Publications

DISSEMINATION & COMMUNICATION

Journals

#	Publications	Title	Partners	Authors
1	IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications	LACO: A Latency-Driven Network Slicing Orchestration in Beyond-5G Networks	NEC	Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Hans D. Schotten, Xavier Costa-P ́erez
2	IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management	ARENA: A Data-driven Radio Access Networks Analysis of Football Events	NEC, OTE	Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa-Perez, George Agapiou, Hans D. Schotten
3	IEEE Network	Trust in 5G and Beyond Networks	AALTO	Chafika Benzaid, Tarik Taleb, Muhammad Zubair Farooqi
4	IEEE Network	AI for Beyond 5G Networks: A Cyber-Security Defense or Offense Enabler?	AALTO	Chafika Benzaid, Tarik Taleb
5	IEEE IoT Journal	Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Internet of Things with Decentralized Cooperative Edge Caching	AALTO	X. Wang, C. Wang, X. Li, V. C. M. Leung, and T. Taleb
6	IEEE Network Magazine	A novel QoS framework for network slicing in 5G and beyond networks based on SDN and NFV	AALTO	S. Zhaogang and T. Taleb
7	IEEE Network Magazine	The Road beyond 5G: A Vision and Insight of the Key Technologies	AALTO	K. Samdanis and T. Taleb
8	Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE)	Data Driven Service Orchestration for Vehicular Networks	IQU, CTTC	Anestis Dalgkitsis, Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis, Angelos Antonopoulos, Christos Verikoukis
9	IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing	QoS and Resource-aware Security Orchestration and Life Cycle Management	AALTO	M. Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Jorge Bernal Bernabe, Antonio Skarmeta
10	Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems	On using reinforcement learning for network slice admission control in 5G: offline vs. online	EUR	Sihem Bakri, Bouziane Brik, Adlen Ksentini
11	Security and Privacy Journal (Wiley )	An end-to-end trusted architecture for network slicing in 5G and beyond networks	EUR	Sabra Ben Saad, Adlen Ksentini, Bouziane Brik
12	IEEE Network Magazine	Towards an Optimal MEC Resources Dimensioning for Vehicle Collision Avoidance System: A Deep Learning Approach	EUR	Bouziane Brik and Adlen Ksentini
13	IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society	Deep Learning for B5G Open Radio Access Network: Evolution, Survey, Case Studies, and Challenges	EUR	Bouziane Brik, Karim Boutiba, and Adlen Ksentini
14	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management	A Heuristically Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Network Slice Placement	ORA-FR	Alves Esteves, José; Boubendir, Amina
15	Journal of Network and Systems Management	On the Robustness of Controlled Deep Reinforcement Learning for Slice Placement	ORA-FR	Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves, Amina Boubendir, Fabrice Guillemin, Pierre Sens
16	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	ONETS: Online Network Slice Broker From Theory to Practice	NEC	Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xavier Costa-P´erez and Antonio Capone
