ACM SIGCOMM 2025 List of Accepted Papers

This year's program will cover a diverse array of topics, including the latest advancements in network architecture and protocols, as well as innovative solutions for performance, security, and resource management. To provide a glimpse of the outstanding quality and range of research, we are excited to announce the acceptance of the following papers:

• MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training

  Xudong Liao, Yijun Sun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Han Tian (The University of Science and Technology of China); Xinchen Wan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Yilun Jin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Zilong Wang, Zhenghang Ren, Xinyang Huang, Wenxue Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Kin Fai Tse (ITSC, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Zhizhen Zhong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Guyue Liu (Peking University); Ying Zhang (Meta); Xiaofeng Ye (EmbedWay); Yiming Zhang (Xiamen University); Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• Nezha: SmartNIC-based Virtual Switch Load Sharing

  Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Enge Song, Bowen Yang, Tian Pan, Ye Yang (Alibaba Cloud); Qiang Fu (School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University); Yang Song, Yilong Lv, Zikang Chen, Jianyuan Lu, Shize Zhang, Xiaoqing Sun, Rong Wen, Xionglie Wei (Alibaba Cloud); Biao Lyu (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Zhigang Zong (Alibaba Cloud); Qinming He (Zhejiang University); Shunmin Zhu (Hangzhou Feitian Cloud and Alibaba Group)

• InfiniteHBD: Building Datacenter-Scale High-Bandwidth Domain for LLM with Optical Circuit Switching Transceivers

  Chenchen Shou (Peking University & StepFun & Lightelligence Pte. Ltd.); Guyue Liu (Peking University); Hao Nie (StepFun); Huaiyu Meng (Lightelligence Pte. Ltd.); Yu Zhou (StepFun); Yimin Jiang (Unaffiliated); Wenqing Lv, Yelong Xu (Lightelligence Pte. Ltd.); Yuanwei Lu (StepFun); Zhang Chen (Lightelligence Pte. Ltd.); Yanbo Yu (StepFun); Yichen Shen (Lightelligence Pte. Ltd.); Yibo Zhu, Daxin Jiang (StepFun)

• Hermes: Enhancing Layer-7 Cloud Load Balancers with Userspace-Directed I/O Event Notification

  Tian Pan, Enge Song, Yueshang Zuo, Shaokai Zhang, Yang Song, Jiangu Zhao, Wengang Hou, Jianyuan Lu, Xiaoqing Sun, Shize Zhang, Ye Yang (Alibaba Cloud); Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang (Purple Mountain Laboratories); Biao Lyu, Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Rong Wen, Zhigang Zong (Alibaba Cloud); Shunmin Zhu (Hangzhou Feitian Cloud and Alibaba Cloud)

• Hattrick: Solving Multi-Class TE using Neural Models

  Abd AlRhman AlQiam, Zhuocong Li (Purdue University); Satyajeet Singh Ahuja (Meta Platforms, Inc); Zhaodong Wang, Ying Zhang (Meta); Sanjay G. Rao, Bruno Ribeiro, Mohit Tawarmalani (Purdue University)

• DistTrain: Addressing Model and Data Heterogeneity with Disaggregated Training for Multimodal Large Language Models

  Zili Zhang, Yinmin Zhong (School of Computer Science, Peking University); Yimin Jiang (Independent Researcher); Hanpeng Hu, Jianjian Sun, Zheng Ge, Yibo Zhu, Daxin Jiang (StepFun); Xin Jin (School of Computer Science, Peking University)

• Albatross: A Containerized Cloud Gateway Platform with FPGA-accelerated Packet-level Load Balancing

  Jianyuan Lu (Alibaba Cloud); Shunmin Zhu (Hangzhou Feitian Cloud and Alibaba Cloud); Jun Liang, Yuxiang Lin, Tian Pan, Yisong Qiao, Yang Song, Wenqiang Su, Yixin Xie, Yanqiang Li, Enge Song, Shize Zhang, Xiaoqing Sun, Rong Wen, Xionglie Wei, Biao Lyu (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud)

• Enabling Over-the-Air AI for Edge Computing via Metasurface-Driven Physical Neural Networks

  Chao Feng, Shuo Liang, Chenghui Li, Gaoteng Zhao, Beier Jing (Northwest University); Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY); Xiaojiang Chen (Northwest University)

