Daniel Merling, M.Sc.
Researcher & PhD Student
Telefon | +49 7071 29-70507 |
Telefax | +49 7071 29-5220 |
daniel.merling@uni-tuebingen.de | |
Raum | B304 |
Anschrift | Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze Universität Tübingen Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik Sand 13, 72076 Tübingen |
Due to the pandemics, I am working sometimes from home; please send me an email when you can't reach me on the phone!
I'm a researcher and PhD student at the Chair of Communication Networks at the University of Tübingen. From 2012 to 2015 I studied Cognitive Science (B.Sc.) at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Afterwards, I changed my focus and graduated in November 2017 with a Master's degree in Informatics.
My current research areas include:
- Software-Defined Networks
- P4
- Network Resilience
- Multicast
2012 - 2015
B.Sc. Cognitive Science
2015 - 2017
M.Sc. Computer Science
Since 2017
Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant
Research assistant at the Department of Computer Science, Chair of Communication Networks, University of Tübingen
Teaching
Courses
- Sommer term 2022: Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
- Winter term 2020/2021: Modellierung und Simulation I/II, Pentesting, Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
- Winter term 2019/2020: Pentesting
- Winter term 2018/2019: Modellierung und Simulation I/II
- Winter term 2017/2018: Modellierung und Simulation I/II
Supervised Theses
Ongoing
- Bachelor thesis: Scalability Analysis of Alternative Encodings in the BIER-Header (working title)
Concluded
- Master thesis: P4-Based Implementation of Loop-Free Alternates with Loop Detection and Termination for Resilient Software-Defined Networking
- Bachelor thesis: Entwicklung und Implementierung eines Frameworks zur Optimierung von Netzwerk-Segmentierung für BIER und BIER-TE mit Hilfe von Evolutionären Algorithmen
- Bachelor thesis: Design und Vergleich von Clustering-Algorithmen zur Verbesserung der Skalierbarkeit von BIER-basiertem Multicast in Kommunikationsnetzen
- Bachelor thesis: Strategien zur preis- und kostenabhängigen Gestaltung von Lastplänen in einem virtuellen Kraftwerk mit Leistungsgrenzen
- Master thesis: Design and P4-Based Implementation of Scalable and Resilient BIER and BIER-TE for Large IP Multicast Networks
- Bachelor thesis: Topologiepartitionierung durch maschinellem Lernen für skalierbares IP-Multicast basierend auf Bit Index Explicit Replication
List of Publications
Journal Paper
- Steffen Lindner, Daniel Merling, and Michael Menth: Learning Multicast Pat-
terns for Efficient BIER Forwarding with P4, under revision at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Managment - Daniel Merling, Thomas Stüber, and Michael Menth. Efficiency of BIER Mul-
ticast in Large Networks, under revision at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Managment - Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, and Michael Menth: Robust LFA Protection for Software-Defined Networks (RoLPS), accepted for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Managment, 2021, IEEE
- Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, and Michael Menth: Hardware-Based Evaluation of Scalable and Resilient Multicast with BIER in P4, (open access), in IEEE Access, vol. 9, February 2021, IEEE
- Frederik Hauser, Marco Häberle, Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, Vladimir Gurevich, Florian Zeiger, Reinhard Frank, and Michael Menth: A Survey on Data Plane Programming with P4:Fundamentals, Advances, and Applied Research, (preprint), under submission for Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)
- Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, and Michael Menth: P4-Based Implementation of BIER and BIER-FRR for Scalable and Resilient Multicast, (preprint), in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), vol. 196, Nov. 2020, Elsevier
- Daniel Merling, Michael Menth, Nils Warnke and Toerless Eckert: An Overview of Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER), IETF Journal, March 21st 2018, The Internet Society
- Michael Menth, Habib Mostafaei, Daniel Merling, and Marco Haeberle: Implementation and Evaluation of Activity-Based Congestion Management Using P4 (P4-ABC), (open access) in Future Internet, vol. 11, no. 7, July 2019, MDPI
Conference Paper
- Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, and Michael Menth: Comparison of Fast-Reroute Mechanisms for BIER-Based IP Multicast, (preprint), 7th Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS) 2020, Paris, France
- Florian Heimgaertner, Sascha Heider, Thomas Stueber, Daniel Merling, and Michael Menth: Load Profile Negotiation in Day-Ahead Planning for Compliance with Power Limits, (preprint), ETG Congress 2019, Esslingen, Germany
- D. Merling, W. Braun, and M. Menth: Efficient Data Plane Protection for SDN, (preprint), in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), June 2018, Montreal, Canada
Workshop Paper
- Steffen Lindner, Daniel Merling, Marco Häberle, and Michael Menth: P4-Protect: 1+1 Path Protection for P4, (preprint), in Proceedings of the 3rd P4 Workshop in Europe in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2020, December 2020, Barcelona, Spain.
Talks
- Daniel Merling, Steffen Lindner, and Michael Menth: Hardware-Based Evaluation of Scalableand Resilient Multicast with BIER in P4, IETF 108, BIER Working Group (Slides, Video)
- Daniel Merling: Tutorial on Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER), (slides), 2. KuVS Fachgespräch "Network Softwarization", Tuebingen, Germany, March 2020.
Posters
- Daniel Merling, Wolfgang Braun, and Michael Menth: eLFA-LA: a Protection Method for Software-Defined Networking, PhD Day of the Department of Computer Science, Tuebingen, Germany, November 2017
Theses
- Scalable Resilience for Software-Defined Networking using Remote Loop-Free Alternates with Loop Detection, Master-thesis, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Chair of Communication Networks, September 2017
- Precise navigation of flying robots with GPS, Bachelor-thesis, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Cognitive Systems, August 2015