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Niklas Carlsson

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Niklas Carlsson works in the general area of distributed systems and networks. His research aims at providing system insights and solutions that help deliver tomorrow’s services both effectively and securely.

Niklas Carlsson is an Associate Professor at ¸£Àû¼§, Sweden. He received his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from Umeå University, Sweden, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

He has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the , Canada, and as a Research Associate at the , Canada.

His research interests are in the general area of distributed systems and networks, but his research often encompasses many other research domains. Recent research interest include among other things: (i) how to best deliver tomorrow’s interactive streaming and mixed reality experiences, (ii) network security, and (iii) characterization and modeling of underlying fundamentals such as the popularity dynamics within large-scale systems.

To better understand existing technologies and develop and evaluate new better technologies, his research includes a combination of analytic modeling, simulations, measurement-based characterization, data analytics, machine learning, system implementation, as well as real-world experiments. He has a particular interest in trying to obtain solid fundamental/general insights towards the best possible performance, scalability, efficiency, and/or quality of service. When possible, analytic lower bounds are developed for the purpose of rigorous protocol and system evaluation.

For more detailed information on research, teaching, services, and graduated students, please see .

Publications: Five Semi-recent Favorites

• M. Almquist et al., , Proc. ACM MMSys, June 2018.

• N. Carlsson and D. Eager, , IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, June 2017.

• V. Krishnamoorthi et al., , Proc. ACM MMSys, June 2017.

• V. Krishnamoorthi et al. , Proc. ACM Multimedia, Nov. 2014.

• Y. Borghol et al., , Proc. ACM KDD, Aug. 2012.

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Teaching

For an up-to-date list of current courses that Niklas teach, please visit his .

Assignments

Niklas actively participates in many Technical Program Committees (TPCs), works as an associate editor for journals, and has or is holding various other roles within the performance community (e.g., secretary/treasurer for ACM SIGMETRICS 2015-2019, TPC chair for MASCOTS 2015) and in the sustainable computing community (e.g., as chair for the IEEE STCSC 2015-2017, and co-founder and co-organizer of the ACM GreenMetrics workshops 2009-2017). For a complete overview of some of Niklas community activities, please see his .

Publications

2025

Lukas Ingemarsson, Karl Duckert Karlsson, Niklas Carlsson (2025) PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DATA AND APPLICATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY, CODASPY 2025, p. 299-304 (Conference paper)
Alireza Mohammadinodooshan, Niklas Carlsson (2025) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE, WEBSCI 2025, p. 437-448 (Conference paper)
Tim Brecht, Niklas Carlsson, Mikael Vernblom, Patrick Lambrix (Editorship) (2025)
Priyansh Gupta, Mikael Vernblom, Niklas Carlsson, Patrick Lambrix (2025) Proceedings of the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference LINHAC 2025 Research Track and Community Notes, p. 15-27 (Conference paper)
Alireza Mohammadinodooshan, Niklas Carlsson (2025) SOCIAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS AND MINING, ASONAM 2024, PT III, p. 36-47 (Conference paper)

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