• DNSLogzip: A Novel Approach to Fast and High-Ratio Compression for DNS Logs

  Yunwei Dai (Southeast University; Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute); Guyue Liu (Peking University); Tao Huang (Southeast University; State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, BUPT, China; Purple Mountain Laboratories); Shuo Wang (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, BUPT, China; Purple Mountain Laboratories); Yong Wang, Xingli Wu (Jiangsu Zhiwang Technology Co., Ltd.); Lei Song, Heshun Li, Chuang Wang (China Mobile Communications Group Shandong Co., Ltd.); Fanglong Hu (China Telecom Co., Ltd.); Hong Sun, Yanan Li (China United Network Communications Corporation Jiangsu Branch)

• Low-Overhead Distributed Application Observation with DeepTrace: Achieving Accurate Tracing in Production Systems

  Yantao Geng, Han Zhang, Zhiheng Wu (Tsinghua University); Yahui Li (Tsinghua University,China); Jilong Wang (Tsinghua university); Xia Yin (Tsinghua University)

• Understanding and Profiling CXL.mem Using PathFinder

  Xiao Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison/Beihang University); Zerui Guo (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Yuebin Bai (Beihang University); Mahesh Ketkar, Hugh Wilkinson (Intel); Ming Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Revisiting RDMA Reliability for Lossy Fabrics

  Wenxue Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Huawei); Xiangzhou Liu, Yunxuan Zhang, Zihao Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Wei Gu, Tao Qian, Gaoxiong Zeng, Shoushou Ren (Huawei); Xinyang Huang, Zhenghang Ren, Bowen Liu, Junxue Zhang, Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Bingyang Liu (Huawei)

• ParserHawk: Hardware-aware parser generator using program synthesis

  Xiangyu Gao (University of Washington); Jiaqi Gao (Alibaba Cloud); Karan Kumar G, Muhammad Haseeb (New York University); Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud); Bili Dong (Google); Joseph Tassarotti (New York University); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University); Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University)

• CClinguist: An Expert-Free Framework for Future-Compatible Congestion Control Algorithm Identification

  Jiahui Li, Han Qi, Ruyi Yao, Jialin Wei, Ruoshi Sun, Zixuan Chen, Sen Liu, Yang Xu (Fudan University)

• Acoustic Backscatter Network for Vehicle Body-in-white

  Weiguo Wang (NIO, Tsinghua University); Yuan He, Yadong Xie, Chuyue Xie (Tsinghua University); Yi Kai, Chengchen Hu (NIO)

• Software-based Live Migration for RDMA

  Xiaoyu Li (Tsinghua University/Microsoft Reaearch); Ran Shu, Yongqiang Xiong (Microsoft Research); Fengyuan Ren (Tsinghua University)

• CEIO: A Cache-Efficient Network I/O Architecture for NIC-CPU Data Paths

  Bowen Liu, Xinyang HUANG, Qijing LI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Zhuobin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Yijun Sun, Wenxue Li, Junxue Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Ping Yin (Inspur); Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• Scalable Video Conferencing Using SDN Principles

  Oliver Michel, Satadal Sengupta (Princeton University); Hyojoon Kim (University of Virginia); Ravi Netravali, Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)

• Hawkeye: Diagnosing RDMA Network Performance Anomalies with PFC Provenance

  Shicheng Wang (Tsinghua University); Menghao Zhang (Beihang University); Xiao Li (Tsinghua University); Qiyang Peng (Beihang University); Haoyuan Yu, Zhiliang Wang, Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University); Xiaohe Hu (Infrawaves); Jiahai Yang, Xingang Shi (Tsinghua University)

• LeoCC: Making Internet Congestion Control Robust to LEO Satellite Dynamics

  Zeqi Lai, Zonglun Li, Qian Wu, Hewu Li (Tsinghua University); Jihao Li (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Xin Xie, Yuanjie Li, Jun Liu, Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University)

• Formalizing Dependence of Web Infrastructure

  Rumaisa Habib, Kimberly Ruth, Gautam Akiwate, Zakir Durumeric (Stanford University)

