Tentative Schedule

All times are Mountain Standard Time (UTC−07:00). Session details and paper assignments are still being finalized.

Day 1 / Monday, November 16

8:00am	Breakfast
9:00am–11:30am	Paper sessions and discussion
11:30am–1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm–5:30pm	Paper sessions and discussion
5:30pm	Workshop dinner

Day 2 / Tuesday, November 17

8:00am	Breakfast
9:00am–11:30am	Paper sessions and discussion
11:30am–1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm–4:00pm	Paper sessions and discussion

Accepted Papers

• (Cache) Congestion Control
  Kian Bahadori, Seyed Mahdi Hosseini, Elie Bruno, Muhammad Abdullah, Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Katerina Argyraki (EPFL)
• Rethinking LEO Networks for Users in Orbit
  Jiabo Yang, Lixin Liu, Yuanjie Li, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)
• Collectives Are Network Programs
  seyyidahmed lahmer (IMEC); Kalyan Pullela, H B Acharya (Oklahoma State University)
• Self-evolving network verifiers
  Ioannis Protogeros, Tibor Schneider, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich)
• Routing Security in the Post-Quantum Future
  Marco Pioppini (ETH Zürich); Yi-Min Lin (ETH Zurich); Jonghoon Kwon (ETH Zürich); Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich)
• Scale-up networking: the next frontier for networking research
  Costin Raiciu (Broadcom and University Politehnica of Bucharest); Andrei Stan, Ştefan-Alexandru Pantucu (University Politehnica of Bucharest); Ziming Mao, Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley); Zhongjie Chen (Microsoft); William X. Zheng, Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley)
• Who Needs DRAM? We Have Fiber
  Hannah Atmer, Yuan Yao (Uppsala University); Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University and RISE Computer Science); Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University)
• Instantiating the Knowledge Plane
  Francisco Pereira (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon); Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University and Amazon Prime Video); Pratiksha Thaker (Databricks)
• Semantics Delivery Network: Rethinking Web Retrieval Infrastructure for LLM Agents
  Peichun Hua, Yunming Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
• Idle Cycles Are Not Wasted Cycles
  Matheus Stolet (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)); Simon Peter (University of Washington); Antoine Kaufmann (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS))
• Stateful CGNAT Was a Symptom, Not a Necessity
  Bing Swen Sun (Peking University)
• What Goes Around Comes Around: Predictive Ground Station Selection For LEO Constellations
  Fan-Xue Gabriella Reidys, Mubashir Anwar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Ragini Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Aryan Taneja, Deepak Vasisht, Matthew Caesar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• The NIC Needs An Operating System
  Wonsup Yoon, Daehyeok Kim (The University of Texas at Austin)
• When AI Becomes the Viewer: Rethinking Immersive Networking for Human–AI Interaction
  Ruizhi Cheng (George Mason University); Amitabh Varshney (University of Maryland); Bo Han (George Mason University)
• You Bought It, They Bricked It: A Call for Reclaiming Local Control
  Jack Tigar Humphries (Stellar Development Foundation)
• Toward Safely Optimizing eBPF Programs using Transformation Witnesses
  Xiangyu Gao (University of Washington); Alejandro de Cock Buning (Carlos III University of Madrid); Xiangfeng Zhu (University of Washington); Jocelyn Qiaochu Chen (University of Alberta); Konstantinos Kallas (University of California, Los Angeles); Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington)
• No Hyperscaler? No Problem. Your Students also Break (and Fix) Networks
  Constantine Constantine, Hongyu Hè, Maria Apostolaki (Princeton University)
• Infer, Don't Negotiate: Unilateral ML-Based Cipher Selection for DNSSEC
  Stefan Schmid (Technical University of Berlin); Haya Schulmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE); Juan Martin Vanerio (University of Vienna); Michael Waidner (National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT, Technische Universität Darmstadt)
• Forecasting Routing Inputs
  Jean Mégret, Tibor Schneider, Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich)
• The Observer Effect in Internet Measurement
  Abbas Mohsenpour (UC Louvain); Cristel Pelsser (UCLouvain)
• Invariant Discovery for Networked Systems
  Hongyu Hè (Princeton); Alexander Krentsel, Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley / Google); Maria Apostolaki (Princeton)
• Pramana: A Composable, Domain-Specific Backend for Empirical Networking Research
