News & Notes

To cite an old Web 0.9 meme: This site is still under construction and a personal tinkering place for me. Most of the current academic information on me is now present but will be continually (or, more probably, irregularly) updated. New sections might be added, and the presentation of existing sections improved. I encourage any astute reader to contact me with suggestions and report issues!

The Science of I

After receiving my Diplom in computer science from the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2010, I got my doctoral degree in computer science at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2015, where I was a researcher at the Future Communication group. Between 2015 and 2018, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Modeling of Adaptive Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. From April 2018 to 2022 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Communication Networks at the University of Würzburg. In 2022, I joined the institute of computer science of the University of Würzburg as a full-time study program coordinator.

Academic Career

Study Programme Coordinator

2022 - present
Institute of Computer Science, University of Würzburg, Germany

Postdoc Researcher

2018 - 2022
Chair of Communication Networks, University of Würzburg, Germany

Postdoc Researcher

2015 - 2018
Chair of Modeling of Adaptive Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Researcher

2010 - 2015
Future Communication Research Group, University of Vienna, Austria

Publications

An Introduction to Online Video Game QoS and QoE Influencing Factors

Florian Metzger, Stefan Geißler, Alexej Grigorjew, Frank Loh, Christian Moldovan, Michael Seufert, Tobias Hoßfeld
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 , doi: 10.1109/COMST.2022.3177251

Investigating the Predictability of QoS Metrics in Cellular Networks

Stefan Herrnleben, Johannes Grohmann, Veronika Lesch, Thomas Prantl, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Samuel Kounev
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2022 , doi: 10.1109/IWQoS54832.2022.9812881

Constant Delay Switching: Asynchronous Traffic Shaping With Jitter Control

Alexej Grigorjew, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Johannes Specht, Franz-Josef Goetz, Feng Chen, Juergen Schmitt
IFIP Networking, 2022 , doi: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking55013.2022.9829777

Relationship Status: It’s Complicated. Using APM as a QoE-qualifying Tempo Metric

Florian Metzger, Norman Stulier, Kathrin Borchert, Matthias Hirth
2021 13th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2021 , doi: 10.1109/QoMEX51781.2021.9465396

LoRaPlan: A Software to Evaluate Gateway Placement in LoRaWAN

Frank Loh, Noah Mehling. Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, David Hock
2021 17th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2021 , doi: 10.23919/CNSM52442.2021.9615586

Improving LoRaWAN’s Successful Information Transmission Rate with Redundancy

Frank Loh, Simon Raffeck, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld
2021 17th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2021 , doi: 10.1109/WiMob52687.2021.9606388

The Prospects of Cloud Gaming: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs?

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder, Svenja Schröder, Patrick Zwickl
Working Paper, 2016/2021 , doi: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-242452

Subjective And Objective Assessment Of Video Game Context Factors

Florian Metzger, Svenja Schröder, Albert Rafetseder
Working Paper, 2018/2021 , doi: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-242471

Distributed Implementation of Deterministic Networking in Existing Non-TSN Ethernet Switches

Alexej Grigorjew, Christian Baier, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld
2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2021 , doi: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops50388.2021.9473776

Towards speech quality assessment using a crowdsourcing approach: evaluation of standardized methods

Babak Naderi, Rafael Zequeira Jiménez, Matthias Hirth, Sebastian Möller, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld
Quality and User Experience Vol. 6 No. 1, 2020 , doi: 10.1007/s41233-020-00042-1

Crowdsensed QoE for the community - a concept to make QoE assessment accessible

Florian Metzger
Working Paper, 2017/2020 , doi: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-203748

Impact of the Number of Votes on the Reliability and Validity of Subjective Speech Quality Assessment in the Crowdsourcing Approach

Babak Naderi, Tobias Hoßfeld, Matthias Hirth, Florian Metzger, Sebastian Möller, Rafael Zequeira Jiménez
2020 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2020 , doi: 10.1109/QoMEX48832.2020.9123115

