Communication Networks

Erfan Mozaffariahrar

Telefon +49 7071 29-70508
Telefax +49 7071 29-5220
E-Mail erfan.mozaffariahrar@uni-tuebingen.de
Raum B304
Anschrift

Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze

Universität Tübingen

Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik

Sand 13, 72076 Tübingen

Education

I'm a researcher and PhD student at the Chair of Communication Networks at the University of Tübingen/Germany.
Previously, I studied computer science at Bu-Ali Sina University/Iran and received my Bachelor's degree in 2013. Afterward, I graduated with a Master's degree in Information Technology in 2016.

2020 - Now
PhD Student & Research Assistant

Research assistant at the Department of Computer Science, Chair of Communication Networks, University of Tübingen

2013 - 2016
M.Sc. Computer Engineering

Graduated at Bu-Ali Sina University

2009 - 2013
B.Sc. Computer Engineering

Graduated at Bu-Ali Sina University

Research Interests

My current research areas include:

  • Wi-Fi
  • Internet of Things
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Publications

Journals

  1. Erfan Mozaffariahrar, Fabrice Theoleyre, Michael Menth: A Survey of Wi-Fi 6: Technologies, Advances, and Challenges, in Future Internet, Special Issue on 5G Wireless Communication Networks, vol. 14, no. 10, Oct. 2022, MDPI
  2. Erfan Mozaffariahrar, Mohammad Nassiri: T2AS: Topology/Traffic Aware Scheduling to Optimize the End-to-end Delay in IEEE802.154e-TSCH Networks”, in Tabriz Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2021
  3. Erfan Mozaffariahrar, Mohammad Nassiri, Fabrice Theoleyre: Multipath aware scheduling for high reliability and fault tolerance in low power industrial networks, in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), September 2019

Conferences & Workshops

  1. Erfan Mozaffariahrar, Francesc Wilhelmi, Lorenzo Galati-Giordano, Pasquale Imputato,  Michael Menth, Stefano Avallone: R-TWT in Wi-Fi 7 and Beyond: Enabling Bounded Latency, Energy Efficiency, and Reliability, 30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), September 2025, Porto, Portugal
  2. Erfan Mozaffariahrar, Michael Menth, Stefano Avallone: Implementation and Evaluation of IEEE 802.11ax Target Wake Time Feature in ns-3, Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3), June 2024, Barcelona, Spain
  3. Erfan Mozaffariahrar, Mohammad Nassiri, Vahid Azhari, Farhad Dalirani: A Topology Aware Centralized Scheduling in 802.15.4e Wireless Sensor Networks, 7th Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT) Conference, 2015

Talks

  1. Advances in Target Wake Time (TWT) and its Applications in Wi-Fi 6, Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany, October 2024
  2. Deterministic Wi-Fi, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, August 2021

Theses

  1. A reliable and delay bounded MAC mechanism for 802.15.4e wireless sensor networks with convergecast traffic, Master's Thesis, Bu-Ali Sina University, 2016
  2. HPC Clustering for Engineering Usage, Bachelor's Thesis, Bu-Ali Sina University, 2013

Teaching

Courses

Summer Term 2025

  • Team Project

Summer Term 2024

  • Team Project

Summer Term 2023

  • Team Project

Winter Term 2022/23

  • Team Project

Summer Term 2022

  • Team Project
  • Communication Technologies (Lecturing selected chapter)

Winter Term 2021/22

  • Team Project

Summer Term 2021

  • Team Project
  • Network Softwarization (Lecturing selected chapter)

 

 

Professional Activities

Reviewer

Reviewer for the following international journals, magazines, conferences, and workshops:

  • International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM 2023)
  • International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2023)
  • International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2022)
  • Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2021)
  • IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2021) 
  • IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2021)