The 20th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC 2025) was held from November 24 to 27, 2025 at the DLSU McKinley Microcampus – Dr. Andrew L. Tan Data Science Institute in Bonifacio Global City, hosted by the De La Salle University College of Computer Studies, Computer Technology Department, under the leadership of Dr. Marnel Peradilla, Chair of the department and Head of the Center for Networking and Information Security (CNIS) of the Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing, and Networking (AdRIC). The conference opened with a pre-conference workshop at Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall led by Prof. Vyas Sekar of Carnegie Mellon University, who introduced participants to the use of deep generative models for creating synthetic data to address data scarcity in network systems research.
The main conference sessions began on November 25, featuring invited talks and technical discussions on the future, stability, and security of the internet. Mr. John Heidemann (USC/ISI) presented a talk on Partial Reachability in the Internet Core, offering new ways to define and measure core connectivity and identify persistent network issues. Ms. Cristel Pelsser (UC Louvain) followed with a presentation on BGP security, introducing the GILL data collection platform and DFOH, a system designed to efficiently detect forged-origin hijacks without relying on complex cryptographic extensions. Technical sessions throughout the conference explored topics such as internet and CDN measurement, routing behavior, performance evaluation, and the application of machine learning for intrusion detection on Edge-IoT devices, highlighting both long-standing challenges and emerging concerns in the internet ecosystem.
The latter part of the conference was marked by a final invited talk by Dr. Vasileios Giotsas (Cloudflare & Lancaster University), who emphasized the critical role of large-scale internet measurement in understanding real-world network behavior and strengthening resilience and reliability. AINTEC 2025 brought together 82 participants from 15 countries, underscoring its continued relevance as a platform for regional and global collaboration. The conference concluded with the recognition of outstanding research contributions, awarding Best Paper to “Ten Years of Event-Driven BGP Evolution in India and Bangladesh” by researchers from LUMS, RIPE NCC, and the University of Savoie-Mont Blanc, with the authors receiving a travel grant to present at ACM SIGCOMM 2026. The Best Poster Award was given to “Consumer-based Performance Measurement Analysis on Thailand ISPs” by Kasetsart University and NECTEC, while the Best Popular Poster Award recognized “Delivering EDU Digital Content to the Unconnected” by the intERLab / Net2Home team.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, AINTEC reaffirmed its mission of fostering collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity in advancing resilient and accessible internet infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
