Practical Networking and Blockchain Lab covers various aspects of Networking and Blockchain from the view points of theory and practice. We put more emphasis on implementing a base idea as a running system, benchmarking it, exploring the fundamental research problem, and developing its solution. We also interact with people inside and outside the institute to collaborate through the R&D, deployment, business of Networking and Blockchain technologies in the real society.

This lab was originally launched as “Practical Networking Lab” in 2015. In 2019, “Chainers Lab” was launched to work on Blockchain having Chaintope Inc. as a founding sponsor. In 2020, these two labs were integrated to Practical Networking and Blockchain Lab.

Journals

• Anish Hirwe, Ibrahim Dalal and Kotaro Kataoka, "Predicting Dynamic Network State of SFC Operation with Uncertainties", IEEE Communications Letters (Early Access), 2020.
• Kalpana D. Joshi and Kotaro Kataoka, ”pSMART: A lightweight, privacy-aware service function chain orchestration in multi-domain NFV/SDN”, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 178, 2020.
• P. Shrivastava, M. S. Jamal, and K. Kataoka, ”EvilScout: Detection and Mitigation of Evil Twin Attack in SDN Enabled WiFi”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 89-102, 2020.
• Anish HIRWE and Kotaro KATAOKA, ”FDN: Function Delivery Network - Optimizing service chain deployment in NFV”, IEICE Transactions on Communications, 2020.
• Maria Francis and Ambedkar Dukkipati, "On ideal lattices, Gröbner bases and generalized hash functions", Journal of Algebra and Its Applications, World Scientific, Vol.17, No.06,pp.1850112, 2018.
• Kotaro Kataoka, Keisuke Uehara, Masafumi Oe, Jun Murai, ”Design and Deployment of Post- Disaster Recovery Internet in 2011 Tohoku Earthquake”, Special Section: Future Internet Technologies against Present Crises, IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, Vol.E95-B, No.7, pp.2200-2209, 2012.

