Simon Bauer, M.Sc.

Research Associate

Postal address

Institut für Informatik der
Technischen Universität München
Lehrstuhl I8
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching bei München - Germany

Contact

Tel: +49 89 289 - 18012
Fax: +49 89 289 - 18033
e-Mail: bauernet.in.tum.de
ORCID: 0000-0003-1967-5609
Building/Room: MI Building, 03.05.037

Consultation hours

By arrangement

Research

Network monitoring and traffic classification
- How to detect anomalies in networks?
- How to build reliable, scalable, and efficient solutions?
- State of the art technologies, protocols, and algorithms
Automated network management and error mitigation
- How to use results of network and traffic analysis to support network operation?
- Approaches to automatically manage and maintain networks

Supervised Theses

In progress

Student	Title	Type	Advisors	Year	Links
Niklas Beck	Root Cause Analysis for Throughput Limitations of QUIC Connections	MA	Simon Bauer, Johannes Zirngibl	2023
Simon Hülkenberg	Large-Scale TCP Root Cause Analysis in Go	MA	Simon Bauer, Kilian Holzinger	2023
Mohammad Shaharyar Shaukat	Measuring the Impact of Transport Layer Protocols and Their Configuration on the Performance of Connections	MA	Simon Bauer, Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl	2022	[URL]
Gleina Leka	Active and Passive Measurements of TCP Option Deployment	MA	Simon Bauer, Johannes Zirngibl	2022	[URL]
Michael Haden	Intrusion Detection using Streaming Network Telemetry	IDP	Kilian Holzinger, Markus Sosnowski, Simon Bauer	2021

Finished

Author	Title	Type	Advisors	Year	Links
Janluka Janelidze	Analyzing Robustness and Intrusiveness of Capacity Estimation Tools in the Internet	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger, Patrick Sattler	2022
Pooja Parasuraman	Refining TCP Root Cause Analysis for Accurate Detection of Limitation Periods	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2022
Mohamed Bilel Besrour	Evaluating Approaches to Detect Server and Client Limitations of TCP Throughput	BA	Simon Bauer	2021	[URL]
Gege Quan	A Fully Automated Analysis Pipeline for Long-term Internet Traffic Analysis	BA	Simon Bauer, Juliane Aulbach, Patrick Sattler	2021
Bastian Hofmann	Supervised Network Traffic Classification Using Flow Characteristics	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2021
Severin Kathke	Characterising IP Prefixes From Passive Traffic Captures	MA	Simon Bauer, Patrick Sattler	2021	[URL]
Eric Rosche	Automated Testing of Capacity Estimation	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2021
Bakar Andguladze	Scalable Per-Hop Capacity Estimation	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2021
Jennifer Sorensen	Analysis of User Behavior and Prefix Significance	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2021
Ben Riegel	Assessing Link Utilization From Passive Datasets	BA	Simon Bauer, Johannes Zirngibl	2021	[URL]
Max Reimann	Validating CPD for TCP Transfer Period Classification	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2021
Patryk Brzoza	KPI Analysis of Webserver Traffic through Active Measurements	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger, Patrick Sattler, Christoph Schwarzenberg	2021
Mario Silaci	Konzeption und Implementierung einer Echtzeit-Bestands-Datenbank basierend auf NetFlow Daten	MA	Simon Bauer	2020	[URL]
Ruben Bachmann	Entity Characterization for Network Traffic Modeling	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2020
Jonas Fromm	Classifying TCP Throughput Changepoints with TCP Transfer Periods	BA	Simon Bauer	2020
Philippe Barias	Long Term Analysis of TCP Internet Traffic Characteristics	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2020
Ferdinand List	Estimating the Narrow Link Position of Network Paths	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2020
Florian Wiedner	Large-scale TCP Throughput Limitation Analysis	MA	Simon Bauer, Paul Emmerich, Benedikt Jaeger	2019
Christoph Schwarzenberg	Measuring Performance and Path Characteristics of Webservers	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger, Patrick Sattler	2019
Huu Tung Nguyen	Implementation and Evaluation of an Available Bandwidth Estimation Tool	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2019
Patryk Brzoza	Accuracy Optimization of Passive Capacity Estimation	GR	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2019
Chun-Te Sung	Classifying Throughput Changepoints with TCP Performance RCA	MA	Simon Bauer	2019
Constantin Christandl	Packet I/O for Parallelized Network Monitoring	BA	Simon Bauer, Paul Emmerich	2019
Kilian Holzinger	High Performance Online TCP Root Cause Analysis	MA	Simon Bauer, Paul Emmerich, Benedikt Jaeger	2019
Fabian Helfert	Load Generation for L4 Traffic Analysis	MA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2019
Thomas Maier	Exposing Insecure Configurations of Network Session and Permission Graphs	MA	Simon Bauer, Jonas Jelten, Dr. Holger Kinkelin	2018
Michael Eder	Network Discovery Orchestration	MA	Jonas Jelten, Simon Bauer	2018	[URL]
Patryk Brzoza	Implementation of a Network Bandwidth Estimation Tool	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2018
Leonhard Stemplinger	TCP Flow Performance Root Cause Monitoring	BA	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger	2018
Hamza Zafar	Amplification Attack Detection using Active Measurements	MA	Simon Bauer, Oliver Gasser, Stefan Metzger	2018
Christian Hofbauer	Investigating Passive Delay Measurement Techniques on Sampled Traffic	BA	Minoo Rouhi, Johannes Naab, Simon Bauer	2018
Miguel Àngel Campos Gaviño	Improving Bro’s performance with DPDK	BA	Simon Bauer, Jonas Jelten, Paul Emmerich	2018
Linus Michel	SDN-CERT: Benchmarks of OpenFlow-Switches	BA	Daniel Raumer, Paul Emmerich, Simon Bauer	2017
Manuel Ehler	Decentralized Feature Processing on Resource-Constrained Devices for Network Anomaly Detection	MA	Marcel von Maltitz, Stefan Liebald, Simon Bauer, Dr. Holger Kinkelin	2017

