Thomas Erich Zinner

About

Short bio

Thomas Zinner is with 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.

Experience

Head of Networking Group@IIK, (2021 - current)
Professor at Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), NTNU (2023 - )
Associate Professor at Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), NTNU (2019 - 2023)
Visiting Professor, Head of research group INET, TU Berlin (2018 - 2019)
Research Scientist, Head of research group Next Generation Networks, Chair of Communication Networks, University of Würzburg (2013 - 2018)

Research

In the past decade the Internet changed completely the communications world, the information society as well as the daily life of most people. The Internet offers an increasing diversity of distributed applications and services over various media, and enables new markets and Internet economy.

My area of expertise is centered around the network eco-system with emphasis on network and service management. I am particularly interested in understanding the technologies, architectures and protocols connecting the Internet, the applications and services running on top of it, and through my research, I aim to further advance existing technologies and mechanisms.

In this context, I emphasise system design, performance evaluation and optimization for evolving network and application paradigms, particularly software-based networking, relevant Internet applications like adaptive video streaming and cooperative management approaches for networks and applications.

Networking RG

TeraFlow : Secured autonomic traffic management for a Tera of SDN flows

TeraFlow will create a new type of secure cloud-native SDN controller that will radically advance the state-of-the-art in beyond 5G networks.

Publications

2022

De Moor, Katrien; Fiedler, Markus; Raake, Alexander; Jhunjhunwala, Ashok; Gnanasekaran, Vahiny; Subramanian, Sruti; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2022) Towards the design and evaluation of more sustainable multimedia experiences: which role can QoE research play?. SIGMM Records. volum 14 (3).
Academic article
Gajic, Marija; Bosk, Marcin; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Lange, Stanislav; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2022) Demonstrating QoE-aware 5G Network Slicing Emulated with HTB in OMNeT++. IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Lange, Stanislav; Gajic, Marija; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Pajo, Jane Frances; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Xie, Min; Vilalta, Ricard. (2022) Towards assessing effects of isolation on determinism in multi-application scenarios. FIRA '22: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future of Internet Routing & Addressing.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Lange, Stanislav; Pajo, Jane Frances; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Xie, Min. (2022) QoS-Aware Inter-Domain Connectivity: Control Plane Design and Operational Considerations. NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Mostafaei, Habib; Smaragdakis, Georgios; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2022) Delay-Resistant Geo-Distributed Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 19 (4).
Academic article
Schembra, Giovanni; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Jacquenet, Christian; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Riggio, Roberto; Zhang, Hongke; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Zinner, Thomas. (2022) Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Smart Management of Future Softwarized Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 19 (3).
Academic literature review
Schwarzmann, Susanna; Marquezan, Clarissa Cassales; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Nakajima, Shinichi; Barriac, Vincent; Zinner, Thomas. (2022) ML-based QoE Estimation in 5G Networks Using Different Regression Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 19 (3).
Academic article

2021

Bosk, Marcin; Gajic, Marija; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Lange, Stanislav; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Marquezan, Clarissa; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2021) Using 5G QoS Mechanisms to Achieve QoE-Aware Resource Allocation. 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2021.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bosk, Marcin; Gajic, Marija; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Lange, Stanislav; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2021) HTBQueue: A Hierarchical Token Bucket Implementation for the OMNeT++/INET Framework. arXiv.
Academic article
Geissler, Stefan; Lange, Stanislav; Linguaglossa, Leonardo; Rossi, Dario; Zinner, Thomas; Hossfeld, Tobias. (2021) Discrete-Time Modeling of NFV Accelerators that Exploit Batched Processing. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems. volum 6 (3).
Academic article
Kellerer, Wolfgang; Schembra, Giovanni; Hwang, Jinho; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Kang, Joon-Myung; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Zhang, Hongke; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Zinner, Thomas. (2021) Guest Editors Introduction: Special Issue on Advanced Management of Softwarized Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 18 (1).
Academic literature review
Lange, Stanislav; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Gajic, Marija; Zinner, Thomas; Kraemer, Frank Alexander. (2021) AI in 5G Networks: Challenges and Use Cases. Communication Networks and Service Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Chapter
Vilalta, Ricard; Munoz, Raul; Cassellas, Ramon; Martinez, Ricardo; Lopez, Victor; González de Dios, Oscar; Pastor, Antonio; Katsikas, Georgios; Klaedtke, Felix; Monti, Paolo; Mozo, Alberto; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Øverby, Harald; Gonzalez-Diaz, Sergio; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Pulido, José-Miguel; King, Daniel. (2021) TeraFlow: Secured Autonomic Traffic Management for a Tera of SDN flows. 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2020

