The Next Generation Networking (NGN) Webinar series covers all aspects of network technology, such as security, routing, protocols and applications. It was initiated during the COVID lockdown era to maintain community cohesion. The talks bring together researchers from across the UK, as well as further afield. You can see some previous talks on the Coseners’ Youtube playlist.
They take place on the last Friday of each month at 16:00. If you would like to present, please contact Ignacio Castro or Nishanth Sastry.
2025
| 16-May-2025 | Maria Apostolaki | Bridging ML and Formal Methods for Trustworthy Network Management |
| 25-April | Fabián E. Bustamante | Government Hosting and the Challenges of Digital Sovereignty in Today’s Internet |
| 28-March-2025 | Brighten Godfrey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Broadcom) | Understanding and Improving Robustness of Networked Systems With Machine Learning |
| 7-February-2025 | Fernando Ramos (University of Lisbon) | Internet Architecture Evolution: Found in Translation |
2024
| 20-December-2024 | Gareth Tyson (QMUL) | Unwrapping the Conference TPC Process |
| 29-November-24 | Mahesh Marina (Univ. of Edinburgh) | Disaggregation of Mobile Networking Systems Without the Pain |
| 25-October-24 | Georgios Smaragdakis (Delft Univ.) | Characterizing and Mitigating Phishing Attacks at ccTLD Scale |
| 27-September-24 | Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook Univ.) | Is BBR all that? |
| 31-May-24 | Katerina Argyryaki (EPFL) | About Internet transparency & neutrality |
| 24-April-24 | Stephanie Williams (EPSRC) | Future of the Internet call |
| 23-February-24 | Harald Haas (University of Strathclyde) | TITAN – Platform Driving the Ultimate Connectivity |
| 18-January-24 | Michael Shapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Towards Learning-Powered Networked Systems |
2023
| 13-Nobember-2023 | Dominic O’Brien (Oxford University) | Hub in All Spectrum Connectivity: Partner Activities and Future Plans |
| 27-October-23 | Dimitris Pezaros (Edinburgh University) | Digital resilience for critical national infrastructure |
| 2-October-23 | Barath Raghavan (University of Southern California) | Decoupling and the Future of Security and Privacy |
| 20-June-23 | Julie A. McCann (Imperial College London), Muhammad Ali Imran (College of Science and Engineering), Poonam Yadav (University of York) | CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research |
| 24-Feb-23 | Paul Patras (U. Edinburgh / Net AI) | Unlocking the 5G RoI with AI-driven Traffic Analytics |
| 28-Jan-23 | Guillermo Suarez-Tangil (Institute IMDEA Networks) | Interrogating Alexa Skills and Slack & Discord Chatbots to uncover S&P Issues |
2022
| 30-Dec-2022 | Chris Kringle | Delay Tolerant Rooftop Routing via Reindeers |
| 25-Nov-2022 | Cristel Pesser | Multi-constrained paths with segment routing |
| 28-Oct-22 | Sebastiano Milano (Queen Mary University of London) | Domain Specific Run Time Optimization for Software Data Planes |
| 30-Sept-2022 | Andra Lutu (Telefónica) | Deep Dive into Interconnection in the Mobile Ecosystem |
| 29-Jul-22 | Paul Patras (U. Edinburgh / Net AI) | Even Black Cats Cannot Stay Hidden in the Dark: Full-band De-anonymization of Bluetooth Classic Devices |
| 24-Jun-22 | Jim Kurose (U. Massachusetts Amherst) | The Software-ization of Networking: Protocols, People, Pedagogy |
| 27-May-22 | Christodoulos Pappas (U. Thessaly) | IPLS : Inter-planetary Learning System |
| 29-April-22 | S. Keshav (U. Cambridge) | Bringing Trust to Carbon Credits Through Computer Science |
| 25-Mar-22 | K.K. Ramakrishnan (UC Riverside) | Efficient, Fair and Responsive Serverless Frameworks for Edge Clouds & IoT |
| 25-Feb-22 | Pete Snyder (Brave) | SugarCoat: Programmatically GeneratingPrivacy-Preserving, Web-Compatible Resource Replacements for Content Blocking |
| 28-Jan-22 | Ahmed Sayed (QMUL) | Towards Practical and Efficient Federated Learning |
2021
| 10-Dec-21 | Nishanth Sastry | How to be “smart” about choosing your mobile operator |
| 26-Nov-21 | Oliver Hohlfeld | What’s in the DDoS jar? |
| 12-Nov-21 | Stephen Mcquistin | Characterising the IETF Through the Lens of RFC Deployment |
