Publications

2024

[CoNEXT’24] C. Sun, K. Xu, G. Antichi, M. K. Marina, “NetGSR: Towards Efficient and Reliable Network Monitoring with Generative Super Resolution,” to be presented at ACM CoNEXT 2024 and to appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET), Dec 2024.

[MobiCom’24] C. Sun, U. Pawar, M. Khoja, X. Foukas, M. K. Marina, B. Radunovic, “SpotLight: Accurate, Explainable and Efficient Anomaly Detection for Open RAN,” full paper in ACM MobiCom, Nov 2024.

[MobiCom’24] A. E. Ferguson, M. K. Marina, “Towards an Open Mobile Core,” extended abstract in ACM MobiCom, Nov 2024.

[MobiCom’24] Y. Takano, A. E. Ferguson, M. K. Marina, “On the Public Cloud Deployment of Cloud-Native Mobile Core Systems,” extended abstract in ACM MobiCom, Nov 2024.

[ICML’24] C. Sun*, Z. Yuan, K. Xu, L. MaiSiddharth N, S. Chen, M. K. Marina*, “Learning high-frequency functions made easy with sinusoidal positional encoding,” in International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2024. *Corresponding author

[SIGMETRICS’24] C. (Roger) Lo, M. K. Marina, N. Sastry, K. Xu, S. Fadaei, Y. Li, “Shrinking VOD Traffic via Rényi-Entropic Optimal Transport,” in Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, July 2024.

[WWW’24] N. Mohan, A. E. Ferguson, H. Cech, R. Bose, P. R. Renatin, M. K. Marina, J. Ott, “A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance,” in Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, May 2024.

[NSDI’24] D. Dai, Z. An*, Z. Gong, Q. PAN, L. Yang*, “RFID+: Spatially Controllable Identifcation of UHF RFIDs via Controlled Magnetic Fields,” in USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Apr 2024. *Corresponding author

2023

[MobiCom’23] A. E. Ferguson*, J, Larrea*, M. K. Marina, “CoreKube: An Efficient, Autoscaling and Resilient Mobile Core System,” in ACM MobiCom, Oct 2023. Best Artifact Award *Co-Primary Authors

[JSAC’23] X. Chen, G. Han, Y. Bi, Z. Yuan, M. K. Marina, Y. Liu, H. Zhao, “Traffic Prediction-Assisted Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Service Migration in Digital Twins Enabled MEC Networks,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) – Special Issue on Digital Twins for Mobile Networks, Aug 2023.

2022

[CoNEXT’22] C. Sun, K. Xu, M. K. Marina, H. Benn, “GenDT: Mobile Network Drive Testing Made Efficient with Generative Modeling,” in ACM CoNEXT, Dec 2022. Best Paper Nominee.

[ICNP’22] L. Xue, M. K. Marina, G. Li, K. Zheng, “PAINT: Path Aware Iterative Network Tomography for Link Metric Inference,” in IEEE ICNP, Nov 2022.

[TNSM’22] C. Sun, K. Xu, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, Y. Wang, C. Ziemlicki, “AppShot: A Conditional Deep Generative Model for Synthesizing Service-Level Mobile Traffic Snapshots at City Scale,” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) – Special Issue on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Managing Networks, Systems, and Services, August 2022.

[INFOCOM’22] C. Kilinc, M. K. Marina, M. Usama, S. Ergut, J. Crowcroft, T. Gundogdu, I. Akinci, “JADE: Data-Driven Automated Jammer Detection Framework for Operational Mobile Network,” in IEEE INFOCOM, May 2022.

[ICC’22] M. Kheirkhah, M. M. Kassem, G. Fairhurst, M. K. Marina, “XRC: An Explicit Rate Control for Future Cellular Networks,” in IEEE ICC, May 2022.

[PerCom’22] K, Xu, R. Singh, H. Bilen, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, Yue Wang, “CartaGenie: Context-Driven Synthesis of City-Scale Mobile Network Traffic Snapshots,” in IEEE PerCom, Mar 2022.

