Wissem Soussi

ZHAW School of Engineering
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 65 22
wissem.soussi@zhaw.ch

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 / laufend
Intelligent Security and PervasIve Trust for 5G and Beyond (INSPIRE-5Gplus) / Team member / abgeschlossen

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2025.

Moving target defense (MTD) for 6G edge-to-cloud continuum : a cognitive perspective.

IEEE Network.

39(1), pp. 149-156.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/mnet.2024.3483302
Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2024.

Democratizing container live migration for enhanced future networks : a survey.

ACM Computing Surveys.

57(4), pp. 97.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3704436
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Xilouris, George; Gür, Gürkan,

2021.

Moving target defense as a proactive defense element for beyond 5G.

IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

5(3), pp. 72-79.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.211.2000087

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Birtane, Sumeyya; Al-Naday, Mays; Paolucci, Francesco; Bakar, Rana Abu; Lefebvre, Vincent; Passas, Virgilios; Kalafatidis, Sarantis; Lalas, Antonios; Drosou, Anastasios; de Oca, Edgardo Montes; Cavalli, Ana Rosa; Vörös, Péter; Alshawki, Mohammed; Stiller, Burkhard; Soussi, Wissem; Cantali, Gökcan; Gür, Gürkan,

2024.

Footprint-optimized orchestration and management of secure complex services over 6G continuum [paper].

In:

2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN).

IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Belgrade, Serbia, 25-27 November 2024.

IEEE.

pp. 383-388.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/cscn63874.2024.10849715
Mayone, Nicholas; Kunz, Pascal; Yigit, Beytullah; Soussi, Wissem; Stiller, Burkhard; Gür, Gürkan,

2024.

IPv6 connection shuffling for moving target defense (MTD) in SDN [paper].

In:

2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR).

IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), London, United Kingdom, 2-4 September 2024.

IEEE.

pp. 373-378.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/csr61664.2024.10679400
Mamaril, Anthony; Kolodziejczyk, Rinchen; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2024.

Exploring live payload migrations for MTD in microservices architecture [paper].

In:

2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring).

99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring), Singapore, 24-27 June 2024.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/vtc2024-spring62846.2024.10683429
Heeb, Zeno; Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2023.

IoMiRCA : root cause analysis in IoT-extended 5G microservice environments [poster].

In:

SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Tallinn, Estonia, 27-31 March 2023.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 106-108.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577840
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Xilouris, George; Oca, Edgardo Montes de; Lefebvre, Vincent; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2023.

Demo: closed-loop security orchestration in the telco cloud for moving target defense [poster].

In:

NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Miami, USA, 8-12 May 2023.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154420
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Anagnostopoulos, Themis; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2023.

TopoFuzzer : a network topology fuzzer for moving target defense in the telco cloud [paper].

In:

NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Miami, USA, 8-12 May 2023.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154367
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2023.

MERLINS : moving target defense enhanced with deep-RL for NFV in-depth security [paper].

In:

2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN).

9th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), Dresden, Germany, 7-9 November 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 65-71.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329594
Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Anser, Yacine; Gaber, Chrystel; Gür, Gürkan,

2023.

Root cause and liability analysis in the microservices architecture for edge IoT services [paper].

In:

ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications.

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 3277-3283.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279721
Chollon, Geoffrey; Ayed, Dhouha; Garriga, Rodrigo Asensio; Zarca, Alejandro Molina; Skarmeta, Antonio; Christopoulou, Maria; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan; Herzog, Uwe,

2022.

ETSI ZSM driven security management in future networks [paper].

In:

2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF).

IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Montreal, Canada, 12-14 October 2022.

IEEE.

pp. 334-339.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00065
Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2022.

Graph based liability analysis for the microservice architecture [paper].

In:

2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM).

18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Thessaloniki, Greece, 31 October - 4 November 2022.

IEEE.

pp. 364-366.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964681
Heeb, Zeno; Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2022.

The impact of Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) on IoT security [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet).

1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), Paris, France, 6-8 July 2022.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/6GNet54646.2022.9830354
Christopoulou, Maria; Soussi, Wissem; Xilouris, George; Gür, Gürkan; Montes de Oca, Edgardo; Koumaras, Harilaos; Stiller, Burkhard,

2021.

AI-enabled slice protection exploiting moving target defense in 6G networks [paper].

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.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22969

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