Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services

Project Information

NATWORK

Grant agreement ID: 101139285

DOI

10.3030/101139285

EC signature date 1 December 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 3 828 075,00

EU contribution

€ 3 628 007,50

Coordinated by

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (9)

Payload security per runtime, intelligent runtime selection and attestation.r1

A report on net-zero ML and intrinsic security of AI containing 1) capability maps 2) algorithms and 3) effectiveness.

SoA analysis & benchmark assessment

A report on SotA Analysis and best practices for security and trust establishment of emerging research in 6G; including an assessment that highlights the identified challenges and opportunities.

Physical layer threat modelling

A report on physical layer threat modelling including attack surfaces, attack impacts, and mitigation actions.

Communication and dissemination plan, reports and materials.r1

A report on communication and dissemination plan as well as activities.

Secure-by-design orchestration and management & Data plane computation offloading.r1

A report on Secure In-network offloading & trust-based fog microservice, data plane intrusion detection system and control plane detection of new threats and response to incidents, including 1) capability maps 2) algorithms 3) implementation and 4) evaluation state.

6G Use Cases scenarios and requirements

A detailed report using formal description through for the pillars of the 6G use cases (stakeholders & actors, requirements, etc.).

Intelligent networking, CTI & explainability.r1

A report on AI-powered 6G networking, along with CTI, Security and explainability for AI.

Quality Assurance, Risk Assessment, Data Management Plan, Ethics & Regulatory issues.r1

This deliverable will include the a) Quality Management Plan of the project, b) the Risk Assessment Plan of the project, c) Data Management Plan abiding to FAIR principles, d) Ethics manual of the project, and e) the regulatory aspects and the imposed restrictions.

Definition of the evaluation framework & Pilot specifications

This report describes the testing environments that will be used for assessment within NATWORK along with selection of use case requirements for deployment.

Publications

Conference proceedings (25)

ML-Based Anomaly Detection in 6G Networks: A Survey on the Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions

Author(s): Nasim Nezhadsistani, Burkhard Stiller
Published in: 2024 3rd International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/6GNet63182.2024.10765631

Extensible FRER Security Testbed in a Box

Author(s): Károly Kecskeméti (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Csaba Györgyi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Péter Vörös (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Géza Szabó (Ericsson Research, Hungary); Sándor Laki (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Published in: 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Self-supervised Transformer-based ContrastivLearning for Intrusion Detection Systems

Author(s): Ippokratis Koukoulis, Ilias Syrigos, Thanasis Korakis
Published in: IFIP Networking 2025, 2025
Publisher: IFIP Networking 2025
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.08816

Feather: Lightweight Container Alternatives for Deploying Workloads in the Edge

Author(s): Goethals, Tom; De Clercq, Maxim; Sebrechts, Merlijn; De Turck, Filip; Volckaert, Bruno
Published in: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, 2024, ISSN 2184-5042
Publisher: SciTePress
DOI: 10.5220/0012536300003711

Feather: Lightweight Container Alternatives for Deploying Workloads in the Edge

Author(s): Tom Goethals, Maxim De Clercq, Merlijn Sebrechts, Filip De Turck, Bruno Volckaert
Published in: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, 2024
Publisher: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0012536300003711

IPv6 Connection Shuffling for Moving Target Defense (MTD) in SDN

Author(s): Nicholas Mayone, Pascal Kunz, Beytullah Yigit, Wissem Soussi, Burkhard Stiller, Gürkan Gür
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679400

Trusting the cloud-native edge

Author(s): Jordi Thijsman, Merlijn Sebrechts, Filip De Turck, Bruno Volckaert (imec - Ghent University)
Published in: 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.10131

Anomaly Detection in Microservices Architecture Using Graph Neural Networks

Author(s): Matthias Osswald, Timothy Schönenberger, Gokcan Cantali, Wissem Soussi, and Gürkan Gür
Published in: 2025 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Idempotency in Service Mesh: for Resiliency of Fog-Native Applications in Multi-Domain Edge-to-Cloud Ecosystems

Author(s): Matthew Whitaker, Bruno Volckaert, Mays AL-Naday
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Closer 2025

AgentQuest: A Modular Benchmark Framework to Measure Progress and Improve LLM Agents

Author(s): Luca Gioacchini, Giuseppe Siracusano, Davide Sanvito, Kiril Gashteovski, David Friede, Roberto Bifulco, Carolin Lawrence
Published in: 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024
Publisher: 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