[EMDL’22] F. Mclean, L. Xue, C.X. Lu, M. K. Marina, “Towards Edge-assisted Real-time 3D Segmentation of Large Scale LIDAR Point Clouds,” in ACM EMDL, June 2022.

2021

[CoNEXT’21] K. Xu, R. Singh, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, H. Bilen, M. Usama, H. Benn, C. Ziemlicki, “SpectraGAN: Spectrum based Generation of City Scale Spatiotemporal Mobile Network Traffic Data,” in ACM CoNEXT, Dec 2021.

[HotNets’21] Michio Honda, “Packets as Persistent In-Memory Data Structures” in Proc. ACM HotNets, Nov 2021.

[MobiCom’21] J. Larrea, M. K. Marina and J. Van der Merwe, “Nervion: A Cloud Native RAN Emulator for Scalable and Flexible Mobile Core Evaluation,” in ACM MobiCom, Oct 2021.

[INFOCOM’21] R. Singh, C. Hasan, X. Foukas, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina and Y. Wang, “Energy-Efficient Orchestration of Metro-Scale 5G Radio Access Networks,” in IEEE INFOCOM, May 2021.

[NSDI’21] L. Xu, S. Venkataraman, I. Gupta, L. Mai, R. Potharaju, “Move Fast and Meet Deadlines: Fine-grained Real-time Stream Processing with Cameo,” in USENIX NSDI, Apr 2021.

[NSDI’21] Yutaro Hayakawa, Michio Honda, Douglas Santry and Lars Eggert, “Prism: Proxies without the Pain” in Proc. USENIX NSDI, Apr 2021.

[IEEE IC’21] M. Usama, R. Mitra, I. Ilahi, J. Qadir and M. K. Marina, “Examining Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond through an Adversarial Lens,” in IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on AI-Powered 5G Services, Jan 2021.

2020

[TNSM’20] G. Patounas, X. Foukas, A. Elmokashfi and M. K. Marina, “Characterization and Identification of Cloudified Mobile Network Performance Bottlenecks,” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Dec 2020.

[OSDI’20] L. Mai, G. Li, M. Wagenländer, K. Fertakis, A. Brabete, P. Pietzuch, “KungFu: Making Training in Distributed Machine Learning Adaptive,” in Proc. USENIX OSDI, Nov 2020.

[MobiSys’20] M. Kassem, M. Kheirkhah, M. K. Marina and P. Buneman, “WhiteHaul: An Efficient Spectrum Aggregation System for Low-Cost and High Capacity Backhaul over White Spaces,” in Proc. ACM MobiSys, Jun 2020.

[NOMS’20] A. Plascinskas, X. Foukas and M. K. Marina, “Towards Efficient and Adaptable Monitoring of Softwarized Mobile Networks,” in Proc. 32nd IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020), Apr 2020.

[EWSN’20] G. Tsoukaneri, F. Garcia and M. K. Marina, “Narrowband IoT Device Energy Consumption Characterization and Optimizations,” in Proc. 17th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2020), Feb 2020.

2019

[TCCN’19] C. Hasan and M. K. Marina, “Communication-Free Inter-Operator Interference Management in Shared Spectrum Small Cell Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), Vol. 5, No. 3, Sept 2019.

[JSAC’19] X. Foukas, M. K. Marina and K. Kontovasilis, “Iris: Deep Reinforcement Learning Driven Shared Spectrum Access Architecture for Indoor Neutral-Host Small Cells,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) – Special Issue on Network Softwarization & Enablers, Vol. 37, No. 8, Aug 2019.

[WWW’19] R. Singh, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, A. Nordio and A. Tarable, “Urban Vibes and Rural Charms: Analysis of Geographic Diversity in Mobile Service Usage at National Scale,” in Proc. 30th ACM Web Conference (WWW’19), May 2019.

[ICTD’19] M. Fida and M. K. Marina, “Uncovering Mobile Infrastructure in Developing Countries with Crowdsourced Measurements,” in Proc. 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD’19), Jan 2019.

