Accepted Papers List
We are delighted to announce the following list of accepted papers for APNet 2026.
Single-Core Hotspots on Your VNF? Break Them Up!
Changgang Zheng, Bowen Yang, Jin Ke, Ye Yang, Enge Song, Haonan Li, Zihao Fan, Mingxin Li, Yilong Lv, Yisong Qiao, Jun Liang, Donglin Lai, Bengbeng Xue, Yang Song (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Fudan and Alibaba Cloud); Zhigang Zong, Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud)
Changgang Zheng, Bowen Yang, Jin Ke, Ye Yang, Enge Song, Haonan Li, Zihao Fan, Mingxin Li, Yilong Lv, Yisong Qiao, Jun Liang, Donglin Lai, Bengbeng Xue, Yang Song (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Fudan and Alibaba Cloud); Zhigang Zong, Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud)
Saving Lost Intents in Network Configurations
Jianqiang Li, Wenlong Ding (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Zhixiong Niu, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia); Hong Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jianqiang Li, Wenlong Ding (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Zhixiong Niu, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia); Hong Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
AegisPath: Privacy-Preserving Interdomain Data-Plane Verification with Versioned Verifiable Evidence
Mingjun Fang (Xiamen University); Shuhao Zheng, Zonglun Li (McGill University); Letian Zhu, Qingyu Song (Xiamen University); Lizhao You (Xiamen University, China); Qiang Su, Lu Tang (Xiamen University); Wanjian Feng (Yealink); Fei Yuan, Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University); Xue Liu (McGill University); Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University, Minjiang University)
Mingjun Fang (Xiamen University); Shuhao Zheng, Zonglun Li (McGill University); Letian Zhu, Qingyu Song (Xiamen University); Lizhao You (Xiamen University, China); Qiang Su, Lu Tang (Xiamen University); Wanjian Feng (Yealink); Fei Yuan, Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University); Xue Liu (McGill University); Jiwu Shu (Xiamen University, Minjiang University)
Multi-CDN as a Collective Service: Towards Hot Start in Congestion Control at Scale
Tong Li, Jiuxiang Zhu (Renmin University of China); Bo Wu, Cheng Luo (Tencent Technologies); Haoyi Fang (Renmin University of China); Xiaofei Yu (Tencent Technologies); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University)
Tong Li, Jiuxiang Zhu (Renmin University of China); Bo Wu, Cheng Luo (Tencent Technologies); Haoyi Fang (Renmin University of China); Xiaofei Yu (Tencent Technologies); Ke Xu (Tsinghua University)
eCCA: Deploying In-Network Congestion Control Algorithms in Practice with eBPF
Xinshu Wang, Bin Yang, Jiantao Cheng, Kai Huang, Dian Shen (Southeast University)
Xinshu Wang, Bin Yang, Jiantao Cheng, Kai Huang, Dian Shen (Southeast University)
Fine-Grained Energy Accounting in Production LLM Serving
Xianyi Yuan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)); Hanlong Liao (National University of Defense Technology); Kunming Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University); Guoming Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
Xianyi Yuan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)); Hanlong Liao (National University of Defense Technology); Kunming Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University); Guoming Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
PIVOT: Probability-Guided Synthesis of Network Updates via Transient Intermediate States
Xiaowen Wang, Haifeng Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Xiaowen Wang, Haifeng Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Argus: Scalable and Deterministic Network Fault Localization for AI Training Clusters
Yuxiang Wang, Jiao Zhang, Xianyu Huang, Yubo Ruan, Yuxuan Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yingjie Duan, Shoushou REN, Xianjun He (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); Junlong Chen, Yuan Li, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Yuxiang Wang, Jiao Zhang, Xianyu Huang, Yubo Ruan, Yuxuan Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yingjie Duan, Shoushou REN, Xianjun He (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.); Junlong Chen, Yuan Li, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
PIN: Less Is More for RDMA Load Balancing
Jichun Wu (University of Cambridge); Ran Shu (Microsoft Research); Andrew Moore (University of Cambridge); Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research)
Jichun Wu (University of Cambridge); Ran Shu (Microsoft Research); Andrew Moore (University of Cambridge); Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research)