17	IEEE Network Magazine	Service Function Chaining in Next-Generation networks: Challenges and Open Research Issues	AALTO	M. Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Jorge Bernal Bernabe, Antonio Skarmeta
18	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications	Statistical Federated Learning for Beyond 5G SLA-Constrained RAN Slicing	CTTC	H. Chergui, L. Blanco, C. Verikoukis
19	IEEE Network Magazine	Zero-Touch AI-Driven Distributed Management for Energy-Efficient 6G Massive Network Slicing	CTTC, IQU, ORA-PL, EUR	H. Chergui, L. Blanco, L. A. Garrido, K. Ramantas, S. Kukliński, A. Ksentini, C. Verikoukis
20	IEEE Wireless Communications	Towards zero-touch management and orchestration of massive deployment of network slices in 6G	EUR, CTTC	Hatim Chergui, Adlen Ksentini, Luis Blanco and Christos Verikoukis
21	Computer Networks, Elsevier	Deep data plane programming and AI for zero-trust self-driven networking in beyond 5G	AALTO	Othmane Hireche, Chafika Benzaïd, Tarik Taleb
22	IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering	Deterministic Latency Bounded Network Slice Deployment in IP-Over-WDM Based Metro-Aggregation Networks	AALTO	Hao Yu; Tarik Taleb; Jiawei Zhang; Honggang Wang
23	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management	Deterministic Latency/Jitter-aware Service Function Chaining over Beyond 5G Edge Fabric	AALTO	Hao Yu; Tarik Taleb; Jiawei Zhang; Honggang Wang
24	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management	Blockchain-based Service Orchestration for 5G Vertical Industries in Multi-Cloud Environment	CTTC	E. Zeydan, J. Baranda, J. Mangues, Y. Turk and S. B. Ozturk
25	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	SCHE2MA: Scalable, Energy-Aware, Multi-Domain Orchestration for Beyond-5G URLLC services	IQU, CTTC	Anestis Dalgkitsis, Luis A. Garrido, Farhad Rezazadeh, Hatim Chergui, Kostas Ramantas, John S. Vardakas, Christos Verikoukis
26	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies	On the Specialization of FDRL Agents for Scalable and Distributed 6G RAN Slicing Orchestration	CTTC, NEC	Farhad Rezazadeh, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti, Hatim Chergui, Xavier Costa Perez, Christos Verikoukis
27	IEEE Access	Post-Quantum Blockchain-based Secure Service Orchestration in Multi-Cloud Networks	CTTC	Engin Zeydan, Jorge Baranda, Josep Mangues
28	ITU-T JFET Network Management	AI-driven predictive and scalable management and orchestration of network slices predictive and scalable management and orchestration of network slices	ORA-PL, LMI, EUR, NEC, IQU, CTTC	Sławomir Kukliński, Lechosław Tomaszewski, Robert Kołakowski, Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ashima Chawla, Adlen Ksentini, Sabra Ben Saad, Xu Zhao, Luis A. Garrido, Anestis Dalgkitsis, Bahador Bakhshi, Engin Zeydan
29	IEEE Internet of Things Journal	Zero-touch security management for mMTC network slices: DDoS attack detection and mitigation	EUR	Radouane Niboucha, Sabra. Ben Saad, Adlen. Ksentini and Yacine. Challal
30	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management	Toward Securing Federated Learning against Poisoning Attacks in Zero Touch B5G networks	EUR	Ben Saad, Sabra, Brik, Bouziane, Ksentini, Adlen