International Conferences

• Kuo-Feng Hsu, Ryan Beckett, Ang Chen, Jennifer Rexford, Praveen Tammana and David Walker, "Contra: A Programmable System for Performance-aware Routing", In Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2020.
• Suriya Kodeswaran, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Praveen Tammana and Jennifer Rexford, "Tracking P4 Program Execution in the Data Plane", In Proceedings of Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), pp.117-122, 2020.
• Kuo-Feng Hsu, Praveen Tammana, Ryan Beckett, Ang Chen and Jennifer Rexford and David Walker, "Adaptive Weighted Traffic Splitting in Programmable Data Planes", In Proceedings of Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), pp.103-109,2020.
• Bhavesh Toshniwal, Prasshanth Podili, Ravula Jayasimha Reddy, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”PACEX: PAtient-Centric EMR eXchange in Healthcare Systems Using Blockchain”, 2019 IEEE 10th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), pp.0954-0960, 2019.
• Yuka Kataoka, Achmad Husni Thamrin, Jun Murai, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Employing Automatic Speech Recognition for Quantitative Oral Corrective Feedback in Japanese Second or Foreign Language Education”, In Proceedings of the 2019 11th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers, pp.52-58, 2019.
• Siva Sairam Prasad Kodali, Prashanth Podili, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Tagging based Packet Loss Detection and Recovery of IP Multicast in SDN”, In Proceedings of ACM Asian Internet ENgineering Conference (AINTEC 2019), pp.17-24, 2019.
• Kalpana D. Joshi and Kotaro Kataoka, ”PRIME-Q: Privacy Aware End-to-End QoS Framework in Multi-Domain SDN”, IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019), pp.169-177, 2019.
• Anish Hirwe, Mrinal Aich, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Dynamic Network Function (DNF): Service Chain Placement and Bottleneck Removal for Edge-Fog-Cloud Interplay”, In Proceedings of ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC 2018), pp.46-53, 2018.
• Kotaro Kataoka, Saurabh Gangwar, Karthik Yadav Mudda, and Souraj Mandal, ”A Smartphone-based Probe Data Platform for Road Management and Safety in Developing Countries”, Workshop on Data-Driven Intelligent Transportation (DIT2018) in IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, pp.612-615, 2018.
• Thammineni Prathyusha, Vipul Jindal, Saurabh Gangwar, Anand Konjengbam, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”SPACE: An Empirical Approach towards a User-Centric Smart Campus”, IARIA UBICOMM2018, pp.35-41, 2018.
• Mohd Saalim Jamal, Venkata Keerthy S, Hideya Ochiai, Hiroshi Esaki, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”INSTRUCT: A Clustering Based Identification of Valid Communications in IoT Networks”, The First International Conference on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST 2018), pp.228-233, 2018.
• Mohd Saalim Jamal, Anish Hirwe, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”VIBHAJAN: A Lightweight and Scalable Control Plane Management for Multi-Controller SDN”, 2018 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2018.
• Yuka Shori, Achmad Husni Thamrin, Jun Murai, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Effective Use of Learning Management System for Large-scale Japanese Language Education”, 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC), pp.49-56,2018.
• Pragati Shrivastava and Kotaro Kataoka, ”LEGION: Lightweight & Distributed Mobility Management for MSDN based Large-scale WiFi”, IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018), pp.232-236, 2018.
• Prashanth Podili and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Effective Resource Provisioning for QoS-aware Virtual Networks in SDN”, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), pp.1-9, 2018.
• Kotaro Kataoka, Saurabh Gangwar and Prashanth Podili, ”Trust List: Internet-wide and Distributed IoT Traffic Management Using Blockchain and SDN”, IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2018), pp.296-301, 2018.
• Aditya V Kamath, Sudarshan S, Kotaro Kataoka, Nishant Vijayvergiya, G. Bhargav Reddy and Samrat Phatale, ”SAFE: Software-defined Authentication FramEwork”, In Proceedings of ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2016 (AINTEC 2016), pp.57-63, 2016.
• Om Prakash Nirankari, Prakash Pawar and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Optimizing Service Chain ID Generation for Flow Rule Compression”, 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), pp.226-232, 2016.
• Kalpana Joshi and Kotaro Kataoka, ”SFO: SubFlow Optimizer for MPTCP in SDN”, 26th IEEE International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), pp.173-178, 2016. (Best Student Paper Award)
• Pragati Shrivastava and Kotaro Kataoka, ”FastSplit: Fast and Dynamic IP Mobility Management in SDN”, 26th IEEE International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), pp.166-172, 2016.
• Anish Hirwe and Kotaro Kataoka, ”LightChain: A Lightweight Optimization of VNF Placement for Service Chaining in NFV”, In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2016), pp.33-37, 2016.
• Kotaro Kataoka, Uttam Dhabas, Om Prakash Nirankari and Naman Grover, ”Orchestrating Distributed Mode of NFV”, In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2016), pp.28-32, 2016.
• Prakash Pawar and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Segmented Proactive Flow Rule Injection for Service Chaining Using SDN”, In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2016), pp.38-42, 2016.
• Deepak Bhardwaji, Kotaro Kataoka, V. Amith Vikram and Vishal Hirani, ”Hybrid Approach to Distributed Wi-Fi Performance Assessment for Multi-floor Structures”, In Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications (SKIMA 2015), pp.135-142, 2015.
• Rohit Katiyar, Prakash Pawar, Abhay Gupta and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Auto-Configuration of SDN Switches in SDN/Non-SDN Hybrid Network”, In Proceedings of ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2015 (AINTEC 2015), pp.48-53, 2015.
• Vaibhav Garg, Kotaro Kataoka and Siva Subramanya Rohith Talluri, ”Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad-hoc Network for Post-Disaster Recovery using Linux Live USB Nodes”, The IEEE WiMob 2015 Workshop on Emergency Networks for Public Protection and Disaster Relief, pp.125- 131, 2015.
• Vaibhav Garg, Kotaro Kataoka and Sahil Sachdeva, ”A Self-contained Software Suite for Post- Disaster ICT Environment Using Linux Live USB”, IARIA The Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS), pp.17-23, 2015.
• Naman Grover, Nitin Agarwal and Kotaro Kataoka, ”liteFlow: Lightweight and distributed flow monitoring platform for SDN”, In Proceedings of 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), pp.1-9, 2015.
• Deepak Bhardwaj, Kotaro Kataoka and Vikash Kumar, ”Wi-Pi: Distributed Wi-Fi Performance Assessment Using Raspberry Pi”, In Proceedings of ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2014 (AINTEC ’14), pp.31-36, 2014. (Finalist for Best Paper Award)
• Kotaro Kataoka, Nitin Agarwal and Aditya V Kamath, ”Scaling a Broadcast Domain of Ethernet: Extensible Transparent Filter using SDN”, In proceedings of IEEE 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), pp.457-464, 2014.
• D. Jalihal, R. D. Koilpillai, P. Khawas, S. Sampoornam, Sree Hari Nagarajan, S. Kalpalatha, R. Bhavani Keiji Takeda and Kotaro Kataoka, ”A Stand-alone Quickly-Deployable Communication System for Effective Post-Disaster Management”, In proceedings of IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014 (R10 HTC), pp.53-58, 2014.
• Shaik A. Ahammed, Karthik Badam, Guddanti V. Bhaskar, Sumit Chhuttani, Anuj Gangwar, Vaibhav Garg, Lokesh Gupta, Anubhav K. Jain, Rohit Jindal, Neeraj Kumar, Kiran K. Manku, Vijay K. Midde, Malempati Nagarjuna, Rahul Patil, Saurabh Singh, Nallapu Sneha, Praveen B. Srini- vas, Mudit Tanwani, Sameer Wasnik, Ravindra Guravannavar, Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, Kotaro Kataoka, M V Panduranga Rao and Naveen Sivadasan, ”Acquisition, Storage, Retrieval and Dissemination of Disaster Related Data”, In proceedings of IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014 (R10 HTC), pp.121-126, 2014.
• D. Jalihal, R. D. Koilpillai, P. Khawas, S. Sampoornam, S. H. Nagarajan, K. Takeda, K. Kataoka, ”A Rapidly Deployable Disaster Communications System for Developing Countries”, IEEE ICC2012 Workshop on Rethink ICT infrastructure designs and operations (RIDO), pp.7907-7911, 2012.

