Thomas Holterbach
PhD student
2016—2021

Thomas Holterbach

I am a PostDoctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg in the ICube laboratory. I work on BGP anomaly detection and mitigation with Prof. Cristel Pelsser. I am also interested in Internet measurements, software-defined networks and programmable data planes.

I did my PhD in the Networked Systems Group at ETH Zurich under the guidance of Prof. Laurent Vanbever. During my PhD, I focused on improving the routing convergence on the Internet upon outages.

I received both my Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from the University of Strasbourg, France. Before joining ETH Zurich, I worked six months at Internet Initiative Japan where I was supervised by Cristel Pelsser and Randy Bush. In 2016, I worked six months at CAIDA where I was supervised by Alberto Dainotti.

Talks

Blink: Fast Connectivity Recovery Entirely in the Data Plane

Publications

Supervised Theses

Implementing the mini-Internet Routing Registry (BA)
Student: Jakob Wöhler
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever
Towards a full implementation of RPKI in the mini-Internet (SA)
Student: Sandro Lutz
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach, Tobias Bühler, and Laurent Vanbever
An auto-grading framework for the mini-Internet project (SA)
Student: Martin Vahlensieck
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever
Towards a not so mini mini-Internet (BA)
Student: Alex Studer
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach, Tobias Bühler, and Laurent Vanbever
Implementing the RPKI infrastructure in a virtual mini-Internet (SA)
Student: Denis Mikhaylov
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach, Tobias Bühler, and Laurent Vanbever
Anonymized traffic trace collection in the data plane (MA)
Student: Manuel Pulfer
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach, Tobias Bühler, and Laurent Vanbever
A framework for collecting data traffic from real networks (SA)
Student: Eric Marty
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach, Tobias Bühler, and Laurent Vanbever
On combining SWIFT and Blink to improve Internet convergence (MA)
Student: Tino Rellstab
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever
On Making Blink Deployable in Practice (MA)
Student: Stephan Keck
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever
Network virtualization – creating arbitrary networks with one click (SA)
Student: Tino Rellstab
Supervisors: Tobias Bühler, Thomas Holterbach, and Laurent Vanbever
Securing data-plane driven fast-reroute systems (SA)
Student: Stephan Keck
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever
Data Plane Driven Network Convergence (MA)
Student: Fabian Schleiss
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach, Edgar Costa Molero, and Laurent Vanbever
A Fast and Loop-Free Convergence upon Remote BGP Disruptions in Large IP Networks (SA)
Student: Simon Miescher
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever
Boosting the convergence performance of SDX platforms (SA)
Student: Philipp Mao
Supervisors: Rüdiger Birkner, Thomas Holterbach, and Laurent Vanbever
Supercharging IP router memory with SDN (SA)
Student: Roman May
Supervisors: Thomas Holterbach and Laurent Vanbever