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
Intradomain Multicast Routing for Modern Routers
2026, ANRW '26: Proceedings of the 2026 Applied Networking Research Workshop
Automatically Fuzzing Routing Protocols
2026, 2026 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)
JADE: Just A Deterministic Emulator to Support the Verification of Protocol Implementations
2026, 2026 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)
Towards an Internet Deployment of Flexible Multicast QUIC
2025, SIGCOMM 25: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 25 Poster and Demo Sessions
Poster: Towards switched-homing for Internet access
2025, ANRW 25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop
MAY is not enough! QUIC servers should skip packet numbers
2025, ANRW 25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop
Taking the Best of Multicast and Unicast with Flexicast QUIC
2025, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 55, Issue 2
The Multiple Benefits of a Secure Transport for BGP
2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2(CoNEXT4)
Poster: Enhancing the performance of a single connection using Multipath QUIC
2024, 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
oFIQUIC: Leveraging QUIC in OSPF for seamless network topology changes
2024, 2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)
xBGP: Faster innovation in routing protocols
2023, 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23)
Poster: Routing over QUIC: Bringing Transport Innovations to Routing Protocols
2023, 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23)
The multiple roles that IPv6 addresses can play in today's internet
2022, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 52, Issue 3
Revealing the evolution of a cloud provider through its network weather map
2022, IMC 22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference
It Is Time to Reconsider Multicast
2022, IAB workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems
Evaluating OSPF Convergence with ns-3 DCE
2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on ns-3
Leveraging eBPF to make TCP path-aware
2022, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume 19, Issue 3
Multipath Extension for QUIC
2021, IETF Draft
Experimenting with bit index explicit replication
2021, Proceedings of the 3rd International CoNEXT Student Workshop
SRv6-FEC: bringing forward erasure correction to IPv6 segment routing
2021, Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 21 Poster and Demo Sessions
Implementing the plugin distribution system
2021, Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 21 Poster and Demo Sessions
Multiflow QUIC: A Generic Multipath Transport Protocol
2021, IEEE Communications Magazine
TCPLS: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS
2021, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
xBGP: When You Can't Wait for the IETF and Vendors
2020, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets '20)
Multipath Extensions for QUIC (MP-QUIC)
2020, IETF Draft
Increasing Broadband Reach with Hybrid Access Networks
2020, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine
Tunneling TCP inside QUIC
2020, IETF Draft
Tunneling Internet protocols inside QUIC
2020, IETF Draft
QUIC Plugins
2020, IETF Draft
Open educational resources for computer networking
2020, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Multipath schedulers
2020, IETF Draft
3GPP Access Traffic Steering Switching and Splitting (ATSSS) - Overview for IETF Participants
2020, IETF Draft
0-RTT TCP Convert Protocol
2020, IETF Draft
The Case for Pluginized Routing Protocols
2019, 2019 IEEE 27th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
Pluginizing QUIC
2019, SIGCOMM '19: Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
MultipathTester: Comparing MPTCP and MPQUIC in Mobile Environments
2019, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Mobile Network Measurement (MNM?19)
Beyond socket options: making the Linux TCP stack truly extensible
2019, The IFIP Networking 2019 Conference
QUIC-FEC: Bringing the benefits of Forward Erasure Correction to QUIC
2019, Proceedings of the IFIP Networking 2019 Conference
Making the Linux TCP stack more extensible with eBPF
2019, Netdev 0x13
Flexible failure detection and fast reroute using eBPF and SRv6
2018, Segment Routing workshop, CNSM2018
Voice-Activated Applications and Multipath TCP: A Good Match?
