27th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks

Intelligent network service management across the compute continuum

March 11-14, 2024
Paris, France

ICIN 2024 Program

Final Program

Timing used is CET/UTC+1h

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Day #1: March 11, 2024
8:30 - 9:15
Registration
9:15 - 10:45

Tutorial #1 (Part I): Setting up a Reinforcement Learning pipeline for a Telco Core Network

Speakers: Shantanu Verma (Orange Innovation Networks, Gurgaon, India) and Guillaume Fraysse (Orange Innovation Networks, Paris, France)

 

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Workshop on iNtent drivEn autonomouS neTwORks (NESTOR)

Welcome

NEST #1: Session 1

Session Chair: Bruno Chatras (Independant Consultant, France)

Invited Presentation: ETSI NFV activities on Autonomous Networks

Speaker: Haitao Xia (Huawei, China)

Keynote: What can knowledge injection bring to intent-based networking?

Speaker: Sylvaine Kerboeuf (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

Knowledge Driven Policy Management for Autonomous Networks
Lingli Deng (China Mobile, China)

10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45

Tutorial #1 (Part I): Setting up a Reinforcement Learning pipeline for a Telco Core Network

Speakers: Shantanu Verma (Orange Innovation Networks, Gurgaon, India) and Guillaume Fraysse (Orange Innovation Networks, Paris, France)

 

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Workshop on iNtent drivEn autonomouS neTwORks (NESTOR)

NEST #2: Session 2

Session Chair: Kostas Katsalis (DOCOMO Euro-Labs,Germany)

Intent Negotiation Empowers Advanced Operations for the Intent-Driven Autonomous Network
Jinguo Zhu (ZTE, China); Pengxiang Xie and Manchang Ju (ZTE Corporation, China); Lingli Deng, Keguang He and Kaixi Liu (China Mobile, China)

A Declarative Reasoning Approach to Conflict Management in Intent-Based Networking
Jacopo Massa, Stefano Forti, Federica Paganelli, Patrizio Dazzi and Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Towards Intent-Based Scheduling for Performance and Security in Edge-To-Cloud Networks
José Santos (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Eddy Truyen (KU Leuven, Belgium); Christoph Baumann (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Filip De Turck (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Gerald Budigiri and Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven, Belgium)

 

Conclusion/Closing

12:45 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30

Tutorial #2 (Part I): Recent advances in Container Orchestration: Network-Aware Scheduling in Container Clouds

Speakers: José Santos (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Gent, Belgium) and Chen Wang (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA)

 

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Workshop on 6G Network Use Cases and Verticals (6GN)

Opening session

Keynote: Pan-European Trials and Pilots: the story so far in the 5G-PPP, and the long way ahead towards 6G in the SNS-JU

Speakers: Carles Antón-Haro (6G Industry Association (6G-IA))  

Session Chair: Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)

GN #1: Control & Orchestration

Session Chair: Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)  

Dual Timescale Orchestration System for Elastic Control of NextG Cloud-Integrated Networks
Quirino Pagliuca (TIM, Italy); Luciano Jerez Chaves (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Pasquale Imputato (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Antonia Tulino (Università degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Jaime Llorca (New York University, USA)  

Resilient Cloud Control System: Dynamic Frequency Adaptation via Q-Learning
Fatemeh Akbarian, William Tärneberg, Emma Fitzgerald and Maria Kihl (Lund University, Sweden)

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30

Tutorial #2 (Part II): Recent advances in Container Orchestration: Network-Aware Scheduling in Container Clouds

Speakers: José Santos (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Gent, Belgium) & Chen Wang (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA)

 

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Workshop on 6G Network Use Cases and Verticals (6GN)

GN #2: CMedia Vertical

Session Chair: Hamzeh Khalili (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)

A QoE-Guaranteed Routing Scheme for VR Video Streaming Using Monte Carlo Tree Search in SDNs
Mingchun Xu , Yu Chen and Yingjie Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Genetic Algorithm With Gene Regulatory Networks Based Optimization Method for Distributed Video Analysis System
Seishiro Inoue, Masaaki Yamauchi, Daichi Kominami, Hideyuki Shimonishi and Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)