SCOPE: Spatio-Temporal Collaborative Caching and Proactive Transfer in LEO Satellite Networks
yuyu liu, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Hewu Li, Yuanjie Li, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)
yuyu liu, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Hewu Li, Yuanjie Li, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)
OptiFlow: Towards LLM-Driven Optimization of Collective Communication Algorithms
Fei Long (Tsinghua University); Ziyue Yang (Microsoft Research Asia); Kaihui Gao, Shuai Wang, Li Chen (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia); Dan Li (Tsinghua University)
Fei Long (Tsinghua University); Ziyue Yang (Microsoft Research Asia); Kaihui Gao, Shuai Wang, Li Chen (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research Asia); Dan Li (Tsinghua University)
Not All Flows are Worth N Packets: Robust Encrypted Traffic Classification via Dynamic Patch-level Feature Learning
Mingyu Qiao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Zulong Diao (Hunan University of Science and Technology); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Le Wang (University of Liverpool-department of Computer Science; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Kai Lv (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Xiao Liang (Iowa State University); Yi Gong (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Haiyang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Junwei Wang (Capital University of Economics and Business); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China)
Mingyu Qiao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Zulong Diao (Hunan University of Science and Technology); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Le Wang (University of Liverpool-department of Computer Science; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Kai Lv (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Xiao Liang (Iowa State University); Yi Gong (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.); Haiyang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Junwei Wang (Capital University of Economics and Business); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China)
Towards Option-Based IPv4 Address Extension: A Measurement Study and Testbed Deployment
Yi Li, Rundong Liu, Zhen Chen, Bing Swen Sun (Peking University)
Yi Li, Rundong Liu, Zhen Chen, Bing Swen Sun (Peking University)
EdgePoW: Intent-Aware Adaptive SDN Defense with PoW Against multi-domain SYN Floods
Wenyang Jia (Georgia Institute of Technology); JingJing Wang (Peking University); Xianneng Zou (Tencent); Kai LEI (Peking University)
Wenyang Jia (Georgia Institute of Technology); JingJing Wang (Peking University); Xianneng Zou (Tencent); Kai LEI (Peking University)
KaeTE: Towards Practical Neural Traffic Engineering with Lagrangian Duality and Learning-to-optimize
Zirui Ou (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University); Yanghao Zhang (School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University); Jie Gui, Qun Huang (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University)
Zirui Ou (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University); Yanghao Zhang (School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University); Jie Gui, Qun Huang (National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University)
EAGLE: Erroneous Traffic Analysis Framework using Graph Representation Learning
Xiaoxiong Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Nanyang Technological University); Zhihao Wang, Dingde Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Xiaoxiong Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Nanyang Technological University); Zhihao Wang, Dingde Jiang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Semantic-Aware Loss Recovery for Cross-Datacenter Model Training
Xingjian Zhang, Yutong Zhao, Jiaxue Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Lizhuang Tan (Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Ji'nan)); Shangguang Wang, Yiran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Xingjian Zhang, Yutong Zhao, Jiaxue Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Lizhuang Tan (Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Ji'nan)); Shangguang Wang, Yiran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Integrating AI Clusters into Virtual Private Cloud
Yinhe Wang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Enge Song, Zihao Fan, Changgang Zheng, Haonan Li (Alibaba Cloud); Shengyao Gao (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Juncheng Xiang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Ye Yang, Junnan Cai, Chang Liu, Haoxiang Pan, Yang Song, Yilong Lv (Alibaba Cloud); Qiang Fu (School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University); Zhigang Zong (Alibaba Cloud); Heng Pan (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud)
