Manuel Simon, M.Sc.

Consultation hours

By arrangement

Research

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

projects

6G-life: Research on Future 6G Network Architectures (2021 – 2029)
6G Zukunftslabor Bayern – 6G Future Lab Bavaria: 6G Fundamental Research (2021 – 2029)
HYPERNIC: NIC-Level Co-Processors for Resilient Coded Networking and Computation (2023 – 2026)
6G-ANNA: Holistic Approaches for 6th Generation Cellular Networks (2022 – 2025)

Teaching

since SS22: Teaching Assistant for Grundlagen Rechnernetze und Verteilte Systeme (SS22, SS23, SS24, SS25, SS26)
since SS21: Lab course iLab2: You set the Focus! (organizer/advisor) (SS21, WS21/22, SS22, WS22/23, SS23, WS23/24, SS24, WS24/25, SS25, WS25)
since SS21: Seminar: Innovative Internet Technologies and Mobile Communications (advisor) (WS21/22, WS22/23, SS23, WS23/24, SS25)

Activities

Artifact evaluation comittee member of The 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT '25)
TPC member of 1st Workshop on Resilient Networks and Systems (ReNeSys 2025)
TPC member of KuVS Fachgespräch - Würzburg Workshop on 6G Networks (WueWoWas'25)
Artifact evaluation comittee member of ACM SIGCOMM 2025

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.

Publications

2025-06-01	Manuel Simon, Sebastian Warter, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “TEE Time at P4—Performance Analysis of Trusted Execution Environments for Packet Processing,” in 2025 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Jun. 2025, pp. 348–352. [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [DOI] [Bib]
2025-04-01	Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Dynamic Data Planes Updates using Lua and libmoon,” in 4th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Network Softwarization", Apr. 2025. [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [DOI] [Bib]
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. [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [DOI] [Bib]
2024-10-01	Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Abstract: Honey for the Ice Bear - Dynamic eBPF in P4,” KuVS Fachgespräch - Würzburg Workshop on 6G Networks (WueWoWAS’24). Institut für Informatik, Oct-2024. [Pdf] [DOI] [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, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 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. [Preprint] [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]