• Hummingbird: Fast, Flexible, and Fair Inter-Domain Bandwidth Reservations

  Karl Wüst, Giacomo Giuliari, Markus Legner, Jean-Pierre Smith (Mysten Labs); Marc Wyss, Jules Bachmann, Juan A. Garcia-Pardo (ETH Zurich); Adrian Perrig (Mysten Labs)

• ByteDance Jakiro: Enabling RDMA and TCP over Virtual Private Cloud

  Yirui Liu, Lidong Jiang, Deguo Li, Daxiang Kang, Zhaoyang Wei, Yuqi Chai, Bin Niu, Ke Lin, Xiaoning Ding, Jianwen Pi, Hao Luo (ByteDance)

• Orderlock: A New Type of Deadlock and its Implications on High Performance Network Protocol Design

  Weihao Jiang, Wenli Xiao, Yuqing Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Peirui Cao (Nanjing University); Shizhen Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

• The Sweet Danger of Sugar: Debunking Representation Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification

  Yuqi Zhao, Giovanni Dettori, Matteo Boffa, Luca Vassio, Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino)

• SyCCL: Exploiting Symmetry for Efficient Collective Communication Scheduling

  Jiamin Cao (Alibaba Cloud); Shangfeng Shi (Tsinghua University and Alibaba Cloud); Jiaqi Gao (Alibaba Cloud); Weisen Liu, Yifan Yang (Tsinghua University and Alibaba Cloud); Yichi Xu, Zhilong Zheng, Yu Guan, Kun Qian (Alibaba Cloud); Ying Liu, Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University); Tianshu Wang, Ning Wang, Jianbo Dong, Binzhang Fu, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)

• TLadder: QoE-Centric Video Ladder Optimization with Playback Feedback at Billion Scale

  Zhuqi Li, He Liu, Shenglan Huang, Baojin Geng, Jack Chen, Jialin Chen, Liyang Sun, Qianyun Ma, Peizhe Liu, Junjun Zhao, Yiting Liao, Jamie Chen, Qian Ma, Qiang Ma, Feng Qian (ByteDance)

• Fornax: A Hardware-Centric Session Management in Large Public Cloud Network

  Heng Yu (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Jian Wang, Jian Zhao, Kai Ren (Tencent); Guozhi Lin (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Baozeng Zhang, Yunpeng Guan, Xin Li, Hao Yin, Jiajun Liang, Liang Wang, Chao Pei, Yachen Wang (Tencent); Xin Jin (Peking University); Jilong Wang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Congcong Miao (Tencent)

• Firefly: Scalable, Ultra-Accurate Clock Synchronization for Datacenters

  Pooria Namyar (USC & Google LLC); Yuliang Li, Weitao Wang, Nandita Dukkipati, KK Yap, Junzhi Gong, Chen Chen, Peixuan Gao (Google LLC); Devdeep Ray (NVIDIA); Gautam Kumar, Yidan Ma (Google LLC); Ramesh Govindan (USC & Google LLC); Amin Vahdat (Google LLC)

• From ATOP to ZCube: Automated Topology Optimization Pipeline and A Highly Cost-Effective Network Topology for Large Model Training

  Zihan Yan, Dan Li (Tsinghua University); Li Chen (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Dian Xiong (Harnets.AI); Kaihui Gao (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Yiwei Zhang, Rui Yan (Tsinghua University); Menglei Zhang, Bochun Zhang, Zhuo Jiang, Jianxi Ye, Haibin Lin (ByteDance)

• Towards Next-Generation Global IoT: Empowering Massive Connectivity with Harmonious Multi-Network Coexistence

  Ziyue Zhang, Xianjin Xia, Ruonan Li, Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

• Towards LLM-Based Failure Localization in Production-Scale Networks

  Chenxu Wang (Nanjing University and Alibaba Cloud); Xumiao Zhang (Alibaba Cloud); Runwei Lu (New York University Shanghai and Alibaba Cloud); Xianshang Lin, Xuan Zeng, Xinlei Zhang, Zhe An, Gongwei Wu, Jiaqi Gao (Alibaba Cloud); Chen Tian, Guihai Chen (Nanjing University); Guyue Liu (Peking University); Yuhong Liao, Tao Lin, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)

• MegaScale-Infer: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Model Serving with Disaggregated Expert Parallelism