AI-Driven Network Intrusion Detection and Resource Allocation in Real-World O-RAN 5G Networks

Author(s): Theodoros Tsourdinis, Nikos Makris, Thanasis Korakis, Serge Fdida
Published in: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3636534.3697311

Advancing B5G Security: An AI-Augmented Intrusion Detection System using a Real-Time Attack Generator

Author(s): George Lazaridis, Amalia Damianou, Antonios Lalas, Periklis Chatzimisios, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios Tzovaras
Published in: 2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber-Physical Resilience and Security Against Digital Breakdowns (CYPRES), 2025
Publisher: IEEE

SNS Journal 2024 / NATWORK

Author(s): Antonios Lalas, Anastasios Drosou
Published in: 2024
Publisher: SNS

In-Network Attack Detection Using Disaggregated Inference & Online Learning

Author(s): Gergely Sárközi, Péter Vörös
Published in: IEEE Globecom2025, 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Footprint-Optimized Orchestration and Management of Secure Complex Services over 6G Continuum

Author(s): Sumeyya Birtane, Mays AL-Naday, Francesco Paolucci, Rana Abu Bakar, Vincent Lefebvre, Virgilios Passas, Sarantis Kalafatidis, Antonios Lalas, Anastasios Drosou, Edgardo Montes de Oca, Ana Rosa Cavalli, Peter Voros, Mohammed B. M. Kamel, Burkhard Stiller,
Published in: 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Exploring Live Payload Migrations for MTD in Microservices Architecture

Author(s): Anthony Mamaril, Rinchen Kolodziejczyk, Wissem Soussi, Gürkan Gür
Published in: 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTC2024-Spring62846.2024.10683429

SHIELD: A Codebook-Based Methodology for RIS-Based Covert Communications

Author(s): Alexandros Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Alexandros Pitilakis, Panagiotis Diamantoulakis, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis, Nikolaos Kantartzis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Christos Liaskos
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning: Evaluating MPC Approaches

Author(s): Mohammed Alshawki (ELTE), Wissem Soussi (ZHAW)
Published in: IEEE ICDCS 2025, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00101

Deciphering Standards for cybersecurity in Industry 4.0: Advisory AI for Cybersecure IIoT

Author(s): Asterios Mpatziakas, Ioannis Schoinas, Antonios Lalas, Anastasios Drosou, Nestor Chatzidiamantis, Dimitrios Tzovaras
Published in: 2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber-Physical Resilience and Security Against Digital Breakdowns (CYPRES), 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Enhancing IoT Security in 6G Networks: AI-Based Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing, and Blockchain-based Trust Management

Author(s): Vinh Hoa La (MONT), Edgardo Montes de Oca (MONT), Ana Cavalli (MONT), Péter Vörös (ELTE), Károly Kecskeméti (ELTE), Mohammed B. M. Kamel (ELTE), Sándor Laki (ELTE), Antonios Lalas (CERTH), Sarantis Kalafatidis (CERTH), Asterios Mpatziakas (CERTH), Nikolao
Published in: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology - Internet of Things. 7th IFIPIoT 2024 International IFIP WG 5.5 Workshops, 2024
Publisher: SPRINGER Nature

Wire-speed DDoS Attack Mitigation using Hardware Acceleration of Programmable DPUs

Author(s): Stefano Hinic, Rana Abu Bakar, Andrea Marotta, Francesco Paolucci
Published in: GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM52923.2024.10901169

RIS as a Network Resource: User Multiplexing and Pricing Algorithms

Author(s): A Papadopoulos, A Lalas, K Votis, S Schmid, K Katsalis, C Liaskos
Published in: 2024
Publisher: IEEE

On Jamming Detection: A Unified Method for Real-Time Detection Across Multiple Protocols & Attack Types

Author(s): Alexandros I. Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Nikiforidis, Odysseas Grosomanidis, Eleni Chamou, Savvas I. Raptis, Aristeides D. Papadopoulos, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis
Published in: 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT63408.2025.11037016

SNS Journal 2025 / NATWORK

Author(s): Antonios Lalas, Anastasios Drosou
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SNS

Power-aware RoCE Edge Transfer Agent

Author(s): A. H. Khan, M. Guaitolini, F. Paolucci
Published in: ICTON 2025 Conference, 2025
Publisher: IEEExplore

Peer reviewed articles (12)

