INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Distributed Systems Group

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Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Brundiers

Alexander Brundiers
University of Osnabrück
Institute of Computer Science
Friedrich-Janssen-Str. 1
49076 Osnabrück, Germany
Phone:
+49-541-969-3315
Fax:
+49-541-969-2799
Office:
73/E02
E-mail:

Research Interests / Projects

  • Traffic Engineering
  • Segment Routing
  • Network Planning & Design

Publications

2024

  • Alexander Brundiers, Timmy Schüller, Nils Aschenbruck
    "Fast Reoptimization with only a few Changes – Enhancing Tactical Traffic Engineering with Segment Routing Midpoint Optimization"
    accepted for publication in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), to appear, 2024, [preprint].
  • 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    IFIP NETWORKING, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 3-6, 2024, [ieeexplore], [preprint], [outdated version on arXiv].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"

Teaching - Courses

WT 2024/2025

ST 2024

WT 2023/2024

ST 2023

ST 2022

WT 2021/2022

ST 2021