2018

[CoNEXT EM-5G’18] X. Foukas, F. Sardis, F. Foster, M. K. Marina, M. A. Lema and M. Dohler, “Experience Building a Prototype 5G Testbed,” in Proc. ACM CoNEXT 2018 Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G (EM-5G’18), Dec 2018.

[CNSM’18] M. Fida and M. K. Marina, “Impact of Device Diversity on Crowdsourced Mobile Coverage Maps,” in Proc. 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM’18), Nov 2018.

[DySPAN’18] C. Hasan and M. K. Marina, “Communication-Free Inter-Operator Interference Management in Shared Spectrum Small Cell Networks,” in Proc. 10th IEEE Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN’18), Oct 2018.

[ICDCS’18] G. Tsoukaneri and M. K. Marina, “On Device Grouping for Efficient Multicast Communications in Narrowband-IoT,” in Proc. IEEE ICDCS, Jul 2018.

[COMPASS’18] M. Kassem, M. K. Marina and B. Radunovic, “DIY Model for Mobile Network Deployment: A Step Towards 5G for All,” in Proc. The First ACM Conference on Computing & Sustainable Societies (COMPASS’18), Jun 2018.

[CNS’18] R. Singh, G. Theodorakopoulos, M. K. Marina and M. Arapinis, “On Choosing Between Privacy Preservation
Mechanisms for Mobile Trajectory Data Sharing,
” in Proc. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), May 2018.

[IEEE IoT Journal’18] G. Tsoukaneri, M. Condoluci, T. Mahmoodi, M. Dohler and M. K. Marina, “Group Communications in Narrowband-IoT: Architecture, Procedures, and Evaluation,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT, Feb 2018.

[COMSNETS’18] M. Kassem, M. K. Marina and O. Holland, “On the potential of TVWS spectrum to enable a low cost middle mile network infrastructure,” in Proc. 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS’18), Jan 2018.

[WCMC’18] X. Foukas, K. Kontovasilis and M. K. Marina, “Short-Range Cooperation of Mobile Devices for Energy-Efficient Vertical Handovers,” in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal Special Issue on Green Computing and Communications for Smart Portable Devices, Jan 2018.

2017

[MobiCom’17] X. Foukas, M.Marina, K.Kontovasilis, “Orion: RAN Slicing for a Flexible and Cost-Effective Multi-Service Mobile Network Architecture”,  in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), October 2017

[INFOCOM’17] M.Fida, A.Lutu, M.Marina, O.Alay, “ZipWeave: Towards Efficient and Reliable Measurement based Mobile Coverage Maps“, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2017 Conference , May 2017.

[IMWUT’17] V. Radu, C. Tong, S. Bhattacharya, N. Lane, C. Mascolo, M. K. Marina, F Kawsar, “Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity and Context Recognition,” in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Dec 2017

2016

[CoNEXT’16] X.Foukas, N.Nikaein, M.Kassem, M.Marina, K.Kontovasilis, “FlexRAN: A Flexible and Programmable Platform for Software-Defined Radio Access Networks“, in Proceedings of the 12th International on Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)December 2016.

[CoNEXT’16] S.Rathinakumar, B.Radunovic, M.Marina, “CPRecycle: Recycling Cyclic Prefix for Versatile Interference Mitigation in OFDM based Wireless Systems“, in Proceedings of the 12th International on Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), December 2016.

[MobiHoc’16] S.Rathinakumar, M.Marina, “GAVEL: Strategy-Proof Ascending Bid Auction for Dynamic Licensed Shared Access“, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), July 2016.

[MobiHoc’16] C.Hasan, M.Marina, U.Challita, “On LTE-WiFi Coexistence and Inter-Operator Spectrum Sharing in Unlicensed Bands: Altruism, Cooperation and Fairness“, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), July 2016.

[EuroS&P’16] G.Tsoukaneri, G. Theodorakopoulos, H.Leather, M.Marina, “On the Inference of User Paths from Anonymized Mobility Data“, in IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), March 2016.