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Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +1
The Fediverse, a group of interconnected servers providing a variety of interoperable services (e.g. micro-blogging in Mastodon) has gained rapid popularity. This sudden growth, pa…
Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse
Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry +3
The recent development of decentralised and interoperable social networks (such as the "fediverse") creates new challenges for content moderators. This is because millions of posts…
Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators
Aravindh Raman, Matteo Varvello, Hyunseok Chang +2
The rapid growth of satellite network operators (SNOs) has revolutionized broadband communications, enabling global connectivity and bridging the digital divide. As these networks…
T3P: Demystifying Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Broadband
Shubham Tiwari, Saksham Bhushan, Aryan Taneja +8
The Internet is going through a massive infrastructural revolution with the advent of low-flying satellite networks, 5/6G, WiFi7, and hollow-core fiber deployments. While these net…
Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
Haris Bin Zia, Jiahui He, Aravindh Raman +3
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk's view…
Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse
Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +3
As an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social networks, the Fediverse is growing in popularity. The recent, and polemical, takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk has exacerba…
Scheduling Inference Workloads on Distributed Edge Clusters with Reinforcement Learning
Gabriele Castellano, Juan-José Nieto, Jordi Luque +6
Many real-time applications (e.g., Augmented/Virtual Reality, cognitive assistance) rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to process inference tasks. Edge computing is considered a k…
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web
Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson +5
Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites often…
DSM-MoC as Baseline: Reliability Assurance via Redundant Cellular Connectivity in Connected Cars
Emeka Obiodu, Aravindh Raman, Abdullahi Abubakar +3
Connected Cars (CCs) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases require stringent reliability for safety and non-safety uses. With increasing network softwarisation, it has become e…
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh. Raman, Ignacio Castro +4
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses technologies aimed at providing greater transparency and openness on the web. The DW relies on independent se…
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro +4
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls).…
Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp
Pushkal Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Damilola Ibosiola +3
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around the globe. Due to this popularity, understanding misbehavior on WhatsApp is an important issue. The sending…
360NorVic: 360-Degree Video Classification from Mobile Encrypted Video Traffic
Chamara Kattadige, Aravindh Raman, Kanchana Thilakarathna +2
Streaming 360° video demands high bandwidth and low latency, and poses significant challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). The identifi…
The Making of 5G: Building an End-to-End 5G-Enabled System
Idelkys Quintana-Ramirez, Anthony Tsiopoulos, Maria A Lema +6
This article documents one of the world's first standards-compliant pre-commercial end-to-end 5th generation (5G) systems. Focus is on a standardized 5G architecture which includes…
Dissecting the Workload of a Major Adult Video Portal
Andreas Grammenos, Aravindh Raman, Timm Böttger +2
Adult content constitutes a major source of Internet traffic. As with many other platforms, these sites are incentivized to engage users and maintain them on the site. This engagem…
Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
Aravindh Raman, Sagar Joglekar, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of DW platforms like Mastodon, Peer-Tube, and Hubzilla gaining increasing traction. These offer alter…
Facebook (A)Live? Are live social broadcasts really broadcasts?
Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry
The era of live-broadcast is back but with two major changes. First, unlike traditional TV broadcasts, content is now streamed over the Internet enabling it to reach a wider audien…