| 2017 | IM | SDN policy-driven service chain placement in OpenStack. | Manuel Stein, Michael Scharf, Volker Hilt |
| 2015 | ICCCN | Network-Aware Instance Scheduling in OpenStack. | Michael Scharf, Manuel Stein, Thomas Voith, Volker Hilt |
| 2015 | IM | Sparsifying network topologies for application guidance. | Michael Scharf, Gordon T. Wilfong, Lisa Zhang |
| 2014 | NOMS | ATLAS: Accurate Topology Level-of-Detail Abstraction System. | Michael Scharf, Thomas Voith, Manuel Stein, Volker Hilt |
| 2012 | GLOBECOM | Performance comparison of scheduling algorithms for multipath transfer. | Amanpreet Singh, Carmelita Goerg, Andreas Timm-Giel, Michael Scharf, Thomas-Rolf Banniza |
| 2012 | ICIN | Monitoring and abstraction for networked clouds. | Michael Scharf, Thomas Voith, William D. Roome, Bob Gaglianello, Moritz Steiner, Volker Hilt, Vijay K. Gurbani |
| 2012 | SIGCOMM | Network-aware service placement in a distributed cloud environment. | Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello, Vijay K. Gurbani, Volker Hilt, William D. Roome, Michael Scharf, Thomas Voith |
| 2011 | GLOBECOM | MCTCP: A Multipath Transport Shim Layer. | Michael Scharf, Thomas-Rolf Banniza |
| 2011 | IM | A subscription model for time-scheduled data transfers. | Dominik Klein, Michael Menth, Rastin Pries, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Michael Scharf, Michael Sllner |
| 2009 | Networking | Performance Evaluation of Fast Startup Congestion Control Schemes. | Michael Scharf |
| 2009 | VTC | Load Sharing in a Distributed IMS Architecture. | Jochen Kgel, Stefan Wahl, Michael Scharf, Marc C. Necker |
| 2008 | Networking | Performance Evaluation of Quick-Start TCP with a Linux Kernel Implementation. | Michael Scharf, Haiko Strotbek |
| 2007 | Broadnets | Performance analysis of the Quick-Start TCP extension. | Michael Scharf |
| 2007 | VTC | Algorithms for Hotspot Coverage Estimation Based on Field Strength Measurements. | Stephan Luck, Christian M. Mueller, Michael Scharf, Robert Fetscher |
| 2006 | GLOBECOM | Head-of-line Blocking in TCP and SCTP: Analysis and Measurements. | Michael Scharf, Sebastian Kiesel |
| 2006 | Networking | Modeling and Performance Evaluation of SCTP as Transport Protocol for Firewall Control. | Sebastian Kiesel, Michael Scharf |
| 2006 | VTC | Location-Dependent Parameterization of a Random Direction Mobility Model. | Bernd Gloss, Michael Scharf, Daniel Neubauer |
| 2004 | Networking | The Sensitivity of TCP to Sudden Delay Variations in Mobile Networks. | Michael Scharf, Marc Necker, Bernd Gloss |
| 1994 | ISMB | GeneQuiz: A Workbench for Sequence Analysis. | Michael Scharf, Reinhard Schneider, Georg Casari, Peer Bork, Alfonso Valencia, Christos A. Ouzounis, Chris Sander |