Wissem Soussi

Work at ZHAW

Focus

Network Security and Autonomous Security Agents in Virtualized and Distributed Environments.

Projects

• Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services / Team member / ongoing
• Intelligent Security and PervasIve Trust for 5G and Beyond / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Soussi, W., Gür, G., & Stiller, B. (2025). Moving target defense (MTD) for 6G edge-to-cloud continuum : a cognitive perspective. IEEE Network, 39(1), 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1109/mnet.2024.3483302
• Soussi, W., Gür, G., & Stiller, B. (2024). Democratizing container live migration for enhanced future networks : a survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 57(4), 97. https://doi.org/10.1145/3704436
• Soussi, W., Christopoulou, M., Xilouris, G., & Gür, G. (2021). Moving target defense as a proactive defense element for beyond 5G. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 5(3), 72–79. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.211.2000087

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Meier Azhari, M., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2025, November 10). CubeMig : MTD live migration in Kubernetes with LLM-augmented post-incident analysis. 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN). https://doi.org/10.1109/nfv-sdn66355.2025.11349649
• Kolodziejczyk, R., Mamaril, A., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2025, September 26). Containers on the move : an experimental analysis of container migration in Kubernetes. ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. https://doi.org/10.1109/icc52391.2025.11161983
• Abdullah, Y., Alshawki, M. B., Ligeti, P., Soussi, W., & Stiller, B. (2025). Byzantine-resilient federated learning : evaluating MPC approaches [Conference paper]. 2025 IEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), 521–528. https://doi.org/10.1109/icdcsw63273.2025.00101
• Osswald, M., Schönenberger, T., Cantali, G., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2025). Anomaly detection in microservices architecture using graph neural networks [Conference paper]. 2025 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 560–567. https://doi.org/10.1109/pdp66500.2025.00085
• Birtane, S., Al-Naday, M., Paolucci, F., Bakar, R. A., Lefebvre, V., Passas, V., Kalafatidis, S., Lalas, A., Drosou, A., de Oca, E. M., Cavalli, A. R., Vörös, P., Alshawki, M., Stiller, B., Soussi, W., Cantali, G., & Gür, G. (2024). Footprint-optimized orchestration and management of secure complex services over 6G continuum [Conference paper]. 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 383–388. https://doi.org/10.1109/cscn63874.2024.10849715
• Mayone, N., Kunz, P., Yigit, B., Soussi, W., Stiller, B., & Gür, G. (2024). IPv6 connection shuffling for moving target defense (MTD) in SDN [Conference paper]. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 373–378. https://doi.org/10.1109/csr61664.2024.10679400
• Mamaril, A., Kolodziejczyk, R., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2024, June 24). Exploring live payload migrations for MTD in microservices architecture. 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring). https://doi.org/10.1109/vtc2024-spring62846.2024.10683429
• Kalinagac, O., Soussi, W., Anser, Y., Gaber, C., & Gür, G. (2023). Root cause and liability analysis in the microservices architecture for edge IoT services [Conference paper]. ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 3277–3283. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279721
• Soussi, W., Christopoulou, M., Gür, G., & Stiller, B. (2023). MERLINS : moving target defense enhanced with deep-RL for NFV in-depth security [Conference paper]. 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 65–71. https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329594
• Heeb, Z., Kalinagac, O., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2023). IoMiRCA : root cause analysis in IoT-extended 5G microservice environments [Conference poster]. SAC ’23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 106–108. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577840
• Soussi, W., Christopoulou, M., Anagnostopoulos, T., Gür, G., & Stiller, B. (2023, May). TopoFuzzer : a network topology fuzzer for moving target defense in the telco cloud. NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154367
• Soussi, W., Christopoulou, M., Xilouris, G., Oca, E. M. d., Lefebvre, V., Gür, G., & Stiller, B. (2023, May). Demo: closed-loop security orchestration in the telco cloud for moving target defense. NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154420
• Chollon, G., Ayed, D., Garriga, R. A., Zarca, A. M., Skarmeta, A., Christopoulou, M., Soussi, W., Gür, G., & Herzog, U. (2022). ETSI ZSM driven security management in future networks [Conference paper]. 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 334–339. https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00065
• Heeb, Z., Kalinagac, O., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2022). The impact of Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) on IoT security. Proceedings of the 2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet). https://doi.org/10.1109/6GNet54646.2022.9830354
• Kalinagac, O., Soussi, W., & Gür, G. (2022). Graph based liability analysis for the microservice architecture [Conference paper]. 2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 364–366. https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964681
• Christopoulou, M., Soussi, W., Xilouris, G., Gür, G., Montes de Oca, E., Koumaras, H., & Stiller, B. (2021, June). AI-enabled slice protection exploiting moving target defense in 6G networks. 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), Online, 8-11 June 2021. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22969

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