The focus of my research is on network operations, routing, Internet measurements, and protocols.
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.
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 and 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.