ERC Consolidator Grant for Prof. Kellerer

Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networking are new concepts that promise to achieve a higher degree of flexibility with respect to dynamic adaptation of communication networks. In the project FlexNets, this flexibility shall be quantified over the design space of software-based networks. The outcome will be a set of quantitative arguments pro and contra certain design choices. The results are expected to have a fundamental impact on the future of networks.

The project FlexNets has been selected as one of 372 proposals out of 2528 submissions from 24 countries to receive the ERC Consolidator Grant 2014. FlexNets is funded with two million euros over five years. More on the ERC Consolidador Grant results can be found at
erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/press_release/files/press_release_cog2014_results.pdf

See also the TUM press release:
www.tum.de/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/kurz/article/32300/

Set up in 2007 by the European Commission, the European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It is considered the "Champions' League of science" as every year it selects and funds the very best individual scientists to run five-year projects in Europe. Competitions are open to researchers of any nationality, age or scientific area, including Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted in a university or research centre based in the EU or in one of the countries associated to Horizon 2020. The applications are evaluated and selected after a peer-review process involving every year hundreds of renowned scientists coming from all over the world. Scientific excellence is the only selection criterion. (text taken from the above document)

Originally posted by: http://www.lkn.ei.tum.de