Publications

Journal Publications

• Robert Haas, Clark Jeffries, Lukas Kencl, Andreas Kind, Bernard Metzler, Roman Pletka, Marcel Waldvogel, Laurent Frélechoux and Patrick Droz - "Creating Advanced Functions on Network Processors: Experience and Perspectives" IEEE Networks, July 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

Conferences and Workshops

• Daniel Bauer, Paul Hurley, Roman Pletka, and Marcel Waldvogel - "Bringing Efficient Advanced Queries to Distributed Hash Tables" To appear in Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Tampa, November 2004 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Andreas Kind, Roman Pletka and Marcel Waldvogel - "The Role of Network Processors in Active Networks" Fifth Annual International Working Conference on Active Networks IWAN 2003, December 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex| ppt).

• Lukas Ruf, Roman Pletka, Pascal Erni, Patrick Droz and Bernhard Plattner - "Towards High-performance Active Networking" Fifth Annual International Working Conference on Active Networks IWAN 2003, December 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Roman Pletka, Andreas Kind, Marcel Waldvogel and Soenke Mannal - "Closed-Loop Congestion Control for Mixed Responsive and Non-Responsive Traffic" Proceedings of the Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, December 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex| ppt).

• Roman Pletka, Marcel Waldvogel and Soenke Mannal - "PURPLE: Predictive Active Queue Management Utilizing Congestion Information" Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Bonn, October 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex| ppt).

• Roman Pletka and Burkhard Stiller - "Adaptive End-to-End Quality-of-Service Guarantees in IP Networks using an Active Networking Approach" OpenSig , Lexington, October 2002 (abstract| pdf| bibtex| ppt).

• Andreas Kind, Roman Pletka, Burkhard Stiller - "The Potential of Just-In-Time Compilation in Active Networks based on Network Processors" - The Fifth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH 02), New York, June 2002 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Ed Bowen, Clark Jeffries, Lukas Kencl, Andreas Kind, and Roman Pletka - "Bandwidth Allocation for Non-Responsive Flows with Active Queue Management", - In Proceedings of Int. Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, IZS 2002, February 2002 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Roman Pletka, Patrick Droz, Burkhard Stiller - "A Buffer-Management Scheme for Bandwidth and Delay Differentiation using a Virtual Scheduler" - In Proceedings of the International Conference on Networking (ICN '01), Colmar, July 2001 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

Research Reports

• Daniel Bauer, Paul Hurley, Roman Pletka, and Marcel Waldvogel - "Bringing Efficient Advanced Queries to Distributed Hash Tables" IBM Research Report RZ-3553, May 2004 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Andreas Kind, Roman Pletka and Marcel Waldvogel - "The Role of Network Processors in Active Networks" IBM Research Report RZ-xxxx, September 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Lukas Ruf, Roman Pletka, Pascal Erni, Patrick Droz and Bernhard Plattner - "Towards High-performance Active Networking" IBM Research Report RZ-3479, August 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Roman Pletka, Andreas Kind, Marcel Waldvogel and Soenke Mannal - "Active Queue Management for Fair Bandwidth Allocation of Mixed Responsive and Non-Responsive Traffic Using a Closed-Loop Congestion Control Scheme" IBM Research Report RZ-3490, May 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Roman Pletka, Marcel Waldvogel and Soenke Mannal - "PURPLE: Predictive Active Queue Management Utilizing Congestion Information" IBM Research Report RZ-3489, May 2003 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Roman Pletka and Burkhard Stiller - "Adaptive End-to-End Quality-of-Service Guarantees in IP Networks using an Active Networking Approach" TIK Report No. 138, June 2002 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Roman Pletka, Patrick Droz, Robert Haas - "A new Buffer-Management Scheme for IP Differentiated Services" - IBM Research Report RZ-3216, March 2000 (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

• Oliver Stoeckle and Roman Pletka - "Web caching: How to select your best siblings" - Project Report, Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, 1998. (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

Thesis

• Roman Pletka - "Adaptive End-to-End Quality of Service Guarantees in IP Networks" - Ph.D. thesis, ETH Zurich, 2004. (abstract| pdf| bibtex).

Other Presentations

• A Network Processor Animation (flash)

Awards

• Ernst Locher award from the Kantonsschule Trogen, Switzerland for the best German essay, December 1992.
• IBM Certificate of Completion of Micro-MBA Program, April 2001.