Manuel Simon, M.Sc.

Research Associate

Postal address

  • Institut für Informatik der
  • Technischen Universität München
  • Lehrstuhl I8
  • Boltzmannstr. 3
  • 85748 Garching bei München - Germany

Contact

Consultation hours

By arrangement

Research

  • Software Defined Networking
  • High-performant low-latency packet-processing
  • Network resilience
  • P4

projects

Teaching

  • since SS22: Teaching Assistant for Grundlagen Rechnernetze und Verteilte Systeme (SS22, SS23, SS24)
  • since SS21: Lab course iLab2: You set the Focus! (organizer/advisor) (SS21, WS21/22, SS22, WS22/23, SS23, WS23/24, SS24)
  • since SS21: Seminar: Innovative Internet Technologies and Mobile Communications (advisor) (WS21/22, WS22/23, SS23, WS23/24)

About Me

Manuel Simon received his Master of Science in Informatics at the Technical University of Munich in 2021. In the same year, he started as a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Network Architectures and Services. His main research topics are software-defined networking, data plane programming, and high-performance packet processing. Of particular interest is P4, a domain-specific language to program data planes.

Supervised Theses

In progress

Student Title Type Advisors Year Links
Isabella Rödl Implementation of a Practical Lab Assignment for Software Defined Networking IDP Manuel Simon 2024
Konstantin Wiencke Performance Analysis of a SmartNIC running DPDK IDP Manuel Simon, Stefan Lachnit 2024
Christoph Wen A Live-Monitoring System for Low-Latency Network Traffic MA Sebastian Gallenmüller, Eric Hauser, Manuel Simon 2024
Désirée Rentz Deployment of a 5G Network on the SLICES-TUM Research Infrastructure for Reproducible Experiments IDP Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2024
Nicolas Haunschild Evaluating the Performance of the P4 Kernel Software Target P4TC BA Manuel Simon 2024

Finished

Author Title Type Advisors Year Links
Sebastian Warter Packet Processing with Programmable Data Planes and Trusted Execution Environments MA Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2024
Lukas Schröder Data Plane based Optimization for Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus MA Richard von Seck, Manuel Simon 2023
Michael Oberrauch Towards Running Arbitrary Programs on SUME MA Henning Stubbe, Eric Hauser, Manuel Simon 2023
Désirée Rentz Testing and Grading of Low-Layer Network Programming Assignments Using Concepts of Behavior Driven Development BA Markus Sosnowski, Leander Seidlitz, Manuel Simon, Stephan Günther 2023
Yalım Çağatay Bilgin Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Collaborative Editing Tool for Hardware-Based Lab Courses IDP Christoph Schwarzenberg, Manuel Simon, Christian Lübben, Florian Wiedner 2023
Utku Güngör Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Collaborative Editing Tool for Hardware-Based Lab Courses IDP Christoph Schwarzenberg, Manuel Simon, Christian Lübben, Florian Wiedner 2023
Lap Shun Yu Implementing and Benchmarking Secure Multiparty Computation Protocols with DPDK MA Christopher Harth-Kitzerow, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser 2023
Felix Hahn Failure Detection through Active and Passive Techniques in P4 BA Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser 2023
Ruben Bachmann Comparison of DPDK-Enabled P4 Software Targets MA Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Stefan Lachnit 2023
Altan Kesan Virtualizing T4P4S-based Programmable Network Elements MA Florian Wiedner, Manuel Simon 2022
Jacob Obrman Benchmarking Secure Multiparty Computation Protocols BA Christopher Harth-Kitzerow, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser 2022
Philipp Eisermann Benchmarking MP_SPDZ Secure Multiparty Computation Protocols for different Network Environments BA Christopher Harth-Kitzerow, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser 2022
Hafik Arhan Kamac Complex Matching in Programmable Software Data Planes MA Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe 2022
Carlos Nechwatal Cache Efficient Hashing-Based Data Structures in P4 BA Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2022
Simon Schäffner cloudPos: A Portable Toolchain for Reproducible Networking Experiments in Testbeds MA Sebastian Gallenmüller, Henning Stubbe, Manuel Simon 2022
Jan Weßeling Event Processing in Software Data Planes BA Manuel Simon 2022
Timon Tsiolis Analyzing the Extensibility of Programmable Data Planes BA Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2022
Matthias Michailow Implementation and Analysis of In-Network Computation in Programmable Data Planes MA Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2021
Irina Tsareva Performance Evaluation of P4 Architectures for the NetFPGA IDP Henning Stubbe, Manuel Simon, Dominik Scholz, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2021
Benedict Blümel Evaluation of the P4 Software Target p4c-dpdk MA Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller 2021
Matthias Linhuber Virtualized Data Center Networks Utilizing Programmable Switches IDP Sebastian Gallenmüller, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Manuel Simon 2020
Eric Hauser Network-in-the-Loop: Rapid Prototyping and Measurements of Computer Network Topologies MA Sebastian Gallenmüller, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Manuel Simon 2020

Publications

2024-10-01 Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “On-the-fly Table Insertions on Programmable Software Data Planes,” in 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2024. [Preprint] [Slides] [Bib]
2024-09-01 Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser, Dominik Scholz, Georg Carle, “Exploring data plane updates on P4 switches with P4Runtime,” Computer Communications, vol. 225, pp. 44–53, Sep. 2024. [Url] [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2024-08-01 Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Honey for the Ice Bear - Dynamic eBPF in P4,” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Workshop on EBPF and Kernel Extensions, New York, NY, USA, Aug. 2024, pp. 44–50. [Url] [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [Sourcecode] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-06-01 Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser, Dominik Scholz, Georg Carle, “Keeping Up to Date With P4Runtime: An Analysis of Data Plane Updates on P4 Switches,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2023 Conference (IFIP Networking 2023), Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2023, p. 9. [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-06-01 Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Never Miss Twice - Add-On-Miss Table Updates in Software Data Planes,” in KuVS Fachgespräch - Würzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS’23), Würzburg, Germany, Jun. 2023, p. 5. Best Workshop Contribution [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-03-01 Kilian Holzinger, Henning Stubbe, Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Robuste und sichere Kommunikation für die Mobilfunknetze der Zukunft,” in Nationale Konferenz IT-Sicherheitsforschung, Postersession, Berlin, Germany, Mar. 2023. [Poster] [Bib]
2022-08-01 Eric Hauser, Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Slicing Networks with P4 Hardware and Software Targets,” in ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on 5G and Beyond Network Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU ’22), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 2022. [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2021-12-01 Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “High-Performance Match-Action Table Updates from within Programmable Software Data Planes,” in 4th P4 Workshop in Europe (EUROP4), Virtual Event, Dec. 2021. [Pdf] [Slides] [Sourcecode] [Recording] [DOI] [Bib]