Accepted Papers

The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2024)
Charleroi, Belgium, October 28-31, 2024  ICNP2024

Accepted Papers

Non-Idle Machine-Aware Worker Placement for Efficient Distributed Training in GPU Clusters
Jin Fang (University of Science and Technology of China); Gongming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China); Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China); Luyao Luo (University of Science and Technology of China); Zhen Yao (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); An Xie (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.);

SatFlow: Scalable Network Planning for LEO Mega-Constellations
Sheng Cen (Shanghai Jiaotong University); Qiying Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yifei Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology);

SoftNB: A Fully Functional NB-IoT PHY for Various SDR Platforms
Jingze Zheng (Zhejiang University); Chaojie Gu (Zhejiang University); Yuanchao Shu (Zhejiang University); Xiuzhen Guo (Zhejiang University); Shibo He (Zhejiang University); Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University); Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University);

MONR: Multi-Objective Optimizing Network Reconfiguration using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yuqi Dai (Southeast University); Hua Zhang (Southeast University); Jingyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Jianxin Liao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications);

Demystifying Datapath Accelerator Enhanced Off-path SmartNIC
Xuzheng Chen (Zhejiang University); Jie Zhang (Zhejiang University); Ting Fu (Alibaba Group); Yifan Shen (Alibaba Group); Shu Ma (Alibaba Group); Kun Qian (Alibaba Group); Lingjun Zhu (Alibaba Group); Chao Shi (Alibaba Group); Yin Zhang (Zhejiang University); Ming Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Zeke Wang (Zhejiang University);

Congestion Control Optimization for Short Video Services: User-End and Edge Server Collaboration in Practice
Jupeng Zhang (NetLab, Bytedance); Yan Liu (NetLab, Bytedance); Jack Lee Yiu-Bun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Shengtong Zhu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong);

STARVERI: Efficient and Accurate Verification for Risk-Avoidance Routing in LEO Satellite Networks
Chenwei Gu (Tsinghua University); Qian Wu (Tsinghua University); Zeqi Lai (Tsinghua University); Hewu Li (Tsinghua University); Jihao Li (Tsinghua University); Weisen Liu (Tsinghua University); Qi Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Jun Liu (Tsinghua University); Yuanjie Li (Tsinghua University);

DeepDetangle: Deep Learning-Based Fusion of Chirp-Level and Packet-Level Features for LoRa Parallel Decoding
Weiwei Chen (Shanghai University); Runze Zhang (Southeast University); Xianjin Xia (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Shuai Wang (Southeast University); Shuai Wang (Southeast University); Tian He (Southeast University);

DockRDMA: Hybrid RDMA Virtualization for Containerized Clouds
Xiaoyu Li (Tsinghua University); Ran Shu (Microsoft Research); Zhongjie Chen (Tsinghua University); Xiaohui Luo (Tsinghua University); Yiran Zhang (Tsinghua University); Bo Wang (Tsinghua University); Qingkai Meng (Tsinghua University); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University);

High-Speed Network-layer Forward Erasure Correction
Louis Navarre (UCLouvain); François Michel (UCLouvain); Tom Barbette (UCLouvain);

Proteus: A Difficulty-aware Deep Learning Framework for Real-time Malicious Traffic Detection
Chupeng Cui (Tsinghua University); Qing Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory); Guorui Xie (Tsinghua University); Ruoyu Li (Tsinghua University); Dan Zhao (Peng Cheng Laboratory); Zhenhui Yuan (Unaffiliated); Yong Jiang (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School);

Scalable, Fast, and Low-memory Lookups for Network Applications with one CRC-8
Yi Liu (University of California Santa Cruz); Shouqian Shi (University of California Santa Cruz); Ruilin Zhou (University of California Santa Cruz); Yuhang Gan (University of California Santa Cruz); Chen Qian (University of California Santa Cruz);

Bidirectional Bandwidth Coordination under Half-Duplex Bottlenecks for Video Streaming
Jing Chen (Tsinghua University); Bo Wang (Tsinghua University); Zhiyuan Xu (Peking University); Yan Zhang (Tsinghua University); Minhu Wang (Tsinghua University); Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University); Zili Meng (HKUST);

Scalable Verification of Multi-ACK Properties in Loss-Based Congestion Control Implementations
Minh Vu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Hamid Bagheri (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Lisong Xu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Wei Sun (Meta Platform, Inc.); Mingrui Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln);

Joint Scheduling and Power Control for Predictable Per-Packet Reliability in URLLC
Zhibo Meng (Iowa state university); Hongwei Zhang (Iowa state university);

Optimizing Traffic in Public-Facing Data Centers Amid Internet Protocols
Sen Lin (Northwestern University); Jianfeng Wang (Oracle America, Inc.); Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University);

LINC: Enabling Low-Resource In-network Classification and Incremental Model Update
Haolin Yan (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University); Qing Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory); Guorui Xie (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University); Gareth Tyson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)); Yong Jiang (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University);

