# Publications

> Markdown version of https://dtrautwein.eu/publications/

Mostly on measuring peer-to-peer networks, and on the protocol improvements that followed.

## 2026

### Quantifying Ethereum Energy Consumption via Network Mapping

Yahn Costa Hackspacher, Cornelius Ihle, Vasundhara Shaw, Dennis Trautwein, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann, Bela Gipp, Moritz Schubotz. arXiv preprint, 2026.

[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03440), [PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.03440)

```bibtex
@misc{hackspacher2026ethereum,
  title         = {Quantifying Ethereum Energy Consumption via Network Mapping},
  author        = {Hackspacher, Yahn Costa and Ihle, Cornelius and Shaw, Vasundhara
                   and Trautwein, Dennis and Hoffmann, Geerd-Dietger and Gipp, Bela
                   and Schubotz, Moritz},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2610.03440},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CY},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2610.03440}
}
```

### Large-Scale Measurement of NAT Traversal for the Decentralized Web: A Case Study of DCUtR in IPFS

Dennis Trautwein, Cornelius Ihle, Moritz Schubotz, Corinna Breitinger, Bela Gipp. ACM IMC '26, 2026.

[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12484), [PDF](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeiajjmielazwmcv6gpq4shuhmckipz3os3wucqxww36ugxgfo7hdxe), [Code](https://github.com/libp2p/punchr)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{trautwein2026nat,
  title     = {Large-Scale Measurement of NAT Traversal for the Decentralized Web:
               A Case Study of DCUtR in IPFS},
  author    = {Trautwein, Dennis and Ihle, Cornelius and Schubotz, Moritz
               and Breitinger, Corinna and Gipp, Bela},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.1145/3777912.3809138}
}
```

### Measuring and Optimizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Case Study of the InterPlanetary File System

Dennis Trautwein. PhD thesis, University of Göttingen, 2026.

[Paper](https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/handle/11858/16480), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.53846/goediss-11772)

```bibtex
@phdthesis{trautwein2026thesis,
  title  = {Measuring and Optimizing Peer-to-Peer Networks:
            A Case Study of the InterPlanetary File System},
  author = {Trautwein, Dennis},
  school = {University of G{\"o}ttingen},
  year   = {2026},
  doi    = {10.53846/goediss-11772}
}
```

## 2025

### Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies

Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach, Dennis Trautwein, Yann Vonlanthen, Oliver Gasser. ACM SIGMETRICS '26, 2025.

[Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3771572), [PDF](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeihf7yojxe5ziy57t5gljooehjlpkt6ma7j5utl764dz2owe264n4e), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3771572)

```bibtex
@article{kiffer2025coins,
  title   = {Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure
             Across Cryptocurrencies},
  author  = {Kiffer, Lucianna and Heimbach, Lioba and Trautwein, Dennis
             and Vonlanthen, Yann and Gasser, Oliver},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.1145/3771572}
}
```

## 2024

### Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System

Saidu Sokoto, Leonhard Balduf, Dennis Trautwein, Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Onur Ascigil, George Pavlou, Maciej Korczyński, Björn Scheuermann, Michał Król. USENIX Security '24, 2024.

[Paper](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/sokoto)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{sokoto2024guardians,
  title     = {Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the
               InterPlanetary File System},
  author    = {Sokoto, Saidu and Balduf, Leonhard and Trautwein, Dennis and Wei, Yiluo
               and Tyson, Gareth and Castro, Ignacio and Ascigil, Onur and Pavlou, George
               and Korczy{\'n}ski, Maciej and Scheuermann, Bj{\"o}rn and Kr{\'o}l, Micha{\l}},
  booktitle = {33rd USENIX Security Symposium},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/sokoto}
}
```

### IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide

Dennis Trautwein, Yiluo Wei, Yiannis Psaras, Moritz Schubotz, Ignacio Castro, Bela Gipp, Gareth Tyson. IEEE INFOCOM '24, 2024.

[Paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10621404), [PDF](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeic4p5j7ifze4fk5fag5jjawyp5hi4na7f5vxb7qlzy5jr3hlsguzi), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621404), [Code](https://github.com/dennis-tra/optimistic-provide)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{trautwein2024fastlane,
  title     = {IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with
               Optimistic Provide},
  author    = {Trautwein, Dennis and Wei, Yiluo and Psaras, Yiannis and Schubotz, Moritz
               and Castro, Ignacio and Gipp, Bela and Tyson, Gareth},
  booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2024},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621404}
}
```

### The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS

Yiluo Wei, Dennis Trautwein, Yiannis Psaras, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson. USENIX NSDI '24, 2024.

[Paper](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/wei)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{wei2024tussle,
  title     = {The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS},
  author    = {Wei, Yiluo and Trautwein, Dennis and Psaras, Yiannis and Castro, Ignacio
               and Scott, Will and Raman, Aravindh and Tyson, Gareth},
  booktitle = {21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/wei}
}
```

## 2023

### Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Systematic Literature Review

Cornelius Ihle, Dennis Trautwein, Moritz Schubotz, Norman Meuschke, Bela Gipp. ACM Computing Surveys, 2023.

[Paper](https://gipplab.uni-goettingen.de/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/ihle2023.pdf), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3578581)

```bibtex
@article{ihle2023incentive,
  title   = {Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Networks:
             A Systematic Literature Review},
  author  = {Ihle, Cornelius and Trautwein, Dennis and Schubotz, Moritz
             and Meuschke, Norman and Gipp, Bela},
  journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1145/3578581}
}
```

### Redesigning Industrial Composite Production Planning and Control for Energy Awareness

Vincent Adomat, Dennis Trautwein, Jannis Eckhoff, Jens P. Wulfsberg. Procedia CIRP, CIRP Design '23, 2023.

[Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.152), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.152)

```bibtex
@article{adomat2023redesigning,
  title   = {Redesigning Industrial Composite Production Planning and Control
             for Energy Awareness},
  author  = {Adomat, Vincent and Trautwein, Dennis and Eckhoff, Jannis
             and Wulfsberg, Jens P.},
  journal = {Procedia CIRP},
  volume  = {119},
  pages   = {582--588},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.152}
}
```

## 2022

### Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web

Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp, Yiannis Psaras. ACM SIGCOMM '22, 2022. Applied Networking Research Prize 2023.

[Paper](https://www.gipp.com/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/trautwein2022a.pdf), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3544216.3544232), [Code](https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{trautwein2022design,
  title     = {Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the
               Decentralized Web},
  author    = {Trautwein, Dennis and Raman, Aravindh and Tyson, Gareth and Castro, Ignacio
               and Scott, Will and Schubotz, Moritz and Gipp, Bela and Psaras, Yiannis},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference},
  year      = {2022},
  doi       = {10.1145/3544216.3544232}
}
```

## 2021

### Leveraging Node Heterogeneity to Improve Content Discovery and Content Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Dennis Trautwein, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp. ACM CoNEXT-SW '21, 2021.

[Paper](https://gipplab.uni-goettingen.de/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/trautwein2021a.pdf), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3488658.3493781)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{trautwein2021heterogeneity,
  title     = {Leveraging Node Heterogeneity to Improve Content Discovery and
               Content Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks},
  author    = {Trautwein, Dennis and Schubotz, Moritz and Gipp, Bela},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop},
  year      = {2021},
  doi       = {10.1145/3488658.3493781}
}
```

### zbMATH Open: API Solutions and Research Challenges

Matteo Petrera, Dennis Trautwein, Isabel Beckenbach, Dariush Ehsani, Fabian Müller, Olaf Teschke, Bela Gipp, Moritz Schubotz. DISCO '21, co-located with JCDL '21, 2021.

[Paper](https://dweb.link/ipfs/QmTMnQL5CvLXKH6D44mQnx2yWmkDcb3UxWUJ5Hko33hdmA)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{petrera2021zbmath,
  title     = {zbMATH Open: API Solutions and Research Challenges},
  author    = {Petrera, Matteo and Trautwein, Dennis and Beckenbach, Isabel
               and Ehsani, Dariush and M{\"u}ller, Fabian and Teschke, Olaf
               and Gipp, Bela and Schubotz, Moritz},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Document Intelligence (DISCO)},
  year      = {2021}
}
```

### Introducing Peer Copy: A Fully Decentralized Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Tool

Dennis Trautwein, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp. IFIP Networking '21, 2021.

[Paper](https://www.gipp.com/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/trautwein2021.pdf), [DOI](https://doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNetworking52078.2021.9472842), [Code](https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp)

```bibtex
@inproceedings{trautwein2021peercopy,
  title     = {Introducing Peer Copy: A Fully Decentralized Peer-to-Peer
               File Transfer Tool},
  author    = {Trautwein, Dennis and Schubotz, Moritz and Gipp, Bela},
  booktitle = {IFIP Networking Conference},
  year      = {2021},
  doi       = {10.23919/IFIPNetworking52078.2021.9472842}
}
```

## 2017

### Untersuchung plasmonischer Anregungen in TMDC-Gold-Hybridsystemen

In German. English title: Plasmonic excitations in TMDC-gold hybrid systems

Dennis Trautwein. MSc thesis, Kiel University, 2017.

[Paper](https://dtrautwein.eu/files/MA-Dennis-Trautwein.pdf), [PDF, 15 MB](https://dtrautwein.eu/files/MA-Dennis-Trautwein.pdf)

```bibtex
@mastersthesis{trautwein2017plasmonic,
  title  = {Untersuchung plasmonischer Anregungen in TMDC-Gold-Hybridsystemen},
  author = {Trautwein, Dennis},
  school = {Christian-Albrechts-Universit{\"a}t zu Kiel},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {In German}
}
```

## 2015

### Angular Distribution of Charged Particles in the Atmosphere

S. Martensen, M. Brudern, F. Christiansen, M. Koberle, Dennis Trautwein, S. Wraase, S. Böttcher, S. Burmeister, B. Heber, R. Wimmer-Schweingruber. 22nd ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes, 2015.

## 2014

### GEANT4 Simulationen des „Angular Distribution of charged particles - Atmosphere Measurement“ Sensorsystems für das BEXUS 19 Projekt

In German. English title: GEANT4 simulations of the ADAM sensor system for BEXUS 19

Dennis Trautwein. BSc thesis, Kiel University, 2014.

[Paper](https://dtrautwein.eu/files/BA-Dennis-Trautwein.pdf), [PDF, 7 MB](https://dtrautwein.eu/files/BA-Dennis-Trautwein.pdf)

```bibtex
@mastersthesis{trautwein2014geant4,
  title  = {GEANT4 Simulationen des ``Angular Distribution of charged particles -
            Atmosphere Measurement'' Sensorsystems f{\"u}r das BEXUS 19 Projekt},
  author = {Trautwein, Dennis},
  school = {Christian-Albrechts-Universit{\"a}t zu Kiel},
  type   = {Bachelor's thesis},
  year   = {2014},
  note   = {In German}
}
```