Rolf Stadler

Professor
School of Electrical Engineering
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

stadler(at)ee.kth.se
www.ee.kth.se/~stadler
Tel: +46-8-790-4250

Rolf Stadler is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2001, where he leads the network management group. He received an M.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 1991 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. 1992-1994 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University, which he joined in 1994 as a research scientist. 1998-1999 he was a visiting professor at ETH Zurich. Over the last 10 years, Dr. Stadler has been instrumental in the network management research community and has been program co-chair for premier IEEE conferences in the field, including DSOM’99, NOMS’02, and DSOM’07. He currently serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). His current research interests include scalable networks and systems, autonomous computing and self management.

Dr. Stadler’s research is supported by Swedish funding agencies (VR, SSF, VINNOVA, STINT), the European Commission, and direct grants from industry (Cisco Systems, IBM Research).

Dr. Stadler is co-director of the Laboratory for Communication Networks (LCN) at KTH, together with Prof. Gunnar Karlsson. He is affiliated with the ACCESS Linneus Center at KTH, Wireless@KTH, and the Center for Networked System (CNS) at the Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS).

Research

4WARD: an EU 7^th Framework IP on Future Internet, where we develop the concept of In-Network Management
Distributed auto-configuration (with Ericsson Research)
Adaptive Decentralized Real-time Monitoring (within ACCESS, with Cisco Systems)
Self-organizing Server Clusters (with IBM Research)

Teaching

EP2300 Management of Networks and Networked Systems
EP2400 Network Algorithms
F2E5616 Advanced Topics in Communications Networks (seminar)

Students

Current Ph.D. students: Fetahi Wuhib (since 2005)

Alumni: Alberto Gonzalez Prieto (Adaptive Real-time Monitoring for Large-scale Networked Systems, 2008, now with KTH), Constantin Adam (A Middleware for Self-Managing Large-Scale Systems, 2007, now with J.P. Morgan, NY), Marcus Brunner (co-advisor, 2001, now with NEC Labs)

Post Docs

Alberto Gonzalez Prieto (2008-, from KTH), Dan Jurca (2007-2008, from EPFL now at DOCOMO Euro-Labs), Javier Baliosian (2006-2007 from Ericsson Research)

Collaborators

Mads Dam (KTH, on aggregation protocols), Erik Aurell and Supriya Krishnamurthy (KTH, on dynamics of management systems), Alex Clemm (Cisco Systems, USA) on distributed management, Giovanni Pacific (IBM Research, USA) on self-organizing service middleware

Publications

Some recent publications:

D. Jurca, R. Stadler: “Computing Histograms of Local Variables for Real-Time Monitoring using Aggregation Trees,” 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009), Long Island, NY, June 1-5, 2009.
F. Wuhib, M. Dam, R. Stadler: “Gossiping for Threshold Detection,” 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009), Long Island, NY, June 1-5, 2009.
F. Wuhib, M. Dam, R. Stadler: “Decentralized Detection of Global Threshold Crossings Using Aggregation Trees,” Computer Networks, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp 1745-1761, 2008.
C. Adam and R. Stadler: “Service Middleware for Self-Managing Large-Scale Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 4, No. 3, Dec 2007.
A. Gonzalez Prieto, R. Stadler: “A-GAP: An Adaptive Protocol for Continuous Network Monitoring with Accuracy Objectives,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 4, No. 1, June 2007.
F. Wuhib, M. Dam, R. Stadler, A. Clemm: “Robust Monitoring of Network-wide Aggregates through Gossiping,” 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM 2007), Munich, Germany, May 21-25, 2007.
C. Adam and R. Stadler, "Implementation and Evaluation of a Middleware for Self-Organizing Decentralized Web Services," The Second IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems & Services (SelfMan 2006), Dublin, Ireland, June 16 2006.
C. Adam and R. Stadler: “A Middleware Design for Large-scale Clusters Offering Multiple Services,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), vol. 3, no. 1, 2006.
M. Dam and R. Stadler: “A generic protocol for network state aggregation,” RVK 05, Linköping, Sweden, June 14-16, 2005.
K.S. Lim and R. Stadler: “Real-time views of network traffic using decentralized management,” 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), Nice, France, May 16-19, 2005.
C. Adam and R. Stadler: “Adaptable Server Clusters with QoS Objectives,” 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), Nice, France, May 16-19, 2005. (Best Student Paper.)

more publications...

Professional Activities

Some current/recent activities:

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNMS), 2004-currently.
Editor, Computer Networks, Elsevier Science, 2000-2005.
IEEE Officer, Committee for Network Operations and Management (CNOM), TPC Chair, 2003-2005.

TPC Member:

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS ), 1998-currently.
IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), 1997-currently.
IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM), 1998-currently.

Conference Chair:

TPC co-Chair, 1st IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (ANM’08), Phoenix, AZ, April 18, 2008.
TPC co-Chair, 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007), San Jose, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2007.
TPC co-Chair, 8th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2002), Florence, Italy, April 10-14 2002.

Contact Info

· Visitors: KTH Stockholm Campus, Osquldas väg 10, Q-Building, Floor 5, Laboratory for Communication Networks (LCN). Google maps
Postal address: KTH/EES, Osquldas väg 10, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
tel. +46-8-790-4250, fax: fax: +46-8-790-8400
Administrative contact: Anna Ohlsson, annohl@kth.se, Tel: +46-8-790-4260.