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

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Meier Azhari, M., Soussi, W. and Gür, G. (2025) 'CubeMig : MTD live migration in Kubernetes with LLM-augmented post-incident analysis', in 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/nfv-sdn66355.2025.11349649.
• Kolodziejczyk, R. et al. (2025) 'Containers on the move : an experimental analysis of container migration in Kubernetes', in ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icc52391.2025.11161983.
• Abdullah, Y. et al. (2025) 'Byzantine-resilient federated learning : evaluating MPC approaches', in 2025 IEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW). IEEE, pp. 521–528. doi: 10.1109/icdcsw63273.2025.00101.
• Osswald, M. et al. (2025) 'Anomaly detection in microservices architecture using graph neural networks', in 2025 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP). IEEE, pp. 560–567. doi: 10.1109/pdp66500.2025.00085.
• Birtane, S. et al. (2024) 'Footprint-optimized orchestration and management of secure complex services over 6G continuum', in 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN). IEEE, pp. 383–388. doi: 10.1109/cscn63874.2024.10849715.
• Mayone, N. et al. (2024) 'IPv6 connection shuffling for moving target defense (MTD) in SDN', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE, pp. 373–378. doi: 10.1109/csr61664.2024.10679400.
• Mamaril, A. et al. (2024) 'Exploring live payload migrations for MTD in microservices architecture', in 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/vtc2024-spring62846.2024.10683429.
• Soussi, W. et al. (2023) 'MERLINS : moving target defense enhanced with deep-RL for NFV in-depth security', in 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). IEEE, pp. 65–71. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329594.
• Kalinagac, O. et al. (2023) 'Root cause and liability analysis in the microservices architecture for edge IoT services', in ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. IEEE, pp. 3277–3283. doi: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279721.
• Heeb, Z. et al. (2023) 'IoMiRCA : root cause analysis in IoT-extended 5G microservice environments', in SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 106–108. doi: 10.1145/3555776.3577840.
• Soussi, W. et al. (2023) 'TopoFuzzer : a network topology fuzzer for moving target defense in the telco cloud', in NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154367.
• Soussi, W. et al. (2023) 'Demo: closed-loop security orchestration in the telco cloud for moving target defense', in NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154420.
• Chollon, G. et al. (2022) 'ETSI ZSM driven security management in future networks', in 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF). IEEE, pp. 334–339. doi: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00065.
• Kalinagac, O., Soussi, W. and Gür, G. (2022) 'Graph based liability analysis for the microservice architecture', in 2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, pp. 364–366. doi: 10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964681.
• Heeb, Z. et al. (2022) 'The impact of Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) on IoT security', in Proceedings of the 2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/6GNet54646.2022.9830354.
• Christopoulou, M. et al. (2021) 'AI-enabled slice protection exploiting moving target defense in 6G networks', in 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), online, 8-11 June 2021. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22969.

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