Publications by Topic

Publications may be listed under multiple of the following topics:

• Next-Generation Internet Architecture
• Capabilities-Based Networks
• Network Measurement
• Embedded System Security
• Network Processor Run-Time Systems and Scheduling
• Analytic Models for Network Processors
• Workload Analysis
• Application Partitioning and Mapping for Parallel Processing
• Network Processor and Programmable Router Design
• Applications of Network ProcessingTechnology
• Programmable Networks
• Educational Technology

Next-Generation Internet Architecture

• 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.
• 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.

Capabilities-Based Networks

• 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.

Network Measurement

Highlights:

• 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.
• 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.

Other:

• 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.
• 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.

Embedded System Security

Highlights:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Other:

• 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.
• 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.

Network Processor Run-Time Systems and Scheduling

Highlights:

• 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, 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.
• Tilman Wolf, Prashanth Pappu, and Mark A. Franklin, "Predictive scheduling of network processors," Computer Networks, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 601-621, Apr. 2003.

Other:

• Xin Huang and Tilman Wolf, "Evaluating dynamic task mapping in network processor runtime systems," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• 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, "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.
• 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, "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 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.

Analytic Models for Network Processors

Highlights:

• Ning Weng and Tilman Wolf, "Analytic modeling of network processors for parallel workload mapping," to appear in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
• 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.

Other:

• 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, "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.
• 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.
• 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, "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.

Workload Analysis

Highlights:

• 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.
• 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.

Other:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Application Partitioning and Mapping for Parallel Processing

Highlights:

• 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.
• Ning Weng and Tilman Wolf, "Analytic modeling of network processors for parallel workload mapping," to appear in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.

Other:

• 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.
• 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, "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.
• 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.

Network Processor and Programmable Router Design

Highlights:

• 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.
• 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, "Challenges and applications for network-processor-based programmable routers," in Proc. of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2006.

Other:

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

Applications of Network Processing Technology

Highlights:

• 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.
• 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.

Other:

• Tilman Wolf, "Challenges and applications for network-processor-based programmable routers," in Proc. of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2006.
• 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.

Programmable Networks

Highlights:

• 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.
• 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.

Other:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.

Educational Technology

• 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, "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.