Program

Schedule

	MONDAY, JANUARY 12	TUESDAY, JANUARY 13	WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
8.00-8.30	WELCOME	–	–
8.30-9.45	PITCH SESSION	S3: Intelligent and Sustainable Network Optimization	S7: Vehicular Networks


			S8: Emerging Network and Sensing Technologies


9.45-9.55
9.45-10.15 COFFEE BREAK	POSTER SESSION 1 & COFFEE BREAK Edge and Cloud Resource Management and Orchestration	POSTER SESSION 3 & COFFEE BREAK Scalable and Resilient Network Architectures	COFFEE BREAK
10.15-11.15	KEYNOTE 1 Mario Baldi	KEYNOTE 3 Valeria Baiamonte	KEYNOTE 4 Marina Geymonat
11.15-12.15	S1: Network-Compute Continuum	S4: Network Modelling and Design	S9: Next-Gen Network Infrastructures




12.15-12.30			CLOSING
12.00-16.15	LONG BREAK	LONG BREAK


16.15-17.00 COFFEE BREAK	POSTER SESSION 2 & COFFEE BREAK Security and Privacy in Wireless and Edge Systems	POSTER SESSION 4 & COFFEE BREAK AI and Digital Twins for Networking and V2X
17.00-17.50	KEYNOTE 2 Nicola Blefari	S5: Distributed AI



17.50-19.15	S2: Network Security
		S6: AI 4 Networks * Session ends at 19.00 *





19.30-23.00		SOCIAL DINNER

Sessions

Each oral presentation will be allotted 12 minutes, including questions.

S0 – Opening

Monday, January 12 – 08.00 ~ 08.30

S1 — Network-compute continuum

Monday, January 12 – 11.15 ~ 12.15

Orchestration of AI-Centric Applications over Distributed Edge-Cloud Networks
Alessandro Mauro — UNINA – Università di Napoli Federico II
Antonia Maria Tulino (DIETI, UNINA), Jaime Llorca (CTTC)
Is Your Next NOC Engineer an LLM? Benchmarking AI for Network Troubleshooting
Alessio Sacco — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Zhihao Wang, Franco Galante, Carlo Centofanti, Alessio Sacco, Dingde Jiang
A Hierarchical Framework for Fair and Efficient Distributed Inference at the Edge
Michele Simeone — UC3M – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Ghina Al-Atat, Vincenzo Mancuso, Marco Ajmone Marsan
Dynamic Neural Networks in O-RAN for Edge Offloading of Computer Vision Tasks
Corrado Puligheddu — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Corrado Puligheddu, Nancy Varshney, Tanzil Hassan, Francesco Restuccia, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
SPARQ: An Optimization Framework for the Distribution of AI-Intensive Applications under Non-Linear Delay Constraints
Pietro Spadaccino — UNIRM – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Paolo di Lorenzo, Sergio Barbarossa, Antonia M. Tulino, Jaime Llorca

S2 — Network security

Monday, January 12 – 17.50 ~ 19.15

Cybersecurity AI (CAI): experimenting with Attack/Defence strategies in CTF-style scenarios
Simon Pietro Romano — UNINA – Università di Napoli Federico II
Francesco Balassone, Gaetano Perrone, Victor Mayoral Vilches
Exploiting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces to Achieve Multi-Receiver Physical Layer Security
Simone Marrocco — UNITN – Università di Trento
Segata Michele, Casari Paolo
From Signal to Signature: Enhanced BLE Device Fingerprinting with Environmental Context
Marco Cominelli — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Camilla Magnelli, Fabio Palmese, Marco Cominelli, Alessandro Enrico Cesare Redondi
Federated and Incremental NIDS for Emerging IoT Threat Landscapes
Francesco Cerasuolo — UNINA – Università di Napoli Federico II
Giampaolo Bovenzi, Domenico Ciuonzo, Antonio Pescapè
Leveraging Gold Sequences properties for Low-Complexity 5G NR Sniffing
Ivan Palamà — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni
Stefano Mangione, Alessandra Dino, Giulia Focarelli, Ilenia Tinnirello, Giuseppe Bianchi
Blind Deception in ISAC via Full-Frame OFDM Replay
Giulia Focarelli — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Ivan Palamà, Samuele Zanini, Giuseppe Bianchi, Stefania Bartoletti

