| 2026 | INFOCOM | Priority-Weighted SLA Isolation for 5G Network Slicing. | Yutaro Hoashi, Shota Ono, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2026 | INFOCOM | PIC-FL:Privacy-Preserving Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabled Curriculum Federated Learning for Digital Twin Beam Selection. | Shota Ono, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2026 | Networking | Two-way Application-Radio Cross-Layer FEC and HARQ Control for Deadline-Aware Frame Recovery. | Masayuki Kurata, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2026 | WCNC | Beyond Link-Level Enhancements: System-Level Optimizations in AI-Native 6G RANs. | Marius Corici, Fabian Eichhorn, Thomas Magedanz, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2026 | WCNC | Mitigating 6G Control-Plane Congestion via Group-Based Session Management Approach. | Tetsu Joh, Takahiko Kato, Shota Ono, Chikara Sasaki, Atsushi Tagami, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | GLOBECOM | "Come Back Later": LLM-assisted Mitigation of 5G Core AMF Signaling Storms with Dynamic Retry Timer in SCTP. | Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | GLOBECOM | Multithreading-Based AMF Optimization for Pre-Slice Congestion Control in 5G Core Networks. | Izzy Nha, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | GLOBECOM | Intelligent Cross-Layer Congestion Control for Dynamic mmWave Networks with High Throughput and Fairness. | Qianqian Pan, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | VTC | Robust and Low-Latency Communication Through Machine-Learning Based Multi-Carrier Connection Management. | Hikaru Shimoyama, Kengo Sasaki, Shota Ono, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | WCNC | Verification of Modified eNodeB Protocol for Direct-to-Cell Communication Using Real LEO Satellite and Laboratory Testbed. | Deepak Gautam, Takamasa Nagashima, Bingxuan Zhao, Masatomo Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Kuchitsu, Masanori Meguro, Yuzuru Matsui, Hyungmin Ha, Ryoji Osaka, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | WCNC | Location-Based Network Slicing System for User-Designed Network Areas. | Kenji Kanai, Keita Kaida, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2025 | WCNC | Energy-Efficient LDPC Acceleration in Open Radio Access Networks Using DRL and QRF. | Aerman Tuerxun, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2024 | GLOBECOM | Dynamic Control of Target BLER by nearRT-RIC for Enhanced TCP Throughput for 6G. | Koki Horita, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2024 | GLOBECOM | Enabling LEO Satellite Mobile Direct NB-IoT Communication With Existing Unmodified UEs. | Akihiro Nakao |
| 2024 | GLOBECOM | U-Plane-based Two-level Anomaly Detection Scheme for Large Scale 5G-IIoT: An Open-source approach for Aether Onramp. | Yuxuan Shi, Qianqian Pan, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2024 | ICCCN | Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Computational Load in MECs Using Distributed Machine Learning: A Tokyo Case Study. | Phil Aupke, Akihiro Nakao, Andreas Kassler |
| 2024 | NetSoft | Comparative Analysis of Processing Latency and CPU Efficiency in FPGA-Based FEC Acceleration. | Aerman Tuerxun, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2024 | NOMS | Real-Time Application Identification Method for Mobile Networks Using Machine Learning. | Tatsuhiro Ou, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2024 | VTC | Multi-Carrier MVNO Architecture for Mission-Critical Services. | Kengo Sasaki, Yuma Taguchi, Masaki Takanashi, Katsushi Sanda, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2023 | COMPSAC | Secure Feedback to Edge Servers in Distributed Machine Learning Using Rich Clients. | Saki Takano, Akihiro Nakao, Saneyasu Yamaguchi, Masato Oguchi |
| 2023 | GLOBECOM | Improving QoS of 5G Video Streaming Through Network Exposure Function. | Koki Horita, Norihiro Fukumoto, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2022 | LANMAN | Service Mesh Controller for Cooperative Load Balancing among Neighboring Edge Servers. | Toru Furusawa, Hiroshi Abe, Kazuya Okada, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | GLOBECOM | Multi-hop Graph Embedding for Botnet Detection. | Bo Hu, Kazunori Kamiya, Kenji Takahashi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | GLOBECOM | SamE: Sampling-based Embedding for Learning Representations of the Internet. | Bo Hu, Kazunori Kamiya, Kenji Takahashi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | GLOBECOM | Bandwidth Allocation with Slice Quality Fairness in Network Slicing under Variable Link Capacity. | Takamitsu Iwai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | GLOBECOM | DCM: