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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2001 - ACM Fellow For pioneering work in multimedia communications and education, including fundamental contributions in perceivable Quality of Service for multimedia systems derived from multimedia synchronization, and for multimedia education.

Overview

Ralf Steinmetz is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their scholarly activity spans primarily the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with 25 and 14 publications respectively. Within these domains, Steinmetz has focused on subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of specialized areas, such as Software-Defined Networks and 5G, Interconnection Networks and Systems, Wireless Networks and Protocols, Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Traffic Control and Management, Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety, and Transportation and Mobility Innovations.

Steinmetz's recent published papers include:

  • OpenBNG: Central office network functions on programmable data plane hardware, 2020, International Journal of Network Management
  • Nature 4.0: A networked sensor system for integrated biodiversity monitoring, 2023, Global Change Biology
  • Improving DDoS Attack Detection Leveraging a Multi-aspect Ensemble Feature Selection, 2022, NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
  • Fast incremental reconfiguration of dynamic time-sensitive networks at runtime, 2023, Computer Networks
  • User Plane Hardware Acceleration in Access Networks: Experiences in Offloading Network Functions in Real 5G Deployments, 2022, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steinmetz are Tobias Meuser, Ralf Kundel, Rhaban Hark, Julian Zobel, and Daniel Bischoff.

Steinmetz has published multiple works in the following academic venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems
  • TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
  • International Journal of Network Management

Recognition received by Steinmetz includes membership in Academia Europaea since 2019 and the ACM Fellow designation awarded in 2001 for contributions to multimedia communications and education, particularly in quality of service for multimedia systems and education.

Best Publications

  • Multimedia Computing Communications & Applications

    Ralf Steinmetz

  • i-LAND: an interactive landscape for creativity and innovation

    Norbert A. Streitz;Jörg Geißler;Torsten Holmer;Shin'ichi Konomi

  • A media synchronization survey: reference model, specification, and case studies

    G. Blakowski;R. Steinmetz

  • Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications

    Ralf Steinmetz;Klaus Wehrle

  • Human perception of jitter and media synchronization

    R. Steinmetz

  • Synchronization properties in multimedia systems

    R. Steinmetz

  • Multimedia-Technologie: Grundlagen, Komponenten und Systeme

    Ralf Steinmetz

  • Heuristics for QoS-aware Web Service Composition

    R. Berbner;M. Spahn;N. Repp;O. Heckmann

  • Connectables: dynamic coupling of displays for the flexible creation of shared workspaces

    Peter Tandler;Thorsten Prante;Christian Müller-Tomfelde;Norbert Streitz

  • Resource management in networked multimedia systems

    K. Nahrstedt;R. Steinmetz

  • Serious games for health: personalized exergames

    Stefan Göbel;Sandro Hardy;Viktor Wendel;Florian Mehm

  • On the accuracy of appliance identification based on distributed load metering data

    Andreas Reinhardt;Paul Baumann;Daniel Burgstahler;Matthias Hollick

  • Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications

    Ralf Steinmetz;Klara Nahrstedt

  • Content-based digital signature for motion pictures authentication and content-fragile watermarking

    J. Dittmann;A. Steinmetz;R. Steinmetz

  • Biometric hash based on statistical features of online signatures

    C. Vielhauer;R. Steinmetz;A. Mayerhofer

  • Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things: Selected Challenges

    Delphin Christin;Andreas Reinhardt;Parag Mogre;Ralf Steinmetz

  • Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia

    Kien A. Hua;Yong Rui;Ralf Steinmetz;Alan Hanjalic

  • Robust MPEG video watermarking technologies

    Jana Dittmann;Mark Stabenau;Ralf Steinmetz

  • Analyzing the multimedia operating system

    R. Steinmetz

  • Ontology enrichment with texts from the WWW

    Andreas Faatz;Ralf Steinmetz

  • Serious games for health

    Stefan Göbel;Sandro Hardy;Viktor Wendel;Florian Mehm

  • On the Accuracy of Appliance IdentificationBased on Distributed Load Metering Data

    Andreas Reinhardt;Paul Baumann;Daniel Burgstahler;Matthias Hollick

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Hollick
Matthias Hollick Technical University of Darmstadt
Jens B. Schmitt
Jens B. Schmitt Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Lars Wolf
Lars Wolf Technische Universität Braunschweig
Klara Nahrstedt
Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Utz Roedig
Utz Roedig University College Cork
Carsten Griwodz
Carsten Griwodz University of Oslo
Wolfgang Effelsberg
Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik University of Ottawa
Jana Dittmann
Jana Dittmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Max Mühlhäuser
Max Mühlhäuser Technical University of Darmstadt

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