A Simulation of Energy Optimized Distributed Video Processing on 28 GHz Network
Nattaon Techasarntikul, Hideyuki Shimonishi and Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)

Multimodal Object Recognition Using Bayesian Attractor Model for 2D and 3D Data
Haruhito Ando, Daichi Kominami, Ryoga Seki, Hideyuki Shimonishi and Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)

Closing Session

Day #2: March 12, 2024
8:30 - 9:15
Registration
9:15 - 10:45

Tutorial #3: Green NFV: framework and enablers for energy savings in telecom network deployments

Speakers: Hammad Zafar (NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany) & Joan Triay (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany)

 

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Tutorial #4: Enabling Networking Technologies for High Performance Computing

Speaker: Cedric Westphal (Futurewei, USA)

10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45

Opening Session

11:45 - 12:45

Keynote #1: Network and service management across the compute continuum

Speaker: Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

Session Chair: Carmen Mas Machuca (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)

12:45 - 14:00

Multi-Objective Microservice Orchestration: Balancing Security and Performance in CCAM
Stefano Berlato, Silvio Cretti, Domenico Siracusa and Silvio Ranise (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

From a business intent to a network deployment with user-friendly interfaces and natural language processing
Barbara Orlandi (Nokia Bell Labs, France), Sandrine Lataste (Orange Labs, France), Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Frederic Faucheux, Bruno Mongazon and Olivier Marce (Nokia Bell Labs, France), Marc Bouillon, Xiaofeng Huang, Sihem Cherrared and Pascal Delvallet (Orange Labs, France)

A Platform for Time-Sensitive Networking in Converged IoT-Cloud Environments
Georgios Papathanail, Ilias Sakellariou, Lefteris Mamatas and Panagiotis Papadimitriou (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Experiments with Digital Security Processes over SDN-based Cloud-native 5G Core Networks
Sarantis Kalafatidis, Georgios Agrafiotis, Konstantinos GIapantzis, Antonios Lalas and Konstantinos Votis (Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH), Greece)

ClusterSlice: A Zero-touch Deployment Platform for the Edge Cloud Continuum
Lefteris Mamatas, Sotiris Skaperas and Ilias Sakellariou (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Demonstrating Runtime Microservice Rescheduling in Hybrid Clouds for Cost Minimization
Silvio Cretti, Marco Zambianco and Domenico Siracusa (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

14:00 - 16:00

FPS #1: Edge Computing and IoT

Session Chair: Andreas Kassler (Karlstadt University, Sweden & TH Deggendorf, Germany)

Dynamic Schedule Computation for Time-Aware Shaper in Converged IoT-Cloud Environments
Georgios Papathanail, Ilias Sakellariou, Lefteris Mamatas and Panagiotis Papadimitriou (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Investigation of Container Network Function Deployment Costs in the Edge Cloud
Kien Nguyen (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Filip Simonovski (University of Augsburg, Germany); Frank Loh (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Nguyen Huu Thanh (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)

In-depth analysis of Kubernetes manifest verification tools for robust CNF deployment
Boubacar Diarra (Orange Labs & Inria Lille, France); Karine Guillouard and Meryem Ouzzif (Orange Labs, France); Philippe Merle (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France); Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France)

DAXiot: A Decentralized Authentication and Authorization Scheme for Dynamic IoT Networks
Artur Philipp and Axel Küpper (TU Berlin, Germany); Philip Raschke (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00

SPS #1: Networking and Communications

Session Chair: David Borsatti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Secure and Trustful Cross-domain Communication with Decentralized Identifiers in 5G and Beyond
Hai Dinh-Tuan (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Sandro Rodriguez Garzon (Technische Universität Berlin & Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany); Jianeng Fu (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

On cross-layer optimization for real-time remote communication in 5G and beyond
Toni Dimitrovski (TNO, The Netherlands); Evangelos Alexiou (Xiaomi Technology, The Netherlands); Lucia D'Acunto, Tim Bergman, Rick Hindriks and Belma Turkovic (TNO, The Netherlands)

