@techreport{GrossmannHomeyer2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Großmann, Marcel and Homeyer, Tobias},
  title     = {Emulation of Multipath Transmissions in P4 Networks with Kathar{\´a}},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32209},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322095},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Packets sent over a network can either get lost or reach their destination. Protocols like TCP try to solve this problem by resending the lost packets. However, retransmissions consume a lot of time and are cumbersome for the transmission of critical data. Multipath solutions are quite common to address this reliability issue and are available on almost every layer of the ISO/OSI model. We propose a solution based on a P4 network to duplicate packets in order to send them to their destination via multiple routes. The last network hop ensures that only a single copy of the traffic is further forwarded to its destination by adopting a concept similar to Bloom filters. Besides, if fast delivery is requested we provide a P4 prototype, which randomly forwards the packets over different transmission paths. For reproducibility, we implement our approach in a container-based network emulation system called Kathar{\´a}.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{GrossmannLe2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Großmann, Marcel and Le, Duy Thanh},
  title     = {Visualization of Network Emulation Enabled by Kathar{\´a}},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32218},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322189},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In network research, reproducibility of experiments is not always easy to achieve. Infrastructures are cumbersome to set up or are not available due to vendor-specific devices. Emulators try to overcome those issues to a given extent and are available in different service models. Unfortunately, the usability of emulators requires time-consuming efforts and a deep understanding of their functionality. At first, we analyze to which extent currently available open-source emulators support network configurations and how user-friendly they are. With these insights, we describe, how an ease-to-use emulator is implemented and may run as a Network Emulator as a Service (NEaaS). Therefore, virtualization plays a major role in order to deploy a NEaaS based on Kathar{\´a}.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{HasslingerNtougiasHasslingeretal.2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Hasslinger, Gerhard and Ntougias, Konstantinos and Hasslinger, Frank and Hohlfeld, Oliver},
  title     = {Performance Analysis of Basic Web Caching Strategies (LFU, LRU, FIFO, ...) with Time-To-Live Data Validation},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32204},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322048},
  pages     = {5},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Web caches often use a Time-to-live (TTL) limit to validate data consistency with web servers. We study the impact of TTL constraints on the hit ratio of basic strategies in caches of fixed size. We derive analytical results and confirm their accuracy in comparison to simulations. We propose a score-based caching method with awareness of the current TTL per data for improving the hit ratio close to the upper bound.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{HerrmannRizk2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Herrmann, Martin and Rizk, Amr},
  title     = {On Data Plane Multipath Scheduling for Connected Mobility Applications},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32203},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322033},
  pages     = {3},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) systems depend on a reliable communication to provide their service and more crucially to ensure the safety of users. One way to ensure the reliability of a data transmission is to use multiple transmission technologies in combination with redundant flows. In this paper, we describe a system requiring multipath communication in the context of CCAM. To this end, we introduce a data plane-based scheduler that uses replication and integration modules to provide redundant and transparent multipath communication. We provide an analytical model for the full replication module of the system and give an overview of how and where the data-plane scheduler components can be realized.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{HerrmannRizk2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Herrmann, Martin and Rizk, Amr},
  title     = {On Data Plane Multipath Scheduling for Connected Mobility Applications},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  edition   = {aktualisierte Version},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-35344},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-353444},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) systems depend on a reliable communication to provide their service and more crucially to ensure the safety of users. One way to ensure the reliability of a data transmission is to use multiple transmission technologies in combination with redundant flows. In this paper, we describe a system requiring multipath communication in the context of CCAM. To this end, we introduce a data plane-based scheduler that uses replication and integration modules to provide redundant and transparent multipath communication. We provide an analytical model for the full replication module of the system and give an overview of how and where the data-plane scheduler components can be realized.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{HoewelerXiangHoepfneretal.2022,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {H{\"o}weler, Malte and Xiang, Zuo and H{\"o}pfner, Franz and Nguyen, Giang T. and Fitzek, Frank H. P.},
  title     = {Towards Stateless Core Networks: Measuring State Access Patterns},
  series = {W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWas'22)},
