Prof. Wählisch hält einen Vortrag beim BCIX Roundtable

We bring our research results to life

The Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems successfully exploits research results beyond academia in three ways. We found and coordinate open-source projects, engage with network operators, and actively contribute to Internet standardization.

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News

Oct 31, 2024

Journal article published in CACM

Our article "A Security Model for Web-Based Communication" has been published as a Research Highlight in the October issue of the renowned journal Communications of the ACM. We measure vulnerabilities of critical Web services and propose a model to automatically assess security scores. CACM has …

Oct 21, 2024

Two projects nominated for the Mobility Award 2024

The MoveOn project won the Audience Award of the German Mobility Prize 2024 at the Federal Government's Digital Summit! In addition to the project partners Climate Alliance and the Chair of Transport Ecology at TU Dresden, flow.d GmbH, which is a spin-off of the Chair of Distributed and …

Oct 12, 2024

IXP from Scratch won the RIPE Labs Competition

Together with our colleagues from DD-IX, we founded the RIPE Labs series "IXP from Scratch", in which we report about the requirements and challenges of building an IXP and how we overcome them at DD-IX, the first public Internet Exchange at Dresden.

Events

Nov 25 2024

DD-IX Opening

Our three pillars to disseminate our research

IETF 115 Hackathon, PhD Students Marcin Nawrocki and Jonas Mücke

Internet Standardization

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) are pivotal for open Internet protocols, applications, and services. We regularly contribute to the IETF and IRTF. Among other topics, we are involved in secure inter-domain routing, information-centric networking, and IoT communication.

Open Source Contributions

We are founders and co-founders of several successful open source projects such as RIOT, the friendly operating system for the Internet of Things, and RTRlib, a library for BGP origin validation. We also contribute to other open source software to improve distributed and networked systems.

Engagement with Network Operators

Our group aims for making its research results available to network operators, hoping that this will help to improve the Internet a little bit. We gratefully acknowledge all the support, such as RIPE RACI, that allows us to present our research to the network operator community.

Our ideas and innovations are used in practice

Our research work is driven toward stimulating real-world impact based on first-class scientific results. This challenge was tackled several times successfully. Our research helped to improve the security of the Internet infrastructure, facilitated new services, and enabled commercial products. We are proud of our contributions to Internet standardization, open source software, and our engagement with network operators.