Research
My research interests include multipath transport protocols and system architecture. I also strive to provide reproducible results and release my softwares under open-source licenses. You can have more detail on the dedicated Software section.
Publications
Highlights
(For a full list see below or go to Google Scholar)
How can we quickly deploy new BGP features in a network made of devices from different vendors? xBGP addresses this issue by proposing a vendor-neutral API enabling network operators to dynamically inject plugins in all xBGP-compliant implementations. We made FRRouting and BIRD xBGP-compliant and implemented different use-cases such as valley-free path checks and prefix origin validation.
T. Wirtgen, Q. De Coninck, R. Bush, L. Vanbever, O. Bonaventure
See also https://pluginized-protocols.org/xbgp/.
We revisited the extensibility model of transport protocols by using plugins. The dynamic insertion of bytecode inside a running implementation let the connection adapt to the application it serves. We managed to implement various QUIC extensions (montoring, Multipath, Datagram, Forward Erasure Correction) only with plugins.
Q. De Coninck, F. Michel, M. Piraux, F. Rochet, T. Given-Wilson, A. Legay, O. Pereira, O. Bonaventure
See also pquic.org.
We developed and implemented multipath extensions for the QUIC protocol. We then compared then with the state-of-the-art Multipath TCP in a wide range of network parameters.
Q. De Coninck, O. Bonaventure
See also multipath-quic.org, the current IETF draft and our latest journal publication on Multiflow QUIC at IEEE Communications Magazine (2021).
You might also be interested in our MultipathTester iOS app to evaluate Multipath QUIC in mobile conditions.
Our first analysis of Multipath TCP in the smartphone environment. Our results showed that applications can use multiple wireless networks without modifying them, but it also highlighted the need for an adaptation of Multipath TCP to this particular use case.
Q. De Coninck, M. Baerts, B. Hesmans, O. Bonaventure
Passive and Active Measurement (2016)
See also smartphone.multipath-tcp.org.
We designed and implemented an adapted version of Multipath TCP on Android smartphones. We showed that our version keeps the cellular consumption low while keeping advantage of the multiple wireless networks when the device moves.
Q. De Coninck, O. Bonaventure
See also http://multipath-tcp.org/multimob.
Full List
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-3157
Our DIAL institutional library gives access to pre-print of my papers.