2018, 2018 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Tuning Multipath TCP for Interactive Applications on Smartphones
2018, IFIP Networking 2018
SRv6Pipes: enabling in-network bytestream functions
2018, IFIP Networking 2018
Software Resolved Networks: Rethinking Enterprise Networks with IPv6 Segment Routing
2018, SOSR'18: Symposium on SDN Research
Observing the Evolution of QUIC Implementations
2018, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC
Multipath QUIC: Design and Evaluation
2017, Conext'17
Multipath Extension for QUIC
2017, IETF Draft
Implementing IPv6 Segment Routing in the Linux Kernel
2017, Applied Networking Research Workshop 2017
Use Cases and Operational Experience with Multipath TCP
2017, RFC8041
Securing MultiPath TCP: Design & Implementation
2017, In Proc. INFOCOM'17
Making Multipath TCP friendlier to Load Balancers and Anycast
2017, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2017)
Multipath TCP deployments
2016, IETF Journal
Observing real Multipath TCP traffic
2016, Computer Communications
An enhanced socket API for Multipath TCP
2016, Proceeding ANRW '16 Proceedings of the 2016 Applied Networking Research Workshop
SMAPP : Towards Smart Multipath TCP-enabled APPlications
2015, Proc. Conext 2015
Traffic duplication through segmentable disjoint paths
2015, IFIP Networking 2015
Solving Segment Routing Problems with Hybrid Constraint Programming Techniques
2015, International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP)
Measuring and Modeling Multipath TCP
2015, Intelligent Mechanisms for Network Configuration and Security
A First Look at Real Multipath TCP Traffic
2015, Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
A Declarative and Expressive Approach to Control Forwarding Paths in Carrier-Grade Networks
2015, SIGCOMM
Understanding the topological properties of Internet traffic: a view from the edge
2014, Proceedings of the IFIP Networking 2014 Conference, Norway
Multi-objective Traffic Engineering for Data Center Networks
2014, Computer Networks
Safe Routing Reconfigurations with Route Redistribution
2014, INFOCOM
Opportunities and Research Challenges of Hybrid Software Defined Networks
2014, ACM Computer Communication Review (Editorial Zone)
Multipath TCP
2014, Communications of the ACM
Tracing multipath TCP connections
2014, SIGCOMM '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on SIGCOMM
Experimental Evaluation of Multipath TCP Schedulers
2014, ACM SIGCOMM Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS)
On the Benefits of Applying Experimental Design to Improve Multipath TCP
2013, Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
Multipath in the Middle(Box)
2013, CoNEXT workshop HotMiddlebox
Are TCP Extensions Middlebox-proof?
2013, CoNEXT workshop HotMiddlebox
Revealing Middlebox Interference with Tracebox
2013, Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations
2013, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
When the Cure is Worse than the Disease: the Impact of Graceful IGP Operations on BGP
2013, In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2013)
Revisiting Flow-Based Load Balancing: Stateless Path Selection in Data Center Networks
2013, Computer Networks
Redundant Border Routers for Mission-Critical 6LoWPAN Networks
2013, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks
Graceful Convergence in Link-State IP Networks: A Lightweight Algorithm Ensuring Minimal Operational Impact
2013, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Lossless Migrations of Link-State IGPs
2012, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
On Link Estimation in Dense RPL Deployments
2012, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (IEEE SenseApp 2012)
An overview of Multipath TCP
2012, USENIX login;
TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
2012, IETF Draft
iBGP Deceptions: More Sessions, Fewer Routes
2012, In 31th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2012)
How Hard Can It Be? Designing and Implementing a Deployable Multipath TCP
2012, USENIX Symposium of Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'12), San Jose (CA)
Exploring Mobile/WiFi Handover with Multipath TCP
2012, ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Cellular Networks (Cellnet'12)
Designing a Deployable Future Internet: the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) case
2012, IEEE Internet Computing
A Local Approach to Fast Failure Recovery of LISP Ingress Tunnel Routers
2012, IFIP Networking 2012
Traffic Engineering for Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol in Large Data Centers
2011, ITC 2011 23rd International Teletraffic Congress
SWISH: Secure WiFi Sharing
2011, Computer Networks, Special Issue on ?Network Convergence?
