Coseners 2026

The 38th Multi-Service Networks workshop (MSN 2026) was held Thursday 2nd – Friday 3rd July, 2026 at the Cosener’s House, Abingdon.

Thursday 2nd July

10:00 Registration

10:20 Welcome

10:30 Community Business

  • Jon Crowcroft – The Internet Future Manifesto [slides]

11:00 Security & Storms (Session Chair: Gregor Haywood)

  • Molham Khoja* (Ed) – Black-Box Evasion Attacks on Data-Driven Open RAN Apps: Tailored Design and Experimental Evaluation [slides]
  • Andrew Losty* (UCL) – Empirical Analysis of Matter Standard’s Security and Privacy [slides]
  • Elizabeth Boswell* (Glasgow) – Another Man’s Treasure: Security and Privacy Risks of Junk DNS Queries [slides]
  • Sawsan El Zahr* (Ox) – From Measurement to Emissions: Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Traffic Flows
  • Saeed Fadaei* (Surrey) – Satellite Network Performance During Severe or Extreme Geomagnetic Storms [slides] 

12:15 Lunch

13:45 AI & ML Systems (Session Chair: Noga H. Rotman)

  • Mark Handley (OpenAI/UCL) – MRC and static source routing: how we trained GPT 5.5
  • Noa Zilberman (Ox) – The Case for Panel Scale Computing
  • Jason Miller* (Ox) – Panel-Scale Network Topologies for Efficient AI Inference
  • Marco Molè* (Milan) – Cache Injection Policies [slides]
  • Yutong Zhao* (UCL) – ML for ML

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Mobile & Wireless Networking (Session Chair: Eiko Yoneki)

  • Jörg Ott (TUM) – Storage in Space [slides]
  • Kyle Jamieson (Princeton) – Learning a 5G Mobile Scheduler with High Resolution Telemetry [slides]
  • Yibo Ma* (Ed) – Practical Energy Optimization for Heterogeneous Mobile Networks via Digital Twins [slides]
  • Ujjwal Pawar* (Ed) – Towards Reducing Mobile Network OPEX with Open RAN [slides]
  • Bolun Zhang* (Ed) – Towards Automated RAN Configuration Tuning in Cellular Network with Causal Learning [slides]
  • Tianxin Wang (Ed) -ChannelMAE: Self-supervised learning assisted online adaptation of neural channel estimators [slides]

17:00 Feeling the Heat with HotNets (Session Chair: Gareth Tyson)

  • Paolo Costa (Microsoft) & Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Rethinking HotNets (Without Losing Its Identity)

17:15 Free Time

19:00 Pimms & Banquet

Friday 3rd July

9:00 Protocols & Compute (Session Chair: Michael Schapira)

  • Maria Gragera Garces* (Ed) Why should you pay attention to Distributed Quantum Computing? [slides]
  • Haoxiang Huang* (Ox) – Load-Balancing Mixture-of-Experts Inference via Prescheduled Optical Circuit Switching
  • Michio Honda (Ed) – Secure Message Transport (SMT) Protocol Updates [slides]
  • Richard Clegg (QM) – Raphtory, efficient software for all your network analysis needs [slides]
  • Jichun Wu* (Cam) – PIN: Less Is More for RDMA Load Balancing [slides]
  • Christopher Walker (Jisc) – Janet update [slides]

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Datacentres & Hardware (Session Chair: Peter Pietzuch)

  • Wenchen Han* (UCL) – DynamiQ: Accelerating Gradient Synchronization using Compressed Multi-hop All-reduce [slides]
  • Morteza Kheirkhah (GSMA) – Shaping the Future of Connectivity: GSMA’s 6G and AI Initiatives in Action [slides]
  • Smita Vijayakumar (Ox) – Congestion Prevention for Device-Initiated AI Networking
  • Filippo Carloni (Milan) – From Protocol Diversity to Hardware Offloading: Rethinking Packet Parsing Costs [slides]
  • Gregor Haywood (Abertay) – Is the Cloud *Actually* Better? [slides]

12:15 Lunch

Registration

Thanks to generous sponsorship, we can again offer subsidised ticket rates for attendees. We have two ticket types available — please read the below description carefully before registration. You can register here, and the deadline is 10th June 2026.

  • Full Registration with Accommodation (base package) [£100]: Includes both days of attendance, covering coffee breaks and lunches. For this ticket, you must select the correct additional accommodation option:
    • Thursday accommodation & banquet for staff: +£150
    • Thursday accommodation & banquet for students: +£25
    • Wednesday accommodation: +£120
  • Day Rate (excluding accommodation, excluding banquet) [£100]: Includes two days of attendance, covering coffee breaks and lunch. There is an option to purchase a separate banquet ticket.

If you would like to present, please fill out this form — deadline 24th May.