NINeS 2026: Accepted Papers

1. Tackling Concept Drift in Provenance-based Advanced Persistent Threats Detection. Yajie Zhou, Nengneng Yu (University of Maryland), Tuo Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)

2. Performance Isolation for 5G RAN Slices while Managing Interference. Muhammad Taimoor Tariq, Yongzhou Chen (UIUC), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL) and Radhika Mittal (UIUC)

3. Limix: Limiting Lamport Exposure to Distant Failures in Globally-Managed Distributed Systems. Cristina Băsescu (Digital Asset Switzerland), Georgia Fragkouli (ETH Zurich), Enis Ceyhun Alp (Parity Technologies), Michael F. Nowlan (Reflect), Jose M. Faleiro (Stealth Startup), Gaylor Bosson (Taurus Group SA), Kelong Cong (KU Leuven), Pierluca Borsò-Tan (EPFL), Vero Estrada-Galiñanes (The DECENT Lab) and Bryan Ford (EPFL)

4. Understanding Partial Reachability In The Internet Core. Guillermo Baltra (USC/ISI), Tarang Saluja (Swarthmore College), Yuri Pradkin and John Heidemann (USC/ISI)

5. OrbitalBrain: Harnessing Distributed Training in Space. Om Chabra, Chenning Li (MIT), Kevin Hsieh (Microsoft Research), Santiago Segarra (Rice University), Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft), Peder Olsen (Microsoft Research) and Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft)

6. Energy-aware Traffic Shaping for Cellular Radio Access Networks. Zikun Liu, Seoyul Oh, Bill Tao (UIUC), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY), Anuj Kalia (OpenAI) and Deepak Vasisht (UIUC)

7. What Obstructed Skies Teach Us about Satellite Internet. Bhaskar Kataria (Cornell), Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand (University of Iowa) and Rachee Singh (Cornell)

8. Contracts: A Unified Lens on Congestion Control Robustness, Fairness, Congestion, and Generality. Anup Agarwal (CMU), Venkat Arun (UT Austin), and Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)

9. Tight Loops, Smooth Streams: Responsive Congestion Control for Real-Time Video. Pantea Karimi (MIT), Sadjad Fouladi (Microsoft Research), Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman (MIT) and Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT)

10. Scalable Routing in a City-Scale Wi-Fi Network for Disaster Recovery. Ziqian Liu, Om Chabra, James Lynch, Aaron Martin, Chenning Li and Hari Balakrishnan (MIT)

11. Stealthy Low Earth Orbit Satellite-to-Ground Quantum Communication. Guanqun Song, Ting Zhu (The Ohio State Univeristy)

12. No Signal to Rule Them All: A Systematic Analysis of In-Network Congestion Signals. Sarah McClure (UC Berkeley), Nandita Dukkipati (Google), Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley) and Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI)

13. In-Kernel Aggregation and Broadcast Acceleration for Distributed Communication. Jianchang Su, Yifan Zhang and Wei Zhang (University of Connecticut)

14. Passive Data-Plane Telemetry to Mitigate Long-Distance BGP Hijacks. Satadal Sengupta (Princeton), Hyojoon Kim (University of Virginia), Daniel Jubas (Five Rings LLC), Maria Apostolaki and Jennifer Rexford (Princeton)

15. BISCAY: Practical Radio KPI Driven Congestion Control for Mobile Networks. Jon Larrea (Revelare Networks), Tanya Shreedhar (TU Delft), Atte Niemi, Adel Sefiane and Mahesh K. Marina (The University of Edinburgh)

16. Monitoring Latency on Submarine Cables: Limitations and Opportunities. Mia Weaver (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Darryl Veitch (University of Technology Sydney), Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Fabián E. Bustamante and Esteban Carisimo (Northwestern University)

17. Don’t Get Caught, Keep Your Onions in a Vault. Humza Ikram (CMU), Rumaisa Habib (Stanford), Muaz Ali (University of Arizona) and Zartash Afzal Uzmi (LUMS)

18. TURBO: Utility-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Control. Peter Schafhalter∗, Alexander Krentsel∗, Hongbo Wei, Joseph Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkely), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI) and Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)

19. Simulate Before Sending: Rethinking Transport in Datacenter Networks. Dan Straussman (Technion), Isaac Keslassy (Technion and UC Berkeley), Alex Shpiner and Liran Liss (Nvidia)

20. Anax: A Federated Spatial Naming Infrastructure. Sagar Bharadwaj Kalasibail Seetharam, Ziyong Ma, Ivan Liang, Michael Farb, Anthony Rowe and Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)

21. Accio: Rethinking OS-Architecture Co-Design for Next-Gen I/O. Amirmohammad Nazari, Rajit Manohar and Robert Soulé (Yale)

22. There is More to Internet Invariants Than Meets the Eye. Chris Misa (University of Oregon), Walter Willinger (NIKSUN), Ramakrishnan Durairajan and Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon)

23. Who Holds the Steering Wheel? Opacity and Consolidation in CDN Replica Selection. Rashna Kumar, Fabián E. Bustamante (Northwestern University) and Marcel Flores (Edgio)

24. SwiftQueue: Optimizing Low-Latency Applications with Swift Packet Queuing. Siddhant Ray, Xi Jiang, Jack Luo, Nick Feamster and Junchen Jiang (UChicago)

25. Five Blind Men and the Internet: Towards an Understanding of Internet Traffic. Ege Cem Kirci, Ayush Mishra and Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)

26. Running Distributed Systems Like Clockwork. Karan Newatia, Robert Gifford, Qingjie Lu (UPenn), Andreas Haeberlen (UPenn/Roblox) and Linh Thi Xuan Phan (UPenn)

27. Making Congestion Control Algorithms Insensitive to Underlying Propagation Delays. Cyrus Illick, Michael Roger, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein (Columbia)

28. CrowdLink: Unlocking Idle LEO Network Capacity with User Terminals. Lixin Liu, Jinyao Zhang, Bijia You, Yimei Chen, Jiabo Yang, Yuanjie Li, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai and Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)