Xenofon Foukas

Xenofon Foukas

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research on intelligent edge computing and next generation mobile networks

Selected Publications

  • Towards Energy Efficient 5G vRAN Servers
    A. Kalia, N. Lazarev, L. Xue, X. Foukas, B. Radunovic, F. Y. Yan
    To appear in Proc. USENIX NSDI, April 2025

  • SpotLight: Accurate, Explainable and Efficient Anomaly Detection for Open RAN
    C. Sun, U. Pawar, M. Khoja, X. Foukas, M. K. Marina, B. Radunovic
    To appear in Proc. ACM MobiCom, Nov 2024

  • On the Criticality of Integrity Protection in 5G Fronthaul Networks
    J. Xing, S. Yoo, X. Foukas, D. Kim, M. K. Reiter
    In Proc. USENIX Security, Aug 2024
    [pdf]

  • Taking 5G RAN Analytics and Control to a New Level
    X. Foukas, B. Radunovic, M. Balkwill, Z. Lai
    In Proc. ACM MobiCom, Oct 2023
    Best Demonstration Runner-Up Award at ACM MobiCom 2023
    [DOI]pdf]

  • Enabling Resilience in Virtualized RANs with Atlas
    J. Xing, J. Gong, X. Foukas, A. Kalia, D. Kim, M. Kotaru
    In Proc. ACM MobiCom, Oct 2023
    [DOI]pdf]

  • Concordia: Teaching the 5G vRAN to Share Compute
    X. Foukas, B. Radunovic
    In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Aug 2021
    [DOI][pdf]

  • Energy-Efficient Orchestration of Metro-Scale 5G Radio Access Networks
    R. Singh, C. Hasan, X. Foukas, M. Fiore, M. K. Marina, Y. Wang
    In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2021
    [DOI][pdf]

  • Characterization and Identification of Cloudified Mobile Network Performance Bottlenecks
    G. Patounas, X. Foukas, A. Elmokashfi, M. K. Marina
    In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Aug 2020.
    [DOI][pdf][arxiv]

  • Iris: Deep Reinforcement Learning Driven Shared Spectrum Access Architecture for Indoor Neutral-Host Small Cells
    X. Foukas, M. K. Marina and K. Kontovasilis
    In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Special Issue on Network Softwarization & Enablers, Vol. 37, No. 8, Aug 2019.
    [DOI][arxiv]

  • Experience Building a Prototype 5G Testbed
    X. Foukas, F. Sardis, F. Foster, M. K. Marina, M. A. Lema and M. Dohler
    In Proc. ACM CoNEXT 2018 Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G (EM-5G’18), Dec 2018.
    [DOI][pdf]

  • Orion: RAN Slicing for a Flexible and Cost-Effective Multi-Service Mobile Network Architecture
    X. Foukas, M. K. Marina and K. Kontovasilis
    In Proc. ACM MobiCom, Oct 2017.
    Best Demonstration Award at ACM MobiCom 2017
    Finalist at Lime Micro Hackathon
    Also demonstrated at IEEE 5G Summit (July 2017) and at Cambridge Wireless Virtual Networks Group Event “The Time is Ripe for Innovations” (Nov 2017).
    [DOI][pdf]

  • Network Slicing in 5G: Survey and Challenges
    X. Foukas, G. Patounas, A. Elmokashfi and M. K. Marina
    In IEEE Communications Special Issue on Network Slicing in 5G Systems, May 2017.
    [DOI][pdf]

  • FlexRAN: A Flexible and Programmable Platform for Software-Defined Radio Access Networks
    X. Foukas, N. Nikaein, M. M. Kassem, M. K. Marina and K. Kontovasilis
    In Proc. ACM CoNEXT, Dec 2016.
    The FlexRAN platform has also been demonstrated at ACM MobiCom 2017, All Things Cellular (Oct 2016) and IEEE 5G Summit (Nov 2016).
    More information about the project can be found in the project’s website.
    [DOI][pdf]