Machine Learning For Networking
Machine Learning For Networking
Founding Editors
Gerhard Goos
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Juris Hartmanis
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Machine Learning
for Networking
4th International Conference, MLN 2021
Virtual Event, December 1–3, 2021
Proceedings
Editors
Éric Renault Selma Boumerdassi
ESIEE Paris CNAM
Noisy-le-Grand, France Paris, France
Paul Mühlethaler
Inria
Paris, France
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Preface
The rapid development of new network infrastructures and services has led to the
generation of huge amounts of data, and machine learning now appears to be the best
solution to process these data and make the right decisions for network management.
The International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN) aims at
providing a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss new
trends in deep and reinforcement learning, pattern recognition and classification for
networks, machine learning for network slicing optimization, 5G systems, user behavior
prediction, multimedia, IoT, security and protection, optimization and new innovative
machine learning methods, performance analysis of machine learning algorithms,
experimental evaluations of machine learning, data mining in heterogeneous
networks, distributed and decentralized machine learning algorithms, intelligent
cloud-support communications, resource allocation, energy-aware communications,
software-defined networks, cooperative networks, positioning and navigation systems,
wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, and underwater sensor networks.
The fourth edition of the conference took place during December 1–3, 2021. Due to
the special health situation all around the world, resulting from the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, all presentations at MLN 2021 were done remotely.
The call for papers resulted in a total of 30 submissions from all around the
world: Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Lebanon, South Africa, Sweden,
Taiwan, the USA, and Vietnam. All submissions were assigned to at least three members
of the Program Committee for review. The Program Committee decided to accept 10
papers.
The paper “DynamicDeepFlow: An Approach for Identifying Changes in Network
Traffic Flow Using Unsupervised Clustering” by Sheng Shen, Mariam Kiran, and Bashir
Mohammed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, was awarded the
prize for the best paper.
Four keynotes completed the program: “Distributed and Communication-Efficient
ML over and for Wireless” by Mehdi Bennis from the University of Oulu, Finland,
“Analysis of Data of Intelligent Transport Systems” by Hacène Fouchal from Université
de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, “Beyond Shannon: A Theory of Semantic
Communication” by Jean-Claude Belfiore from Huawei, France, and “Add Cognitive
Capabilities to Apps with Azure Cognitive Services” by Franck Gaillard from Microsoft,
France.
We would like to thank all who contributed to the success of this conference. In
addition to our roles as General Chairs we chaired the Program Committee together with
Selma Boumerdassi, and we thank in particular the members of the Program Committee
and the reviewers for carefully reviewing the contributions and selecting a high-quality
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program. Our special thanks go to the members of the Organizing Committee for their
great help.
We hope that all participants enjoyed this successful conference.
MLN 2021 was jointly organized by the EVA project of Inria Paris, the Laboratoire
d’Informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM), ESIEE Paris of Université Gustave Eiffel, and
Cnam Paris.
General Chairs
Paul Mühlethaler Inria, France
Éric Renault ESIEE Paris, France
Steering Committee
Selma Boumerdassi Cnam, France
Éric Renault ESIEE Paris, France
Publicity Chair
Christophe Maudoux Cnam, France
Organization Committee
Lamia Essalhi ADDA, France
Nour El Houda Yellas Cnam, France
Sponsoring Institutions