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

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
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
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
Gleina Leka Active and Passive Measurements of TCP Option Deployment MA Simon Bauer, Johannes Zirngibl 2022
Mohamed Bilel Besrour Evaluating Approaches to Detect Server and Client Limitations of TCP Throughput BA Simon Bauer 2021
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
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
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
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
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

2023-07-01 Simon Bauer, Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Christoph Schwarzenberg, Georg Carle, “Evaluating the Benefits: Quantifying the Effects of TCP Options, QUIC, and CDNs on Throughput,” in Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, Jul. 2023. [Pdf] [Sourcecode] [Bib]
2023-05-01 Simon Bauer, Janluka Janelidze, Benedikt Jaeger, Patrick Sattler, Patrick Brzoza, Georg Carle, “On the Accuracy of Active Capacity Estimation in the Internet,” in 2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023), Miami, USA, May 2023. [Pdf] [Bib]
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]