From June 25 to 27, 2025, Filip participated on the SLICES-RI / CONVERGE PhD Summer School in Porto, Portugal. The event was hosted by the research institute INESC TEC, located on the campus of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto.

 

On May 26 and 27, we were in Frankfurt with the chair! The aim of the excursion was to visit Deutsche Bahn Fernverkehr AG, where we were given an exciting insight into the topic of “WLAN in the ICE”. We also had the opportunity to explore the city of Frankfurt.  It were two great days with interesting impressions and a great atmosphere!

Our research paper titled “Exploring the application of Time Series Foundation Models to network monitoring tasks” co-authored by our chair in collaboration with researchers from the University of Würzburg and the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), has been accepted to the 269th Volume of the Computer Networks journal.

In early April, Filip had the opportunity to present our paper “To Cap or Not to Cap” at the 16th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa!
We investigated how bandwidth caps affect short video platforms and how they can help use network resources more efficiently without degrading the Quality of Experience.

Today Prof. Seufert received the IEEE Senior Member Plaque. The IEEE Senior Member Award is given to professionals who have many years of experience and significant achievements in their field. It recognizes not only outstanding technical achievements, but also commitment and contribution to the IEEE community.

 

Today, Prof. Michael Seufert will give a talk on Machine Learning-supported Network Management for User-centric Communication Networks at the IfI Colloquium at the University of Zurich. In his talk, he will discuss how machine learning techniques can be used to optimize and control modern communication networks in order to improve the user experience.

We are pleased to welcome Samuel Hufen as a new research assistant at our chair starting today. We look forward to working together and wish him a great start!

Our research paper titled "To Cap or Not to Cap: Bandwidth Capping Effects on Network Interactions and QoE of Competing Short Video Streams," co-authored by our chair in collaboration with researchers from the University of Würzburg and AT&T Labs in the USA, has been accepted to the 16th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys).

The paper "Resource Allocation is All You Need: The Routing and Scheduling Problem in 6TiSCH Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2025.
In a collaboration between the Organic Computing and NETCOM research groups, a method was developed to maximize the number of latency-critical data flows in 6TiSCH networks.

Today our paper “Agree to Disagree: Exploring Consensus of XAI Methods for ML-based NIDS” was presented at the 1st Workshop on Network Security Operations (NecSecOr). This paper examines the effectiveness and consensus of various explainable AI (XAI) methods in enhancing the interpretability of machine learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (ML-NIDS), finding that while some methods align closely, others diverge, underscoring the need for careful selection to build trust in real-world cybersecurity applications.

Today our paper “Certainly Uncertain: Demystifying ML Uncertainty for Active Learning in Network Monitoring Tasks” got presented at the 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CSNM). This paper explores the use of Active Learning (AL) to enhance Machine Learning (ML) models in network monitoring by incorporating expert input, aiming to increase model trust, adaptability, and performance, with a comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty-based AL approaches across various datasets and scenarios.