The Internet is indispensable for our life today and for our globalized financial economy. The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability and trust. Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource. Physical location Internet eXchange Points (IXP) are highly valuable for the Internet as neutral exchange places wher...

A major challenge in network virtualization is to virtualize the components constituting the network, in particular the routers. In the work presented here, we focus on how to use open source Linux software in combination with commodity hardware to build open virtual routers. A general approach in open router virtualization is to run multiple virtual instances in parallel on the same PC hardwar...

The first OpenFlow Software-Defined Network (SDN) Controller, NOX, was developed by Nicira Networks and donated to the research community in 2008. Almost 10 years later, there are at least 29 open-source SDN Controllers and many more proprietary solutions. Two of the open-source SDN controllers stand out in terms of broad deployment and strong contributor base; Open Network Operating System (ON...

This paper introduces a Relative Mapping Algorithm. This algorithm presents a new way of looking at the SLAM problem that does not use Probability, Iterative Closest Point, or Scan Matching techniques. A map of landmarks is generated by using the average relative location difference between landmarks. This means the algorithm does not use any known, estimated or predicted movement or position d...

This article describes a new software infrastructure that combines the scalability and flexibility benefits of real-time network simulation with the realism of opensource routing protocol implementations. The infrastructure seamlessly integrates the open-source XORP router implementation with a real-time large-scale network simulation engine. The design uses a novel forwarding plane offloading ...

The notion “Optical flow” refers to the apparent motion in the image plane produced by the projection of the real 3D motion onto the 2D image plane. The thesis at hand addresses postprocessing and restoration methods for arbitrarily computed optical flow fields. Many motion estimators have been proposed during the last three decades, but all of them suffer from shortcomings in difficult situati...

The tool provides RNC state information for a device without relying on captures from cellular infrastructure or external energy measurements. The tool does not require root access or modifications to the phone's firmware. This paper introduces an open-source and much-needed tool to analyze cellular networks for many researchers who do not have access to the internal components of cellular netw...