S3 — Intelligent and Sustainable Network Optimization

Tuesday, January 13 – 08.30 ~ 9.45

ARTEMIS: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization for Live Video Streaming
Sergey Gorinsky — IMDEA Networks Institute
Farzad Tashtarian, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Hadi Amirpour, Junchen Jiang, Hermann Hellwagner, Christian Timmerer
Generative-aided and Context-aware Forecasting of Mobile Network Traffic Peaks
Andrea Pimpinella — UNIBG – Università di Bergamo
Andrea Pimpinella, Alessandro E. C. Redondi
A New Explainable Power Demand Model for 4G LTE and 5G NR Base Stations
Greta Vallero — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Greta Vallero, Giovanni Perin, Michela Meo, Massimo Sereno Garino, Stefano D’Elia, Davide Vaccarono
Value-Driven Service Orchestration for Next-Generation Networks: Embedding Ethics and Performance through Digital Twins and Intent-Based Networking
Giancarlo Sciddurlo — POLIBA – Politecnico di Bari
Federica de Trizio, Giuseppe Piro, Gennaro Boggia
Design and Experimental Analysis of a UAV-Mounted LEO Satellite Terminal for Rapid Communication Deployment
Mattia Figaro — UNIPD – Università di Padova
Francesco Rossato
Using Optical Telecom Networks as Distributed Environemental Sensors
Emanuele Virgillito — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Vittorio Curri

S4 — Network modelling and design

Tuesday, January 13 – 11.15 ~ 12.15

Live Streaming of Sport Events: Pricing, Quality, and Side Payments
Matteo Sereno — UNITO – Università di Torino
P. Castagno, V. Mancuso, M. Ajmone Marsan
On the Service-Oriented Availability Analysis of Software Defined Wide Area Network
Giacomo Sguotti — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Sebastian Troia, Guido Maier
Energy-Aware Load Shifting in SWIPT-Enabled IoT Network
Laura Finarelli — HES-SO Valais
Gianluca Rizzo, Falko Dressler
Near Optimal Dispatching and Scheduling with p-FCFS in Large Scale Clusters
Mert YILDIZ — UNIRM – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Alexey Rolich, Andrea Baiocchi
Towards an Automated Testbed for Wireless Networked Control in Industrial Settings
Yuriy Zacchia Lun — UNIVAQ – Università di L’Aquila
Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Alessandro D’Innocenzo, Subhasri Duttagupta, Fortunato Santucci

S5 — Distributed AI

Tuesday, January 13 – 17.00 ~ 18.00

A deep reinforcement learning agent for distributed task offloading based on Graph Neural Networks
Christian Quadri — UNIMI – Università di Milano
Manuel Dileo
Semantic Experiences in the Wild
Luca Borgianni — UNIPI – Università di Pisa
Stefano Giordano
Agentic Edge AI for Critical IoT Infrastructures: A Digital Twin Use Case
Gabriele Restuccia — UNIPA – Università di Palermo
Fabrizio Giuliano, Domenico Garlisi, Antonino Pagano, Ilenia Tinnirello
Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Device Diagnostics in Large-Scale LoRaWAN Networks
Marco Casalbore – UNIRM – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Pietro Spadaccino, Patrizio Pisani, Francesca Cuomo, Massimo Panella

