Researchers

Cristel PELSSER Researcher

Research Topics

My current research interests are in Internet routing, cloud services federation and data protection. Concerning Internet routing, at this time, I am more specifically interested in routing scalability and restoration upon failures.

In the future, cloud services consumers will require redundancy in cloud service providers as well as the integration of multiple cloud services. This requires that cloud services be federated. Cloud services in a federation can be called using a single, well known API. The objective is to define such an API. This involves proposing a naming and addressing solution for cloud resources.

The success of cloud services relies on the ability to protect the data manipulated by the cloud. Protection of the data shared and stored in the cloud according to the privacy policies of the data owner(s) is primordial. This requires providing appropriate identity management, access control, trust delegation and data encyption solutions.

• Internet routing
• Cloud services
• Naming and addressing
• Data protection

Professional Activities

• Member of the WIDE project
• TPC member of the CoNEXT Student Workshop in 2009 and 2010
• Shadow TPC member of CoNEXT 2008
• Occasional reviewer for magazines such as Transactions on Networking (ACM), Communications Magazine (IEEE), ...

Publications

Journal papers

• 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.

Conferences

• 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, 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". To appear 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, 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, 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, Tomonori Takeda. "Metrics to Evaluate the Cost of Maintaining Diverse BGP Routes". In Proc. of the IEICE General Conference, March 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. "Using Virtual Coordinates in the Establishment of Inter-domain LSPs". Student Workshop, CoNEXT 2005, October 2005.
• 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).
• 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.

IETF drafts

• Pierre Francois, Bruno Decraene, Cristel Pelsser and Clarence Filsfils. "Graceful BGP session shutdown". Work in progress, draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-01.txt, October 2009.
• Bruno Decraene, Pierre Francois, Cristel Pelsser, Zubair Ahmad, A. J. Elizondo Armengol and T. Takeda. "Requirements for the graceful shutdown of BGP sessions". Work in progress, draft-ietf-grow-bgp-graceful-shutdown-requirements-03.txt, June 2010.

• 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, technical reports, ...

• 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.
• Cristel Pelsser and Olivier Bonaventure. "Exploring the Trade-offs in Inter-AS LSPs Computation". Technical Report 2005-13, November 2005.

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