Tom Barbette

Assistant Professor
UCLouvain, Belgium
tom.barbette@uclouvain.be
+32 479 60 94 63
Reaumur A 332 (Floor 3)
Place Sainte Barbe 2/L5.02.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tom Barbette’s brief

Check my research page !

Un·e académique en Sciences de la Communication | SFSIC2022 – …Assistant Professor
Un·e académique en Sciences de la Communication | SFSIC2021 – 2022Post-Doc @ INL
kth-logo.jpg | FEMS - The Federation of European Materials Societies2018 – 2021 Post-Doc @ NSLab
Fichier:University of Liège logo.svg — Wikipédia2013 – 2018PhD Student @ RUN
Past positions

TPC: SIGCOMM 26, CoNEXT’21, 22, 24, 26, APNet 25, NSDI’24, HPSR’22, ANCS’21
Workshop: eBPF 23, 24, SIGCOMM’21 Poster session,
AEC: SIGCOMM’23,22,20
ACM/IEEE ToN, Elsevier Computer and Security, IEEE TNSM, CoNEXT’23 ext. review
GitHub — WikipédiaFastClick ; NPF ; WRK-MP
Community Service

News: 2-year fully funded post-doc position available

I am an Assistant Professor at the INGI department of the ICTEAM institute at UCLouvain in Belgium. I decided to stay there after a one year post-doc at the IP Networking Lab of Olivier Bonaventure, following a 3 years post-doc at the Networked Systems lab of Dejan Kostic at KTH, Sweden. I defended my PhD thesis advised by Laurent Mathy in 2018 at the Université de Liège in Belgium.

I am now leading the Efficiency of Networked Systems Group. We are working on designing, implementing and validating a new but backward-compatible Internet based on the novel programmable network infrastructure, such as SmartNICs and P4. To this end, we’ll tackle systems problems related to high-speed networking and large scale load-balancing.

This website contains information about some posts about my research project, about some of the courses I gave,  and unrelated posts in some fields I just enjoy like electronicdomotic, unix, or networking. I also built multiple Android applications, and in my young years, many websites.

Latest research posts

  • PAMO at Middleware’25PAMO at Middleware'25
    PAMO: Pattern Matching Offload for Intrusion Detection SystemsLukáš Šišmiš, Colin Evrard, Etienne Rivière, Tom Barbette This week I am going to present PAMO, a modified version of the industry-grade Suricata IDS ...
  • 2-years post-doc position
    ORGANISATION/COMPANY Université catholique de Louvain Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) RESEARCH FIELD Networking, Systems, High-speed packet processing, SmartNICs, P4, NFV MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS The candidate must have obtained a PhD ...
  • Multi-End QUIC: A Transport Protocol to Enable One-to-Many Commun…Multi-End QUIC: A Transport Protocol to Enable One-to-Many Communications
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3769700.3771696 El Mehdi Makhroute, Quentin De Coninck, Tom Barbette The Internet has shifted from an end-to-end paradigm to an end-to-ends paradigm, i.e. to serve a provider’s content (e.g. a web page, an ...
  • OpenDesc at HotNets’25 !OpenDesc at HotNets'25 !
    Our paper “OpenDesc: From Static NIC Descriptors to EvolvableMetadata Interfaces” will be presented today at HotNets’25. In OpenDesc, we propose to use P4 as an interface to define packet descriptors. ...
  • Flexicast QUIC: Rethinking Multicast for the QUIC Era in SIGCOMM …Flexicast QUIC: Rethinking Multicast for the QUIC Era in SIGCOMM CCR
    Our latest paper with Louis Navarre, Quentin de Coninck, Tom Barbette and Olivier Bonaventure has recently appeared in SIGCOMM CCR! In short: Flexicast QUIC brings multicast back to the Internet by ...

You’ll find all our publications and research in the research page.