Publications | Edinburgh Networks Research Group

2021

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 Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2021.
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

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), Aug 2020.
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
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.
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

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.
R. Li, C. Zhang, P. Patras, P. Cao, J. S. Thompson “DELMU: A Deep Learning Approach to Maximising the Utility of Virtualised Millimetre-Wave Backhauls”, in Proceedings International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN), Paris, France, November 2018.
M. Astefanoaei, P. Cesaretti, P. Katsikouli, M. Goswami, R. Sarkar, “Multi-resolution sketches and locality sensitive hashing for fast trajectory processing, International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2018
Abhirup Ghosh, Benedek Rozemberczki, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Rik Sarkar, Topological Signatures for Fast Mobility Analysis, International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2018
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.
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.
G. Tsoukaneri and M. K. Marina, “On Device Grouping for Efficient Multicast Communications in Narrowband IoT,” in Proc. IEEE ICDCS, Jul 2018.
C. Zhang and P. Patras, “Long-Term Mobile Traffic Forecasting Using Deep Spatio-Temporal Neural Networks”, to appear in Proc. ACM MobiHoc 2018, Los Angeles, USA.
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.
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.
Benedek Rozemberczki and Rik Sarkar. Fast Sequence Based Embedding with Diffusion Graphs, International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) 2018.
Chaoyun Zhang, Mingjun Zhong, Zongzuo Wang, Nigel Goddard, Charles Sutton, Sequence-to-point learning with neural networks for non-intrusive load monitoring, AAAI, USA, Feb. 2018.
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.
M. Kassem, M. K. Marina and O. Holland, “On the potential of TV white space 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.
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

V. Radu, C. Tong, S. Bhattacharya, N. Lane, C. Mascolo, M. K. Marina and F. Kawsar, “Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity and Context Recognition,” will be presented at ACM UbiComp 2018 Conference and in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile,Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Issue 4, Dec 2017.
Chaoyun Zhang, Xi Ouyang, Paul Patras, “ZipNet-GAN: Inferring Fine-grained Mobile Traffic Patterns via a Generative Adversarial Neural Network”, International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), Dec 2017.
Abhirup Gosh, Christopher,Lucas, and Rik Sarkar, Finding Periodic Discrete Events in Noisy Streams , The 26th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Aug 2017.
X. Foukas, M. K. Marina, and K. Kontovasilis, Orion: RAN Slicing for a Flexible and Cost-Effective Multi-Service Mobile Network Architecture , in Proc. ACM MobiCom, Oct 2017. Also won the Best Demonstration Award at ACM MobiCom 2017.
G. Tsoukaneri, X. Foukas and M. K. Marina, ASPIS: A Holistic and Practical Mechanism for Efficient MTC Support over Mobile Networks , In Proc. 14th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS’17), Oct 2017.
Jiemin Zeng, Gaurish Telang, Matthew P. Johnson, Rik Sarkar, Jie Gao, Esther Arkin, Joseph S. B. Mitchell. Mobile r-gather: Distributed and Geographic Clustering for Location Anonymity. In Proceedings of The 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), 2017.
X. Foukas, G. Patounas, A. Elmokashfi, and M. K. Marina, Network Slicing in 5G: Survey and Challenges, In IEEE Communications Special Issue on Network Slicing in 5G Systems, May 2017.
M. Fida, A. Lutu, M. K. Marina and O. Alay, ZipWeave: Towards Efficient and Reliable Measurement based Mobile Coverage Maps, in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2017.
Morteza Kheirkhah and Myungjin Lee, AMP: A Better Multipath TCP for Data Center Netowrks, Technical report, Jul 2017

2016

X. Foukas, N. Nikaein, M. M. Kassem, M. K. Marina and K. Kontovasilis, “FlexRAN: A Flexible and Programmable Platform for Software-Defined Radio Access Networks,” in Proc. ACM CoNEXT, Dec 2016. [FlexRAN Software]
S. Rathinakumar, B. Radunovic and M. K. Marina, “CPRecycle: Recycling Cyclic Prefix for Versatile Interference Mitigation in OFDM based Wireless Systems,” in Proc. ACM CoNEXT, Dec 2016.
Praveen Tammana, Rachit Agarwal, and Myungjin Lee, Simplifying Data Center Network Debugging with PathDump, 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2016) [slides] [github] [talk]
M. Kassem, C. Hasan and M. K. Marina, “Decoupled Uplink/Downlink User Association in HetNets: A Matching with Contracts Approach,” in Proc. 12th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet’16), Nov 2016.
U. Challita and M. K. Marina, “Holistic Small Cell Traffic Balancing across Licensed and Unlicensed Bands,” in Proc. ACM MSWiM, Nov 2016.
S. Rathinakumar and M. K. Marina, “GAVEL: Strategy-Proof Ascending Bid Auction for Dynamic Licensed Shared Access,” in Proc. ACM MobiHoc, Jul 2016.
C. Hasan, M. K. Marina and U. Challita, “On LTE-WiFi Coexistence and Inter-Operator Spectrum Sharing in Unlicensed Bands: Altruism, Cooperation and Fairness,” in Proc. ACM MobiHoc, Jul 2016.
Philippa Shoemark, Sharon Goldwater, James Kirby, Rik Sarkar. Towards robust cross-linguistic comparisons of phonological networks. In proceedings of 14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. (Sigmorphon 2016, at ACL 2016)
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Amin Karbasi, Rik Sarkar, Andreas Krause.Distributed Submodular Optimization , Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2016.
G. Tsoukaneri, G. Theodorakopoulos, H. Leather and M. K. Marina, On the Inference of User Paths from Anonymized Mobility Data , Proc. 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P 2016), Mar 2016.

