M.Sc. Niklas Steinleitner PhD Student at
Telematics Group,Computer Networks Group, Institute for Informatics, University of Göttingen
Lotzestrasse 16-18 37083 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49 (551) 39-1 35 83
Email: steinleitnercs.uni-goettingen.de

Research

I'm working under supervision of Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe and Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu. I am a member of the

• EC FP6 IST Project ENABLE - Enabling Efficient and Operational Mobility in Large Heterogeneous IP Networks, 2006-2008,

• MEXT WG, MIP6 WG, NSIS WG and SIGNET team

Publications

Research Papers / Technical Reports

• "An NSIS-based Approach for Firewall Traversal in Mobile IPv6 Networks",
  Niklas Steinleitner, Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Thomas Schreck, and Hannes Tschofenig
  The Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2007),
  Austin, Texas, USA, October 2007.

• "Implementation and Performance Study of a New NAT/Firewall Signaling Protocol",
  Niklas Steinleitner, Henning Peters, Hannes Tschofenig, and Xiaoming Fu
  The 5th International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN2006),
  in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006),
  Lisboa, Portugal, IEEE, July 2006.

• Performance Analyzer of the TCP/IP Stack of Linux Kernel 2.6.9:
  Final report (appears as IFI Technical Report No. IFI-TB-2005-03, ISSN 1611-1044, University of Goettingen, Apr 2005), April 2005.
  Project Homepage

• Master Thesis:
  "Implementation and Performance Testing of the NAT/FW NSIS Signaling Layer Protocol", December 2005.

Internet Drafts

• Guidelines for firewall administrators regarding MIPv6 traffic:

  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-admin-04.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, Y. Qiu, and G. Bajko, April 2008.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-admin-03.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, Y. Qiu, and G. Bajko, February 2008.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-admin-02.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, and Y. Qiu, November 2007.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-admin-01.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, and Y. Qiu, November 2007.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-admin-00.txt (html), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, and Y. Qiu, November 2007.

• Guidelines for firewall vendors regarding MIPv6 traffic:

  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-vendor-04.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, Y. Sheffer, N. Steinleitner, and G. Bajko, April 2008.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-vendor-03.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, Y. Sheffer, N. Steinleitner, and G. Bajko, February 2008.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-vendor-02.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, Y. Sheffer, and N. Steinleitner, November 2007.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-vendor-01.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, Y. Sheffer, and N. Steinleitner, November 2007.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-vendor-00.txt (html), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, and Y. Qiu, November 2007.

• Firewall Recommendations for MIPv6:

  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-01.txt (html), (diff), S. Krishnan, N. Steinleitner, and Y. Qiu, July 2007.
  • draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-00.txt (html), S. Krishnan, July 2007.
  
  (replaced by "draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-admin" and "draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-vendor")

• Mobile IPv6 - NSIS Interaction for Firewall traversal:

  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-08.txt (html), (diff), N. Steinleitner and X. Fu, F. Le, November 2007.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-07.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, N. Steinleitner and X. Fu, November 2007.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-06.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, N. Steinleitner and X. Fu, March 2007.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-05.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, N. Steinleitner and X. Fu, October 2006.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-04.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, N. Steinleitner and X. Fu, June 2006.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-03.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, and F. Le, October 2005.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-02.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, April 2005.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-01.txt (html), (diff), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, October 2004.
  • draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-00.txt (html), S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, July 2004.

• NAT/FW NSLP State Machine:

  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-06.txt (html), (diff), (figures as pdf), C. Werner, N. Steinleitner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, and C. Aoun, November 2007.
  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-05.txt (html), (diff), (figures as pdf), C. Werner, N. Steinleitner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, and C. Aoun, July 2007.
  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-04.txt (html), (diff), (figures as pdf), C. Werner, N. Steinleitner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, and C. Aoun, March 2007.
  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-03.txt (html), (diff), (figures as pdf), C. Werner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, C. Aoun, and N. Steinleitner, June 2006.
  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-02.txt (html), (diff), (figures as pdf), C. Werner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, C. Aoun, and N. Steinleitner, March 2006.
  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-01.txt (html), (diff), C. Werner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, T. Tsenov, C. Aoun, and N. Steinleitner, July 2005.
  • draft-werner-nsis-natfw-nslp-statemachine-00.txt (html), C. Werner, X. Fu, H. Tschofenig, and C. Aoun, December 2004.

Software

• NSIS Implementation

• Mobile IPv6 Firewall Traversal based on NSIS - Prototype Implementation

• Linux TCP/IP network kernel analyzer

Teaching

I assist(ed) the following courses:

• Summer semester 2008: Telematik Praktikum

• Winter semester 2007/2008: Telematik Praktikum, Telematik

• Winter semester 2006/2007: Mobilkommunikation II

• Summer semester 2006: Telematik Praktikum

• Winter semester 2005/2006: Telematik Praktikum