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Volker Hilt

Volker Hilt

Lab Leader, System Architecture & Solution Design Lab

Stuttgart, Germany

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Biography

Dr. Volker Hilt is a Bell Labs Fellow and lab leader at Nokia Bell Labs heading the System Architecture & Solution Design Lab. Volker is focused on creating solutions in the domain of software systems and networked applications that address fundamental technology challenges in our industry. He has made key contributions to global-scale content distribution networks, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and its overload control mechanism, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), distributed edge clouds and high-performance Serverless systems. He has been an active contributor to IETF standards and has served in different roles for IEEE and ACM conferences.

Volker received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2001 from the University of Mannheim in Germany. He joined Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, USA in 2002 and moved to Bell Labs in Stuttgart, Germany in 2012. Volker is an IEEE senior member and has published over 100 papers, Internet drafts and RFCs and holds over 30 patents.

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Education
  • Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science 
    University of Mannheim, Germany
    June 2001
  • Master of Business Information Technology (Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker)
    University of Mannheim, Germany
    December 1996
Selected Articles and Publications
  • Will Serverless Computing Revolutionize NFV?, Paarijaat Aditya, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Andre Beck, Ruichuan Chen, Volker Hilt, Ivica Rimac, Klaus Satzke, Manuel Stein; Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 107, No. 4, April 2019.
  • SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Ruichuan Chen, Ivica Rimac, Manuel Stein, Klaus Satzke, Andre Beck, Paarijaat Aditya, Volker Hilt, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Boston, MA, USA, Jul 2018.
  • ORCA: an ORChestration Automata for Configuring VNFs, Jesus Omana Iglesias, Jordi Arjona Aroca, Volker Hilt, and Diego Lugones, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2017, Las Vegas, NV, Dec 2017.
  • Measurement Study of Netflix, Hulu, and a Tale of Three CDNs. Vijay K Adhikari, Yang Guo, Fang Hao, Volker Hilt, Zhi-Li Zhang, Matteo Varvello, Moritz Steiner, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.23 No. 6, 2015.
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control, Vijay Gurbani, Volker Hilt, Henning Schulzrinne, IETF, RFC 7339, September 2014.
  • Unreeling Netflix: Understanding and Improving Multi-CDN Movie Delivery. Vijay Adhikari, Yang Guo, Fang Hao, Matteo Varvello, Volker Hilt, Moritz Steiner, Zhi-Li Zhang, IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, March 2012.
  • Design Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control, Volker Hilt, Eric Noel, Charles Shen, Ahmed Abdelal, IETF, RFC 6357, August 2011.
  • Toward Energy Efficient Content Dissemination, Uichin Lee, Ivica Rimac, Daniel Kilper, Volker Hilt, IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Networks, Vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 14-19, March-April 2011.
  • Greening the Internet with Content Centric Networking. Uichin Lee, Ivica Rimac, Volker Hilt. ACM First International Conference on Energy-efficient Computing and Networking (e-Energy'10), Passau, Germany, Apr. 13-15, 2010.
  • Controlling Overload in Networks of SIP Servers, Volker Hilt, Indra Widjaja, IEEE ICNP 2008, Orlando, FL, October 2008.
Memberships
  • General co-chair of ACM EuroSys International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys) 2022 and 2023
  • General co-chair of IEEE Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys) 2017
  • General co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2013
  • Co-chair of IEEE Globecom Internet Services and Enabling Technologies Workshop 2006
  • Steering Committee member of IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN) 2019 and 2020
  • Technical Program Committee member of numerous IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops
  • 2010 - 2015 Co-chair of IETF SIP Overload Control Working Group.
  • 2009 – 2013 Member of the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG)
  • 2009 – 2013 Co-chair of the IRTF Peer-to-Peer Research Group
  • Review panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF)

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