All Publications

Journal Papers

• Ning Weng and Tilman Wolf, "Analytic modeling of network processors for parallel workload mapping," to appear in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
• Xin Huang and Tilman Wolf, "Evaluating dynamic task mapping in network processor runtime systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 1086–1098, Aug. 2008.
• Guy Gogniat, Tilman Wolf, Wayne Burleson, Jean-Philippe Diguet, Lilian Bossuet, and Romain Vaslin, “Reconfigurable hardware for highsecurity/ high-performance embedded systems: the SAFES perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 144–155, Feb. 2008.
• Tilman Wolf, Ning Weng, and Chia-Hui Tai, "Run-time support for multi-core packet processing systems,"IEEE Network, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 29-37, July 2007.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy and Tilman Wolf, "High-speed prefix-preserving IP address anonymization for passive measurement systems," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. 2007, pp. 26-39.
• Tilman Wolf and Mark Franklin, "Performance models for network processor design," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 548-561, June 2006.
• Tilman Wolf and Sumi Y. Choi, "Aggregated hierarchical multicast - a many-to-many communication paradigm using programmable networks," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 358-369, Aug. 2003.
• Tilman Wolf, Prashanth Pappu, and Mark A. Franklin, "Predictive scheduling of network processors," Computer Networks, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 601-621, Apr. 2003.
• Sumi Y. Choi, Jonathan S. Turner, and Tilman Wolf, "Configuring sessions in programmable networks," Computer Networks, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 269-284, Feb. 2003.
• Tilman Wolf and Jonathan S. Turner, "Design issues for high-performance active routers," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 404-409, Mar. 2001.
• Dan Decasper, Guru Parulkar, Sumi Choi, John DeHart, Tilman Wolf, and Bernhard Plattner, "A scalable high performance active network node," IEEE Network, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 8-19, Jan. 1999.

Newsletter

• Tilman Wolf, "Network processors - flexibility and performance for next-generation networks," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 65, Jan. 2002.

Book Chapters

• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "Application analysis and resource mapping for heterogeneous network processor architectures," in Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, Volume 3, Mark A. Franklin, Patrick Crowley, Haldun Hadimioglu, and Peter Z. Onufryk, Eds., chapter 13, pp. 277-306. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Feb. 2005.
• Mark A. Franklin and Tilman Wolf, "Power considerations in network processor design," in Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, Volume 2, Mark A. Franklin, Patrick Crowley, Haldun Hadimioglu, and Peter Z. Onufryk, Eds., chapter 3, pp. 29-50. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Nov. 2003.
• Mark A. Franklin and Tilman Wolf, "A network processor performance and design model with benchmark parameterization," in Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, Volume 1, Patrick Crowley, Mark A. Franklin, Haldun Hadimioglu, and Peter Z. Onufryk, Eds., chapter 6, pp. 117-138. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Oct. 2002.

Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Papers

• Xin Huang, Sivakumar Ganapathy and Tilman Wolf, “A framework for network state management in the next-generation internet architecture,” in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2008.
• Shashank Shanbhag and Tilman Wolf, “Evaluation of an online parallel anomaly detection system,” in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2008.
• Danai Chasaki, Y. Sinan Hanay, and Tilman Wolf, “Topology reconstruction via path recording in secure MANET,” in Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), San Diego, CA, Nov. 2008.
• Qiang Wu and Tilman Wolf, “On runtime management in multi-core packet processing systems,” in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), San Jose, CA, Nov. 2008.
• Tilman Wolf, “Data path credentials for high-performance capabilities-based networks,” in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), San Jose, CA, Nov. 2008.
• Xin Huang, Sivakumar Ganapathy, and Tilman Wolf, “A scalable distributed routing protocol for networks with data-path services,” in Proc. of 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Orlando, FL, Oct. 2008.
• Xin Huang, Sivakumar Ganapathy, and Tilman Wolf, “A distributed algorithm for network service placement,” in Proc. of Seventeenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, USVI, Aug. 2008.
• Shashank Shanbhag and Tilman Wolf, “Massively parallel anomaly detection in online network measurement,” in Proc. of Seventeenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, USVI, Aug. 2008.
• Qiang Wu and Tilman Wolf, “Dynamic workload profiling and task allocation in packet processing systems,” in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Shanghai, China, May 2008.
• Charlie Wiseman, Ken Wong, Tilman Wolf, and Sergey Gorinsky, “Operational experience with a virtual networking laboratory,” in Proc. of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, Mar. 2008.
• Tilman Wolf, “Design of a network architecture with inherent data path security,” in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), Orlando, FL, Dec. 2007, pp. 39–40.
• Tilman Wolf, “A credential-based data path architecture for assurable global networking,” in Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), Orlando, FL, Oct. 2007.
• Qiang Wu, Yong Liao, Tilman Wolf, and Lixin Gao, "Benchmarking BGP routers," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Boston, MA, Sept. 2007.
• Sivakumar Ganapathy and Tilman Wolf, "Design of a network service architecture," in Proc. of Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, HI, Aug. 2007.
• Shufu Mao and Tilman Wolf, "Hardware support for secure processing in embedded systems," in Proc. of 44th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Diego, CA, June 2007, pp. 483-488.
• Siddhartha Bunga and Tilman Wolf, "A characterization of high-performance network monitoring systems and workloads," in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Brooklyn, NY, May 2007.
• Tilman Wolf, Yan Cai, Patrick A. Kelly, and Weibo Gong, "Stochastic sampling for internet traffic measurement," in Proc. of 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Anchorage, AK, May 2007.
• Tilman Wolf, "Assessing the impact of inking technology in a large digital design course," in Proc. of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, KY, Mar. 2007, pp. 79-83.
• Ken Wong, Tilman Wolf, Sergey Gorinsky, and Jonathan Turner, "Teaching experiences with a virtual network laboratory," in Proc. of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, KY, Mar. 2007, pp. 481-485.
• Xin Huang and Tilman Wolf, "A methodology for evaluating runtime support in network processors," in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), San Jose, CA, Dec. 2006, pp. 113-122.
• Tilman Wolf, Shufu Mao, Dhruv Kumar, Basab Datta, Wayne Burleson, and Guy Gogniat, "Collaborative monitors for embedded system security," in Proc. of First International Workshop on Embedded Systems Security in conjunction with 6th Annual ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 2006.
• Lukas Ruf, Tilman Wolf, Karoly Farkas, and Bernhard Plattner, "Specification of network services and mapping algorithms," in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), Washington, DC, Oct. 2006.
• Tilman Wolf, "Service-centric end-to-end abstractions in next-generation networks," in Proc. of Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Arlington, VA, Oct. 2006, pp. 79-86.
• Tilman Wolf, Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Siddhartha Bunga, and Ning Yang, "An architecture for distributed real-time passive network measurement," in Proc. of 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Monterey, CA, Sept. 2006, pp. 335-344.
• Tilman Wolf, "Challenges and applications for network-processor-based programmable routers," in Proc. of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2006. (Invited)
• Guy Gogniat, Tilman Wolf, and Wayne Burleson, "Reconfigurable security support for embedded systems," in Proc. of 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS-39), Poipu, HI, Jan. 2006.
• Tilman Wolf, Shulin You, and Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, "Transparent TCP acceleration through network processing," in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2005, vol. 2, pp. 750-754.
• Guy Gogniat, Tilman Wolf, and Wayne Burleson, "Reconfigurable security primitive for embedded systems," in Proc. of International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SOC), Tampere, Finland, Nov. 2005.
• Tilman Wolf, Ning Weng, and Chia-Hui Tai, "Design considerations for network processor operating systems," in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), Princeton, NJ, Oct. 2005, pp. 71-80.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "Analysis of network processing workloads," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, TX, Mar. 2005, pp. 226-235.
