Cristel PELSSER

The focus of my research is on network operations, routing, Internet measurements, and protocols.

I'm currently looking to fill a post doc position. The application deadline is June 15, 2018.

Professional Activities

• Co-chair of AINTEC 2018
• Co-chair of AlgoTel 2018
• Co-chair of SIGCOMM 2015 posters, demos and the ACM Student Research Competition
• Co-chair of CoNExt 2011 Shadow TPC

• TPC member of IMC 2018
• TPC member of IMC 2017
• TPC member of SIGCOMM 2017 Posters and Demos
• TPC member of CoNEXT 2015
• TPC member of HotNets 2014

• TPC member of ANRW 2018
• TPC member of TMA 2018
• TPC member of PAM 2017
• TPC member of GIS 2017
• TPC member of ITC29
• TPC member of CoRes 2017
• TPC member of TMA 2014
• TPC member of AINTEC 2014
• TPC member of AINTEC 2013
• TPC member of GI 2013
• TPC member of the CoNEXT Student Workshop in 2010 and 2009
• Member of the Shadow TPC of CoNEXT 2007

• Occasional reviewer for magazines such as Transactions on Networking (ACM), Communications Magazine (IEEE), Computer Networks, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management ...
• Member of the WIDE project

Awards

• RACI (RIPE75).

  Juan Brenes, Marcelo Bagnulo, Alberto García-Martínez, Andra Lutu, Cristel Pelsser. "Power Prefixes Prioritization for Smarter BGP Reconvergence". RIPE 75, October 2017.

• RACI (RIPE74).

  Julien Gamba, Romain Fontugne, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Emile Aben. "BGP table fragmentation: what & who?". CoRes, Quiberon, France, Mai 2017.

• Best paper award at Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2016).

  Antoine Fressancourt, Cristel Pelsser, Maurice Gagnaire. "Kumori: Steering Cloud Traffic at IXPs to Improve Resiliency". In Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2016), Paris, France, March 2016.

• Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) granted at IETF-87 in 2013 for the framework on seamless BGP reconfigurations.

  Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever, Cristel Pelsser, Luca Cittadini, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. "Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2012.

• Best presentation Award at Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2005).

  Steve Uhlig, Cristel Pelsser, Bruno Quoitin and Olivier Bonaventure. "Vers des réflecteurs de routes plus intelligents". Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2005), March-April 2005.

Publications

International journals and magazines

• David Hauweele , Bruno Quoitin , Cristel Pelsser and Randy Bush. "What do parrots and BGP routers have in common". In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July 2016.
• Andra Lutu, Marcelo Bagnulo, Cristel Pelsser, Olaf Maennel and Jesú Cid. "The BGP Visibility Toolkit: Detecting Anomalous Internet Routing Behavior". In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2015.
• Andra Lutu, Marcelo Bagnulo, Cristel Pelsser, Kenjiro Cho and Rade Stanojevic. "An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Strategic Deaggregation". Computer Networks, Volume 81, pages 147-163, March 2015.
• Caroline Battaglia, Véronique Bruyére, Olivier Gauwin, Cristel Pelsser and Bruno Quoitin. "Reasoning on BGP Routing Filters using Tree Automata." Computer Networks (In press), January 2014.
• Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever, Cristel Pelsser, Luca Cittadini, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. "Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 2013. ANRP 2013 for IETF-86 Award
• Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio, Cristel Pelsser, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. "Lossless Migrations of Link-State IGPs", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2012. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Cristel Pelsser, Steve Uhlig, Tomonori Takeda, Bruno Quoitin and Kohei Shiomoto. "Providing scalable NH-diverse iBGP route redistribution to achieve sub-second switch-over time". Computer Networks, April 2010. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Bruno Quoitin, Cristel Pelsser, Olivier Bonaventure and Steve Uhlig. "A performance evaluation of BGP-based traffic engineering". International Journal of Network Management, Volume 15, Issue 3, May 2005.
• Bruno Quoitin, Steve Uhlig, Cristel Pelsser, Louis Swinnen and Olivier Bonaventure. "Interdomain Traffic Engineering with BGP". IEEE Communications Magazine Internet Technology Series, Volume 41, Issue 5, May 2003.

