Manuel Simon, M.Sc.
Research Associate

Postal address
- Institut für Informatik der
- Technischen Universität München
- Lehrstuhl I8
- Boltzmannstr. 3
- 85748 Garching bei München - Germany
Contact
- Tel: +49 89 289 - 18038
- e-Mail: simonm
net.in.tum.de
ORCID: 0000-0002-9024-0117(GPG: E874 EEB6 700B 9D3C 1747 A3AB F0C3 9A57 5DEA 35AF) - Building/Room: MI Building, 03.05.044
Consultation hours
By arrangement
Research
- Software Defined Networking
- High-performant low-latency packet-processing
- Network resilience
- P4
projects
- 6G-life: Research on Future 6G Network Architectures (2021 – 2025)
- 6G-ANNA: Holistic Approaches for 6th Generation Cellular Networks (2022 – 2025)
- 6G Zukunftslabor Bayern – 6G Future Lab Bavaria: 6G Fundamental Research (2021 – 2024)
Teaching
- since SS22: Teaching Assistant for Grundlagen Rechnernetze und Verteilte Systeme (SS22, SS23)
- since SS21: Lab course iLab2: You set the Focus! (organizer/advisor) (SS21, WS21/22, SS22, WS22/23, SS23)
- since SS21: Seminar: Innovative Internet Technologies and Mobile Communications (advisor) (WS21/22, WS22/23)
About Me
Manuel Simon received his Master of Science in Informatics at the Technical University of Munich in 2021. In the same year, he started as a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Network Architectures and Services. His main research topics are software-defined networking, data plane programming, and high-performance packet processing. Of particular interest is P4, a domain-specific language to program data planes.
Supervised Theses
In progress
Student | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
Altan Kesan | Virtualizing T4P4S-based Programmable Network Elements | MA | Florian Wiedner, Manuel Simon | 2022 |
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Carlos Nechwatal | Cache Efficient Hashing-Based Data Structures in P4 | BA | Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2022 |
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Jan Weßeling | Event Processing in Software Data Planes | BA | Manuel Simon | 2022 |
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Timon Tsiolis | eBPF enhanced P4 | BA | Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2022 |
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Finished
Author | Title | Type | Advisors | Year | Links |
Jacob Obrman | Benchmarking Secure Multiparty Computation Protocols | BA | Christopher Harth-Kitzerow, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser | 2022 |
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Philipp Eisermann | Benchmarking Secure Multiparty Computation Protocols | BA | Christopher Harth-Kitzerow, Manuel Simon, Eric Hauser | 2022 |
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Hafik Arhan Kamac | Complex Matching in Programmable Software Data Planes | MA | Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe | 2022 |
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Simon Schäffner | cloudPos: A Portable Toolchain for Reproducible Networking Experiments in Testbeds | MA | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Henning Stubbe, Manuel Simon | 2022 |
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Matthias Michailow | Implementation and Analysis of In-Network Computation in Programmable Data Planes | MA | Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2021 |
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Irina Tsareva | Performance Evaluation of P4 Architectures for the NetFPGA | IDP | Henning Stubbe, Manuel Simon, Dominik Scholz, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2021 |
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Benedict Blümel | Evaluation of the P4 Software Target p4c-dpdk | MA | Manuel Simon, Sebastian Gallenmüller | 2021 |
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Matthias Linhuber | Virtualized Data Center Networks Utilizing Programmable Switches | IDP | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Manuel Simon | 2020 |
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Eric Hauser | Network-in-the-Loop: Rapid Prototyping and Measurements of Computer Network Topologies | MA | Sebastian Gallenmüller, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Manuel Simon | 2020 |
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Publications
2022-08-01 | Eric Hauser, Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Slicing Networks with P4 Hardware and Software Targets,” in ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Workshop on 5G and Beyond Network Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU ’22), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 2022. [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib] |
2021-12-01 | Manuel Simon, Henning Stubbe, Dominik Scholz, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “High-Performance Match-Action Table Updates from within Programmable Software Data Planes,” in 4th P4 Workshop in Europe (EUROP4), Virtual Event, Dec. 2021. [Pdf] [Slides] [Recording] [DOI] [Bib] |