Publications

2026

BISCAY: Practical Radio KPI Driven Congestion Control for Mobile Networks

J. Larrea, T. Shreedhar, A. Niemi, A. Sefiane, M. K. Marina

1st New Ideas in Networked Systems, NINeS 2026, Virtual Conference, February 10, 2026, 2026.

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Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks

T. Gao, X. Ma, S. Narreddy, E. Luo, S. W. D. Chien, M. Honda

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2026, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18-21, 2026, 2026.

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Looma: A Low-Latency PQTLS Authentication Architecture for Cloud Applications

X. Ma, M. Honda

33rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2026, San Diego, California, USA, February 23-27, 2026, 2026.

Model Migration in Digital Twin-Empowered Vehicular Edge Computing With AoI-Aware Decentralized Bilevel Learning

X. Chen, Y. Bi, H. Xing, D. Zheng, M. K. Marina

IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput., 2026.

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Morphling: Emulator for Distributed Machine Learning at the Edge

L. Xue, Y. Xia, E. Mendi, I. Bashir, J. Yang, M. Lee, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services Workshops, MobiSys Workshops 2026, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 21-25, 2026, 2026.

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On Harnessing Idle Compute at the Edge for Foundation Model Training

L. Xue, M. Madhyastha, M. Lee, A. J. Storkey, R. C. Burns, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, EuroMLSys 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 27-30, 2026, 2026.

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Remote TCP Connection Offload and Applications

S. Li, S. W. D. Chien, T. Gao, M. Honda

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2026, Renton, WA, May 4-6, 2026, 2026.

TAPS: Three-Dimensional Amplitude-Phase-Spatial IQ Compression

T. Triantafyllou, Q. Pan, M. K. Marina

IEEE INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Tokyo, Japan, May 18-21, 2026, 2026.

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Towards Automated RAN Configuration Tuning in Cellular Networks with Causal Learning

L. Xue, B. Zhang, M. K. Marina, H. Yan, Y. Zhou, C. Y. Ip, J. Klosowski

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2026, Atlanta, GA, USA, February 25-26, 2026, 2026.

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2025

Black-Box Evasion Attacks on Data-Driven Open RAN Apps: Tailored Design and Experimental Evaluation

P. Gajjar, M. Khoja, A. Ganiyu, M. Juarez, M. K. Marina, A. Lehane, V. K. Shah

Proc. ACM Netw., 2025.

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Campus5G: A Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed

A. E. Ferguson, U. Pawar, T. Wang, M. K. Marina

Comput. Commun. Rev., 2025.

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

C. Sun, Y. Zhang, B. Tao, D. Vasisht, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference, SIGCOMM 2025, S\~ao Francisco Convent, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2025, 2025.

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Demand Characterization and Forecasting for Cost-Effective Mobile Network Planning

C. Kilinc, M. K. Marina, G. Kalem, F. Cogen

IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications, VCC 2025, NY, USA, November 4-6, 2025, 2025.

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Demo: A Campus Scale Private 5G Open RAN Testbed

A. E. Ferguson, U. Pawar, T. Wang, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MOBICOM 2025, Hong Kong, November 4-8, 2025, 2025.

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Distributed Quantum Computing Across Heterogeneous Hardware with Hybrid Dependency Hypergraphs

M. G. Garces, C. Heunen, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Posters and Demos, ACM SIGCOMM Posters and Demos 2025, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2025, 2025.

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On NextG Open RAN as a Sensing Infrastructure

Q. Pan, M. K. Marina, T. Triantafyllou

Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2025, La Quinta, CA, USA, February 26-27, 2025, 2025.

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Opening Up Kernel-Bypass TCP Stacks

S. Awamoto, M. Honda

Proceedings of the 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2025, Boston, MA, USA, July 7-9, 2025, 2025.

ParaLog: Consistent Host-side Logging for Parallel Checkpoints

S. W. D. Chien, K. Sato, A. Podobas, N. Jansson, S. Markidis, M. Honda

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC 2025, Online, USA, November 19-21, 2025, 2025.

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Poster: On Harnessing Idle Compute at the Edge for Foundation Model Training

L. Xue, M. Madhyastha, M. Lee, A. Storkey, R. C. Burns, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MOBICOM 2025, Hong Kong, November 4-8, 2025, 2025.

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Remote TCP Connection Offload with XO

S. Li, S. W. D. Chien, T. Gao, M. Honda

Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking, APNet 2025, Shanghai, China, August 7-8, 2025, 2025.

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Rethinking the Role of Network Stacks for Website Fingerprinting Defenses

E. Lavrentieva, M. Juarez, M. Honda

Proceedings of the 24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2025, UMD Campus, College Park, MD, USA, November 17-18, 2025, 2025.

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Spectrum Regulation for Private Mobile Networks: A Global Overview

Q. Pan, M. K. Marina

IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, DySPAN 2025, London, United Kingdom, May 12-15, 2025, 2025.

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Towards Scalable and Cost-Effective RAN Emulation Leveraging the Public Cloud

U. Pawar, A. E. Ferguson, Y. Takano, J. Larrea, X. Foukas, M. K. Marina, B. Radunovic

Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2025, La Quinta, CA, USA, February 26-27, 2025, 2025.

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2024

A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance

N. Mohan, A. E. Ferguson, H. Cech, R. Bose, P. R. Renatin, M. K. Marina, J. Ott

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, WWW 2024, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024, 2024.

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Learning High-Frequency Functions Made Easy with Sinusoidal Positional Encoding

C. Sun, Z. Yuan, K. Xu, L. Mai, N. Siddharth, S. Chen, M. K. Marina

Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024, 2024.