Yinhe Wang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Enge Song, Zihao Fan, Changgang Zheng, Haonan Li (Alibaba Cloud); Shengyao Gao (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Juncheng Xiang (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Ye Yang, Junnan Cai, Chang Liu, Haoxiang Pan, Yang Song, Yilong Lv (Alibaba Cloud); Qiang Fu (School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University); Zhigang Zong (Alibaba Cloud); Heng Pan (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud)
Shielding Mobile Battery from Middlebox Timeouts via Server-Driven Zero-Wakeup Keep-Alives
Xun Sun (Xiamen University, China); Jiahua Zhang, Jiaxin Liang (Huawei, China); Lizhao You (Xiamen University, China); Jie Li, Jingbin Zhou (Huawei, China)
Xun Sun (Xiamen University, China); Jiahua Zhang, Jiaxin Liang (Huawei, China); Lizhao You (Xiamen University, China); Jie Li, Jingbin Zhou (Huawei, China)
ProLet: Proactive Multi-path Load Balancing for Lossless RDMA
Hong Wang, Jinhao Luo (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Jing Jie Tan (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman); Jingrong Wang, Kaiyang Liu (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Hong Wang, Jinhao Luo (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Jing Jie Tan (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman); Jingrong Wang, Kaiyang Liu (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Achieving Unified Memory for FPGA-Based String Matching
Zhuoxuan Sun, Jincheng Zhong, Jiayao Wang, shuhui chen (National University of Defense Technology)
Zhuoxuan Sun, Jincheng Zhong, Jiayao Wang, shuhui chen (National University of Defense Technology)
LFRI: Efficient Routing Emulation for LEO Mega-Constellations
Wenhao Lu, Zhiyuan Wang, Shan Zhang, Hongbin Luo (Beihang University)
Wenhao Lu, Zhiyuan Wang, Shan Zhang, Hongbin Luo (Beihang University)
Towards Learned Switch Behavior Modeling
Daqian Ding, Ziqian Liu (The University of Hong Kong); Zhixiong Niu (Microsoft Research); Ziyu Mao (The University of Hong Kong); Jingyu Wang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research); Yiming Qiu (The University of Hong Kong)
Daqian Ding, Ziqian Liu (The University of Hong Kong); Zhixiong Niu (Microsoft Research); Ziyu Mao (The University of Hong Kong); Jingyu Wang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research); Yiming Qiu (The University of Hong Kong)
RAG on the Decentralized Web: An Empirical Study of Akash and Golem
Suting Chen (Northwestern University); Matteo Varvello (Nokia Bell Labs); Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University); Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Suting Chen (Northwestern University); Matteo Varvello (Nokia Bell Labs); Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Northwestern University); Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
ISP4x: Restoring IPv4 End-to-End Connectivity via Stateless Address Extension
Yi Li, Rundong Liu, Zhen Chen, Bing Swen Sun (Peking University)
Yi Li, Rundong Liu, Zhen Chen, Bing Swen Sun (Peking University)
Towards Truly Burst-Aware Evaluation of Data Center Congestion Control
Pragna Mamidipaka (Carnegie Mellon University); Srikanth Sundaresan (Meta); Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University)
Pragna Mamidipaka (Carnegie Mellon University); Srikanth Sundaresan (Meta); Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University)
Congestion Quarantine in Lossless Ethernet
Dongkang Hu (Tsinghua University); Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng (Microsoft Research Asia); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University)
Dongkang Hu (Tsinghua University); Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng (Microsoft Research Asia); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University)
Turbolearn: Harnessing Accurate and Line-Rate Deep Learning on Programmable Switches
Zhifan Jiang, Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Linying Zheng, Chunming Wu, Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University)
Zhifan Jiang, Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Linying Zheng, Chunming Wu, Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University)
Characterizing Network Configuration Repair Spaces with Localized Subspecifications
Yongzheng Zhang, Haoxian Chen (ShanghaiTech University)
Yongzheng Zhang, Haoxian Chen (ShanghaiTech University)
