Curriculum Vitae of Miika Komu

My name is Miika Komu and I was in born 4.10.1977 in Finland. My nationality and mother language is Finnish.

In a nutshell, I have some early experience in IT system administration, but I have been a networking researcher for the most of my career. Besides writing academic research papers, I have been also designing and standardizing protocols in co-operation with the industry. I have been developing, testing and maintaining networking software throughout my career. I have been instructing a number of students for their thesis projects, teaching on courses and managing research projects. Currently, I am developing cloud related prototypes for Ericsson research in Finland.

Contact Information

Education

Technical Competence

Standardization

I have been involved with international standardization in the context of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for which I have participated to over fifteen IETF meetings (IETF 55-62, 65-66, 68, 70-72, 75, 77 and 79). I am an author in four IETF standards (RFC 5338, 5770, 6316 and 6317) as listed in my publications.

Experience in Operating Systems

Experience in Programming Languages

Some of the software I have been involved with is available online.

The largest and longest software project I have been involved with is HIP for Linux.

Tools

I am very familiar with Linux TCP/IP networking stack, Host Identity Protocol for Linux and Linux IPsec. I am also very familiar with UNIX sockets and POSIX programming. I am also familiar with Software Defined Networking (SDN) from the Coursera MOOC.

I have taken a basics course on usability and been involved in usability testing of user interfaces. The results were published in a paper that was included in my dissertation.

Academic merits

Research

During my career, I have been involved with the following research projects:

I have been also involved with uPnP, Bitcoin and Cloudlet related research (funded from internal budgets).

My researcher id is J-6433-2012 and my publications are listed on a separate web page. My master thesis and dissertation are published online.

Conference reviewing experience:

• ACM Multimedia 2007 Short Papers Systems and Networking Track (ACMMM2007-SP-SystemsAndNetworking conference)

• 15th International conference on Telecommunications (ICT'08)

• Elsevier COMNET (2010, 2013)

• Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2014)

• Computer Networks Journal 2014

Teaching

I took an introductory course on teaching ("Peda Intro") during Spring 2013 at the Aalto university. Besides this, I coordinated the teaching activities of the data communication software group at Aalto university while the responsible teacher was on her parental leave during 2012. I helped to design a new service course (CSE-A1130, computer applications) during year 2013.

I have experience in speaking to an audience. I have given many presentations on IETF standardization meetings, research seminars and courses. I have been lecturing on the following courses at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) / Aalto university:

• Computer Networks, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

• Computer Networks II, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

• Information Technology, 2006, 2007

• Internet Technologies for Mobile Computing, 2010

• Applications and Services in Internet, 2012, 2013

• Mobile Cloud Computing, 2013

I have also been tutoring the following courses at HUT/Aalto:

• CS-E4000 - Seminar in Computer Science: Internet, Data and Things 2019

• Seminar on Internetworking 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007 and 2005.

• Research Seminar on Telecommunications Software 2004

• Netsec seminar 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007

• Advanced UNIX course (lapio II), assistant, 2002

I have been the responsible teacher on the following courses:

• Laboratory Works in Datacommunications Software 2010-2011

• Laboratory Works in Networking and Security 2012-2013

• Network Application Frameworks 2010

• Laboratory Works on Information Security 2010-2011

• Computer Networks 2012

I have instructed (or am instructing presently) a number of master thesis students for both implementation and writing parts:

• Tobias Heer, Lightweight Authentication for the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), August 2006, KuVS award

• Teresa Finez, Backwards Compatibility Experimentation with Host Identity Protocol and Legacy Software and Networks, final project, December 2008

• Blerta Bishaj, Efficient Leap of Faith Security with Host Identity Protocol , June 2008

• Lauri Silvennoinen, Legacy Network Address Translator Traversal Using the Host Identity Protocol, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, October 2007.

• Rene Hummen, Secure Identity-based Middlebox Functions using Host Identity Protocol, February 2009

• Weiwei Hu, HIP Proxy, 2009

• Xiang Lu, End-to-end NAT traversal for HIP, 2009

• Tao Wan, Supporting HIP In Legacy End-hosts and Applications, 2009

• Xin Gu, HIP v2.5, June 2012

• Baris Boyvat, Fault Tolerance for End-host Mobility and Multihoming in Host Identity Protocol, to be completed during 2013

• Vu Ba Tien Dung, H-box: Interconnecting Home Multimedia Devices, May 2013

• Ossi Ala-Peijari, Energy-efficient Bitcoin, 2014

• Juhani Toivonen, Mobility Management for Cloudlets, 2016

• Joel Reijonen, Decentralized Machine Learning for Autonomous Ships in Distributed Cloud Environment, 2018, TEK master thesis award for thesis of the year

• Jan Tilles, Serverless Computing on Constrained Edge Devices, 2019

• Kubra Kutlu, Machine Learning based Chaos Engineering for Cloud-Native Microservice Architectures, 2021

• G Kibrian Shuvo, Tail Based Sampling Framework for Distributed Tracing Using Stream Processing, 2021