Conferences

#	Publications	Title	Partners	Authors
1	16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2020)	Heuristic for Edge-enabled Network Slicing Optimization using the “Power of Two Choices”	ORA-FR	José Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir, Fabrice Guillemin, Pierre Sens
2	23rd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2020)	Optimized Network Slicing Proof-of-Concept with Interactive Gaming Use Case	ORA-FR	Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves, Amina Boubendir, Fabice Guillemin, Pierre Sens
3	11th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF 2020)	Edge-enabled Optimized Network Slicing in Large Scale Networks	ORA-FR	Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves, Amina Boubendir, Fabice Guillemin, Pierre Sens
4	2020 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)	Location-based Data Model for Optimized Network Slice Placement	ORA-FR	José Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir, Fabrice Guillemin, Pierre Sens
5	IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2020	NSBchain: A Secure Blockchain Framework for Network Slicing Brokerage	NEC	Lanfranco Zanzi, Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore,Xavier Costa-Perez
6	IEEE Globecom 2020	Continuous Multi-objective Zero-touch Network Slicing via Twin Delayed DDPG and OpenAI Gym	CTTC	Farhad Rezazadeh, Hatim Chergui, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis
7	IEEE ICC’20	Latency-aware Service Placement and Live Migrations in 5G and Beyond Mobile Systems	AALTO	B. Mada, M. Bagaa, T. Taleb, and H. Flinck
8	IEEE LCN 2020 conference	On Predicting Service-oriented Network Slices Performances in 5G: A Federated Learning Approach	EUR	Bouziane Brikz and Adlen Ksentini
9	IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom)	Dynamic Resource Aware VNF Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning for 5G Networks	IQU, CTTC	Anestis Dalgkitsis, Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis , Angelos Antonopoulos, Georgios Kormentzas, Christos Verikoukis
10	IFIP AIAI 2021	A Novel Architectural Approach for the Provision of Scalable and Automated Network Slice Management, in 5G and Beyond	ORA-PL, OTE, CTTC	Sławomir Kukliński, Lechosław Tomaszewski, Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Christos Verikoukis, Robert Kołakowski, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Alexandros Kostopoulos
11	IEEE INFOCOM 2021	π-ROAD: a Learn-as-You-Go Framework for On-Demand Emergency Slices in V2X Scenarios	NEC	Armin Okic, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Alessandro Redondi, and Xavier Costa-Perez
12	IEEE ICC 2021	A Trust architecture for the SLA management in 5G networks	EUR	Sabra Ben Saad, Adlen Ksentini, Bouziane Brik
13	IEEE ICC 2021	CDF-Aware Federated Learning for Low SLA Violations in Beyond 5G Network Slicing	CTTC	Hatim Chergui, Luis Blanco and Christos Verikoukis
14	IEEE ICC 2021	Actor-Critic-Based Learning for Zero-touch Joint Resource and Energy Control in Network Slicing	CTTC	Farhad Rezazadeh, Hatim Chergui, Loizos Christofi, Christos Verikoukis
15	IEEE MeditCom 2021	MonB5G: AI/ML-Capable Distributed Orchestration and Management Framework for Network Slices	ORA-PL, CTTC, BCOM, NEC, EUR, CTXS	ContentSławomir Kukliński, Robert Kołakowski, Lechosław Tomaszewski, Luis Sanabria-Russo, Christos Verikoukis, Cao-Thanh Phan, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti, Adlen Ksentini, Christos Tselios, George Tsolis, Hatim Chergui
16	IEEE ICC 2021	Context-Aware Traffic Prediction: Loss Function Formulation for Predicting Traffic in 5G Networks	IQU, CTTC	Luis A. Garrido, Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis, Anestis Dalgkitsis, Christos Verikoukis
17	IEEE MeditCom 2021	Machine Learning for Network Slicing in Future Mobile Networks: Design and Implementation	IQU, CTTC	Luis A. Garrido, Anestis Dalgkitsis, Kostas Ramantas, Christos Verikoukis
18	IEEE IJCNN 2012	Learning Sparsity of Representations with Discrete Latent Variables	NEC	Zhao Xu, Daniel Onoro Rubio, Giuseppe Serra and Mathias Niepert
19	IEEE 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2021)	DRL-based Slice Placement Under Non-Stationary Conditions	ORA-FR	Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves, Amina Boubendir, Fabrice Guillemin and Pierre Sensy
20	IEEE ISNCC 2021	A network tomography approach for anomaly localization in Service Function Chaining	BCOM	Mohamed Rahali, Jean-Michel Sanner, Cao-Thanh Phan, and Gerardo Rubino
21	EuCNC & 6G Summit 2021	Distributed AI-based Security for Massive Numbersof Network Slices in 5G & Beyond Mobile Systems	AAL, BCOM, EUR, CTXS	Benzaid Chafika, Tarik Taleb, Cao-Thanh Phan, Christos Tselios, George Tsolis
