Dr. Roland Bless is Associate Professor and senior researcher at the Institute of Telematics at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany. He studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe until 1996 and got his PhD in the area Quality-of-Service Management in 2002. In 2009 he finished his Habilitation at the KIT Department of Informatics. Since 1998 he is active in the Internet Standardization.
His research interests are Highly Scalable Zero-Touch Routing, Quality-of-Service, Congestion Control, Network Control and Management as well as Quantum Internet.
Dr. Bless is member of Gesellschaft für Informatik, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, and ISOC.
The complexity of modern networks is increasing, as is the challenge of network management and control. Solutions that rely on AI only seem to exacerbate the issue and today, even well-managed large networks are seeing the consequences. This article presents KIRA, a zero-touch control plane connect…