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First patent filed in SSF TCC!

In April 2018, we presented a black-box approach for enabling deployment of distributed control planes with reliability and bandwidth guarantees at NOMS 2018. The work described in the paper “Flexible distributed control plane deployment” by Shaoteng Liu, Rebecca Steinert and Dejan Kostic, has now been filed as the first patent of SSF TCC.

Team RISE having filed the first (provisional) patent in SSF TCC

Kirill Bogdanov’s PhD Defense

We are very happy to announce the second PhD dissertation in our TCC project! Kirill Bogdanov successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Enabling Fast and Accurate Run-TimeDecisions in Geo-Distributed Systems: Better Achieving Service Level Objectives” on November 26, 2018. His supervisors were Dejan Kostic and Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr.

Dejan handing Kirill the ‘apple of knowledge’ – traditional PhD gift at KTH.
Kirill Bogdanov (center) with his doctoral advisors (on the left: Dejan Kostic, on the right: Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr.).

Georgios Katsikas’ PhD Defense

We are very happy to announce the first PhD dissertation in our TCC project. Georgios Katsikas successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “NFV Service Chains at the Speed of the Underlying Commodity Hardware” on September 14, 2018! His supervisors were Dejan Kostic, Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., and Rebecca Steinert.

Dejan handing Georgios the ‘apple of knowledge’ – traditional PhD gift at KTH.

Georgios Katsikas (center) with his doctoral advisors (from the left: Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., Dejan Kostic, and Rebecca Steinert.)