11th International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds - Program

The 11th International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT 2024)

Organized in conjunction with

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, May 20, 2024

08:30 – 18:50 ● Room: Regency F

 

CALL FOR PAPERS        COMMITTEE        PROGRAM

 

Experimentation has played an important role in advancing research in computing and networking. Although theory and simulation are important tools for studying and analyzing the behavior of new protocols and algorithms, it is essential that new research ideas be validated on real systems, testbeds, and infrastructure that provides a platform for exploring new systems.

This workshop brings together researchers and technical experts to share experiences and advance state-of-the-art experimental research in networking, distributed systems, and cloud computing. It aims to inspire researchers to use testbeds in novel and interesting ways to validate their research ideas. Of particular interest are experiments on publicly available testbeds such as the CENI, Chameleon, CloudLab, DeterLab, Emulab, FABRIC, the Fed4FIRE+ and SLICES testbeds, FIT, OneLab, ORBIT, the PAWR project testbeds (AERPAW, ARA, COSMOS, POWDER), among many others worldwide.

 

Steering Committee:

Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA (Chair)

Piet Demeester, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium

Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA

 

Technical Program Chairs:

Deepak Nadig, Purdue University, USA

Susmit Shannigrahi, Tennessee Tech University, USA

 

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08:30 – 08:40
Welcome and Introduction

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08:40 – 10:00
Session 1: Application and Specialized Testbeds

1. WATCH: A Distributed Clock Time Offset Estimation Tool for Software-Defined Radio Platforms, Cassie A Jeng and Neal Patwari (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
2. Enhancing Drone Video Analytics Security Management using an AERPAW Testbed, Alicia Esquivel Morel and Zack Murry (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA); Kevin Kostage and Chengyi Qu (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA); Prasad Calyam (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
3. Towards a TSN-DetNet Intercity Testbed for Tactile Cyber-Physical Systems, Joydeep Pal, Deepak Choudhary, and Nithish Krishnabharathi Gnani (Indian Institute of Science, India); T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India); Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India); Hari Krishna Atluri and Paventhan A (ERNET India, India)
4. Network Emulation Testbed Capabilities for Prototyping Space DTN Software and Protocols, Ronny Bull (SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA); Rachel Dudukovich (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA); Juan Fraire (Inria/INSA Lyon & CONICET, National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Nadia Kortas and Robert Short (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA); Aaron Smith (NASA, USA); Ethan Schweinsberg (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA) 

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10:00 – 10:30
Break

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10:30 – 12:30
Session 2: Network Management and Infrastructure

1. Towards Testbed-Wide Traffic Profiling for FABRIC, Nishanth Shyamkumar, Sean Cummings, Hyunsuk Bang, and Nik Sultana (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
2. FabFed: Tool-Based Network Federation for Testbed of Testbeds - Paradigm and Practice, Xi Yang (ESnet, USA); Ezra Kissel (ESNet, USA); Abdelilah Essiari (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA); Liang Zhang (Lawrence Bereley National Laboratory, USA); Tom Lehman (Virnao, USA); Inder Monga (ESnet, USA); Paul Ruth (UNC-CH, USA); Komal Thareja (RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill, USA); Ilya Baldin (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA)
3. P4-based In-Network Telemetry for FPGAs in the Open Cloud Testbed and FABRIC, Sandeep Bal (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Zhaoyang Han and Suranga Handagala (Northeastern University, USA); Mert Cevik (RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill, USA); Michael Zink (University of Massachsetts Amherst, USA); Miriam Leeser (Northeastern University, USA)

Session 3: Cloud and Edge Computing

1. EdgeP4: In-Network Edge Intelligence for a Tactile Cyber-Physical System Testbed Across Cities, Nithish Krishnabharathi Gnani, Joydeep Pal, Deepak Choudhary, Himanshu Verma, and Soumya Kanta Rana (Indian Institute of Science, India); Kaushal S Mhapsekar (North Carolina State University); T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India); Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
2. An Open-Source Experimentation Framework for the Edge Cloud Continuum, Georgios Koukis (Democritus University of Thrace & ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece); Sotiris Skaperas (University of Macedonia & ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece); Ioanna Angeliki Kapetanidou (Democritus University of Thrace & ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece); Vassilis Tsaoussidis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece); Lefteris Mamatas (University of Macedonia, Greece)
3. Evaluating the Impact of Flow Length on the Performance of In-Switch Inference Solutions, Michele Gucciardo (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Beyza Butun (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Aristide Tanyi-Jong Akem (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain & Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Marco Fiore (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

