The lecture by Stefan Schmid from University of Vienna will take place at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
Room: Salon
Abstract:
This talk will present the vision of self-adjusting networks: communication networks whose physical topology adapts to the traffic pattern it serves, in a demand-aware manner. Such networks are enabled by emerging reconfigurable optical technologies. It will be shown that the benefit of self-adjusting networks depends on the amount of “structure” there is in the demand, and an information-theoretical approach to measure the complexity of traffic traces will be presented to derive entropy-based metrics accordingly. Optimal offline and online algorithms to design self-adjusting networks whose performance matches the derived metrics asymptotically will be discussed.
Bio:
Stefan Schmid is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, at University of Vienna, Austria. He obtained his diploma (MSc) in Computer Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland (minor: micro/macro economics, internship: CERN) and did his PhD in the Distributed Computing Group led by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer, also at ETH Zurich. As a postdoc, he worked with Prof. Christian Scheideler at the Chair for Efficient Algorithms at the Technical University of Munich and at the Chair for Theory of Distributed Systems at the University of Paderborn, in Germany. From 2009 to 2015, Stefan Schmid was a senior research scientist at the Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) and at TU Berlin in Germany (Internet Network Architectures group headed by Prof. Anja Feldmann). In 2013/14, he was an INP Visiting Professor at CNRS (LAAS), Toulouse, France, and in 2014, a Visiting Professor at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. From 2015 to 2017, Stefan Schmid was a (tenured) Associate Professor in the Distributed, Embedded and Intelligent Systems group at Aalborg University, Denmark, and continued working part-time at TU Berlin, Germany. Since 2015, he serves as the Editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (BEATCS), since 2016 as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), and since 2019 as Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN). Stefan Schmid received the IEEE Communications Society ITC Early Career Award 2016. His research interests revolve around the fundamental and algorithmic problems of networked and distributed systems.