Annual PINet BBQ at Dr. Haque's place
Dr. Haque visited ISTI-CNR at Pisa, Italy in May 2024
Conrado joined NetSoft 2024 in Saint Louis, MO, USA
Dr. Haque won Digital NS award 2022
Lab members at Goldberg Computer Science building
During a weekly lab meeting
Students investigating the lab testbed
Lab members having fun
Welcome!
The Programmable and Intelligent Networking (PINet) Lab is a research lab in the Faculty of Computer Science
at Dalhousie University. Prof. Israat Haque leads the lab.
The current projects of the lab span network performance, reliability, and security aspects. We explore the
benefits of cutting-edge networking programmability (e.g., software-defined networking and network function
virtualization) and
AI/ML algorithms to solve various practical networking problems, where our focus goes to wired and wireless
networks, e.g., WAN, data centers, Edge, and IoT.
We desire to innovate and create social impact through high-quality work. PINET lab currently has over ten
graduate and undergraduate students. We commit to foster diversity and always welcome highly
motivated top students from all over the world.
The lab offers courses on Software-Defined Networking, Information Security, and Network Computing at least
once a year.
Latest news
- Feb 2025: Dr. Haque received the IEEE WICE outstanding mentoring award 2025.
- Jan 2025: Our project "Characterizing the Security Facets of IoT Device Setup" received recognition from Amazon. Congratulations Han and Carson.
- Nov 2024: Our poster "GreenStream: Enabling Sustainable LLM Inference in Stream Processing" won the Best-Poster Runner Up Award at CASCON.
- Oct 2024: Dr. Haque offered a keynote at IEEE NFV-SDN.
- Sept 2024: Dr. Haque received the University of Alberta Alumni Honour Award 2024.
Recent publications
- It Works (only) on My Machine: A Study on Reproducibility Smells in Ansible Scripts, accepted at ACM/IEEE Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2025. [Paper]
- Spotlight: Shining a Light on Pivot Attacks Using In-network Computing, accepted at ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2025. [Paper]
- Characterizing the Security Facets of IoT Device Setup, accepted at ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2024. [Paper]
- P4Hauler: an Accelerator-aware In-network Load Balancer for Applications Performance Boosting, accepted at IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2024. [Paper]
- Calibration and Automation of a 5G Simulator for Realistic Evaluation and Data Generation, accepted at IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization 2024. [Paper]
- PoirIoT: Fingerprinting IoT Devices at Tbps Scale, accepted at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2024. [Paper]
- Learn to Compress (LtC): Efficient Learning-based Streaming Video Analytics, IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024. [Paper]
- On the (dis)Advantages of Programmable NICs for Network Security Services, IEEE/IFIP Networking Conference 2023. [Paper]
- Offloading Machine Learning to Programmable Data Planes: A Systematic Survey, ACM Computing Surveys 2023. [Paper]
- Fast Prototyping of Distributed Stream Processing Applications with stream2gym, IEEE ICDCS 2023. [Paper]