Not All Pretrained Representation has The Sweet Danger of Sugar: Robust and Trustworthy Representation Learning for Encrypted Malicious Traffic Identification
Mingyu Qiao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zulong Diao (Hunan University of Science and Technology); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Wanhua Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Le Wang (University of Liverpool-department of Computer Science; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Haiyang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xiao Liang (Iowa State University); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China)
Mingyu Qiao (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zulong Diao (Hunan University of Science and Technology); Guangxing Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Wanhua Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Le Wang (University of Liverpool-department of Computer Science; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Haiyang Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xiao Liang (Iowa State University); Zhenyu Li (ICT, CAS); Gaogang Xie (CNIC CAS; UCAS, China)
HyLink: Harnessing PCIe and Dedicated Interconnects for Efficient Collective Communication
Yuezheng Liu, Menghao Zhang, Xuebin Song, Juner Shen, Chunming Hu, Xudong Liu (Beihang University)
Yuezheng Liu, Menghao Zhang, Xuebin Song, Juner Shen, Chunming Hu, Xudong Liu (Beihang University)
Zephyr: A Zero-loss and Tranparent TLS Connection Migration Framework
Jiazhen Xu, Chengcheng Yu (Zhejiang University); Yueshang Zuo, Enge Song, Shaokai Zhang, Jiangu Zhao, Tian Pan, Yang Song (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Fudan University and Alibaba Cloud); Chengkun Wei (Zhejiang University); Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud); Wenzhi Chen (Zhejiang University)
Jiazhen Xu, Chengcheng Yu (Zhejiang University); Yueshang Zuo, Enge Song, Shaokai Zhang, Jiangu Zhao, Tian Pan, Yang Song (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen (Fudan University and Alibaba Cloud); Chengkun Wei (Zhejiang University); Shunmin Zhu (Alibaba Cloud); Wenzhi Chen (Zhejiang University)
SprayCast: Congestion-Adaptive Native Multicast for Dynamic Sparse All-to-All Communication
Yingying Zeng, Ning Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China); Xiaobin Tan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China); Xuan Zhao, Shenzhi Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China); Feng Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China)
Yingying Zeng, Ning Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China); Xiaobin Tan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China); Xuan Zhao, Shenzhi Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China); Feng Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China)
CheckWork: Enabling Trace-Driven Analysis of Checkpointing Overhead in Distributed ML Training
Eldar Hasanov (Imperial College London); Adel Sefiane (NVIDIA & Imperial College); Alireza Farshin (NVIDIA); Marios Kogias (Imperial College London)
Eldar Hasanov (Imperial College London); Adel Sefiane (NVIDIA & Imperial College); Alireza Farshin (NVIDIA); Marios Kogias (Imperial College London)
BiCayley: Traffic-Aware 3-ISL Topology Optimization via Bipartite Cayley Graph
yuze liu, yanbiao li, gaogang xie (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
yuze liu, yanbiao li, gaogang xie (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Learning Filters with Certainty
Yuval Banoun (Technion); Daniel Sadoc Menasché (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion)
Yuval Banoun (Technion); Daniel Sadoc Menasché (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion)
Towards Efficient Serving of Network-intensive LLM Inferences
Weiye Wang, Chen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Junxue Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China); Zhusheng Wang, Hui Yuan, Zixuan Guan, Xiaolong Zheng (Huawei); Qizhen Weng, Yin Chen (Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom); Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Weiye Wang, Chen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Junxue Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China); Zhusheng Wang, Hui Yuan, Zixuan Guan, Xiaolong Zheng (Huawei); Qizhen Weng, Yin Chen (Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom); Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
FreeProbe: Towards Low-Overhead Runtime Observability for High-Performance User-Space Systems
Kai Huang, Bin Yang, Xinshu Wang, Beilun Wang, Dian Shen (Southeast University)
Kai Huang, Bin Yang, Xinshu Wang, Beilun Wang, Dian Shen (Southeast University)
