Torsten Zimmermann

Torsten Zimmermann

Engagement Manager

Akamai Technologies

Biography

Since January 2023, I work as an Engagement Manager for Akamai. Before, I was a researcher at the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University. As a member of the Network Architectures group, my research was mainly focused on network protocols, their real-world deployment, the resulting performance implications, and optimization.

Interests
  • Internet Measurements
  • Internet of Things
  • Network Protocols
Education

  • PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Computer Science, 2019

    RWTH Aachen University

  • M.Sc., Computer Science, 2013

    RWTH Aachen University

  • B.Sc., Computer Science, 2011

    RWTH Aachen University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Akamai Technologies GmbH
Engagement Manager
Jan 2023 – Present Remote
 
 
 
 
 
Valtech Mobilty GmbH
Senior Technology Consultant
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 Düsseldorf
Consultant
Jun 2020 – May 2022

Consultant and Requirements Engineer in the field of connected cars and e-mobility. Responsibilities include:

  • Analysis and documentation of requirements for upcoming releases
  • Development of technical solution concepts considering all relevant stakeholders
  • Coordination and refinement of requirements in collaboration with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and development teams
  • Analysis and optimization of the underlying requirements process
 
 
 
 
 
Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University
Researcher / PhD Student
Jun 2013 – Dec 2019 Aachen

Responsibilities include:

  • Development and analysis of large-scale Internet measurements, covering the adoption and performance of protocols (e.g., QUIC, DNS, or HTTP/2) and internet infrastructure (e.g., CDNs)
  • Establishing communication between services and constrained IoT devices, by adapting protocols (e.g., DTLS, COAP) and developing tailored solutions
  • Project management in an interdisciplinary collaborative research center (DFG CRC 1053), definition of research plans and (co-)authoring of project proposals
  • Teaching assistant, supervision of theses, seminars, and student workers
  • Mentor for first-year PhD students

Selected
Publications

PAM'20
MUST, SHOULD, DON'T CARE: TCP Conformance in the Wild
Mike Kosek, Leo Blöcher, Jan Rüth, Torsten Zimmermann, Oliver Hohlfeld
Code DOI arxiv
PhD Thesis'19
Improving Content and Service Distribution beyond Infrastructure Upgrades
Torsten Zimmermann
ISBN
ACM CoNEXT'18
Is the Web Ready for HTTP/2 Server Push?
Torsten Zimmermann, Benedikt Wolters, Oliver Hohlfeld, Klaus Wehrle
PDF Code Project DOI arxiv
ACM ICM'18
Digging into Browser-based Crypto Mining
Jan Rüth, Torsten Zimmermann, Konrad Wolsing, Oliver Hohlfeld
PDF DOI arxiv
ACM IMC'18
A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists
Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfed, Julien Gamba, Jonas Jelten, Torsten Zimmermann, Stephen D. Strowes, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez
PDF Project DOI arxiv
PAM'18
Characterizing a Meta-CDN
Oliver Hohlfeld, Jan Rüth, Konrad Wolsing, Torsten Zimmermann
PDF DOI arxiv
EWSN'18
SPLIT: Smart Protocol Loading for the IoT
Torsten Zimmermann, Jens Hiller, Helge Reelfs, Pascal Hein, Klaus Wehrle
PDF DOI
IEEE TrustCom'17
Distributed Configuration, Authorization and Management in the Cloud-based Internet of Things
Martin Henze, Benedikt Wolters, Roman Matzutt, Torsten Zimmermann, Klaus Wehrle
PDF DOI
Internet QoE'17
A QoE Perspective on HTTP/2 Server Push
Benedikt Wolters, Torsten Zimmermann, Oliver Hohlfeld
PDF Project DOI
IFIP Networking'17
How HTTP/2 pushes the web: An empirical study of HTTP/2 server push
Torsten Zimmermann, Jan Rüth, Benedikt Wolters, Oliver Hohlfeld
PDF Project DOI
IEEE SECON'17
Resource and Execution Control for Mobile Offloadee Devices
Torsten Zimmermann, Hanno Wirtz, Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf, Christian Steinhaus, Klaus Wehrle
PDF DOI
IEEE SECON'15
Enabling ubiquitous interaction with smart things
Hanno Wirtz, Jan Rüth, Martin Serror, Torsten Zimmermann, Klaus Wehrle
PDF DOI