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.

Recent Publications

A Framework To Fast Reroute Traffic Upon Remote Outages

Thomas Holterbach

Doctoral dissertation. ETH Zurich. August 2021.

An Open Platform to Teach How the Internet Practically Works

Thomas Holterbach, Tobias Bühler, Tino Rellstab, Laurent Vanbever

ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2020. Volume 50 Issue 2 (April 2020).

(Self) Driving Under the Influence: Intoxicating Adversarial Network Inputs

Roland Meier, Thomas Holterbach, Stephan Keck, Matthias Stähli, Vincent Lenders, Ankit Singla, Laurent Vanbever

ACM HotNets 2019. Princeton, NJ, USA (November 2019).

Blink: Fast Connectivity Recovery Entirely in the Data Plane

Thomas Holterbach, Edgar Costa Molero, Maria Apostolaki, Alberto Dainotti, Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever

USENIX NSDI 2019. Boston, Massachusetts, USA (February 2019).

SWIFT: Predictive Fast Reroute.

Thomas Holterbach, Stefano Vissicchio, Alberto Dainotti, Laurent Vanbever

ACM SIGCOMM 2017. Los Angeles, California, USA (August 2017).

Quantifying interference between measurements on the RIPE Atlas platform.

Thomas Holterbach, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever

ACM IMC 2015. Tokyo, Japan (October 2015).

Lectures

Communication Networks

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Spring 2022

Communication Networks

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Spring 2021

Discrete Event Systems

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Autumn 2020

Communication Networks

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Spring 2020

Discrete Event Systems

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Autumn 2019

Communication Networks

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Spring 2019

Communication Networks

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Spring 2018

Communication Networks

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Spring 2017

Communication Networks

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Spring 2016

Supervised Theses

On combining SWIFT and Blink to improve Internet convergence (M)

Tino Rellstab

Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Holterbach, Prof. Laurent Vanbever

On Making Blink Deployable in Practice (M)

Stephan Keck

Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Holterbach, Prof. Laurent Vanbever

Data Plane Driven Network Convergence (M)

Fabian Schleiss

Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Holterbach, Edgar Costa Molero, Prof. Laurent Vanbever

A Fast and Loop-Free Convergence upon Remote BGP Disruptions in Large IP Networks (S)

Simon Miescher

Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Holterbach, Prof. Laurent Vanbever

Boosting the convergence performance of SDX platforms (S)

Philipp Mao

Supervisors: Dr. Rüdiger Birkner, Dr. Thomas Holterbach, Prof. Laurent Vanbever

Supercharging IP router memory with SDN (S)

Roman May

Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Holterbach, Prof. Laurent Vanbever