Prof. Dr. Paul Francis
Short CV
Paul Francis is a tenured faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. Paul has held research positions at Cornell University, ACIRI, NTT Software Labs, Bellcore,and MITRE, and was Chief Scientist at two Silicon Valley startups.
Paul’s research centers around routing and addressing problems in the Internet and P2P networks. Paul’s
innovations include NAT, shared-tree multicast, the first P2P multicast system, the first DHT (as part of landmark routing), and Virtual Aggregation. Recently Paul has become interested in designing advertising
systems that protect user privacy while allowing for effective targeting.
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Augewählte Publikationen
- Alexey Reznichenko, Saikat Guha and Paul Francis Auctions in do-not-track compliant internet advertising In: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2011
- Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis, Tuan Cao, Jia Wang Making Routers Last Longer with ViAggre In: NSDI, 2009
- Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis Mitigating DNS DoS attacks In: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2008
- Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis CONMan: a step towards network manageability In: SIGCOMM, 2007
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