22	IEEE GLOBECOM 2021	KRS: Kubernetes Resource Scheduler for resilient NFV networks	BCOM	Mohamed Rahali, Cao-Thanh Phan, and Gerardo Rubino
23	IEEE GLOBECOM 2021	Entropy-Driven Stochastic Policy for Fast Federated Learning in Beyond 5G Edge-RAN	CTTC	B. Aamer, H. Chergui, M. Benjillali, C. Verikoukis
24	IEEE GLOBECOM 2021	A Collaborative Statistical Actor-Critic Learning Approach for 6G Network Slicing Control	CTTC	F. Rezazadeh, H. Chergui, L. Alonso, L. Blanco, C. Verikoukis
25	17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2021)	DRL-based Slice Placement under Realistic Network Load Conditions	ORA-FR	Jose Jurandir Alves Estevesy, Amina Boubendir, Fabrice Guillemin and Pierre Sensy
26	IEEE GLOBECOM 2021	Deterministic Service Function Chaining overBeyond 5G Edge Fabric	AAL	Hao Yu, Tarik Taleb, Jiawei Zhang
27	IEEE GLOBECOM 2021	Towards SDN-based Deterministic Networking: Deterministic E2E Delay Case	AAL	Aiman Nait Abbou, Tarik Taleb, JaeSeung Song
28	IEEE NFV/SDN 2021	Performance evaluation of the OSM orchestrator	ORA-PL	Robert Kołakowski, Lechosław Tomaszewski, Sławomir Kukliński
29	IEEE GLOBECOM 2021	SCHEMA: Service Chain Elastic Management with Distributed Reinforcement Learning	IQU, CTTC	Anestis Dalgkitsis, Luis A. Garrido, Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis, Kostas Ramantas, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis
30	2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)	Demo: Blockchain-based Inter-Provider Agreements for 6G Networks	CTTC	Farhana Javed, Josep Mangues
31	2022 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)	Blockchain-based SLA Management for Inter-Provider Agreements	CTTC	Farhana Javed, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
32	2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)	Uncertainty Propagation in Node Classification	NEC	Zhao Xu, Carolin Lawrence, Ammar Shaker, Raman Siarheyeu
33	2022 IEEE 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)	Microservices Configurations and the Impact on the Performance in Cloud Native Environments	EUR	M. Mekki, N. Toumi and A. Ksentini
34	GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference	SafeSCHEMA: Multi-domain Orchestration of Slices based on SafeRL for B5G Networks	IQU, LMI	Anestis Dalgkitsis, Ashima Chawla, Anne-Marie Bosneag and Christos Verikoukis
35	GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference	Scalable end-to-end slice embedding and reconfiguration based on independent DQN agents	EUR	Pavlos Doanis, Theodoros Giannakas, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
36	GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference	Blockchain-based 6G Inter-Provider Agreements: Auction vs. Marketplace	CTTC	Farhana Javed, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
37	MILCOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)	5G-Enabled Defence-in-Depth for Multi-domain Operations	ORA-PL	Sławomir Kukliński, Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Konrad Wrona, Jędrzej Bieniasz
38	IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2022	In-Slice Management Decomposition and Implementation Issues	ORA-PL	Sławomir Kukliński
39	IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022	A Cloud Native SLA-Driven Stochastic Federated Learning Policy for 6G Zero-Touch Network Slicing	CTTC, IQU	Swastika Roy, Hatim Chergui, Luis Sanabria-Russo, Christos Verikoukis
40	NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium	Graph-based Interpretable Anomaly Detection Framework for Network Slice Management in Beyond 5G Networks	LMI, IQU	Ashima Chawla, Anne-Marie Bosneag, Anestis Dalgkitsis
41	IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications 2023	A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for RAN Resource Allocation in O-RAN	CTTC, NEC	Farhad Rezazadeh, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti, Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz, Engin Zeydan, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
42	NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium	Optimizing Network Slicing in Distributed Large Scale Infrastructures: From Heuristics to Controlled Deep Reinforcement Learning	ORA-FR	José Jurandir Alves Esteves, Amina Boubendir, Fabrice Guillemin, Pierre Sens

5G PPP Contributions

White Papers Contributions:

Edge Computing for 5G Networks (CITRIX, ORA-PL, NEC) – Contribution to the 5G PPP Technology Board WG & 5G IA Trials WG
AI/ML for 5G Networks (CTTC, NEC) – Contribution to the 5G-PPP Technology Board WG
View on 5G Architecture version 4.0 (ORA-PL) – Contribution to the 5G-PPP 5G/Beyond Architecture WG

Journals and Brochures Contributions

The European 5G Annual Journal 2021
5G PPP, Phase 3 Projects Brochure
The European 5G Annual Journal 2023