ITC Program
The technical sessions and the PhD workshop of ITC36 will take place from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th of June. The 2025 International Workshop on Network Calculus will take place on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th of June.
Monday
9:15-10:30 Keynote I
Living on the Edge for a Quarter Century: A Personal Retrospective - Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Akamai Technologies)
11:00-12:30 Technical Session I: Energy Savings
Energy/Performance Trade-Off in RANs with Dynamic Management of Frequency Bands - Diletta Olliaro (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino), Matteo Sereno (Università di Torino), Andrea Marin (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice), Marco Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute)
Network Sharing: a pathway to Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Mitigation in Radio Access Networks - Daniela Renga (Politecnico di Torino), Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino), Loutfi Nuaymi (IMT Atlantique, Rennes)
A Fast Algorithm for Multiserver Queueing Systems with Setup Times and Power-saving Modes - Thu Le-Anh (University of Tsukuba), Tuan Phung-Duc (University of Tsukuba)
14:00-15:30 Invited Session - What’s new In PEVA?
Energy-Efficient Server Operations with Batch Processing and Setup Delays in Data Centers - Thu Le-Anh (University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan)
Paper: Thu Le-Anh, Tuan Phung-Duc, "Energy-performance tradeoffs in server farms with batch services and setup times," Performance Evaluation, Volume 168, June 2025, 102468, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peva.2025.102468.
Computational algorithms and arrival theorem for non-conventional product-form solutions - Diletta Olliaro (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy)
Paper: Diletta Olliaro, Gianfranco Balbo, Andrea Marin, Matteo Sereno, "Computational algorithms and arrival theorem for non-conventional product-form solutions," Performance Evaluation, Volume 168, June 2025, 102469, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peva.2025.102469.
Dimensioning Leaky Buckets in Stochastic Environments - András Mészáros (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
Paper: Peter Buchholz, András Mészáros, Miklós Telek, "Dimensioning leaky buckets in stochastic environments," Performance Evaluation, Volume 167, March 2025, 102461, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peva.2024.102461.
16:00-17:30 Technical Session II: Reliability
Providing Throughput Guarantees in Multi-Domain Networks in 6G - Fidan Mehmeti (Chair of Communications Networks, Technical University of Munich), Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich)
Sender-Based Approach to Reducing the Bufferbloat in Heterogeneous 5G Networks - Lukas Prause (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Mark Akselrod (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Scalable Verification of Routing Loops in Multi-Protocol Multi-Instance IP Networks - Youcef Magnouche (Huawei Technologies), Sebastien Martin (Huawei Technologies), Jeremie Leguay (Huawei Technologies), Cong Mei (Huawei Technologies), Jeremie Leguay (Nokia Bell Labs)
Tuesday
9:15-10:30 Award Session
Arne Jensen Lifetime Award - Deep Medhi (Program Director, U.S. National Science Foundation)
11:00-12:30 Technical Session III: Measurements
On The Evolution of Home Gateways - Tim Neubert (University of Augsburg), Rolf Winter (Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg), Jonas Winkler (Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg)
DDoS on Repeat: Measuring Pulse-Wave DDoS in the Wild - Daniel Kopp (DE-CIX), Oliver Hohlfeld (University of Kassel)
Continuous Integration for Networks Supporting Low-Latency Using Hybrid Network Emulation - Florian Wiedner (Technical University of Munich), Dominik Kreutzer (Technical University of Munich), Jonas Andre (Technical University of Munich), Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich)
14:00-15:30 PhD Workshop: Selected Presentations and Lightning Talks
Stochastic Models for Remote Timing Attacks - Simone Bozzolan, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Conducting Time-synchronized Measurements in 5G Campus Networks - Simon Raffeck, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Lightning Talks
