The 38th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN 2026) was held Thursday 2nd – Friday 3rd July, 2026 at the Cosener’s House, Abingdon.
Thursday 2nd July
10:00 Registration
10:20 Welcome
10:30 Community Business
- Jon Crowcroft – The Internet Future Manifesto
11:00 Security & Storms (Session Chair: Gregor Haywood)
- Molham Khoja* (Ed) – Black-Box Evasion Attacks on Data-Driven Open RAN Apps: Tailored Design and Experimental Evaluation
- Andrew Losty* (UCL) – Empirical Analysis of Matter Standard’s Security and Privacy
- Elizabeth Boswell* (Glasgow) – Another Man’s Treasure: Security and Privacy Risks of Junk DNS Queries
- Sawsan El Zahr* (Ox) – From Measurement to Emissions: Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Traffic Flows
- Saeed Fadaei* (Surrey) – Satellite Network Performance During Severe or Extreme Geomagnetic Storms
12:15 Lunch
13:45 AI & ML Systems (Session Chair: Noga H. Rotman)
- Mark Handley (OpenAI/UCL) – MRC and static source routing: how we trained GPT 5.5
- Noa Zilberman (Ox) – The Case for Panel Scale Computing
- Jason Miller* (Ox) – Panel-Scale Network Topologies for Efficient AI Inference
- Marco Molè* (Milan) – Cache Injection Policies
- Yutong Zhao* (UCL) – ML for ML
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Mobile & Wireless Networking (Session Chair: Eiko Yoneki)
- Jörg Ott (TUM) – Storage in Space
- Kyle Jamieson (Princeton) – Learning a 5G Mobile Scheduler with High Resolution Telemetry
- Yibo Ma* (Ed) – Practical Energy Optimization for Heterogeneous Mobile Networks via Digital Twins
- Ujjwal Pawar* (Ed) – Towards Reducing Mobile Network OPEX with Open RAN
- Bolun Zhang* (Ed) – Towards Automated RAN Configuration Tuning in Cellular Network with Causal Learning
- Tianxin Wang (Ed) – Learning to Receive: Adaptive and Collaborative Neural Receivers for Future Wireless Systems
17:00 Feeling the Heat with HotNets (Session Chair: Gareth Tyson)
- Paolo Costa (Microsoft) & Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Rethinking HotNets (Without Losing Its Identity)
17:15 Free Time
19:00 Pimms & Banquet
Friday 3rd July
9:00 Protocols & Compute (Session Chair: Michael Schapira)
- Maria Gragera Garces* (Ed) – Why should you pay attention to Distributed Quantum Computing?
- Haoxiang Huang* (Ox) – Load-Balancing Mixture-of-Experts Inference via Prescheduled Optical Circuit Switching
- Michio Honda (Ed) – Secure Message Transport (SMT) Protocol Updates
- Richard Clegg (QM) – Raphtory, efficient software for all your network analysis needs
- Jichun Wu* (Cam) – PIN: Less Is More for RDMA Load Balancing
- Tim Chown (JISC) – Janet update
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Datacentres & Hardware (Session Chair: Peter Pietzuch)
- Wenchen Han* (UCL) – DynamiQ: Accelerating Gradient Synchronization using Compressed Multi-hop All-reduce
- Morteza Kheirkhah (GSMA) – Shaping the Future of Connectivity: GSMA’s 6G and AI Initiatives in Action
- Smita Vijayakumar (Ox) – Congestion Prevention for Device-Initiated AI Networking
- Filippo Carloni (Milan) – From Protocol Diversity to Hardware Offloading: Rethinking Packet Parsing Costs
- Gregor Haywood (Abertay) – Is the Cloud *Actually* Better?
12:15 Lunch
Registration
Registration is closed. We had two ticket types available. The registration page was here, and the deadline was 10th June 2026.
- Full Registration with Accommodation (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
- Day Rate (excluding accommodation, excluding banquet) [£100]: Includes two days of attendance, covering coffee breaks and lunch. There is an option to purchase a separate banquet ticket.
Sponsorship
We would again like to thank the Internet Society for generously sponsoring the workshop. Their funding enabled us to offer subsidised registration fees for students. This year’s edition was also supported by a generous award by UKRI, as part of their Future Internet activities.