Posters

• Bhavesh Toshniwal, Kalpana D. Joshi, Pragati Shrivastava, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”BEhavior-based Access Control Mechanism for SDN Applications”, In Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2019), 2019.
• Siva Sairam Prasad Kodali and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Lightweight Packet Loss Detection and Multicast Delivery Tree Recovery in SDN”, Internet Conference 2018, 2018.
• Prashanth Podili, Kotaro Kataoka, ”Trust Management in Multi-Domain SDN Networks Using Blockchain”, Internet Conference 2018, 2018.
• Pragati Shrivastava, Annanay Agarwal, and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Poster: Detection of Topology Poisoning by Silent Relay Attacker in SDN”, In Proceedings of The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), pp.792-794, 2018.
• Nishant Vijayvergiya, Rohit Katiyar and Kotaro Kataoka, ”SDN Approach for Detection of Caching Attacks in ICN”, ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2016 (AINTEC 16), 2016.
• K. Kataoka, V. N. Jindal, V. Mulimani, C. V. S. Shashank, P. Shrivastava, K. Anand, A. Pateria, K. Singh, T. Prathyusha, S. Gangwar, ”Exploring IoT System Architecture for Smart Platform”, 2nd International Conference on Digital Fabrication, 2016.
• Rishu Agrawal, Aradhya Biswas and Kotaro Kataoka, ”Antaryami: Managing Device-wise High- level Activity in Enterprise Network”, ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2014 (AINTEC 2014), 2014.
• Anubhav Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Garg, Karthik Badam and Kotaro Kataoka, ”A Smartphone Application for Victim Information Gathering and Exchange in Post-Disaster Situation”, ACM Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2012 (AINTEC 2012), 2012.