Delay as Component Model based on Hidden Striping Structure in Mobile Networks. | Anan Sawabe, Shinya Yasuda, Yusuke Shinohara, Takanori Iwai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | INFOCOM | Measurement Analysis of Co-occurrence Degree of Web Objects. | Noriaki Kamiyama, Kouki Sakurai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | NetSoft | Design and Manufacture of Narrow-Band BPF for Local 5G Network Slicing. | Aerman Tuerxun, Ping Du, Junji Yumoto, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2021 | NOSSDAV | Data diet pills: in-network video quality control system for traffic usage reduction. | Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2020 | COMPSAC | Intelligent Application Switch and Key-Value Store Accelerated by Dynamic Caching. | Tomoaki Kanaya, Akihiro Nakao, Shu Yamamoto, Masato Oguchi, Saneyasu Yamaguchi |
| 2020 | GLOBECOM | Automatic Check-In Service at Businesses Enabled with Private Mobile Networks. | Ping Du, Aerman Tuerxun, Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2020 | GLOBECOM | Piper: A Unified Machine Learning Pipeline for Internet-scale Traffic Analysis. | Bo Hu, Kazunori Kamiya, Kenji Takahashi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2020 | GLOBECOM | Progressive Slicing for Application Identification in Application-Specific Network Slicing. | Takamitsu Iwai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2020 | NOMS | Layer-Integrated Edge Distributed Data Store for Real-time and Stateful Services. | Koichiro Amemiya, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2020 | NOMS | Edge Concierge: Democratizing Cost-Effective and Flexible Network Operations using Network Layer AI at Private Network Edges. | Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai, Kozo Satoda, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2019 | APNOMS | Understanding Intelligent RAN Slicing for Future Mobile Networks Through Field Test. | Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2019 | APNOMS | Evaluation of the Zero Rating System for MVNO in the New Mobile Network Era. | Ming Yang, Ping Du, Noriaki Kamiyama, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2019 | CNSM | Analyzing Dynamics of MVNO Market Using Evolutionary Game. | Noriaki Kamiyama, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2019 | COMPSAC | Alchemy: Stochastic Feature Regeneration for Malicious Network Traffic Classification. | Bo Hu, Atsutoshi Kumagai, Kazunori Kamiya, Kenji Takahashi, Daniel Dalek, Ola Sderstrm, Kazuya Okada, Yuji Sekiya, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2019 | GLOBECOM | Edge eXchange: eNB with Wireless Backhaul Communication among Carriers. | Kengo Sasaki, Satoshi Makido, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2018 | COMPSAC | Clustering TLS Sessions Based on Protocol Fields Analysis. | Hiroaki Yamauchi, Akihiro Nakao, Masato Oguchi, Shu Yamamoto, Saneyasu Yamaguchi |
| 2018 | NOMS | Two-stage anomaly detection using application specific heavy hitter analysis. | Beibei Yang, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2017 | CNSM | SDN enhancements for the sliced, deep programmable 5G core. | Fabian Eichhorn, Marius Iulian Corici, Thomas Magedanz, Ping Du, Yoshiaki Kiriha, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2017 | DASC | Real-Time Event Search Corresponding to Place and Time Using Social Stream. | Ruriko Kudo, Miki Enoki, Akihiro Nakao, Shu Yamamoto, Saneyasu Yamaguchi, Masato Oguchi |
| 2017 | GLOBECOM | Towards E2E Slicing in 5G: A Spectrum Slicing Testbed and Its Extension to the Packet Core. | Anteneh A. Gebremariam, Muhammad Usman, Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao, Fabrizio Granelli |
| 2017 | IM | Application switch using DPN for improving TCP based data center applications. | Shinnosuke Nirasawa, Akihiro Nakao, Shu Yamamoto, Masaki Hara, Masato Oguchi, Saneyasu Yamaguchi |
| 2017 | VDA | Inferring Partial Orders of Nodes for Hierarchical Network Layout. | Hsiang-Yun Wu, Shigeo Takahashi, Hiroko Nakamura Miyamura, Satoshi Ohzahata, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2016 | APCC | OpenFlow transparent custom action extension by using Packet-In and click packet processing. | Shogo Ando, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2016 | APNOMS | Adaptive mobile application identification through in-network machine learning. | Takamitsu Iwai, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2016 | APNOMS | Application performance improvement with application aware DPN switches. | Shinnosuke Nirasawa, Masaki Hara, Saneyasu Yamaguchi, Masato Oguchi, Akihiro Nakao, Shu Yamamoto |
