publish-assistant/site/data/papers/IC-2025-digest.yaml

venue: IC
year: 2025
selected:
  - title: "Rethinking Computing Systems in the Era of Climate Crisis: A Call for a Sustainable Computing Continuum"
    authors:
    - Ella Peltonen
    - Suzan Bayhan
    - David Bermbach
    - Sebastian Buschjäger
    - Victoria Degeler
    - Aaron Yi Ding
    - Özlem Durmaz Incel
    - Dewant Katare
    - Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard
    - Sam Leroux
    - Toktam Mahmoodi
    - Zoltán Ádám Mann
    - Nirvana Meratnia
    - Andy D. Pimentel
    - Jan S. Rellermeyer
    - Etienne Rivière
    - Dolly Sapra
    - Gürkan Solmaz
    - Bram van der Waaij
    tldr: "A multi-author position paper calling for carbon-aware design principles across the cloud-to-edge computing continuum, surveying energy measurement, workload scheduling, and hardware lifecycle challenges."
    why_notable: "Establishes a community research agenda for sustainable computing infrastructure at a time when datacenter and edge energy consumption is under increasing regulatory and societal scrutiny."

  - title: "Toward Carbon-Aware Data Transfers"
    authors:
    - Jacob Goldverg
    - Hasibul Jamil
    - Elvis Rodrigues
    - Tevfik Kosar
    tldr: "Proposes scheduling and routing strategies for large-scale data transfers that minimize carbon emissions by leveraging time- and location-varying grid carbon intensity signals."
    why_notable: "Delivers a practical, implementable mechanism for reducing the carbon footprint of Internet data movement, directly applicable to data-intensive scientific and cloud workflows."

  - title: "Zero Trust-Driven Collaborative Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things: A Continuous Trust Assessment Approach"
    authors:
    - Xinxin Wang
    - Qingjun Yuan
    - Yongjuan Wang
    - Jihong Teng
    - Jing Tao
    - Meng Shen 0001
    tldr: "Designs a collaborative intrusion detection system for IoT networks grounded in zero-trust principles, continuously reassessing device trust scores to isolate compromised nodes in real time."
    why_notable: "Demonstrates how zero-trust architectures can be operationalized at IoT scale, providing a concrete detection model with empirical evaluation on real traffic."

  - title: "Securing Voice Authentication Applications Against Targeted Data Poisoning"
    authors:
    - Alireza Mohammadi
    - Keshav Sood
    - Asef Nazari
    - Dhananjay R. Thiruvady
    tldr: "Identifies and mitigates targeted data poisoning attacks on voice authentication systems by detecting and filtering malicious training samples before model updates are applied."
    why_notable: "Highlights a practical and underexplored attack surface in biometric authentication services, with defenses validated against realistic adversarial scenarios."

  - title: "Characterization of Probabilistic Structure of Internet Traffic During COVID-19: A Study Based on MAWI Data"
    authors:
    - Anoushka Mittal
    - Pranav Jain
    - Karmeshu
    - Shachi Sharma
    tldr: "Applies statistical modeling to MAWI backbone traffic traces collected during COVID-19 to characterize shifts in Internet traffic distributions and identify new usage patterns."
    why_notable: "Provides rare longitudinal empirical evidence of how a major societal disruption altered Internet traffic structure, with implications for capacity planning and anomaly detection baselines."

  - title: "iGenEdge: Intelligent Generative AI Service Deployment for Edge-Connected IoT Devices"
    authors:
    - Faiza Akram
    - Asad Waqar Malik
    - Samee U. Khan
    tldr: "Proposes iGenEdge, a framework that intelligently partitions and deploys generative AI inference tasks across edge servers and IoT devices based on latency, energy, and model accuracy constraints."
    why_notable: "Addresses the critical engineering challenge of running large generative models close to IoT data sources, with practical placement algorithms and experimental validation."

  - title: "Smaller, Smarter, Closer: The Edge of Collaborative Generative Artificial Intelligence"
    authors:
    - Roberto Morabito
    - SiYoung Jang
    tldr: "Surveys strategies for deploying collaborative generative AI models at the network edge, covering model compression, offloading, and inter-device coordination techniques."
    why_notable: "Gives a clear-eyed assessment of where edge generative AI stands today and what infrastructure advances are needed, serving as a practical guide for edge platform designers."

  - title: "Memory-Augmented Autoencoder with Reservoir Computing for Edge-Based Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Systems"
    authors:
    - Fabiha Nowshin
    - Zheng Dong 0002
    - Yang Yi 0002
    tldr: "Combines a memory-augmented autoencoder with reservoir computing to detect anomalies in autonomous system sensor streams directly on resource-constrained edge hardware."
    why_notable: "Demonstrates strong anomaly detection accuracy under tight edge compute budgets, making it directly relevant to safety-critical IoT and autonomous vehicle deployments."

  - title: "Ship-to-Shore Network Monitoring: The Research Vessel Sikuliaq Experience"
    authors:
    - Komal Thareja
    - Anirban Mandal
    - Julian Race
    - Paul Ruth
    - Christopher Romsos
    - Ewa Deelman
    tldr: "Presents a real-world case study of continuous network monitoring for a research vessel operating over satellite links, characterizing link quality, disruptions, and measurement methodology."
    why_notable: "Offers rare empirical data on challenged maritime Internet connectivity, informing the design of resilient monitoring and science workflows for remote and mobile environments."

  - title: "Think Locally, Act Globally: A Programming Model for Decentralized Applications"
    authors:
    - Julian Haas
    - Christian Kuessner
    - Ragnar Mogk
    - Mira Mezini
    tldr: "Introduces a programming model that lets developers write local per-node logic while the runtime automatically enforces global consistency and coordination across a decentralized application."
    why_notable: "Tackles the fundamental complexity of building correct decentralized Internet applications, offering a principled abstraction that could reduce the gap between distributed systems theory and practice."