• Ning Weng and Tilman Wolf, "Profiling and mapping of parallel workloads on network processors," in Proc. of The 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Santa Fe, NM, Mar. 2005, pp. 890-896.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "A network processor based passive measurement node," in Proc. of Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), Boston, MA, Mar. 2005, pp. 337-340.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "Characterizing network processing delay," in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dallas, TX, Nov. 2004, pp. 1629-1634.
• Ning Weng and Tilman Wolf, "Pipelining vs. multiprocessors - choosing the right network processor system topology," in Proc. of Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR 2004) in conjunction with The 31st ACM/IEEE Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2004), Munich, Germany, June 2004.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "Application analysis and resource mapping for heterogeneous network processor architectures," in Proc. of Third Workshop on Network Processors and Applications (NP-3) in conjunction with Tenth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-10), Madrid, Spain, Feb. 2004, pp. 103-119.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy and Tilman Wolf, "PacketBench: A tool for workload characterization of network processing," in Proc. of IEEE 6th Annual Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-6), Austin, TX, Oct. 2003, pp. 42-50.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "Considering processing cost in network simulations," in Proc. of Workshop on Models, Methods and Tools for Reproducible Network Research (MoMeTools) in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Aug. 2003, pp. 47-56.
• Mark A. Franklin and Tilman Wolf, "Power considerations in network processor design," in Proc. of Second Network Processor Workshop (NP-2) in conjunction with Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-9), Anaheim, CA, Feb. 2003, pp. 10-22.
• Prashanth Pappu and Tilman Wolf, "Scheduling processing resources in programmable routers," in Proc. of the Twenty-First IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, Mar. 2002, pp. 104-112.
• Tilman Wolf and Mark A. Franklin, "Design tradeoffs for embedded network processors," in Proc. of International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Karlsruhe, Germany, Apr. 2002, vol. 2299, pp. 149-164, Springer Verlag.
• Mark A. Franklin and Tilman Wolf, "A network processor performance and design model with benchmark parameterization," in Proc. of First Network Processor Workshop (NP-1) in conjunction with Eighth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-8), Cambridge, MA, Feb. 2002, pp. 63-74.
• Tilman Wolf and Mark A. Franklin, "Locality-aware predictive scheduling for network processors," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Tucson, AZ, Nov. 2001, pp. 152-159.
• Tilman Wolf and Sumi Y. Choi, "Aggregated hierarchical multicast for active networks," in Proc. of the 2001 IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), McLean, VA, Oct. 2001, pp. 899-904.
• Ralph Keller, Jeyashankher Ramamirtham, Tilman Wolf, and Bernhard Plattner, "Active pipes: Program composition for programmable networks," in Proc. of the 2001 IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), McLean, VA, Oct. 2001, pp. 962-966.
• Sumi Y. Choi, Jonathan S. Turner, and Tilman Wolf, "Configuring sessions in programmable networks," in Proc. of the Twentieth IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Anchorage, AK, Apr. 2001, pp. 60-66.
• Tilman Wolf and Mark A. Franklin, "CommBench - a telecommunications benchmark for network processors," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, TX, Apr. 2000, pp. 154-162.
• Tilman Wolf, Dan Decasper, and Christian Tschudin, "Tags for high performance active networks," in Proc. of the Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH), Tel Aviv, Israel, Mar. 2000, pp. 37-44.
• Tilman Wolf and Jonathan S. Turner, "Design issues for high performance active routers," in Proc. of the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 2000, pp. 199-205.
• Tilman Wolf and Dan Decasper, "CPU scheduling for active processing using feedback deficit round robin," in Proc. of the 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 1999, pp. 768-769.
• Sumi Choi, Dan Decasper, John DeHart, Ralph Keller, John Lockwood, Jonathan Turner, and Tilman Wolf, "Design of a flexible open platform for high performance active networks," in Proc. of the 37th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 1999, pp. 157-165.

Posters, Abstracts, Other

• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "An IXA-based network measurement node," in Proc. of Intel IXA University Summit, Hudson, MA, Sept. 2004.
• Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, and Tilman Wolf, "Workload analysis for network processor design," in Proc. of Boston Area Computer Architecture Workshop (BARC2004), Boston, MA, Jan. 2004, (Abstract).
• Tilman Wolf, "Network processors - flexibility and performance for next-generation networks," ACM Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), Aug. 2001, (Poster).
• Tilman Wolf, "Design of an instruction set for modular network processors," IBM Research Report, RC21865, Oct. 2000.

Theses

• Tilman Wolf, Design and Performance of a Scalable High-Performance Programmable Routers, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, May 2002.
• Tilman Wolf, "Benutzererzeugte Annotationen auf WWW-Dokumenten," Diplom thesis, Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, July 1998.
• Tilman Wolf, "Design of a medical-video-on-demand system over ATM-networks," M.S. thesis, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Aug. 1997.

Technical Reports

• Tilman Wolf, Yong Huang, Weibo Gong, and Yan Cai, "On Network-Wide Packet Pacing", Technical Report TR-08-CSE-07, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.