Welcome to the Networked Systems (NetSys) Group
We are the Networked Systems (NetSys) Group at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. We build next-generation networked systems technologies, with research spanning computer networking, distributed systems, mobile computing and operating systems.
We also organise courses on Computer Communications and Networks (COMN) and Extreme Computing, and supervise undergraduate and master’s thesis projects in these areas.
We are always looking for motivated PhD students, postdocs, and MSc/UG project students to join the group.
News
Aug 2026
New paper at ACM SIGCOMM 2026: CausalTune — Causal Learning based Automated Cellular RAN Configuration Tuning Framework.
June 2026
Best Paper Award at EdgeSys 2026 for Morphling: Emulator for Distributed Machine Learning at the Edge, plus a Best Paper Runner-up at MobiUK 2026.
May 2026
New paper at IEEE INFOCOM 2026: TAPS: Three-Dimensional Amplitude-Phase-Spatial IQ Compression.
Feb 2026
New papers at ACM HotMobile 2026 (Automated RAN Configuration Tuning with Causal Learning) and NINeS 2026 (BISCAY: Practical Radio KPI Driven Congestion Control).
Dec 2025
New paper at ACM CoNEXT 2025: Black-Box Evasion Attacks on Data-Driven Open RAN Apps (Proc. ACM on Networking).
Oct 2025
Best Demonstration Award at ACM MobiCom 2025 for Campus5G: A Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed.
Sept 2025
New paper at ACM SIGCOMM 2025: DeepSpace — Super Resolution Powered Efficient and Reliable Satellite Image Data Acquisition.
July 2025
Three papers accepted: HybridServe and TUBO at IEEE ICDCS 2025, and Towards Decentralized and Sustainable Foundation Model Training at HotCarbon 2025.
May 2025
New paper at IEEE DySPAN 2025: Spectrum Regulation for Private Mobile Networks — A Global Overview.