Coseners 2023

35th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN 2023) Thu-Fri 13-14 July 2023.

MSN’23 (aka “Coseners”) has now finished. With almost eighty attendees it was a busy occasion.

Agenda

Thursday 13th July

10:00 Registration

10:25 Welcome

10:30 Machine Learning & Data (Chair: Hamed Haddadi)

  • Jon Crowcroft (Cam) – What did AI ever do for us? [Slides]
  • Joshua Levett (York) – The Internet Speaks: What we can learn from BGP data [Slides]
  • Jiangtao Wang (Coventry) – Mobile Crowd Sensing for Population Health [Slides]
  • Changgang Zheng (Ox) – Is In-network Machine Learning So Easy? [Slides]
  • Xinpeng Hong (Ox) – In-Network Machine Learning for Market Prediction Using Limit Order Books [Slides]
  • Yushan Huang (Imperial) – Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning Inference and Model Personalization on MCUs [Slides]
  • Luca Giacomoni (Sussex) – Reinforcement Learning-based Congestion Control: A Systematic Evaluation of Efficiency and Fairness [Slides]
  • Waleed Iqbal (QM) – Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities on the Nextdoor Social Network [Slides]

12:30 Lunch

13:45 Security & Trust (Chair: Ignacio Castro)

  • Anna Maria Mandalari (UCL) & Vadim Safronov (Imp) – Do we need myriads of cloud-based safeguards? Using a home router for AI-powered IoT threats detection [Slides]
  • Chris Jensen (Cam) – MultiPaxos and Raft: which is more reliable? [Slides]
  • Sawsan El Zahr (Ox) – Candidate Metrics for Carbon-Efficient Routing
  • Fabio Palmese (Milan/UCL) – Designing a Forensic-ready Wi-Fi Access Point for the Internet of Things [Slides]
  • Vadim Safronov (Cam) – Towards Distributed and Protocol-Independent IoT Interoperation in Smart Spaces [Slides]
  • Andrew Jeffery (Cam) – Migrating Key-Value Data Stores to the Edge [Slides]
  • Marwan Fayed (Cloudflare) – Level-setting Encrypted Client Hello

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 Systems (Chair: Dimitrios Pezaros)

  • Gianni Antichi (Milan/QM) – Software Offload for the Masses! [Slides]
  • Roman Kolcun (Cam) – Scalable Device Identification for IoT Networks using Binary Classification Models at the Edge [Slides]
  • Al Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif (Cam) – Towards Latency-Aware Linux Scheduling for Serverless Workloads [Slides]
  • Will Fantom (Lancs) – NES: A Network Emulation System for CI Testing [Slides]
  • Andrew Ferguson (Edin) – CoreKube: An Efficient, Autoscaling and Resilient Mobile Core System [Slides]
  • Aiden Valentine (Sussex) – Data Transport for the Orbiting Internet [Slides]
  • Gregor Haywood (StA) – Eluding Traffic Analysis with Multipath Spread Spectrum [Slides]

17:15 Free Time

Friday 14th July

9:30 Networks (Chair: Andrew Moore)

  • Tanya Shreedhar (Edin) – A Longitudinal View at the Adoption of Multipath TCP [Slides]
  • James Madeley (Lough) – Compact Routing the AS Graph [Slides]
  • Kishan Sthankiya (QM) – AIMM low: A simulation study for energy efficiency in 5G Radio Access Networks [Slides]
  • Smita Vijayakumar (Cam) – Scheduling for Reduced Tail Latencies in Highly Utilized Datacenters [Slides]
  • Ivan Nikitin (Glasgow) – Typing network communication [Slides]
  • Wenchen Han (UCL) – FRANCIS: Fast Reaction Algorithms for Network Coordination In Switches [Slides]
  • Wenrui Zuo (QM) – Set in Stone: Analysis of an Immutable Web3 Social Media Platform [Slides]

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Application Layer (Chair: Anna Maria Mandalari)

  • Matt Barnes (QM) – Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy [Slides]
  • Cheick Tidiane Ba (Milan) – Analyzing and predicting user cross-chain behavior with temporal multilayer graphs [Slides]
  • Yiannis Psaras (Protocol Labs) – Content Censorship in the InterPlanetary File System [Slides]
  • Posco Tso (Lough) – S-Cache: Function Caching for Serverless Edge Computing [Slides]
  • Ignacio Castro (QM) – Understanding the Internet evolution by mining standardisation organisations [Slides]
  • Joel Obstfeld (Cisco) – Web3? And why would a business want to use it? [Slides]

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Freedom

Registration Fees

The registration has now closed, as all tickets have been sold. The available fees were as follows:

  • Day Rate (inc. dinner): Includes two days of attendance, covering all talks, coffee breaks and lunch. It also includes the social dinner on Thursday. It does not include accommodation. [£100]
  • Day Rate (exc. dinner): Includes two days of attendance, covering all talks, coffee breaks and lunch. It does not include the social dinner on Thursday. It does not include accommodation. [£60]
  • Two days full registration (inc. Thursday accommodation): Includes both days of attendance, covering all talks, coffee breaks, lunches, and the social dinner on Thursday. It further includes accommodation on Thursday night. Note, there is an additional option to purchase Wednesday night accommodation. [£250]
  • Two days student registration (inc. Thursday accommodation): This option is available to registered students (PhD, MSc or BSc). Includes both days of attendance, covering all talks, coffee breaks, lunches, and the social dinner on Thursday. It further includes accommodation on Thursday night. Note, there is an additional option to purchase Wednesday night accommodation. [£120]

Organisers: Gareth Tyson and Richard Clegg