi (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil); Luciano de Souza Fraga and Kleber V Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil); Andrew Williams (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Omer Rana (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Full Paper Session 2: AI for Networks

13:30–15:10   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Neuro-Symbolic Root Cause Reasoning for Telecom Networks with Rule-Grounded LLMs
    Md. Shamim Towhid, Mohammad Sakibul Islam and Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina, Canada); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • ChatBGP: A Conversational AI Assistant for Real-Time BGP Monitoring and Troubleshooting
    Tomer Van Houts (AMS-IX, The Netherlands); Chrysa Papagianni (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Jan van Boesschoten (AMS-IX Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • GroundCLI: Device-Grounded CLI Discovery and Validation for LLM-Assisted Network Configuration
    Mohammad Hadi Hossaini (STORDIS, Germany); Andreas Kassler (Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), Germany & Karlstad University, Sweden); Martin Hayes (STORDIS, Germany)
  • ANI-Gamut: Benchmarking Agent Reliability across the Gamut of Agent-Network Interface Abstractions
    Lorenzo Bracciale (University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy); Stefano Salsano and Pierpaolo Loreti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Andrea Mayer (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Wim Henderickx (Nokia, Belgium)

Full Paper Session 3: Secure and Reliable Networks

15:30–17:10   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • RPL-FedID: Reliable Pseudo-Label-Enhanced Federated Device Identification
    Taisho Isobe, Haruki Ishimaru, Manato Fujimoto and Shingo Ata (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan); Kota Tsuchie (Oki Eletric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan); Nobuyuki Nakamura (OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan); Taketsugu Yao (Oki Electric Industry, Co., Ltd., Japan)
  • History-Bound Attested Enforcement Capabilities for Zero Trust Network Access
    Pierre-Loup Guerrieri and Toufik Ahmed (CNRS-LaBRI UMR 5800, University Bordeaux, Bordeaux-INP, France); Feriel Bouakkaz (EFREI Paris, France)
  • Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection in WebAssembly Using WASI Execution Traces
    Matteo Bordignon, Luis A D Knob and Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
  • Message-Level Cyber Threat Intelligence Prediction Using Heterogeneous Graphs and Tabular Models for Telegram CTI Channels
    Gabriela Ferreira Coutinho (Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil); Carlyle José De Figueiredo Martins (University of Fortaleza (Unifor), Brazil); Raimir Holanda Filho (University of Fortaleza, Brazil)

Wednesday, October 28

Full Paper Session 4: Resource Orchestration and Service Management

09:00–11:05   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Tenant-First MEC Orchestration with Serverless Abstractions and Container Checkpoint/Restore
    Pedro Coutinho (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Escaleira (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); David Rocha (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); João Almeida (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Diogo Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
  • MERLIN: Detecting and Resolving Conflicts in Infrastructure as Code Systems
    Sourav Das and Krishna Kant (Temple University, USA)
  • Resource Allocation of Microservice Applications in Multi-Tier Computing Infrastructures Using Graph Neural Network Surrogates and Genetic Algorithms
    Matias Richart (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Javier Baliosian (University of the Republic, Uruguay); Juan-Luis Gorricho (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Joan Serrat (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  • Implementation-Aware Multi-Flavour VNF Chain Placement over Heterogeneous Infrastructure Nodes
    Federica Paganelli (University of Pisa, Italy); Paola Cappanera (University of Florence, Italy); Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Sarri (University of Florence, Italy); Valerio Leone (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • A Semantic Management Plane for Governed Federated Learning in Distributed Controlled-Environment Agriculture
    Yazzed Abdalla (Research Studios Austria, Czech Republic); Amin Anjomshoaa (Research Studios Austria FG mbH, Austria); Markus Tauber (Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbh, Austria); Martin Parapatits (PhytonIQ GmbH, Austria)

Keynote 2: Towards Energy-Efficient and User-Centric Networks

11:30–12:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Speaker: Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Full Paper Session 5: Network Programmability and Protocols

13:30–15:10   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • InFlow - Bringing Information Flow Control to the Data Plane: Design and Enforcement with P4
    Lorenzo Facco Comunello (UFSM, Brazil); Muriel Figueredo Franco (Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Brazil); Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil)
  • YANG-Evolve: Agent-Orchestrated Semantic Backward Compatibility Verification for Evolving YANG Models
    Hesham Elabd (Queen's University, Canada); Juergen Dingel (Queens University, Canada); Robert Lee (TELUS Communications Inc., Canada); Ali Tizghadam (TELUS Communications, Canada)
  • Behind Prime Video's Live Streams: Characterizing the Sye Protocol
    Mauro Farina, Elma Huseinovic and Martino Trevisan (University of Trieste, Italy); Danilo Giordano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
  • SigBPF: A Primitive for Intra-Node Service Mesh Communication
    Ricardo A Oliveira (UFMS, Brazil); Marcos A. M. Vieira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Ronaldo A. Ferreira (UFMS, Brazil)