Luori: Active Probing and Evaluation of Internet-wide IPv6 Fully Responsive Prefixes
Daguo Cheng (Tsinghua University); Lin He (Tsinghua University); Chentian Wei (Xidian University); Qilei Yin (Zhongguancun Lab); Boran Jin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Zhaoan Wang (Tsinghua University); Xiaoteng Pan (Nankai University); Sixu Zhou (Nankai University); Ying Liu (Tsinghua University); Shenglin Zhang (Nankai University); Fuchao Tan (NSFOCUS, Inc.); Wenmao Liu (NSFOCUS, Inc.);

MOMPE: Multiparty Oblivious Multivariate Polynomial Evaluation
Duobin Lyu (Tianjin University of Technology); Hongwei Zhang (Tianjin University of Technology); Zening Zhao (Tianjin University of Technology); Jinsong Wang (Tianjin University of Technology);

Infiltrating the Sky: Data Delay and Overflow Attacks in Earth Observation Constellations
Xiaojian Wang (North Carolina State University); Ruozhou Yu (North Carolina State University); Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines); Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University);

HifiCNet: High-fidelity Cloud Network Validation Platform at Scale by Hybrid Architecture
Jiawei Liu (University of Science and Technology of China); Gongming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China); Hongli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China); Baoqing Wang (University of Science and Technology of China); Peng Yang (University of Science and Technology of China); Chun-Jen Chung (Vancouver Research Center, Huawei Canada); Min Chen (Huawei); Xuwei Yang (Huawei);

Impossible Trinity in Underwater Optical Wireless Communication
Qiwei Wang (Dalian University of Technology); Chi Lin (Dalian University of Technology); Yi Wang (Dalian University of Technology); Yu Sun (Dalian University of Technology); Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology); Xin Fan (Dalian University of Technology); Guowei Wu (Dalian University of Technology);

KSpeed: Beating I/O Bottlenecks of Data Provisioning for RDMA Training Clusters
Jianbo Dong (Alibaba Group); Hao Qi (University of California, Merced); Tianjing Xu (China Construction Bank Operations Data Center); Xiaoli Liu (Alibaba Group); Chen Wei (Alibaba Group); Rongyao Wang (Alibaba Group); Xiaoyi Lu (University of California, Merced); Zheng Cao (Alibaba Group); Binzhang Fu (Alibaba Group);

Paraleon: Automatic and Adaptive Tuning for DCQCN Parameters in RDMA Networks
Ziteng Chen (Southeast University); Menghao Zhang (Beihang University); Guanyu Li (Huawei); Jiahao Cao (Tsinghua University); Yang Jing (Infrawaves); Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University); Renjie Xie (Tsinghua University); He Liu (Infrawaves); Fangzheng Jiao (Infrawaves); Xiaohe Hu (Infrawaves);

SpotMon: Enabling General Hotspot Monitoring in Key-Value Stores
Zhengyan Zhou (Zhejiang University, Quan Cheng Laboratory); Jinghan Zu (Zhejiang University); Enhao Huang (Zhejiang University); Zizhao Wang (Zhejiang University); Haifeng Zhou (Zhejiang University); Dong Zhang (Zhicheng College, Fuzhou University); Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University); Chunming Wu (Zhejiang University);

PTU: Pre-trained Model for Network Traffic Understanding
Lingfeng Peng (Tsinghua University); Xiaohui Xie (Tsinghua University); Sijiang Huang (Tsinghua University); Ziyi Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University);

From Entanglement Purification Scheduling to Fidelity-constrained Entanglement Routing
Ziyue Jia (Sun Yat-sen University); Lin Chen (Sun Yat-sen University);

Balancing SDN Control Plane Availability and Traffic Engineering Efficiency in Data Centers
Brian Chang (UT Austin); Keqiang He (Airbnb); Shawn Chen (Carnegie Mellon University); Jiaxin Lin (The University of Texas at Austin); Mingyang (Zhang Google); Wenfei Wu (Peking University); Aditya Akella (UT Austin);

LMLoRa: Enhancing Link Performance for Mobile LoRa Networks
Ciyuan Chen (City University of Hong Kong, Southeast University); Zhuqing Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics); Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong); Jingkai Lin (Michigan State University); Runqun Xiong (Southeast University); Dian Shen (Southeast University); Xirui Dong (Southeast University); Junzhou Luo (Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China);

6Vision: Image-encoding-based IPv6 Target Generation in Few-seed Scenarios
Wenjian Zhang (Tsinghua University); Guanglei Song (Zhongguancun Laboratory in Beijing); Lin He (Tsinghua University); Jinlei Lin (Tsinghua University); Songyun Wu (Tsinghua University); Zhiliang Wang (Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Laboratory in Beijing); Chenglong Li (Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Laboratory in Beijing); Jiahai Yang (Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Laboratory in Beijing);

