Maria Gabrani, Gero Dittmann, Andreas Doering, Andreas Herkersdorf,
Patricia Sagmeister, and Jan van Lunteren:
"Design Methodology for a Modular Service-Driven Network Processor Architecture".
In Computer Networks - Special Issue on Network Processors,
Elsevier Science, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 623--640, April 2003.
Reinaldo Bergamaschi, Indira Nair, Gero Dittmann, Hiren Patel, Geert Janssen, Nagu Dhanwada, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Emrah Acer, Gi-Joon Nam, Guoling Han, Dorothy Kucar, Pradip Bose, and John Darringer:
"Performance Modeling for Early Analysis of Multi-Core Systems".
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2007), pp. 209--214, Salzburg, Austria, October 2007.
Gerhard Münz, Ali Fessi, Georg Carle, Oliver Paul, Dušan Gabrijelčič, Yannick Carlinet, Sherif Yusuf, Morris Sloman, Vrizlynn Thing, Jan van Lunteren, Patricia Sagmeister, and Gero Dittmann:
"DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response".
Broadband Europe (BBEurope), Bordeaux, France, December 2005.
Gero Dittmann:
"On Instruction-Set Generation for Real-Time Processors".
Poster presentation at the 8th SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference
(DAC 2005), Anaheim, California, June 2005.
Gero Dittmann and Andreas Herkersdorf:
"Fine-Grained Timing Constraints for Reactive Systems in ANSI C".
In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium
(RTSS 2004) -- WIP Session, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2004.
Official download.
Gero Dittmann:
"Pattern Libraries for Fast Searching and Data-Path Sharing".
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP 2004),
pp. 76--83, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2004.
Gero Dittmann:
"Organizing Libraries of DFG Patterns".
In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'04),
Paris, France, February 2004.
Official download.
Gero Dittmann and Andreas Herkersdorf:
"Network Processor Load Balancing for High-Speed Links".
In Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
(SPECTS 2002), pp. 727--735, San Diego, California, SCS, July 2002.
Also available as IBM research report
RZ3418.
P. Sagmeister, G. Dittmann, A. Herkersdorf, and D. Webb:
"Scaling Network Processor Performance to 40 Gbps"
(extended abstract,
slides).
IEEE Gigabit Networking Workshop (GBN 2001), Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.
Official download.
P. Sagmeister, G. Dittmann, A. Herkersdorf, and D. Webb:
"Methodology for Testing High-Speed Network Devices with Predicted Traffic"
(extended abstract,
slides).
IEEE Gigabit Networking Workshop (GBN 2001), Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.
Official download.
Gero Dittmann
"Organizing Pattern Libraries for ASIP Design".
IBM Research Report RZ3488, April 2003.
Official download.
Gero Dittmann and Andreas Herkersdorf:
"Multi-Layer Intermediate Representation for ASIP Design and Critical-Path Optimization".
IBM Research Report RZ3484, February 2003.
Official download.
David E. Taylor, Andreas Herkersdorf, Andreas Doering and Gero Dittmann:
"Header Compression (ROHC) in Next-Generation Network Processors".
Washington University in Saint Louis Technical Report WUCSE-2004-70, September 2002.
Official download.
Gero Dittmann:
"Programmable Finite State Machines for High-speed Communication Components".
Master's Thesis, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, March 2000.
Gero Dittmann:
"Intelligent ATM VC Management for Quality of Service Sensitive IP Flows".
Research Thesis, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, October 1999.
An excerpt of the latter work has been published as the following paper:
Jens Schmitt, Martin Karsten, and Ralf Steinmetz.
"Design and Implementation of a Flexible, QoS-Aware IP/ATM Adaptation Module".
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, Heidelberg, Germany, pages 267--274. IEEE, June 2000.
Gero Dittmann, Laurent Frelechoux, and Andreas Herkersdorf:
"Method and System for Processing Data Packets".
US Patent Application, US 2004/0042456 A1, August 2003. Pending.
(Fast-path synchronization in communication systems.)
Gero Dittmann and Andreas Herkersdorf:
"Timeout Determination Method and Apparatus".
US Patent, US 7307951, April 2003.
François Abel, Alan Benner, Gero Dittmann, and Andreas Herkersdorf:
"Method and Systems for Ordered Dynamic Distribution of Packet Flows over Network Processing
Means".
International Patent, WO 03/075520, EP 1483870, US 7359318, DE 60302045, February 2003.
Gero Dittmann:
"Load balancer - switch - interface"
In Research Disclosure, number 454, pages 354--355, disclosure number 454184.
Kenneth Mason Publications, February 2002.
Roland Wehage:
"Integration of a High-speed Classifier Engine into a Linux Firewall".
Master's Thesis (Diplomarbeit), University of Tübingen, Germany, May 2005.
Christian Laetsch:
"A Multi-Layer Intermediate Representation for ASIP Design".
Master's Thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland, September 2003.
last update: 05/17/08