| 29-Oct-21 | Jonatan Langlet | Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access |
| 22-Oct-21 | Stratis Ioannidis | Cache Networks with Optimality Guarantees |
| 15-Oct-21 | Nicolas Gailly | drand: decentralised & publicly verifiable randomness beacon |
| 01-Oct-21 | Alan Mislove | Privacy and discrimination threats in social network ad targeting & delivery |
| 16-Jul-21 | Fernando Ramos | Automatic Parallelization of Software Network Functions |
| 18-Jun-21 | Marwan Fayed | A Networking and Systems Researcher’s Guide to Cloudflare (and Cloudflare Research) |
| 04-Jun-21 | Kyle Simpson | Revisiting the Classics: Online RL in the Programmable Dataplane |
| 21-May-21 | Georgios Smaragdakis | One Year Lockdown: COVID-19 and the Internet |
| 07-May-21 | Narseo Vallina Rodriguez | Privacy and Security Risks in the Android Supply Chain |
| 23-Apr-21 | Anna Maria Mandalari | Consumer IoT Devices: Privacy Implications and Mitigations |
| 09-Apr-21 | Jess Phillips | Intro to EPSRC Funding |
| 26-Mar-21 | Ruben Cuevas | The Yin and Yang sides of Facebook’s personal data exploitation |
| 12-Mar-21 | Richard Clegg | Statistics of Internet traffic volumes |
| 26-Feb-21 | Angelos Marnerides | Tracking IoT botnets in the wild |
| 12-Feb-21 | Michio Honda | Prism: Proxies without the Pain |
| 29-Jan-21 | Phil Tee | Graphs and Network Management |
| 15-Jan-21 | Alexandra Silva | Model learning QUIC |
2020
| 11-Dec-20 | Matthias Wählisch | Impactful measurements cost time and nerves: On the Examples of Infrastructure Security aka RPKI, DNS, and Web Certificate |
| 04-Dec-20 | Xuehui (Rachel) Hu | Untangling the web browsing history by tracking the trackers in the wild |
| 27-Nov-20 | Christian Rothenberg | Trends in Fluid Network Control and Data Planes |
| 20-Nov-20 | Anirudh Sivaraman | Building better compilers for fast packet processing |
| 13-Nov-20 | Gabor Retvari | Rethinking the software network stack: Models, algorithms and extensions |
| 06-Nov-20 | Stephen McQuistin | Parsing Protocol Standards to Parse Standard Protocols |
| 30-Oct-20 | Amreesh Phokeer | Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa |
| 16-Oct-20 | Aurojit Panda | Bertha: Tunneling through the network API |
| 02-Oct-20 | Joseph Doyle | Consoldiation of Services in Mobile Edge Clouds using a Learning-based Framework |
| 25-Sep-20 | Eder Leao | Open Virtual Network (OVN): Overview and scalability challenge |
| 18-Sep-20 | Sukhpal Gill | Holistic Resource Management for Sustainable and Reliable Cloud Computing: An Innovative Solution to Global Challenge |
| 04-Sep-20 | Frederic Loui | Router for Academia, Research and Education (RARE) |
| 07-Aug-20 | Emiliano De Cristofaro | Privacy in ML |
| 24-Jul-20 | Pushkal Agarwal | Characterising a multi-lingual social network |
| 17-Jul-20 | Theo Benson | Software Defined Networking, data centers, clouds, and configuration management |
| 03-Jul-20 | Rongpeng Li | Data-based Analyses and Learning for Service Provisioning |
| 26-Jun-20 | Emeka Obiodu | Extending the 999 voice system to data services |
| 19-Jun-20 | Marco Chiesa | A High-Speed Load-Balancer Design with Guaranteed Per-Connection-Consistency |
| 12-Jun-20 | Stefan Schmid | Self-adjusting networks |
| 05-Jun-20 | Christos Nikolaou | Link-flood attacks |
| 29-May-20 | Gianni Antichi | Network telemetry on a budget |
| 22-May-20 | George Parisis | Inferring functional connectivity from network events in large scale network deployments |
| 15-May-20 | Paul Patras | Even Black Cats Cannot Stay Hidden in the Dark: Full-band De-anonymization of Bluetooth Classic Devices |
| 07-May-20 | Yiannis Psaras | Design of IPFS |
| 30-Apr-20 | Poonam Yadav | Federated Learning in MUD compliant Edge Networks |
| 23-Apr-20 | Posco Tso | Enabling Heterogeneous Network Function Chaining |
| 16-Apr-20 | Yehia Elkhatib | IoTNetSim: Modelling and Simulating End-to-End IoT Services |
| 09-Apr-20 | Vasileios Giotsas | A first look at the abuse and misuse of the IPv4 transfer market |
| 02-Apr-20 | Jon Crowcroft | FTP and tracer apps |
Chairs
- Nishanth Sastry & Ignacio Castro (Feb 2022 – present)
- Gareth Tyson: (April 2020 – Feb 2022)