NetGSR: Towards Efficient and Reliable Network Monitoring with Generative Super Resolution

C. Sun, K. Xu, G. Antichi, M. K. Marina

PACMNET, 2024.

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On the Public Cloud Deployment of Cloud-Native Mobile Core Systems

Y. Takano, A. E. Ferguson, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA, November 18-22, 2024, 2024.

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Shrinking VOD Traffic via R\'enyi-Entropic Optimal Transport

C. R. Lo, M. K. Marina, N. Sastry, K. Xu, S. Fadaei, Y. Li

Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., 2024.

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SpotLight - An Open RAN Anomaly Detection and Identification System

C. Sun, U. Pawar, M. Khoja, X. Foukas, M. K. Marina, B. Radunovic

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA, November 18-22, 2024, 2024.

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SpotLight: Accurate, Explainable and Efficient Anomaly Detection for Open RAN

C. Sun, U. Pawar, M. Khoja, X. Foukas, M. K. Marina, B. Radunovic

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA, November 18-22, 2024, 2024.

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Starlink Performance from Different Perspectives

A. E. Ferguson, N. Mohan, H. Cech, R. Bose, P. R. Renatin, M. K. Marina, J. Ott

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA, November 18-22, 2024, 2024.

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Towards an Open Mobile Core

A. E. Ferguson, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2024, Washington D.C., DC, USA, November 18-22, 2024, 2024.

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2023

CoreKube - A Message Focused and Cloud Native Mobile Core System

J. Larrea, A. E. Ferguson, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2023, Madrid, Spain, October 2-6, 2023, 2023.

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CoreKube: An Efficient, Autoscaling and Resilient Mobile Core System

J. Larrea, A. E. Ferguson, M. K. Marina

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2023, Madrid, Spain, October 2-6, 2023, 2023. Best Artifact Award

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Improving Cloud Storage Network Bandwidth Utilization of Scientific Applications

S. W. D. Chien, K. Sato, A. Podobas, N. Jansson, S. Markidis, M. Honda

Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking, APNET 2023, Hong Kong, China, June 29-30, 2023, 2023.

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Traffic Prediction-Assisted Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Service Migration in Digital Twins-Enabled MEC Networks

X. Chen, G. Han, Y. Bi, Z. Yuan, M. K. Marina, Y. Liu, H. Zhao

IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2023.

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2022

AppShot: A Conditional Deep Generative Model for Synthesizing Service-Level Mobile Traffic Snapshots at City Scale

C. Sun, K. Xu, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, Y. Wang, C. Ziemlicki

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., 2022.

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CartaGenie: Context-Driven Synthesis of City-Scale Mobile Network Traffic Snapshots

K. Xu, R. Singh, H. Bilen, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, Y. Wang

IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2022, Pisa, Italy, March 21-25, 2022, 2022.

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FlexPort: transport scale-out with modern NICs

S. Li, S. W. D. Chien, M. Honda

Proceedings of the 3rd International CoNEXT Student Workshop, CoNEXT-SW 2022, Rome, Italy, 9 December 2022, 2022.

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GenDT: mobile network drive testing made efficient with generative modeling

C. Sun, K. Xu, M. K. Marina, H. Benn

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2022, Roma, Italy, December 6-9, 2022, 2022. Best Paper Nominee

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JADE: Data-Driven Automated Jammer Detection Framework for Operational Mobile Networks

C. Kilinc, M. K. Marina, M. Usama, S. Erg{\"{u}}t, J. Crowcroft, T. Gundogdu, I. Akinci

IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, London, United Kingdom, May 2-5, 2022, 2022.

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PAINT: Path Aware Iterative Network Tomography for Link Metric Inference

L. Xue, M. K. Marina, G. Li, K. Zheng

30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2022, Lexington, KY, USA, October 30 - Nov. 2, 2022, 2022.

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Towards portable end-to-end network performance characterization of SmartNICs

T. Xing, H. Tajbakhsh, I. Haque, M. Honda, A. Barbalace

APSys '22: 13th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Virtual Event, Singapore, August 23 - 24, 2022, 2022.

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XRC: An Explicit Rate Control for Future Cellular Networks

M. Kheirkhah, M. M. Kassem, G. Fairhurst, M. K. Marina

IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022, Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2022, 2022.

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2021

CUPS Hijacking in Mobile RAN Slicing: Modeling, Prototyping, and Analysis

R. N. Mitra, M. M. Kassem, J. Larrea, M. K. Marina

IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2021, Tempe, AZ, USA, October 4-6, 2021, 2021.

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Energy-Efficient Orchestration of Metro-Scale 5G Radio Access Networks

R. Singh, C. Hasan, X. Foukas, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, Y. Wang

40th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2021, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 10-13, 2021, 2021.

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Nervion: a cloud native RAN emulator for core network evaluations

J. Larrea, M. K. Marina, J. E. v. d. Merwe

ACM MobiCom '21: The 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 25-29, 2021, 2021.

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Nervion: a cloud native RAN emulator for scalable and flexible mobile core evaluation

J. Larrea, M. K. Marina, J. E. v. d. Merwe

ACM MobiCom '21: The 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 25-29, 2021, 2021.

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Packets as Persistent In-Memory Data Structures

M. Honda

HotNets '21: The 20th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Virtual Event, United Kingdom, November 10-12, 2021, 2021.

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Prism: Proxies without the Pain

Y. Hayakawa, M. Honda, D. Santry, L. Eggert

18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2021, April 12-14, 2021, 2021.

SpectraGAN: spectrum based generation of city scale spatiotemporal mobile network traffic data

K. Xu, R. Singh, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, H. Bilen, M. Usama, H. Benn, C. Ziemlicki

CoNEXT '21: The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Virtual Event, Munich, Germany, December 7 - 10, 2021, 2021.

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