2015

X. Foukas, K. Kontovasilis and M. K. Marina, Exploiting Short-Range Cooperation for Energy Efficient Vertical Handover Operations, in Proc. 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM’15), Nov 2015.
M. Kassem and M. K. Marina, Future Wireless Spectrum Below 6GHz: A UK Perspective, in Proc. 8th IEEE Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN’15), Oct 2015.
S. Manickam, B. Radunovic and M. K. Marina, ShiftFFT: An Efficient Approach to Mitigate Adjacent Channel Interference in OFDM Systems, in Proc. 2nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless (HotWireless’15) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom, Sept 2015.
P. Patras, H. Feghhi, D. Malone and D. Leith, Policing 802.11 MAC Misbehaviours, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, in press, Sept. 2015.
M. K. Marina, V. Radu and K. Balampekos, Impact of Indoor-Outdoor Context on Crowdsourcing based Mobile Coverage Analysis, in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications and Challenges, Aug 2015.
M. Molinari, M. Fida, M. K. Marina and A. Pescape, Spatial Interpolation based Cellular Coverage Prediction with Crowdsourced Measurements, in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2015 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data, Aug 2015.
P. Patras, A. Garcia-Saavedra, D. Malone and D. Leith, Rigorous and Practical Proportional-fair Allocation for Multi-rate Wi-Fi, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, in press, June 2015.
Praveen Tammana, Rachit Agarwal, and Myungjin Lee, CherryPick: Tracing Packet Trajectory in Software-Defined Datacenter Networks, ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), June 2015.
R. Riggio, M. K. Marina, J. Schulz–Zander, S. Kuklinski and T. Rasheed, Programming Abstractions for Software-Defined Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2015.
R. Riggio, M. K. Marina and T. Rasheed, “Interference Management in Software-Defined Mobile Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Integrated Network Management (IM), May 2015.
Soojeon Lee, Myungjin Lee, Dongman Lee, Hyungsoo Jung, and Byoung-Sun Lee, TCPRand: Randomizing TCP Payload Size for TCP Fairness in Data Center Networks, in the Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, April 2015.
L. Kriara and M. K. Marina, SampleLite: A Hybrid Approach to 802.11n Link Adaptation, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, April 2015.
Myungjin Lee, Mohammad Hajjat, Ramana Rao Kompella, and Sanjay Rao, “A Flow Measurement Architecture to Preserve Application Structure”, Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks (COMNET), Volume 77, February 2015
X. Foukas, M. K. Marina and K. Kontovasilis, Software Defined Networking Concepts, Book Chapter in Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN): Beyond LTE Network Architecture, M. Liyanage, A. Gurtov and M. Ylianttila, editors, Wiley, 2015.

2014

G. Bernardi, D. Fenacci and M. K. Marina, “BSense: A Flexible and Open-Source Broadband Mapping Framework,” in Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Management, December 2014.
P. Katsikouli, R. Sarkar and J. Gao, Persistence Based Online Signal and Trajectory Simplification for Mobile Devices, Proc. 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL’14), Nov 2014.
V. Radu, P. Katsikouli, R. Sarkar and M. K. Marina, A Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Robust Indoor-Outdoor Detection with Smartphones, Proc. 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’14), Nov 2014. Poster version appeared at MOBICOM’14.
R. Riggio, K. Gomez, T. Rasheed, J. Schulz–Zander, S. Kuklinski and M. K. Marina, Programming Software-Defined Wireless Networks, Proc. 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM’14), Nov 2014. Poster version appeared in MOBICOM’14.
N. Nikaein, M. K. Marina, S. Manickam, A. Dawson, R. Knopp and C. Bonnet, OpenAirInterface: A Flexible Platform for 5G Research, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Oct 2014.
A. Dawson, F. Garcia and M. K. Marina, On the Benefits of RAN Virtualisation in C-RAN Based Mobile Networks, Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN’14), Sept 2014.
J. Lee, Y. Turner, M. Lee, L. Popa, S. Banerjee, J. Kang and P. Sharma, Application-Driven Bandwidth Guarantees in Datacenters, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), Aug 2014.
A. Farshad, M. Lee, M. K. Marina and F. Garcia, On the Impact of 802.11n Frame Aggregation on End-to-End Available Bandwidth Estimation, Proc. 11th IEEE Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON’14), Jul 2014.
M. Lee, S. Goldberg, R. R. Kompella and G. Varghese, FineComb: Measuring Microscopic Latency and Loss in the Presence of Reordering, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking (ToN), 2014.
S. Manickam, M. K. Marina, S. Pediaditaki and M. Nekovee, An Iterative and Truthful Multi-Unit Auction Scheme for Coordinated Sharing of Spectrum White Spaces, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review — Special Issue on the Joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems (W-PIN+NetEcon 2014), 2014.
A. Farshad, M. K. Marina and F. J. Garcia, Urban WiFi Characterization via Mobile Crowdsensing, Proc. 14th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Krakow, Poland, May 2014.
K. Huang, C.-C. Ni, R. Sarkar, J. Gao and J. Mitchell, Bounded Stretch Geographic Homotopic Routing in Sensor Networks, Proc. 33rd Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Apr 2014.
V. Siris, K. Balampekos and M. K. Marina, Mobile Quality of Experience: Recent Advances and Challenges, Proc. IEEE PerCom Workshops, Mar 2014.

