Florian Steurer
- Address
- Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken - Location
- E1 4 - 509
- Phone
- +49 681 9325 3538
- Fax
- +49 681 9325 3599
- Get email via email
Florian Steurer
Personal Information
Before joining the Internet Architecture group at the MPI, I worked as a software developer and architect. My interests lie in building fault-tolerant and scalable systems, understanding the underlying mechanisms and measuring and evaluating their characteristics.
Publications
2025
Steurer, F., Raghavajosyula, V., Lachos, D., Feldmann, A., & Fiebig, T. (n.d.). Catching Wind in a Net: The Effects of the CrowdStrike Outage on Internet Traffic. In Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2025). Copenhagen, Denmark: IEEE.
(Accepted/in press) Export
BibTeX
@inproceedings{,
TITLE = {Catching Wind in a Net: {T}he Effects of the {CrowdStrike} Outage on Internet Traffic},
AUTHOR = {Steurer, Florian and Raghavajosyula, Vaishnavi and Lachos, Danny and Feldmann, Anja and Fiebig, Tobias},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
PUBLISHER = {IEEE},
YEAR = {2025},
PUBLREMARK = {Accepted},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
BOOKTITLE = {Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2025)},
ADDRESS = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Steurer, Florian
%A Raghavajosyula, Vaishnavi
%A Lachos, Danny
%A Feldmann, Anja
%A Fiebig, Tobias
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
External Organizations
External Organizations
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T Catching Wind in a Net: The Effects of the CrowdStrike Outage on Internet Traffic :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-3A6B-5
%D 2025
%B 9th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference
%Z date of event: 2025-06-10 - 2025-06-13
%C Copenhagen, Denmark
%B Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference
%I IEEE
Steurer, F., Feldmann, A., & Fiebig, T. (2025). A Tree in a Tree: Measuring Biases of Partial DNS Tree Exploration. In Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2025). Virtual Event: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_5
(Best Paper Award) Export
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Steurer_PAM2025,
TITLE = {A Tree in a Tree: {M}easuring Biases of Partial {DNS} Tree Exploration},
AUTHOR = {Steurer, Florian and Feldmann, Anja and Fiebig, Tobias},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
ISBN = {978-3-031-85959-5},
DOI = {10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_5},
PUBLISHER = {Springer},
YEAR = {2025},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
DATE = {2025},
BOOKTITLE = {Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2025)},
EDITOR = {Testart, Cecilia and van Rijswijk-Deij, Roland and Stiller, Burkhard},
PAGES = {106--136},
SERIES = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
VOLUME = {15567},
ADDRESS = {Virtual Event},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Steurer, Florian
%A Feldmann, Anja
%A Fiebig, Tobias
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T A Tree in a Tree: Measuring Biases of Partial DNS Tree Exploration :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-89D1-7
%R 10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_5
%D 2025
%B 26th Annual Passive and Active Measurement Conference
%Z date of event: 2025-03-10 - 2025-03-12
%C Virtual Event
%B Passive and Active Measurement
%E Testart, Cecilia; van Rijswijk-Deij, Roland; Stiller, Burkhard
%P 106 - 136
%I Springer
%@ 978-3-031-85959-5
%B Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%N 15567
2024
Steurer, F., Wagner, D., Lachos, D., Feldmann, A., & Fiebig, T. (2024). The Roots Go Deep: Measuring “.” Under Change. In IMC ’24, ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. Madrid, Spain: ACM. doi:10.1145/3646547.3689008
Export
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Steurer_IMC24,
TITLE = {The Roots Go Deep: {M}easuring '.' Under Change},
AUTHOR = {Steurer, Florian and Wagner, Daniel and Lachos, Danny and Feldmann, Anja and Fiebig, Tobias},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
ISBN = {979-8-4007-0592-2},
DOI = {10.1145/3646547.3689008},
PUBLISHER = {ACM},
YEAR = {2024},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
DATE = {2024},
BOOKTITLE = {IMC '24, ACM on Internet Measurement Conference},
EDITOR = {Vallina-Rodr{\'i}guez, Narseo and Suarez-T{\'a}ngil, Guillermo and Levin, Dave and Pelsser, Cristal and Pastrana, Sergio and Sun, Yixin},
PAGES = {441--453},
ADDRESS = {Madrid, Spain},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Steurer, Florian
%A Wagner, Daniel
%A Lachos, Danny
%A Feldmann, Anja
%A Fiebig, Tobias
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
External Organizations
External Organizations
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T The Roots Go Deep: Measuring '.' Under Change :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-0EB3-5
%R 10.1145/3646547.3689008
%D 2024
%B ACM on Internet Measurement Conference
%Z date of event: 2024-11-04 - 2024-11-06
%C Madrid, Spain
%B IMC '24
%E Vallina-Rodríguez, Narseo; Suarez-Tángil, Guillermo; Levin, Dave; Pelsser, Cristal; Pastrana, Sergio; Sun, Yixin
%P 441 - 453
%I ACM
%@ 979-8-4007-0592-2
Previous publications
2019
Hirth, M., Steurer, F., Borchert, K., & Dubiner, D.
"Task Scheduling on Crowdsourcing Platforms for Enabling Completion Time SLAs", 31st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 31)
2018
Steurer, F., & Pluemicke, M.
"Erweiterung und Neuimplementierung der Java Typunifikation", Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the GI Working Group Programming Languages and Computing Concepts
Research Interests
- DNS
- Internet Traffic Analysis
- Internet Resillience
Honours, Awards & Fellowships
2025
Selected for the Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship
Best Paper Award for "A Tree in a Tree: Measuring Biases of Partial DNS Tree Exploration" (PAM 2025)
2018
Department Prize for Outstanding Achievements in the Computer Science Program (Institute for Computer Science, University of Würzburg)
Teachings
- Winter term 2025: Tutor in Hot Topics in Data Networks Seminar
- Winter term 2024: Tutor in Hot Topics in Data Networks Seminar
- Winter term 2023: Tutor in Hot Topics in Data Networks Seminar
- Summer term 2022: Tutor in Data Networks
Recent Positions
2022 - current:
PhD student at the MPI
2018 - 2022:
Software Consultant at codeunity GmbH, Lossburg, Germany
2017 - 2018:
Working student at the codeunity GmbH, Lossburg, Germany
2013 - 2016:
Student at HOMAG GmbH, Schopfloch, Germany
Education
2016 - 2018:
Master of Computer Science at Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg
2013 - 2016:
Bachelor of Computer Science at DHBW Stuttgart Campus Horb