  Ruidong Zhu (School of Computer Science, Peking University); Ziheng Jiang (ByteDance Ltd); Chao Jin (School of Computer Science, Peking University); Peng Wu, Cesar A. Stuardo, Dongyang Wang, Xinlei Zhang, Huaping Zhou, Haoran Wei, Yang Cheng, Jianzhe Xiao, Xinyi Zhang, Lingjun Liu, Haibin Lin, Li-Wen Chang, Jianxi Ye, Xiao Yu (ByteDance Ltd); Xuanzhe Liu, Xin Jin (School of Computer Science, Peking University); Xin Liu (ByteDance Ltd)

• Mobile Underwater Backscatter Networking

  Purui Wang, Sayed Saad Afzal (MIT); Fadel Adib (MIT & Cartesian)

• PreTE: Traffic Engineering with Predictive Failures

  Congcong Miao (Tencent); Zhizhen Zhong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Yiren Zhao (Tencent); Arpit Gupta (UCSB); Ying Zhang (Meta); Sirui Li, Zekun He, Xianneng Zou (Tencent); Jilong Wang (Tsinghua university)

• SCX: Stateless KV-Cache Encoding for Cloud-Scale Confidential Transformer Serving

  Mu Yuan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Lan Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China); Liekang Zeng, Siyang Jiang, Bufang Yang, Di Duan, Guoliang Xing (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Mosaic: Breaking the Optics versus Copper Trade-off with a Wide-and-Slow Architecture and MicroLEDs

  Kaoutar Benyahya, Ariel Gomez Diaz, Junyi Liu, Vassily Lyutsarev, Marianna Pantouvaki, Kai Shi, Shawn Yohanes Siew, Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Burridge, Daniel Cletheroe, Thomas Karagiannis, Brian Robertson, Ant Rowstron, Mengyang Yang (Microsoft Research); Arash Behziz, Jamie Gaudette (Microsoft Azure); Paolo Costa (Microsoft Research)

• NPC: Rethinking Dataplane through Network-aware Packet Classification

  Xinyi Zhang, Qianrui Qiu (Computer Network Information Center, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zhiyuan Xu (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Peng He (Independent Researcher); Xilai Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Kavé Salamatian (LISTIC; Université Savoie Mont Blanc); Changhua Pei, Gaogang Xie (Computer Network Information Center, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

• SkeletonHunter: Diagnosing and Localizing Network Failures in Containerized Large Model Training

  Wei Liu (Tsinghua University and Alibaba Cloud); Kun Qian (Alibaba Cloud); Zhenhua Li (Tsinghua University); Tianyin Xu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University); Weicheng Wang, Yun Zhang, Jiakang Li, Shuhong Zhu, Xue Li, Hongfei Xu, Fei Feng, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)

• ResCCL: Resource-Efficient Scheduling for Collective Communication

  Tongrui Liu, Chenyang Hei, Fuliang Li (Northeastern University); Chengxi Gao (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Jiamin Cao, Tianshu Wang, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud); Xingwei Wang (Northeastern University)

• ByteTracker: An Agentless and Real-time Path-aware Network Probing System

  Shixian Guo (ByteDance China); Kefei Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Yulin Lai, Yangyang Bai, Ziwei Zhao, Songlin Liu, Jianghang Ning, Gen Li, Jianwei Hu, Yongbin Dong, Feng Luo, Sisi Wen, Qi Zhang, Yuan Chen, Jiale Feng, Yang Bai, Chengcai Yao, Zhe Liu, Xin Hu, Yang Lv, Zhuo Jiang (ByteDance China); Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

• S2: A Distributed Configuration Verifier for Hyper-Scale Networks

  Dan Wang, Peng Zhang, Wenbing Sun, Wenkai Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University); Xing Feng (NorthWest University); Hao Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University); Jiawei Chen, Weirong Jiang, Yongping Tang (ByteDance)

• Centralium: A Hybrid Route-Planning Framework for Large-Scale Data Center Network Migrations

  Yikai Lin, Mohab Gawish, Shih-Hao Tseng (Meta); Lixin Gao (UMass); Cen Zhao, John Tracey, Sunyi Shao, Hyojeong Kim, Ying Zhang (Meta)