Rina: Enhancing Ring-AllReduce with In-network Aggregation in Distributed Model Training
Zixuan Chen (Fudan University); Xuandong Liu (Fudan University); Minglin Li (Fudan University); Yinfan Hu (Fudan University); Hao Mei (Fudan University); Huifeng Xing (Fudan University); Hao Wang (Fudan University); Wanxin Shi (Fudan University); Sen Liu (Fudan University); Yang Xu (Fudan University);

HoloCube: 3D Opitcal IoT Connections via Software Defined Pepper's Ghost
Xiao Zhang (University of Michigan-Dearborn); Li Xiao (Michigan State University); Matt W. Mutka (Michigan State University);

Escape Cache Traps by Rate FeedBack for NDN Real-time Video Streaming
Zhaohua Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Pengcheng Laboratory); Yongrui Chen (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Lingang Li (Harbin Institute of Technology); Zhijun Li (Harbin Institute of Technology); Weizhe Zhang (Pengcheng Laboratory); Yu Zhang (Pengcheng Laboratory);

High-Throughput Stateless-but-Complex Packet Processing within a Tbps Programmable Switch Best Paper
Yutaro Yoshinaka (Osaka University); Yuki Koizumi (Osaka University); Junji Takemasa (Osaka University); Toru Hasegawa (Shimane University);

Zebra: Accelerating Distributed Sparse Deep Training with In-network Gradient Aggregation for Hot Parameters
Heng Pan (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Penglai Cui (ICT, CAS); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Ru Jia (ICT, CAS); Penghao Zhang (ICT, CAS); Leilei Zhang (ICT, CAS); Ye Yang (ICT CAS; UCAS, China); Jiahao Wu (ICT, CAS); Mathy Laurent (University of Liege); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China);

Following the Compass: LLM-Empowered Intent Translation with Manual Guidance
Lingqi Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Jingyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Jianyu Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Caijun Yan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Haifeng Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Zirui Zhuang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Qi Qi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yi Dong (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); Haibao Ren (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); Jianxin Liao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications);

NetMamba: Efficient Network Traffic Classification via Pre-training Unidirectional Mamba
Tongze Wang (Tsinghua University); Xiaohui Xie (Tsinghua University); Wenduo Wang (Tsinghua University); Chuyi Wang (Tsinghua University); Youjian Zhao (Tsinghua University); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University);

TrafficGrinder: A 0-RTT-Aware QUIC Load Balancer
Robert J. Shahla (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology); Reuven Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology); Roy Friedman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology);

FedSSA: Reducing Overhead of Additive Cryptographic Methods in Federated Learning with Sketch
Zirui Ou (Peking University, School of Computer Science); Shujie Han (Northwestern Polytechnical University); Qihuan Zeng (Peking University); Qun Huang (Peking University, School of Computer Science);

Efficient Routing on Quantum Networks using Adaptive Clustering
Connor Clayton (University of Maryland); Xiaodi Wu (University of Maryland); Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland);

Roundabout: Solving PFC Deadlocks with Distributed Detection and Buffer Collaboration
Kai Lv (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Heng Pan (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Chengjun Jia (Tsinghua University); Jiaxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Luyang Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jianer Zhou (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen China); Yanbiao Li (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China);

RLGFuzz: Reinforcement Learning Guided Fuzzing with State-Coverage Mapping Environment
Yanlong Shen (Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Electronics and Communication Engineering); Yu Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Electronics and Communication Engineering); Ying Zhou (Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Electronics and Communication Engineering);

Towards Practical Overlay Networks for Decentralized Federated Learning
Yifan Hua (University of California Santa Cruz); Jinlong Pang (University of California Santa Cruz); Xiaoxue Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz); Yi Liu (University of California Santa Cruz); Xiaofeng Shi (University of California Santa Cruz); Bao Wang The (University of Utah); Yang Liu (University of California Santa Cruz); Chen Qian (University of California Santa Cruz);

NDN Stateful Forwarding and LEO Satellite Network's Link Handovers
Sirapop Theeranantachai (UCLA); Beichuan Zhang (University of Arizona); Lixia Zhang (UCLA);

ConfigTrans: Network Configuration Translation Based on Large Language Models and Constraint Solving
Naigong Zheng (Northeastern University); Fuliang Li (Northeastern University); Ziming Li (Northeastern University); Yu Yang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Yimo Hao (Northeastern University); Chenyang Liu (Northeastern University); Xingwei Wang (Northeastern University);

The Space above the Sky: Uniting Global-Scale Ground Station as a Service for Efficient Orbital Data Processing
Heng Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Sheng Cen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yifei Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University);

Tackling Bit-Rate Variation of RTC through Frame-Bursting Congestion Control
Zhidong Jia (Peking University); Yihang Zhang (Peking University); Qingyang Li (Peking University); Xinggong Zhang (Peking University);

Learning-Based Heavy Hitters and Flow Frequency Estimation in Streams
Rana Shahout (Harvard University); Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University);