SNSVS: Scalable Network Slicing with Virtualized Systems using Post-Quantum Cryptography

Dimosthenis Iliadis-Apostolidis; Daniel C Lawo; Sokol Kosta; Juan Jose Vegas Olmos

doi:10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431714

SNSVS: Scalable Network Slicing with Virtualized Systems using Post-Quantum Cryptography

Dimosthenis Iliadis-Apostolidis
, Daniel C Lawo
, Sokol Kosta
, Juan Jose Vegas Olmos

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Abstract

Modern network infrastructures face increasing demands for scalability, performance, and security, particularly in multi-tenant environments. Ensuring efficient traffic isolation and secure communication across multiple virtualized systems is a critical challenge, especially when dealing with high-throughput applications. In this paper, we address these challenges by leveraging SR-IOV-based virtualization to create isolated network slices and establishing secure communication channels, using Kyber and Dilithium (ML-KEM/ML-DSA) and IPsec tunnels. We connect 16 Virtual Machines (VMs) and another host system on a direct link. We reach a total of 71.79Gbit/s on the 100Gbit/s NVIDIA BlueField-2 Data Processing Unit (DPU), by configuring the OpenvSwitch (OvS) for steering the traffic on its ARM cores, and testing using multiple instances of iPerf3 on all the (v)hosts. This result represents a 95.36% utilization of the baseline network performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Publication date	12 Dec 2025
Pages	3109-3114
Article number	11431714
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3315-7782-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431714
Publication status	Published - 12 Dec 2025
Event	2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 8 Dec 2025 → 12 Dec 2025 https://globecom2025.ieee-globecom.org/

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Conference	2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	08/12/2025 → 12/12/2025
Internet address	https://globecom2025.ieee-globecom.org/

Series	Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
ISSN	2576-6813

Keywords

6G mobile communication
Program processors
Network slicing
Scalability
Bandwidth
Virtual machines
Cryptography
Global communication
Faces
Testing
PQC
Virtualization
Data Center Networking
6G
DPUs

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Iliadis-Apostolidis, D., Lawo, D. C., Kosta, S., & Olmos, J. J. V. (2025). SNSVS: Scalable Network Slicing with Virtualized Systems using Post-Quantum Cryptography. In GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (pp. 3109-3114). Article 11431714 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431714

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Iliadis-Apostolidis, D, Lawo, DC, Kosta, S & Olmos, JJV 2025, SNSVS: Scalable Network Slicing with Virtualized Systems using Post-Quantum Cryptography. in GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference., 11431714, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, pp. 3109-3114, 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 08/12/2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431714

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Iliadis-Apostolidis D, Lawo DC, Kosta S , Olmos JJV. SNSVS: Scalable Network Slicing with Virtualized Systems using Post-Quantum Cryptography. In GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). 2025. p. 3109-3114. 11431714. (Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM). doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11431714

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