Day 1: October 21, 2025
9:00-9:10 MASCOTS Workshop opening
9:10-10:40 Workshop Papers: Chair Tadeusz Czachorski
– On the Sweet Spot of Intermittent Inference using STT-MRAM, Rei Barjami, Antonio Miele and Luca Mottola
– CSP Based Formal Specification of a Resource Allocation for Large-Scale Fog Computing, Youcef Hammal, Khaled Zeraoulia and Lynda Mokdad
– Federated Reinforcement Learning for Runtime Optimization of AI Applications in Smart Eyewears, Hamta Sedghani, Abednego Wamuhindo Kambale, Federica Filippini, Francesca Palermo, Diana Trojaniello and Danilo Ardagna
– CAPLAI: AI-assisted Lifecycle Provisioning for GPU data centers, Chengyi Nie, Anna Xing, Imran Latif and Zhenhua Liu
– Profiling the Energy Consumption of Secure Neural Network Inference, Tanjina Islam, Ana-Maria Oprescu, Zoltan Mann and Sander Klous
– Modeling the Interactions between Core Allocation and Overload Control in mu-Scale Network Stacks, Jehad Hussien, Pratyush Sahu, Eric Stuhr and Ahmed Saeed
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-11:10 Main Conference Opening: M. Calzarossa, E. Gelenbe, K. Grochla
11:10-11:50 Keynote I: Silent Channels: Scalable Messaging Resistant to Traffic Analysis, Darrell Long, University of California Santa Cruz & Institute for Defence Analysis (Chair Erol Gelenbe)
11.50 – 12.00 Discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:10 Session 1 – Scheduling and Microservices: Chair Darrell Long
– Taming Cold Starts: Proactive Serverless Scheduling with Model Predictive Control, Chanh Nguyen, Monowar Bhuyan and Erik Elmroth
– Multi-Dimensional Autoscaling in Microservices Using Reinforcement Learning, Hasan Nayir, Alper Demir and Hüseyin Kaya
– An Empirical Study on Transient Phases of Microservice Applications, Ivo Rohwer, Martin Straesser, Yannik Lubas, Samuel Kounev and André Bauer
– Enhanced Training of Response Time Anomaly Detectors Using Diffusion Models Wenxiang Luo and Giuliano Casale
15:10-15:30 Break
15:30-17:10 Session 2 – Energy Performance of Systems and Networks: Chair Enrico Vicario
– Green Federated Learning via Carbon-Aware Client and Time Slot Scheduling Daniel Richards Arputharaj, Charlotte Rodriguez, Angelo Rodio and Giovanni Neglia
– CPU Frequency Aware Power Modeling for IoT Edge Nodes Vladimir Ostapenco, Loïc Guégan, Salma Tofaily, Issam Raïs and Laurent Lefevre
– Energy Dynamics of Green IoT Nodes with Time-varying Energy Harvesting, Leakage, and Consumption Patterns, Godlove Kuaban, Tadeusz Czachorski, Erol Gelenbe, Piotr Pecka and Piotr Czekalski
– PACMAN: Power Usage-Aware Capping and Management for All-Flash Storage Servers, Sungyong Park, Bodon Jeong, Hongsu Byun, Kyungkeun Lee, Bumjun Kim, Jeong-Uk Kang
Day 2: October 22, 2025
9:00-10:40 Session 3 – Performance of Architectures: Chair Isi Mitrani
– Parameterized Algorithms and Parameter Selection for Fast GPU-GPU Collective Communication, Peizhi Liu, Sean Rhee, Michael Wilkins and Peter Dinda
– FLEXLLM: Flexible and Cost-Efficient LLM Serving with Heterogeneous GPUs Kihyun Kim, Jinwoo Kim, James J. Kim, Dong Li and Youngjae Kim
– OpenCXD: An Open Real-Device-Guided Hybrid Evaluation Framework for CXL- SSDs, Hyunsun Chung, Junhyeok Park, Taewan Noh, Seonghoon Ahn, Kihwan Kim, Ming Zhao and Youngjae Kim
– HyDRASim: A Versatile and Cycle-Accurate Simulator for Hybrid DRAM PIM-CPU Systems, Jihoon Jang, Inseong Hwang and Hyun Kim
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Session 4 – Analytical Models: Chair Francois Baccelli
– Queuing Analysis of a Traffic Shaping Scheme, Peter Buchholz
– Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Folder Ring Protocol for Total Ordering of Messages, Paul Ezhilchelvan, Isi Mitrani and Jim Webber
