The János Bolyai Research Scholarship was established to provide financial support for outstanding early-career researchers and to encourage and recognise excellence in research and development.

Péter Babarczi

Project title: Multipath Internet Routing Algorithms

My research focuses on multipath Internet routing algorithms that guarantee immediate recovery from failures. These algorithms are capable of redirecting packets along alternative paths without requiring signalling in the control plane when a network failure occurs. The project proposes loop-free backup routes based on arborescences and shortest edge-disjoint path pairs, while ensuring that routing table sizes scale linearly. It also develops packet forwarding mechanisms, compatible with the current Internet architecture, for encoding and utilising these alternative routes.

János Czentye

Project title: Efficient Decomposition of Monolithic Applications on Distributed Cloud Platforms

Operating mature software monoliths on cloud-based platforms while ensuring quality of service and cost efficiency is a challenging and complex task. Rather than decomposing the structure of such applications through conventional top-down approaches, this project proposes a novel application organisation methodology based on the autonomous bottom-up composition of independent components. The proposed approach requires the effective integration of developer, operator, and architectural perspectives of the underlying problem, combined with combinatorial optimisation techniques. By applying this methodology, the modernisation of chronologically outdated applications can be achieved in an automated and efficient manner, while also reducing development, operation, and maintenance costs, improving reliability and reusability, and extending their supported lifecycle.

We extend our sincere congratulations to Péter Babarczi and János Czentye on this well-deserved recognition.