Per-Hop Bridge-Local Latency Bounds with Strict Priority Transmission Selection

Alexej Grigorjew, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Johannes Specht, Franz-Josef Götz, Jürgen Schmitt, Feng Chen
IFIP Networking 2020, 2020

Bounded Latency with Bridge-Local Stream Reservation and Strict Priority Queuing

Alexej Grigorjew, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Johannes Specht, Franz-Josef Götz, Feng Chen, Jürgen Schmitt
11th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF) 2020, 2020 , doi: 10.1109/NoF50125.2020.9249224

Asynchronous Traffic Shaping with Jitter Control

Alexej Grigorjew, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Johannes Specht, Franz-Josef Götz, Feng Chen, Jürgen Schmitt
Technical Report, 2020 , doi: 10.25972/OPUS-20582

Technical Report on Bridge-Local Guaranteed Latency with Strict Priority Scheduling

Alexej Grigorjew, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Johannes Specht, Franz-Josef Götz, Jürgen Schmitt, Feng Chen
Technical Report, 2020

Crowd-based Study of Gameplay Impairments and Player Performance in DOTA 2

Matthias Hirth, Kathrin Borchert, Fabian Allendorf, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld
4th ACM Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks (Internet-QoE 2019), 2019 , doi: 10.1145/3349611.3355545

Traffic Measurement Study on Video Streaming with the Amazon Echo Show

Frank Loh, Viktoria Vomhoff, Florian Wamser, Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld
4th ACM Workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks (Internet-QoE 2019), 2019 , doi: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3349611.3355543

Modeling of Aggregated IoT Traffic and Its Application to an IoT Cloud

Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, André Bauer, Samuel Kounev, Poul E. Heegaard
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 , doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2019.2901578

Exploring the Transmission Behaviour of Overwatch: The Source of Lag

Florian Metzger, Roman Heger
30th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 30), 2018 , doi: 10.1109/ITC30.2018.00022

Context Monitoring for Improved System Performance and QoE

Florian Metzger, Tobias Hoßfeld, Lea Skorin-Kapov, Yoram Haddad, Eirini Liotou, Peter Pocta, Hugh Melvin, Vasilios A. Siris, Andrej Zgank, Michael Jarschel
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10768, 2018 , doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-90415-3_2

The Value of Context-Awareness in Bandwidth-Challenging HTTP Adaptive Streaming Scenarios

Eirini Liotou, Tobias Hoßfeld, Christian Moldovan, Florian Metzger, Dimitris Tsolkas, Nikos Passas
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10768, 2018 , doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-90415-3_6

Speed Index: Relating the Industrial Standard for User Perceived Web Performance to Web QoE

Tobias Hoßfeld, Florian Metzger, Dario Rossi
2018 Tenth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2018 , doi: 10.1109/QoMEX.2018.8463430

Traffic Modeling for Aggregated Periodic IoT Data

Tobias Hoßfeld, Florian Metzger, Poul E. Heegaard
21st International Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2018), 2018 , doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30475.39203

Viability of Wi-Fi caches in an era of HTTPS prevalence

Christian Moldovan, Florian Metzger, Sebastian Surminski, Tobias Hoßfeld, Valentin Burger
2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2017 , doi: 10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962850

TCP video streaming and mobile networks: Not a love story, but better with context

Florian Metzger, Eirini Liotou, Christian Moldovan, Tobias Hoßfeld
Computer Networks, 2016 , doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2016.06.033

Bridging the Gap between QoE and User Engagement in HTTP Video Streaming

Christian Moldovan, Florian Metzger
28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28), 2016 , doi: 10.1109/ITC-28.2016.122

A Comprehensive End-to-End Lag Model for Online and Cloud Video Gaming

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder, Christian Schwartz
Proc. 5th ISCA/DEGA Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2016), 2016 , doi: 10.21437/PQS.2016-5

Assessing the Accuracy of Network Estimations in the DOTA 2 Game Client

Matthias Hirth, Fabian Allendorf, Florian Metzger, Christian Schwartz
Proc. 5th ISCA/DEGA Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2016), 2016 , doi: 10.21437/PQS.2016-6

