Olaf M. Maennel

Responsible examiner: Anja Feldmann

• Sara Bürkle (BGP convergence analysis)
• Andreas Hartl (Examining BGP update dynamics using network simulation)
• Wolfgang Mühlbauer (Towards Reproducing Inter-Domain AS Paths)
• Andreas Merkel (Analysis and Simulation of Network Anomalies)
• … and assisted in the supervision of others.

2009/10

• 01. Roshan HareendraBabu (The A+P Approach to IPv4 Addressing Extension – Evaluation Methodologies)
• 02. Nurudeen K. Abdulsalam (BGP Security)
• 03. Fatma Al-Moqbali (Feasibility of IP identifier as an alarm system for network operator)
• 04. Ali H. AlKhamis (Compare performance of IPv6 and IPv4)
• 05. Oluwole Samuel Shoyinka (Detecting IPv6 issues in operational networks)
• 06. Askar Jaboldinov (Internet Measurements – a question of visibility?)
• 07. Adedayo Bakenne (Route Flap Damping and the slow Internet)

2010/11

• 08. Aidos Tauanov (Evaluating BGP Add-Path in Virtual Networks)
• 09. Hao Fang (Large-scale Network Emulation)
• 10. Jozef Woods (Analysis of IPv4-to-IPv6 Transition Mechanisms)
• 11. Sujin Christudas-Santhakumari (Setup large emulated networks)
• 12. Sohaib Imran (Routing analysis of exchange points)
• 13. Rongzheng Wang (Answering what-if-questions with AutoNetKit in virtualized and emulated network environments)
• 14. Wen-Chi Huang (BGP security)
• 15. Saurabh Jha (Detecting IPv6 issues in operational networks)

2011/12

• 16. Konstantinos Stamou (Evaluation of Data Link Layer Attacks in Virtualized Environment)
• 17. Hussein Habibu Mbaruku (Analysis of IXPs Inter-domain Routing)
• 18. Ilias Pallikarakis (A Study in TCP/BGP Session Security)
• 19. Mehdi Mousavi (Internet Modelling from a Stub Autonomous System’s point of view through a virtual model)

2012/13

• 20. Ahmed Alghamdi (Cyber Defence Exercises setups) — best MSc student in 2012/13
• 21. Zahra Al-Siyabi (CDX setups)
• 22. Osariase Idubor (Intrusion Detection Systems)
• 23. Alexandros Poullidis (IPv6)
• 24. Oliver Fletcher (webRTC)
• 25. Bowen Liu (BGPsec for C-BGP)

2013/14

• 26. Udoka Ezealor (Setting up a malware lab)
• 27. Jaina Prajapati (Network Debugging)
• 28. Abrar Mohamed (IPv4 transition / Nejc’s AP64)
• 29. Nawal Al Balushi (Evaluating Network Design)
• 30. Ogechukwu Egonu (Scoring with VIRL)
• 31. Fiona Hughes (Investigating the Balance Between Privacy and Security)

2014/15 (June defences)

• 32. Ragnar Kreis (Smart Contracts)

2015/16 (January defences)

• 33. Panagiotis Marzelas (A Social Media Honeypot Method To Detect Spearphishing)

2015/16 (June defences)

• 34. Luis Alejandro Velasquez Hurtado (Colombia and the intelligence cycle in the 21st century, the digital age)
• 35. Camilo Andres Pantoja Viveros (Analysis of the Cyber Attacks against ADS-B Perspective of Aviation Experts)
• 36. Ferenc Szalai (Does Cyber Security Exercise Information Sharing Work?)
• 37. Florian Gasteiger (R3AD – An architecture to include UAVs in national Airspace)
• 38. Luis Carlos Herrera Velasquez (A Comprehensive Instrument for Identifying Critical Information Infrastructure Services) — best ICT thesis award!
• 39. Morteza Fakoorrad (Application Layer of Software Defined Networking: pros and cons in terms of security)
• 40. Santiago Andres Sarmiento Bernal (Detection solution analysis for simplistic spoofing attacks in commercial mini and micro UAVs)
• 41. Sho Yano (Security Analysis on Healthcare IoT Project)

2016/17 (January defences)

• 42. Jens Getreu (Forensic-Tool Development with Rust)
• 43. Kaspar Prei (Measuring Personnel Cyber Security Awareness Level Through Phishing Assessment)
• 44. Wael AbuSeada (Alternative approach to automate detection of DOM-XSS vulnerabilities)

2016/17 (June defences)

