Communication and Distributed Systems
RWTH Aachen University
Ahornstr. 55
52074 Aachen, Germany
E-Mail: ike.kunze[[at]]comsys.rwth-aachen.de [German or English]
Phone: +49 241 80-21422
Office: Building E3, Room 9002
Office Hours: Please drop me an email for an appointment.
Overview
Short Biography
After receiving my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University with honors, I joined the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University as a researcher and Ph.D. student in January 2019.
Research
My research centers around leveraging the capabilities of novel programmable networking hardware for improving network performance. For example, I am interested in approaches targeting network buffers and queues (AQM), network monitoring, as well as transport protocols and congestion control.
As part of my current position in the excellence cluster Internet of Production, I further study the applicability of in-network computing concepts to networks with strict requirements, e.g., the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or the industrial production domain. In this context, I also contribute to the IRTF COIN research group.
Awards
For my contributions to the EuroSys 2021 Shadow PC, I was awarded the Distinguished Shadow PC Reviewer Award.
Working With Me
I regularly advise a number of theses on various topics and work closely together with my HiWis. Several theses and HiWi projects have directly contributed to publications and I always invite motivated students to optionally participate in the paper writing process. Thus, if you consider working in academia, doing your thesis or working as a HiWi with me might be a good way to get early experience.
The following (non-exhaustive) lists provide an overview of thesis topics and HiWi positions that I currently offer. If you are interested in doing your thesis or working as a HiWi with me, please send me an email, shortly describing your motivation for working on the topic.
Open Thesis Topics:
- My available thesis topics are only visible within the RWTH Aachen Campus network.
If there are no open or suitable thesis topics with me, there are two options:
1. Consider doing your thesis with one of my colleagues; you can find available topics here.
2. Have a look at my publications and my list of advised theses. Identify one specific research topic of mine that you are most interested in and send me an email, describing your motivation for working on this specific topic. There might always be a thesis topic around the corner for very motivated students ;)
Open Hiwi Positions:
- HiWi openings with me are only visible within the RWTH Aachen Campus network.
Publications
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Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA '23)
Publisher: IFIP/IEEE,
June
2023
Accepted
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Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings
Publisher: Springer,
February
2023
ISBN: 978-3-030-98062-7
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Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings
Publisher: Springer,
February
2023
ISBN: 978-3-030-98062-7
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Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings
Publisher: Springer,
February
2023
ISBN: 978-3-030-98062-7
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2022 | |
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on New IP and Beyond, co-located with the 30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
November
2022
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Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA '22)
Publisher: IFIP,
June
2022
ISBN: 978-3-903176-47-8
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ACM Transactions on Internet of Things,
3(2)
May
2022
ISSN: 2691-1914
DOI: 10.1145/3502265
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2021 | |
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER '20), co-located with the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '20), December 7-11, 2020, Austin, TX, USA
Publisher: ACSA,
December
2021
ISBN: 978-1-891562-81-5
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Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Evolution, Performance and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ '21), page 15–21.
Publisher: ACM,
December
2021
ISBN: 9781450391351
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ANRW '21: Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, page 22 - 28.
Publisher: ACM,
July
2021
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Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 30th International Symposium
on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Publisher: IEEE,
June
2021
ISBN: 978-1-7281-9023-5
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Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing: Workshop on Semantic Addressing and Routing for Future Networks (SARNET-21)
Publisher: IEEE,
June
2021
ISBN: 978-1-6654-4005-9
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IETF Contributions
2022 | |
| 2. |
Document number: draft-irtf-coinrg-use-cases-02
Internet Engineering Task Force,
March
2022
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2021 | |
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Document number: draft-kunze-coinrg-transport-issues-05
Internet Engineering Task Force,
October
2021
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Teaching Activities
I am/have been involved in the following courses at RWTH Aachen University:
- Lab
- Research Focus Class
- Research Focus Class on In-Network Processing (Master): WS 2019/20
- Lecture
- Betriebssysteme und Systemsoftware (Bachelor): SS 2021
- Advanced Internet Technology (Bachelor/Master): WS 2019/20
- Seminar/Proseminar
Ongoing Theses
My currently ongoing thesis topics are only visible within the RWTH Aachen Campus network.
Advised Theses
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A Topic in Network Monitoring
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2022
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Traffic Ahead: Basing Internet Routing Decisions on Cross-Domain Insights
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2022
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Analyzing the Impact of In-Network Data Pre-Processing on Post-Factum Analyses in Industrial Environments
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2022
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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A Topic in Network Architectures
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2022
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A Topic in Protocol Analysis
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2022
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A Topic in Network Monitoring
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2022
FOLKS Award for the best Bachelor's theses in 2022
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A Topic in Active Queue Management
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2022
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A Topic in Internet Measurements
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2022
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A Topic in Network Architectures
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2022
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A Topic in Cyber-Physical Systems
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, January 2022
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP) and DFG SPP 1914
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A Topic in Network Monitoring
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, January 2022
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QoS Meets Network Slicing for Inter-Domain Guarantees
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2021
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Pattern Discovery and Anomaly Detection in Signal Profile using Hierarchical Tree Structure
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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A Topic in Cyber-Physical Systems
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2020
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Analyzing the Performance Impacts of PIE Parameterizations
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2020
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Exploring In-Session Congestion Control Algorithm Switching – Adapting Congestion Control to Changing Conditions And Requirements
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2020
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Scalable Wireless Communication for Factory Automation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2020
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Enabling Anycast-based Industrial In-Network Control in 802.11 Networks
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2020
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Investigating Active Queue Management in Hardware
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2020
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On the Applicability of In-Network Devices for Algorithm Processing
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2019
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