• Sepehr Javid, Segment Routing based Traffic Engineering - A QoS adaptive rerouting using segment routing approach based on IPv6 to mitigate network congestion, 2023

I have also acted as technical advisor for the implementation work of the following master theses:

• Bing Zhou, "Opportunistic Security of Host Identity Protocol", July 2006

• Laura Takkinen, Host Identity Protocol Privacy Management, March 2006

• Essi Vehmersalo, Host Identity Protocol Enabled Firewall: A Prototype Implementation and Analysis, September 2005

• Niklas Karlsson, Enabling Multiple Host Identities on Linux, September 2005

• Mika Kousa, Supporting Multiple IPsec Security Associations in Host Identity Protocol Mobility and Multihoming, Oct 2006

• Xie Xiaolei, An Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for the UMTS Network, April 2008

I am/have instructed the following bachelor thesis:

• Liikkuvuudenhallinta Internet-verkossa MobIKE-protokollan avulla, Eerikki Aula, March 2011

• Langattomien sensoriverkkojen protokollat (Wireless sensor network protocols), Ville Koivunen, March 2011

• Oppilaiden tietosuojasta ja oppilaitoksen tietosuojasta, Jari Siren, Dec 2012

• Liikkuvuudenhallinta Interneting mobiiliverkoissa (Mobile networks in the Internet), Antti Kuikka, April 2013

• Yleiskatsaus MultipathTCP-protokollaan (Overview of Multipath TCP), Jani Lillkjäll, Jan 2013

• Käyttäjien autentikointi LDAP-protokollan avulla (user authentication with LDAP), Janne Savikko, 2014

• Challenges in autonomous vessels: an empirical study with an emulated ship, Eero Hiltunen, 2018

During 2012-2013, I have been also tutoring new students at the department of Computer Science and Engineering. I have also instructed multiple special assignments:

• Simple sensor demo and introduction of Theregateway platform, Tomi Aarnio, 2011

• Secure Multi-tenant clouds, Mohit Sethi, 2012

• Smart back up for phones, Nalin Gupta, 2012

• Porting of HIP-based VPN for Android, Harichandra Babu Vidhuran, 2012

• DNS Proxy for Identity-locator split, Paul Tötterman, 2012

• D-bus communication for a HIP-based VPN, Markus Palonen, 2013

• Energy-efficient mining of bitcoins, Ossi Ala-Peijari, 2013

• Multi-threading service based on libcoap and libevent, Ketan Devadiga, 2013

• Course appointment reservation system based on meteor.js, Kimmo Ahokas, 2013

I tutored seminar papers on the following topics for the Aalto internetworking and network security courses:

• Distributed Hash Tables in P2P Systems - A literary survey, Timo Tanner, May 2005

• Securing Network Software using Static Analysis, Lauri Kolmonen, Dec 2007

• Identifying Hosts in Home Networks, Anu Markkola, May 2007

• Applicability Analysis of Grid Security Mechanism on cloud Networking, Rasib Hassan Khan, Dec 2010

• A Review and Qualitative Analysis of IPv6 and IPv4 Interoperability Technologies, Antti Maula, May 2010

• Survey of Naming Architectures for the Internet, Mohit Sethi, Dec 2011

• Digital Rights Management in Games (in Steam), Mikko Vesikkala, Dec 2011

• Identity-Locator Split in Cloud Computing, Heikki Oirola, May 2011

• Fitting Network Security Protocols to Sensor Networks, Villen Koivunen, May 2011

• Bitcoin: The People's Currency of the Future Eliot Estep, Dec 2012

• Whats Going on with Quantum Computation and Cryptography, Chenouili Mohamed, Dec 2012

• How Bitcoin Works, Ossi Ala-Peijari, Dec 2012

• Bitcoin: The People's Currency of the Future, Eliot Estep, Dec 2012

• Whats Going on with Quantum Computation and Cryptography, Chenouili Mohamed, Dec 2012

• Interoperable and Portable Cloud Cervices, Anton Panhelainen, May 2012

• Survey of Network Virtualization Platforms, OpenFlow & OpenStack, Antti Tolonen, May 2013

• Techno-economic feasibility of CoAP, Mahya Ilaghi, May 2013

• Analysis of docker security, Dec 2014, Thanh Bui

• Overview of SD-WAN technologies, Ilkka Helkavaara, Dec 2019

• A peek into modern distributed operating systems, Axel Nurminen,  May 2020

• A Survey of Real-Time Networking, Wojciech Geisler, May 2021

• A Survey of Deterministic Networking, Aapo Linjama, May 2022

• Low Latency, Low Loss, ScalableThroughput (L4S) Protocol, Zunaira Salam, Dec 2022

Administrative experience

I have been involved in application process of multiple Tekes projects (InfraHIP II, Mammoth, Sigmona). I also have a certificate for project management which I obtained during from Helsinki University of Technology during 2007. I have been in a supervisor role for several employees during my career.

I have also been in two sports organizations as a board member in various positions (member, secretary, chair) for a number of years.

Language skills

My language skills are summarized in the table below. I have also taken one course of Japanese for fun.

Employment History