Olivier Bonaventure

Prof. Olivier Bonaventure is a Belgian computer scientist and professor at UCLouvain specializing in computer networking. His research focuses on Internet protocols, transport protocols, and network architecture, with notable contributions to TCP, QUIC, and Internet measurement. He is the founder of the IP Network Laboratory (INL) at UCLouvain and has led several research projects on improving Internet performance and reliability. Bonaventure is also well known for his educational contributions, including the widely used open textbook Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice.

Publications

Towards an Internet Deployment of Flexible Multicast QUIC

Louis Navarre, Olivier Bonaventure

SIGCOMM 25: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 25 Poster and Demo Sessions

Poster: Towards switched-homing for Internet access

Paul-Edouard Bertrand Van Ouytsel, Matthieu Baerts, Olivier Bonaventure

ANRW 25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop

MAY is not enough! QUIC servers should skip packet numbers

Louis Navarre, Olivier Bonaventure

ANRW 25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop

Taking the Best of Multicast and Unicast with Flexicast QUIC

Louis Navarre, Quentin de Coninck, Tom Barbette, Olivier Bonaventure

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 55, Issue 2

The Multiple Benefits of a Secure Transport for BGP

Thomas Wirtgen, Nicolas Rybowski, Cristel Pelsser, Olivier Bonaventure

Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2(CoNEXT4)

Poster: Enhancing the performance of a single connection using Multipath QUIC

Vany V. Ingenzi, Tom Barbette, Olivier Bonaventure

2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)

oFIQUIC: Leveraging QUIC in OSPF for seamless network topology changes

Nicolas Rybowski, Cristel Pelsser, Olivier Bonaventure

2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)

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xBGP: Faster innovation in routing protocols

Thomas Wirtgen, Tom Rousseaux, Quentin De Coninck, Nicolas Rybowski, Randy Bush, Laurent Vanbever, Axel Legay, Olivier Bonaventure

20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23)

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Poster: Routing over QUIC: Bringing Transport Innovations to Routing Protocols

Thomas Wirtgen, Nicolas Rybowski, Cristel Pelsser, Olivier Bonaventure

20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23)

The multiple roles that IPv6 addresses can play in today's internet

Maxime Piraux, Tom Barbette, Nicolas Rybowski, Louis Navarre, Thomas Alfroy, Cristel Pelsser, François Michel, Olivier Bonaventure

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 52, Issue 3

Revealing the evolution of a cloud provider through its network weather map

Maxime Piraux, Louis Navarre, Nicolas Rybowski, Olivier Bonaventure, Benoit Donnet

IMC 22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference

It Is Time to Reconsider Multicast

Louis Navarre, François Michel, Olivier Bonaventure

IAB workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems

Evaluating OSPF Convergence with ns-3 DCE

Nicolas Rybowski, Olivier Bonaventure

Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on ns-3

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Leveraging eBPF to make TCP path-aware

Mathieu Jadin, Quentin De Coninck, Louis Navarre, Michael Schapira, Olivier Bonaventure

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume 19, Issue 3

Experimenting with bit index explicit replication

Louis Navarre, Nicolas Rybowski, Olivier Bonaventure

Proceedings of the 3rd International CoNEXT Student Workshop

Implementing the plugin distribution system

Nicolas Rybowski, Quentin De Coninck, Tom Rousseaux, Axel Legay, Olivier Bonaventure

Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 21 Poster and Demo Sessions