List of Accepted Papers

We are pleased to announce that the following papers have been accepted for HotNets 2025.

Beyond Lamport, Towards Probabilistic Fair Ordering
Haseeb Ashfaq (New York University); Jinkun Geng (Stanford University); Radhika Mittal (UIUC); Aurojit Panda (NYU); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University); Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University)
FlowPulse: Catching Network Failures in ML Clusters
Jakob Krebs, Dima Gavrilenko, Daniel Amir (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology); Shir Landau Feibish (The Open University of Israel); Mark Silberstein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Just-in-Time Logic Enforcement: A new paradigm of combining statistical and symbolic reasoning for network management
Hongyu Hè (Princeton University); Maria Apostolaki (Princeton)
Towards Structurally Extensible Host Network Stacks
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi (EPFL); Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley); Sanidhya Kashyap (EPFL)
Photonic Rails in ML Datacenters
Eric Ding, Chuhan Ouyang, Rachee Singh (Cornell University)
The Privacy Quagmire: Bridging Computer Science and Legal Nuance
Yunwei Zhao (New York University); Varun Chandrasekaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Thomas Wies, Lakshmi Subramanian (New York University)
It Is Time to Address Network Power Proportionality
Lukas Röllin, Romain Jacob (ETH Zürich); Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)
A Case for Learned Cloud Emulators
Archit Bhatnagar (University of Michigan); Yiming Qiu (University of Hong Kong); Sarah McClure, Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Ang Chen (University of Michigan)
Data Centers Manufacturing Steel: Rethinking Industrial Networks in the Age of IT
Nikolaos Mitsakis (Siemens AG, University of Kassel); Marco Reisacher (Siemens AG, University of Stuttgart); Matthias Eichholz, Yannic Breiting, Harald Albrecht, Andreas Blenk (Siemens AG); Oliver Hohlfeld (University of Kassel)
OpenDesc: From Static NIC Descriptors to Evolvable Metadata Interfaces
Seyyidahmed Lahmer, Nikita Tyunyayev, Tom Barbette (UCLouvain)
Rethinking the Role of Network Stacks for Website Fingerprinting Defenses
Elisaveta Lavrentieva, Marc Juarez, Michio Honda (University of Edinburgh)
Mitigating Inter-datacenter Incast with a Proxy
Anchengcheng Zhou, Carter Costic, Hongyu Hè (Princeton University); Ahmad Ghalayini, Abdul Kabbani (Microsoft); Maria Apostolaki (Princeton University)
JEEVES: The Valet Who Masters the Art of Cross-DC Training Scheduling
Haotian Deng (Tsinghua University); Xuebin Song, Menghao Zhang (Beihang University); Yuan Yang, Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University)
GPUnion: Autonomous GPU Sharing on Campus
Yufang Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Yuanbo Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University); Hanlong Liao (National University of Defense Technology); Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University); Guoming Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
When Light Bends to the Collective Will: A Theory and Vision for Adaptive Photonic Scale-up Domains
Vamsi Addanki (Purdue University)
FlexSFP: Rethinking Network Intelligence Inside the Cable
Angelo Tulumello (CNIT/Axbryd); Alessandro Rivitti, Giacomo Belocchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata/Axbryd); Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata); Luka Perkov (Bit Ltd.)
A Breath of Fresh Air: Visualizing How Networks “Breathe”
Stephen Jasina (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University); Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Mark Crovella (Boston University); Walter Willinger (NIKSUN Inc.)
A Modern Edge-based Design for Cellular Roaming
Tenzin Samten Ukyab (UC Berkeley); Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley / ICSI)
Modeling Metastability
Ali Farahbakhsh (Cornell University); Andreas Haeberlen (University of Pennsylvania / Roblox); Andy Lu (University of Pennsylvania); Lorenzo Alvisi, Robbert van Renesse, Shir Cohen Gahtan (Cornell University)
Anyone, Anywhere, not Everyone, Everywhere: Starlink Doesn't End the Digital Divide
Wesley Woo (Virginia Tech); Juan A. Fraire (Inria-Lyon); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley / ICSI); Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech)
Once Bitten, Still Shy: Can We Prevent Cloud Systems from Repeating Their Mistakes?
