Leon Richardt, Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "TROPIC: Traffic-Engineering-Oriented Planning of IP Core Networks"
accepted for IFIP Networking 2025.
Alexander Brundiers "(IGP) Shortcuts Towards More Resilient Networks: Enhancing Proactive Protection & Reactive Restoration using Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization"
RACI Contribution at RIPE 90 (supported by a RACI travel grant)
Lisbon, Portugal, May 12-16, 2025.
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Mind the Paths You Choose: Speeding up Segment Routing-based Traffic Engineering with Path Preprocessing"
in Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol. 238, Article 108156, 2025, [ScienceDirect (Open Access)], [preprint].
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Fast Reoptimization with only a few Changes: Enhancing Tactical Traffic Engineering with Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization"
in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 495-509, Feb. 2025, [IEEExplore], [preprint].
2024
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Live Long and Prosper – On the Potential of Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization to Improve Network Robustness"
Proc. of the 49th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
LCN, Caen, France, October 8-10, 2024. [IEEExplore], [preprint].
Alexander Brundiers "Taking the Shortcut – Enhancing Backbone Network Traffic Engineering with Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization"
Dissertation Thesis, Osnabrück University, August 2024, [pdf].
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Preprocess your Paths – Speeding up Linear Programming-based Optimization for Segment Routing Traffic Engineering"
Proc. of the 23rd International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking Conference
IFIP NETWORKING, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 3-6, 2024, [IEEExplore], [preprint], [outdated version on arXiv].
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "An Extended Look at Midpoint Optimization for Segment Routing"
in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS), Vol. 5, pp. 1447-1468, 2024, [IEEExplore (Open Access)].
2023
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Combining Midpoint Optimization and Conventional End-To-End Segment Routing for Traffic Engineering"
Proc. of the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
LCN, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, October 2-5, 2023, [IEEExplore], [preprint], [Talk-VoD]. 🏆 LCN 2023 Best Paper Award Candidate
Daniel Otten, Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Green Segment Routing for Improved Sustainability of Backbone Networks"
Proc. of the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
LCN, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, October 2-5, 2023, [IEEExplore].
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Tactical Traffic Engineering with Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization"
Proc. of the 22nd International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking Conference
IFIP NETWORKING, Barcelona, Spain, June 12-15, 2023,
[IEEExplore], [preprint].
Alexander Brundiers "Taking the Shortcut – Advances in Segment Routing Traffic Engineering"
RACI Contribution at the Routing WG Session at RIPE 86 (supported by a RACI travel grant)
Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 22-26, 2023,
[slides] [vod].
2022
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "Midpoint Optimization for Segment Routing"
Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
INFOCOM, May 2-5, 2022,
[IEEExplore], [preprint].
2021
Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck "On the Benefits of Loops for Segment Routing Traffic Engineering"
Proc. of the 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
LCN, Oct. 4-7, 2021,
[IEEExplore], [preprint].
2020
Alexander Brundiers "Extending and Evaluating a Segment Routing based Framework for Midpoint Traffic Engineering"
Master Thesis, Osnabrück University, November 2020. 🏆 KuVS Award 2021 🏆
(Awarded by the Communication and Distributed Systems special interest group (KuVS) of the GI/ITG for the best master’s thesis in Germany in the research area of communications and distributed systems.)
2018
Alexander Brundiers "Implementation eines Frameworks zur Erzeugung und Evaluation von Traffic Dispersion Graphs"
Bachelor Thesis, Osnabrück University, November 2018.
🏆 Rosen Förderpreis 2019 🏆
Teaching - Thesis Supervision
2023
Master Thesis, Leon Richardt "Design and Evaluation of an Algorithm for Segment-Routing-Tailored Capacity Upgrades"
Bachelor Thesis, Bennet Janzen "Evaluation von Green Traffic Engineering Algorithmen unter Einbeziehung von Netzwerkresilienz-Aspekten"
