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: bauer
net.in.tum.de
ORCID: 0000-0003-1967-5609 - Building/Room: MI Building, 03.05.037
Consultation hours
By arrangement
Research
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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
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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
Open
Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
Ground Truth Data for TCP Root Cause Analysis | MA, IDP | Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger | 2020 |
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In progress
Student | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
Bakar Andguladze | Scalable Per-Hop Capacity Estimation | MA | Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger | 2021 |
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Jennifer Sorensen | Analysis of User Behavior and Prefix Significance | BA | Simon Bauer, Benedikt Jaeger | 2021 |
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Mario Silaci | Konzeption und Implementierung einer Echtzeit-Bestands-Datenbank basierend auf NetFlow Daten | MA | Simon Bauer | 2020 |
Finished
Author | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
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 |
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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 |
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Kilian Holzinger | High Performance Online TCP Root Cause Analysis | MA | Simon Bauer, Paul Emmerich, Benedikt Jaeger | 2019 |
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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 |
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Christian Hofbauer | Investigating Passive Delay Measurement Techniques on Sampled Traffic | BA | Minoo Rouhi, Johannes Naab, Simon Bauer | 2018 |
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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 |
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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
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, 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] |