NetSys 2019

SDNFlex Keynote

SDNFlex Keynote

Keynote Speaker: Stefan Schmid (University of Vienna, Austria)

Titel: Algorithms for Flexible Networks: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract:

Networked systems are becoming increasingly flexible, along three main dimensions: routing (enabler: software-defined networking), embedding (enabler: virtualization), and topology (enabler: reconfigurable optical technologies). This introduces great optimization opportunities but also new algorithmic challenges. In particular, these additional flexibilities can render network operation more complex. In this talk, I will give some examples of such opportunities and challenges, and will discuss open research problems. I will then sketch the vision of “self-adjusting networks”: networks which optimize and repair themselves in a more autonomous manner.

Bio:

Stefan Schmid is a Full Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. MSc and PhD at ETH Zurich (Prof. Roger Wattenhofer), Postdoc at TU Munich (Prof. Christian Scheideler), Senior Research Scientist at T-Labs in Berlin, and Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Stefan Schmid received the IEEE Communications Society ITC Early Career Award 2016.