2013

B. Mirzasoleiman, A. Karbasi, R. Sarkar and A. Krause, Distributed Submodular Optimization: Identifying Representative Elements in Massive Data, In Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec 2013.
P. Prakash, M. Lee, Y. C. Hu, R. R. Kompella, J. Wang and S. Dassarma, Jumbo Frames or Not: That is the Question!, Technical Report, TR-13-006, Purdue University, Nov 2013.
M. Lee, N. Duffield and R. R. Kompella, High-Fidelity Per-Flow Delay Measurements with Reference Latency Interpolation, In IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 21, Issue 5, Oct 2013.
V. Radu, L. Kriara and M. K. Marina, Pazl: A Mobile Crowdsensing based Indoor WiFi Monitoring System, In Proc. 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Oct 2013.
V. Radu and M. K. Marina, HiMLoc: Indoor Smartphone Localization via Activity Aware Pedestrian Dead Reckoning with Selective Crowdsourced WiFi Fingerprinting, In Proc. 4th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Oct 2013. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
A. Farshad, J. Li, M. K. Marina and F. J. Garcia, A Microscopic Look at WiFi Fingerprinting for Indoor Mobile Phone Localization in Diverse Environments, In Proc. 4th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Oct 2013.
N. Hernandez, J. Alonso and M. Ocana and M. K. Marina, Impact of Signal Representations on the Performance of Hierarchical WiFi Localization Systems, In Springer LNCS – Selected Papers from EUROCAST 2013 (International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory), 2013.
L. Boccassi, M. Fayed and M. K. Marina, Binder: A System to Aggregate Multiple Internet Gateways in Community Networks, In Proc. ACM MobiCom 2013 LCDNet Workshop, Sep 2013.
P. Patras, H. Qi and D. Malone, Mitigating Collisions through Power-Hopping to Improve 802.11 Performance, in press, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2013.
D. Malone, H. Qi, D. Botvich and P. Patras, 802.11 Buffers: When Bigger is Not Better?, In Proc. of International Workshop on Wireless Access Flexibility (WiFlex), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Kaliningrad, Russia, Sep 2013.
R. Sarkar and J. Gao, Differential Forms for Target and Aggregate Queries in Distributed Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IEEE/ACM TON), vol. 21, iss. 4, Aug 2013.
J. Lee, M. Lee, L. Popa, Y. Turner, S. Banerjee, P. Sharma and B. Stephenson, CloudMirror: Application-Aware Bandwidth Reservations in the Cloud, In Proc. of USENIX HotCloud, Jun 2013.
H. Feghhi, P. Patras and D. Malone, Practical Node Policing in 802.11 WLANs (demo), In Proc. of IEEE 14th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Madrid, Spain, Jun 2013.
L. Kriara, M. K. Marina and A. Farshad, Characterization of 802.11n Wireless LAN Performance via Testbed Measurements and Statistical Analysis, In Proc. IEEE SECON, Jun 2013. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
R. Sarkar, X. Zhu and J. Gao, Distributed and Compact Routing Using Spatial Distributions in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ACM TOSN), Article 32, Volume 9, Issue 3, May 2013.
A. Giannoulis, P. Patras and E. Knightly, Mobile Access of Wide-Spectrum Networks: Design, Deployment and Experimental Evaluation, In Proc. of IEEE 32nd International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013.
P. Serrano, P. Patras, A. Mannocci, V. Mancuso and A. Banchs, Control Theoretic Optimization of 802.11 WLANs: Implementation and Experimental Evaluation, Computer Networks, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 258–272, Jan 2013.