Research interests

• Transport Protocols
• Internet Measurements
• Privacy-Preserving Technologies
• Internet Fragmentation and Censorship

Publications

2026

• Malte Wehmeier, Eric Lanfer, Kathrin Elmenhorst, Nils Aschenbruck
  "Camera-Ready? Exploring Transport-Layer Performance Limits with GigE Vision"
  accepted as full paper for the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys'26), Hong Kong, April 4-8, 2026.

2025

• Kathrin Elmenhorst, Nils Aschenbruck
  "Clouded Comparisons - On the Impact of Virtual Machines on TCP-BBR Performance"
  Poster in the Proc of the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications SIGCOMM, Coimbra, Portugal, Sep. 8-11, 2025. (✨ Graduate SRC winner)
• Kathrin Elmenhorst, Mirja Kühlewind, Ike Kunze, Constantin Sander, Klaus Wehrle. 
  "Cascades of Nested Acknowledgments in Multi-Hop MASQUE"
  Proceedings of the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2025 (ANRW ‘25), Jul 22, 2025, Madrid, Spain. July 2025.

2024

• Kathrin Elmenhorst 
  "Investigating Performance and Privacy Implications of QUIC-based Multi-Hop MASQUE" 
  Master Thesis, RWTH Aachen, September 2024.

2022

• Birte Friesel, Kathrin Elmenhorst, Lennart Kaiser, Michael Müller, Olaf Spinczyk 
  "kconfig-webconf: Retrofitting Performance Models onto Kconfig-Based Software Product Lines" 
  Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference 
  SPLC, Graz, Austria, Sept. 12-16, 2022. [pdf].

2021

• Kathrin Elmenhorst, Bertram Schütz, Nils Aschenbruck, Simone Basso 
  "Web Censorship Measurements of HTTP/3 over QUIC" 
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2021, [dl.acm]
• Kathrin Elmenhorst 
  "Measuring the Impact of HTTP/3 over QUIC on Web Traffic Censorship" 
  Bachelor Thesis, Universität Osnabrück, April 2021.

Teaching