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Author(s): Tom Goethals; Mays Al-Naday; Bruno Volckaert; Filip De Turck
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3417703

Warrens: Decentralized Connectionless Tunnels for Edge Container Networks

Author(s): om Goethals; Mays Al-Naday; Bruno Volckaert; Filip De Turck
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3417703

On Modeling the RIS as a Resource: Multi-User Allocation and Efficiency-Proportional Pricing

Author(s): Alexandros Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis, Stefan Schmid, Sotiris Ioannidis, George K. Karagiannidis, Christos K. Liaskos
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3576038

Ensemble Graph Attention Networks for Cellular Network Analytics: From Model Creation to Explainability

Author(s): Katalin Hajdú-Szücs, Péter Vaderna, Zsófia Kallus, Péter Kersch, János Márk Szalai-Gindl, Sándor Laki
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Issue 22, 2025, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3436677

Computers and Security

Author(s): Allegretta, Mauro; Siracusano, Giuseppe; González, Roberto; Gramaglia, Marco; Caballero, Juan
Published in: Computers & Security, 2025, ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/J.COSE.2024.104182

Democratizing Container Live Migration for Enhanced Future Networks - A Survey

Author(s): Wissem Soussi; Gürkan Gür; Burkhard Stiller
Published in: ACM Computing Surveys, 2024, ISSN 1557-7341
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.21256/ZHAW-32447

Web of shadows: Investigating malware abuse of internet services

Author(s): Mauro Allegretta, Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto González, Marco Gramaglia, Juan Caballero
Published in: Computers & Security, Issue 149, 2024, ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.104182

Warrens: Decentralized Connectionless Tunnels for Edge Container Networks

Author(s): Tom Goethals, Mays Al-Naday, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Issue 21, 2024, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3417703

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Author(s): Hajdú-Szücs, Katalin; Vaderna, Peter; Kallus, Zsófia; Kersch, Péter; Szalai-Gindl, Janos Mark; Laki, Sándor
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3436677

Web of shadows: Investigating malware abuse of internet services

Author(s): Mauro Allegretta, Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto González, Marco Gramaglia, Juan Caballero
Published in: Computers & Security, Issue 149, 2024, ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COSE.2024.104182

In-Line Any-Depth Deep Neural Networks Using P4 Switches

Author(s): Emilio Paolini, Lorenzo de Marinis, Davide Scano, Francesco Paolucci
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3411071

Democratizing Container Live Migration for Enhanced Future Networks - A Survey

Author(s): Wissem Soussi, Gürkan Gür, Burkhard Stiller
Published in: ACM Computing Surveys, Issue 57, 2024, ISSN 0360-0300
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3704436

Book chapters (2)

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Author(s): La, Vinh Hoa; Mallouli, Wissam; Nguyen, Manh Dung; de Oca, Edgardo Montes; Cavalli, Ana; Vörös, Péter; Kecskeméti, Károly; Alshawki, Mohammed; Laki, Sándor; Lalas, Antonios; Kalafatidis, Sarantis; Mpatziakas, Asterios; Makris, Nikolaos; Drosou, Anastasios
Published in: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology - Internet of Things. 7th IFIPIoT 2024 International IFIP WG 5.5 Workshops, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82065-6_5

Enhancing IoT Security in 6G Networks: AI-Based Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing, and Blockchain-Based Trust Management (Work-in-Progress Paper)

Author(s): Vinh Hoa La, Wissam Mallouli, Manh Dung Nguyen, Edgardo Montes de Oca, Ana Cavalli, Péter Vörös, Károly Kecskeméti, Mohammed Alshawki, Sándor Laki, Antonios Lalas, Sarantis Kalafatidis, Asterios Mpatziakas, Nikolaos Makris, Anastasios Drosou
Published in: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Internet of Things. 7th IFIPIoT 2024 International IFIP WG 5.5 Workshops, 2024
Publisher: Springer Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82065-6_5

Monographic books (1)

Programmable Decentralized Feature Extraction Telemetry

Author(s): L. Ismail, A. Sgambelluri, F. Cugini, F. Paolucci
Published in: 2025
Publisher: IEEExplore
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125088

Other (1)

Carbon-Aware Federated GNN for Anomaly Detection in Kubernetes

Author(s): Gökcan Cantali, Gürkan Gür, Burkhard Stiller
Published in: 13th IFIP TMA PhD School, 2025
Publisher: 13th IFIP TMA PhD School