• ACE: Sending Burstiness Control for High-Quality Real-time Communication

  Xiangjie Huang, Jiayang Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Haiping Wang, Hebin Yu (ByteDance); Sandesh Dhawaskar Sathyanarayana, Shu Shi (Bytedance); Zili Meng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• Astral: A Datacenter Infrastructure for Large Language Model Training at Scale

  Qingkai Meng, Hao Zheng, Zhenhui Zhang (Nanjing University); ChonLam Lao (Harvard University); Chengyuan Huang (Nanjing University); Baojia Li, Ziyuan Zhu, Hao Lu, Weizhen Dang, Zitong Lin, Weifeng Zhang, Lingfeng Liu, Yuanyuan Gong, Chunzhi He, Xiaoyuan Hu, Yinben Xia, Xiang Li, Zekun He, Yachen Wang, Xianneng Zou (Tencent); Kun Yang (Nanjing University); Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano and Queen Mary University of London); Guihai Chen, Chen Tian (Nanjing University)

• Direct-to-Cell Satellite Network without Satellite Navigation

  Wei Liu, Yuanjie Li, Jingyi Lan, Hewu Li, Yimei Chen, Lixin Liu, Jiabo Yang, Xi Long, Li Ouyang, Minghao Tang, Jianping Wu, Qian Wu, Jun Liu, Zeqi Lai (Tsinghua University)

• DeepSpace: Super Resolution Powered Efficient and Reliable Satellite Image Data Acquistion

  Chuanhao Sun, Yu Zhang (The University of Edinburgh); Bill Tao, Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Mahesh Marina (The University of Edinburgh)

• SaTE: Low-Latency Traffic Engineering for Satellite Networks

  Hao Wu, Yizhan Han (Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore); Mohit Rajpal (National University of Singapore); Qizhen Zhang (University of Toronto); Jingxian Wang (National University of Singapore)

• Small-scale LEO Satellite Networking for Global-scale Demands

  Yuanjie Li, Yimei Chen, Jiabo Yang, Jinyao Zhang, Bowen Sun, Lixin Liu, Hewu Li, Jianping Wu, Zeqi Lai, Qian Wu, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)

• Towards User-level QoE: Large-scale Practice in Personalized Optimization of Adaptive Video Streaming

  Lianchen Jia (Tsinghua University); Chao Zhou (Kuaishou); Chaoyang LI (Tsinghua University); Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University); Lifeng Sun (Tsinghua University)

• SGLB: Scalable and Robust Global Load Balancing in Commodity AI Clusters

  Chenchen Qi (ByteDance); Wenfei Wu (Peking University); Yongcan Wang (ByteDance); Keqiang He (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yu-Hsiang (Sean) Kao (ByteDance); Zongying He (Broadcom); Chen-Yu Yen, Zhuo Jiang, Feng Luo (ByteDance); Surendra Anubolu, Yanjin Gao (Broadcom); Bingfeng Lin, Wenda Ni, Yiming Yang, Donglin Wei, Boyang Zhou, Jian Wang, Shan Ding (ByteDance)

• Inter-domain Routing with Extensible Criteria

  Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei (Anapaya Systems AG); Jelte van Bommel, Marc Wyss (ETH Zurich); João Luis Sobrinho (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico); Giovanni Barbiero (UBS AG); Giacomo Giuliari (Mysten Labs); Ahad N. Zehmakan (Australian National University); Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich)

• Pegasus: A Universal Framework for Scalable Deep Learning Inference on the Dataplane

  Yinchao Zhang, Su Yao, Yong Feng, Kang Chen (Tsinghua University); Tong Li (Renmin University of China); Zhuotao Liu (Tsinghua University); Yi Zhao (Beijing Institute of Technology); Lexuan Zhang, Xiangyu Gao (Tsinghua University); Feng Xiong (Beihang University); Qi Li, Ke Xu (Tsinghua University)

• Network Support For Scalable And High Performance Cloud Exchanges

  Muhammad Haseeb (New York University); Jinkun Geng (Clockwork Systems, Inc); Daniel Duclos-Cavalcanti (Technical University of Munich); Xiyu Hao, Ulysses Butler (New York University); Radhika Mittal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers University); Anirudh Sivaraman (New York University)

• PtCAM: Scalable High-Speed Name Prefix Lookup using TCAM

  Tian Song, Tianlong Li, Yating Yang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

