26th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks

Distributed Intelligence across Network and Edge-to-Cloud Continuum

March 07-09, 2023
Paris, France

Program

Technical Program of the
26th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks
ICIN 2023
March 07-09, 2023 – Paris, France

*Timing used is CET/UTC+1h

Program at a glance

Day 1 – Tuesday, March 7

Time

Event

09:00 – 10:30

Tutorial #1: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies for 6G Networks and Service Management (Part 1)
Speakers: Farhana Javed & Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)

09:00 – 10:30

Tutorial #2: Distributed, Robust and Trustworthy ServiceDelivery in Edge-Assisted Green 6G
Speaker: Marco Martalò & Virginia Pilloni (University of Cagliari, Italy)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Tutorial #1: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies for 6G Networks and Service Management (Part 2)
Speakers: Farhana Javed & Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00

Opening Conference

14:00 – 15:00

Keynote #1: Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Twin: How to exploit a closer integration
Speakers: Roberto Minerva (Telecom SudParis, France)
Chair: Stuart Clayman (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (Great Britain))

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 16:50

Technical Session #1: Software-Defined Infrastructures
Chair: Varun Gowtham (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

A Collaborative and Distributed Learning-Based Solution to Autonomously Plan Computer Networks
Doriana Monaco, Alessio Sacco, Enrico Alberti and Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Flavio Esposito (Saint Louis University, USA)

Archipelago: A Hybrid Multi-Node Campus SDN Architecture
William Brockelsby (Duke University & North Carolina State University, USA); Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)

DCnet: Evaluation Of A New Data Center Network Architecture
Benjamin Hardin and Douglas Comer (Purdue University, USA); Adib Rastegarnia (USA)

Toward migration to SDN: Generating SDN Forwarding Rules by Decision Tree
Sawsan Youssef (University of Brno Technology, Czech Republic); Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

17:00 – 19:00

Welcome Reception / Demo Session#1

Real-time Pipeline Reconfiguration of P4 Programmable Switches to Efficiently Detect and Mitigate DDoS Attacks
Amir Al Sadi (University of Bologna, Italy); Marco Savi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy); Davide Berardi (University of Bologna, Italy); Andrea Melis (University of Bologna, Italy); Marco Prandini (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy); Franco Callegati (Universita` di Bologna, Italy)

Federated Learning for Distributed NWDAF Architecture
Parsa Rajabzadeh (Université de Lyon Sainte Etienne, France); Abdelkader Outtagarts (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

RAINSTORM: ReconnAIssaNce Sdr plaTfORM
Ivan Palamà (University of Rome Tor Vergata & CNIT, Italy); Andrea Paci (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Marco Ferri (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Lorenzo Valeriani (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy)

5GShell: a plug-and-play framework for automating the deployment of 5G cellular networks
Francesco Mancini (CNIT / University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy); Leonardo Tamiano (CNIT, Italy); Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy)

Day 2 – Wednesday, March 8

Time

Event

09:00 – 10:15

Technical Session #2: Edge-Cloud Continuum
Chair: Fabian Eichhorn (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

Decentralized Serverless IoT Dataflow Architecture for the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum
Juan José López Escobar (Universidade de Vigo, Spain); Felipe Gil-Castiñeira (University of Vigo, Spain); Rebeca Diaz-Redondo (AtlanTTIC. University of Vigo, Spain)

Customizable Cloud-Native Infrastructure for Private 5G (R)
Qianli Zhao (Intel & Intel Coporation, China); Ranganath Sunku (Intel Corporation & CNCF SMP Maintainer, OpenStack PDX Meetup Organizer, CollectD Maintainer, USA); Shaohe Feng ( & Intel, China); Gang Li (Comba Network System Company Limited, China); Simon J Li and Zhongbao Shi (Intel, China); Ding Baoguo ( & Comba Network Systems Company Limited, China); Jiming Gao (Intel & Intel China, China)

Low-latency remote-offloading system for accelerator offloading (R)
Shogo Saito, Kei Fujimoto and Akinori Shiraga (NTT Corporation, Japan)

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break / Demo Session #2

Decentralized incentive-based DDoS mitigation
Sara Bitan (CyCloak, Israel); Adi Molkho (HAHARASH 4 & Huawei, Israel); Alon Dankner (Consultant, Israel)

10:45 – 11:45

Keynote #2: Slices: European Scientific Large-Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies
Speaker: Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Université, France)
Chair:Kurt Tutschku (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

11:45 – 12:25

Technical Session #3: Edge, Cloud and Security
Chair: Mays F AL-Naday (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Enhancement in Multus CNI for DPDK Applications in the Cloud Native Environment (R)
Ayesha Ayub, Mubeena Ishaq and Muhammad Munir (xFlow Research Inc., Pakistan)

Real-time DDoS Attack Defense System in SDN Using LSSOM (R)
Shijin Liu and Hiroaki Fukuda (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan); Paul Leger (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break /Demo session #3

PCANT: Programmable Capture and Analysis of Network Traffic
Rémi Varloot (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Ludovic Noirie (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

DisPOSE: Demonstrating Opportunistic Multi-tenant Fog Orchestration
Vincent Verdot (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Pierre Peloso (Nokia, France); Mathieu Boussard (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Richard Douville (Nokia Bell Labs France & Nokia, France); Rémi Varloot (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

13:30 – 14:20

Technical Session #4: Non-terestrial and Cellular Networks
Chair: Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnol`ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)

Internet of Things over Beam-Hopping-Based Non-terrestrial Networks
Ying Chen (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China); Feiran Zhao and Ruonan Yang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Chuili Kong and Rong Li (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China); Jun Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China)