Games and Frames: A Strange Tale of QoE Studies

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder, Christian Schwartz, Tobias Hoßfeld
8th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2016), 2016

QoE Management made uneasy: The case of Cloud Gaming

Andreas Sackl, Raimund Schatz, Tobias Hossfeld, Florian Metzger, David Lister, Ralf Irmer
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), 2016 , doi: 10.1109/ICCW.2016.7503835

Enriching HTTP adaptive streaming with context awareness: A tunnel case study

Eirini Liotou, Tobias Hoßfeld, Christian Moldovan, Florian Metzger, Dimitris Tsolkas, Nikos Passas
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), 2016 , doi: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511206

QoE for Cloud Gaming

Tobias Hoßfeld, Florian Metzger, Michael Jarschel
IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter, 2015

A Simulation Framework for Evaluating the QoS and QoE of TCP-based Streaming in an LTE Network

Florian Metzger, Christoph Steindl, Tobias Hoßfeld
27th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 27), 2015 , doi: 10.1109/ITC.2015.27

Evaluating Reliable Streaming in Mobile Networks

Florian Metzger
Dissertation thesis, 2014

GTP-based load model and virtualization gain for a mobile network's GGSN

Florian Metzger, Christian Schwartz, Tobias Hoßfeld
IEEE Fifth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE), 2014 , doi: 10.1109/CCE.2014.6916704

Exploratory Analysis of a GGSN’s PDP Context Signaling Load

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder, Peter Romirer-Maierhofer, Kurt Tutschku
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, 2014 , doi: 10.1155/2014/526231

Sensorium – A Generic Sensor Framework

Albert Rafetseder, Florian Metzger, Lukas Pühringer, Kurt Tutschku, Yanyan Zhuang, Justin Cappos
PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, 2013 , doi: 10.1515/pik-2012-0061

A performance evaluation framework for video streaming

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder, Kurt Tutschku
19th International Packet Video Workshop (PV), 2012 , doi: 10.1109/PV.2012.6229739

Models for 3G And Beyond Cellular Mobile Networks

Albert Rafetseder, Florian Metzger
Summer School on Modeling and Analysis of Novel Mechanisms in Future Internet Applications, 2012

Modeling and Evaluation of Video Streaming

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder
Summer School on Modeling and Analysis of Novel Mechanisms in Future Internet Applications, 2012

On the Influence of Network Impairments on YouTube Video Streaming

Arkadiusz Biernacki, Florian Metzger, Kurt Tutschku
Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (JTIT), 2012

Research Report On Signaling Load and Tunnel Management in a 3G Core Network

Florian Metzger, Steffen Gebert, Katharina Salzlechner, Albert Ratetseder, Peter Romirer, Kurt Tutschku
University of Würzburg Institute of Computer Science Research Report Series, 2012

Network Federation as a Provider Concept: From Today's Measurement to Tomorrow's Architecture

Albert Rafetseder, Florian Metzger, David Stezenbach, Kurt Tutschku
12th Würzburg Workshop on IP: ITG Workshop Visions of Future Generation Networks (EuroView2012), 2012

Exploring YouTube's content distribution network through distributed application-layer measurements: a first view

Albert Rafetseder, Florian Metzger, David Stezenbach, Kurt Tutschku
Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Complex Networks (Cnet'11), 2011

Analysis of web-based video delivery

Florian Metzger, Albert Rafetseder, David Stezenbach, Kurt Tutschku
50th FITCE Congress (FITCE), 2011 , doi: 10.1109/FITCE.2011.6133425

Pushing the performance of Biased Neighbor Selection through Biased Unchoking

Simon Oechsner, Frank Lehrieder, Tobias Hoßfeld, Florian Metzger, Dirk Staehle, Konstantin Pussep
IEEE Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P '09), 2009 , doi: 10.1109/P2P.2009.5284527

Talks

"How-to (not) Smart City"

September 2019, Vienna
Invited Talk hosted by the Cooperative Systems Research Group

"IoT - From Praxis To Theory (Part I)"

February 2018, Erlangen
19th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (MMB)

VDE/ITG Section 5.2 expert group 5.2.4 IP and Mobility, workshop on Cellular Internet of Things

Crowdsourcing and IoT Summer School

WDR Informatiktag 2016

48th meeting of the VDE/ITG Section 5.2.4 IP and Mobility, workshop on 5G System Architecture

38th meeting of the VDE/ITG Section 5.2.4 Mobility in IP-based Networks, workshop on Traffic Management for Mobile Networks

Lectures and Exercises

An overview of the lectures and exercises I have given in the past.

