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Tagesspiegel reports about our networking support for Ukraine
We supported the initiative “Keep Ukraine Connected” of the Global NOG Alliance, and gave some advice on how to communicate securely during these difficult times.
May 12, 2022
APNIC Blog post online
Marcin reports about our IMC 2021 results "Tracing the DDoS attack ecosystem from the Internet core" at APNIC. Our suggestion to improve the current situation: DNSSEC rollover with pre-publish!
May 10, 2022
Our study on Internet infrastructure and consolidation informs the public
heise.de refers to our recently published BSI study on the Internet infrastructure, outages, and consolidation. Furthermore, the article discusses the importance of RPKI to secure Internet routing, a topic to which we contribute research results since 2011.
Apr 22, 2022
Paper accepted at IFIP Networking 2022
Our paper "Long-Range ICN for the IoT: Exploring a LoRa System Design" has been accepted at the 21th IFIP Networking Conference.
Apr 09, 2022
BSI study published
Prof. Wählisch is co-author of a comprehensive study about the Internet infrastructure, outages, and consolidation. This study was conducted on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
Mar 22, 2022
Secure Personal Communication in the Event of Crisis
Together with other members of the RIPE community, we published a RIPE Labs article that provides some guidelines.
Mar 14, 2022
Journal article published in IEEE TNSM
Our paper "Content Object Security in the Internet of Things: Challenges, Prospects, and Emerging Solutions" has been published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Mar 12, 2022
One paper + one poster accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2022
Our paper about "Secure and Authorized Client-to-Client Communication for LwM2M" has been accepted at the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). We will also present a poster about "Offloading Crypto Processing with RIOT". IPSN is the premier conference for research at the intersection of networked embedded sensing, control, and systems design.
Feb 21, 2022
Journal article published in Elsevier Computer Networks
Our article "A mobility-compliant publish–subscribe system for an information-centric Internet of Things" has been published in Computer Networks.
Feb 12, 2022
Co-chairing ACM ICN 2022
Together with Lixia Zhang and Henning Schulzrinne, Matthias Wählisch was appointed TPC Chair of 9th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking. We are looking forward to your submissions! Check https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2022/cf-papers.html .
Jan 27, 2022
ODNS measurement platform online
We measure the open DNS continuously with a special focus on transparent DNS forwarders, a largely overlooked threat. The results are available on https://odns.secnow.net/data and give insights into threat potential and consolidation trends in the DNS ecosystem.
Jan 01, 2022
Marcin awarded best presentation at ACM CoNEXT 2021
Congrats! PhD student Marcin Nawrocki won a best presentation award at the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies for his paper "Transparent Forwarders: An Unnoticed Component of the Open DNS Infrastructure". This paper is joint work with undergrad student Maynard Koch.
Dec 16, 2021
RFC 9139 published
After 4 years of work and fruitful discussions, our specification of "Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Adaptation to Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs)" has been published as RFC 9139.
Dec 02, 2021
RIPE and APNIC posts about Route Flap Damping online
We published a post about "Should You Update Your Route Flap Damping Parameters?" at RIPE Labs and APNIC Blog.
Nov 22, 2021
Journal article published in IEEE Access
Our paper "Fragment Forwarding in Lossy Networks" has been published in IEEE Access.
Nov 05, 2021
SZ interview with Prof. Wählisch
Outages can occur in Internet. Triggered by the Facebook outage, Süddeutsche Zeitung talks with Matthias Wählisch about potential reasons and implications.
Nov 01, 2021
Two papers accepted at ACM IMC 2021
Our papers about "Tracing the DDoS Attack Ecosystem from the Internet Core" and "Quantifying QUIC Reconnaissance Scans and DoS Flooding Events" have been accepted for publication at the 21st ACM IMC.
Sep 29, 2021
Technical report about longitudinal DNSSEC measurements published
In "From the Beginning: Key Transitions in the First 15 Years of DNSSEC", we contribute both a formal model to understand and assess key transitions and its application on measurements of the first 15 years of the DNSSEC rollout.
Sep 21, 2021
Two papers accepted at ACM CoNEXT 2021
Our papers about "Transparent Forwarders: An Unnoticed Component of the Open DNS Infrastructure" and "Mind the Gap: Multi-hop IPv6 over BLE in the IoT" have been accepted at the 17th ACM CoNEXT.
Sep 14, 2021
New Internet Draft published
We published a new Internet Draft about "DNS Queries over CoAP (DoC)". Discussions will be on the IETF CoRE (Constrained RESTful Environments) working group.
Sep 01, 2021