Publications

Conference, Workshop, and Journal Publications

Fan Yi, Haoran Wan, Kyle Jamieson, Jennifer Rexford, Yaxiong Xie, Oliver Michel. “Athena: Seeing and Mitigating Wireless Impact on Video Conferencing and Beyond”. In 23st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets ‘24), Irvine, CA, USA, 2024
Marcelo Abranches, Erika Hunhoff, Rohan Eswara, Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “LinuxFP: Transparently Accelerating Linux Networking”. In *Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ‘24), Jersey City, NJ, USA, 2024 – won distinguished paper award ieee xplore
Marcelo Abranches, Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “Getting back what was lost in the era of high-speed software packet processing”. In 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets ‘22), Austin, TX, USA, 2022 full paper acm dl
Oliver Michel, Satadal Sengupta, Hyojoon Kim, Ravi Netravali, Jennifer Rexford. “Enabling Passive Measurement of Zoom Performance in Production Networks”. In 2022 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ‘22), Nice, France, 2022 full paper acm dl talk video
Vamsi Addanki, Oliver Michel, Stefan Schmid. “PowerTCP: Pushing the Performance Limits of Datacenter Networks”. In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘22), Renton, WA, USA, 2022 full paper usenix
Marcelo Abranches, Oliver Michel, Eric Keller, Stefan Schmid. “Efficient Network Monitoring Applications in the Kernel with eBPF and XDP”. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN ‘22), Heraklion, Greece, 2021 – won best paper full paper ieee xplore
Oliver Michel, Gabor Retvari, Roberto Bifulco, Stefan Schmid. “The Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications”. In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol. 54, no. 4, 2021 acm dl arxiv preprint
Oliver Michel, John Sonchack, Greg Cusack, Maziyar Nazari, Eric Keller, Jonathan M. Smith. “Software Packet-Level Network Analytics at Cloud Scale”. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 18, no. 1, 2021 full paper ieee xplore
Oliver Michel, Eric Keller, Fernando M.V. Ramos. “Network Defragmentation in Virtualized Data Centers”. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2019)*, Rome, Italy, 2019 full paper ieee xplore
Oliver Michel, John Sonchack, Eric Keller, Jonathan M. Smith. “PIQ: Persistent Interactive Queries for Network Analytics”. In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Sec. 2019), Dallas, TX, USA, 2019 full paper slides acm dl
Oliver Michel, John Sonchack, Eric Keller, Jonathan M. Smith. “Packet-Level Analytics in Software without Compromises”. In Proceedings of 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ‘18), Boston, MA, USA, 2018 full paper slides usenix bibtex
John Sonchack, Oliver Michel, Adam J. Aviv, Eric Keller, Jonathan M. Smith. “Scaling Hardware Accelerated Monitoring to Concurrent and Dynamic Queries With *Flow”. In Proceedings of the 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ‘18), Boston, MA, USA, 2018 full paper usenix bibtex
Greg Cusack, Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “Machine Learning-Based Detection of Ransomware using SDN”. In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization 2018, Tempe, AZ, USA, 2018 full paper acm dl bibtex
Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “SDN in Wide-Area Networks: A Survey”. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2017), Valencia, Spain, 2017 full paper slides ieee xplore bibtex
Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “Policy Routing using Process-Level Identifiers”. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2016), Berlin, Germany, 2016 full paper slides ieee xplore bibtex
Matthew Monaco, Oliver Michel, and Eric Keller. “Applying Operating System Principles to SDN Controller Design”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-XII), College Park, MD, USA, 2013 full paper acm dl bibtex
Ashish Vulimiri, Oliver Michel, P. Brighten Godfrey, and Scott Shenker. “More is Less: Reducing Latency via Redundancy”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-XI), Redmond, WA, USA, 2012 full paper acm dl bibtex

Dissertation

Oliver Michel. “Packet-Level Network Telemetry and Analytics”. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019 full document

Technical Reports

Oliver Michel, Roberto Bifulco, Gábor Rétvári, Stefan Schmid. “The Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications”. IEEE TechRxiv Preprint, 2020 techrxiv reading list
Matthew Monaco, Oliver Michel, and Eric Keller. “Applying Operating System Principles to SDN Controller Design”. University of Colorado Technical Report, Boulder, CO, USA, 2015 full paper arXiv

Posters

Oliver Michel, John Sonchack, Adam J. Aviv, Eric Keller. “Scalable, Hardware-Accelerated Network Analytics”. Poster at the 15th USENIX USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘18), Renton, WA, USA, 2018 poster extended abstract
Greg Cusack, Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “Machine Learning-Based Fingerprinting of Network Traffic using Programmable Forwarding Engines”., NDSS Security Symposium 2018, San Diego, CA, USA, 2018 – best poster award poster
Oliver Michel, Eric Keller. “Defragmenting the Cloud”. Poster at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘16), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2016 poster extended abstract
Oliver Michel, Michael Coughlin, Eric Keller. “Extending the Software-defined Network Boundary”. Poster at the ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 2014 poster extended abstract
Michael Coughlin, Oliver Michel, Eric Keller, Adam J. Aviv. “Making the Live Network the Honeypot”. Poster at the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘14), Seattle, WA, USA, 2014 poster extended abstract
Oliver Michel, Matthew Monaco, Eric Keller. “Applying Operating System Principles to SDN Controller Design”. Poster and Demo at the 18th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC18), New York, NY, USA, 2013 poster
Oliver Michel, David Stezenbach, Kurt Tutschku. “Multihoming and Adaptive Multipath Transmission using off-the-shelf Components in Preclinical Medical Care”. Poster at the 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘13), Chicago, IL, USA, 2013 poster extended abstract
Oliver Michel, Ashish Vulimiri, and P. Brighten Godfrey. “Adaptive Source Routing”. Poster at the 13th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC13), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2012 poster