International conferences

• Thomas Green, Anthony Lambert, Cristel Pelsser, Dario Rossi. "Leveraging inter-domain stability for BGP dynamics analysis". To appear in Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2018 (PAM 2018), Berlin, Germany, March 2018.
• Romain Fontugne, Emile Aben, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush. "Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using Large-Scale Traceroute Measurements". Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), London, UK, November 2017.
• Thomas Holterbach , Emile Aben , Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush , Laurent Vanbever. "Measurement Vantage Point Selection Using A Similarity Metric". Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2017.
• Anant Shah , Romain Fontugne , Emile Aben , Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush. "Disco: Fast, Good, and Cheap Outage Detection". Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Dublin, Ireland, June 2017.
• Antoine Fressancourt, Cristel Pelsser, Maurice Gagnaire. "Kumori: Steering Cloud Traffic at IXPs to Improve Resiliency". In Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2016), Paris, France, March 2016. Best paper award
• Thomas Holterbach, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever. "Quantifying interference between measurements on the RIPE Atlas platform". In IMC 2015, October 2015.
• Daniele Iamartino, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush. "A study of BGP route origin registration and validation". In PAM 2015, March 2015.
• Jean Lorchat, Cristel Pelsser, Romain Fontugne. "Collaborative Repository for Cybersecurity Data and Threat Information". 3rd International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS 2014), September 2014.
• Andra Lutu, Marcelo Bagnulo, Cristel Pelsser, Olaf Maennel. "Understanding the Reachability of IPv6 Limited Visibility Prefixes". In the 15th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2014), Los Angeles, California, March 2014.
• Cristel Pelsser, Luca Cittadini, Stefano Vissicchio and Randy Bush. "From Paris to Tokyo: On the Suitability of Ping to Measure Latency". In IMC'13: Proceedings of the 2013 Internet Measurement Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.
• Andra Lutu, Cristel Pelsser, Marcelo Bagnulo and Kenjiro Cho. "The Aftermath of Prefix Deaggregation". In ITC 25, Shanghai, China, September 2013.
• Debbie Perouli, Timothy G. Griffin, Olaf Maennel, Sonia Fahmy, Cristel Pelsser, Alexander Gurney, Iain Phillips. "Detecting Unsafe BGP Policies in a Flexible World." In Proceedings of International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Austin, TX, USA, November 2012.
• Debbie Perouli, Stefano Vissicchio, Alexander Gurney, Olaf Maennel, Timothy G. Griffin, Iain Phillips, Sonia Fahmy, Cristel Pelsser. "Reducing the Complexity of BGP Stability Analysis with Hybrid Combinatorial-Algebraic Models." In Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Rigorous Protocol Engineering (WRIPE), Austin, TX, USA, November 2012.
• Jean Lorchat, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Keiichi Shima, Helene Schlesinger and Leif Johansson. "TAMIAS: a distributed storage built on privacy and identity." Terena Networking Conference (TNC), Reykjavík, Iceland, May 2012.
• Kenjiro Cho, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush and Youngjoon Won. "The Japan Earthquake: the impact on traffic and routing observed by a local ISP". ACM CoNEXT Special Workshop on the Internet and Disasters, December 2011.
• Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio, Cristel Pelsser, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. "Seamless Network-Wide IGP Migrations". ACM SIGCOMM 2011, August 2011.
• Iuniana Oprescu, Mickael Meulle, Steve Uhlig, Cristel Pelsser, Olaf Maennel, Philippe Owzarski. "oBGP: an Overlay for a Scalable iBGP Control Plane". IFIP Networking 2011, May 2011.
• Cristel Pelsser, Olaf Maennel, Pradosh Mohapatra, Randy Bush and Keyur Patel. "Route Flap Damping Made Usable". PAM 2011, March 2011.
• Jean Lorchat, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Keiichi Shima. "Tamias: A Privacy Aware Distributed Storage";. FAST'2011 Poster, Feb 2011.
• Cristel Pelsser, Akeo Masuda and Kohei Shiomoto. "Scalable Support of Interdomain Routes in a Single AS". In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2009, December 2009. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Akeo Masuda, Cristel Pelsser and Kohei Shiomoto. "Prototype Design for Scalable Support of Interdomain Routes in a Single AS". In Proceedings of FutureNet II, December 2009. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Shohei Kamamura, Takashi Miyamura, Cristel Pelsser, Ichiro Inoue and Kohei Shiomoto. "Minimum Backup Configuration-Creation Method for IP Fast Reroute". In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2009, December 2009.
• Shohei Kamamura, Takashi Miyamura, Cristel Pelsser, Ichiro Inoue and Kohei Shiomoto. "Scalable Backup Configurations Creation for IP Fast Reroute". In 7th International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2009), October 2009.
• Virginie Van den Schrieck, Pierre Francois, Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure. "Preventing the Unnecessary Propagation of BGP Withdraws". In Proc. of IFIP Networking 2009, May 2009. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Cristel Pelsser, Tomonori Takeda, Eiji Oki and Kohei Shiomoto. "Improving route diversity through the design of iBGP topologies". In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), May 2008. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure. "Path selection techniques to establish constrained interdomain MPLS LSPs". In Proc. of the IFIP International Networking Conference, LNCS 3976, May 2006.
• Cristel Pelsser, Steve Uhlig and Olivier Bonaventure. "On the difficulty of establishing interdomain LSPs". In Proc. of 2004 IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2004), October 2004.
• Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure. "Extending RSVP-TE to support Inter-AS LSPs". In Proc. of 2003 Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2003), June 2003.
• Cristel Pelsser and Stefaan De Cnodder. "Improvements to Core Stateless Fair Queueing". In Proc. of the Seventh International Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks (PfHSN 2002), LNCS 2334, April 2002.