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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Shukla, Apoorv; Fathalli, Seifeddine; Zinner, Thomas; Hecker, Artur; Schmid, Stefan. (2020) P4Consist: Towards Consistent P4 SDNs. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. volum 38 (7).
Academic article

2019

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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Apoorv, Shukla; S. Jawad, Saidi; Stefan, Schmid; Marco, Canini; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2019) Towards Consistent SDNS: A Case for Network State Fuzzing. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Academic article
Enghardt, Theresa; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2019) Web performance pitfalls. PAM: International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Geissler, Stefan; Herrnleben, Stefan; Bauer, Robert; Grigorjew, Alexej; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Jarschel, Michael. (2019) The Power of Composition: Abstracting a Multi-Device SDN Data Path Through a Single API. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Academic article
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Schwarzmann, Susanna; Breitbach, Paula; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Rost, Matthias. (2019) Modeling Adaptive Video Streaming Using Discrete-Time Analysis. ITC31 - Networked Systems and Services.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bruschi, Roberto; Ciucu, Florin; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2019) Application Areas and Fundamental Challenges in Network Functions Virtualization. Computer Networks.
Editorial
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Kellerer, Wolfgang; Chemouil, Prosper; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Schembra, Giovanni; Schmid, Stefan; Zhani, Mohamed; Zinner, Thomas. (2019) Guest editorial: Special issue on latest developments for the management of softwarized networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 16 (4).
Editorial
Linguaglossa, Leonardo; Lange, Stanislav; Pontarelli, Salvatore; Rétvári, Gábor; Rossi, Dario; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Bifulco, Roberto; Jarschel, Michael; Bianchi, Giuseppe. (2019) Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization. Proceedings of the IEEE.
Academic article