• 45. Neslisah Celik (Anomaly Detection Using Locked Shields Logs)
• 46. Ahmed Nafies Okasha Mohamed (A New Heuristic Based Phishing Detection Approach Utilizing Selenium Web-driver)

2017/18 (January defences)

• 47. Tiiu Mamers (The Art and Science of Information Security Investments for small Firms)
• 48. Silvia Väli (Analysis of Electron-based Applications to Identify XSS Flaws to RCE in Open-Source Applications)

2017/18 (June defences)

• 49. Amirhossein Akbari (A Novel Approach for Securing HTML5 Client-Side Database IndexedDB)
• 50. Andres Rauschecker (User-Oriented Privacy EnHancements for Web-Browsers)
• 51. Karl Mendelman (Fingerprinting a Organization Using Metadata of Public Documents)
• 52. Kaspar Jüristo (How to Conduct Email Phishing Experiments) (co-supervised with Sten Mäses)
• 53. Lejla Islami (Assessing generational differences in susceptibility to Social Engineering attacks. A comparison between Millennial and Baby Boomer generations)
• 54. Moira Gabriella Nguegaum (A Structured Approach to the Identification of IPv6 Vulnerabilities in IPv4-Only Local Area Networks)
• 55. Romet Saaliste (Estonian Government Related Challenges in Protection of Personal Data)
• 56. Stefano Panarese (Nessuno: A Friend-To-Friend Anonymous Communication Protocol)

2018/19 (January defences)

• 57. Mikk Romulus (Security Testing Estonian Contactless Bank Cards)

2018/19 (June defences)

• 58. Kristine Hovhannisyan (Applying Confidence-Building Measures to Cyber Conflict: Computer Emergency Response Cooperation and Cyber Espionage)
• 59. Krishna Vaishnav (How Indian Political Parties are Using Facebook and Twitter to Reach Voters’ WhatsApp Accounts)
• 60. Alberto Zorrilla Garza (BEACONLEAK: Use and Detection of 802.11 Beacon Stuffing as a Covert Channels)

2019/20

• 61. Kristian Kivimägi (Predicting Students’ Success Using Technical Labs as Part of University Admission to a Cyber Security Program)
• 62. Ilja Smarjov (OWASP Secure Coding Practices Checklist and Training: Assessment of Effectiveness in a Technology Company)
• 63. Illia Petrash (User Behaviour During COVID-19 from the Perspective of a Telco Server)
• 64. Marvin Uku (Evaluation Method for Smart Home and Smart Grid Authentication Protocols)
• 65. Andrew James Roberts (Digital Forensic Real-Time Logging of Robotic Operating System Based Autonomous Self-Driving Vehicle Platforms)
• 66. Ayaka Uehara (Security Investigation of The TalTech Smart Lift)
• 67. Juri Kononov (Network Policy Management in Service Rich Environment)
• 68. Martin Chmelar (Utilizing Mitre ATT&CK to Create Adversary Reports of Live-fire Cybersecurity Exercises for Feedback Purposes)
• 69. Mykyta Zaitsev (Developing Learning Pathways for Massive Open Online Courses by the Example of the Rangeforce Cyberskills Training Platform)

2020/21 (June and August defences)

• 70. Dariana Khisteva (A Proposal of Integrating Open-Source IDS into Vessel’s Bridge Network)
• 71. Stanislav Mekinulashvili (Sniffing Encrypted BLE Traffic After Changing Connection Parameters, Using Low-Cost Hardware that Captures Only One Channel at a Time)
• 72. Tino Apostolovski (Design and Implementation of a Secure Protocol for Communication between ATC and Drone Pilot)
• 73. Gulkhara Babayeva (Domain Ontology for Cyber Defense Exercises)

2020/21 EAVA (June and August defences)

• 74. Maria-Elizabeth Rüütel (Developing simulation exercises to counter cyber threats in controller pilot data link communications) — co-supervisor, main supervisor was Nele Tootsi

2022 (June defences)

• 75. Tomoya Tanaka (Development of IDS/IPS specifically designed for ETSI ITS-G5 V2X communication)

2023 (June defences)

• 76. Ayooluwa Samuel Ayoola (Phishing Campaigns and Security Awareness Training in a Sport Betting Company)
• 77. Luisa Caretta Hopp (Application of the Metagraph to the Aviation Supply Chain: A Case Study)

“Improved Algorithms for TCP Congestion Control”
Committee: Jon Crowcroft (external), and myself (internal).

“Towards Improved Control and Troubleshooting for Operational Networks”
Committee: Laurent Mathy (external), Anja Feldmann (internal), and myself (external opponent).