Full Paper Session 6: Network Monitoring, Telemetry, and Analytics

15:45–17:25   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Hybrid Multi-KPI Learning for Route-Level Anomaly Detection in Cellular CDR Data
    Onur Kalinagac and Malik Kalembasi (Odine Solutions, Turkey); Can Kurtulan (Odine, Turkey); Gokhan Karakus (Odine Solutions, Turkey); Akin Delibasi (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • Is Network Traffic Classification a Solved Problem? Duplication, Ceilings, and the Illusion of Progress
    Kamil Jeřábek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Josef Koumar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Jan Luxemburk (Fakulta Informačních Technologií ČVUT & CESNET, Czech Republic); Richard Plný, Jaroslav Pešek and Karel Hynek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Coverage Monitoring and Online Recalibration for Predictive Autoscaling under Deployment Drift
    Kostiantyn Morhoiev (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine); Mykhailo Klymash (Lviv National Polytechnic University, Ukraine)
  • How The Environment Taught Us To Count: Time-Sensitive Networks Telemetrics for PTPv2
    Filip Němec (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Tomas Cejka (CESNET & Czech Technical University in Prague, FIT, Czech Republic)

Thursday, October 29

Full Paper Session 7: Performance, QoS, and Resource Management

09:00–11:05   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • SARA: SLA-Aware Resource Allocation for Efficient RAN Slicing
    Setareh Alagheh Band, Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Operationalising NEF-Driven NaaS: QoS and Traffic Influence across Open-Source 5G Platforms
    Pedro Valente (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); José Vicente de Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Pedro Rito (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); João Fernandes and Duarte Fevereiro (OneSource, Portugal); Luis Rosa (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Duarte Raposo (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Luis Cordeiro (OneSource, Portugal)
  • On the Practicability of Individual QoE Management in Real-world Scenarios
    Johannes Schleicher and Michael Seufert (University of Augsburg, Germany)
  • A Robust Multi-Criterion User Guidance Method to Balance Throughput and Movement Distance in Wireless LANs
    Masahiro Kamikawa (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Akira Sumiyoshi, Takuto Matsuhashi and Syunji Yazaki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  • Cluster based Scheduled Channel Access for Multi Gateway LoRaWAN
    Noah Mehling (University of Würzburg, Germany); Julian Franz (Universität Würzburg, Germany); Frank Loh (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Keynote 3: The sentient network: telecommunications architecture evolution in the age of AGI

11:30–12:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Speaker: Ignacio Más (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

Short Paper Session 1: Artificial Intelligence and machine learning

13:30–15:15   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Discovering Impactful yet Elusive Faults with an LLM-Driven Failure-Injection Agent
    Hiroki Ikeuchi (NTT, Japan); Akio Watanabe (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yousuke Takahashi (NTT, Japan)
  • Domain Recognition of ECH-enabled QUIC Network Traffic
    Richard Plný (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Jan Luxemburk (Fakulta Informačních Technologií ČVUT & CESNET, Czech Republic); Karel Hynek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Matched-View Cross-Domain Evaluation of WireGuard VPN Traffic Classification Using Early-Flow Fingerprints
    Yasameen Sajid Razooqi and Adrian Pekar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
  • Offloading Encrypted Traffic Classification to SmartNICs with P4-DPDK
    Amith Gorthi Srinivasa Prabhakara Narasimha, Ali Mazloum, Akhil Gorthi Bala Sai, Samia Choueiri, Elie F. Kfoury and Jorge Crichigno (University of South Carolina, USA); Jaime Galán-Jiménez (University of Extremadura, Spain)
  • Transferable Classification of WireGuard Traffic
    Daniel Poliakov, Dušan Kolář and Adam Nieslanik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
  • Understanding Tool Selection for AI Agents in Multi-Server MCP Environments
    Nada Boulahya and Felipe Stillner Eufranio (Télécom Nancy, France); Léo Lavaur (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Lama Sleem (Snt, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
  • Tool-Augmented LLM Agents for Cost-Aware Campus Network Fault Diagnosis
    Wending Liu, Junjun Chen, Zhongnan Fu, Qun Shang and Hao Ma (Peking University, China)

