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 (University of
Virginia)
- 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)