• Scaling SCIERA: A Journey Through the Deployment of a Next-Generation Network

  François Wirz (ETH Zurich); Marten Gartner (OVGU Magdeburg); Jelte van Bommel, Elham Ehsani Moghadam (ETH Zurich); Grace H. Cimaszewski (Princeton); Anxiao He, Yizhe Zhang (UVA); Henry Birge-Lee (Princeton); Felix Kottmann (ETH Zurich); Cyrill Krähenbühl (Princeton); Jonghoon Kwon (ETH Zurich); Kyveli Mavromati (Anapaya Systems); Liang Wang (Princeton); Daniel Bertolo (SWITCH); Marco Canini (KAUST); Buseung Cho (KISTI); Ronaldo A. Ferreira (UFMS); Simon Peter Green (SingAREN); David Hausheer (OVGU Magdeburg); Junbeom Hur (Korea University); Xiaohua Jia (CityUHK); Heejo Lee (Korea University); Prateek Mittal (Princeton); Omo Oaiya (WACREN); Chanjin Park (KISTI); Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich); Jerry Sobieski (GMU / Sobieski Systems & Services); Yixin Sun (UVA); Cong Wang (CityUHK); Klaas Wierenga (GÉANT)

• ZENITH: Towards A Formally Verified Highly-Available Control Plane

  Pooria Namyar, Arvin Ghavidel (University of Southern California); Mingyang Zhang (Google); Harsha V. Madhyastha, Srivatsan Ravi, Chao Wang, Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California)

• Harnessing WebRTC for Large-Scale Live Streaming

  Wei Zhang (ByteDance); Tong Meng, Xianhua Zeng, Wei Yang, Changqing Yan, Chao Li, Chenguang Li (ByteDance Inc.); Feng Qian (ByteDance); Junfeng Yang (Hunan University of Technology and Business); Lei Zhang (Shenzhen University); Zhi Wang (Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University)

• SkyNet: Analyzing Alert Flooding from Severe Network Failures in Large Cloud Infrastructures

  Bo Yang, Huanwu Hu, Yifan Li, Yunguang Li, Xiangyu Tang, Bingchuan Tian, Gongwei Wu, Jianfeng Xu, Xumiao Zhang, Feng Chen, Cheng Wang, Ennan Zhai, Yuhong Liao, Dennis Cai, Tao Lin (Alibaba Cloud)

• Intent-Driven Network Management with Multi-Agent LLMs: The Confucius Framework

  Zhaodong Wang, Samuel Lin, Guanqing Yan (Meta); Soudeh Ghorbani (Johns Hopkins University & Meta); Minlan Yu (Harvard University); Jiawei Zhou (Stony Brook University); Nathan Hu, Lopa Baruah, Sam Peters, Srikanth Kamath, Jerry Yang, Ying Zhang (Meta)

• Making Cellular Networks More Efficient By Roaming-in-Place

  Tenzin Samten Ukyab (UC Berkeley); Lisa Suzuki (Waseda University); Demetrius Davis (Virginia Tech); Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu (UC Berkeley); Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (ICSI AND UC Berkeley)

• Alibaba Stellar: A New Generation RDMA Network for Cloud AI

  Jie Lu, Jiaqi Gao, Fei Feng, Zhiqiang He, Menglei Zheng, Kun Liu, Jun He, Binbin Liao, Suwei Xu, Ke Sun, Yongjia Mo, Qinghua Peng, Jilie Luo, Qingxu Li, Gang Lu, Zishu Wang, Jianbo Dong, Kunling He, Sheng Cheng, Jiamin Cao, Hairong Jiao, Pengcheng Zhang, Shu Ma, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yangming Zhang, Yiquan Chen, Wei Wang, Shuhong Zhu, Xingru Li, Qiang Wang, Jiang Liu, Chao Wang, Wei Lin, Ennan Zhai, Jiesheng Wu, Qiang Liu, Binzhang Fu, Dennis Cai (Alibaba Cloud)

• Agua: A Concept-Based Explainer for Learning-Enabled Systems

  Sagar Patel (University of California, Irvine); Dongsu Han (KAIST); Nina Narodytska (VMware Research by Broadcom); Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine)

• Unlocking Superior Performance in Reconfigurable Data Center Networks with Credit-Based Transport