Short Paper Session 2: Service Management

13:30–15:15   |   Grados   |   Chair: TBD

  • Influence of Spreading Factor and Coding Rate on LoRa's Transmission Success in Outdoor Scenarios
    Mario C. Silaci and Florian Lenkeit (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany)
  • Objective QoE Models for Streamed Social Extended Reality over Heterogeneous Access Networks
    Omid Saedi and Henrique Souza Rossi (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden); Karan Mitra (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
  • Classification of Communication Networks in Aviation System-of-Systems
    Alexander Frank (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany); Wolfgang F. Hommel (Bundeswehr University Munich & Munich Network Management Team, Germany)
  • Composable Call State for Real-Time RAN Root-Cause Analysis
    Pooyan Habibi (University of Toronto, Canada & Dodonadata.ai, Canada); Alberto Leon-Garcia (University of Toronto, Canada); Gordon Yip and Sushil Rawat (Telus Canada, Canada)
  • Graph Topology vs. Volumetric Features for BGP Anomaly Detection: An Empirical Evaluation
    Álvaro Jiménez Martín, Shadi Motaali and Jorge E. López de Vergara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain); Luis de Pedro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
  • Simulation of Radio Access Network Applications in IoT Environments
    Federico Trombetti, Novella Bartolini and Salvatore Pontarelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Distinguished Expert Panel

15:45–17:00   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Details to be announced.

CNSM 2026 Closing

17:00–17:15   |   Actos

Friday, October 30

Mini-Conference Session 9: Internet Routing, Infrastructure, and Sustainability

09:00–10:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Who Runs the Town? A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Municipal Internet Infrastructure
    Bulut Ulukapi (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Anna Sperotto (Twente University, The Netherlands); Ralph G Holz (University of Münster, Germany & University of Twente, The Netherlands)
  • Unpacking Forged-Origin BGP Hijack Inferences
    Ebrima Jaw (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Cristel Pelsser (UCLouvain, Belgium); Moritz Müller (SIDN Labs, unknown & University of Twente, The Netherlands); Lambert J.M. Nieuwenhuis (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Cristian Hesselman (SURF, The Netherlands & University of Twente, The Netherlands)
  • Is Carbon-Aware Inter-Domain Routing Worth the Effort?
    Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice, Italy); Annalisa Laini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
  • The real energy cost of HTTPS for securing the Web
    Pascal Engélibert (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France); Clémentine Gritti (University of Canterbury, New Zealand); Mathieu Cunche (INSA-Lyon / INRIA, France)

Mini-Conference Session 10: AI and Knowledge-Driven Network Management

11:00–12:30   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Predicting Cyberthreats from Open-Source Telegram Data Using Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Learning
    Anderson Luiz Karl, Carlyle José De Figueiredo Martins, Maria Eduarda Angelim and Carlos Jorge Lima De Freitas (University of Fortaleza (Unifor), Brazil); Paulo Barros Monteiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil); João Alexandre Lobo Marques (University of Saint Joseph, Macao & SIAT/CAS, China); Raimir Holanda Filho (University of Fortaleza, Brazil)
  • KRONOS: A Knowledge Graph-Driven Framework for P4-Orchestrated Adaptive Drone-Edge Networks
    Bishwas Wagle (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Kiran Neupane (University of Missouri, USA); Kevin Kostage (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Roshan L Neupane (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Chengyi Qu (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA); Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
  • Towards Cross-layer Orchestration of Immersive Media Systems via Digital Twin-Driven DRL
    José Santos and Matthias De Fré (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Faraz Shaikh (University of Perugia, Italy); Casper Haems (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Jeroen van der Hooft (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Tim Wauters (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Gianluca Reali and Mauro Femminella (University of Perugia, Italy); Filip De Turck (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)
  • Intent-Driven Management of Workplace Communication: A Deterministic Refinement Pipeline over Programmable Infrastructures
    Zacharie Hellouin de Cenival (Univ Toulouse, CNRS, INSA, LAAS, France); Samir Medjiah (LAAS CNRS, France & Univ Toulouse, France); Christophe Chassot (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse & INSA Toulouse, France)

Mini-Conference Session 11: Resilient Networks, Media, and Future Communication Systems

13:30–15:00   |   Actos   |   Chair: TBD

  • Online Drift Detection and Continual Learning for Failure Classification in Microwave Networks
    Ahmad Ashraf Tareef Labib, Memedhe Ibrahimi and Aryanaz Attarpour (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Alessia Pina (Nokia, Italy); Massimo Tornatore and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Joint Latency-Energy Serverless Orchestration in Integrated 6G-Satellite Vehicular Networks
    Shahrokh Vahabi (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni, Italy); Roberto Riggio (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy)
  • Less Can Be More: A Side Effect Analysis of Lightweight INT for QoS Prediction
    Gabriel Santos de Andrade (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil); Fábio Luciano Verdi (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil); Leandro Almeida (Federal Institute of Paraíba, Brazil); Chrysa Papagianni (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • BLE Device Group Fingerprinting for High-Density IoT Environments
    Katharina O. E. Müller (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Johanna Bieri and Joel Meier (Switzerland); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
  • SPARQ: Sender-Side Pacing and Risk-Aware Adaptation for Low-Latency Media-over-QUIC
    Sepehr Shirani, Reza Hedayati Majdabadi, Kerem Bekmez and Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada)

Days

Workshops

The exact layout and papers for the Workshop Sessions (DECODE, AnServApp, RLAN, etc.) will be published here soon.

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