Research interests

My research and teaching focus on scalable, reliable, and secure Internet communication. This includes the design and evaluation of networking protocols and architectures, services and applications, as well as Internet measurements and analysis. 

Highlights

Selected Publications

1. Pouyan Fotouhi Tehrani, Eric Osterweil, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, A Security Model for Web-Based Communication, In: Communications of the ACM, Vol. 67, No. 10, pp. 83--90, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623292
2. Peter Kietzmann, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, PUF for the Commons: Enhancing Embedded Security on the OS Level, In: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 2194--2210, July/August 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2023.3300368
3. Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Alistair King, Alberto Dainotti, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, Spoki: Unveiling a New Wave of Scanners through a Reactive Network Telescope, In: Proc. of 31st USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 431--448, Berkeley, CA, USA: USENIX Association, 2022.
4. Cenk Gündogan, Peter Kietzmann, Martine S. Lenders, Hauke Petersen, Michael Frey, Thomas C. Schmidt, Felix Shzu-Juraschek, Matthias Wählisch, The Impact of Networking Protocols on Massive M2M Communication in the Industrial IoT, In: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 4814--4828, IEEE, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2021.3089549
5. Caitlin Gray, Clemens Mosig, Randy Bush, Cristel Pelsser, Matthew Roughan, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, BGP Beacons, Network Tomography, and Bayesian Computation to Locate Route Flap Damping, In: Proc. of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), pp. 492--505, New York: ACM, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423624