Researcher
Malte TASHIRO (APPEL)
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
I work on Internet measurement and analysis to better understand how this giant
system works that connects us all.
Research Topics
In very broad terms I am interested in network systems, on both small and large scales. I also require practical problems to solve since I am not much of a theoretician.
I am currently working on evaluating the differences between data and control paths on the Internet. While it is expected that traffic is routed according to the information announced via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), in practice, the actual path taken might deviate. Identifying where these differences occur helps our understanding of the Internet as a global system.
About
I studied computer science at Saarland University in Saarbrücken (Germany). I completed my B.sc. in 2018 after writing my thesis at Björn Brandenburg's Real-Time Systems Group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems . For my master's thesis I looked at how to improve video streaming performance by dropping parts of the video. This work was finished in 2020 at Anja Feldmann's Internet Architecture Group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics . I have continued working as a research assistant at MPII before joining IIJ in 2021.
Professional Activities
- IMC 2024 TPC Member
- Google Summer of Code Mentor for the Internet Health Report: 2022~
- IMC 2022 Shadow TPC Member
- WIDE Project member
Teaching assistant:
- Distributed Systems (MPI-SWS & Saarland University, 2018)
Tutor:
- Data Networks - Exercise sheet correction and oral exam task preparation / note taking (MPI-INF & Saarland University, 2020)
- Information Systems (Saarland University, 2015, 2017)
Publications
Conference Publications
Malte Tashiro, Romain Fontugne, and Kensuke Fukuda, “Following the Data Trail: An Analysis of IXP Dependencies”, Passive and Active Measurement (PAM'24), March 2024. Runner-up for Best Paper [pdf] [bib] [slides] [website]
Malte Appel, Emile Aben, and Romain Fontugne, “Metis: Better Atlas Vantage Point Selection for Everyone”, Proceedings of the 6th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA'22), June 2022. Top 3 Paper [pdf] [bib]
Short presentation: Malte Tashiro, “Metis: Better Atlas Vantage Point Selection for Everyone”, RIPE85 MAT-WG Session, October 2022. [video] [slides]
Mirko Palmer, Malte Appel, Kevin Spiteri, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, and Ramesh K. Sitaraman, “VOXEL: Cross-layer Optimization for Video Streaming with Imperfect Transmission”, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT'21), December 2021. [pdf] [bib]
Workshop and Work-in-Progress Publications
Arpan Gujarati, Malte Appel, and Björn B. Brandenburg, “Work-in-Progress: Achal: Building Highly Reliable Networked Control Systems”, Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT'19), October 2019. [pdf] [bib]
Malte Appel, Arpan Gujarati, and Björn B. Brandenburg, “A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Key-Value Store for Safety-Critical Distributed Real-Time Systems”, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems (CERTS'17), December 2017. [pdf] [bib]
Contact
E-mail: [firstname]@iij.ad.jp
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