On June 8, team members from NETCOM and IsarNet met at IsarNet’s premises near Munich Airport. The visit focused on professional exchange and offered valuable insights into the practical implementation of network monitoring with IsarFlow.

Our short paper titled "A QoE Prisoner's Dilemma: Quantifying Benefits and Drawbacks of Individual QoE Management," has been accepted to the 18th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2026), which will take place from June 29 to July 3, 2026, in Cardiff, Wales.

Our research paper titled "Swipe, Watch, Switch: Assessing the QoE Effects of Quality Switches in Short-Form Videos," co-authored by our chair in collaboration with researchers from the University of Würzburg, has been accepted to the 18th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2026), which will take place from June 29 to July 3, 2026, in Cardiff, Wales.

On April 23, 2026, the Faculty of Applied Computer Science organized this year’s Girls' Day and of course we also participated again.

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Böhme attended the 39th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computer Systems (ARCS), which took place in Mainz from March 24 to 26, 2026.

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Jonas Wessner from the University of Ulm has been awarded the Best Presentation Award, presented by Siemens. The award was given at the 7th KuVS Fachgespräch/Workshop on Machine Learning in Networking (MaLeNe 2026), held at the University of Augsburg.

On March 19–20, 2026, the Machine Learning in Networking (MaLeNe 2026) KuVS Fachgespräch was successfully hosted at the University of Augsburg. The two-day on-site event brought together around 25 researchers from academia and industry to exchange ideas and discuss emerging challenges in the intersection related to machine learning in networking.

On Monday, January 26, 2026, the inaugural lectures of Prof. Dr. Michael Seufert (Chair of Networked Systems and Communication Networks) and Prof. Dr. Jakob Kottmann (Chair of Quantum Algorithmics) took place in a joint event.

We are delighted to welcome Thomas Böhme as a new research assistant at our chair as of today. We look forward to working with him and wish him all the best for a successful start!

We are pleased to announce that our chair has officially joined the SLICES-DE community, Germany’s contribution to SLICES-RI, the Scientific Large-Scale Infrastructure for Computing and Communication Experimental Studies.

Prof. Dr. Michael Seufert wurde mit dem IEEE „ComSoc Best Young Professional Award in Academia 2025“ ausgezeichnet. Die Jury würdigte seine wegweisende Forschung zur subjektiven Wahrnehmung von Nutzungsqualität sowie zum nutzerorientierten Management von Internetanwendungen und Kommunikationsnetzen. Der Informatiker leitet eine Emmy-Noether-Gruppe.

Our article entitled “Modeling Network Load of Mobile Instant Messaging: A Modular Source Traffic Generator,” written by our chair in collaboration with researchers from the University of Würzburg, was recently accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal.