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We relocate to TU Dresden to establish the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science. Visit us in Dresden! https://netd.inf.tu-dresden.de .
May 01, 2023
Paper accepted at Euro S&P 2023
Our SoK paper about "A Data-driven View on Methods to Detect Reflective Amplification DDoS Attacks Using Honeypots" has been accepted at the 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments ...
Mar 31, 2023
Jonas awarded RIPE 86 RACI Grant
PhD student Jonas Mücke received a grant from RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative to attend the RIPE 86 meeting and present our work about passive QUIC measurements. Congrats!
Mar 16, 2023
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overviewMission
Our mission is to advance distributed and networked systems that positively impact the lives of people. The Internet is particularly important to us because the Internet is the largest distributed, networked system that is currently deployed. We want to keep the Internet, its services, and applications open but secure, convinced that the Internet should be accessible to everyone. To achieve our mission, we strive for first-class research that influences science and practice. We introduce crazy new ideas, revisit prior work, and talk to those who deploy. We are committed to education that lasts and are dedicated to research questions that matter.
Our research and teaching focus on efficient, reliable, and secure Internet communication. We work on the design and evaluation of networking protocols and architectures as well as Internet measurements and analysis. Our efforts are driven by the goal to improve Internet-based communication based on sound research. Some of our research results escaped from the lab and are now used in practice.
Current topics include but are not limited to:
- Internet security
- Internet Measurements
- Information-centric Networking
- Internet of Things
Selected Publications
Outreach: Open Source Projects

RTRlib
The RTRlib is a lightweight, open-source C library that implements the RPKI/RTR protocol. Basically, it fetches data from an RPKI cache server and allows for prefix origin validation as well as BGP path validation. The RTRlib is the backend for BGP daemons and monitoring tools.
Awards

Best Paper Award ACM CoNEXT 2022
Marcin Nawrocki, Pouyan Fotouhi Tehrani, Raphael Hiesgen, Jonas Mücke, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, "On the Interplay between TLS Certificates and QUIC Performance"