Abstract
The Internet has been a huge success: although the original communication protocols have hardly changed over the last decades, the Internet was able to handle a significant shift in the nature of the applications it supports as well as the scale of the traffic it carries, without any major interruptions. However, with the increasing amount of live and multi-media traffic, as well as the advent of new paradigms like the Internet-of-Things, we now observe limitations of the ossified Internet architecture.

In this talk, I will identify shortcomings of today's communication protocols and present both opportunities as well as challenges of emerging networking paradigms such as Network Virtualization or Software-Defined Networking. In particular, given different case studies in the context of Internet networks, datacenter networks, enterprise networks and wireless networks, I will discuss management, performance and security challenges.

While the scope of the talk will be broad in general, I will put an emphasis on my own past, current and future research.

Bio
Dr. Stefan Schmid is a tenured associate professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He received his MSc (2004) and PhD (2008) degrees from ETH Zurich and was a postdoc at TU Munich (2009). From 2009 until 2014 he was a senior research scientist at the Telekom Innovation Labs (T-Labs) as well as at TU Berlin. In this time period, he was also a visiting professor at CNRS in France as well as at UCL in Belgium. Dr. Stefan Schmid is interested in both wired as well as wireless distributed and networked systems. He actively publishes in theoretical as well as applied conferences and journals, for example at ACM PODC 2015 and USENIX NSDI 2015. Dr. Stefan Schmid has also been involved in startups. For more information, please visit his website at http://net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/~stefan/.