  Federico De Marchi, Jialong Li (Max Planck Institute for Informatics); Ying Zhang (Meta); Wei Bai (NVIDIA); Yiting Xia (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

• New Evolution of Hoyan: Enhancing Scalability, Usability, and Accuracy for Alibaba's Global WAN Verification

  Yifei Yuan, Fangdan Ye, Yifan Li, Jingkai Zhang, Mengqi Liu, Yuyang Sang, Ruizhen Yang, Duncheng She, Zhiqing Ye, Tianchen Guo, Xiaobo Zhu, Xinji Tang, Li Jia, Zhongyu Guan, Lingpeng Su, Ci Wang, Ruiyang Feng, Shuo Wu, Zhonghui Xie, Cheng Jin, Peng Zhang (Alibaba Cloud); Qing Ma (Alibaba Group); Xianlong Zeng, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud)

• Censys: A Map of Internet Hosts and Services

  Zakir Durumeric, Hudson Clark, Jeff Cody, Elliot Cubit, Matt Ellison, Liz Izhikevich, Ariana Mirian (Censys Inc.)

• StarCDN: Moving Content Delivery Networks to Space

  William X. Zheng, Aryan Taneja, Maleeha Masood (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Anirudh Sabnis (Akamai Technologies); Ramesh K. Sitaraman (UMass Amherst & Akamai Technologies); Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

• Lessons learned from operating a large network telescope

  Alexander Männel, Jonas Mücke (TU Dresden); KC Claffy (CAIDA/UC San Diego); Max Gao (UC San Diego); Ricky K. P. Mok (CAIDA/UC San Diego); Marcin Nawrocki (NETSCOUT); Thomas C. Schmidt (HAW Hamburg); Matthias Wählisch (TU Dresden)

• Raha: A General Tool to Analyze WAN Degradation

  Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research); Sina Taheri (Microsoft); Pooria Namyar (University of Southern California); Ryan Beckett, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (Microsoft Research); Elnaz Jalilipour (Microsoft)

• RANBooster: Democratizing advanced cellular connectivity through fronthaul middleboxes

  Xenofon Foukas (Microsoft); Tenzin Samten Ukyab (UC Berkeley); Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (ICSI AND UC Berkeley)

• Caching as Differentiation

  Muhammad Abdullah (EPFL); Mughees Ur Rehman (Virginia Tech); Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Katerina Argyraki (EPFL)

• Reliable and Decentralized Certificate Revocation via DNS: The Case for RevDNS

  Protick Bhowmick (Virginia Tech); Dave Levin (University of Maryland); Taejoong Chung (Virginia Tech)

• ByteScale: Communication-Efficient Scaling of LLM Training with a 2048K Context Length on 16384 GPUs

  Hao Ge (Peking University); Junda Feng, Qi Huang (ByteDance Inc.); Fangcheng Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Xiaonan Nie, Lei Zuo, Haibin Lin (ByteDance Inc.); Bin Cui (Peking University); Xin Liu (ByteDance Inc.)

• Falcon: A Reliable, Low Latency Hardware Transport

  Arjun Singhvi (Google); Nandita Dukkipati (Google LLC); Prashant Chandra, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Anthony Rebello, Henry Schuh, Praveen Kumar, Behnam Montazeri, Neelesh Bansod, Sarin Thomas, Inho Cho, Hyojeong Lee Seibert, Baijun Wu, Rui Yang, Yuliang Li, Kai Huang, Qianwen Yin, Abhishek Agarwal (Google); Srinivas Vaduvatha (Meta); Weihuang Wang, Masoud Moshref (Nvidia); Tao Ji (Microsoft); David Wetherall, Amin Vahdat (Google)

• Coflow Scheduling for LLM Training

  Xinchen Wan, Xinyu Yang, Kaiqiang Xu, Xudong Liao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Yilun Jin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Yijun Sun, Zhenghang Ren (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Han Tian (The University of Science and Technology of China); Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• HardMesh: Enabling High-performance Service Mesh Ingress Processing with SmartNICs

  Myoungsung You (University of Seoul); Jaehyun Nam (Dankook University); Minjae Seo (ETRI); Taejune Park (Chonnam National University); Seungwon Shin (KAIST)

• SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate

  Murayyiam Parvez (Purdue University); Annus Zulfiqar (University of Michigan); Roman Beltiukov (University of California, Santa Barbara); Shir Landau Feibish (Open University of Israel); Walter Willinger (NIKSUN, Inc.); Arpit Gupta (University of California, Santa Barbara); Muhammad Shahbaz (University of Michigan)

• Carbon- and Precedence-Aware Scheduling for Data Processing Clusters

  Adam Lechowicz (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Rohan Shenoy (University of California Berkeley); Noman Bashir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology); Christina Delimitrou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• HACK: Homomorphic Acceleration via Compression of the Key-Value Cache for Disaggregated LLM Inference

  Zeyu Zhang, Haiying Shen (University of Virginia); Shay Vargaftik (VMware Research); Ran Ben Basat (University College London); Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu (Harvard University)

• Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks

  Tianyi Gao, Xinshu Ma, Suhas Narreddy, Eugenio Luo, Steven Chien, Michio Honda (University of Edinburgh)

• ZooRoute: Enhancing Cloud-Scale Network Reliability via Overlay Proactive Rerouting

  Xiaoqing Sun, Xionglie Wei (Alibaba Cloud); Xing Li (Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud); Ju Zhang, Bowen Yang, Yi Wang, Ye Yang, Yu Qi, Le Yu, Chenhao Jia, Zhanlong Zhang, Xinyu Chen, Jianyuan Lu, Shize Zhang, Enge Song, Yang Song, Tian Pan, Rong Wen, Biao Lyu (Alibaba Cloud); Yang Xu (Fudan University); Shunmin Zhu (Hangzhou Feitian Cloud and Alibaba Cloud)

• Achieving High-Speed and Robust Encrypted Traffic Anomaly Detection with Programmable Switches

  Han Zhang (Tsinghua University); Guyue Liu (Peking University); Xingang Shi (Tsinghua University); Yahui Li (Tsinghua University,China); Dongbiao He (Sangfor Technologies Inc); Jilong Wang, Zhiliang Wang (Tsinghua University); Yongqing Zhu, Ke Ruan, Weihua Cao (China telecom); Xia Yin (Tsinghua University)

• Palladium: A DPU-enabled Multi-Tenant Serverless Cloud over Zero-copy Multi-node RDMA Fabrics

  Shixiong Qi (University of Kentucky); Songyu Zhang, K. K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside); Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Hardik Soni, Puneet Sharma (Hewlett Packard Labs)

• Threading the Ocean: Mapping Digital Routes Across Submarine Cables using Calypso

  Caleb Wang, Ying Zhang, Esteban Carisimo, Fabián E. Bustamante (Northwestern University); Ram Durairajan (University of Oregon); Qianli Dong (Northwestern University)

• AoRA: AI-on-RAN for Backhaul-free Edge Inference

  Siyavushkhon Kholmatov (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); Seongsik Cho (Seoul National University); Song Chong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); Kyunghan Lee (Seoul National University)

• NIER: Practical Neural-enhanced Low-bitrate Video Conferencing

  Anlan Zhang (University of Southern California); Yuming Hu (University of Minnesota Twin Cities); Chendong Wang (University of Wisconsin Madison); Yu Liu, Zejun Zhang (University of Southern California); Haoyu Gong (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities); Ahmad Hassan (University of Southern California); Shichang Xu (Google); Zhenhua Li (Tsinghua University); Bo Han (George Mason University); Feng Qian (University of Southern California)

• Discovering Millions of New Nodes and Links in the Internet by Challenging the Uniformity Assumption in Multipath Detection

  Zhongxu Guan (Tsinghua University); Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Zhaoteng Yan (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Jiaye Lin, Dan Li (Tsinghua University); Yong Jiang (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School); Yingxin Wang, Ziqian Liu (China Telecom Cybersecurity Technology Co.,Ltd.)

• Wisely Optimizing Short Video Streaming for a User-Vendor Win-Win Outcome

  Jinlong E (Renmin Univerity of China); Wei Xu, Jianfei Bi (Renmin University of China); Lin He (Tsinghua University); Haoyang Li (Columbia University); Anqi Gu (Renmin University of China); Dan Yang (ByteDance Inc.); Yunpeng Chai (Renmin University of China)