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Papers:

Computer Networks   "Impact of Routing Parameters on Route Diversity and Path Inflation"
    Wolfgang Mühlbauer, Steve Uhlig, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Bruno Quoitin, Bingjie Fu 
    Computer Networks, 2010. (to appear)
     
TridentCom   "How to Build Complex, Large-Scale Emulated Networks"
    Hung Nguyen, Matthew Roughan, Simon Knight, Nick Falkner, Olaf Maennel, Randy Bush 
    The 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities, Berlin, Germany, May 2010. (paper)
     
ReArch'09   "HAIR: Hierarchical Architecture for Internet Routing"
    Anja Feldmann, Luca Cittadini, Wolfgang Mühlbauer, Randy Bush, Olaf Maennel 
    ReArch'09 (CoNext workshop), Rome, Italy, December 2009.
     
IMC'09    "Internet optometry: assessing the broken glasses in Internet reachability"
    Randy Bush, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan, and Steve Uhlig 
    Internet Measurement Conference 2009, Chicago, USA, November 2009. (paper)
and in Internet Infrastructure Review, vol. 6, February 2010. Translated into Japanese by Toshiya Asaba. (paper, journal)
     
ITC-21    "On the Importance of Local Connectivity for Internet Topology Models"
    Hamed Haddadi, Damien Fay, Almerima Jamakovic, Olaf Maennel, Andrew W. Moore, Richard Mortier, Steve Uhlig 
    21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 21), Paris, France, September 2009.  (paper)
     
VISA    "Network Virtualization Architecture: Proposal and Initial Prototype"
    Gregor Schaffrath, Christoph Werle, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Anja Feldmann, Roland Bless, Adam Greenhalgh, Andreas Wundsam, Mario Kind, Olaf Maennel, Laurent Mathy 
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infastructure Systems and Architectures - Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.  (paper)
     
ITC    "Implementing Network Virtualization for a Future Internet"
Special Seminar   Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Olaf Maennel, Adam Greenhalgh, Anja Feldmann, Laurent Mathy 
    20th ITC Specialist Seminar on Network Virtualization - Concept and Performance Aspects, Hoi An, Vietnam, May 18 - 20, 2009.  (paper, slides)
     
ERCIM News    "Network Virtualization
An Enabler for Overcoming Ossification"
    Anja Feldmann, Mario Kind, Olaf Maennel, Gregor Schaffrath, Christoph Wehrle 
    ERCIM News, (77):21-22, April 2009 (paper
     
IMC'08    "On the predictive power of shortest-path weight inference"
    Andrew Coyle, Miro Kraetzl, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan 
    Internet Measurement Conference, Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 20 - 22, 2008. (paper, slides)
     
IMC'08    "Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti and other missing links: what we don't know about the AS graph"
    Matthew Roughan, Jonanthan Tuke, Olaf Maennel 
    Internet Measurement Conference, Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 20 - 22, 2008. (paper, slides, long version)
     
INM'08    "CleanBGP: Verifying the Consistency of BGP Data"
    Ashley Flavel Olaf Maennel, Belinda Chiera, Matthew Roughan, Nigel Bean 
    Internet Network Management Workshop, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 19, 2008. (paper)
     
SIGCOMM's    "Testing the reachability of (new) address space"
INM'07    Randy Bush, James Hiebert, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan, Steve Uhlig 
    Kyoto (Japan), September 2007 (paper/slides)
     
SIGCOMM'07    "In Search for an Appropriate Granularity to Model Routing Policies"
    Wolfgang Mühlbauer, Steve Uhlig, Bingjie Fu, Mickael Meulle, Olaf Maennel 
    Kyoto (Japan), September 2007 (paper)
     
ITC-20    "Modeling BGP Table Fluctuations"
    Ashley Flavel, Matthew Roughan, Nigel Bean, and Olaf Maennel 
    20th International Teletraffic Congress, Ottawa, Canada, June 2007  (paper @ spingerlink)
     
SIGCOMM'06    "Building an AS-topology model that captures route diversity"
    Wolfgang Mühlbauer, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan, Steve Uhlig 
    Pisa (Italy), September 2006   (paper)
     
IMC'04    "A Methodology for Estimating Interdomain Web Traffic Demand"
    Anja Feldmann, Nils Kammenhuber, Olaf Maennel, Bruce Maggs, Roberto De Prisco, Ravi Sundaram  
    Sicily (Italy), October 2004   (paper)
     
SIGCOMM'04       "Locating Internet Routing Instabilities"
    Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Z. Morley Mao, Arthur Berger, Bruce Maggs 
    Portland (USA), August 2004 (paper/slides
     
PAM'04    "Measuring BGP Pass-Through Times" 
    Anja Feldmann, Hongwei Kong, Olaf Maennel, Alexander Tudor  
    Antibes Juan-les-Pins (France), April 2004 (paper/slides)  
     
SIGCOMM'02   "Realistic BGP Traffic for Test Labs" 
    Olaf Maennel, Anja Feldmann  
    Pittsburgh (USA), August 2002 (paper/slides
     

 

IETF Drafts: 

IETF draft    "The A+P Approach to the Broadband Provider IPv4 Address Shortage" 
    Gabor Bajko, Steven M. Bellovin, Randy Bush, Luca Cittadini, Alain Durand, Olaf Maennel, Teemu Savolainen, Jan Zorz 
    draft-ymbk-aplusp-05, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2009. 