Round Trip Times (RTTs): Comparing Terrestrial and LEO Satellite Networks
Javier Conde (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Gonzalo Martínez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Pedro Reviriego (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Jose Alberto Hernandez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Shortcuts: A Simple Mechanism for Reducing the Data Path Delay in Beyond 5G and 6G Networks
Marius Corici (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Hemant Zope (Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany); Hauke Buhr and Christian Scheich (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany)

XDQ: Enhancing XDP with Queuing and Packet Scheduling
Freysteinn Alfredsson (Karlstads Universitet, Sweden); Per Hurtig and Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University, Sweden); Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (Red Hat, Denmark); Jesper Dangaard Brouer (Cloudflare, Denmark)

18:15 - 19:45

Welcome Reception

Day #3: March 13, 2024
8:30 - 9:15
Registration
9:15 - 11:15

FPS #2: Edge-Cloud Continuum

Session Chair: Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

FORK: A Kubernetes-compatible Federated Orchestrator of Fog-native applications over multi-domain edge-to-cloud ecosystems
Shahmir Ejaz and Mays F AL-Naday (University of Essex, United Kingdom (UK)

Cost Minimization in Multi-cloud Systems with Runtime Microservice Re-orchestration
Marco Zambianco, Silvio Cretti and Domenico Siracusa (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

VOICE: Value-of-Information for Compute Continuum Ecosystems
Mattia Zaccarini and Benedetta Cantelli (University of Ferrara, Italy); Maria Fazio (University of Messina, Italy); William Fornaciari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Filippo Poltronieri, Cesare Stefanelli and Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

LLRS: A Low latency Resource Scheduling in Cloud Continuum orchestration
David Kule Mukuhi (Bell Labs , Nokia Networks France, Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Abdelkader Outtagarts (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

11:15 - 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45

Keynote #2: AI Continuum for Smart, Secure and Sustainable Network

Speaker: Imen Grida Ben Yahia (Amazon Web Services, UK)

Session Chair: Pal Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

12:45 - 14:00

Multi-Objective Microservice Orchestration: Balancing Security and Performance in CCAM
Stefano Berlato, Silvio Cretti, Domenico Siracusa and Silvio Ranise (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

From a business intent to a network deployment with user-friendly interfaces and natural language processing
Barbara Orlandi (Nokia Bell Labs, France), Sandrine Lataste (Orange Labs, France), Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Frederic Faucheux, Bruno Mongazon and Olivier Marce (Nokia Bell Labs, France), Marc Bouillon, Xiaofeng Huang, Sihem Cherrared and Pascal Delvallet (Orange Labs, France)

A Platform for Time-Sensitive Networking in Converged IoT-Cloud Environments
Georgios Papathanail, Ilias Sakellariou, Lefteris Mamatas and Panagiotis Papadimitriou (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Experiments with Digital Security Processes over SDN-based Cloud-native 5G Core Networks
Sarantis Kalafatidis, Georgios Agrafiotis, Konstantinos GIapantzis, Antonios Lalas and Konstantinos Votis (Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH), Greece)

ClusterSlice: A Zero-touch Deployment Platform for the Edge Cloud Continuum
Lefteris Mamatas, Sotiris Skaperas and Ilias Sakellariou (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Demonstrating Runtime Microservice Rescheduling in Hybrid Clouds for Cost Minimization
Silvio Cretti, Marco Zambianco and Domenico Siracusa (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

14:00 - 16:00

FPS #3: Security

Session Chair: Paul Veitch (BT, UK)

Revealing the Threat Landscape of Intent-based Management in O-RAN
Filippo Rebecchi (Ericsson France, France); Daniel Cho and Loay Abdelrazek (Ericsson, Sweden); Henrik Forssell (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Jonathan Olsson (Ericsson, Sweden)

SEAL: Secure and Efficient Authentication using Linkage for Blockchain Network
Hsiang-Jen Hong (Western Washington University, USA); Sang-Yoon Chang (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); Wenjun Fan (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China); Simeon Wuthier (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)

Secure and authorized data sharing among different IoT network domains using Beez Blockchain
Enrico Zanardo (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy & University of Nicosia, Italy); Barbara Martini (Universitas Mercatorum, Italy)

