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  1. Poster: Reconstructing LLM Training Workloads: A Topology- and Model-aware Network Tester

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    chrysa papagianni, Professor Christian Rothenberg

  2. Poster: QueuePilot: Towards Adaptive Queue Scheduling via Live Digital Twins

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    chrysa papagianni, Professor Christian Rothenberg

  3. Adaptive Digital Twin Synchronization: A Mechanism for Where, When, and What to Measure

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    chrysa papagianni, Professor Christian Rothenberg

  4. An Integrated Framework for Network Emulation and Multi-vehicle Algorithm Testing

    Article • September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  5. SmartNet: Bridging Performance and Realism in Network Emulation with SmartNICs

    Article • September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    chrysa papagianni, Professor Christian Rothenberg

  6. CGSynth: Cloud Gaming Synthesizer

    Article • September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  7. CRC4EVER: Cyclic Redundancy Check for Enhanced Verification and Efficient Routing

    Article • September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  8. FlexUP: Breaking Up the CU-UP to Speed Up the RAN

    Article • September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, chrysa papagianni

  9. The GhostTwin: Towards Live Digital Twins via SmartNIC Network Emulation

    Article • September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    chrysa papagianni, Professor Christian Rothenberg

  10. Rethinking the In-band Network Telemetry: Towards Application and Server-Level Network Telemetry

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  11. Poster: Towards In-Network Resource Scaling of VNFs

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  12. Recent Linux Improvements that Impact TCP Throughput: Insights from R&E Networks

    Article • November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  13. DEMO: P4 Replay (P4R): Reproducing Packet Traces and Stateful Connections at Line-Rate on Your P4-capable Hardware

    Article • August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  14. Machine learning assisted real-time DASH video QoE estimation technique for encrypted traffic

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  15. Harnessing UAVs for Fair 5G Bandwidth Allocation in Vehicular Communication via Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  16. An Application-Driven Framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems Using 5G Network Slicing

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, August 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  17. Machine-learning-based soft-failure localization with partial software-defined networking telemetry

    Article • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, July 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, Dr. Kayol S. Mayer

  18. Machine Learning Approach to Estimate Video QoE of Encrypted DASH Traffic in 5G Networks

    Article • July 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  19. Message from the NetSoft 2021 Chairs

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  20. End-to-End Service Monitoring for Zero-Touch Networks

    Article • Journal of ICT Standardization, May 2021, River Publishers

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  21. Near-Optimal Probing Planning for In-Band Network Telemetry

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  22. Dynamic Controller Assignment in Software Defined Internet of Vehicles Through Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, March 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  23. The NECOS Approach to End-to-End Cloud-Network Slicing as a Service

    Article • IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  24. Multipath MMT-based approach for streaming high quality video over multiple wireless access networks

    Article • Computer Networks, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  25. Análise do Comportamento de Aplicações Paralelas em Ambientes de Computação de Alto Desempenho Virtualizados

    Article • December 2020, Comissao Especial de Informatica na Educacao

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  26. Soft Failure Localization Using Machine Learning with SDN-based Network-wide Telemetry

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, Dr. Kayol S. Mayer

  27. A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for DASH Video QoE Prediction in 5G Networks

    Article • November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  28. MUDED: Integrating Networks with Applications through Multi-Domain Exposure and Discovery Mechanisms

    Article • November 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  29. Policy Controlled Multi-domain cloud-network Slice Orchestration Strategy based on Reinforcement Learning

    Article • November 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  30. DASH QoE Performance Evaluation Framework with 5G Datasets

    Article • November 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  31. The road to BOFUSS: The basic OpenFlow userspace software switch

    Article • Journal of Network and Computer Applications, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  32. Towards Deep Network & Application Integration

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  33. Revisiting heavy-hitters

    Article • August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  34. Multi-Domain Information Exposure using ALTO

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  35. 5G-V2X Communications and Networking for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

    Article • Future Internet, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  36. ANI: Abstracted Network Inventory for Streamlined Service Placement in Distributed Clouds

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  37. Intent-based Control Loop for DASH Video Service Assurance using ML-based Edge QoE Estimation

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  38. Towards Low Latency Industrial Robot Control in Programmable Data Planes

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  39. Design and Implementation of an Elastic Monitoring Architecture for Cloud Network Slices

    Article • April 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  40. Elastic Monitoring Architecture for Cloud Network Slices

    Article • April 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  41. In-network P4-based Low Latency Robot Arm Control

    Article • December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  42. Enhancing the 3GPP V2X Architecture with Information-Centric Networking

    Article • Future Internet, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  43. Towards A Marketplace for Multi-domain Cloud Network Slicing: Use Cases

    Article • September 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, Lefteris Mamatas

  44. Supporting multi-domain Use cases with ALTO

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  45. The pandora of network slicing: A multicriteria analysis

    Article • Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, June 2019, Wiley

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  46. Automated Selection of Inter-Packet Time Models Through Information Criteria

    Article • IEEE Networking Letters, June 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  47. Network Service Orchestration: A survey

    Article • Computer Communications, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  48. Adaptive and Scalable Communication Networks [Scanning the Issue]

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  49. Offloading Virtual Evolved Packet Gateway User Plane Functions to a Programmable ASIC

    Article • January 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  50. Slicing on the Road: Enabling the Automotive Vertical through 5G Network Softwarization

    Article • Sensors, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  51. A Novel Scheduling Strategy for MMT-Based Multipath Video Streaming

    Article • December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  52. Toward a Sweet Spot of Data Plane Programmability, Portability, and Performance: On the Scalability of Multi-Architecture P4 Pipelines

    Article • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  53. Scaling SDM Optical Networks Using Full-Spectrum Spatial Switching