 

Theses: 

Ph.D.    "Handling the complexity of BGP
via characterization, testing and configuration management" 
    Olaf Maennel 
    Ph.D. Thesis Technische Universität München, Munich (Germany), 2005 
     
Master    "Generating realistic routing tables in a test lab" 
    Olaf Maennel 
    Master Thesis Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (Germany), 2002 
     

 

Tech reports, talks and posters: 

SIGCOMM '09    Network Troubleshooting with Shadow VNets
    Andreas Wundsam, Amir Mehmood, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel 
    ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Poster and Demo Sessions, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2009 (demo)
     
NANOG '46    Use of Default in the 'DFZ'
    Randy Bush, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan, Steve Uhlig 
    North American Network Operators Group Conference, June 2009 (slides, web-page)
     
TU-Berlin    "Improving Network Troubleshooting using Virtualization"
Tech Report   Andreas Wundsam, Amir Mehmodd, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel  
    Technical Report 2009-12, June 2009. (tech report)
     
ARICOT '09    How to Keep CGNs from Breaking the Internet
    Randy Bush, Olaf Maennel, Alain Durand  
    Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT), Manila, Philippines, Feb. 2009. (slides)
     
ATNAC'08    "Quantitative Analysis of Incorrectly-Configured Bogon-Filter Detection"
    Jon Arnold, Olaf Maennel, Ashley Flavel, Jeremy McMahon, Matthew Roughan 
    Australasian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), Adelaide, Australia, Dec. 2008. (paper)
     
TU-Berlin    "HAIR: Hierarchical Architecture for Internet Routing"
Tech Report   Anja Feldmann, Randy Bush, Luca Cittadini, Olaf Maennel, Wolfgang Mühlbauer  
    Technical Report 2008-14, October 2008. (tech report)
     
Columbia    "A Better Approach than Carrier-Grade-NAT"
Tech Report   Olaf Maennel, Randy Bush, Luca Cittadini, Steven M. Bellovin  
    Technical Report CUCS-041-08, September 2008. (tech report)
     
Cambridge    "Beyond Node Degree: Evaluating AS Topology Models"
Tech Report   Hamed Haddadi, Damien Fay, Almerima Jamakovic, Olaf Maennel, Andrew W. Moore, Richard Mortier, Miguel Rio, Steve Uhlig  
    Technical Report, UCAM-CL-TR-725, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, July 2008. (tech report)
     
WIRED'06    "Ensuring the Robustness of Internet Routing" 
    Olaf Maennel, Steve Uhlig 
    Atlanta (USA), October 2006 (position statement)  
     
WIRED'06    "Modeling as a necessary step for understanding Internet-wide route propagation" 
    Steve Uhlig, Olaf Maennel, Wolfgang Mühlbauer 
    Atlanta (USA), October 2006 (position statement)  
     
Agilent Labs   "Towards more Realistic Router Testing" 
    Alexander Tudor, Olaf Maennel, Anja Feldmann, Hongwei Kong 
    Palo Alto (USA), May 2005 
     
CII/MIT
NANOG 34
  "Network-Wide Inter-Domain Routing Policies:
Design and Realization" 
    Hagen Böhm, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Christian Reiser, Rüdiger Volk 
    Boston (USA), January 2005 (paper-draft/slides) and
Seattle (USA), May 2005 
     
Séminaire BGP     "Interprétation de la dynamique de BGP"
(Alcatel)    Olaf Maennel  
    Paris (France), October 2004 (slides)  
     
RIPE49    "Locating Internet Routing Instabilities" 
    Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Z. Morley Mao, Arthur Berger, Bruce Maggs  
    Manchester (UK), September 2004 (paper/talk/slides)  
     
WIRED'03    "On BGP Mutations" 
    Olaf Maennel 
    Portland (USA), October 2003 (position statement)  
     
RIPE45/IDRWS'03    "Observed properties of BGP convergence" 
    Olaf Maennel, Alexander Tudor, Anja Feldmann, Sara Bürkle  
    Barcelona (Spain), May 2003 (slides
     
ISMA workshop    "On BGP Convergence and Scalability" 
    Olaf Maennel, Anja Feldmann  
    Leiden (The Netherlands), October 2002 (slides)  
     
NANOG 24    "Identifying Problematic Inter-domain Routing Issues" 
    Olaf Maennel, Anja Feldmann 
    Miami (USA), February 2002 (slides
     
SIGCOMM '01   "Generating Realistic Routing Tables in a Test Lab" 
    Olaf Maennel, Anja Feldmann
    San Diego (USA), August 2001 (poster

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