Christian Esteve Rothenberg

Received in 2006 the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, and the M.Sc. (Dipl. Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD), Germany. He finished his master thesis at Deutsche Telekom on IMS-based fixed mobile convergence and mobility management. He continued working at Deutsche Telekom in the R&D projects of ScaleNet (converged access networks) and SORAN (self-optimizing radio access networks).

Since 2007, Christian is a part-time research consultant at Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CPqD) and works towards his PhD on novel data-centric forwarding paradigms at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil.

Current activities and research interests include IMS/NGN service and content delivery platforms, future Internet architectures, content-centric networking and Publish / Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm (EU FP7 PSIRP project).

More specifically it the area of data center networking:

• Enabling data center infrastructures to scale out based on commodity components
• Identifier / locator separation
• Policy-based routing i.e. middlebox concatenation
• Centralized direct network control with OpenFlow
• Virtualization of servers and network elements