Where the time goes
Our research interests span several areas of experimental systems with a focus on distributed computing, computer networks and operating systems. We target primarily large-scale and globally-distributed services, implemented at the application layer and following a cooperative, self-organizing model where hosts contribute resources to support a commonly needed service. Well-known services we have experimented with include data-sharing (e.g. Gnutella and BitTorrent), content distribution (e.g. Akamai and Limelight), and streaming overlay multicast.
We sponsor a number of undergraduate student research projects in the area of distributed systems. Please contact us if you are interested in how to get involved with our research.
Some of our ongoing projects include ...
- Sharing the View from a Distributed Internet Telescope
- Privacy Through Plausible Deniability in P2P Systems
- Sustainable Scalability for Globally-Distributed Systems
- Reusing CDN Monitoring Information
- Scalable performance detouring through information reuse
- Reusing P2P for early detection on of network problems
- Reducing P2P cross-ISP traffic while improving users' performance.
- Cooperative Data-Sharing Services
- Handling churn in less-structured P2P systems
- Looking at the server side of peers
- Structured or Unstructured Overlays?
- Streaming Overlay Multicast
- Nemo - Structurally resilient overlay multicast
- FatNemo - FatTrees for bandwidth intesive applications
- Magellan - Achieving fairness without performance penalties
- C3 - Car-to-Car Cooperation for vehicular ad-hoc networks
- C3R - Urban Sustainability Through Car-to-car Cooperation
- STRAW - Realistic vehicular mobility model
- VFN - Virtual Ferry Networking for exploiting emergent behavior in vehicular networks
- SWANS++ - Unified extensions and upgrades for the SWANS wireless network simulation
- Center of Excellence for Experimental Systems in Education