Background and activities

Short bio

Thomas Zinner is associate professor at IIK since August 2019. Before, he was visiting professor and head of the FG INET at TU Berlin and head of the research group on "Next Generation Networks" at the chair of Communication Networks at the University of Würzburg. He received his diploma in 2006 and his Ph.D. in 2012, both from University of Würzburg. His research interests cover the performance evaluation of emerging network architecture concepts like SDN/NFV as well as QoE-centric network and service management approaches.

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Journal publications

Part of book/report

  • Enghardt, Theresa; Zinner, Thomas; Feldmann, Anja. (2020) Using informed access network selection to improve HTTP adaptive streaming performance. MMSys '20: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference.
  • Schwarzmann, Susanna; Hainke, Nick; Zinner, Thomas; Sieber, Christian; Robitza, Werner; Raake, Alexander. (2020) Comparing fixed and variable segment durations for adaptive video streaming: a holistic analysis. MMSys '20: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference.
  • Schwarzmann, Susanna; Marquezan, Clarissa Cassales; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Nakajima, Shinichi; Zinner, Thomas. (2020) Accuracy vs. Cost Trade-off for Machine Learning Based QoE Estimation in 5G Networks. ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
  • Schwarzmann, Susanna; Zinner, Thomas. (2020) Linking QoE and Performance Models for DASH-based Video Streaming. Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization NetSoft 2020.
  • Al-Issa, Ali; Bentaleb, Abdelhak; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Mkwawa, Is-Haka; Ghita, Bogdan V.. (2019) BBGDASH: A Max-Min Bounded Bitrate Guidance for SDN Enabled Adaptive Video Streaming. 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019.
  • Enghardt, Theresa; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2019) Web performance pitfalls. PAM: International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement.
  • Geissler, Stefan; Lange, Stanislav; Wamser, Florian; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Hossfeld, Tobias. (2019) KOMon—Kernel-based Online Monitoring of VNF Packet Processing Times. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Networked Systems.
  • Gray, Nicolas; Grigorjew, Alexej; Hossfeld, Tobias; Apoorv, Shukla; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2019) Highlighting the Gap Between Expected and Actual Behavior in P4-enabled Networks. International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2019.
  • Lange, Stanislav; Linguaglossa, Leonardo; Geissler, Stefan; Rossi, Dario; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2019) Discrete-Time Modeling of NFV Accelerators that Exploit Batched Processing. Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2019.
  • Schwarzmann, Susanna; Breitbach, Paula; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2019) Computing QoE-Relevant Adaptive Video Streaming Metrics Using Discrete-Time Analysis. 2019 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN).
  • Schwarzmann, Susanna; Breitbach, Paula; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Rost, Matthias. (2019) Modeling Adaptive Video Streaming Using Discrete-Time Analysis. ITC31 - Networked Systems and Services.
  • Schwarzmann, Susanna; Marquezan, Clarissa; Bosk, Marcin; Liu, Huiran; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2019) Estimating Video Streaming QoE in the 5G Architecture Using Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 4th Internet-QoE Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks.
  • Alissa, Ali; Bentaleb, Abdelhak; Barakabitze, Alcardo; Ghita, Bogdan V.; Zinner, Thomas. (2019) Bandwidth Prediction Schemes for Defining Bitrate Levels in SDN-enabled Adaptive Streaming. 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2019.
  • Enghardt, Theresa; Tiesel, Philipp; Zinner, Thomas; Feldmann, Anja. (2019) Informed Access Network Selection: The Benefits of Socket Intents for Web Performance. 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2019.