Posters

• Thomas Green, Anthony Lambert, Dario Rossi, Cristel Pelsser. "Leveraging interdomain stability for squeezed and juicy BGP dynamics" PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA), Dublin, Ireland, June 2017. Poster
• Thomas Holterbach, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever. "Quantifying Interference Between Measurements On The RIPE Atlas Platform". PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA), Barcelona, Spain, April 2015.
• Josh Bailey, Dean Pemberton, Andy Linton, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush. "Enforcing RPKI-Based Routing Policy on the Data Plane at an Internet Exchange". In HotSDN 2014 (Poster session), August 2014. Poster Abstract
• Debbie Perouli, Timothy G. Griffin, Olaf Maennel, Sonia Fahmy, Iain Phillips, Cristel Pelsser. "Detecting the Unintended in BGP Policies." Poster at International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Austin, TX, USA, October 2012.
• Jean Lorchat, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Keiichi Shima. "Tamias: A Privacy Aware Distributed Storage";. FAST'2011 Poster, Feb 2011.
• Iuniana Oprescu, Mickael Meulle, Steve Uhlig, Cristel Pelsser, Olaf Maennel, Philippe Owzarski. "Rethinking iBGP Routing". SIGCOMM 2010 Poster/Demo, August 2010. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Cristel Pelsser. "Using Virtual Coordinates in the Establishment of Inter-domain LSPs". Student Workshop, CoNEXT 2005, October 2005.
• Cristel Pelsser. "MPLS Traffic Engineering across AS boundaries". Inter-Domain Routing Workshop (IDRWS 2004), Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2004. Proceedings.