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12:30 – 14:00
Lunch and Demo Setup

• An Open-Source Experimentation Framework for the Edge Cloud Continuum, Georgios Koukis et al.
• EDAF: An End-to-End Delay Analytics Framework for 5G-and-Beyond Networks, Seyed Samie Mostafavi et al.
• EdgeP4: In-Network Edge Intelligence for a Tactile Cyber-Physical System Testbed Across Cities, Nithish Krishnabharathi Gnani et al.
• FabFed: Tool-Based Network Federation for Testbed of Testbeds - Paradigm and Practice, Xi Yang et al.
• Towards Testbed-Wide Traffic Profiling for FABRIC, Nishanth Shyamkumar et al.
• Experimental Study Towards Efficient Interference Avoidance using Wi-Fi 6 OFDMA on SDR, Thijs F. Havinga et al.
• Network Emulation Testbed Capabilities for Prototyping Space DTN Software and Protocols, Ronny Bull et al.
• Advancing O-RAN Security: Integrated Intrusion Detection and Secure Slicing xApps, Mohammadreza Kouchaki et al.
• 5G-TSN FlexTac: Experience A New Touch,  Stefan Senk et al.

16:30 – 18:50
Session 6: 5G Networks

1. Design, Integration and Slicing of non-3GPP DUs in 5G Networks: a Hybrid 5G-DU Approach
   Dimitris Kefalas (University of Thessaly, Greece); Nikos Makris (University of Thessaly & CERTH, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Serge Fdida (Sorbonne University, France)
2. Evaluation of User Plane Function Implementations in Real-World 5G Networks
   Sokratis Christakis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Theodoros Tsourdinis (University of Thessaly, Greece & Sorbonne University, France); Nikos Makris (University of Thessaly & CERTH, Greece); Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Serge Fdida (Sorbonne University, France)
3. EDAF: An End-to-End Delay Analytics Framework for 5G-and-Beyond Networks
   Seyed Samie Mostafavi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Marius Tillner (Silicon Austria Labs, Austria); Gourav Prateek Sharma (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
4. Data-Driven Proactive Uplink Slicing enabling Real-Time Control within an Open RAN Testbed
   Dennis Overbeck, Niklas A. Wagner, Robin Wiebusch, Jens Püttschneider, Timm Faulwasser, and Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

Session 7: 5G Networks and Next Generation Networks

1. Next-Gen Connectivity: Dynamic QoS Optimization for 5G Standalone and Vertical Integration
   Vincent Charpentier (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac (University of Antwerp-IMEC, Belgium); Akin Akintola (Nokia, USA); Max Gasparroni and Babatunde Obasola (Liberty Global, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Luk Bruynseels and Blago Gjorgjievski (Telenet, Belgium); Ghazaleh Kia (Seafar, Belgium); Xhulio Limani (University of Antwerp, Belgium & Imec, Belgium); Joao F. N. Pinheiro (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & imec, Belgium)
2. Experimental Study Towards Efficient Interference Avoidance using Wi-Fi 6 OFDMA on SDR
   Thijs F. Havinga (Ghent University, Belgium); Xianjun Jiao (Ghent University - imec, IDLab, Belgium); Wei Liu (University Ghent - imec, Belgium); Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium)
3. OPEN6GNET: A Learning and Experimentation Platform Based on Open-Source Solutions and Cloud-Native Approaches
   Mathias Santos de Brito and Elena-Ramona Modroiu (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Ba Que Le (Technical University Berlin, Germany); Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany); Marius Corici (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany); Joyce Mwangama (University of Cape Town, South Africa)