| 2016 | APNOMS | Packet cache network function for peer-to-peer traffic management with Bloom-filter based flow classification. | Kengo Sasaki, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2016 | HPSR | SDN path control experiment based on social information by network virtualization node on JGN-X. | Tsumugi Tairaku, Haruka Yanagida, Chihiro Maru, Akihiro Nakao, Shu Yamamoto, Saneyasu Yamaguchi, Masato Oguchi |
| 2016 | HPSR | SNS information-based network control system developed on FLARE experiment environment. | Haruka Yanagida, Akihiro Nakao, Shu Yamamoto, Saneyasu Yamaguchi, Masato Oguchi |
| 2016 | LANMAN | OpenFlow transparent custom action extension by using Packet-In and click packet processing. | Shogo Ando, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2016 | Mobiquitous | Network Application Performance Improvement with Deeply Programmable Switch. | Shinnosuke Nirasawa, Masaki Hara, Akihiro Nakao, Masato Oguchi, Shu Yamamoto, Saneyasu Yamaguchi |
| 2015 | APCC | VNode infrastucture enhancement - Deeply programmable network virtualization. | Kazuhisa Yamada, Yasusi Kanada, Koichiro Amemiya, Akihiro Nakao, Yoshinori Saida |
| 2015 | COMSNETS | A study of user-assisted content distribution performance in named data networking. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2015 | COMSNETS | A study of user incentive mechanism in named data networking. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2015 | GLOBECOM | Content Piece Rarity Aware In-Network Caching for BitTorrent. | Daishi Kondo, HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2015 | IM | Federating heterogeneous network virtualization platforms by slice exchange point. | Toshiaki Tarui, Yasusi Kanada, Michiaki Hayashi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2014 | APNOMS | Enhancing OpenFlow actions to offload packet-in processing. | Hamid Farhadi, Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2014 | COMPSAC | Toy Block Networking: Easily Deploying Diverse Network Functions in Programmable Networks. | Masaki Fukushima, Yoshiaki Yoshida, Atsushi Tagami, Shu Yamamoto, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2014 | IC2E | Rethinking Flow Classification in SDN. | Hamid Farhadi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2014 | ICNP | Data Plane Programmability in SDN. | Hamid Farhadi, HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2014 | NOMS | hdFilter: Toward faster Bloom filter-based packet forwarding. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2013 | APNOMS | Application layer flow classification in SDN. | Hamid Farhadi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2013 | APNOMS | Hierarchical resource management system on network virtualization platform for reduction of virtual network embedding calculation. | Yohei Katayama, Kazuhisa Yamada, Katsuhiro Shimano, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2013 | COMPSAC | A Practical Study on Distributed Resolution Service for ICN. | Yuncheng Zhu, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2013 | IM | ISP-driven practical P2P traffic control technique. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2013 | LCN | Approaches for practical BitTorrent traffic control. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2013 | LCN | Topology-aware PEX for improving BitTorrent. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | AINA | Upload Cache in Edge Networks. | Yuncheng Zhu, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | COMSNETS | Applications of wide-area network slicing for improving cloud platform access by OpenTag. | Ryoji Furuhashi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | COMSNETS | Network-resource isolation for virtualization nodes. | Yasusi Kanada, Kei Shiraishi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | ISCC | Network-resource isolation for virtualization nodes. | Yasusi Kanada, Kei Shiraishi, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | LCN | A study of P2P traffic localization by network delay insertion. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | Networking | Efficient User-Assisted Content Distribution over Information-Centric Network. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2012 | NOMS | On feasibility of P2P traffic control through network performance manipulation. | HyunYong Lee, Masahiro Yoshida, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | CNSM | Peer-assisted network operator-friendly P2P traffic control technique. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | CoNEXT | Mesh slicing: improving robustness of a mesh network via multiple slices. | Yilong Deng, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | CoNEXT | A viable upload acceleration service for mobile devices. | Yan Pu, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | ICCCN | Multi-Swarm Collaboration for Improving Content Availability in Swarming Systems. | HyunYong Lee, Masahiro Yoshida, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | ISADS | Assurance Diversity Network Platform for NWGN - From New-Generation Network Vision to Multiple Customized Networks. | Toshiaki Suzuki, Nozomu Nishinaga, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | ISADS | Overview of Modeling and Analysis of Incentive Mechanisms Based on Evolutionary Game Theory in Autonomous Networks. | Yufeng Wang, Akihiro Nakao, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Jianhua Ma |