National Journals and Magazines

• Cristel Pelsser. "ネットワークの再設定に関する共同研究". In IIJ News, Vol. 118, October 2013.
• Jean Lorchat and Cristel Pelsser, "Tamias：安全かつプライベートな個人向け分散ストレージ". In IIJ Internet Infrastructure Review, Vol. 19, May 2013.
• Akeo Masuda, Cristel Pelsser, Kohei Shiomoto, "SpliTable: Toward Routing Scalability Through Distributed BGP Routing Tables", IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, Vol. E94-B, No.01, Jan. 2011. [abstract, pdf, bib]

National Conferences

• Julien Gamba , Romain Fontugne , Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush , Emile Aben. "BGP table fragmentation: what and who?". In CoRes 2017, Quiberon, France, Mai 2017.
• David Hauweele, Bruno Quoitin, Cristel Pelsser and Randy Bush. "The Origin of BGP Duplicates". In CoRes 2016, May 2016.
• Thomas Holterbach, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever. "Quantifying interference between measurements on the RIPE Atlas platform". In CoRes 2016, May 2016.
• Cristel Pelsser, Akeo Masuda, Kohei Shiomoto. "A novel internal BGP route distribution architecture". In Proc. of the IEICE General Conference, March 2009. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Cristel Pelsser, Tomonori Takeda. "Metrics to Evaluate the Cost of Maintaining Diverse BGP Routes". In Proc. of the IEICE General Conference, March 2008. [abstract, pdf, bib]
• Steve Uhlig, Cristel Pelsser, Bruno Quoitin and Olivier Bonaventure. "Vers des réflecteurs de route plus intelligents". Colloque Francophone sur l’Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2005), March-April 2005. Best Paper Award

RFCs

• Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Keyur Patel, Pradosh Mohapatra and Olaf Maennel. "Making Route Flap Damping Usable". RFC 7196, May 2014.
• Bruno Decraene, Pierre Francois, Cristel Pelsser, Zubair Ahmad, A. J. Elizondo Armengol and T. Takeda. "Requirements for the graceful shutdown of BGP sessions". RFC 6198, January 2011.

IETF drafts

• Pierre Francois, Bruno Decraene, Cristel Pelsser, Keyur Patel and Clarence Filsfils. "Graceful BGP session shutdown". Work in progress, draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-12.txt, October 2017.
• Shishio Tsuchiya, Seiichi Kawamura, Randy Bush and Cristel Pelsser. "Route Flap Damping Deployment Status Survey". Work in progress, draft-shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey-05, June 2012.

• Cristel Pelsser, Steve Uhlig and Olivier Bonaventure. "Limitations induced by BGP on the computation of interdomain LSPs". Work in progress, draft-pelsser-bgp-pce-00.txt, October 2004.
• Stefaan De Cnodder and Cristel Pelsser. "Protection for inter-AS MPLS tunnels". Work in progress, draft-decnodder-ccamp-interas-protection-00.txt, July 2004.
• Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure. "RSVP-TE extensions for interdomain LSPs", Work in progress, October 2002.

Book chapters

• B. Fu, C. Pelsser, and S. Uhlig. Pushing QoS across interdomain boundaries. Chapter 6 of "End-to-End Quality of Service Engineering in Next Generation Heterogenous Networks". jointly published by ISTE and Wiley & Sons, November 2008.

Technical reports

• R. Fontugne , E. Aben , C. Pelsser, R. Bush. "Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using Large-Scale Traceroute Measurements". arXiv:1605.04784v2, Mai 2016
• Randy Bush, Cristel Pelsser, Mirjam Kuhne, Olaf Maennel, Pradosh Mohapatra, Keyur Patel, Rob Evans. "RIPE Routing Working Group Recommendations on Route Flap Damping". ripe-580, January 2013.
• Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure. "Exploring the Trade-offs in Inter-AS LSPs Computation". Technical Report 2005-13, November 2005.

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