Distributed System Research Interests

Topic Overview:

• System Engineering
  • Non-functional Requirement Analysis, Design, and Implementation
• Measurement
  • Performance Analysis, Design, and Implementation
    • Workloads
    • Metrics
• Adaptation
  • Contextual Analysis, Design, and Implementation
• Evolution
  • Application of Adaptive Analysis to Engineer Dynamic System Function

Areas of Topic Application:

• Dependable and Survivable Systems
  • Resistance, Recognition, and Recovery
    • Engineering of Survivable Systems
    • Quantification of Survivable Systems
    • Design and Measurement of Scalable Architectures supporting Distributed Communication and Services
    • Measurement of Survivable System Properties
    • Adaptive Communication Protocols in Support of QoS Properties
    • Software Rejuvenation of Mobile Systems
    • Cyber Foraging
• Operating and Distributed Systems
  • Virtualization, Mobile Computing, Peer to Peer, Grid, and Cloud
    • Realistic Workload Representations and Measurement
    • Measurement, Analysis, and Design of System Properties in Support of Quality of Service
    • Peer to Peer Download Throughput
    • Resource Discovery and Management
    • Resource Load Balancing
    • Volatile and Persistent Storage Organization and Performance