  Jaber Daneshamooz, Eugene Vuong (UCSB); Alagappan Ramanathan (University of California, Irvine); Manni Moghimi (UCSB); Haarika Manda (University of California, Santa Barbara); Satyam Kumar, Snithik Thode (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi); Satyandra Guthula (University of California Santa Barbara); Sylee Beltiukov (University of California, Santa Barbara); Dongsu Han (KAIST); Tarun Mangla (IIT Delhi); Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine); Walter Willinger (Northwestern University); Arpit Gupta (UCSB)
• Cross-Phase Blending: Why AI Fabrics Need Phase-Aware Transport
  Soudeh Ghorbani (Microsoft Research & Rutgers); Ying Zhang (Meta)
• Breaking Temporal Symmetry in Collective Communication Algorithms
  Arjun Devraj, Rachee Singh (Cornell University)
• More Streetlights, Please: On the Streetlight Effect in Networking Research
  Vyas Sekar (CMU)
• The Cloud Should Adapt to Its Applications, Not the Other Way Around!
  Sachin Ashok (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Karuna Grewal (Cornell University); Talha Waheed, Gangmuk Lim, Gerard Matthew (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Aditya S Prerepa (xAI); Brighten Godfrey (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Justin Hsu (Cornell University); Radhika Mittal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Intent-Based Verification of Service Mesh Configuration
  Ruize Ma, Haoxian Chen (Shanghai Tech University)
• Frozen Radio Silicon Need Not Freeze Access: Receiver-Defined Access for Satellite-IoT Fleets
  Rohith Reddy Vennam, William Hunter, Dinesh Bharadia (University of California San Diego)
• Understanding GPU Scale-Up Domain Contention
  William X. Zheng (UC Berkeley); Zihan Zhao (University of Virginia); Ziming Mao (UC Berkeley); Zhongjie Chen, Jing Liu (Microsoft Research); Andrei Stan (University Pollitehnica of Bucharest); Haiying Shen (University of Virginia); Costin Raiciu (Broadcom and University Politehnica of Bucharest); Rishabh Iyer, Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
• The Network Should Wake the GPU
  Yiran Lei, Jared Fernandez, Vasileios Kypriotis, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Emma Strubell, Justine Sherry, Daniel Vosler (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Formal operations specifications for reliable system management
  Jinlang Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Jiawei Tyler Gu (Databricks); Ruize Tang (Microsoft Research); Tej Chajed (Theorem); Tianyin Xu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Xudong Sun (University of Toronto)
• Nothing but the Bit: Wi-Fi Sensing for Predicate-Only Age Verification
  Gioliano de Oliveira Braga, Rafael Pimenta de Mattos Paixão (ITA); Pedro Henrique dos Santos Rocha (USP); Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University); Carlos Henrique Gomes Ferreira (UFOP); Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior (ITA)
• Rediscovering heuristics: A litmus test for RL in networked systems
  Seoyul Oh (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Yikai Zheng (Tsinghua University); Eric Xiang Gao, Deepak Vasisht, Francis Y. Yan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• The Case for Automated Probabilistic Reasoning for Network Performance Analysis
  Jamie Kai (University of British Columbia); Rachee Singh (Cornell University); Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo)
• Self-Validating Uncertainty // Or: how to do measurement when you cannot afford ground truth
  Fabian Bustamante, Santiago Klein, Caleb Wang, Kedar Thiagarajan, Ying Zhang (Northwestern University)
• Programmable Scale-Up Switches for Software-Defined GPU Fabrics
  Shouxu Lin (Cornell University); Ran Shu (Microsoft Research); Daehyeok Kim (University of Texas at Austin); Jiaxin Lin (Cornell University)
• How to Dream in Space (Without Getting Burned): A Perspective on LEO Networking Research
  Chris Misa, Zander Chown, Ram Durairajan (University of Oregon)
• What Is Reconfiguration Delay, Really? An End-to-End View of Photonic Switching
  Deeksha Panduranga Rao, Vamsi Addanki (Purdue University)
• Enabling ``Aggressive'' Non-Orthogonal Transmissions for Improved Connectivity in the Low SNR Regime
  Chathura Jayawardena, Georgios Ntavazlis Katsaros, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey)
• The Web Needs a Logout Button: Moving Beyond Document Semantics on the Web
  James McCauley (Mt. Holyoke College)
• Uncovering SIMD parallelism in CPU Packet Processing using the NIC as a Vector Co-Processor
  Kunal Sanjiv Umaji, Bargale Shreyas Chinmaya, Yashvardhan Toshniwal, Yash Mehta (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University and Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
• Toward a World Model for the Kernel Network Stack
  Luyao Bai, Xiaoguang Wang (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness
  Tapan Chugh, Vidushi Singh, Krish Jain, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ratul Mahajan (University of Washington)