S6 — AI 4 Networks

Tuesday, January 13 – 18.00 ~ 19.00

Flow-Rule Generation for SDN Using LLMs with Retry-Based Deployment Validation
Anouar El Hachimi — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Nicola Di Cicco; Memedhe Ibrahimi, Francesco Musumeci, Massimo Tornatore
Transformer-based Anomaly Detection for SIP Protocol
Antonio Iacobelli — UNIBO – Università di Bologna
Antonio Iacobelli, Giorgio Franceschelli, Lorenzo Rinieri, Mirco Musolesi, Marco Prandini, Franco Callegati
Taming Latency: Optimizing Next-Gen Network Performance with Hybrid Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Vincenzo Norman Vitale — UNINA – Università di Napoli Federico II
Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Mohammad Solki, Antonia Maria Tulino, Andreas F. Molisch, Jaime Llorca
Optical Network Digital Twin: Commercialization Barriers, Architecture, and Early Adoption in the AI Era
Renato Ambrosone — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Renato Ambrosone, Hideki Nishizawa, Vittorio Curri
Applications of AI and ML in Real 5G Testbed Networks
Stefania Zinno — UNINA – Università di Napoli Federico II
Annalisa Navarro, Sayna Rotbei, Giorgio Ventre, Alessio Botta

S7 — Vehicular networks

Wednesday, January 14 – 08.30 ~ 9.05

Reinforcement Learning for Joint Scheduling and Compression to Support Teleoperated Driving
Giacomo Avanzi — UNIPD – Università di Padova
Marco Giordani, Michele Zorzi
VaN3Twin: the multi-RAT V2X Digital Twin with Ray Tracing in the Loop
Roberto Pegurri — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Diego Gasco, Francesco Linsalata, Marco Rapelli, Eugenio Moro, Francesco Raviglione, Claudio Casetti
Generative Adversarial Models for Vehicular Dynamics Prediction in V2X Networks
Giuseppe Perrone — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Marco Rapelli, Claudio E. Casetti

S8 — Network Sensing and Emerging Technologies

Wednesday, January 14 – 09.05 ~ 9.55

Leveraging Mutual Information in Stochastic CSI Analysis for Wi-Fi Sensing
Elena Tonini — UNIBS – Università di Brescia
Renato Lo Cigno
Towards Large-Scale Quantum Networks: Present Quantum Repeater Technologies and Emerging Superconducting Architectures
Francesco Fiorini — UNIPI – Università di Pisa
Rosario G. Garroppo, Michele Pagano
Stripping the PHY Layer Naked: Repurpose of Wireless Access Points into Software Defined Radios
Stefano Fontana — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNIBS – Università di Brescia
Jakob Link, Denis Festa, Francesco Gringoli
Graph Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Leakage Management in Smart Water Distribution Networks
Pierluigi Locatelli — UNIRM – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Pietro Spadaccino, Tiziana Cattai

S9 — Next-Gen Network Infrastructures

Wednesday, January 14 – 11.15 ~ 12.15

Dynamic Multi-Provider Cluster Autoscaling For The Computing Continuum
Stefano Galantino — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
S. Galantino, R. Medina, A. Oliva, F. Risso, G. Frattini
Towards Effective Multi-Flow Scalability for Encrypted Tunnels with HD-RPS
Davide Miola — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Mirco Barone, Fulvio Risso
FlexSFP: Rethinking Network Intelligence Inside the Cable
Alessandro Rivitti — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Giuseppe Bianchi, Angelo Tulumello, Giacomo Belocchi, Luka Perkov
Distributed Large-Scale Satellite Network Emulator
Andrea Detti — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Shahram Dadras, Fabio Patrone, Nour Badini, Camilo Rojas, Giuseppe Tropea
Multi-Band Wireless Access-and-Backhaul (WAB) for 5G and Beyond: Architecture, Implementation, and Experimental Validation
Chiara Rubaltelli — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Marcello Morini, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini

Poster sessions

Posters size: 84.1cm x 118.9cm (A0)

