NINeS 2026: Accepted Papers

• Tidal: Tackling Concept Drift in Provenance-based Advanced Persistent Threats Detection. Yajie Zhou, Nengneng Yu (University of Maryland), Tuo Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology), Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)
• Performance Isolation for 5G RAN Slices Across Multiple Interfering Cells. Muhammad Taimoor Tariq, Yongzhou Chen (UIUC), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL), Radhika Mittal (UIUC)
• 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), Kelong Cong (Zama AI), Pierluca Borsò-Tan (EPFL), Vero Estrada-Galiñanes (The DECENT Lab), Bryan Ford (EPFL)
• Understanding Partial Reachability in the Internet Core. Guillermo Baltra (USC/ISI), Tarang Saluja (Swarthmore College), Yuri Pradkin, John Heidemann (USC/ISI)
• OrbitalBrain: A Distributed Framework For Training ML Models in Space. Om Chabra, Chenning Li (MIT), Kevin Hsieh (Microsoft), Santiago Segarra (Rice University), Behnaz Arzani, Peder Olsen, Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft)
• EcoCell: Energy Conservation through Traffic Shaping in Cellular Radio Access Networks. Zikun Liu, Seoyul Oh, Bill Tao (UIUC), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY), Anuj Kalia (OpenAI), Deepak Vasisht (UIUC)
• What Obstructed Skies Teach Us about Satellite Internet. Bhaskar Kataria (Cornell), Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand (University of Iowa), Rachee Singh (Cornell)
• Contracts: A unified lens on congestion control robustness, fairness, congestion, and generality. Anup Agarwal (CMU), Venkat Arun (UT Austin), Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)
• Tight Loops, Smooth Streams: Responsive Congestion Control for Real-Time Video. Pantea Karimi (MIT), Sadjad Fouladi (Independent Researcher), Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman (Amazon), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT)
• Scalable Routing in a City-Scale Wi-Fi Network for Disaster Recovery. Ziqian Liu, Om Chabra, James Lynch, Aaron Martin, Chenning Li, Hari Balakrishnan (MIT)
• Stealthy Low Earth Orbit Satellite-to-Ground Quantum Communication. Guanqun Song, Ting Zhu (The Ohio State University)
• 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), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI)
• In-Kernel Aggregation and Broadcast Acceleration for Distributed Communication. Jianchang Su, Yifan Zhang, Wei Zhang (University of Connecticut)
• 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, Jennifer Rexford (Princeton)
• BISCAY: Practical Radio KPI Driven Congestion Control for Mobile Networks. Jon Larrea (Revelare Networks), Tanya Shreedhar (TU Delft), Atte Niemi (University of Edinburgh), Adel Sefiane (Imperial College and NVIDIA), Mahesh K. Marina (University of Edinburgh)
• 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, Esteban Carisimo (North Western University)
• Don’t get caught, keep your Onions in a Vault. Humza Ikram∗ (CMU), Rumaisa Habib∗ (Stanford), Muaz Ali∗ (University of Arizona), Zartash Afzal Uzmi (LUMS)
• TURBO: Utility-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Control. Peter Schafhalter∗, Alexander Krentsel∗, Hongbo Wei, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
• Simulate Before Sending: Rethinking Transport in Datacenter Networks. Dan Straussman (Technion), Isaac Keslassy (Technion and UC Berkeley), Alexander Shpiner, Liran Liss (Nvidia)
• OpenFLAME: A Federated Spatial Naming Infrastructure. Sagar Bharadwaj, Ziyong Ma, Ivan Liang, Michael Farb, Anthony Rowe, Srinivasan Seshan (CMU)
• Accio: Rethinking OS-Architecture Co-Design for Next-Gen I/O. Amirmohammad Nazari, Rajit Manohar, Robert Soulé (Yale)
• There is More to Internet Invariants Than Meets the Eye. Chris Misa (University of Oregon), Walter Willinger (NIKSUN), Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon)
• Who Holds the Steering Wheel? Opacity and Consolidation in CDN Replica Selection. Rashna Kumar, Fabián E. Bustamante (Northwestern University), Marcel Flores (Edgio)
• SwiftQueue: Optimizing Low-Latency Applications with Swift Packet Queuing. Siddhant Ray, Xi Jiang, Jack Luo, Nick Feamster, Junchen Jiang (UChicago)
• Five Blind Men and the Internet: Towards an Understanding of Internet Traffic. Ege Cem Kirci, Ayush Mishra, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)
• Running Distributed Systems Like Clockwork. Karan Newatia, Robert Gifford, Qingjie Lu (UPenn), Andreas Haeberlen (UPenn/Roblox), Linh Thi Xuan Phan (UPenn)
• Making Congestion Control Algorithms Insensitive to Underlying Propagation Delays. Cyrus Illick, Michael Roger, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia)
• 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, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)