14:20 – 15:20

Technical Session #5: Radio Access Networks
Chair: Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnol`ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)

Open Radio Access Network challenges for Next Generation Mobile Network
Nischal Aryal (Orange Innovation, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IMT, Telecom SudParis, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)

A 6G RAN-Core Control Plane Converence Framework
Marius Corici, Fabian Eichhorn and Eric Troudt (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Florian Schreiner (Fraunhofer Institue FOKUS, Germany); Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany)

Efficient Optimization of Actor-Critic Learning for Constrained Resource Orchestration in RAN with Network Slicing
Hafiza Kanwal Janjua, Ignacio de Miguel and Ramón J. Durán Barroso (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain); Oscar González de Dios (Telefonica I+D, Spain); Juan Carlos Aguado and Noemí Merayo (Universidad de
Valladolid, Spain); Patricia Fernández and Rubén M. Lorenzo (University of Valladolid, Spain)

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee break

15:50 – 17:05

Technical Session #6: Security
Chair: Andrea Melis (University of Bologna, Italy)

A data infrastructure for heterogeneous telemetry adaptation. Application to Netflow-based cryptojacking detection
Alejandro Antonio Moreno-Sancho (Atos Research & Innovation, Spain); Antonio Pastor and Ignacio D Martinez-Casanueva (Telefonica I+D, Spain); Daniel González-Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain); Luis Bellido (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Soteria: An Approach for Detecting Multi-Institution Attacks
Saif Zabarah, Omar Naman, Mohammad Ali Salahuddin and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada); Samer Al-Kiswany (University of Waterloo & Acronis Research, Canada)

Service-based Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Anomaly Detection in Fog Ecosystems
Mays F AL-Naday and Martin J Reed (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vlad Dobre (ABS Laundry Business Solutions, Romania); Salman Toor (Uppsala University, Sweden); Bruno Volckaert (Ghent
University-Imec, Belgium); Filip De Turck (Ghent University – imec, Belgium)

20:15

Conference Dinner

Day 3 – Thursday, March 9

Time

Event

09:15 – 10:30

Technical Session #7: Congestion Control and Performance Evaluation
Chair:Muge Sayit (Ege University, Turkey)

Troubleshooting Enhancement with Automated Slow-Start Detection
Ziad Tlaiss (IMT Atlantique, France); Isabelle Hamchaoui (Orange Labs, France); Isabel Amigo (IMT Atlantique, France); Alexandre Ferrieux (Orange Labs, France); Sandrine Vaton (IMT Atlantique, France)

Distributed Congestion Control Method for Sending Safety Messages to Vehicles at a Set Target Distance
Kai Takahashi and Shigeo Shioda (Chiba University, Japan)

Troubleshooting Distributed Network Emulation
Houssam ElBouanani, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous and Thierry Turletti (Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, France)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:50

Technical Session #8: Multimedia
Chair:William Brockelsby (Duke University & North Carolina State University, USA)

Implementation of 5G Experimentation Environment for Accelerated Development of Mobile Media Services and Network Applications
Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnol`ogic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Sarang Kahvazadeh (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Jane Frances Pajo (Telenor Research and
Innovation, Norway); Ronan Frizzell (Inlecom Commercial Pathways, Ireland); Andrea Castelli (Brainstorm Multimedia, Spain); Martin Tolan (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland); Markopoulos Ioannis (NOVA,
France); Robin Ribback (SWISS TXT, Switzerland); Espen Erikstad (Norigin Media, Norway); Didier Nicholon (EKTACOM, France); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Loizos Christofi (eBOS Technologies,
Cyprus); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Spain)

In-Network Video Quality Adaption using Packet Trimming at the Edge
Stuart Clayman (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mustafa Tuker (Ege University, Turkey); Emre Karakış (Ege University & Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey); Muge Sayit (Ege
University, Turkey)

11:50 – 12:30

Technical Session #9: Network Management and Monitoring
Chair:William Brockelsby (Duke University & North Carolina State University, USA)

How Organic Networking meets 6G Campus Network Management Challenges
Marius Corici, Fabian Eichhorn and Varun Gowtham (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany); Elena-Ramona Modroiu (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany);
Florian Schreiner (Fraunhofer Institue FOKUS, Germany)

A Novel Telemetry Compression Method for Enhancing Network Resilience (R)
Pedro Martinez-Julia and Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Hitoshi Asaeda (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 – 14:30

Keynote #3: Artificial Intelligence for Network Automation – Standards Enablers and Research Directions
Speaker: Laurent Ciavaglia (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Chair:Kiran Makhijani (Futurewei Technologies, USA)

14:30 – 15:45

Technical Session #10: Distributed Ledger Technology
Chair: Mays F AL-Naday (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

On the Performance of Consensus Mechanisms in Privacy-Enabled Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Renewable Energy Marketplace
Roman-Valentyn Tkachuk and Dragos Ilie (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Rémi Robert (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Victor Kebande and Kurt Tutschku (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

User Profile and Mobile Number Portability for Beyond 5G: Blockchain-based Solution
Fariba Ghaffari (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IRT B-COM, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)

Accountable and Distributed Industrial Control Systems with Autonomous Contracts
Kiran Makhijani (Futurewei Technologies, USA); Tooba Faisal (Kings College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

15:45 – 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 – 17:15

Panel: Network Virtualization: after 10 years of NFV, where do we go?
Moderator: Bruno Chatras (Orange retried, France)

17:15 – 17:30

Closing