Moving Target Defense for Cloud-Native Applications
Ali Awarkeh (University of CNAM, France); Rim El Malki (Ericsson, R&D, France); Filippo Rebecchi (Ericsson France, France)

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00

SPS #2: Cloud Optimization and Applications

Session Chair: Ilhem Fajjari (Orange Innovation, France)

Assessing supervised machine learning in detecting GPS spoofing attacks on UAV application use-cases
Dimitrios-Evangelos Gkogkos, Lefteris Mamatas and Sophia Petridou (University of Macedonia, Greece)

Edge AI framework for Large Scale Smart Agriculture
Seung Woo Kum (Korea Elecronics Technology Institute, Korea (South)); Seungtaek Oh and Jaewon Moon (Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Korea (South))

Memory Bandwidth Throttling to Maximise Performance and Reduce Power Consumption
Paul Veitch (BT & Bt, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chris MacNamara and John J Browne (Intel Corporation, Ireland)

Optimizing TSN Routing, Scheduling, and Task Placement in Virtualized Edge-Compute Platforms
Hamza Chahed and Andreas J. Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden)

Network Planning for the Future Railway Communications
Cristian Bermudez Serna (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Peng Lin Huang (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Anna Prado (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Carmen Mas-Machuca (University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBW), Germany)

19:30

Conference Dinner

Day #4: March 14, 2024
9:00 - 9:45
Registration
9:45 - 11:15

FPS #4: Network Management and Processing

Session Chair: Tim Wauters Ghent University - imec, Belgium)

Intent-based network management with user-friendly interfaces and natural language processing
Barbara Orlandi (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Sandrine Lataste (Orange, France); SylvaineKerboeuf (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Marc Bouillon (Orange Labs, France); Xiaofeng HuangOrange, France); Frederic Faucheux (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Arzhang Shahbazi and 

Segment Routing for Chaining Micro-Services at Different Programmable Network Levels
Bertrand Mathieu (Orange Innovation, France); Olivier D Dugeon (Orange Labs & FranceTelecom, France); Joël Roman Ky (Orange Innovation, France); Philippe Graff and Thibault Cholez (Universite de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, France)

E-Commerce Bot Traffic: In-Network Impact, Detection, and Mitigation
Masoud Hemmatpour (Arctic University of Norway & Simula Research Laboratory (SRL)Norway); Changgang Zheng and Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

11:15 - 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45

Keynote #3: NFV-COIN: Leveraging In-Network Computing with Network Function Virtualization

Speaker: Elias P. Duarte (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil)

Session Chair: Bruno Chatras (Independent Expert, France)

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

FPS #5: Cloud Resource Allocation and Performance Analysis

Session Chair: Abdelkader Outtagarts (Nokia Networks, France)

Multi-cloud Containerized Service Scheduling Optimizing Computation and Communication
Weifan Zhang, Sokol Kosta and Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

gPerfIsol: GNN-based Rate-Limits Allocation for Performance Isolation in Multi-tenant Cloud
Benoit Nougnanke (IIJ Research Laboratory, Japan & JFLI CNRS, Japan); Justin Loye (IIJ Research Lab, Japan); Jean-François Baffier (National Institute of Informatics & Tohoku University, Japan); Simone Ferlin (Red Hat and Karlstad University, Sweden); Marc Bruyere (IIJ Innovation Institute & The University of Tokyo, Japan); Yann Labit (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France)

Empowering ISPs with Cloud Gaming User Experience Modeling: A NVIDIA GeForce NOW Use-Case
Gergely Dobreff and Dániel Frey (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Attila Bader (Ericsson, Hungary); Alija Pašić (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)ir: Bruno Chatras (Independent Expert, France)

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15

Panel: Intelligent network service management across the compute continuum

Moderator: Pal Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Panelists:

  • Elias P. Duarte Jr. (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
  • Fabrice Guillemin (Orange Innovation, France)
  • Deng Hui (Huawei, China), on behalf of ETSI/NFV
  • Sylvaine Kerboeuf (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
  • Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy)
17:15

Best Paper Award and Closing Session