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Md Nurul Absur

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arXiv2026

ProFlow: RL-Driven and Performance-Aware Proactive Flow Placement in Datacenter Networks

In datacenter fabrics composed of leaf and aggregation switches, competing flows may become co-located on shared aggregation switches, creating congestion that can significantly degrade protected flows. However, before throughput degradation becomes observable, the network often exhibits early signs characterized by rising flow activity and queue overflow signals. Existing congestion-management approaches primarily react only after congestion becomes visible, leaving these early signs largely unexploited. In this paper, we propose ProFlow, a proactive flow-placement framework for protecting performance-sensitive traffic in multi-tenant datacenter networks, thereby utilizing the early signs of potential throughput degradations. ProFlow leverages distributed telemetry signals and offline-trained reinforcement learning (RL) to identify precursor congestion conditions and proactively reroute protected flows before throughput degradation occurs. Evaluation results using FABRIC testbed show that ProFlow achieves approximately 40% higher mean throughput than a reactive rerouting baseline while initiating rerouting decisions around 34 seconds earlier on average, demonstrating the effectiveness of anticipatory congestion management.

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arXiv2026

Round Trip Time: A Benign Signal or an Indirect Window into Datacenter Workloads?

Multi-tenant datacenter networks increasingly rely on shared leaf-spine fabrics, where traffic from multiple tenants traverses common network resources. While logical isolation mechanisms prevent direct access between tenants, shared congestion dynamics may still expose indirect information about co-located workloads through observable latency variations. In this paper, we investigate a network side-channel vulnerability arising from shared congestion behavior in multi-tenant datacenter fabrics using RTT observations collected along overlapping network paths. We develop a framework to explore how workload-induced latency variations contain sufficiently distinguishable signatures to enable workload inference under realistic deployment conditions. Our evaluations show that indirect RTT observations can reveal meaningful workload information, achieving up to 97.3\% run-level accuracy under cross-path evaluation when workload-induced congestion is sufficiently observable. The findings suggest that logical network isolation alone may be insufficient to prevent information leakage through shared congestion dynamics in modern datacenter infrastructures.

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arXiv2025

Detection of Misreporting Attacks on Software-Defined Immersive Environments

The ability to centrally control network infrastructure using a programmable middleware has made Software-Defined Networking (SDN) ideal for emerging applications, such as immersive environments. However, such flexibility introduces new vulnerabilities, such as switch misreporting led load imbalance, which in turn make such immersive environment vulnerable to severe quality degradation. In this paper, we present a hybrid machine learning (ML)-based network anomaly detection framework that identifies such stealthy misreporting by capturing temporal inconsistencies in switch-reported loads, and thereby counter potentially catastrophic quality degradation of hosted immersive application. The detection system combines unsupervised anomaly scoring with supervised classification to robustly distinguish malicious behavior. Data collected from a realistic testbed deployment under both benign and adversarial conditions is used to train and evaluate the model. Experimental results show that the framework achieves high recall in detecting misreporting behavior, making it effective for early and reliable detection in SDN environments.

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arXiv2025

Detection and Recovery of Adversarial Slow-Pose Drift in Offloaded Visual-Inertial Odometry

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) supports immersive Virtual Reality (VR) by fusing camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data for real-time pose. However, current trend of offloading VIO to edge servers can lead server-side threat surface where subtle pose spoofing can accumulate into substantial drift, while evading heuristic checks. In this paper, we study this threat and present an unsupervised, label-free detection and recovery mechanism. The proposed model is trained on attack-free sessions to learn temporal regularities of motion to detect runtime deviations and initiate recovery to restore pose consistency. We evaluate the approach in a realistic offloaded-VIO environment using ILLIXR testbed across multiple spoofing intensities. Experimental results in terms of well-known performance metrics show substantial reductions in trajectory and pose error compared to a no-defense baseline.

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arXiv2025

Optimizing Deep Learning for Skin Cancer Classification: A Computationally Efficient CNN with Minimal Accuracy Trade-Off

The rapid advancement of deep learning in medical image analysis has greatly enhanced the accuracy of skin cancer classification. However, current state-of-the-art models, especially those based on transfer learning like ResNet50, come with significant computational overhead, rendering them impractical for deployment in resource-constrained environments. This study proposes a custom CNN model that achieves a 96.7\% reduction in parameters (from 23.9 million in ResNet50 to 692,000) while maintaining a classification accuracy deviation of less than 0.022\%. Our empirical analysis of the HAM10000 dataset reveals that although transfer learning models provide a marginal accuracy improvement of approximately 0.022\%, they result in a staggering 13,216.76\% increase in FLOPs, considerably raising computational costs and inference latency. In contrast, our lightweight CNN architecture, which encompasses only 30.04 million FLOPs compared to ResNet50's 4.00 billion, significantly reduces energy consumption, memory footprint, and inference time. These findings underscore the trade-off between the complexity of deep models and their real-world feasibility, positioning our optimized CNN as a practical solution for mobile and edge-based skin cancer diagnostics.

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arXiv2024

Optimizing CDN Architectures: Multi-Metric Algorithmic Breakthroughs for Edge and Distributed Performance

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a powerful system of distributed caching servers that aims to accelerate content delivery, like high-definition video, IoT applications, and ultra-low-latency services, efficiently and with fast velocity. This has become of paramount importance in the post-pandemic era. Challenges arise when exponential content volume growth and scalability across different geographic locations are required. This paper investigates data-driven evaluations of CDN algorithms in dynamic server selection for latency reduction, bandwidth throttling for efficient resource management, real-time Round Trip Time analysis for adaptive routing, and programmatic network delay simulation to emulate various conditions. Key performance metrics, such as round-trip time (RTT) and CPU usage, are carefully analyzed to evaluate scalability and algorithmic efficiency through two experimental setups: a constrained edge-like local system and a scalable FABRIC testbed. The statistical validation of RTT trends, alongside CPU utilization, is presented in the results. The optimization process reveals significant trade-offs between scalability and resource consumption, providing actionable insights for effectively deploying and enhancing CDN algorithms in edge and distributed computing environments.

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arXiv2024

Poster: Reliable 3D Reconstruction for Ad-hoc Edge Implementations

Ad-hoc edge deployments to support real-time complex video processing applications such as, multi-view 3D reconstruction often suffer from spatio-temporal system disruptions that greatly impact reconstruction quality. In this poster paper, we present a novel portfolio theory-inspired edge resource management strategy to ensure reliable multi-view 3D reconstruction by accounting for possible system disruptions.

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