CoNEXT 2026 Student Workshop Program

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2026 ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop (CoNEXT-SW ’26) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This year’s workshop continues its tradition as an exciting forum for presenting early-stage student research in networking and distributed systems. The workshop aims to share novel ideas and expose students to a conference environment where they can gain valuable feedback on their research. The CoNEXT Student Workshop gives student researchers a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with both junior and senior members of the community.

In total, we received 33 submissions, of which 22 were selected for publication after a rigorous review process. Putting together the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop was a team effort. We first thank the authors for providing the program content. We are also grateful to the program committee members, who worked diligently to review papers and provide feedback to student authors.

We hope you find this program interesting and thought-provoking, and that the workshop provides a valuable opportunity to share ideas with researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.

Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library

Utrecht, The Netherlands · All times local (CET).

Opening Remarks
Keynote
Technical Session I: Network and Systems Security — Part 1
Continuous Generation of Labeled Command&Control Traffic for Detector Development
David Kežlínek (CESNET and FIT CTU); Jan Luxemburk (CESNET and FIT CTU)
Toward an Empirical Security Panorama of eBPF using GenAI-powered Automated Pipelines
Louie Wolf (Zurich University of Applied Sciences); Gürkan Gür (Zurich University of Applied Sciences); Daniel Borkmann (Isovalent at Cisco)
Coffee Break
Technical Session I: Network and Systems Security — Part 2
Taroc: Pinpointing Carpet-Bombing DDoS via Prefix-Hierarchy Aggregation
Kunpeng He (Tsinghua University); Lei Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)
Changfu: Coarse Packet-Type Profiling for DDoS Attack Characterization
Kunpeng He (Tsinghua University); Lei Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)
Towards Self-Evolving DDoS Defense with Composable Playbooks
Lingfeng Peng (Tsinghua University); Xiaohui Xie (Tsinghua University and Zhongguancun Laboratory); Wenhao Cheng (Southeast University); Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)
Technical Session II: Authentication and Network Measurement
Fast and Safe: Authenticating In-Network Bundle Suppression in Delay Tolerant Networks
Fayzuddin Topu (Queen’s University Belfast); Kieran McLaughlin (Queen’s University Belfast); Sandra Scott-Hayward (Queen’s University Belfast)
Towards Measuring the Security Quality of FIDO2 Deployments at Scale
Macha Krumm (University of Liège); Florian Dekinder (University of Liège); Benoit Donnet (University of Liege)
Following the Clock: Inferring Timestamp Clocks Behind Source Addresses in Telescope Traffic
Andrea Sordello (Politecnico di Torino); Idilio Drago (Università di Torino); Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino)
Lunch
Technical Session III: Network Measurement and Video Streaming
Rethinking Network-wide Sketch-based Telemetry Without Path Knowledge
Muhamad Rizka Maulana (Eindhoven University of Technology); Habib Mostafaei (Eindhoven University of Technology); Nirvana Meratnia (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Beyond the Homepage: Longitudinal Measurement of K–12 Internet Infrastructure
Shouraya Pendgaonkar (Hightstown High School); Grace McGrath (New York University); Danny Yuxing Huang (New York University)
Workload-Aware Monitoring for AI-RAN
Babak Azkaei (Eindhoven University of Technology); Georgios Exarchakos (Eindhoven University of Technology); Kishor Chandra Joshi (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Deepfake Detection and Temporal Localization in HTTP Adaptive Streaming via Segment-Level Analysis
Christian Coduri (Politecnico di Torino); Alessio Sacco (Politecnico di Torino); Guido Marchetto (Politecnico di Torino)
Towards Practical Layered Video Streaming with QoE-Aware Partial Delivery
Qi Guo (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik); Jaideep More (Saarland University); Taha Albakour (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik); Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Tiago Heinrich (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Panel
Coffee Break
Technical Session IV: Network Systems and AI Workloads
Federated Path-Aware Transit for BGP Survivability
Elham Wirz (ETH Zurich); Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University); Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich); Walter Willinger (Northwestern University)
Dynamic Network Provisioning via Reactive Synthesis
Pooja Sahu (University of Minnesota); Sanjai Rayadurgam (University of Minnesota)
Opportunistic Non-Conserved Flow Control for Transient Congestion in Datacenters
Chaoyang Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen); Xuhong Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
PhaseSync: Look-Ahead Optical Circuit Scheduling for Multi-Job Distributed Training
Teja Nikhil Masabattula (IIT Jodhpur); Naman Soni (IIT Jodhpur); Sidharth Sharma (IIT Jodhpur)
PRISM: Predictive KV Cache Discovery for Agentic LLM Serving at Internet Scale
Adhvay Iyer (Del Norte High School); Naman Khurana (Skyline High School); Claire Shao (Lynbrook High School); Kathan Thai (Cosumnes Oaks High School); Aarush Rachakonda (Henry M. Gunn High School); Shiyi Ling (University of California, Santa Cruz); Chen Qian (University of California, Santa Cruz)
CellToken: Certify the Response Before the Link Dies
Amir Gharghabi (University of Tehran); Hannah B. Pasandi (University of California, Berkeley)
CoordSpec: Coordinating Edge Drafting and Cloud Verification for Efficient Speculative Decoding
Dongkyun Ryoo (Korea University); Jihoon Lim (Korea University); Daesik Kim (Korea University); Sangheon Pack (Korea University)
Closing Remarks & Award Announcement
Welcome Reception