| 2011 | ISADS | A Resource-Efficient Method for Crawling Swarm Information in Multiple BitTorrent Networks. | Masahiro Yoshida, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | LCN | A performance study of network operator-friendly P2P traffic control technique. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2011 | TridentCom | OFIAS: A Platform for Exploring In-Network Processing. | Ping Du, Maoke Chen, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2010 | AINA | Controlling File Distribution in the Share Network Through Content Poisoning. | Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Ohzahata, Akihiro Nakao, Konosuke Kawashima |
| 2010 | ICCCN | Mantlet Trilogy: DDoS Defense Deployable with Innovative Anti-Spoofing, Attack Detection and Mitigation. | Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2010 | NOMS | DDoS defense as a network service. | Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2010 | NOMS | Traffic control through bilateral cooperation between network operators and peers in P2P networks. | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao, JongWon Kim |
| 2010 | NSDI | vDC: Virtual Data Center Powered with AS Alliance for Enabling Cost-Effective Business Continuity and Coverage. | Yuichiro Hei, Akihiro Nakao, Tomohiko Ogishi, Toru Hasegawa, Shu Yamamoto |
| 2010 | UIC | A Simple Public-Goods Game Based Incentive Mechanism for Resource Provision in P2P Networks. | Yufeng Wang, Akihiro Nakao, Jianhua Ma |
| 2010 | USENIX | Wide-Area Route Control for Distributed Services. | Vytautas Valancius, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2010 | TridentCom | Feather-Weight Network Namespace Isolation Based on User-Specific Addressing and Routing in Commodity OS. | Maoke Chen, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2010 | TridentCom | Port-Space Isolation for Multiplexing a Single IP Address Through Open vSwitch. | Ping Du, Maoke Chen, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2009 | CIS | Classifying Computer Session Data Using Self-Organizing Maps. | Veronica C. Estrada, Akihiro Nakao, Enrique Carlos Segura |
| 2009 | CoNEXT | What can P2P do for traffic control in P2P networks? | HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao, JongWon Kim |
| 2009 | GLOBECOM | A Method of Constructing QoS Overlay Network and Its Evaluation. | Ryoichi Kawahara, Satoshi Kamei, Noriaki Kamiyama, Haruhisa Hasegawa, Hideaki Yoshino, Eng Keong Lua, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2009 | SIGCOMM | Mobitopolo: a portable infrastructure to facilitate flexible deployment and migration of distributed applications with virtual topologies. | Richard Potter, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2009 | UIC | SDEC: A P2P Semantic Distance Embedding Based on Virtual Coordinate System. | Yufeng Wang, Akihiro Nakao, Jianhua Ma |
| 2008 | APSCC | On Novel Economic-Inspired Centrality Measures in Weighted Networks. | Yufeng Wang, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2008 | CoNEXT | AS alliance: cooperatively improving resilience of intra-alliance communication. | Yuichiro Hei, Akihiro Nakao, Toru Hasegawa, Tomohiko Ogishi, Shu Yamamoto |
| 2008 | CoNEXT | Path brokering for end-host path selection: toward a path-centric billing method for a multipath internet. | John Russell Lane, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2008 | CoNEXT | CoreLab: an emerging network testbed employing hosted virtual machine monitor. | Akihiro Nakao, Ryota Ozaki, Yuji Nishida |
| 2008 | GLOBECOM | AI-RON-E: Prophecy of One-Hop Source Routers. | Soon Hin Khor, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2008 | GLOBECOM | Best-Effort Network Layer Packet Reordering in Support of Multipath Overlay Packet Dispersion. | John Russell Lane, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2007 | SIGCOMM | Power to the people: securing the internet one edge at a time. | Soon Hin Khor, Nicolas Christin, Tina Wong, Akihiro Nakao |
| 2003 | SIGCOMM | A routing underlay for overlay networks. | Akihiro Nakao, Larry L. Peterson, Andy C. Bavier |