Program

Friday, 8 December 2023

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9h30 - 9h40 Welcome message

9h40 - 10h30 Keynote by Prof. Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, University of Rennes, France

The Quest for Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning-driven Network Slicing: Progress, Pitfalls and Potential

The quest for the efficient and autonomous placement of network services is crucial to progressing towards a fully automated network, commonly referred to as a “zero-touch network”. In this presentation, we focus on the results of our research into exploiting the potential of deep reinforcement learning strategies in the field of network slicing. Our aim is not only to elucidate the remarkable advantages these techniques offer over conventional methods but also to address their inherent limitations. In addition, we will highlight new avenues that we are currently exploring to enhance the reliability aspects of network slicing when deploying techniques based on deep reinforcement learning. During this presentation, we will outline some of the solutions and tangible results we have obtained in the pursuit of this critical mission.

10h30 - 11h00 Break

Paper Session (link to proceedings and papers)

11h00 - 11h20 DataZoo: Streamlining traffic classification experiments.

Jan Luxemburk (FIT CTU & CESNET), Karel Hynek (FIT CTU & CESNET)

11h20 - 11h40 Explainability-based Metrics to Help Cyber Operators Find and Correct Misclassified Cyberattacks.

Robin Duraz (Chaire of Naval Cyberdefense, Lab-STICC), David Espes (UBO, Lab-STICC), Julien FRANCQ (Naval Group, Naval Cyber Laboratory), Sandrine VATON (IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC)

11h40 - 12h00 On Detecting Biased Predictions with Post-hoc Explanation Methods.

Matteo Ruggeri (Purdue University), Alice Dethise (Nokia Bell Labs), Marco Canini (KAUST)

12h00 - 12h20 Explainable Mobile Traffic Classification: the case of Incremental Learning.

Alfredo Nascita (University of Napoli Federico II), Francesco Cerasuolo (University of Napoli Federico II), Giuseppe Aceto (University of Napoli Federico II), Domenico Ciuonzo (University of Napoli Federico II), Valerio Persico (University of Napoli Federico II), Antonio Pescapé (University of Napoli Federico II)