P1 – Edge and Cloud Resource Management and Orchestration

Monday, January 12 – 09.45 ~ 10.15

Towards Fluid Networks for AI-based Edge-to-Cloud Orchestration
Raffaele Di Tommaso — UNIBO – Università di Bologna
Gianluca Davoli
Architectural Design Principles for Programmable Edge Acceleration in 6G Environments
Angelo Tulumello — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni
Filippo Carloni, Gianni Antichi, Giuseppe Bianchi, Giuseppe Lettieri, Gregorio Procissi
Reliable Job Offloading for Mobile Rovers over an Unreliable Network Infrastructure
Jacopo Marino — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Daniele Cacciabue, Stefano Galantino, Fulvio Risso
Analysis of microservices Resource allocation With Elastic resources and requirements
Alberto Bertoncini — UNIMI – Università di Milano
Christian Quadri, Alberto Ceselli
Future-Proofing Core Networks: Spectral and Spatial Dimensions of Capacity Growth
Muhammad Umar Masood — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Vittorio Curri
Enabling Energy-Efficient Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler
Riccardo Marco Miracapillo — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Stefano Galantino, Attilio Oliva, Fulvio Risso
Towards Systematic Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes Clusters: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Early Experimental Insights
Attilio Oliva — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Stefano Galantino, Fulvio Risso, Federico Cicchiello, Alessandro Rontani
Rethinking Bandwidth Estimation in Real-Time Communications: Do We Really Need Reinforcement Learning?
Tailai Song — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
WatchEDGE smart cameras: real-time wildlife detection at the Far Edge [POSTER]
Guido Maier — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Jean Pierre H Asdikian, Sebastian Troia, Mengyao Li, Marco Marcon, Guido Maier
Green Distributed AI Training: Orchestrating Compute Across Renewable-Powered Micro Datacenters
Giuseppe Alcini — CNIT
Giuseppe Tomei, Andrea Mayer, Giuseppe Alcini, Stefano Salsano
ShortcutCatcher: Making traffic classification reliable
Yuqi Zhao — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Matteo Boffa, Luca Vassio, Marco Mellia

P2 — Security and Privacy in Wireless and Edge Systems

Monday, January 12 – 16.15 ~ 17.00

Enabling Selective and Secure CSI-based Sensing via Beamforming on Commercial Wi-Fi Devices
Giovanni Angelo Alghisi — UNIBS – Università di Brescia
Francesco Gringoli (UniBS/CNIT), Giovanni Perin (UniBS)
Orchestrating Security Measures for Legacy Devices in Far-Edge Computing Scenarios
Gaetano Francesco Pittalà — UNIBO – Università di Bologna
Gianluca Davoli, Davide Borsatti, Walter Cerroni
When Texts Whisper: Exploring Silent SMS Threats with Android Smartphones
Lorenzo Valeriani — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Giuseppe Bianchi
Security Assessment of IMS over VoLTE: Evaluating Operator Policies, IPSec Configurations, and Messaging Integrity
Matteo Chiacchia — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Matteo Chiacchia, Andrea Paci, Giuseppe Bianchi
Securing OPC UA communications in Industry 4.0 via P4 and Blockchain
Lorenzo Rinieri — UNIBO – Università di Bologna
Giacomo Gori, Andrea Melis, Roberto Girau, Marco Prandini, Franco Callegati
Non-Invasive Selective Denial-of-Service in 4G/5G via IMSI/TMSI-Based User Disconnection
Andrea Paci — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Matteo Chiacchia, Giuseppe Bianchi
Predictable and Exposed: Eavesdropping and Exploitation of Positioning Reference Signals
Samuele Zanini — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca | IMT
Giulia Focarelli; Ivan Palamà; Giuseppe Bianchi; Stefania Bartoletti
HyperScanner
Edoardo Manenti — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Francesco Quaglia
Understanding the cognitive aspects of phishing attacks
Alessio Botta — UNINA – Università di Napoli Federico II

