Dr.-Ing. Nils Dorsch receives dissertation award of the Rector of the TU Dortmund University

The CNI team congratulates Dr.-Ing. Nils Dorsch for receiving the award for the best dissertation in 2018/2019 within the faculty of electrical engineering and informatioon technology during the annual award ceremony of the university on December 16, 2019. Nils Dorsch's thesis is titled "Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Real-Time Capable, Reliable and Cost-Efficient Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures" has proposed and investigated innovative concepts for communication networks suitable for the so-called Smart Grid. The work has been carried out within the interdisciplinary DFG-funded research group 1511 on "Control and protection systems for the future energy system". Dr.-Ing. Dorsch has proposed a dedicated SDN interface which enables energy system operators to control the underlying communication system through a so-called north-bound interface. The work of Nils Dorsch has attracted considerable attention: a first paper describing the overall system concept has been cited over 80 times since its publication in 2014 at the IEEE SmartGridComm conference. An analysis of the economic impact of SDN-based networks has been recently published as journal article in NETNOMICS (Springer) as well as another journal article on "Enabling Hard Service Guarantees in Software-Defined Smart Grid Infrastructures" in Computer Networks (Elsevier).