4 papers
Iran's January 2026 Internet Shutdown: Public Data, Censorship Methods, and Circumvention Techniques
Giuseppe Aceto, Valerio Persico, Antonio Pescapè
This paper analyzes the Internet shutdown that occurred in Iran in January 2026 in the context of protests, focusing on its impact on the country's digital communication infrastruc…
Lightweight GenAI for Network Traffic Synthesis: Fidelity, Augmentation, and Classification
Giampaolo Bovenzi, Domenico Ciuonzo, Jonatan Krolikowski +4
Accurate Network Traffic Classification (NTC) is increasingly constrained by limited labeled data and strict privacy requirements. While Network Traffic Generation (NTG) provides a…
From Prompts to Packets: A View from the Network on ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini
Antonio Montieri, Alfredo Nascita, Antonio Pescapè
GenAI chatbots are now pervasive in digital ecosystems, fundamentally reshaping user interactions over the Internet. Their reliance on an always-online, cloud-centric operating mod…
Mapping the Landscape of Generative AI in Network Monitoring and Management
Giampaolo Bovenzi, Francesco Cerasuolo, Domenico Ciuonzo +5
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models such as LLMs, GPTs, and Diffusion Models have recently gained widespread attention from both the research and the industrial commu…