MultiPath TCP: From Theory to Practice
2011, IFIP Networking, Valencia
An efficient algorithm to enable path diversity in link state routing networks
2011, Computer Networks
MultiPath TCP - Guidelines for implementers
2011, IETF Draft
Implementing the Locator/ID Separation Protocol: Design and Experience
2011, Computer Networks
Revisiting Next-hop Selection in Multipath Networks
2011, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM
Implementation and evaluation of the Shim6 protocol in the Linux kernel
2011, Computer Communications
On the Impact of Layer-2 on Node Degree Distribution
2010, Proc. USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
BGP Add-Paths : The Scaling/Performance Tradeoffs
2010, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Using Local Search for Traffic Engineering in Switched Ethernet Networks
2010, Proceedings of ITC-22
Experimenting with Multipath TCP
2010, SIGCOMM 2010 Demo
LISP Security Threats
2010,
Extracting Intra-Domain Topology from mrinfo Probing
2010, Proc. Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
LISP Mapping Versioning
2010, IETF Draft
An Adaptive Three-Party Accounting Protocol
2009, CoNEXT Student Workshop '09
Quantifying ASes Multiconnectivity using Multicast Information
2009, Proc. ACM USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
MipShim6: une approche combinée pour la mobilité et la multi-domiciliation
2009, Actes du 14ème Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP 09), Strasbourg
Shim6 Implementation Report : LinShim6
2009, IETF Draft
IGen: Generation of Router-level Internet Topologies through Network Design Heuristics
2009, Proceedings of the 21st International Teletraffic Congress
A Hierarchical Model for BGP Routing Policies
2009, Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of TOmorrow
Preserving the reachability of LISP ETRs in case of failures
2009, IETF Draft
Preventing the Unnecessary Propagation of BGP Withdraws
2009, Proceedings of IFIP Networking
On the Impact of Clustering on Measurement Reduction
2009, Proc. IFIP Networking
OpenLISP: An Open Source Implementation of the Locator/ID Separation Protocol
2009, Demo Session of the IEEE INFOCOM 2009
Authenticated Wireless Roaming via Tunnels: Making Mobile Guests Feel at Home
2009, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2009)
Preparing network configurations for IPv6 renumbering
2009, International Journal of Network Management, Wiley InterScience
Implementation of a traffic engineering technique that preserves IP Fast Reroute in COMET
2009, Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques des Télécommunications, Algotel (2009)
Enhanced Wireless Roaming Security using Three-Party Authentication and Tunnels
2009, Proceedings of U-NET'09
Towards validated network configurations with NCGuard
2008, Proc. of Internet Network Management Workshop 2008
A Secure Mechanism for Address Block Allocation and Distribution
2008, Proc. IFIP Networking
The CoNEXT shadow TPC
2008, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
On BGP Communities
2008, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Loop-free convergence using oFIB
2008, IETF Draft
WiFi Roaming: Legal Implications and Security Constraints
2008, International Journal of Law and Information Technology
Interdomain Traffic Engineering in a Locator/Identifier Separation Context
2008, Proc. of Internet Network Management Workshop 2008
Avoiding transient loops during the convergence of link-state routing protocols
2007, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Achieving Sub-50 Milliseconds Recovery Upon BGP Peering Link Failures
2007, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Loop-free convergence using oFIB
2007, IETF Draft
Routing oscillations using BGP multiple paths advertisement
2007, IETF Draft
Improved Path Exploration in shim6-based Multihoming
2007, SIGCOMM 2007 Workshop "IPv6 and the Future of the Internet"
Implementing SHIM6 using the Linux XFRM framework
2007, Routing In Next Generation workshop
Avoiding disruptions during maintenance operations on BGP sessions
2007, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
A secure role-based address allocation and distribution mechanism
2007, Proc. ACM CoNEXT Student workshop
Loop-free convergence using oFIB
2006, IETF Draft
Leveraging network performance with IPv6 multihoming and multiple provider-dependent aggregatable prefixes
2006, Computer Networks
Achieving sub-second IGP convergence in large IP networks
2005, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Avoiding transient loops during IGP Convergence in IP Networks
2005, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005
An evaluation of IP-Based Fast Reroute Techniques
2005, Proceedings of ACM CoNext 2005
Achieving Sub-50 Milliseconds Recovery Upon BGP Peering Link Failures
2005, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CoNext
The NAROS Approach for IPv6 Multihoming with Traffic Engineering
2003, QoFIS 2003
IP Micro mobility protocols
2003, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
A Rate Adaptive Shaper for Differentiated Services
2000, RFC2963