Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies

Tobias Hoßfeld

ProfessorUniversity of Würzburg

Responsible Person (SLICES-DE project role)

Selected Publications

10 publications

Nikolas Wehner, Alexej Grigorjew, Simon Raffeck, Michael Goedicke, and Tobias Hoßfeld,

Reproducibility of Experiments in Networking

IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 54053–54065, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3680994.

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Fabian Poignée, Anika Seufert, Frank Loh, Michael Seufert, and Tobias Hoßfeld,

Modeling Network Load of Mobile Instant Messaging: A Modular Source Traffic Generator

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., vol. 23, pp. 626–638, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2025.3630052.

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 biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/tnsm/PoigneeSLSH26.bib},
 doi = {10.1109/TNSM.2025.3630052},
 journal = {IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.},
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 timestamp = {Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:18:18 +0100},
 title = {Modeling Network Load of Mobile Instant Messaging: A Modular Source Traffic Generator},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2025.3630052},
 volume = {23},
 year = {2026}
}

Nikolas Wehner, Anika Seufert, Tobias Hoßfeld, and Michael Seufert,

A Tutorial on Data-Driven Quality-of-Experience Modeling With Explainable Artificial Intelligence

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials, vol. 28, pp. 761–799, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2025.3583227.

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 doi = {10.1109/COMST.2025.3583227},
 journal = {IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials},
 pages = {761--799},
 timestamp = {Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:41:14 +0100},
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 url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2025.3583227},
 volume = {28},
 year = {2026}
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Nikolas Wehner, Pedro Casas, Katharina Dietz, Stefan Geißler, Tobias Hoßfeld, and Michael Seufert,

Exploring the application of Time Series Foundation Models to network monitoring tasks

Comput. Networks, vol. 269, pp. 111395, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2025.111395.

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 biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/cn/WehnerCDGHS25.bib},
 doi = {10.1016/J.COMNET.2025.111395},
 journal = {Comput. Networks},
 pages = {111395},
 timestamp = {Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:32:41 +0200},
 title = {Exploring the application of Time Series Foundation Models to network monitoring tasks},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111395},
 volume = {269},
 year = {2025}
}

Philip Diederich, Yash Deshpande, Laura Becker, David Raunecker, Alexej Grigorjew, Tobias Hoßfeld, and Wolfgang Kellerer,

LCDN: Providing Network Determinism with Low-Cost Switches

21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 27-31, 2025, pp. 1–9, IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297417.

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 biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cnsm/DiederichDBRGHK25.bib},
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 publisher = {IEEE},
 timestamp = {Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:23:09 +0100},
 title = {LCDN: Providing Network Determinism with Low-Cost Switches},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297417},
 year = {2025}
}

Katharina Dietz, Johannes Schleicher, Stefan Geißler, Michael Seufert, and Tobias Hoßfeld,

Irreconcilable Differences? Investigating Consensus of Post-hoc XAI for ML-NIDS via Decomposition

21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 27-31, 2025, pp. 1–9, IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297526.

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Frank Loh, Carina Baur, Flavian Raithel, David Stüber, Omran Ayoub, and Tobias Hoßfeld,

Energy Demand as AI Model Selection Criteria? Assessing Quality and Energy Consumption for AI based KQI Prediction in Video Streaming

21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 27-31, 2025, pp. 1–7, IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM67658.2025.11297466.

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 biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cnsm/LohBRSAH25.bib},
 booktitle = {21st International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2025, Bologna, Italy, October 27-31, 2025},
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 title = {Energy Demand as AI Model Selection Criteria? Assessing Quality and Energy Consumption for AI based KQI Prediction in Video Streaming},
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Tobias Hossfeld, Stefan Wunderer, Frank Loh, David Hock, and Daniel Schien,

Understanding Energy Efficiency in Communication Networks: Example of an Idealized 6G Base Station

IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 63, pp. 144–150, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2400482.

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 volume = {63},
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Frank Loh, Flavian Raithel, Simon Raffeck, Anika Seufert, Robert Fröhler, Claus Heller, and Tobias Hossfeld,

QoS and QoE Study of the European 5G Mobile Networks for Next Generation of Applications

IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 63, pp. 78–84, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2400340.

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 volume = {63},
 year = {2025}
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Martin Straesser, Stefan Geissler, Stanislav Lange, Lukas Kilian Schumann, Tobias Hossfeld, and Samuel Kounev,

Trust your local scaler: A continuous, decentralized approach to autoscaling

Perform. Evaluation, vol. 167, pp. 102452, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PEVA.2024.102452.

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 volume = {167},
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