    Article • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, November 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  54. A Load Balancing Method based on Artificial Neural Networks for Knowledge-defined Data Center Networking

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  55. Cooperative mobile edge computing system for VANET-based software-defined content delivery

    Article • Computers & Electrical Engineering, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  56. Blockchain-Based Decentralized Applications for Multiple Administrative Domain Networking

    Article • IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, September 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  57. BB-Gen

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  58. Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications meet Multi-Administrative Domain Networking

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  59. Policy Injection

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  60. Automated VNF Testing with Gym: A Benchmarking Use Case

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  61. NECOS Project: Towards Lightweight Slicing of Cloud Federated Infrastructures

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, Lefteris Mamatas

  62. Slicing and Allocation of Transformable Resources for the Deployment of Multiple Virtualized Infrastructure Managers (VIMs)

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, Lefteris Mamatas

  63. Towards 5G Network Slicing for the V2X Ecosystem

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  64. Dynamically distributed network control for message dissemination in ITS

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  65. MACSAD: High performance dataplane applications on the move

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  66. Scaling optical networks using full-spectrum spatial switching

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  67. How Far Can We Go? Towards Realistic Software-Defined Wireless Networking Experiments

    Article • The Computer Journal, March 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  68. From Theory to Experimental Evaluation: Resource Management in Software-Defined Vehicular Networks

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  69. Take Your VNF to the Gym: A Testing Framework for Automated NFV Performance Benchmarking

    Article • IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  70. NOn: Network function virtualization ontology towards semantic service implementation

    Article • November 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  71. Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue on Management of Softwarized Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  72. MACSAD

    Article • August 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  73. Mininet-WiFi

    Article • August 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  74. AR2C2: Actively replicated controllers for SDN resilient control plane

    Article • April 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  75. Dissecting the Largest National Ecosystem of Public Internet eXchange Points in Brazil

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  76. Mininet-WiFi: Emulating software-defined wireless networks

    Article • November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  77. Towards Semantic Network Models via Graph Databases for SDN Applications

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  78. VBaaS: VNF Benchmark-as-a-Service

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  79. Perspectives on software-defined networks: interviews with five leading scientists from the networking community

    Article • Journal of Internet Services and Applications, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  80. Anatomy of Public Internet eXchange Points Ecosystem in Brazil

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  81. CCNrel: Leveraging relations among objects to improve the performance of CCN

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  82. Message from Technical Program Co-Chairs

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  83. Resilient Strategies to SDN: An Approach Focused on Actively Replicated Controllers

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  84. MD2-NFV: The case for multi-domain distributed network functions virtualization

    Article • March 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  85. High speed scientific data transfers using software defined networking

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg, Susmit Shannigrahi

  86. Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey

    Article • Proceedings of the IEEE, January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  87. When Open Source Meets Network Control Planes

    Article • Computer, November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  88. Providing Optical Network as a Service with Policy-based Transport SDN

    Article • Journal of Network and Systems Management, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  89. Cardigan: SDN distributed routing fabric going live at an Internet exchange

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  90. High fidelity content-centric experiments with Mini-CCNx

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  91. ASN-FWD: Shrinking the IPv4 Share on the Forwarding Information Base

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  92. Employment of IA-RWA in Virtual Optical Networks Using a PCE Implemented as a SDN Application

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  93. Virtual data center networks embedding through Software Defined Networking

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  94. An optical SDN Controller for Transport Network virtualization and autonomic operation

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  95. SlickFlow: Resilient source routing in Data Center Networks unlocked by OpenFlow

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  96. Experimental testbed of reconfigurable flexgrid optical network with virtualized GMPLS control plane and autonomic controls towards SDN

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  97. Data Center Fault-Tolerant Routing and Forwarding: An Approach Based on Encoded Paths

    Article • April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  98. Cardigan

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  99. Mini-CCNx

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  100. Reproducing real NDN experiments using mini-CCNx

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  101. An experimental evaluation of lightweight virtualization for software-defined routing platform

    Article • April 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  102. BloomCasting: Security in Bloom Filter Based Multicast

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  103. Revisiting routing control platforms with the eyes and muscles of software-defined networking

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  104. Theory and Practice of Bloom Filters for Distributed Systems

    Article • IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, January 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  105. Forwarding anomalies in Bloom filter-based multicast

    Article • April 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  106. In-packet Bloom filters: Design and networking applications

    Article • Computer Networks, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  107. Experimentally-Driven Research in Publish/Subscribe Information-Centric Inter-Networking

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  108. Virtual routers as a service

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  109. In-packet Bloom filter based data center networking with distributed OpenFlow controllers

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  110. QuagFlow

    Article • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, August 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  111. The deletable Bloom filter: a new member of the Bloom family

    Article • IEEE Communications Letters, June 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  112. New Generation Internet Architectures: Recent and Ongoing Projects

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  113. Re-architected Cloud Data Center Networks and Their Impact on the Future Internet

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  114. Scenarios of Evolution for a Future Internet Architecture

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  115. QuagFlow

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  116. LIPSIN

    Article • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, August 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  117. Exploring the Pub/Sub Routing & Forwarding Space

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  118. LIPSIN

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  119. Self-Routing Denial-of-Service Resistant Capabilities Using In-packet Bloom Filters

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  120. A Review of Policy-Based Resource and Admission Control Functions in Evolving Access and Next Generation Networks

    Article • Journal of Network and Systems Management, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  121. SIP over an Identifier/Locator Splitted Next Generation Internet Architecture

    Article • February 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  122. Towards a new generation of information-oriented internetworking architectures

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg

  123. Towards Carrier Grade Wireless Mesh Networks for Broadband Access

    Article • September 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Christian Rothenberg