Publications

2022-04-01	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger, Max Reimann, Jonas Fromm, Georg Carle, “Towards the Classification of TCP Throughput Changes,” in 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022), Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 2022. [Pdf] [Bib]
2021-07-01	Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger, Fabian Helfert, Philippe Barias, Georg Carle, “On the Evolution of Internet Flow Characteristics,” in Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, Jul. 2021. [Pdf] [Bib]
2021-05-01	Simon Bauer, Florian Wiedner, Benedikt Jaeger, Paul Emmerich, Georg Carle, “Scalable TCP Throughput Limitation Monitoring,” in 2021 IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2021), Bordeaux, France (Virtual Conference), May 2021. [Pdf] [Bib]
2020-04-01	Simon Bauer, Kilian Holzinger, Benedikt Jaeger, Paul Emmerich, Georg Carle, “Online Monitoring of TCP Throughput Limitations,” in 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020), Budapest, Hungary (Virtual Conference), Apr. 2020. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-09-01	Paul Emmerich, Maximilian Pudelko, Simon Bauer, Stefan Huber, Thomas Zwickl, Georg Carle, “User Space Network Drivers,” in ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2019), Sep. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2018-10-01	Simon Bauer, Daniel Raumer, Paul Emmerich, Georg Carle, “Intra-node Resource Isolation for SFC with SR-IOV,” in IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet’18), Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2018. [Pdf] [Bib]
2018-07-01	Simon Bauer, Daniel Raumer, Paul Emmerich, Georg Carle, “Behind the scenes: what device benchmarks can tell us,” in The Applied Networking Research Workshop 2018 (ANRW ’18), Montreal, Canada, Jul. 2018. [Pdf] [Rawdata] [Bib]
2017-09-01	Daniel Raumer, Simon Bauer, Paul Emmerich, Georg Carle, “Performance Implications for Intra-node Placement of Network Function Chains,” in IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet’17), Prague, Czech Republic, Sep. 2017. [Pdf] [Bib]