Internet Architecture

Florian Steurer

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

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.
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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)
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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
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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