  journal   = {W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWas'22)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-28077},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-280770},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Future mobile communication networks, such as 5G and beyond, can benefit from Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) when deployed on cloud infrastructures to achieve elasticity and scalability. However, new challenges arise as to managing states of Network Functions (NFs). Especially control plane VNFs, which are mainly found in cellular core networks like the 5G Core (5GC), received little attention since the shift towards virtualizing NFs. Most existing solutions for these core networks are often complex, intrusive, and are seldom compliant with the standard. With the emergence of 5G campus networks, UEs will be mainly machine-type devices. These devices communicate more deterministically, bringing new opportunities for elaborated state management. This work presents an emulation environment to perform rigorous measurements on state access patterns. The emulation comes with a fully parameterized Markov model for the UE to examine a wide variety of different devices. These measurements can then be used as a solid base for designing an efficient, simple, and standard conform state management solution that brings us further towards stateless core networks.},
  subject      = {Datennetz},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{LeGrossmannKrieger2022,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Le, Duy Thanh and Großmann, Marcel and Krieger, Udo R.},
  title     = {Cloudless Resource Monitoring in a Fog Computing System Enabled by an SDN/NFV Infrastructure},
  series = {W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWas'22)},
  journal   = {W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWas'22)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-28072},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-280723},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Today's advanced Internet-of-Things applications raise technical challenges on cloud, edge, and fog computing. The design of an efficient, virtualized, context-aware, self-configuring orchestration system of a fog computing system constitutes a major development effort within this very innovative area of research. In this paper we describe the architecture and relevant implementation aspects of a cloudless resource monitoring system interworking with an SDN/NFV infrastructure. It realizes the basic monitoring component of the fundamental MAPE-K principles employed in autonomic computing. Here we present the hierarchical layering and functionality within the underlying fog nodes to generate a working prototype of an intelligent, self-managed orchestrator for advanced IoT applications and services. The latter system has the capability to monitor automatically various performance aspects of the resource allocation among multiple hosts of a fog computing system interconnected by SDN.},
  subject      = {Datennetz},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{LhamoNguyenFitzek2022,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Lhamo, Osel and Nguyen, Giang T. and Fitzek, Frank H. P.},
  title     = {Virtual Queues for QoS Compliance of Haptic Data Streams in Teleoperation},
  series = {W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWas'22)},
  journal   = {W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWas'22)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-28076},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-280762},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Tactile Internet aims at allowing perceived real-time interactions between humans and machines. This requires satisfying a stringent latency requirement of haptic data streams whose data rates vary drastically as the results of perceptual codecs. This introduces a complex problem for the underlying network infrastructure to fulfill the pre-defined level of Quality of Service (QoS). However, novel networking hardware with data plane programming capability allows processing packets differently and opens up a new opportunity. For example, a dynamic and network-aware resource management strategy can help satisfy the QoS requirements of different priority flows without wasting precious bandwidth. This paper introduces virtual queues for service differentiation between different types of traffic streams, leveraging protocol independent switch architecture (PISA). We propose coordinating the management of all the queues and dynamically adapting their sizes to minimize packet loss and delay due to network congestion and ensure QoS compliance.},
  subject      = {Datennetz},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{MartinoDeutschmannHielscheretal.2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Martino, Luigi and Deutschmann, J{\"o}rg and Hielscher, Kai-Steffen and German, Reinhard},
  title     = {Towards a 5G Satellite Communication Framework for V2X},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32214},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322148},
  pages     = {5},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In recent years, satellite communication has been expanding its field of application in the world of computer networks. This paper aims to provide an overview of how a typical scenario involving 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) for vehicle to everything (V2X) applications is characterized. In particular, a first implementation of a system that integrates them together will be described. Such a framework will later be used to evaluate the performance of applications such as Vehicle Monitoring (VM), Remote Driving (RD), Voice Over IP (VoIP), and others. Different configuration scenarios such as Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Orbit will be considered.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{MazighBeausencourtBodeetal.2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Mazigh, Sadok Mehdi and Beausencourt, Marcel and Bode, Max Julius and Scheffler, Thomas},
  title     = {Using P4-INT on Tofino for Measuring Device Performance Characteristics in a Network Lab},
  series = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  journal   = {KuVS Fachgespr{\"a}ch - W{\"u}rzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS'23)},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32208},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322084},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This paper presents a prototypical implementation of the In-band Network Telemetry (INT) specification in P4 and demonstrates a use case, where a Tofino Switch is used to measure device and network performance in a lab setting. This work is based on research activities in the area of P4 data plane programming conducted at the network lab of HTW Berlin.},
  language  = {en}
}