Journal publications

De Moor, Katrien; Fiedler, Markus; Raake, Alexander; Jhunjhunwala, Ashok; Gnanasekaran, Vahiny; Subramanian, Sruti; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2022) Towards the design and evaluation of more sustainable multimedia experiences: which role can QoE research play?. SIGMM Records. volum 14 (3).
Academic article
Mostafaei, Habib; Smaragdakis, Georgios; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2022) Delay-Resistant Geo-Distributed Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 19 (4).
Academic article
Schembra, Giovanni; Kellerer, Wolfgang; Jacquenet, Christian; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Riggio, Roberto; Zhang, Hongke; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Zinner, Thomas. (2022) Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Smart Management of Future Softwarized Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 19 (3).
Academic literature review
Schwarzmann, Susanna; Marquezan, Clarissa Cassales; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Nakajima, Shinichi; Barriac, Vincent; Zinner, Thomas. (2022) ML-based QoE Estimation in 5G Networks Using Different Regression Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 19 (3).
Academic article
Bosk, Marcin; Gajic, Marija; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Lange, Stanislav; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2021) HTBQueue: A Hierarchical Token Bucket Implementation for the OMNeT++/INET Framework. arXiv.
Academic article
Geissler, Stefan; Lange, Stanislav; Linguaglossa, Leonardo; Rossi, Dario; Zinner, Thomas; Hossfeld, Tobias. (2021) Discrete-Time Modeling of NFV Accelerators that Exploit Batched Processing. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems. volum 6 (3).
Academic article
Kellerer, Wolfgang; Schembra, Giovanni; Hwang, Jinho; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Kang, Joon-Myung; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Pezaros, Dimitrios; Zhang, Hongke; Zhani, Mohamed Faten; Zinner, Thomas. (2021) Guest Editors Introduction: Special Issue on Advanced Management of Softwarized Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 18 (1).
Academic literature review
Shukla, Apoorv; Fathalli, Seifeddine; Zinner, Thomas; Hecker, Artur; Schmid, Stefan. (2020) P4Consist: Towards Consistent P4 SDNs. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. volum 38 (7).
Academic article
Apoorv, Shukla; S. Jawad, Saidi; Stefan, Schmid; Marco, Canini; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2019) Towards Consistent SDNS: A Case for Network State Fuzzing. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Academic article
Geissler, Stefan; Herrnleben, Stefan; Bauer, Robert; Grigorjew, Alexej; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Jarschel, Michael. (2019) The Power of Composition: Abstracting a Multi-Device SDN Data Path Through a Single API. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Academic article
Bruschi, Roberto; Ciucu, Florin; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2019) Application Areas and Fundamental Challenges in Network Functions Virtualization. Computer Networks.
Editorial
Kellerer, Wolfgang; Chemouil, Prosper; Kamiyama, Noriaki; Martini, Barbara; Pasquini, Rafael; Schembra, Giovanni; Schmid, Stefan; Zhani, Mohamed; Zinner, Thomas. (2019) Guest editorial: Special issue on latest developments for the management of softwarized networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. volum 16 (4).
Editorial
Linguaglossa, Leonardo; Lange, Stanislav; Pontarelli, Salvatore; Rétvári, Gábor; Rossi, Dario; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Bifulco, Roberto; Jarschel, Michael; Bianchi, Giuseppe. (2019) Survey of Performance Acceleration Techniques for Network Function Virtualization. Proceedings of the IEEE.
Academic article

Part of book/report

Gajic, Marija; Bosk, Marcin; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Lange, Stanislav; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2022) Demonstrating QoE-aware 5G Network Slicing Emulated with HTB in OMNeT++. IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Lange, Stanislav; Gajic, Marija; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Pajo, Jane Frances; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Xie, Min; Vilalta, Ricard. (2022) Towards assessing effects of isolation on determinism in multi-application scenarios. FIRA '22: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future of Internet Routing & Addressing.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Lange, Stanislav; Pajo, Jane Frances; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Xie, Min. (2022) QoS-Aware Inter-Domain Connectivity: Control Plane Design and Operational Considerations. NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Bosk, Marcin; Gajic, Marija; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Lange, Stanislav; Trivisonno, Riccardo; Marquezan, Clarissa; Zinner, Thomas Erich. (2021) Using 5G QoS Mechanisms to Achieve QoE-Aware Resource Allocation. 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2021.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Lange, Stanislav; Schwarzmann, Susanna; Gajic, Marija; Zinner, Thomas; Kraemer, Frank Alexander. (2021) AI in 5G Networks: Challenges and Use Cases. Communication Networks and Service Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Chapter
Vilalta, Ricard; Munoz, Raul; Cassellas, Ramon; Martinez, Ricardo; Lopez, Victor; González de Dios, Oscar; Pastor, Antonio; Katsikas, Georgios; Klaedtke, Felix; Monti, Paolo; Mozo, Alberto; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Øverby, Harald; Gonzalez-Diaz, Sergio; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Pulido, José-Miguel; King, Daniel. (2021) TeraFlow: Secured Autonomic Traffic Management for a Tera of SDN flows. 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Enghardt, Theresa; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Feldmann, Anja. (2019) Web performance pitfalls. PAM: International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Schwarzmann, Susanna; Breitbach, Paula; Zinner, Thomas Erich; Rost, Matthias. (2019) Modeling Adaptive Video Streaming Using Discrete-Time Analysis. ITC31 - Networked Systems and Services.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

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