– Optimality of Decentralized Lockdown Strategies for the SIRS Model with Vaccinations, Christian Carballo Lozano and Josu Doncel
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:35 Session 5 – Performance of Internet Applications: Chair Franco Davoli
– Analytical Characterization and Efficient Simulation of Batched Arrivals in the Kafka Broker, András Horváth, Marco Paolieri, Benedetta Picano and Enrico Vicario
– GS Coder: Enabling Fast and Efficient Encoding for Game Streaming Applications Sandeepa Bhuyan, Ziyu Ying, Vivek M. Bhasi, Mahmut T. Kandemir and Chita R.Das
– A Distributed GAN-Based Framework for Low-Latency and Efficient Learning in the Internet of Vehicles, Farhoud Jafari Kaleibar and Marin Litoiu
– On Improving Interactivity in Video Conferencing Applications, Jia He, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura and Emir Halepovic
– A Probabilistic Dynamic Network Trust Model for IoT Systems with Lost Messages and Cyberattacks, Erol Gelenbe, Qixian Ren and Zheng Yan
– Constellate: Establishing the opportunity for Distributed Unit pooling in real-world 5G Radio Access Networks, Sri Pramodh Rachuri, Anshul Gandhi, Gueyoung Jung, Shankaranarayanan, Puzhavakath Narayanan and Alex Zelezniak
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-17:15 Session 6 – Cloud and HPC: Chair Peter Buchholz
– An Artificial Bee Colony algorithm with Machine Learning for Constrained Optimization in HPC, Roberto Sala, Nikita Litovchenko, Davide Gadioli, Gianluca Palermo and Danilo Ardagna
– MCSim: A Discrete-Event Simulation Framework for Studying Multi-Cloud Networks, Joseph Colton and Ramakrishnan Durairajan
– Comprehensive Performance Analysis of Portals4 Communication Primitives on BXI Hardware, Niklas Bartelheimer and Sarah Neuwirth
Day 3: October 23, 2025
9.30-10.20 Keynote II: SLICES, Your Scientific Instrument to support 6G System Research Innovation, Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université (Chair Kryzsztof Grochla)
10.20-10.30 Questions and Discussion
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-11.50 Keynote III: Modelling and Analysis of Stratospheric Wireless Communications, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST (Chair Erol Gelenbe)
11.50-12.00 Questions and Discussion
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.30 Way To 6G Workshop I (With Papers in the Proceedings & Oral Presentation): Chair Maria Carla Calzarossa
– Signalling Storms and Taylor’s Law, Erol Gelenbe and Omer H. Abdelrahman
– B5G/6G Cyber Security Testbed, Alessandro Carrega, Franco Davoli and Ramin Rabbani
– SliceMon: Slice-aware SLA Monitoring in the Data Plane Using Ensemble Learning and In-band Network Telemetry, Valerio Luconi and Raffaele Bruno
– Analytical Power Efficiency Models for Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN); Godlove Kuaban, Tadeusz Czachorski, Tulin Atmaca and Piotr Czekalski
14.30-16.10 Way To 6G Workshop II (Only Oral Presentation): Chair Raffaele Bruno
– Timing advance and Doppler shift estimation in 5G LEO satellite networks, Ashutosh Balakrishnan, P. Martins, P. Popineau
– Handover frequency in dynamic terrestrial communication network, Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar, François Baccelli
– Spatial Network Calculus: Toward Deterministic Wireless Networking, Ke Feng, Yi Zhong, Xiaohang Zhou
– Delay guarantees of space-time regulated multiple access random wireless networks, Kevin Zagalo, Jean Marie Gorce, and F. Baccelli.
16.10 Conclusions of Way to 6G Workshop and Conclusions of MASCOTS 2025