Coseners 2025

The 37th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN 2025) will be Thu-Fri 3rd-4th July, 2025 at the Cosener’s House Abingdon.

Agenda

Thursday 3rd July 2025

10:00 Registration

10:20 Welcome

10:30 Measurements

  • Theophilus Benson (CMU) – Challenges Analyzing Connectivity in Africa
  • Mihai Mazilu* (University of Sussex) – Taming Congestion in Space: A Study of Congestion Control Algorithms on LEO Satellite Networks
  • Weihe Li* (Edin) – Pontus: A Memory-Efficient and High-Accuracy Approach for Persistence-Based Item Lookup in High-Velocity Data Streams
  • Elizabeth Boswell* (Glasgow) – Black Holes and Prisoners: Understanding AS112 Deployment Characteristics
  • Chen Ziji* (Ox) – Exploring Performance Bottlenecks in ML Systems
  • Martin Price* (Lancs) – Measuring Discrepancies in How EASM Identifies Digital Asset Ownership
  • Hugo Ramirez* (QM) – Behind the Drafts: Interaction Dynamics in the IETF RFC Process
  • Tim Chown (Jisc) – Janet & Network Research

12:10 Lunch

13:30 Security and Privacy

  • Vasilis Giotsas (Cloudflare) – An Internet-wide view of large-scale IP sharing
  • Yuanyuan Zhou* (UCL) – TwinGuard: An Adaptive Digital Twin for Real-Time HTTP(S) Intrusion Detection and Threat Intelligence
  • Ángel Merino* (UC3M) – Nanotargeting on LinkedIn
  • Hugo Pascual Adán* (UPM) – Anycast and Third-party Libraries: A Recipe for a Privacy Disaster?
  • Xinshu Ma* (Edin) – A Fast, Post-Quantum, Mutual TLS Authentication Architecture in Datacenters
  • Elisaveta Lavrentieva* (Edin) – The Case for OS-Level Website Fingerprinting Protection
  • Alexander Boyd* (Surrey) – Secret intersection count for network algorithmics
  • Andrew Losty* (UCL) – Real-world IoT DNS Compliance and Security

15:10 Coffee Break

15:40 Architecture and Performance at Scale

  • Paolo Costa (Microsoft) – Breaking the Optics versus Copper Trade-off with MicroLEDs and a Wide-and-Slow Architecture
  • Jiabo Shi* (Glasgow) – CPU-Driven Estimation of Peak GPU Memory for Deep Learning Training
  • Giles Winchester* (Sussex) – Complexity at Scale: Microservices at Alibaba
  • Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA) – ALPHAS and ARTEMIS: Adaptive Bitrate Ladders for Live Video Streaming
  • Alireza Sanaee (Huawei) – Fast Networking for the Rest of Us
  • Jichun Wu* (Cam) – STORM: Shortest-remaining-Time-first Optimisation for RDMA and Mixed traffic
  • James Madeley* (Lough)- Internet Compact Routing: The Results
  • Zhukun Wang* (Ox) – Towards Sustainable Network Switch Architecture
  • Tianyi Gao* (Edin) – Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks

17:30 Freedom!

19:00 Pimms & Banquet

Friday 4th July 2025

9:00 Edge, Cloud and Wireless Systems

  • Steven Chien* (Edin) – Remote TCP connection offload with XO
  • Ujjwal Pawar* (Edin) – Towards Scalable and Cost-Effective RAN Emulation Leveraging the Public Cloud
  • Mihail Yanev* (Aberdeen) – Careful Resumption of Internet connections
  • Josh Millar* (Imperial) – Reimagining Databox with User-Facing Agents
  • Isabel Pfannmüller* (TUM) – Distributed State Management for Cloudless Edge Orchestration
  • Andrew Ferguson* (Edin) – On Deploying a Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed
  • Sawsan El Zahr* (Ox) – Towards Sustainable CDNs

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Future Networks and Sustainability

  • Richard G. Clegg (QM) – The only way is Ethics: Embedding ethics teaching in technical modules
  • Vinod Khandkar (Surrey)- End-point authentication method using gyroscope-based shared secret for inter-smartphone direct communication
  • Aristide Akem (Ox) – A Unified Model for Packet and Flow Inference in Programmable Networks
  • Michael Schapira (HUJ) – Adventures with Analog Computing
  • Ziren Xiao (Lough) – Internet of Digital Twin Things
  • Vijay Kumar (Cardif) – Advancing OT Knowledge Practical Hands-on: An effort by Cyber Innovation Hub
  • Roman Kolcun & Chen Chen (Cam) – EDGELESS: A Serverless Platform Connecting Edge and Cloud
  • Mahesh Marina (Edin) – Efficient Earth Observation with GenAI

12:35 Lunch and Brendan Murphy Award

Note, a * next to a presentation means the talk is eligible for the Brendan Murphy prize.

Registration

Registration can be done via the QMUL eShop service here. We have three ticket types:

  • Two Day Full Registration (base package) [£100]: Includes both days of attendance, covering coffee breaks and lunches. For this ticket, you must select the correct additional accommodation option:
    • Thursday accommodation & banquet for staff: +£150
    • Thursday accommodation & banquet for students: +£25
    • Wednesday accommodation: +£120
  • One Day Rate (excluding accommodation, excluding banquet) [£75]: Includes one day of attendance, covering coffee breaks and lunch. There is an option to purchase a separate banquet ticket.
  • Two Day Rate (excluding accommodation, excluding banquet) [£150]: Includes two days of attendance, covering coffee breaks and lunches. There is an option to purchase a separate banquet ticket.

Presentation Proposals (Closed)

The deadline for presentation proposals was 23rd May 2025. Unfortunately, no late submissions can be considered due to the limited number of slots available

Sponsorship and Donations

We would like to thank our sponsors, the Internet Society. We are again running the “Patron Registration” option, allowing a voluntary £250 contribution during the registration process. We would like to thank Jörg Ott, for generously donating to support the workshop. This money goes towards subsidising student registration fees, and is vital for maintaining accessibility.