“Network Delay Control Through Adaptive Queue Management”
Committee: Irfan Awan (external), and myself (internal).

“Compact Routing for the Future Internet”
Committee: Jeremy Singer (head), Lewis Mackenzie (internal), and myself (external opponent).

“Handling network reconfiguration”
Committee: Olivier Bonaventure (supervisor), Christophe De Vleeschouwer (chair), Yves Deville (secretary), Bruno Quoitin (external), Anja Feldmann (external) and myself (external opponent).

“Virtual Network Management”
Committee: Laurent Mathy (external), Anja Feldmann (internal), and myself (external opponent).

“Methods for Safe, Flexible and Secure Policy Based Routing”
Committee: Kihong Park, Charlie Hu, Tim Griffin (external), Sonia Fahmy (advisor), and myself (advisor).

“Enabling inter-domain path diversity”
Committee: Jean-Louis Rougier (advisor), Oliver Bonaventure (advisor), Chadi Barakat, Peter Reichl, Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Maurice Gagnaire, myself (external opponent).

“A Functional and Performance-Oriented Comparison of Transition Mechanisms for Internet Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 Protocol”
Committee: Mojca Ciglaric (advisor), Zoran Bosnic, Andrej Kos, and myself.

“A System for the Detection of Limited Visibility in BGP”
Advisor: Marcelo Bagnulo Braun. I served as “international expert” reviewer.

“Collaborative Network Security: Targeting Wide-area Routing and Edge-network Attacks”
Advisor: Nahid Shahmehri. External opponent: myself. Committee members: Tuomas Aura, Jacob Löfvenberg, Per Gunningberg.

“Software Technology for Cyber Security Simulations”
Advisors: Enn Tõugu, Jaan Penjam. I was a member of the examination committee; head was Jüri Vain. Opponents: Margus Veanes, Christian Czosseck.

“Security in Emerging Networking Technologies — Views on Internet of Things and Software-Defined Networking”
Advisor: Tuomas Aura. External opponent: myself. Preliminary examiners: Stefan Schmid, Panos Papadimitratos.

“Auto-configuration of Critical Network Infrastructure”
Advisor: Matthew Roughan. External opponent: myself.

“On Security and Privacy for Networked Information Society — Observations and Solutions for Security Engineering and Trust Building in Advanced Societal Processes”
Advisor: Seppo Virtanen. Opponent: myself.

“Aspect-Oriented Model-Based Testing”
Advisor: Jüri Vain. Opponents: Juha Plosila & Artem Boyarchuk. Chair of committee: myself.

“ISP Traffic Management via Flow Optimization”
Advisors: Anja Feldmann, Georgios Smaragdakis. Opponent: myself.

“Scenario Oriented Model-Based Testing”
Advisor: Jüri Vain. Opponents: Dragos Truscan, Anatoliy Gorbenko. Chair of committee: myself.

“Model-based Testing Framework for Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems”
Advisor: Jüri Vain. Opponents: Dragos Truscan, Anatoliy Gorbenko. Chair of committee: myself.

“Secure and Efficient Protocols for the IIoT — Adapting PTP and TLS to meet IIoT constraints and requirements”
Advisors: Nicola Dragoni and Xenofon Fafoutis. Opponents: Angelo Spognardi and myself. Chair of committee: Michael Reichhardt Hansen.

“A Generic Framework for Collective Intelligence Systems”
Advisors: Dirk Draheim, Ingrid Pappel, Alexander Norta. Opponents: Gerhard Schwabe (University of Zurich), Anna De Liddo (The Open University Milton Keynes). Chair of the committee: myself. Committee members: Tara Ghasempouri, Innar Liiv, Priit Järv.

“Approaches to Extra-Functional Verification of Security and Reliability Aspects in Hardware Designs”
Advisors: Maksim Jenihhin and Jaan Raik. Opponents: Maria K. Michael (University of Cyprus) and Zainalabedin Navabi (University of Tehran). Chair of the committee: myself. Committee members: Alvo Aabloo, Samuel Nascimento Pagliarini, and Leonidas Tsiopoulos.

“Scheduling in Radio Resource Management for Massive Machine-Type Communications”
Advisors: Muhammad Mahtab Alam and Yannick Le Moullec. Opponents: Luca Reggiani, Qammer Abbasi. Chair of the committee: myself. Committee members: Olev Märtens, Ivo Müürsepp, Rein Sabolotny, and Jeffrey Andrew Tuhtan.

“Enhancing Security and Resilience in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems”
Habilitation Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Steinhorst 2nd evaluator: myself.