Cristel Pelsser
Critical embedded systems, Computer networking, Researcher, Professor
UCLouvain
EPL / ICTEAM / INGI
Biography
Cristel Pelsser holds a chair in critical embedded systems at UCLouvain. From 2015 to 2022 she was a full professor at the University of Strasbourg (France) where she led a team of researchers focusing on core Internet technologies. She spent nine years as a researcher working for ISPs in Japan. Her aim is to facilitate network operations, to avoid network disruptions and, when they occur, pinpoint the failures precisely in order to quickly fix the issues, understand them in order to design solutions to prevent recurrence. Cristel received the PhD degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium.
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- Internet measurements
- Routing
- Security
- Embedded systems
PhD in Computer Science, 2006
UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
MSc in Computer Science, 2001
UNamur (Namur, Belgium)
Experience
Research topics:
- Interdomain traffic engineering with MPLS
- BGP routing
Standardization:
- Participation to IETF meetings (mostly PCE and CCAMP Working Groups)
Teaching:
- Teaching assistant for the basic networking course (2004-2005 and 2005-2006)
- Teaching assistant for the advanced networking course (2004-2005)
- Teaching assistant for the first programming course (Java) (2003-2004)
Awards
Best Paper Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2024, the 38th edition of the conference series, held in Sydney, Australia, August 4 - 8, 2024.
Thomas Alfroy, Thomas Holterbach, Thomas Krenc, K. C. Claffy, and Cristel Pelsser. “The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms”. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference.
Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) granted at IETF-104 in 2019 for our work on attacks using BGP communities.
Florian Streibelt, Franziska Lichtblau, Robert Beverly, Anja Feldmann, Cristel Pelsser, Georgios Smaragdakis, and Randy Bush. “BGP Communities: Even more Worms in the Routing Can”. IMC 2018.
Best Paper Award at Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2016).
Antoine Fressancourt, Cristel Pelsser, Maurice Gagnaire. “Kumori: Steering Cloud Traffic at IXPs to Improve Resiliency”. In Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2016), Paris, France, March 2016.
Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) granted at IETF-87 in 2013 for the framework on seamless BGP reconfigurations.
Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever, Cristel Pelsser, Luca Cittadini, Pierre Francois and Olivier Bonaventure. “Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations”. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2012.
Best Presentation Award at Colloque Francophone sur l’Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2005).
Steve Uhlig, Cristel Pelsser (Presenter), Bruno Quoitin and Olivier Bonaventure. “Vers des réflecteurs de routes plus intelligents”. Colloque Francophone sur l’Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 2005), March-April 2005.
Recent Publications
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Recent & Upcoming Talks
Professional Activities
Conference Steering Committee
Conference Organizer
- General co-chair of IMC 2022
- Co-chair of IMC 2024
- Co-chair of PAM 2022
- Chair of Networking 2021 poster and demo session
- Co-chair of GIS 2020
- Co-chair of AINTEC 2019
- Co-chair of the TMA PhD School 2019
- Co-chair of AINTEC 2018
- Co-chair of AlgoTel 2018
- Co-chair of SIGCOMM 2015 posters, demos and the ACM Student Research Competition
- Co-chair of CoNExt 2011 Shadow TPC
Conference TPC Membership
- TPC member NSDI 2024
- TPC member CoNEXT 2023
- TPC member of CoNEXT 2022
- TPC member of IMC 2021 (member fo the Review Task Force)
- TPC member of IMC 2020
- TPC member of CoNEXT 2019
- TPC member of IMC 2019
- TPC member of CoNEXT 2018
- TPC member of IMC 2018
- TPC member of IMC 2017
- TPC member of SIGCOMM 2017 Posters and Demos
- TPC member of CoNEXT 2015
- TPC member of HotNets 2014
- TPC member of GIS 2022
- TPC member of AINTEC 2022
- TPC member of PAM 2021 (member fo the Review Task Force)
- TPC member of ANRP 2021
- TPC member of TMA 2021
- TPC member of AnNet 2021
- TPC member of GIS 2021
- TPC member of AINTEC 2021
- TPC member of CoRes 2021
- TPC member of SARNET 2021
- TPC member of ARNW 2020
- TPC member of TMA 2020
- TPC member of CoRes 2020
- TPC member of GIS 2019
- TPC member of PAM 2019
- TPC member of CoRes 2019
- TPC member of ANRW 2018
- TPC member of TMA 2018
- TPC member of PAM 2017
- TPC member of GIS 2017
- TPC member of ITC29
- TPC member of CoRes 2017
- TPC member of TMA 2014
- TPC member of AINTEC 2014
- TPC member of AINTEC 2013
- TPC member of GI 2013
- TPC member of the CoNEXT Student Workshop in 2010 and 2009
- Member of the Shadow TPC of CoNEXT 2007
Workshop Organizer
Reviewer
Occasional reviewer for magazines such as Transactions on Networking (ACM), Communications Magazine (IEEE), Computer Networks, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management …
Membership
- Member of the WIDE project
Patents
Cristel Pelsser et al. “System and method for designing iBGP Route Reflection topologies with Next-Hop diversity in the BGP routers.” Patent Registration No. 4809824 (P2009-147457A), Issued in November 2011.
Cristel Pelsser et al. “Method and system for the scalable management of routing information.” Patent Registration No. 5022412 (P2011-35686A), Issued in February 2011.
Cristel Pelsser et al. “Method for the scalable management of routing information.” Patent Registration No. 5001966 (P2010-199800A), Issued in September 2010.
The original patents are in Japanese. The translated titles are given for information.
RIPE meetings
RACI Award (RIPE80).
Clemens Mosig, Randy Bush, Cristel Pelsser, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch. “Route Flap Damping in the Wild”. RIPE 80, May 2020.
RACI Award (RIPE77).
Florian Streibelt, Franziska Lichtblau, Robert Beverly, Anja Feldmann, Cristel Pelsser, Georgios Smaragdakis, Randy Bush. “BGP Communities: Even more Worms in the Routing Can”. RIPE 77, October 2018.
RACI Award (RIPE75).
Juan Brenes, Marcelo Bagnulo, Alberto García-Martínez, Andra Lutu, Cristel Pelsser. “Power Prefixes Prioritization for Smarter BGP Reconvergence”. RIPE 75, October 2017.
RACI Award (RIPE74).
Julien Gamba, Romain Fontugne, Cristel Pelsser, Randy Bush, Emile Aben. “BGP table fragmentation: what & who?”. CoRes, Quiberon, France, Mai 2017.
Tools
Contact
- cristel@pelsser.eu
- +32 10 47 32 69
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ICTEAM (INGI), Réaumur Building, Place Sainte-Barbe 2, boîte L5.02.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - DM Me