2021/22

- Vorlesung und Übung Neue Internet-Anwendungen: Technik und Modellierungsansätze (Lecture and Exercises for New Internet Applications)

2021

- Vorlesung und Übung Simulationstechnik zur Systemanalyse (Lecture and Exercises for Simulation Modeling and Analysis)

2019/20

- Vorlesung und Übung Neue Internet-Anwendungen: Technik und Modellierungsansätze (Lecture and Exercises for New Internet Applications)

2018/19

- Vorlesung und Übung Neue Internet-Anwendungen: Technik und Modellierungsansätze (Lecture and Exercises for New Internet Applications)

2017/18

- Übung Neue Internetanwendungen (Exercises for New Internet Applications)

2017/18

- Projektgruppe Aggregated IoT (Project Group Aggregated IoT)

2017

- Übung Diskrete Simulation (Exercises for Discrete Simulation)

2016/17

- Übung Neue Internetanwendungen (Exercises for New Internet Applications)

2016

- Übung Diskrete Simulation (Exercises for Discrete Simulation)

2015/16

- Übung Neue Internetanwendungen (Exercises for New Internet Applications)

2014/15

- Vorlesung und Übung Netzwerktechnologie für Multimedia Anwendungen (Lecture and Exercises for Network Technologies for Multimedia Applications)

2014

- Übung Netzwerktechnologien (Exercises for Network Technologies)

2013

- Übung Netzwerktechnologien (Exercises for Network Technologies)

2012/13

- Übung Netzwerktechnologie für Multimedia Anwendungen (Exercises for Network Technologies for Multimedia Applications)

2012

- Übung Netzwerktechnologien (Exercises for Network Technologies)

2011/12

- Übung Netzwerktechnologie für Multimedia Anwendungen (Exercises for Network Technologies for Multimedia Applications)

2011

- Übung Netzwerktechnologien (Exercises for Network Technologies)

2010/11

- Übung Netzwerktechnologie für Multimedia Anwendungen (Exercises for Network Technologies for Multimedia Applications)

2007/08

- Übung Informationsübertragung (als studentische Hilfskraft) (Student helper for exercises for Transmission Theory)

Software Projects

A growing list of open source projects, material, and open data repositories

Sensorium - A generic sensor framework prototype for Android, intended to give the user easy choices about her privacy
GGSN Simulator - A queuing simulation written with SimPy that explores the performance and scaling options of (virtualized) 3G core networks
Video Game Lag Simulator - A framework written in R that aims to simulate all end-to-end (or button-to-pixel) lag inducing components in video games
LaTeX Thesis Template - A modern and versatile LaTeX template intended for any kind of academic and student thesis

Skills & Proficiency

An overview of the stuff that I’ve been doing and using, and for how long.

R

8 years (daily driver)

LaTeX

17 years (daily driver)

Python

8 years (occasionally)

Java

12 years (occasionally for some larger projects)

Internet Protocols

15 years (knowledge that I use daily)

Discrete Event Simulations

8 years (in research, more recently in teaching as well)

Data Science

6 years (this best describes my current approach to research)

Electronics

A few years (I love tinkering, but I'm still not very good at it)

IoT & RF Devices

5 years (alongside my Ham radio license)

Chairs, Committees, Reviews

I’ve been a TPC member, administrating the conference management system (EDAS), session chair, local organizer, and peer reviewer for quite some conferences, workshops and journals. Examples include IEEE Communication Survey & Tutorials, the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) series, the QoMEX conference series, Computer Networks, IJNM, ICCE, ICNC, ICC.