Dr. Florian Schmidt

Dr. Florian Schmidt

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Last updated on 2016-06-07

Short Biography

Note: this information is outdated and will not be updated any more! In October 2015, I moved to NEC Laboratories Europe. For more up-to-date information about me, see my Google Scholar list of publications or my personal website.

Born: yes.

In September 2008, I joined the Distributed Systems Group at RWTH Aachen as a Ph.D. student, which later became the Chair for Communication and Distributed Systems. My fields of work are error tolerance for network protocols, kernel-based network performance improvements, and rate adaptation.

I finished my studies with the degree of Diplom-Informatiker in August 2008 with a thesis on Xen virtual machine scheduling for network emulation. During my studies, I visited Keio University in Tokyo for a year as a participant in an RWTH–Keio exchange program.

Publications

Application-Agnostic Offloading of Datagram Processing. Proceedings of the 2018 30th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 30), Sep 3 - Sep 7, 2018, Vienna, Austria. September 2018.
Santa: Faster Packet Delivery for Commonly Wished Replies [Poster Abstract]. Proceedings of the 43rd ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM ‘15), London, United Kingdom. August 2015.
If You Can't Take The Heat: Temperature Effects On Low-Power Wireless Networks And How To Mitigate Them. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2015), Porto, Portugal. February 2015.
HotBox: Testing Temperature Effects in Sensor Networks. Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen. December 2014.
A Framework for Remote Automation, Configuration, and Monitoring of Real-World Experiments. Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2014), Hawaii, USA. September 2014.
Piccett: Protocol-Independent Classification of Corrupted Error-Tolerant Traffic. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Jun 23 - Jun 26, 2014, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. June 2014.
Support for Error Tolerance in the Real-Time Transport Protocol. Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen. December 2013.
Bit Error Distribution and Mutation Patterns of Corrupted Packets in Low-Power Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2013), Miami, FL, United States. September 2013.
A Heuristic Header Error Recovery Scheme for RTP. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS'13), Mar 18 - Mar 20, 2013, Banff, Canada. March 2013.
A Receiver-Based 802.11 Rate Adaptation Scheme with On-Demand Feedback. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'12), Sep 9 - Sep 12, 2012, Sydney, Australia. September 2012.
An Adaptive Codec Switching Scheme for SIP-based VoIP. Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networking (NEW2AN 2012), St. Pettersburg, Russia. August 2012.
CRAWLER: An Experimentation Architecture for System Monitoring and Cross-Layer-Coordination. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and MultimediaNetworks (WoWMoM'12), Jun 25 - Jun 28, 2012, San Francisco, CA, United States. June 2012.
FANTASY: Fully Automatic Network Emulation Architecture with Cross-Layer Support. Proceedings of the 5th ACM International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools ‘12), Mar 19 - Mar 23, 2012, Desenzano, Italy. March 2012.
Refector: Heuristic Header Error Recovery for Error-Tolerant Transmissions. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Tokyo, Japan. December 2011.
SliceTime: A platform for scalable and accurate network emulation. Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘11), Boston, Massachusetts. March 2011.
Towards a Flexible and Versatile Cross-Layer-Coordination Architecture. Proceedings of the 2010 INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, San Diego, CA, USA. March 2010.
Iterative Source-Channel Decoding with Cross-Layer Support for Wireless VoIP. Proceedings of International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding, vol. 1, Jan 18 - Jan 21, 2010, Siegen, Germany. January 2010.
Time accurate integration of software prototypes with event-based network simulations. Proceedings of the 11th Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009), vol. 37, no. 2. January 2009.
Synchronized network emulation: matching prototypes with complex simulations. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 36, no. 2. January 2008.

Advised Theses

Proactive Parallelized Networking: Towards Minimizing Packet Processing Latencies in the Linux Kernel
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2015
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Thomas Seidl (i9)
Performance Measurement and Bechmarking Of Video Streaming In Cellular Networks
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2014
Advisors: Branko Djordjevic (Ericsson), Florian Schmidt
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Bernhard Rumpe (i3), Norbert Niebert (Ericsson)
Temperature Dependency of Bit Error Patterns in Wireless Sensor Networks
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2014
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Bernhard Rumpe (i3)
On-Demand Feedback Rate Adaptation in the Linux Network Stack
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, August 2013
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, James Gross (KTH)
Analyse von Bitfehlerverteilungen in Sensornetzen im Hinblick auf heuristische Fehlerbehebung
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2012
Examiners: Marko Schuba (FH Aachen), Klaus Wehrle
Implementing On-Demand Rate Adaptation for IEEE 802.11
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2012
Advisors: Óscar Puñal Ostos, Florian Schmidt
Examiners: James Gross (KTH), Klaus Wehrle
Classifying Corrupted Network Packets for Error-Tolerant Streaming Applications
Diploma Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, August 2012
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Thomas Seidl (i9)
Error Tolerance for the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2012
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Bernhard Rumpe (i3)
An On-Demand Rate-Adaptation Mechanism For IEEE 802.11 Networks
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, January 2012
Advisors: Florian Schmidt, Óscar Puñal Ostos
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, James Gross (KTH)
An Adaptive Codec Switching Scheme for SIP-based VoIP
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2011
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Bernhard Rumpe (i3)
Heuristic Packet Repair for UDP/IP in the Linux Network Stack
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2011
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Bernhard Rumpe (i3)
A Machine-Learning Packet-Classification Tool for Processing Corrupted Packets on End Hosts
Diploma Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2011
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Thomas Seidl (i9)