Dimas Parikesit, Chang Lou (University of Virginia)
Your network doesn't end at the NIC
Raj Joshi (Harvard University); Saksham Agarwal (UIUC); ChonLam Lao, Minlan Yu (Harvard University)
Programmable and Adaptive Scheduling for Distributed Systems
Yuyao Wang, Xiangfeng Zhu, Ratul Mahajan, Stephanie Wang (University of Washington)
From req/res to pub/sub: Exploring Media over QUIC Transport for DNS
Mathis Engelbart, Mike Kosek (Technical University of Munich); Lars Eggert (Mozilla); Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich)
Path-Oblivious Entanglement Swapping for the Quantum Internet
Vincent Mutolo, Rhea Parekh, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University)
Above the Clouds: New Software Challenges in Space Computing
Haoda Wang, Robert Leo Pendergrast, Kristófer Fannar Björnsson, Anika Somaia, Ezra Landa, Junfeng Yang, Asaf Cidon (Columbia University)
Automatically Surfacing Opportunities for Improvements In Internet-Scale Applications
Vipul Harsh (Conviva); Sayan Sinha (Georgia Tech & Conviva); Henry Milner, Haijie Wu (Conviva); B. Aditya Prakash (Georgia Tech & Conviva); Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang (CMU & Conviva)
One to Many: Closing the Bandwidth Gap in AI Datacenters with Scalable Multicast
Sepehr Abdous, Jinqi Lu, Jiacheng Wan, Erfan Sharafzadeh (Johns Hopkins University); Ying Zhang (Meta); Soudeh Ghorbani (Meta and Johns Hopkins University)
Server Chiplet Networking
Seunghyun An, Joontaek Oh, Ming Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Towards an Agentic Workflow for Internet Measurement Research
Alagappan Ramanathan, Eunju Kang (University of California, Irvine); Dongsu Han (KAIST); Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine)
Towards Incremental MTU Upgrade for the Internet
Junghan Yoon (Seoul National University); youngmin choi (KAIST); Juyoung Park (Seoul National University); Daehyeok Kim (University of Texas at Austin); Changhoon Kim (Google); KyoungSoo Park (Seoul National University)
A Call to Arms: Motivating An Internet Measurements Observatory for Africa
Nicholas Brian Anya, Semebia Wurah (Carnegie Mellon University -Africa); Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University)
LLM-based Config Synthesis requires Disambiguation
Rajdeep Mondal (University of California Los Angeles); Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft); Todd Millstein (UCLA); Alan Tang (Microsoft); George Varghese (UCLA)
The Small World Web of AI
Noa Zilberman, Alexander Jackson (University of Oxford)
Petabit Router-in-a-Package: Rethinking Internet Routers in the Age of In-Packaged Optics and Heterogeneous Integration
Isaac Keslassy (Technion); Bill Lin (UCSD)
The Internet as Sisyphus: Repeating Measurements, Missing Causes
Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University)
Lost in Translation: The Search for Meaning in Network-Attached AI Accelerator Disaggregation
Jaewan Hong, Yifan Qiao, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Shu Liu (UC Berkeley); Marcos K. Aguilera (VMware Research Group); Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania); Christopher J. Rossbach (UT Austin and Microsoft); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
Rethinking Geolocalization on the Internet
Augustin Laouar (École Normale Supérieur de Lyon); Loic Desgeorges (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1); Paul Schmitt (Cal Poly / ICSI); Franceso Bronzino (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Towards Verifiable Network Telemetry without Special Purpose Hardware
Jaechan An, Zeying Zhu, Ian Miers, Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)
Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services
Ziming Mao (UC Berkeley); Jonathan Ellithorpe, Atul Adya (Databricks); Rishabh Iyer, Matei Zaharia (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley / ICSI); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
Man-Made Heuristics Are Dead. Long Live Code Generators!
Rohit Dwivedula, Divyanshu Saxena, Aditya Akella, Swarat Chaudhuri, Daehyeok Kim (The University of Texas at Austin)
Chat with AI: The Surprising Turn of Real-time Video Communication from Human to AI
Jiangkai Wu, Zhiyuan Ren, Liming Liu, Xinggong Zhang (Peking University)
Leveraging Certificate Transparency to Mitigate Downgrade Attacks
Hyunsoo Kim, Myungbin Hwang, Taekyoung "Ted" Kwon (Seoul National University)
The Case for Crowd-Sourcing Communication to BLE-Only Devices
Alex Bellon (UC San Diego); Tess Despres, Prabal Dutta (UC Berkeley); Pat Pannuto (UC San Diego); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley)
Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research
Nova Ahmed (Design Inclusion and Access Lab (DIAL), North South University); Laura Gazda (Virginia Tech); Eric Greenlee (Georgia Institute of Technology); Shelby Hagemann (Northern Arizona Univeristy); Kurtis Heimerl, Esther Jang (University of Washington); Fernanda Rosa (Virginia Tech); Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University); Jason Young (University of Washington)
Faster-than-light coordination for networked systems with quantum non-local games
Venkat Arun, Vijay Chidambaram, Scott Aaronson (UT Austin)
Towards Accessible Model-Free Verification
Alexander Krentsel (UC Berkeley / Google); Oliver Ye, Anthony Tafoya, Xuqian Ma (Google); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley / Google); Anees Shaikh (Google)
Remote Direct Code Execution
Yibo Huang (University of Michigan); Yiming Qiu (University of Hong Kong); Daqian Ding (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yiwen Zhang, Yuzhou Mao, Archit Bhatnagar, Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of Michigan); Srinivas Devadas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Jiarong Xing (Rice University); Ang Chen (University of Michigan)
Sustainability or Survivability? Eliminating the Need to Choose in LEO Satellite Constellations
Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan (University of Oregon)
Software Managed Networks via Coarsening
Pradeep Dogga (UCLA); Rachee Singh (Cornell); Suman Nath (Microsoft Research); Ravi Netravali (Princeton University); Jens Palsberg (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)); George Varghese (UCLA)