Dr. Mirko Stoffers

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Last updated on 2025-03-31

Short Biography

I’m a postdoctoral researcher and head of the CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) group at COMSYS.

I received my Master’s Degree at RWTH Aachen University in 2011, I graduated on “Heuristic Based Synchronization in Parallel Discrete Event Simulations using Automatic Dependency Analysis”. From 2011 till 2012, I worked as a Research Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in the group of Prof. George Riley. I received my Doctorate Degree in 2019 on “Automated Optimization of Discrete Event Simulations without Knowing the Model”.

Research Interests:

During my PhD, my work centered on Discrete Event Simulation and parallel programming, aiming to create highly efficient network simulations. Subsequently, I shifted to exploring data communication in Cyber-Physical Systems, with a particular interest in the ongoing transition of power grids — from traditionally inert, slow-moving systems to highly dynamic and volatile ones. In this context, I have led COMSYS’s contribution to REDeFiNE, participated in the QuGrids project, and supported the successful application of SAFEr Grid.

Publications

René Glebke, Maximilian Winck, Stefan Lenz, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle. Scalable Supply and Demand Matching Involving Up-to-Date Information from Individual Prosumers. Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy). June 2025.

Johannes Krude, Felix Frei, Pedram Ahmadiyeh, René Glebke, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle. Slicing Match-Action Pipeline Resources for Multitenancy on Programmable Switches. 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization. June 2025.

Tobias Heins, René Glebke, Mirko Stoffers, Sriram Gurumurthy, Jan Heesemann, Martina Josevski, Antonello Monti, Klaus Wehrle. Delay-aware Model Predictive Control for Fast Frequency Control. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2023), Oct 31 - Nov 3, 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom. October 2023.

René Glebke, Jan Scheiper, Stefan Lenz, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle. Harnessing Cooperative Anycast Communication for Increased Resilience in Wireless Control. Proceedings of the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022), Dec 6 - Dec 9, 2022, Cancun, Mexico. December 2022.

René Glebke, Dirk Trossen, Ike Kunze, David Lou, Jan Rüth, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle. Service-based Forwarding via Programmable Dataplanes. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing: Workshop on Semantic Addressing and Routing for Future Networks (SARNET-21), Jun 7 - Jun 10, 2021, Paris, France. June 2021.

Mirko Stoffers. Automated Optimization of Discrete Event Simulations without Knowing the Model. Ph.D. Thesis. October 2019.

Mirko Stoffers, Daniel Schemmel, Oscar Soria Dustmann, Klaus Wehrle. On Automated Memoization in the Field of Simulation Parameter Studies. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), vol. 28, no. 4. October 2018.

Johannes Krude, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle. Circuit Switched VM Networks for Zero-Copy IO. Proceedings of the 2018 Afternoon Workshop on Kernel Bypassing Networks (KBNets'18), Budapest, Hungary. August 2018.

Daniel Schemmel, René Glebke, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle. Towards Benchmark Optimization by Automated Equivalence Detection. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBench'18), Apr 10 - Apr 13, 2018, Porto, Portugal. April 2018.

Ehsan Poormohammady, Jens Helge Reelfs, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle, Apostolos Papageorgiou. Dynamic Algorithm Selection for the Logic of Tasks in IoT Stream Processing Systems. 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management, Nov 26 - Nov 30, 2017, Tokyo. November 2017.

Mirko Stoffers, Ralf Bettermann, Klaus Wehrle. Automated Memoization: Automatically Identifying Memoization Units in Simulation Parameter Studies. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2017), Oct 18 - Oct 20, 2017, Rome, Italy. October 2017.

Martin Serror, Jörg Christian Kirchhof, Mirko Stoffers, Klaus Wehrle, James Gross. Code-transparent Discrete Event Simulation for Time-accurate Wireless Prototyping. Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSIM/PADS Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS’17), May 24 - May 26, 2017, Singapore, Singapore. May 2017.

Mirko Stoffers, Daniel Schemmel, Oscar Soria Dustmann, Klaus Wehrle. Automated Memoization for Parameter Studies Implemented in Impure Languages. Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSIM/PADS Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS’16), Banff, AB, Canada. May 2016.
Best Paper Award

Georg Kunz, Mirko Stoffers, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle, James Gross. Parallel Expanded Event Simulation of Tightly Coupled Systems. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), vol. 26, no. 2. January 2016.

Mirko Stoffers, Torsten Sehy, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Data Dependency based Parallel Simulation of Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'15), Cancún, Mexico. November 2015.
Best Paper Award

Mirko Stoffers, Torsten Sehy, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Analyzing Data Dependencies for Increased Parallelism in Discrete Event Simulation. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSIM/PADS Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS’15), London, United Kingdom. June 2015.

Di Li, Zhichao Lin, Mirko Stoffers, James Gross. Channel-Aware Virtual Coordinates Assignment Protocol and Routing in Multi-Hop Cognitive Radio Network. Proc. of the 14th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING'15), May 20 - May 22, 2015, Toulouse, France. May 2015.

Mirko Stoffers, Ralf Bettermann, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Enabling Distributed Simulation of OMNeT++ INET Models. Proceedings of the 1st OMNeT++ Community Summit, Hamburg, Germany. September 2014.

Mirko Stoffers, Sascha Schmerling, Georg Kunz, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Large-Scale Network Simulation: Leveraging the Strengths of Modern SMP-based Compute Clusters. Proceedings of the 7th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools'14), Mar 17 - Mar 19, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal. March 2014.

Mirko Stoffers. Behavior-aware Probabilistic Synchronization in Parallel Simulations and the Influence of the Simulation Model. Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation (PIK Journal), vol. 35, no. 4. November 2012.

Mirko Stoffers, George Riley. Comparing the ns–3 Propagation Models. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'12), Aug 7 - Aug 9, 2012, Washington, DC, United States. August 2012.

Mirko Stoffers, George Riley. Hybrid Simulation of Packet-Level Networks and Functional-Level Routers. Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'12), Jul 15 - Jul 19, 2012, Zhangjiajie, China. July 2012.

Georg Kunz, Mirko Stoffers, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Know Thy Simulation Model: Analyzing Event Interactions for Probabilistic Synchronization in Parallel Simulations. Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools'12), Mar 19 - Mar 23, 2012, Desenzano, Italy. March 2012.

Georg Kunz, Mirko Stoffers, James Gross, Klaus Wehrle. Runtime Efficient Event Scheduling in Multi-threaded Network Simulation. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on OMNeT++ (OMNeT++‘11), Mar 21 - Mar 25, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. March 2011.

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