P3 — Scalable and Resilient Network Architectures

Tuesday, January 13 – 09.45 ~ 10.15

Exploring the Blind Spot of Internet Exchange Point Route Servers
Stefano Servillo — UNIRM – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Pietro Spadaccino; Stavros Konstantaras; Flavio Luciani; Francesca Cuomo
Congestion-Aware Pricing for Inter-Operator RAN Sharing
Maoquan Ni — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Energy Sustainability Analysis of Deep Neural Network
Jun Yin — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
UAV-Assisted RAN Resilience Under Energy and Coverage Constraints
Aurora Martiny — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
AoA Services in 5G Networks: A Framework for Real-World Implementation and Systematic Testing
Alberto Ceresoli — POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano
Viola Bernazzoli, Roberto Pegurri, Ilario Filippini
Decentralized Federated Learning via Inexact Dual Approaches
Giovanni Perin — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNIBS – Università di Brescia, UNIPD – Università di Padova
Zadoff-Chu Sequence Correlation: New Bounds for Partial-Period and Multi-Period Scenarios
Andrea Novero — UNIPD – Università di Padova
Michele Zorzi, Lorenzo Vangelista
Programmable and Safe In-Band Processing: Design and eBPF Implementation of the Global Opaque Block in IOAM
Stefano Salsano — UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Andrea Mayer, Giulio Sidoretti, Hesham El Backoury, Diego R. Lopez

P4 — AI and Digital Twins for Networking and V2X

Tuesday, January 13 – 16.15 ~ 17.00

A Large-Scale Spectrogram Image Dataset for AI-Driven RF Signal Classification
Pierpaolo Loreti — UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Alessandro Amici, Luca Chiaraviglio, Lorenzo Bracciale
VaN3Twin: the Multi-Technology V2X Digital Twin with Ray-Tracing in the Loop
Marco Rapelli — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Roberto Pegurri, Diego Gasco, Francesco Linsalata, Eugenio Moro, Francesco Raviglione, Claudio Casetti
Evaluating Decentralized Congestion Control and Secured Vehicular Communications with an Open V2X Stack
Francesco Raviglione — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Diego Gasco, Giuseppe Perrone, Marco Rapelli, Claudio Casetti
LLM-Assisted Digital Twin for Next Generation Optical Network-as-a-Service (ONaaS)
Imran Chowdhury Dipto — POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Sanwal Zeb, Vittorio Curri
Three Case Studies in Vehicular Networks: Misbehavior Detection, Infrastructure Digital Twins, and Dynamic EV Recharging
Lorenzo Ghiro — UNIBS – Università di Brescia
Renato Lo Cigno, Cristina Pezzoni, Marco Franceschini, Emre Akiskalioglu
Timeliness in Autonomous Vehicular Networks for Safety-Aware Applications in the 6G Era
Alexey Rolich — UNIRM – Università di Roma La Sapienza
Andrea Baiocchi, Ion Turcanu, Alexey Vinel, Mert Yildiz
Multi-Digital Twin Adaptive Lighting Control in Greenhouses Using Reinforcement Learning Approaches
Cristian Bua — UNIPI – Università di Pisa
Cristian Bua (UNIPI), Yibin Wang (Texas A&M), Mike O. Ojo (Texas A&M), Stefano Giordano (UNIPI), Azlan Zahid (Texas A&M)
Toward Deterministic Path Placement in AI Backends: A Practical SRv6-Based Architecture
Arianna Quinci — CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni, UNITV – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Arianna Quinci, Angelo Tulumello, Andrea Mayer, Pierpaolo Loreti, Lorenzo Bracciale, Stefano Salsano
Accelerating Federated Learning in Wireless
Emilio Paolini – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Artificial Intelligence For Reliable Maneuver Coordination In Connected Vehicles
Diego Gasco – POLITO – Politecnico di Torino
Claudio Ettore Casetti