Several contributions explored how AI can support reliable and secure network operations. The presented work addressed verifiable utility intent, the detection of intent injection attacks in Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN), and the prevention of data hallucinations in AI-assisted optical network troubleshooting.
The contributions in this area were:
- PICKLE: Patchable Merkle Multiproofs for Verifiable Utility Intent — paper by Kim Seonghyun.
- Provenance-Based Detection and Auditing Against Intent Injection Attacks in O-RAN — paper by Kim Seonghyun.
- Preventing Data Hallucinations in Agentic AI for Optical Network Troubleshooting — demo by Jeremias Dötterl (Adtran GmbH) and Martin Kuipers (Adtran Networks SE)
- Agentic AI for IPoDWDM Network Lifecycle Automation: An MCP-Enabled Architecture — paper by Chunmin Xia, Jakub Harbaczewski, Nikhil Dsilva, Julie Raulin, Dominic Schneider, and Achim Autenrieth.
- MCP-Enabled Agentic AI for Autonomous IPoDWDM Network Lifecycle Automation — demo by Chunmin Xia, Jakub Harbaczewski, Nikhil Dsilva, Julie Raulin, Dominic Schneider, and Achim Autenrieth.
Other contributions focused on optical network architectures, advanced sensing technologies, and high-capacity transmission.
The contributions included:
- Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning Between Coherent Telemetry and Distributed Brillouin Sensing for Fiber Perturbation Analysis — poster by Fehmida Usmani, Jan Bukovsky, Petr Dejdar, Wadood Ur Rehman Ranjha, Petr Munster, Tomas Horvath, Adrian Tomasov, and Marija Furdek.
- Comparative Demonstration of Coherent-Pluggable Control Architectures for Disaggregated IPoWDM Networks — demo by Hussein Zaid, Angela Mitrovska, Julie Raulin, Chunmin Xia, Behnam Shariati, Aydin Jafari, Stefan Kremling, Fabian Lipp, David Hock, Achim Autenrieth, Stefan Melin, Anders Lindgren, Johannes Karl Fischer, and Ronald Freund
- Monolithically Integrated Quad-Line Comb Generation in Thin-Film LiNbO₃ Enabling 3.2 Tb/s Superchannel Transmission — top-scored paper and talk by Fabian Chowanek, Robert Emmerich, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Colja Schubert, Hanwei Chen, Takeshi Hoshida, and Ronald Freund.
- Anything over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing with Programmable Data Planes and Software Defined Networking — paper by Cristian Bermudez Serna, Philip Diederich, and Carmen Mas-Machuca.
- Evaluating Hyperconnected Optical Core Networks Under Future Traffic Requirements — paper by Mirko Zitkovich, Christofer Vásquez, Anjali Sharma, and Carmen Mas-Machuca.
The research covered fibre perturbation analysis, disaggregated optical networking, programmable network control, future core-network traffic requirements, and techniques for increasing optical transmission capacity.