Stochastic Models for Remote Timing Attacks - Simone Bozzolan, Diletta Olliaro, Stefano Calzavara, Andrea Marin, Gianfranco Balbo, Matteo Sereno
Tenant-Based Virtual Network Embedding with Service Function Chaining - Trond Vatten
SIC-based Massive Random Multiple Access: A Practical Approach Asmad Bin Abdul Razzaque, Alexey Rolich and Andrea Baiocchi
Performability-Aware Network Slicing for Mission-Critical Smart Grid Communications - H V Kalpanie Mendis
Quantifying the Impact of 5G Network Slicing on Quality of Experience and Survivability - Marija Gajić
Parameterizing 5G NR to Enable Novel Mobile Use Cases - Sebastian G. Grøsvik
Conducting Time-synchronized Measurements in 5G Campus Networks - Simon Raffeck, Stefan Geißler and Tobias Hoßfeld
15:30-16:30 Extended Coffee Break with Poster Session
**16:30-17:30 70 Years ITC Celebration
Wednesday
9:15-10:30 Keynote II
Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks with Optical Circuit Switches and Self-Adjusting Topologies - Stefan Schmid (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
11:00-12:30 Technical Session IV: Optimization
Server Selection and Inference Rate Optimization in AoI-Driven Distributed Systems - Leonardo Badia (Università di Padova), Paolo Castagno (Università di Torino), Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks Institute), Matteo Sereno (Università di Torino), Marco Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute)
A Discrete-Time Model of the 5G New Radio Uplink Channel - Simon Raffeck (University of Wuerzburg), Sebastian Gilje Grøsvik (NTNU), Laura Becker (Technical University of Munich), Stanislav Lange (NTNU), Stefan Geissler (University of Wuerzburg), Thomas Zinner (NTNU), Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich), Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg)
14:00-15:00 Technical Session V: Simulation
Dispatching Odyssey: Exploring Performance in Computing Clusters under Real-World Workloads - Mert Yildiz (University of Rome Sapienza), Alexey Rolich (University of Rome Sapienza), Andrea Baiocchi (University of Rome Sapienza)
Mobility Aware Task Migration in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks - Rim Sayegh (ESME Research Lab, Ivry sur Seine, France), Hela Marouane (ESME Research Lab, Ivry sur Seine, France), Sahar Hoteit (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S), Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Abdulhalim Dandoush (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar)
15:00-15:15 End of Conference
WONECA Program
Wednesday
15:15-15:45 Workshop Registration and Coffee Break
15:45-17:30 Opening and Session I: Stochastic Network Calculus
Opening - Yuming Jiang and Lisa Maile
Telescoping-Tightness Single-Node Performance Bounds - Amr Rizk, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Stochastic Performance Bounds Under Weak Service - Minimal Arrival Guarantees as Enabler - Vlad-Cristian Constantin, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany
Delay Bounds in IEEE 802.11 Networks Under Non-Saturated Conditions: Do Practical Models Improve Accuracy? - Orangel Azuaje Contreras, University of Porto, Portugal
Statistical Delay QoS Optimization for XR Traffic over WiFi Networks - Linlin Zhao, Jilin University, China
18:30 ITC/WONECA Social Activity
Thursday
09:15-10:30 Session II: Deterministic Network Calculus
Improving Arrival Curves for Flow Splitting - Edoardo Loni, University of Pisa, Italy
Per-Flow Performance Bounds for a FIFO Server Beyond Token-Bucket-Constrained Arrivals - Lukas Wildberger, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany
Using Minimal Arrival Curves to Derive Per-Flow Performance Bounds in (Tandem) Networks with Complex Feedback Structures - Anja Hamscher, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany
11:00-12:30 Session III: Tool and Applications
Nancy.Expressions: A Library for Automated Optimizations- Raffaele Zippo, University of Pisa, Italy
Network Calculus-Based Co-Design for Real-Time Performance and Resource Optimization in TSN - Luxi Zhao, BUAA, China
A Network Calculus Model of Congestion Control in Data Center Networks - Natchanon Luangsomboon, University of Toronto, Canada
Impact of Packetization on Network Calculus Analysis - Yuming Jiang, NTNU, Norway
